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McKissick CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 computer equipment and to up grade its Web site. “Most mu seum money comes for a spe cific exhibit,” Robertson said. “But this one can be used for infrastructure.” McKissick plans to use some of the money to dis tribute newsletters and print posters. “We haven’t had any advertising money for a num ber of years,” Robertson said. The museum’s Web site pro J_:_r_ * 11 III11 mation for people re searching the South. “Our spe cialization is working life in the Southeast ern United States: art history, folk life, the environ ment. A lot of people nntsirip thp Southeast access our Web site,” she said.’ Its specialty in Southern stud ies might have been what cinched the grant for McKissick. The museum’s strongest suit is the public history of the Southeast — a field that pro vides students with academic history, as well as technical skills useful for a museum job. “It’s methodology, archival management, museum man agement, preservation,” Robertson said. “If you want to understand South Carolina, say, in the 1840s, you need to know more than just what people did. You need to know what their land scape looked like, what kind of objects they created, and how those objects tell us about what they did and their values in their culture,” she said. McKissick was almost shut down last year as the universi ty went through a long-range planning process. “The museum, like a lot of other departments, was being looked at in terms of proving our worth,” Robertson said. “For some people, a nonteach ing department may have looked less essential.” But “we provide services for faculty, staff, students and the general public,” she said. Eighty thousand people attend McKissick each year. The mu seum also has severed traveling exhibits, including one in Cleveland and two between In the future, the museum plans to lengthen the duration of its exhibits. “It’ll make them more useful for university in structional programs,” Robertson said. She said main exhibits that usually run nine weeks will now run a semester and a half. This will result in fewer ex hibits so that the staff can use its time better, she said. This spring, the museum will air an exhibit on folk life, using artists who have won South Carolina folk heritage awards during the past few years. The ex hibit will feature bluegrass, blues and gospel music; basket making, and cooking traditions, she said. With its new grant money, McKissick will reinstall its nat ural-science gallery, which fea tures geological rocks, and put more of its permanent collec tions on display, “rather than borrow topically designed ex hibits.” And in 2005, a planned ex hibit will examine what pet keeping says about humans. “Why do people get more upset about cruelty to animals than they do sometimes about cru elty to people?” Robertson said. The exhibit, she said, shows that how we treat our pets con veys a much deeper message about how we view ourselves and how we construct our com munities. __ Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com “The museum, like a lot of other departments, was being looked at in terms of proving our worth ” LYNN ROBERTSON DIRECTOR OF MCKISSICK MUSEUM POLICE REPORT Each number on the map stands fora crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent © Nonviolent These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Emma Ritch. Wednesday, Oct. 30 (» . GRAND LARCENY OF STEEL BEAMS, GRAND LARCENY OF TRAILER, 900 BLOSSOM ST. On Nov. 5, Michael Chris Hathaway said someone took his trailer, which contained 25 steel beams. Estimated value $4,500. Reporting officer: T. Means. Wednesday, Nov. 6 O auto break-in, grand LARCENY OF CDS, UPPER ROOST SS LOT, 1322 HEYWARD ST. Dennis Demetrius Williams said someone broke his front right window and took a CD player, an amplifier and 80 CDs. Estimated value: $2,160. Joshua Wayne Eargle said someone broke the right window of his vehicle and took a CD player, 40 CDs and a Nokia cell phone. Estimated value: $370. Reporting officer: T. Means. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF TRIM RING, S-4 PARKING LOT, 819 BARNWELL ST. Marcus R. Gilliard said someone broke the left driver’s-side window and took the trim ring of the CD player. Estimated value: $50. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels. Thursday, Nov. 7 © VANDALISM/GRAFFITI, MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, PRINTING SERVICES, 718 DEVINE ST. Someone spray-painted graffiti on the USC Facility Services building. Estimated damage: $100. Reporting officer: B. Timbers. Friday, Nov. 8 © DRIVING WITH AN UNLAWFUL ALCOHOL ~ CONCENTRATION, DISREGARDING TRAFFIC SIGNAL, GEORGE ROGERS BOULEVARD AND BLUFF ROAD (OFF MAP). Reporting officer J.D. Patterson saw Stacey Dewan Anderson’s vehicle traveling at a high speed. Anderson swerved a couple of times, ran a red light and drove a quarter of a mile before stopping for police. Patterson said Anderson smelled of alcohol and did not have his driver’s license. His speech was slurred, and his eyes were bloodshot. Anderson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23 and was arrested and taken to the Columbia Police , Department, then to the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. STATE Citadel gets $1 million for stadium CHARLESTON (AP) - The Citadel has been given $1 million for the renovation of its football stadium by the former mayor of Boynton Beach, Fla., a former Bulldog baseball player. Gene Moore IH, who made mil lions in real estate and banking in south