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Maymester class offers unique experience i BY MATT ROTHENBERG THE GAMECOCK Students seeking success the old-fashioned way can hear real life experiences from such nota bles as George Rogers in a Maymester course called Celebrity Profiles. The Sport and Entertainment Management Department is of fering the class, listed as SPTE 490M, which will feature a vari ety of speakers from inside and outside the sports industry. Liz McMillan, general manag er for Gamecock Sport Marketing, will teach the class. “Many of the speakers have had huge obstacles they’ve over come. That’s what I’m trying to do: get the class to get close to people who’ve gotten into very successful positions and look at the way they got there,” she said. Tom Regan, chairman of the’ Sport £tnd Entertainment Management Department, said the class has the ability to help the department as well as the stu dents. The reason for the class is to provide a higher profile, he said, because the speakers will now have an affiliation with the Department of Sport and Entertainment Managment. “The other reason is for the students to have the opportunity to see them, and with our practicums and internships, it’s vitally important that they build a network of relationships with them, and many of them will be friends of our department and be Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cide raid. “We mowed down” the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy. Despite declarations that fur ther tough fighting lies ahead, the nation’s top military official in dicated there may not be an all out battle for Baghdad. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested isolating members of the old regime in the capital — cut off from the rest of the country — while an “interim administra able to help,” he said. One of the lecturers will be Mack Whittle, chairman of the USC Board of Trustees and presi dent and chief executive officer of the South Financial Group. Also scheduled to speak to the class are a pair of former USC football players, 1980 Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers and former quarterback Tommy Suggs, who now is a partner at Keenan & Suggs Inc., an insur ance company. Craig Kelly, a lo cal attorney and sports agent who represents college coaches, including Ron Zook of Florida and Frank Beamer of Virginia Tech, will also talk to the class. McMillan said this is just a sample of some of the guest lec turers, and there are more speak ers who are not confirmed. Guest speakers will not be the sole focus of the class. Students will work in groups tn «pp hnw thpv rpennnH tn Hiffpr ent circumstances. Using the book “Play to Win” by Larry and Hersch Wilson, McMillan said, she looks forward to seeing what the students find out about them selves and others. “We’ll do certain models in the class where I try to see how peo ple are going to react in certain situations,” she said. “And it’s so neat, because you might react to tally different from me in the same situation, and we’ll both achieve the same goal.” There will be some different activities to get the students to participate and see how they re act to different situations. “The book just talks about Liz McMillan, general manager for Gamecock Sport Marketing, will teach the Maymester class Celebrity Profiles. now to win at wnat you do. i think the concepts in the book, along with speakers to support that, could be something that people could get a lot out of,” McMillan said. Another of the main reasons for developing the class, she said, was to provide students with a different option during Maymester in which they could learn from people who have suc ceeded in a number of fields. i tnmk it would work lor any level, and I don’t think it matters what major you’re in, either,” McMillan said. “That’s why I made sure many of the presenters I’m talking to aren’t in sports. They’re successful in a lot of oth er things.” ■L Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com tion” is put in place to begin work on a postwar government. A meeting to organize an in terim government could be held in Iraq within a week, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday. For the first time in the war, large parts of Baghdad lost elec tricity. The cause was not known. Myers told reporters at a Pentagon briefing that Americans had not targeted the power grid. Tracer rounds lit the night sky and artillery boomed near the air port a few miles from the heart of Saddam Hussein’s capital. Army units encountered little resis tance along the airport road. At one stage, it appeared that U.S. forces had taken control of the airport “and then it got more confusing,” with continued fight ing, Myers said Thursday night. Capture of the airport would give American and British troops a fa cility for airlifting equipment and troops to Baghdad. Along the city’s southern edge, Army tanks and Bradley vehicles destroyed at least seven Iraqi ar mored personnel carriers and more than 15 Iraqi tanks in fight ing that went on for more than four hours. Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes—on the bat tlefield and within an Iraqi popu lation initially reticent about em bracing invading troops. Kurdish fighters in the north chipped in, when a top leader suggested they may agree not to seek control of the northern city of Kirkuk. There were battlefield set backs, as well. Two Marines were killed and one injured in the close-quarters fighting in Kut. And an Army soldier investigat ing a destroyed tank in central Iraq was killed by friendly fire when he was mistaken for an Iraqi, the military said. EPA endows university with grant to research uranium in S.C. water BY KEITA ALSTON ' THE GAMECOCK USC has received a $450,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study to identify areas of South Carolina that have elevated ura nium levels in their groundwater. USC and Clemson University will perform the study. Tom Temples, director of USC’s Center for Water Research and Policy, said the study would begin in Simpsonville. “We’re going to initially start in the Upstate because the prob lem that was the impetus for get ting the money for this grant was in the Simpsonville area,” Temples said. The purpose of the study is to identify areas of the state where the water contains uranium in ex cess of federal drinking-water standards. They will