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agagaagr"Friday, November 7,2003 Since 1908 Web site lands Hark in hot water BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL THE (iAMECOCK A South Quad RA has an nounced plans on Thursday to move for the impeachment of Residence Hall Association President Adam Hark because of images on the president’s person al Web site, which included a pic ture of Hark wearing nothing but a sock. Hazel Matthews, a fourth-year criminal justice student, said she has decided to speak with USC’s ju dicial board and plans to move for impeachment after one of her resi dents showed her the president’s Web site, www.woodrow202.com. Matthews said she does not think the images on the presi dent’s Web site are consistent with the role of an RHA president. “He needs to play a certain role,” Matthews said of Hark. “He is supposed to represent all stu dents that live on campus.” Hark said the site is not intend ed to be offensive. “It is just an inside joke among a few of my friends,” Hark said. “It is there for us and has nothing to do with RHA.” But Matthews said it’s more than the images that disturb her. “The Web site says to Housing and USC that at Woodrow, you can get away with this stuff,” Matthews said. The main page of the Web site contains images labeled, “Sex,” “Drugs,” and “Rock & Roll.” The first image portrays two ful ly clothed people u-ffc — one male and one female — with arms wrapped around each other and kissing, set off by a red caption reading, “Completely consensual safe non-sex.” The second image depicts a student apparently snorting a white substance while using a calculator, accompanied by a red caption reading, “Not real cocaine.” And the final pic ture, containing Hark on the far left, depicts five naked men with red captions reading, “Too Sexy!” over their groins. Hark said the picture was intended to imitate the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also said the red captions were added to the Web site after Matthews complained earlier in the semester. “We put them there because we were poking fun at the idea that someone could find that offen sive,” Hark said. Intending to keep the Web site separate from his RHA presiden tial role, Hark said the site is not listed under Google.com or any other Internet search engine and that the only way to access it is to type in the Web address. “I don’t advertise it because the two are not connected," Hark said. “It has no bearing on what we do in RHA and shouldn’t ques tion my ability to servers presi dent.” According to Article VIII in the RHA constitution, impeachment proceedings can only begin after an RHA senator submits written charges to the president and ad viser. The charges must then be approved by a two-thirds vote of the senate. The most recent move for im peachment within a student orga nization on USC’s campus was January 2003. The unsuccessful at tempt, which Hark was involved with, was against then Student Government president Ankit Patel. While the dispute is yet to be de cided, Matthews said she will press for impeachment. “I’m going to try and begin im peachment proceedings within the next three weeks,” Matthews said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail. com Pharmacy schools consider merging BY Z’ANNE COVELL THE GAMECOCK USC and the Medical University of South Carolina are considering a merger between the two schools’ pharmacy colleges in hopes of reducing costs while in creasing funding. According to Farid Sadik, dean of the USC College of Pharmacy, the two universities have been col laborating since this past summer, when USC President Andrew Sorensen and MUSC President Raymond Greenberg requested their pharmacy deans look into ways to cut costs. Sadik and MUSC’s pharmacy dean John Cormier proposed the idea of merging the two schools in an effort to save money. “The more we look at it, the more we find we can save money through a merger,” Sadik said. After proposing the idea to Sorensen and Greenberg, both universities formed a committee to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of a merger. Each committee comprises three phar macy-school faculty members and one pharmacy-school alumnus. The two committees met Oct. 27 to discuss their findings and will, meet again Nov. 12 to continue their discussions. The committees will then present their findings to Sorensen and Greenberg on Nov. 20, and further decisions about the merger will be made from there. Sadik said a merger would save money by decreasing the number of administration and faculty members. Sadik estimates the merger could save between $2 mil lion and $2.5 million. According to Sadik, two merger proposals are being considered. One proposal suggests pharmacy students would spend two years of their pharmacy education at USC ♦ MERGER, SEE PAGE 2 RAs face tough responsibilities BY KALYN PALMER THE GAMECOCK Being an RA at USC can be a re warding and educational experi ence for students, but it can also be a stressful and frustrating,job if RAs are not prepared. Every year, about 80 RAs are re sponsible for 25 to 30 residents each. They are trained for two weeks at the beginning of the fall semester and are taught leader ship and peer-counseling skills so that they can handle varying sit uations and issues dealing with resident students. Megan Ivey, a third-year Baccalaureus