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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22,2003 **■£££
Law dean
will face
"financial
concerns
BY ROB SEAL
THE OAMECOCK
Fund raising and the con
struction of a new facility will
be the key issues greeting the
new dean of the USC Law
School.
The school announced four
finalists in December after
more than a year of searching.
The candidates are USC pro
fessor Nathan Crystal, who is
also a 1969 graduate of the USC
Law School: David Logan, a
•aw professor at Wake Forest
University; Robert Jerry Jr., a
law professor at the University
of Missouri-Columbia; and
Robert Hillman, a law profes
sor at the University of
California-Davis.
The new dean will replace
John Montgomery, who has
served as dean since 1987.
Montgomery said he is not re
tiring and that he will become a
full-time Law School faculty
member.
“I think a priority for the
new dean is going to be the
completion of the fund raising
for the new building to house
the School of Law,”
Montgomery said. “That’s not
going to change in the next
*^ear or two.
Crystal, who * teaches
Lawyers and Justice as well as
Professional Responsibility,
has been a faculty member
since 1976 and was associate
dean from 1987-1992.
“I would like to see progress
made toward the construction
of the new building,” Crystal
said. “To see that happen, we
need to bring together a broad
group of contributors from the
state and alumni. Annual giv
ing is the lifeblood of any law
school. That supports many of
our activities, such as guest lec
tures and speakers.”
Neil Batavia, a USC law stu
(Oilent, says the possibility of a
^iew facility is a crucial issue.
“We need somebody who
will get the alumni more in
volved in making the new fa
cility happen,” Batavia said. “I
think somebody that has been
with the school would know
what needs to be done at USC
and could jump right in and get
started. On the other hand,
somebody from outside the
school could bring a fresh per
spective to the program.”
Professor Robert Hillman, of
the University of California
Davis, agreed that facilities and
fund raising are important fac
tors at the USC Law School.
“The resource issue is very
pressing,” Hillman said. “USC
^ias a strong faculty, and in or
der for the program to contin
ue to grow, fund raising must
be pursued. Support for the fac
ulty can be summed up in one
word: resources. With USC’s
large and loyal alumni base, I
think that goal can be at
tained.”
The Law School is in its sec
ond year of searching for a new
♦ CANDIDATES, SEE PAGE 4
Patel accused of violation
Senators say
SG president
undermined
Student Senate
BY ADAM BEAM
THKOAMKCOCK
Two Student Government sen
ators have issued a subpoena to
SG President Ankit Patel ordering
him to appear before the Student
Senate today to
clarify “certain
statements said in
conduct toward
the Board of
Trustees and the
Student Senate.”
Liberal Arts
Sens. Adam Hark shlPman
and J.D. Shipman
issued the subpoena. It deals with
SG code 103.05, which forbids any
members of SG to go before the
Boai'd of Trustees without first
consulting the Senate. Hark and
Shipman said that Patel went be
fore the full Board of Trustees on
June 27 and then lied about it to
the Student Senate.
“I found the Board of Trustees’
minutes, and on June 27 he did, in
fact, approach the entire Board of
Trustees as a whole,” Hark said.
“This was without consultation of
the Senate, and indeed, he flat-out
lied.”
The subpoena orders Patel to
appear before the Student Senate
today at 5 p.m. in the Russell
House Theater to answer ques
tions, clarify his
statements and in
form the Senate of
the situation.
“We want all the
student represen
tatives to be aware
of this and to make
their own judge
ments,” Hark said.
Patel went before the Board of
Trustees to ask for a $20-per-stu
dent increase in the student-ac
tivity fee. The Student Senate ap
proved the proposal when it re
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convened in the fall. The Board of
Trustees approved the increase
Oct. 17. Shipman said the proposal
was presented to the Senate as
though the Board of Trustees had
already made up its mind and that
the Senate’s vote was merely a
“formal stamp of approval.”
“I personally feel that you have
the student body, which elects peo
ple based on the banter of stopping
tuition increases, yet in the end
passes the student-activity fee in
♦ PATEL, SEE PAGE 3
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. D'AY
Volunteers
spend day
serving city
BY ZA’KIYA DORCH
THE GAMECOCK
Hundreds of USC students,
faulty and staff members gath
ered on Davis Field Monday
morning to kick off the Martin
Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
After registering in the
Russell House Ballroom, the vol
unteers filed outside to the ral
ly, which consisted of an open
ing speech by chairwoman
Stephanie Lareau, musical se
lections by a-cappella group
Higher Harmony and gospel mu
sicians Chosen, and a keynote
address by USC President
Andrew Sorensen.
