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Business Leadership Dinner
to honor distinguished alumni
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BY ALLYSON BIRD
• THE GAMECOCK
The Moore School of Business
will honor both old and young
distinguished alumni as well as
service to the business school
and the university at the eighth
annual Business Leadership
Dinner on Friday night.
Over filet mignon and prawns
at the Zone’s Exclusive seating in
the south end zone of Williams
Brice Stadium, attendees will
watch the ceremony on closed cir
cuit television and view pictures
of recipients and sponsor names
on the scoreboard overhead.
“It’s a wonderful time for ev
eryone to get together, to let
alumni get together with busi
nesses,” said Ellen Moore, direc
tor of alumni relations for the
Moore School of Business.
This year’s Distinguished
Alumni are Lawrence Kellner,
president of Continental Airlines,
the fifth-largest airline in the na
tion; Jill Griffin, founder and
president of The Griffin Group, a
consulting group with clients in
cluding Dell, Sprint, Ford and thp .
U.S. Navy; and Charles Holden
DuBose Jr., president and CEO
of Dubose Strapping Inc., North
Carolina’s only steel-strapping
manufacturer.
Distinguished Young Alumni,
both under 40 years old, are
Lawrence Isaac Scott, senior vice
president of Bank of America’s
finance group, and Whitney
McDonough MacEachern, vice
president of Citigroup Latin
American Corporate Affairs.
The Distinguished Service
Award recipient is Stephen
Trewhella, retired chairman of
Glassmaster Company and for
mer chairman of USC’s Business
Partnership Foundation.
The event will also bring
about'40 corporate table spon
sors. Representatives from the
corporation will take their seats
their companies’ tables, and emp
ty spaces will be given to USC
business students.
“It’s a wonderful way to show
the fine product we produce,”
Moore said.
Even the event’s caterer for
the event is an alum.
Moore said that the award re
cipients are chosen by a large com
mittee, and two subcommittees
further narrow down choices for
the Young Alumnus/Alumna
Award and the Distinguished
Service Award. Recommendations
are sent to the business school
dean for final approval.
This is the 13th year of the
awards program, which has only
featured a dinner for the past
eight years.
“We like to reunite with alum
ni. We have a lot of corporations
and key leaders in the region
come back,” Moore said.
A cocktail reception begins at
6:30 p.m., followed by the dinner
and then the awards ceremony
at 8:15.
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Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat
Monday, April 21
O LARCENY OF PLAYSTATI0N2
GAMES, BATES RESIDENCE
HALL, 1423 WHALEY ST. The
victim said someone took a
PlayStation2. eight
PlayStation2 games, a Sony
cordless phone and an alarm
clock from his room. Estimated
value: $705. Reporting officer:
D. Hare.
Tuesday, April 22
® DISORDERLY CONDUCT,
STUDENT VIOLATION, B-7 LOT,
800 BARNWELL ST. The victim
said that while she was towing
Darcy Mason’s vehicle, Mason
became loud and began yelling
profanities at her and then
walked away. Mason was not
at the lot when reporting
officer N. Dehaai arrived.
® LARCENY OF MONEY,
WARDLAW, 820 MAIN ST. The
victim said someone took $300
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in the classroom by venturing
into the workplace. Internships
are becoming harder to find, but
Career Center Director Larry
Salters says that shouldn’t hinder
students’ efforts.
“Anything you do while you’re
in college, headed toward the job
market—anything you are doing
— you ought to be thinking how
does this fit with acknowledge
ment to your goals,” Salters said.
“My advice is, as a freshmen, to
come in here and let us talk to you
about your ultimate goals and
what you what your education to
cash, a cell phone, two purses,
a wallet, five keys, a
checkbook, a South Carolina
driver’s license, and several
credit and ATM cards from her
unlocked office. Estimated
value: $500. Reporting officer:
N. Dehaai.
® LARCENY OF PURSE,
HUMANITIES CLASSROOM
LOBBY The complainant said
she left her purse, which
contained a $10 bill, a gift
card, a cell phone, several
credit cards, a North
Carolina driver’s license, a
set of keys and a Social
Security card, unattended.
When she returned, her
purse was gone. Estimated
value: $215. Reporting officer:
J. Taylor.
Q DISORDERLY CONDUCT,
1523 GREENE ST. While
responding to a call of
suspicious activity on the
Horseshoe, reporting officer
J.M. Simmorts walked past
lead toward.”
The importance of intern
ships, however, varies with the
field of study; some jobs place
more emphasis on work experi
ence.
Doug Fisher, a professor in the
School of Journalism and Mass
Communications, spent most of
his 18-year career with The
Associated Press hiring reporters
and staff. He said that, as far as
journalism goes, experience su
persedes education.
