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www.dailygamecock.com MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2003 Since 1908 Iraq report yields few answers After 2 months, inspectors can’t confirm that Iraq is rearming BY DAFNA LINZER ^ THE ASSOCIATED I'll ESS UNITED NATIONS - Iraq’s arms declaration is incomplete, its sci entists aren’t fully cooperating with inspections and Baghdad is obstructing the use of a U-2 plane that could be helpful in the hunt for weapons of mass destruction, inspectors are expected to tell the Security Council in a toughly worded report Monday. After two months on the job, the chief weapons inspectors, who will deliver their assessments to the Security Council Monday at 10:30 a.m. EST, won’t be able to confirm claims by the Bush ad ministration that Iraq is rearm ing, according to U.N. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Still, with all the open ques tions, the reports by Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei will be key to Washington’s efforts to bolster international support for a war on Iraq and to efforts by skeptics to avert one. By mid-afternoon Sunday, Blix had written a toughly-worded 16 page report that he will deliver as a speech during the public portion of Monday’s council meeting. “I have been working very hard and very carefully on the details,” he told The Associated Press. He wouldn’t discuss the con tents because of “sensitivities and expectations,” surrounding the re port. U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte is expected to respond to the inspectors’ reports once Monday’s session moves behind closed-doors. An administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the ambassador would focus more on Iraq’s obligations than on the inspectors’ findings. “He will remind the council that they all agreed in November that this would be Iraq’s last op portunity to comply and that two months is more than enough time to test Saddam’s intentions to co operate,” the official told The Associated Press. The inspectors still don’t know what happened to Iraq’s stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons or how much time they have left to find the answers. Still, ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, intends to make the case formore time.. “We’re just in mid-course and we still need to exhaust the option of inspections before we think of any alternatives,” ElBaradei told AP upon his arrival to New York from Vienna Sunday. “We still need more time and that depends obviously on how in tensive our work is and how co operative Iraq is,” he said. According to Security Council Resolution 1441, crafted by the k IRAQ, SEE PAGE 2 USC ranks in top third for test sites BY ALEXIS STRATTON THE GAMECOCK In the first nationwide survey of LSAT and MCAT testing loca tions, USC’s sites placed in the top third or better. The results of the Kaplan Test Prep survey ranked USC’s test ing sites 69th out of 192 for the August Medical College Admission Test and 35th out of 261 for the October Law School Admission Test. “USC did quite well on both as ^ far as those two tests go,” said Justin Serrano, executive direc tor of Kaplan Test Prep. “You had some that were really out of whack and out of the normal range, but as far as USC goes, they were really rated quite high.” Overall, the survey results show that students’ testing ex periences varied widely. College of Charleston, by com parison, ranked 186 out of 192 for MCAT test sites and 233 out of 261 for LSAT test sites; students there reported small, uncomfortable desks and distracting proctors. In order to help students have a more positive testing experience, Kaplan Test Prep surveyed stu ^ dents taking the LSATs and MCATs about their test sites for the October and August testing dates, respectively. Kaplan used these data to rank schools’ testing sites for future test-takers. The results were re leased Tuesday. The 2002 Test Site Rater in cludes LSAT ratings from more than 5,000 Kaplan students at 261 test sites and MCAT ratings from 2,124 Kaplan students at 192 test sites. Students responded by e-mail and rated their test sites on a scale of one to five in four cate gories: proctors, quiet and com fort, overall site experience, and desk space. Scott Kaplan, assistant director of orientation and testing services at USC, said he has confidence in USC’s testing site and practices. “We happen to have an excel lent site,” he said. “The site itself happens to be probably one of better ones in the nation.” Serrano said the test-prep company performed the study as a service to students, not as a sci entific study. He said Kaplan wants stu dents to “use the information as one way of looking at how to choose a testing site.” “It’s probably something they don’t consider enough,” Serrano said. Scott Kaplan said the choice of testing sites is important be cause the results varied greatly among the rated sites. According to Kaplan Test Prep, common complaints included im proper lighting, extreme room temperature, loud noises, dis tracting proctors, timing errors and lack of sufficient desk space. “Things like that really threw people off,” Serrano said. “You don’t want the testing experience to increase your anxiety level.” In the survey, students com plained that the October LSAT at the City University of New York at Brooklyn College (ranked 253 out of 261) started late and held many distractions, including a proctor whose cell phone rang and who told test-tak ers that she hated lawyers. Most sites, however, ranked uTEST SITES, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics and Crossword 7 Classifieds 10 Horoscopes $ Letters to the Editor 4 H Online Poll 4 Police Report 3 Weather TODAY TOMORROW High 52 Low 33 » Inside u VIEWPOINTS: Corey Garriott examines the strength of deterrence when dealing with leaders such as Saddam Hussein. Page 4 « THE MIX Read about the greatest show on Earth - still in Columbia. Page 5 •'THE MIX Edward Norton has 24 hours of freedom in his latest, “25th Hour.” Page 5 u SPORTS The USC track teams perform well at SEC Challenge. Ice, ice baby ___ __—---,_._1 PHOTO BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Ice forms Inside the reflecting pool near the Thomas Cooper Library on Friday, when classes were delayed until 10 a.m. because of slippery roads and lingering snow. Delta Gamma seeks to expand BY JESSICA FOSTER THE GAMECOCK Delta Gamma, an interna tional women’s fraternity, has decided to expand its USC chapter by recruiting more members. This expansion is not a typ ical recruitment for the Epsilon Chi chapter of Delta Gamma at USC. National representatives and alumni will be coming to the campus to help, and the fraternity’s USC chapter thinks that is an honor. “It’s a great gift that they’re helping us,” said Harrison Parks, president of Delta Gamma’s USC chapter. International representa tives and current members will conduct open interviews from Jan. 27 through 29 in Russell House room 203 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day. The fraternity will inter view women of all class stand ings, and appointments are not necessary. Delta Gamma will also have information tables outside the Grand Marketplace and on Greene Street in front of the Russell House from 10 a.m. un til 3 p.m. Bids will be extended on Jan. 29. Because Delta Gamma pol Higher fee allows bigger events Late Night Carolina to play host to themed activities, bigger names BY JESSICA CLANTON THE GAMECOCK Students can expect more from Late Night Carolina this semester, thanks to the $20-per student increase in the student-activity fee that the Board of Trustees approved last October. Comedian Late Night Carolina is a program sponsored Spanky Brown, by the Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs that who has attempts to give students a drug- and alcohol performed on free environment. This year, because of an in BET and HBO, crease in funding, Late Night Carolina will be USConFfid* playing host to bigger attractions, such as co along with medians Spanky Brown and Spike Davis, who fellow will both perform on Friday. Both have per performer formed on BET and HBO. Spike Davis. “The student-activity-fund increase has helped us immensely to bring a much wider va u LATE NIGHT, SEE PAGE 3 y f Carolina Productions plans more variety and weekly novelty events BY KIMBERLY HUNT THE GAMECOCK Reaping the benefits of the increased stu dent-activity fee, Carolina Productions has slated a semester full of events for students to participate in, including jousting and stand up comedy acts. Dfn h | haPPel,e Every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., ria^ CP will play host to novelty events on Greene routine to ST* Street in front of the Russell House. Koger Center on Upcoming events include waxed hands, Feb. 11. The where students make wax molds of their event Is made hands; funny antique photos; candy making; possible by an and jousting. Increase In the “It’s all random stuff,” said Interim student-activity president Brooke Vickery, a fourth-year mar °e" keting student. “Lots of events are planned