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University of South Carolina CDinAV MPA/CMCrD Q OHOO Vol.96,No.35 www.dailygamecock.com rlAlL/MIj INVJVRIVIDL(\ O, ZuUZ Since 1908 USC considers wireless network 0 • Computer Services likely to hold out for standards j BY COREY GARRIOTT THE GAMECOCK USC’s Computer Services Department is entertaining a pro posal to create a wireless network that would allow any laptop equipped with a radio Ethernet card to access the Internet on cam pus. The proposal would add 1,20C white, book-sized boxes tucked away in campus comers, ceilings and shelves. These nodes would provide the radio coverage need ed for a full-featured, wireless “cloud.” ^ “You would have mobility,” ™ said Dan Galliger, network man ager for Computer Services. “The student could be at lunch or at the Russell House and get up dates from Blackboard or Instant Messenger,” he said. Students could use USC’s institutional ac cess to scientific journals and re “The student could be at lunch or at the Russell House and get updates from Blackboard or Instant Messenger.” DAN GALLIGER NETWORK MANAGER FOR COMPUTER SERVICES search databases while in Jazzman’s Cafe. “Plus, you can get a lot more done in some areas,” said Scott Allred, a university network tech nician. “It’s kind of nice to be out side while doing your research.” The university has constructed some pilot programs in wireless networking. Woodrow residence hall, the Thomas Cooper Library and the freshman housing in Holiday Inn and the Adams Mark Hotel are all on a wireless hookup with USC, he said. The wireless network would not replace the hard-wired network. “Some teachers are using it to bring wireless into the classroom,” Galliger said. “A teacher teaching a class can say, ‘Go to this URL, pull open this project.’ ” William Hogue, director of Computer Services, is pushing for ♦ WIRELESS, SEE PAGE 2 I Wireless internet is already available in Woodrow residence hall, the Adams Mark Hotel, the Holiday Inn and the Thomas Cooper Library. Computer Services is looking into making a wireless “cloud” across campus. PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGUJM/THE GAMECOCK President 1% ' _ Bush talks Hp§p|| about the recent Kl'- n / elections |> and his I. - upcoming agenda for I Congress at l. a news K| conference I| Thursday, PHOTO BY CHUCK B11|BB81| KENNEDY/KRT A CAMPUS President urges Congress to put U.S. security first BY SANDRA SOBIERAJ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Bush, charting an agenda for the ^ new Republican Congress, said Thursday that homeland securi ty comes first and an economic recovery plan with new tax cuts will wait until next year. “There's going to be a huge laundry list of things people want to get done, and my job is to set priorities and get them done,” the president said in a jovial 45 minute news conference, his first appearance after Tuesday's elec tion, when his GOP captured con trol of both the House and Senate. Bush's insistence that the Senate deliver him a Department of Homeland Security in its post election session put him awk wardly at odds with newly em powered Senate Republican lead er Trent Lott, who said Wednesday he doesn’t intend to resolve the homeland security fight in the “lame-duck” session convening next week. ♦ BUSH,SEE PAGE 2 Dangerous behavior linked to firearms . BY KRISTEN MOORE W TIIE OAMECOCK A new Harvard study reports that college students owning firearms are more likely to behave dangerously than are students who do not own firearms. The study, “Guns and Gun Threats at College,” is the latest finding from the Harvard School of Public Health. The article was published in the latest Journal of American College Health. “Students who report having guns at college are more likely than those without guns to engage in behaviors, such as driving when drunk, that put themselves and others at risk for serious in jury,” said Matthew Miller, lead author of the study. “People who engage in these be haviors are not the ones in whose hands I would want to find a lethal weapon,” he said. Miller is associ ♦ GUNS, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics and Crossword 6 Classifieds 9 Horoscopes 6 Lette rs to th e Editor 4 Online Poll_ 4 ^ Police Report _3 Weather TODAY TOMORROW High 67 High 70 Low 47 Low 56 Inside ♦ THE MIX The legacy of “The Lord of the Rings" continues with video game. Page 5 ♦ THE MIX The Art Bar players will perform Friday night at the Art Bar. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS The men’s basketball team opens its season with a 80-64 exhibition win over Team Nike. Page 7 ♦ SPORTS The women’s soccer team gets bumped in the first round of the SEC tournament. Page 7 9/11 altered student beliefs College students view technology as more important, study finds BY ALEXIS STRATTON THE (JAMECOCK The results of a post-Sept. 11 survey reveal college students’ changing attitudes toward their world and their belief in the in creasing importance of technol ogy. The study, conducted by the Gallup Organization and com missioned by Bayer Corp., polled 1,000 full-time students at tending full-time colleges and it showed students’ fears of ter rorism, feelings of the increas ing importance of science and technology, and views of their future plans. “We wanted to conduct these public-opinion polls just to gauge attitudes and opinions on a whole lot of science-education and science issues,” said Rebecca Lucore, executive di rector of Bayer Foundation and manager of affairs for Bayer Corp. “We had talked to a lot of different audiences, but we had never talked directly to college students.” While the focus of the survey ♦ POLL. SEE PAGE 2 ♦ Three-fourths of college students say the United States will face increasing threats from terrorists during the coming years. ♦ Almost all (nine in 10) think science, technology and sophisticated tools are important in helping the United States meet future terror threats. Two-thirds called them “very important.” ♦ Roughly one in five say last year's attacks have prompted them to seriously consider changing their career plans or major, or, for the first time, think about joining the military or intelligence fields. ♦ Almost all (93%) say it is important for average Americans to be scientifically literate in order to understand and deal with terrorist threats, including bioterrorism, nuclear weapons and cyberterrorism. Roughly six in 10 called it "very important.” _Source: The Bayer Facts of Science Education VIII, www.bayerus.com/msms PHOTOS COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS. GRAPHIC BY KATIE SMITH/THE GAMECOCK Beautifying campus one street at a time PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK Ada Cook, left, and Lawrence Dozier work alongside the machine laying hot tar onto Sumter Street Thursday afternoon. Crews are on the final stretch of the street improvement project, which Is expected to be completed by Nov. 20. ^ ® 'U' " ^ —1U * , Professor is named teacher of the year BY EMMA RITCH THE GAMECOCK A USC professor was named a 2002 Governor’s professor of the year at a ceremony at the State House on Thursday. John Spurrier, a statistics pro fessor at USC for 28 years, re ceived one of the two awards this year. Rebecca Hilton from Aiken Technical College also received me award. Both will re ceive $5,000 in ad dition to the dis tinction. Spurrier is the nrsi use cxuumuia faculty member to Spurrier receive the award. He was also a finalist in the com petition last year. Jim Lynch, chairman of the Statistics Department, said Spurrier “has always been inter ested in statistical things.” Lynch said Spurrier’s children helped him become interested in teach ing statistics. “I got into teaching statistics with hands-on activities with my children,” Spurrier said. He said he still tries to use hands-on teach ing methods with his Statistics 201 classes. “I try to take great interest in the students,” Spurrier said. “I fo cus on the students rather than statistics.” Emily Taylor, a third-year pub lic relations student, was a stu dent of Spurrier’s in 2000. “He had a way of making statistics inter esting,” she said. ♦ AWARD, SEE PAGE 2