“What does the education sig
nal? It signals that you were able
to stay awake long enough in class
that chances are that you’ll stay
awake in a city council meeting
too,” he said. “Professional people
want to have a sense that the peo
James Banks. Banks began
screaming profanities at
Simmons in plain view of
people on the Horseshoe.
Banks was arrested and
taken to Richland County
Detention Center,
o INFORMATION,
ACCIDENT, VEHICLE
VERSUS DOG, 916
BARNWELL ST. The
complainant said a white
female backed into her dog
with a vehicle. The
complainant said the dog
was uninjured and was on
a lpach at fhp timp
Wednesday, April 23
® LARCENY OF
BRACELET, GAMBRELL
HALL, 817 HENDERSON
ST. The victim said
someone took her
pocketbook, which
contained a children’s
silver bracelet, camera
film, a cell phone, several
tubes of lipstick, a
checkbook, a calendar and
an address book, from
under her desk while she
was out. Estimated value:
$245. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin.
(D AUTO BREAK-IN,
LARCENY OF BOOK BAG,
PETIGRU METER LOT,
1521 GREENE ST. The
victim said someone
broke into her vehicle and
took her book bag, which
contained a purse,
checkbooks, two bank
cards, two credit cards, an
MP3 player, a cell phone, a
TI-83 calculator and
medication. Estimated
value: $590. Reporting
officer: G. Kerwin.
pie they are hiring have some
sense of what the profession
is all about, and you get that
through internships.”
But Fisher said that stu
dents who are entering their
last years in college shouldn’t
worry if they haven’t found an
internship yet.
“I think they need to look
at what’s available and start
looking at some of those oth
er options,” he said.
For students who can’t
find internships, the summer
offers a chance to travel or
take some time off before en
tering the work force full
time.
“If taking time off fits with
in your career plan, then it
can certainly be useful, par
ticular if you’re traveling,”
Salters said. “Some students
do. like to take some time off
and travel, which is a good
educational experience as
well.”
But White recommends
that students hold off on trav
eling until after they gradu
ate.
“What I would recommend
is students plan on taking a
month or so off after school,
before going to work, to enjoy
the French Riviera,” he said.
“The more internships, the
better.”
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The Carolina Center, which opened in late November, was the only South Carolina venue ranked
in Pollstar, a leading publication in the entertainment and arena Industry.
Pollstar
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Pollstar is a leading publication
in the entertainment and arena in
dustry.
The Carolina Center ranked
among venues from around the
country, including the Continental
Airlines Arena in East Rutherford,
N.J.; the First Union Spectrum in
Philadelphia; and the American
Airlines Center in Dallas. Philips
Arena in Atlanta ranked ninth in
the poll, and the Bell Centre in
Montreal ranked first.
“We were the only building in
South Carolina rated,” Paquette
said. “We’re pretty excited about it.”
“It means a lot of people have
been coming to the Carolina
Center,” and that means money is
coming into the local economy, he
said.
Paquette said the major events
boosting the ratings included con
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Carolina by allowing students to
get their teaching degree in a
four-year program rather than a
five-year one.
But Sternberg said the college
still considers it “extremely im
portant, if not necessary” that stu
dents who get their initial certifi
cation in a four-year program also
earn a master’s degree.
The programs are in conjunc
tion with the No Child Left Behind
Act, an education law signed by
President Bush on Jan. 8,2002,
that requires every classroom to
have a high-quality teacher by
2006.
“There are specific require
ments that not only all perspec
tive teachers, but also current
teachers, will have to adhere to in
order to be classified as a high
certs by Jimmy Buffet, Kenny
Chesney and Billy Joel and Elton
John. The Winter Jam show, a
Christian concert, was another
key event this past quarter.
Laura Bundrick, marketing
manager for the Carolina Center,
said being ranked 16th in the poll
speaks highly of the building.
She said that because the
Carolina Center is so much bigger
than the Carolina Coliseum, it
gives Columbia a venue to bring
in “some of the biggest-name acts
that are out there right now.”
“It’s definitely an accomplish
ment and something we are excit
ed about and looking forward to
the future to continue to bring in
top-name acts and continue to
rank among the top arenas in the
country and in the world,”
Bundrick said.
Paquette said the “name of the
game” is to sell tickets, or bring in
acts that will sell tickets. The best
way to lure acts to the Carolina
Center is to build good relation
ships with show promoters and
booking agents so that “they feel
comfortable bringing shows to
your facility,” Paquette said. He
thinks the staff at the center has
done a good job making those con
nections so far.
“Whenever you have a new are
na, you want to make sure that ev
eryone knows you’re here and
knows that you can be successful,”
Paquette said. “This is kind of
putting the proof behind that.”
The Carolina Center is operated
primarily by the USC Athletics
Department and managed by
Global Spectrum, a subsidiary of
the Philadelphia-based sports-and
entertainment firm Comcast
Spectacor. The firm also owns the
First Union Center and the First
Union Spectrum, both arenas in
Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia
76ers, and it manages more than
32 facilities worldwide.