Once the program ended,
participants loaded up the bus
es that lined Greene Street to go
to their community-service
sites.
The buses took student vol
unteers to 24 local agencies, in
cluding the Congaree Swamp
National Park and the
Nurturing Center.
An assignment to Bus J
meant going to the Palmetto
Senior Care Home, located in
White Rock.
Volunteers entered the build
ing as residents were finishing
their lunch.
After receiving instructions
from the head nurse, the volun
teers began cleaning up tables
and helping clear dishes.
Some students took it a step
further and helped feed a couple
of the residents.
While they worked, the vol
unteers started conversations
with some of the people they
were helping.
After getting to know every
one, the volunteers made the
residents’ highlight of the
month even more special —
with a game of bingo.
First-year electronic-jour
nalism student Shantel Brown
said she enjoyed her experience
at the Palmetto Senior Care
Home.
“At the end of the day, I feel
♦ MLK, SEE PAGE 2
PHOTO BY ADAM PATTERSON/THE GAMECOCK
Michelle Jenkins, left, a fourth-year Spanish student, and
Louise Harris, a resident at Palmetto Senior Care, assemble
a puzzle as part of a service project.
NAACP protesters
rally against flag
BY COREY GARRIOTT
TiUKiAMECOCK
Demanding the Confederate
flag be removed from state
grounds, the NAACP marched on
the capitol for its fifth Martin
Luther King Jr. Day rally.
The National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People met at Zion Baptist
Church at 801 Washington St. to
prepare for the march and hear
the remarks of the Rev. A1
Sharpton, a 2004 presidential
hopeful and veteran of the civil
rights movement.
Speaking at the church, he de
scribed the legacy of Martin
Luther King Jr.
“Down the Mississippi delta,
where two Jews and a black man
were killed for giving us the right
to vote.” “Their court house is
closed today,” he said. “Their
judges are not coming to work,”
Despite King’s work,
Columbia’s NAACP President
Lonnie Randolph Jr. said, “Living
in America every day is a racial
experience.”
He said that the NAACP’s only
goal is to create equal opportunity
in each state. “In this state,” he
said, “it still does not exist.”
High on their list was a symbol:
the continuing fight over the
Confederate flag. In 1999, the
NAACP began a boycott of South
Carolina businesses in an effort to
force it down from the capitol
building. The legislature since
transferred the flag from the top of
the capitol to a nearby monument.
For the NAACP, it was a false
victory.
Marching down Main Street,
participants chanted: “Somewhere,
somehow, right here, right now:
the flag is coming down!”
“This flag of racism, segrega
tion, slavery and hatred shall
not fly at the people’s house,”
said Nelson B. Rivers, CEO of
the NAACP, in his keynote
speech.
The sentiments resonated with
Sheron Hayes, one of Monday’s
marchers. “This flag belongs in a
♦ NAACP, SEE PAGE 3
PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYES/THE GAMECOCK
Thousands gather at the State House on Monday for the Martin
Luther King Jr. Day rally to support the NAACP.
First-year experience sets example
rv
BY KEVIN FELLNER
Till-) l.'AMKCOCK
Sometimes even Mary Stuart
Hunter and Dan Berman can’t be
lieve they direct what their peers
have rated the best programs of
their kind in the nation.
“We usually don’t go around
thinking that we’re the best in the
country,” Berman said.
But within the last five months
USC’s National Resource Center
for the First-Year Experience and
Students in Transition has been
labeled the best. The U.S. News
and World Report ranked the
Center’s hallmark University 101
program tops in the nation, and
the Brevard College Policy Center
for the First Year of College rec
ognized the overall contributions
center.
Hunter, the national resource
center’s director, said the
University 101 course, which pre
dates the center by about 13
years, spawned the innovation
needed to build a self-supported
center that would become a na
tionally recognized authority
studying college students’ first
year experiences.
“The assessment of the course
from the very beginning indicat
ed that there were significant dif
ferences in students who took the
course versus students who
didn’t take the course as far as re
tention and academic achieve
ment,” she said.
Once the center got its start in
1986, its primary objectives be
came publishing academic writ
ings on the research being done
on the University 101 program
and other factors of the first-year
experience and organizing and
participating in conferences on
the same subject. Hunter re
turned Sunday from a conference
in Costa Mesa, Calif., where she
provided other university ad
♦ FIRST YEAR, SEE PAGE 2
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