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University of South Carolina FRIHAV QFPTFMRFR 07 OPiPiO * Vol.96,No.20 www.dailygamecock.com 1 IVI VJrK I, OLr I LIVI ULix Z. f , Z.VJUZ. ^ Sincel908 Parking might improve PHOTO BY NICK BARATTINI/THE GAMECOCK # Parking Services hopes shuttles will help alleviate the parking problem. There are 11,044 spaces for 28,000 users. Building ties in the Garolinas Sorensen embarks on a bus tour to wave ‘the Carolina banner* BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK ^ USC President Andrew Sorensen had an exhausting week of traveling as he rubbed elbows with politicians, re sponded to questions from the public and met new people dur ing his third month at his new job. On Tuesday, Sorensen met with President Bush in the East Room of the White House after Bush invited Sorensen and the national champion USC wom en’s track team, as well as 10 oth er collegiate national champi onship athletic teams. His goal in going up there “was not to get any glory for my self, but was to keep waving the ^ Carolina banner, so that we can make them increasingly aware of our presence,” Sorensen said. He met with Vice President Dick Cheney and Sen. Strom Thurmond later in the day. He said Thurmond was in better physical shape than he had ex pected. “When I brought in ail those pretty women (on the track team) into Senator Thurmond’s office, he responded very posi tively to their presence,” Sorensen said in a speech to a re ception of USC alumni and friends at the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday night. Sorensen was in Charlotte on the second leg of his “bow tie” bus tour. Wednesday’s trip in cluded stops in Lancaster, Rock Hill and Charlotte for Sorensen to continue to familiarize him self with the people of the Palmetto State and its neigh bors. In the morning, Sorensen, who was sporting a garnet bow tie with palmetto trees on it, met with John Catalano, dean of USC-Lancaster, at the regional campus. By lunchtime, he was being interviewed on a local ra dio talk show at a restaurant in Rock Hill. Then he talked to an advanced math class at nearby ♦ BUS TOUR, SEE PAGE 3 Additional spaces will create ■parking utopia,’ official says BY JESSICA CLANTON THE GAMECOCK University officials expect parking problems to decrease during the next five weeks, and Parking Services Director Derrick Huggins said the plans for additional spaces will create a “parking utopia” on campus. “Students need to know that we are not here to make their lives complicated,” Huggins said. “There will continue to be a parking problem, but it is better than it was five years ago. We are under construction right now, but in five weeks there will be a parking utopia with 1,000 new parking spaces behind the Coliseum.” With 28,000 students and fac ulty vying for 11,044 available parking spaces at USC, space has consistently been a problem. Elizabeth Sorg, a first-year bi ology student, said, “I think the biggest problem is parking in the middle of campus because it is closest to everything and every one wants to park there, so it cre ates congestion and there aren’t enough spaces to begin with.” Huggins is addressing those ♦ PARKING, SEE PAGE 2 SG in flux PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK Student Government Treasurer Becky Floyd moves her computer from her office on the the first floor of the Russell House to SG’s new location In the Carolina Underground. Smallpox vaccine to be offered BY LAURA MECKLER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS f WASHINGTON - Looming war with Iraq and growing con cern over the threat of bioterror ism are moving federal officials • to consider what was once un thinkable: offer the risky small pox vaccine to the general public before an attack ever occurs. Just three months ago, federal advisers were recommending that only about 20,000 hospital workers get the smallpox vaccine. Now, the Bush administration is preparing to offer it to all 280 million Americans. The question being debated is not whether the general public should get it, but how fast and under what circum stances, according to three offi cials involved in the planning. Experts don’t know if the na tion will ever be attacked with smallpox, which kills one-third of its victims. Eradicated from na ture two decades ago, it is still feared as a bioterror agent. But the vaccine itself carries rare but se rious risks, including death, com plicating any decision to inoculate people absent a certain risk. The Bush administration hasn’t announced plans for “pre attack” smallpox vaccinations. But administration officials say the consensus is to begin vacci nating those at greatest risk of encountering a highly contagious smallpox patient, such as emer gency-room workers. Then the vaccine would be offered to non hospital health workers, such as primary-care doctors, and to po lice, firefighters and other emer gency workers. Then it would be offered to the general public. “You start with one group and based on their potential risk, you keep expanding,” one adminis tration official said Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity. But it hasn’t been decided how many people will get vaccinated during the first wave of shots or how long it will take to offer them. At issue are important details such as who should get the vac cine while it’s still an experi mental drug, how to compensate people injured by the experi mental vaccine and logistical is sues, such as how states and cities prepare clinics and train people to give the shots. Index Comics and Crossword 7 Classifieds_10 Horoscopes_ 7 Letters to the Editor_4 •» Online Poll, 4 Police Report 2 Weather TODAY High 85 Low 71 TOMORROW High 84 Low 63 Inside ♦ THE MIX A WUSCDJ swings through a last semester. Page 5 ♦ THE MIX Nonstop Hip-Hop Live is set to celebrate its one year anniversary. