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University of South Carolina WFONFRnAY FFRRI IARY 1 9 9009 Vol96.No.58 www.dailygamecock.com VV L.L'INL.OL'MI, rLDRUMR I 1Z., Since 1908 _ _ • . Senator’s ^actions under scrutiny BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THK liAMKCOCK USC College Republicans have accused Liberal Arts Sen. J.D. Shipman of coercion, and the Student Government Elections Commission plans to address the senator’s actions in a meeting this Sunday. College, Republicans ^Chairwoman Kendall Robinson said Shipman threatened to pros ecute member Wesley Donehue unless the organization retracted a news release that denounced the senator’s accusations against SG President Ankit Patel. Donehue ; said Shipman also demanded that he drop his plans to run for SG president in the spring. Shipman denied the allega tions. I don t know anything about that,” Shipman said. “No one on my campaign staff did anything that would be considered ques tionable.” According to police reports, Donehue appeared at Shipman’s Jan. 22 SG presidential campaign meeting and threatened to physi ^.callv harm attendees. Shipman, who called the USC Police Department during the con frontation, said in a police report that he would sign a warrant for Donehue’s arrest. “I think it’s unfortunate and that he's probably going to regret it,” Shipman said after the en counter. Shipman then outlined plans to file a complaint with the Office of Student Judicial pro ♦ REPUBLICANS, SEE PAGE 7 Budget •cuts dig deeper into USC BY JIM DAVENPORT TIIK ASSOCIATED I’RKSS COLUMBIA -USC has to cut an other $6.4 million out of its budget after the State Budget and Control Board ordered another round of midyear cuts for all state agencies Tuesday. The board approved a 3.7 percent cut immediately to generate sav ings of $170 million dollars neces sary to keep the budget in balance. The Legislature has five meeting days to weigh the cuts and make changes before they go into effect. That’s not expected to happen. Gov. Mark Sanford, chairman of the board, said prompt action was needed after the Board of Economic Advisors reported Monday that state revenues were $120 million less than expected. ♦ BUDGET, SEE PAGE 2 Tape urges Iraq to attack BY ROBERT H. REID THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DOHA, QATAR — A raspy voice believed to be Osama bin Laden’s urged Iraqis to carry out suicide attacks against Americans and draw U.S. troops into combat in Iraqi cities. U.S. officials said the call broadcast Tuesday proves the world must fear Saddam Hussein’s ties to the al-Qaida ter ror network. The appeal was made in a voice tape aired by the Al-Jazeera satellite television station throughout the Arab world and believed by U.S. officials to be au thentic. It was broadcast as U.S. officials warned of devastating at tacks within the United States and the Persian Gulf, where U.S. forces are massing for a possible attack against Iraq. “This nexus between terrorists and states that are developing weapons of mass destruction can no longer be looked away from and ignored,” Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Senate Budget Committee. Some analysts wondered at bin Laden’s motives for issuing a statement supporting Iraq, given many countries’ skepticism of U.S. allegations of Iraqi-al-Qaida links. Others worried the record ing would inflame Muslims against U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf region. On the tape, broadcast on the first day of the Muslim holiday ♦ BIN LADEN, SEE PAGE 3 “We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before.” A VOICE BELIEVED TO BE OSAMA BIN LADEN'S Honoring AIDS awareness -— — -— — ■—— .... —— i mu ■ iinni—h—————— l l PHOTO BY TRISHA SHADWEU/THE GAMECOCK USC President Andrew Sorensen unveils a 5-foot-2-inch statue of a woman holding a quilt with the seal of the AIDS Benefit Foundation of South Carolina in front of the Koger Center. The Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington County gave USC the statue In appreciation of its work in HIV and AIDS education and prevention. Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. the USC Health and Wellness Office and the Richland Community Health Association will provide free HIV/AIDS testing to the USC community and public. The Orasure tests take samples from the mouth with a cotton swab. FOR FULL STORY, SEE PAGE 6. Sorensen to present plan to build research center BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK USC President Andrew Sorensen is expected to give de tails to the Board of Trustees on Thursday about his plan to build a research campus near the university. The center could be under construction in less than a year. Sorensen has been releasing limited information about the proposed research campus. He said it would be located within a few miles of the Columbia cam pus and would contain 5 million square feet of research facili ties, focusing on high-technolo gy research of such topics as nanotechnology and photonics. “Our long-standing commit ment to basic re search can be pivotal to our state’s economic expan sion,” Sorensen said. We will be highly suc cessful only if we expand re search that enables our stu dents to learn cutting-edge tech niques, stimulates our faculty to demonstrate real-world ap plications, and helps harness our natural resources to ensure the kind of economic develop ment that will make our chil dren proud to live and work in a “In all these partnerships, we must ensure that the financial tail does not wag the academic dog.” ANDREW SORENSEN use PRESIDENT progressive Palmetto State.” Sorensen is expected to elab orate on the location, dimen sions and costs, as well as pos sible sources of funding for the campus in his presentation. Supporters of his plan are al ready comparing the planned campus to North Carolina State ♦ RESEARCH, SEE PAGE 9 Athletics ann BY SHAWN ROURK THE GAMECOCK The Capital City Bombers mi nor league baseball team and the USC Athletics Department have agreed on a proposal to build a new baseball stadium in Columbia. The Bombers and USC are working out the details to share a possible $15 million facility that is planned for the comer of Blossom and Huger streets. “It’s still in its preliminary stages,” USC Athletics Director Mike McGee said. “We’ve had one meeting with the city and four meetings with the Bombers to I work things out.” The new stadium would be an upgrade from the 4,000-seat facili ty USC is using now. The new sta dium would have 5,000 to 8,000 seats. That number is not final, however. The plans have been in the works since May 2002, when Columbia Mayor Bob Coble ap proached McGee about the possi bility of working with the Bombers. “We had been called by the mayor in May about our reaction to the potential new ownership of the Bombers. He suggested to us that you and the Bombers get to ♦ STADIUM, SEE PAGE 6 -:-1 Library showcases historic treasures BY ALEXIS STRATTON TIIK liAMKCOCK The South Caroliniana Library on USC s Horseshoe was designed to be the university’s main li V ■ 1 brary in 1840. But this historic li brary has evolved into a home for South Carolina’s treasures. The library was the first free standing college library in the United States and USC’s main li brary until 1940. However, this historic building has become note worthy for many more reasons. The South Carolina Legislature met in the library shortly after the Civil War while the State House was being con structed. Archaeologists found human bones buried in the rear garden of the library in 1986, which they determined to be from amputations when DeSaussure College was a Civil War hospital. The bones have been left undisturbed. Now, South Caroliniana is the oldest continuously occupied aca demic library building in the United States. “Up to the Civil War, it was one of the best college libraries in the nation,” said Elizabeth West, university archivist. “It had some very real quality col lections in it.” In an attempt to stop the flow of the state’s historical resources to out-of-state repositories, a Caroliniana Committee was es tablished in 1931 to build and maintain a collection of manuscripts and books relating to South Carolina history and cul ture. When the general library col lection moved to McKissick Memorial Library, now McKissick Museum, in 1940, the South Caroliniana Library shift ed its focus solely to South Carolina. ♦ LIBRARY, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics and Crossword 13 Classifieds 16 Horoscopes 13 Letters to the Editor 10 Online Poll Police Report 8 Weather TODAY TOMORROW I ■ I High 62 High 55 Low 30 Low 29 -' t Inside ♦ NEWS “The Power of Pom” to come to USC. Page 4 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Phil Watson discusses how to prevent Valentine’s Day tragedy. Page 10 ♦ THE MIX Max Barry’s “Jennifer Government” is slated to be a-movie. Catch it in novel • form. Page 11 ♦ SPORTS Clemson visits Columbia to play the men’s basketball team tonight at the Carolina Center. Page 14 --t