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INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Cheaters succeed in modern world Tyler Jones considers the careers of Sosa and Blair. PAGE 5 THE MIX Piansts perform for Columbia USC School of Music offers Columbia a week of classical music. PAGE 7 SPORTS Tanner, Powell get Carolina to CWS Virtue helps Gamecocks make second straight trip to Omaha. PAGE 10 INDEX Comics & Crossword 9 Classifieds 12 Horoscopes9 Letters to the Editor 6 Online Poll 6 Quote of the Day 7 USC Police Report 3 Back to Omaha PHOTO BY COREY GARRIOTT/THE GAMECOCK On Saturday the USC baseball team punched its return ticket to the College World Series in Omaha after knocking off the UNC Tar Heels in two games. About 12,000 fans attended the Super Regional in Columbia. This trip marks the team’s seventh trip to the College World Series. Senator kiboshes millions for university BY BRIAN RAY THE castECOC.K The Senate failed to pass a $250 million research bill last Thursday at the State House. Bill 3899 would have given Clemson University, the Medical University of South Carolina and USC a total of $220 million to de velop their research infrastruc ture. The remaining $30 million would have been distributed among the state’s other colleges. “I’m very much disappointed,” said USC President Andrew Sorensen. “We desperately need additional buildings on our cam pus for research, for faculty, and for teaching.” Sen. John Kuhn (R-Charleston) was the strongest opponent of the I ♦SENATE, SEE PAGE2 Tuition to jump 15 percent this fall BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR THE GAMECOCK A committee of the USC Board of Trustees gave preliminary ap proval to a $650 million budget and a 15 percent tuition increase. The board will vote on both the increase and the credit hour system June 26. Chief Financial Officer Richard Kelly presented the budget and pos sible allocation of funds, as well as tuition changes for the 2003-2004 fis cal year Friday. 4 Under this new budget, tuition revenue will exceed state appro priations to USC for the first time in the history of the university. The proposed budget sets resident un dergraduate tuition at $2,774 and nonresident undergraduate tuition at $7,443. Last summer the trustees raised tuition by 17 percent. Ninety two percent of in-state residents re ceive some kind of financial aid. The executive board committee also gave approval for a bracketing system, in which full-time students taking 12 to 16 hours pay a set fee. and each credit hour beyond that will cost $80 for in-state students and $208 for out-of-state students. It is a permanent change, and is not influenced by the budget shortfall, said Kelly. What instigates the change, ac cording to the committee, is a long time problem with students sign ing up for an overload of classes, and then "shopping around,” lead ing to empty seats in the classroom, “I have to pay the professor the same for teaching 20 students as teaching 25,” said USC President Andrew Sorensen. "So we’re los ing enrollment by not having those five students there as a result of these kids oversubscribing. And they know when they do it that they’re not going to take those courses.” Sorensen was unsure as to whether this change will deter stu dents from taking electives or dou ble majoring. “The answer, to be honest with you, is I don't know,” said Sorensen. “I hope that people will be able to afford it. I hope they will be able to say ‘I can afford 240 dol lars more to take University 101."’ Many schools have changed to a bracketing system, said Sorensen. The University of Michigan and the University of Colorado operate using a 12-18 hour bracket. The University of ♦ TUITION, SEE PAGE 2