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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
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Letters to theEditor 6
Online Poll 6
Police Report 5
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