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Protest CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 year Sorensen said that the inn would be the first of many hotels USC might build. “I don’t know where that’s coining from,” said university spokesman Russ McKinney. “I don’t remember him saying that.” But Wislinski said USC is al ready consider ing another hotel site on Senate Street. He said an investors group led by former USC chief of staff Lyles Glenn is negotiating a hotel deal similar to the first. Wislinski said this is USC’s back up if City Council rejects the first plan. McKinney said the hotel own ers missed the point of the inn. He said that the inn would at tract distinguished faculty and students to the university, a number of other colleges have similar hotels and would serve Sorensen’s mission to improve the quality of the school. Tom Sponseller, president of the Hospitality Association of South Carolina, said he dis agrees with the University’s de cision to ex clude hotel owners from discussions. Sponseller said the hotel association would allow the NAC to add an extension to house guests. Although hotels would have lost that business, Sponseller said, they were will ing to live with the situation. The USC inn, on the other hand, might house anyone USC con siders a guest, said James Gibson, vice president of the Greater Columbia Hotel and Motel Association. “He believed that USC’s hotel wouldn’t hurt us, but if it did, it was their market, their land, their school. They would do what they wanted.” ROBERT WISLINSKI ON SORENSEN AND THE PLANNED USC INN GREATER COLUMBIA HOTEL AND MOTEL ASSOCIATION. But City Council member Anne Sinclair, who was involved with negotiations, said hotel owners have little to complain about. “The reality is, they were heard,” Sinclair said, referring to meetings the neighborhood as sociation, university and advo cacy center held with members of the hotel association. Sinclair said only the South Carolina General Assembly could decide whether USC could have an inn, private or not, and that hotel owners already lob bied for a bill against USC that did not make it out of committee hearings. Sinclair also said the hotel owners make a moot point, since the agreement reached between the neighborhood association and USC is only in regard to land use and does not concern the ac tual legality of the hotel in any way. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com use BRIEFLY Journalism and Library schools get new directors The College of Mass Communications and Information Studies has a new di rector for the Journalism school and a new interim director for the Library school, Dr. Shirley Staples Carter and Dr. Dan Barron, respectively. The College is also co-sponsor ing a lecture in September by New York Times' syndicated columnist Tom Friedman. Moore school offers international business The Moore School of Business will offer an undergraduate in ternational business major in the fall. Carson, Van Zee to speak for university exercises Dr. Benjamin Carson, one of the world’s top neurosurgeons will speak at the University of South Carolina's commencement exercises for ail eight campuses at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in the Carolina Center. Commencement for doctoral candidates will be at 8:30 a.m. at the Roger Center. Dr. John W. Van Zee, USC pro fessor of chemical engineering and director of USC's newly established Industry/University for Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells, will speak. USC expects to award more than 1,000 degrees from the Columbia campus, including three associate's, 497 bachelor's, 11 grad uate certificates, 479 master's, nine specialists, 98 doctoral degrees and four law degrees. GINT department changes name to Political Science The Department of Government and International Studies changed its name to the Department of Political Science in July. .. #iu*i»lhw$s Cmiit website: stc.sc.edu In...-..——.- .I