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quality teacher,” Sternberg said.
He said prospective teachers
would go through an approved
teacher education program, pass a
series of tests called the Praxis test
and the ADEPT (Assisting,
Developing and Evaluating
Professional Teaching) test.
The first benefit the programs
would provide would be to “ad
dress the pipeline shortage is
sues,” he said. By having an un
dergraduate program, he said, the
college would attract more stu
dents into the program at USC.
“There is a critical shortage of
teachers not only in South
Carolina, but in the U.S., and so to
have a program like this would be
beneficial to meeting the prepara
tions problems,” Sternberg said.
In the past couple of years, the
College of Education has graduated
between 200 to 250 students each
year in its various master of arts -
in teaching programs. <
The second benefit, he said, t
concerns the “conceptualization
of teacher education in general.”
He said students who go through
the current teaching program
don’t have enough preparation to
be successful in the classroom.
During the next four years, the
College of Education will be re
designing and reconceptualizing
its master’s degree programs to
“directly reflect what individual
teachers need in their class
rooms.”
It also wants to follow the
teachers who earn bachelor’s de
grees in teaching under the new
program and work with them in
the classroom, as well as with
their peers, their schools and
their school districts in order to
provide the necessary support.
USC officials expect the College
of Education to offer the new pro
grams in the fall of2003.
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1998. The university chose the
gold signet style ring because it
was the most popular style, Best
said.
Best said that while ring style
is standardized, variations are
available. The ring can be or
dered in 10-, 14-, or 18-carat gold,
and an antique option is avail
able, which makes the ring ap
pear more shadowed and older.
White gold is also available.
Best said the Alumni
Association supports the official
ring because of its uniqueness.
“It’s something we really pro
mote because it’s a way alumni
can stay connected.” Best said.
“So many alumni are really
proud of their ring.”
Dickerson received her un
dergraduate degree from USC in
1999 and her master’s degree, also
from USC, in 2001. Dickerson said
she feels attached to the univer
sity.
“I have strong bonds to the
school,” Dickerson said. She
wears her class ring regularly.
“It reminds me, and I’m proud
to show it off at the same time,”
Dickerson said. “I think that it’s
kind of a unique statement to tell
the world that you’re a USC grad
uate.”
Rachel Prater, a third-year re
tail student, said she doesn’t have
a ring yet, but she plans to order
one next semester.
“I just think it’s something
special to wear,” Prater said. “It’s
a symbol of accomplishment.”
Third-year chemical-engi
neering student J.R. Knight at
tended the ring ceremony
Tuesday and will be receiving
his ring soon. Knight said the
ring has a special meaning for
him.
“I think that it’s kind of a way
to showcase where you came
from to everyone you interact
with in the future,” Knight said.
Knight, who is president of
Garnet Circle, a leadership orga
nization within the Carolina
Alumni Association, said he is
proud to attend USC, and that the
ring is “a way to showcase your
pride for the university.”
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government to take run Iraq. He
also said Syria and others in the
region will not be permitted to in
fluence Iraq’s future.
— Jay Gamer, the U.S. official
in charge of rebuilding Iraq, pre
dicted the “governmental pro
cess” there will be running by the
end of next week. He met with 60
Iraqi technocrats and academics.
— Representatives of 15 Arab
states issued a statement urging
“an immediate and unconditional
withdrawal of the invading forces
from Iraqi territories” and said
Iraq should be governed by Iraqis.
— The Pentagon announced
that thousands of National Guard
and Reserve forces who left civil
ian lives and jobs for the war in
Iraq will be heading home soon.
It is estimated that roughly 100,000
Guard and Reserve forces are
among the more than 250,000
Americans on duty in the Persian
Gulf region.
— Baghdad is getting about
one-fourth its usual supply of elec
tricity but won’t be fully powered
until engineers get parts to repair
damaged transformers and pow
er lines.
— The Security Council voted
unanimously to extend until June
3 Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s
authority to speed additional food
and medicine to the Iraqi people.
— In Kut, assailants twice fired
on a U.S. Marine command amid
rising tensions between U.S. troops
and followers of a Shiite cleric who
claims control of the southern city.
Aziz last appeared in public
March 19, when he held a news con
ference in Baghdad to quash ru
mors he had fled the Iraqi capital.
Scholarship total
reaches 24 winners
The Office of Fellowships and
Scholar Programs has an
nounced two more scholarship
BRIEFLY
winners, bringing this year’s to
tal number of winners to 24.
Matt Hodge, a third-year civ
il- and environmental-engi
neering student, won the Tau
Beta Pi Undergraduate
Scholarship. Jason Mortal, a
fourth-year chemistry student,
won the National Science
Foundation Graduate Research
Grant. Morton will use the
grant to study at Cornell
University.