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West Quad residents would get rewards for conserving energy.
West Quad
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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.”
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President
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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.”
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SDI
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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.”
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BRIEFLY
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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,
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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,
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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. The grant rec
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ogmzes overall program quail
Laura Kissel, assistant pro
fessor in the Art Department
said, "This grant has energize!
our film students in the Medi;
Arts Division of the Ar
Department and helped to east
the costs associated with filn
production.”
The Eastman Product Gran
Program has given more that
$1.5 million in grants since it:
establishment in 1991.
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