also help state health officials and the fed eral government identify other ar eas that are at risk for elevated uranium levels. “DHEC can go in and work with the people, giving them some kind of other alternative drinking water source,” Temples said. Temples said USC and Clemson have already started on the two year study, but the official start will be this summer, when they receive money from the EPA. The main reason for the project is to involve graduate students in the study, Temples said. He does not know what type of work they would be doing, but said they will probably do work in the field, such as collecting and analyzing samples of the groundwater and helping to interpret the results from the data. The groups from Clemson and USC will also be looking at and an alyzing vegetation for uranium, Temples said. “Hopefully by just collecting vegetation samples and analyzing them, we can isolate areas that have high potential for elevated uranium in the sub-surface, which would then, under the right conditions, get into the ground water supply,” he said. If uranium is found in the groundwater, he said that, de pending on its location to the clos est water supply system, water lines could be run and the people could be taken off well water. Temples said other treatment options, such as filtering, can be used to remove the uranium from the water before people drink it. Although this is the easiest alter native, it is not the cheapest, he said. “There are a lot of very good fil tration systems in the market that do a very good job of removing metal, of which uranium is,” he said. “That works just fine. Unfortunately, they can be a little expensive, but I think that as the technology and the demand progress, then those costs will start coming down quite a bit." He said those involved in the study hope to get more funding for the next fiscal year so it can in crease the scope and involve more people from USC, Clemson and possibly other universities within the state. They also hope to get funding for the research of other metals that could affect drinking water. “The nice thing about some of the data sets that we’re going to use is not only does it have infor mation on uranium in it, but it also has some concentration data for 20 to 30 other metals that we can look at the health impacts from people drinking water,” he said. He said clean water is funda mental for good health and that those involved in the study hope the results can provide informa tion on ways to help the people in South Carolina to secure clean drinking water sources. “Our body is a good percentage of water. We require a pretty large quantity to live, and any thing that you dissolve in your body is going to end up passing through your body and could po tentially have some adverse health affects on it,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com trek SPECIALIZED. MlSlV _ ME TALWOMKS Ths Thz §®u cnf Cvr/;. BRIEFLY USC program gets notable rankings USC’s international busi ness program is the top-ranked public university program in the country and No. 2 among all institutions, according to U.S. News & World Report. The ranking marks the 14th . consecutive year that the in ternational business program at the Moore School of Business has been ranked ei ther No. 1 or 2. The only public university ranked in the top five, USC outperformed Columbia University, Harvard University, Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. The ranking appears in the book “America’s Best Graduate Schools,” on news stands Monday and in the April 14 edition of U.S. News & World Report. Rankings are ■ available at www.usnews.com. ' Sand, Surf and Summer School UNIVERSITY OF * SOUTH(7\ROLlNA. BEAUFORT “■ HILTON HEAD CAMPUS • TEL 843.785.3995'/ TOLL FREE 877.885.5271 • www.3C.edu/teaufort • tnOaoinOgwm.sc.edu BEAUFOFTT CAMPUS • TEL 843.521.4101 • TOLL FREE 877.519.4759 • www.sc.edu/teaufort • tmfolsoiro0gwm.sc.edu STATE Senate panel OKs higher cigarette tax COLUMBIA — A Senate Finance subcommittee scuttled House plans to refinance tobacco settlement bonds to pay for Medicaid programs while it also rejected a tax trade-off plan Gov. Mark Sanford sought. Instead, the subcommittee ap proved a plan late Wednesday that would increase cigarette taxes by 53 cents a pack, up from 7 cents a pack— the third lowest in the nation. That plan also de creases sales taxes on groceries by a half cent each year. In nine years, the grocery sales tax would be a penny on the dollar. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to take up the plan Tuesday.Supporters of the House’s tobacco bond plan said it could generate as much as $45 million for Medicaid pro grams in the first year and, $36 million a year later. NATION Doctor pleads guilty to plotting attack TAMPA, FLA. — A podiatrist pleaded guilty Thursday to plot ting a bomb attack on a St. Petersburg Islamic center to avenge the 2001 terrorist attacks. Robert Goldstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights, attempt to damage religious property and a gun possession charge. If the judge accepts the plea arrangement, Goldstein faces be tween 12.5 and 15 years in prison. Goldstein’s attorney, Myles H. Malman, said Goldstein suf fers from severe mental illness, and part of the agreement in volves him being sent to a feder al institution for treatment. “This plea will help Dr. Goldstein put behind him an ex tremely tumultuous, troubling and stressful time in his life,” Malman said. WORLD Study predicts rise in new cancer cases LONDON — The number of new cancer cases worldwide is expected to increase by 50 per cent over the next 20 years, part ly because poor nations are adopting unhealthy Western habits, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The World Cancer Report is the first comprehensive exami nation of cancer around the globe, covering the current un derstanding of its causes, pre vention and treatment. “The overall message is that we can prevent a third of can cers,” said one of the report’s ed itors, Australian cancer spe cialist Bernard Stewart. Worldwide, about 10 million people are diagnosed with can cer yearly and 6 million people die from it. The report says that the annual number of diagnoses will reach 15 million by 2020. r Beta Alpha Psi presents... Voluntary Income Tax Association We'll help needy students with tax returns - Monday, April 7 Tuesday, April 8 2-4pm - Russell House Lobby