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS The football team heads to Nashville on Saturday to take on Vanderbilt. Page 8 Coming Monday ♦ The Gamecock looks at university development in the first installment of a three-part series. FILE-SHARING OVERLOAD PHOTO BY NICK BARATTINI/THE GAMECOCK A USP student signs on to one of the many file-sharing Internet programs. Some companies have come to Computer Services about students illegally sharing files through USC's network. USC warns of file-sharing ramifications BY EMMA RITCH THE GAMECOCK Computer Services will contin ue its block of ports to two file sharing Internet services, more than a year after the barrier was put in place Sept. 11,2001, but it does not plan to prevent access to any more sites. Ronni Wilkinson, Computer Services’ information technology security coordinator, said the block continues for port access to peer-to-peer file-sharing Web sites Kazaa and Morpheus. Wilkinson said Computer Services chose these two sites because they are not network-friendly — they “eat up all of our bandwidth,” unlike other music-sharing sites that take less space. Wilkinson said that when the ports to the sites were not blocked on campus, Kazaa and Morpheus users took one-third of the total bandwidth available. “It was in terfering with university busi ness,” Wilkinson said. Wilkinson said Computer Services originally blocked the Morpheus and Kazaa sites on Sept. 11,2001, because “people were try ing to e-mail and check the news,” but their access was slow or un available because of the band width space Kazaa and Morpheus were taking. She said professors told her that their Internet access improved greatly after the sites were blocked. James Upp, assistant manager of the Division of Computing and Information Technology of Clemson University, said Clemson takes a different approach than USC does. “We don’t block music-sharing Web sites; we have network shav ing,” he said. Upp said that shav ing, or limiting the number of users on the server ensures that the amount of traffic coming through is limited, without block ing student access to Web sites. Wilkinson said Computer Services did not block the ports for all file-sharing Web sites because they can be used for legal purpos es. Wilkinson recommended that ♦ MUSIC SITES, SEE PAGE 3 PHOTO BY AMANDA TRAUB/THE GAMECOCK Charlotte Balser, a member of the crew club, said Blatt P.E. Center's new 6 a.m. opening time will fit better Into her schedule. For the full story, see page 3. USC celebrates Hispanic culture Heritage month events set to continue into mid-October BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK Polish up those salsa shoes and dust off the maracas because Hispanic Heritage Month activi ties have begun at USC. The university-wide celebra tion began with the Latin Explosion Kickoff in the Russell House Ballroom on Sept. 16, and events will end Oct. 15. Other events to be held this month in clude a presentation by David Lamb titled “From Be-Bop to Hip Hop: How Music Reflects Historical Connections Between Latinos and African Americans” on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Golden Spur. October will feature such events as a panel discussion with community leaders from Mexico at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 1; a performance by Grupo Taino, a Puerto Rican dance group, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. in the Golden Spur; a performance by Carlotta Santana Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. at the Roger Center; the Latin American Film Festival from Oct. 4 until Oct. 8 at the Nickelodeon Theatre; a perfor mance by Latin music band Sabor! on Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. on the Russell House patio; and a pre sentation by Laura Cahue on the emergence of the Tarascan Empire on Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Russell House. “We’re celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month to educate peo ple about Hispanic culture and to celebrate that culture,” said Lavina Chandler, administrative assistant with the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, which organized this month’s cel ebration with help from the Latin American Studies Department. “The Department of Latin American Studies is playing a support role,” Chandler said. “They’re offering advice, and they help us with the educational ♦ HERITAGE MONTH, SEE PAGE 2