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In response to requests, RE. Center to open earlier BY MELISSA INGRAM THE GAMECOCK Responding to numerous stu dent requests, the Blatt Physical Education Center will be chang ing its hours, opening at 6 a.m. starting Monday. The new hours will be on a tri al basis, while the weekend hours will remain the same. Ron Byers, assistant director of Campus Recreation, said it is important to faculty and staff that the center open earlier. It is a new advantage for the faculty members to be able to exercise and shower before starting then day, since the majority of the peo ple utilizing the center are staff members. “We have arranged for the ROTC groups to come in at 6 a.m. so we will have more security and can better supervise when and where people are entering the building,” Byers said. Two students will come in at 6 a.m. to work the front desk and the equipment desk. The P.E. center is expanding its services, and there will be ad ditional opportunities for the stu dents and faculty who use the fa cility. “Altering the hours allows me to work out in the morning in stead of midafternoon after class when I am already tired,” said first-year undeclared student Jordan Smith. There are few members of the faculty who will be affected. Byers is one of the major ones be ing affected because his days will now begin at 5:30 a.m. Although the custodians and equipment managers will have different shift hours, they won’t have to be in any earlier than usual. Byers thinks there will be no disadvantages to changing the hours. The students benefit because those with 8 a.m. classes can now work out and be in class on time. “I am really going to enjoy the new hours because it allows me to work out before class,” said fourth-year criminal justice stu dent Pamela Huey. “This is a great way for me to get going in the morning.” For more information, contact the Office of Campus Recreation at 777-5261. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Bus Tour CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Northwestern High School where he handed out T-shirti with bow ties printed just belov the neckline to students because as he said,’“Most of you probabb don’t know how to tie a bow tie.’ Then Sorensen hopped bad on the minibus, with gamecocks painted on all sides, called “Th< Rooster Roadster.” He headed to Charlotte to tall about bioterrorism prepared ness with editors of th< Charlotte Observer. He is cur rently doing work for U.S Secretary of Health and Humai Services Tommy Thompson or the same subject. After the Observer meeting he met with members of the Charlotte Chamber o Commerce; Charlotte business executives; and the city’s mayor Patrick McCrory, to discuss re lations among businesses and universities in the Carolinas. Sorensen emphasized the need in Columbia for more busine00 re search initiatives similar to those in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. Sorensen’s tour on Wednesday was aimed at opening discussion Sorensen is working to fulfill his promise of university-community relations through his bow tie bus tour. about university-community re lations and getting alumni in volved with USC. He thinks these will help USC find sources of money outside of state appropri ations. South Carolina will most like ly implement an across-the board state budget reduction of 5 percent to 6 percent before 2003. Sorensen already found out on his first day in office that this fiscal year’s budget has been re duced nearly $20 million be cause of last fiscal year’s cut backs. A 5-percent budget re duction would take about $32.5 million out of USCs annual bud get. Sorensen’s solution is to in crease private giving to USC and advance USC’s research inter ests to make it nationaUy recog nized. He said a budget reduction is inevitable this fall and that it won’t stop there. “Even with these budget cuts, it’s not over. We can expect an other cut to follow even as soon as the next one is announced,” Sorensen said. After two tiring days of trav el, Sorensen said Wednesday night that he would have no problem getting to work and having a meeting at 8 a.m. Thursday. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com STATE Veterans want flag to be protected MOUNT PLEASANT (AP) - A group of veterans said Thursday that, after last year’s terror attacks, it’s time for Congress to act and pass a con stitutional amendment protect ing the U.S. flag from desecra tion. The flag is a sacred symbol and “we think it’s even more special after 9-11 than ever in the history of the country,” said Larry McKay of Mount Pleasant, who served with the Army in Vietnam. In July of2001, the U.S. House of Representatives, for the fourth time in six years, en dorsed the one-sentence article stating “The Congress shall have power to prohibit the phys ical desecration of the flag of the United States.” South Carolina’s two U.S. senators, Strom Thurmond and Ernest “Fritz” Hollings are both World War II veterans and co sponsors of the amendment in the Senate. Opponents of the amendment argue it would be a mistake to limit First Amendment rights to ban an act that rarely occurs. NATION New finding could help AIDS research WASHINGTON (AP) - Researchers studying people who are resistant to HIV have found a group of natural proteins that seem to inhibit the progres-"* sive infection of the virus that causes AIDS, a finding that could lead to new therapies. The research solves a 16-year medical mystery by identifying the proteins in a disease-block ing substance secreted in the blood of “long-term non-pro gressors” — patients infected with HIV who never get sicker or develop full-blown AIDS. In a study appearing Friday in Sciencexpress, the online version of the journal Science, re searchers at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York said they used a new protein-identification tool to ana lyze CAF, the anti-HIV substance. They found that CAF con tains natural proteins known as alpha-defensins. These disease fighting proteins were first dis covered in 1985 and were known to play a role in protecting the body from bacteria and infec tions. WORLD Ukraine accused of aiding Baghdad UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Ukraine’s foreign minister on Thursday rejected U.S. accusa tions that his country sold a radar system to Baghdad and in vited U.N. or American inspec tors to investigate charges that it had violated U.N. sanctions. Anatoliy Zlenko met with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan Thursday before dis cussing the accusations with Ole Peter Kolby, the Norwegian am bassador who heads the sanc tions committee. He called for an internation al investigation, led by U.N. weapons inspectors or a team of international experts. “If the U.S. insists on sending its experts, no problem,” Zlenko said. The State Department said earlier this week that audiotapes provided by a former Ukrainian security official indicated that Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma personally approved the transfer of a Kolchuha radar system to Iraq in violation of the sanctions.The system can detect' approaching aircraft without tipping off their pilots. Music Sites CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 students to be careful sharing and downloading files because prose cution is a real threat when stu dents violate copyright laws. Companies can contact Computer Services to find out who is using USC’s Internet to share the copy righted files, such as music or films. “If Sony complains about peo ple sharing files, they complain to Computer Services,” said Wilkinson. “We give one chance for the person to stop, then Sony can go after them.” Tobias Brasier, the university’s Webmaster and Internet Solutions Group manager said several orga nizations, including Mediaforce, the Motion Picture Association of America, NetPD, the Recording Industry Association of America and Sony Music, have contacted him regarding copyright violations by students on the USC server. The Security Group at USC also looks for students violating copy right laws with peer-to-peer file sharing and other illegal activity. Violators can face action by the Student Judicial office, the human resources division or the law en forcement and safety division. “I’d like for [students] to be careful when they are downloading songs,” Wilkinson said. She said she wants students to make sure their file-sharing is legal, although she said she thinks “most of the university’s bandwidth is being used for illegal acts.” Devang Desai, a fourth-year fi nance student, said that although he occasionally downloads music from the Internet, he supports Computer Services blocking the ports to Morpheus and Kazaa. “If it is a bandwidth problem, I do un derstand. It just keeps everyone connected,” he said. Wilkinson said that students looking for peer to peer file shar ing can still do so on WinMX, Gnutella, eDonkey, Direct Connect, BearShare, Audiogalaxy and Maxed Out. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com am. pure radiance • pure glow FREE SAMPLE! 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