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PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK West Quad residents would get rewards for conserving energy. West Quad CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 technology, which will decrease utility costs significantly. To fund this technology, Housing has requested a grant from the South Carolina Energy Department. Housing also consulted student representatives from Student Government, Students Allied for a Greener Earth and the Residence Hall Association. Together, they came up with the idea of rewarding students who help conserve energy and re sources in the building. Luna hopes to have individual apartments metered to give stu dents feedback about the way they are living, as well as to implement the reward system. “We don’t want to burden stu dents; we want to provide them with information to make good choices,” Luna said. While the West Quad project is a broad campaign, Luna said, “The objective for this project is to first provide great housing for students.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com President CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Sorenson was the leading can didate, but Hubbard wouldn’t comment. Whittle said both re maining candidates could do the job. “I don’t know if there is (a fa vorite) or if there is not,” Whittle said. “I mean, you could look at the academic standards, and you know some are stronger in cer tain areas than others, but either one of them could be very capa ble.” Plans are being made for both candidates to come and speak to a broader group of faculty, stu dents and community leaders before the board makes a deci sion. “We can call a board meeting pretty much anytime,” Whittle said. “I mean, it could be next week or it could be two weeks from now, but our goal is to have somebody on board by June 1, and I think that will definitely hap pen.” The board is required by the Freedom of Information Act to give 24 hours’ notice before meet ing. The announcement came after the search committee evaluated 223 candidates. Twelve prospects visited the campus and met with faculty, students, and community and business leaders, but only 10 were formally interviewed, in cluding one woman and one black person. Sorenson has been president of the University of Alabama since 1996. During his tenure, he has endured several hardships, including a two-year bowl ban on the football team amid allega tions of boosters paying football players. Miksad has been with the University of Virginia since 1994, having served previous tenures at the University of Texas at Austin and the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. One issue the new president will have to handle is an impend ing budget crisis. As it stands, starting in July, USC’s budget will be $18 million less, something the Strategic Directions and Initiatives report is trying to rem edy. Palms’ recommendations “will certainly help (the new president) cope with the budget situation,” Palms said. “I wish I has some thing like this when I came here. ...The people who have called me about it are delighted that this is being done for them.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com SDI CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Kelly has been appointed to eval uate the VCM model during its trial run. “To get it running... is very dif ficult,” said Odom, who chaired the committee. “I think we need to take our time, we need to do it right, and that will probably take, I think, 18 to 24 months.” Palms also approved the cre ation of a College of Health Sciences, which would combine the School of Medicine, the Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, the College of Social Work, the College of Pharmacy and the College of Nursing. “To find a vice president for health sciences will probably be a time-consuming process, and it will be an expensive process,” Odom said. “That person is going to be over five fairly large colleges and will have tremendous re sponsibilities. So, we need to look very hard to find the proper indi vidual for that.” With Palms’ retirement in June, some question his ability to make recommendations. Trustee Michael Mungo, who served as the board chairman from 1988-1992, at first objected to board action on the SDI report and moved to wait until a new president was in place. Mungo lat er withdrew his objection. Board Chairman Mack Whittle said Palms “has been involved in the process and knows a lot about what’s going on,” and later said all of the candidates for the presiden tial search have been “incredibly impressed with what we’ve done.” “When the new president comes on board... they’ll have a chance to read (the SDI report), review it and make whatever ad ditions or deletions that they feel are appropriate,” Whittle said. He said every candidate has seen the report, along with Palms’ rec ommendations, and agrees with it. The implementation of the plan will take between three and five years. “It’s not the end; it’s just the beginning,” Whittle said. “Generally, we have come to a consensus on what we need to do.” Housing Director Gene Luna, who served on the committee, called the experience “tremen dously enlightening,” and said it was gratifying to see the commit tee members’ work finally be ap proved by the board. “I think we’re finished here,” Odom said about the committee, which spent six months putting the report together. “I think the hard part is ahead of us, and that’s now taking these and putting them into actual practice.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotma il. com BRIEFLY I i Miller Brewery joins USC Retailing Center The nation’s second-largest brewery has joined USC’s Center for Retailing as a found ing partner. Miller Brewing Company, based in Milwaukee, will give $5,000 a year to the center as a charter member. The Center for Retailing pro vides partnership opportuni ties for retailers and acade mics. Miller’s talent-development consultant, Kristin Gaarder, m:._• said USC s retail program has already given Miller a great line of students for employ ment with the company. “We believe that joining the Center for Retailing is a logical business decision based on the partnership we have already started with the Department of Retailing,” Gaarder said. Miller has worked with the Retailing Department for more than a year, giving class lectures and funding a two-week faculty internship. The center has three char er members — Wal-Mart, _ 1_o) n_ Fairchild Books and Miller — and plans to include 100 150 retailers. Art Department gets $2,000 in Kodak film USC’s Art Department has received an Eastman Product Grant worth $2,000 from the Eastman Kodak Company. The grant comes in the form of Kodak motion picture cam era film. The faculty and ad ministration will decide how to use the film. 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