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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
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Low 33
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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
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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