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www.dailygamecock.com WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2003 V°L£%2, All MCAT scores must be released BY WENDY JEFFCOAT THE (iAMKUUCK Students planning to take tj>e Medical College Admissions Test no longer have the option of not releasing their scores to potential schools. As of the examination on April 26, all scores will be released. “In the past, they were able to take the test, with hold their scores and decide if they wanted to re lease them and then apply,” said Albert Chen, ex ecutive director of graduate programs for Kaplan Inc. But the new regulation, set in motion by the American Association of Medical Colleges, makes certain all scores and test dates are available to po tential schools. Chen said students who have taken the exam be fore this year still have the option of not releasing a particular score, but he said it is not recommend ed to withhold a score. “At Kaplan, we believe that you should never withhold a score,” Chen said. The school might as sume that the withheld score is bad, he said. The change in policy is a way for schools to look at test history, instead of a single test experience, Chen said. “If your only test history is one test, then they assume you’re that good,” he said. “It’s this idea of test history.” Chen said this change in policy would not af fect students who prepare for the MCAT and take it seriously. It would, however, affect students who use the test as preparation or don’t prepare for it, he said. Those students should now make a change and find other ways to get ready for the exam, he said. “The people who are serious would try to do it once, anyway,” Chen said, and would not be affect ♦ MCAT, SEE PAGE 3 SEARCHING FOR HOSTS From left, Josh Johnson, a third-year criminal-justice student; Daniel Regenschelt, a first-year journalism student; and Steve Shuler, a second-year electronic journalism student, are co hosts on the Teen Forum Show. The job is similar to an Internship, according to Andy Thomas, who came up with the Idea for the program; It offers students a chance to be on the radio and to travel all over the state with expenses paid. PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Teen radio show vies for national audience BY JESSICA CLANTON TUB GAMECOCK The Teen Forum Show, a teenage call-in talk show with an estimated lis tening audience of 100,000, is looking for more student co-hosts. The show is on Wednesdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on WZMJ-FM (Magic 93.1) in the Columbia area. Three USC stu dents are on its panel of hosts, who range in age from 15 to 20 and are of many different ethnic and political backgrounds In 1986, Andy Thomas, president of “The Andy Thomas Show” and.the Andy Thomas Radio Network, came up with the idea of a call-in radio show that would give a diverse group of teenagers the chance to voice their opinions on topics from teenage drug use to teenage relationships. Today, the show is statewide, and it has hopes of going national. “We are in the process of trying to launch this nationally; we have con tacted agents and have hopes that this could get very big,” Thomas said. The show is searching for opinionated stu dents to help host. “The job is similar to an internship; it does not pay, but it looks good on re sumes and transcripts, gives students a chance to be on the radio, and it gives the hosts the chance to travel till over the state, expenses paid,” Thomas said. Regular attendance at meetings and broadcasts is required for the job, he ♦FORUM, SEE PAGE 2 Children’s Center relocates to provide improved facilities PHOTO BY ADAM PATTERSON/THE GAMECOCK A new child-development center will be built on the corner of South Pickens and Wheat streets. The money for the facility will come from grants and partnerships. BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK USC is cooperating with Gateway Academy, South Carolina Educational Television and the South Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to build a $4.1 million child development and research facility at the cor ner of South Pickens and Wheat streets. Provost Jerry Odom said the new center “will provide a place for faculty, students and staff to leave their children in a close place during the day.” He also said the center will let researchers observe the devel opment of children at an early age. According to Odom, the USC Children’s Center was moved ♦ DEVELOPMENT, SEE PAGE 3 Midlands Tech, USC collaborate on incubator FIKl.M STAFF HKI'OUTS USC and Midlands Technical College are teaming up on an incubator program that will stimulate and support economic development in the Midlands. Under an agreement signed yesterday, by USC President Andrew Sorensen and MTC President Barry Russell, MTC will house its new student incubator program at USC’s incubator facility at 1233 Washington St. The partnership will link students at each institution with USC’s research capabilities and MTC’s technical expertise. Russell said this move will enhance the education of MTC and USC students as they work to develop new businesses. “Midlands Technical College is especially pleased to announce this partnership with USC because of the increasingly appropriate nature of collaboration between our two institutions. In the business and devel opment climate we now have, not to partner in such basic and critical ways would be almost unthinkable,” Russell said. “We are looking for ward to the advantages that together we can provide all of our students and the community.” USC began its incubator program in 1998 and added a student com ponent in 2000. USC students go through a competitive process to re ceive funding and support for their new businesses and the chance to ♦ INCUBATOR, SEE PAGE 4 Hemispheres of influence BY ALEXIS STRATTON THE GAMECOCK »■ Maj. Jim Christopher, SLED’s coordinator of counterterrorism, ,*i thought that when the Moscow Police Command College was founded at USC, it would simply educate Russian police officers about American systems of law and justice. But by the time these officers were getting their pictures taken with Cocky and yelling “Go Cocks!” with Russian accents, it was obviously much more than that. The Moscow Police Command College was established at USC in 1997 after Danny Baker, program .. • director and then associate dean of the College of Criminal Justice, applied for a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. State Department. This grant provided funding for the MPCC, a program that brought management-level Russian police officers to USC for four- to six-week periods in which they were instructed on policing in classroom, experiential and so ciocultural settings in America. Since 1997,100 Russian officers have graduated from the MPCC. USC’s Criminal Justice * Department works with SLED and other agencies to provide the Russian officers with a first-hand view of how the American legal system works. The higher-ranking officers and officials in Moscow select the candidates for this program. “They’re selected based on their potential for advancement and on their accomplishments that have already taken place in their re spective fields,” Baker said. He ♦ POLICE, SEE PAGE 4 Index Comics and Crossword 9 Classifieds 12 Horoscopes 9 Letters to theEditor 6 Online Poll 6 Police Report 5 Weather TODAY TOMORROW O fe High 62 High 65 Low 44 Low 47 In This Issue ♦ TAB Trie USC Fellowship of Christian Athletes will send 42 students to Haiti. Spring Fling Special ♦ VIEWPOINTS Brook Bristow flexes his First Amendment rights. Page 6 ♦ SPORTS Trie Gamecocks try to keep their winning streak alive tonight against Tennessee. Page 10 ♦ SPORTS Baseball to make up postponed game with The Citadel in Charleston. Page 10