Florida, graduated from The Citadel in 1950 and was may or of Boynton Beach from 1989-91. The school plans a $10 million renovation of Johnson Hagood Stadium that will include a new tower for luxury suites, club lev el seats and a new press box. DHEC disputes safety of murals MYRTLE BEACH (AP) - A nursing home has to paint over four murals on security doors af ter DHEC said residents might get confused in an emergency. Artist Karen Pellegrino paint ed the doors at Myrtle Beach Manor to look like bookshelves and a cabinet. “I guess they’re try ing to protect people, but it just goes way too far,” Pellegrino said. The murals could pose a dan ger if residents can’t find the door during an emergency, DHEC spokeswoman Jan Easterling said. Before the mu rals went up, the doors tempted residents in the Alzheimer’s wing to walk outside. NATION Severe storms kill 3, injure 13 in Tenn. CLARKSVILLE, TENN. (AP) - Severe storms swept across Tennessee early Sunday, killing at least three people, injuring 13 and knocking out power to thou sands of homes and businesses. The National Weather Service had not determined whether the damage in at least six counties was caused by tornadoes. Hardest hit were Montgomery and Sumner counties in Middle Tennessee, where wind was es timated at 100 mph to 120 mph. Family of 4 found dead in N. Carolina LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP)-A re cently separated couple and two children were found dead in their home Saturday, and police suspected a murder-suicide. The victims may have been dead for almost a week before their bodies were discovered. They were last seen Nov. 3. The victims were identified as Donald Mark Tetter, 40; Elizabeth Tetter, 42; their daugh ter, Kristen Nicole Tetter, 8; and Manuel Alejandro Ojeda Gonzalez, 12, Elizabeth Tetter’s son from an earlier marriage. Donald and Kristen Tetter died of gunshot wounds, he said. There were no visible wounds on the other two victims, he said. Autopsies were ordered. WORLD Jewish community warns against hate BERLIN (AP) - Warning against resurgent anti Semitism, Berlin’s Jewish com munity marked the 64th an niversary Saturday of the de struction of synagogues and Jewish businesses across Germany in the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, seen as a precursor to the Holocaust. Several hundred people gath ered at the city’s main Jewish community center, which stands on the site of a syna gogue destroyed Nov. 9,1938. “After that night, no one in Germany could say they knew nothing,” said Ralph Giordano, a German Jewish essayist who was 15 at the time and later barely escaped being sent to the Auschwitz death camp. A surge in hate crimes in 2000 prompted the German government to launch a crack down on right-wing extrem ism, including an application to outlaw the far-right National Democratic Party, which offi cials blamed for encouraging that increase. I BRIEFLY * _ jimmy uunei to perform Feb. 5 Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band have announced they will perform at Columbia’s Carolina Center Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the show will go on sale Saturday, Nov. 16, at 10 a.m. Another act that recently announced plans to visit the Carolina Center is the Chevy Champions on Ice 25th Anniversary Tour, which will come to Columbia Jan. 5 at 3 , p.m. The exhibition will feature figure skaters Dorothy Hamill, Victor Petrenko, Nancy Kerrigan and Elvis Stojko. Tickets go on sale Monday and start at $26. Tickets for both shows will be available at the Carolina Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets or by phone at 783-2222. Tickets for the Buffett show are available at http://cc.com, and Champions on Ice tickets are available at www.ticket master.com. i nearer auamons open for students USC Theatre South Carolina will hold open audi tions for its spring productions Saturday, Nov. 23, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24, from 6 to 9 p.m. The auditions are open to USC students and community actors. Auditions will be held in the acting and rehearsal stu . dios in the basement of the Booker T. Washington audito rium. Anyone wishing to audition must sign up starting Monday on the fourth floor of Longstreet Theatre. Actors should prepare two contrast ing monologues for a two minute audition. Callbacks will be held Monday, Nov. 25, at 6 p.m. Planned spring productions are “Rhinoceros” by Eugene Ionesco, “Stop Kiss” by Diana Son and “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller. For more information, call Tim Donahue at 777-9353. I 25*h Anniversary The Carolina Center Sunday • January 5, 2003 • 3:00 PM . Tickets On Sale Now! Charge by Phone: 803-783-2222 lickels Starlingal S26.00 • Service fee applies , , _ Box Office • ticketmaster.com • championsonice.com M A Youth and Senior Discounts Available y^ m Croups of 20 or more 803-777-9738 L/ tjJwGnaster ch3mpionsonicr.com — Cast of skaters subject to change due to injury or unforeseen circumstances. Preston (Residential) College invites all interested individuals to join the College's Faculty, Staff and Residents for a Recruitment Dance in the Russell House Ballroom on Monday, November 11 at eight o' clock in the evening. come see what the buzz is about! * ' refreshments provided -.... You’ve Got News |y ■k. Get The Gamecock in your Inbox. Register now on our website and automatically receive an Email Edition of the paper with every new issue. Headline News • College Sports • Campus Calendar Local Weather • Daily Horoscope It s the best way to stay informed... and it’s free. www.dailygamecock.com