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Journalism school plans tentative move
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THE HAMEtiOCK
The Board of Trustees is discussing
a tentative plan to renovate the
LeConte and Petigru buildings and
move the School of Journalism and
Mass Communications from the
Carolina Coliseum to LeConte.
Charles Bierbauer, the college’s
dean, said he hopes to see the college’s
administration and its journalism and
mass communications components
moved within the next three or four
years, but that the timeline isn’t defi
nite right now.
The college’s information studies
components will stay in Davis
College.
‘‘The faculty has been looking for
ward for a long time getting out of the
basement of the Coliseum,” Bierbauer
said. “The college moved there when
it was considerably smaller, and both
our enrollment and, in particular, the
technological needs of teaching mass
communications these days have out
stepped our abilities to effectively de
liver the best product for our stu
dents.”
The plan includes adding an audi
torium that would protrude from
LeConte’s west side and offer a new
stairway and entrance from Gibbes
Green.
The auditorium would be helpful for
accommodating some of the college’s
largest introductory classes, which are
now held in various locations around
campus, Chief Financial Officer Rick
Kelly said.
“All in all, we believe this is a bet
ter design for this college,” Kelly said.
“We also believe this is a better design
for the historical significance of these
buildings.”
The university has already set aside
a combined $9.6 million for the two pro
jects and has asked the General
Assembly for an additional $20 million
in a bond bill.
The renovations will first need ap
proval from the board’s Buildings and
Grounds Committee.
Previous plans had called for the col
lege to move to Petigru but have
changed in recent months for reasons
concerning the college’s size,
Bierbauer said. He called Petigru too
small and “hard to work with.” The col
lege is the sixth largest in the univer
♦ LECONTE, SEE PAGE 6
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
The School of Journalism and Mass Communications could relocate to a renovated
LeConte building, sketched above, If the Board of Trustees approves the plan.
Inductees celebrate their brotherhood
PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
Students dance at Phi Beta Sigma’s probate Party held last night on the Russell House Patio. The party, which attracted
hundreds of students, celebrated the official induction of pledges into the fraternity.
Virtual Job Fair connects students
with employers through Internet
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USC’s Career Center is offering
a Virtual Job Fair to give gradu
ating seniors the opportunity to
connect with employers through
the Internet.
The Virtual Job Fair is an on
line version of a traditional career
fair, specifically geared toward se
niors, recent graduates and alum
ni looking for jobs. Participants
can browse full-time job descrip
tions and submit resumes elec
tronically to an unlimited number
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of jobs. Employers will follow up
through the USC CareerLink or
off-line.
“The fair is just kind of a last
minute event to get your resume
out there for students who may
have missed our spring fair,”
said Heather Reyes, program
manager for special events and
coordinator of the Virtual Job
Fair.
The fair will last until May 23.
Anyone wanting to participate
must obtain a USC CareerLink in
teractive account, which Reyes said
is a three-step process.
First, students must go to the
Career Center and get their re
sumes approved. Second, they
must participate in a short orien
tation any time in the computer
lab. Third, they must pay a one
time $35 fee, which pays for the ac
count and allows them to use it for
the rest of their college career and
even after they graduate.
A list of employers is updated
daily on the Career Center Web
site, www.sc.edu/career. Some em
ployers are Synnex Information
Technologies, Toys ‘R’ Us and
Wells Fargo Financial.
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“We tend to get a lot of employ
ers that aren’t normally coming
to our campus, which is kind of
nice for our students because it
gives them more diversity in their
options,” Rfeyes said.
Jason Vanlerberghe, a fourth
year chemistry student, will be go
ing to graduate school next year
but said he thinks the Virtual Job
Fair is a useful tool for those se
niors still trying to figure out what
to do next year.
“In the chemistry field, I don’t
♦ FAIR, SEE PAGE 6
USC panel
says war is
‘still wrong’
BY COREY GARRIOTT
THE GAMECOCK
Anti-war professors and stu
dents hosted a teach-in Tuesday
night to discuss lessons learned
from the war in Iraq.
Michael Berg of the Carolina
Peace Research Council hung an
American flag at the teach-in
Tuesday night to set the mood —
a peace symbol replaced the stars.
