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INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Is Father’s Day a little outdated? Joshua Hanley says Father’s Day is hypocritical. PAGE 5 THE MIX Don Quixote gone wonderfully wrong The Nickelodeon Theatre presents a bizarre adaptation of Cervantes’ novel. PAGE 7 SPORTS USC falls short in search of titles Women finish third and men 10th at NCAA Championships. PAGE 10 INDEX Comics and Crossword 9 Classifieds 12 Horoscopes 9 Letters to the Editor 6 Online Poll 6 USC Police Report 3 Housing changes in store for fall BY BRIAN RAY THE GAMECOCK University Housing is renovating dorms and instituting new policies. This fall, there will be wireless Internet access at some dorms and a new smoke-free policy. Housing normally uses the sum *mer to incorporate changes, Housing Director Gene Luna said. Students at Bates will have wire less internet capaDinty wnne stu dents at Preston will be able to warm their hands by a new fireplace. The changes will also include the addition of services and the abolition of policies the university considers unhealthy. Luna also said that residence halls will be "absolutely smoke-free." Certain dorms used to allow smok ing in rooms whose residents agreed, ♦ HOUSING. SEE PAGE 4 PHOTO BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR/THE GAMECOCK Travis Williams, a first-year math student, said, "Whenever my rights are violated it just makes me want to smoke. " NSF selects USC for fuel research center BY GABRIELLE SINCLAIR THE GAMECOCK The National Science Foundation will grant USC $210,000 over three years by se lecting USC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology as the nation’s first Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells. Eleven initial industry partners will add another $1.2 million. The center will further President Andrew Sorensen’s vi sion to transform USC into a ma jor research campus. Fuel cells use hydrogen and oxygen to create a chemical reac tion that produces electricity. The only emission is water vapor. Sorensen hopes that fuel cell re search will do for South Carolina what semiconductor research did for Austin, Texas and Raleigh, N.C. By bringing in 11 national and international companies such as BASF, Entegris, SRTC, DANA and CD adapco, he hopes that this will bring in not only “more jobs, but higher paid jobs.” The center is expected to im prove South Carolina’s economy. John Goodman, chairman of ♦ RESEARCH, SEE PAGE 2 USG team returns from two weeks in Ukraine BY IRENA POPOVA THE GAMECOCK A team of faculty studying the health and environmental effects of the 1986 Chernobyl explosion returned May 28 from a two-week re search trip to team includes faculty from MUSC. the department of biological sci “It happened 17 years ago, but the contamination has been like a great creeping crud that is still crawling out.” BRUCE COULL DEAN OF THE SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT ences, me cmuege oi Nursing and the schools of the Environment and Public Health. The project began when William Murray, a USC law school alumnus and uniamc. i m. luaiu filmed a USC-SCETV joint pro duction of the documentary Nature Scene which will air on SCETV in December. This was the 13th trip USC has taken since the interdepartmental research project began in 1998. The UllVl 11VJ 111 11V/ *1 York, gave financial support to en vironmental research in Ukraine. Since then, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State have given ♦ TWO WEEKS, SEE PAGE 4