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TODAY: Isolated T- \AJpHtIPcHoV JulV 16>2003 ♦ VoL 97-No- 6 storms, High 91, 'j# J VV CLlllCuLlClj University of South Carolina * www.dailygarnecock.com ‘ A.MKCOCK INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Want to ride on the ‘drunk bus?’ Corey Hutchins thinks USC should become responsible for its student drunks. PAGES THE MIX Hot tiger action! Riverbanks Zoo is the new home of two tiger cubs. PAGE 7 SPORTS Men’s basketball gets a new voice As one play-by-play man goes, another jumps right in. PAGE 10 INDEX Comics and Crossword 9 Classifieds 12 Horoscopes9 Letters to the Editor 6 Online Po|l_ 6 Quote of the Day_7 USC Police Report 4 Inn might be on PHOTO BY BRIAN RAY/THE GAMECOCK The Black House on Pendleton Street, across from the National Advocacy Center, is slated to be the lobby and check-in of USC’s new hotel. USC plan would raise hotel and demolish three parking lots BY BRIAN RAY THE HAMECOCK USC President Andrew Sorensen announced Monday that the university could move on plans to build an inn across from the National Advocacy Center as soon as September. But Sorensen said the agreement comes at the cost of three parking lots on Pendleton Street. “There had to be trade-offs,” Sorensen said. “I’m aware of the fact that we’ve got a horrific park ing problem.” Director of Parking Services Derrick Huggins said that the parking lots to be closed are most likely the faculty lot and two stu dent lots near the Business Administration building on Pendleton Street. But, Huggins said, the decision to close these lots could change within the next 10 days. Once the inn is built, according to the agreement, traffic that pass es by the NAC will be redirected to Pickens Street. This means drivers won’t be able to take Pendleton straight to Capstone or any building past the NAC build ing. But Sorensen said the trade-offs are worth it, considering the ad dition of parking spaces behind the Coliseum and the acquisition of the old BellSouth Building on Barnwell Street, which is being re vamped into a parking garage. City Council member Anne Sinclair said the Columbia City Council has yet to approve the agreement because Mayor Bob Coble and other key members of ♦ INN, SEE PAGE 2 Preston lot to get greened BY WES WOLFE THE GAMECOCK Most of the faculty and staff parking behind Preston College and Woodrow will disappear this September as part the Preston Green project. The parking lots, bound by Preston, Woodrow, Rutledge and Legare, will be replaced with grass to beautify a new walkway from the Russell House to Rutledge. The $1 million project will feature a plaza at the base of the smokestack tower, a land ♦ PRESTON, SEE PAGE 3 Intel, USC team up for graduate program BY ASHLEY NORRIS THE GAMECOCK USC will offer one of the nation’s first signal integrity engineering ^ , programs starting this fall. Signal integrity is “the subject of how to design the computer chip boards in an efficient way,” said Yinchao Chen, associate pro fessor of electrical engineering. • As new technology raises the speed at which electrical compo nents "talk” to each other, the challenge to correctly send and ♦ PROGRAM, SEE PAGE 2