“Tonight we want to point out
that, first of all, the war is not
over,” he said. “The war was
wrong, and the war still is
wrong.”
In an unusual move, the
teach-in divided attendees into
three free-format groups after in
troducing the speakers.
Sponsored by both the CPRC and
Students Allied for a Greener
Earth, the teach-in featured
three topics relevant to the Iraqi
issue — international relations,
the media and the humanities.
“An enormous number of
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Greg Fortner, who organized the
teach-in. “But we really wanted
to do a discussion,” he said.
Teach-ins have two goals, he
said. “One is education — actual
ly conveying new information to
tell people stuff that they don’t
know,” he said. “Equally impor
tant is giving them the tools to
think critically and evaluation the
information that they’re given.”
Small group discussions, he
said, engaged people in the pro
cess of thinking things through.
The first group, “The Genesis
of War in U.S. Domestic and
Foreign Policy,” included law
professor Dan Wedlock; Betty
Glad, a professor of government
and international studies; and
terrorism scholar Peter
Sederberg, dean of the South
Carolina Honors College.
Glad talked about the psycho
logical dimensions of power. She
said that if the United States re
mains in Iraq, it will have to rule
through intimidation — mean
mg it will have to remain in Iraq
for ages.
Sederberg reviewed what he
called common myths in the in
creasingly two-sided war debate:
notably, that the war is a “pre
emptive” war as opposed to a
preventative one and that the
war would increase U.S. security
by eliminating Saddam Hussein.
“We confront choices without
an easy, obvious alternative that
leaves our hands unsullied,” he
said. He contended that histori
cal analogies would aid the dis
cussion.
On the one hand, “the U.S.S.R.
was antithetically organized
against our interests,” he said,
and we chose not to risk a catas
trophe by attacking them. On the
other, “Iraq is not a serious
threat,” he said.
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“The Responsibilities of the
Media,” included media expert
Susan Courtney, historian
Michael Scardaville and docu
mentary director Laura Kissel.
The group was concerned
with biased coverage of the war.
American television coverage
makes us hostile to dissent,
Courtney said. Shots of “maps,
plans, tanks” and other goals and
methods distract us from the is
sues of whether the war is just in
the first place, she said.
“Corporate underwriting of
media threatens a democratic po
litical sphere,” Kissel said.
She said she thinks our media
is more concerned with “selling
its ideas and images to markets.”
Kissel supports independent me
dia, such as the documentaries
of populist Michael Moore, fo
cusing instead on “advocacy,
consciousness, and change.”
The third discussion group,
“The Arts, Humanities and the
Human Face of War,” featured
writers and veteran peace advo
cates.
Forter participated in this
♦ TEACH-IN, SEE PAGE 6
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Hitting the right notes with students
BY HILARY SCHRAMM
THE GAMECOCK
Every week, USC undergradu
ates acquaint local children with
the likes of Beethoven, Bach and
Mozart.
Now entering its 28th year, the
USC String Project is a partner
ship between the university and
the community that allows local
students to take music lessons on
string instruments at a discount
ed rate. In return, the undergrad
uate students gain experience be
fore entering the workplace as
music teachers.
“It’s a great way to reach out
to kids in the community, and it’s
great for us because we’ve been
teaching for four years by the
time we graduate,” said Dana
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Newton, a second-year music-ed
ucation student.
About 25 USC undergraduates
participate in the project. Most
students are from South Carolina,
and three are from each Georgia
and Virginia. The undergradu
ates begin as teacher’s assistants
their freshman years, then tutor
private lessons and eventually
teach a full, 25-student class.
“You work your way up so
you’re comfortable teaching and
have learned the skills you need
to handle a full classroom,”
Newton said.
The program involves about
350 local students from elemen
tary school to high school. Third
and fourth grade students are re
cruited by USC students at the
beginning of the school year and
enroll for two lessons a week in
violin, viola, cello or string bass.
After a year in the String Project,
students join the orchestra.
On May 5, the String Project
orchestra will hold a concert at
the Roger Center to highlight the
students’ improvement during
♦ PROJECT, SEE PAGE 6