student in the Honors College and a second-year RA in Maxcy College, said she really en joys being an RA and would return, except that her senior year promis es to be too demanding, leaving her without enough time and energy. “It gives me an opportunity to better myself by interacting with people.” Lately, it seems as though many RAs are buckling under the pres sure, Ivey said. She said Housing has changed some procedures and that the job of an RA has become more time consuming, but she also said time management is a key is sue for RAs. Tim Coley, Director of Residence Life, wrote in an e-mail that being a RA means taking on a significant amount of responsi bility and that the considerable amount of stress is simply some thing that goes along with leader ship roles. He said the RA pro gram has been going very well and that typically over half of RAs ♦ RA, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics and Crossword6 Classifieds 8 Horoscopes 6 Letters to the Editor_ 4 Online Poll 4 Police Report 3 Weather TODAY SATURDAY & o High 75 High 62 Low 54 Low 47 In This Issue ♦ NEWS Medical reports reveal that Jessica Lynch was abused .and raped by her Iraqi captors. Page 3 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Allyson Bird says labeling has reached ridiculous extremes. Page 4 ♦ THE MIX “Final Fantasy” connects the globe with its new online installment. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS The Razorbacks defeat Gamecocks 28-6 in Little Rock. USC falls to 5-5 on the season. Page 7 EMBARKING ON AN ‘EDVENTURE'* PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK The new EdVenture Children’s Museum, which opens Saturday, is still under last-minute construction. Children’s museum set to open EdVenture features a 40-foot ‘boy’ that visitors can crawl through BY TRICIA RIDGWAY THE GAMECOCK EdVenture children’s muse um, featuring Eddie, the world’s largest child, will open its doors to the public in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday. The museum broke ground in 2000 and had a capital campaign of $18.5 million, which it recent ly surpassed, said Penny Delaney Cothran, EdVenture’s public re lations coordinator. Richland County and Columbia are two main supporters, but the muse um also received funding from Bank of America, SCANA, Piggly Wiggly and many other local businesses and individuals. On Saturday, vendors, booths and a stage will be set up in the parking lot at 211 Gervais St., where everyone can come to the attractions for free. Tap and ballet performances, mimes, jugglers and Ronald McDonald will be at the event. Museum tickets for two-hour increments are sold at Piggly Wiggly stores statewide for a child’s price of $5.95 when pur chased in advance. Walking into the museum, par ents and children will see the long awaited Eddie, a 40-foot, 17.5-ton, 10-year-old fourth-grade boy. Eddie sits on the floor in jeans and a T shirt with a backpack over his shoulder and Flutter the dragon fly on his finger. Children and adults can crawl through Eddie while exploring the human anato my. They can climb up his spine to his brain or jump around in his stomach. Eddie exhibits the idea of learning by complete immersion in an environment, Cothran said. Children will also be able to work in the Aha Factory on Saturday to try to create a flying device from recycled items. The factory is a problem-solving sta tion where the tasks will vary, but they encourage children to use their imagination. “We will ask you as you leave, ‘Did you have your “aha” today?’ Hopefully, you will have explored something, learned something, had a moment of understanding — had an ‘aha!’” Cothran said. Ed Venture children’s museum features 67,000 square feet of six indoor galleries including Body Works, World of Work, Mission Imagination and others. It also fea tures 7,000 square feet of two out door galleries, including a 30-foot energy tower and a critter garden with native South Carolina plants set up by a local Boy Scout troop. The programs and exhibits are mostly geared toward children age 12 and younger, but some pro grams are offered for older chil dren. The Museum Apprenticeship program trains students ages 12 to 18 to be volunteers and floor staff. EdVenture also looks for volun teers from the community and has gotten a great deal of interest from USC students. Many of the ideas for the ex hibits came from children’s edu cational needs, Cothran said. The World of Work teaches children ♦ EDVENTURE, SEE PAGE 3 (JSC dean named vice president for research BY ALEXIS STRATTON THE HA.WEdOGK Dean of the Arnold School of Public Health Harris Pastides was appointed the vice president for research and health sciences for USC on Wednesday. Pastides’ responsibilities as vice president will include over seeing the School of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, Arnold School of Public Health and the College of Social Work. He will also be re sponsible for the Office of Research and the recently formed “USC businessLink.” Pastides, who has served as the interim vice pres ident for research Pastides since July, brought research funding to a record high $130.9 million in 2003. “Harris was identified as the best candidate following an ex tensive, national search,” USC President Andrew Sorensen said in a news release. “Dr. Pastides’ appointment is vitally important to the continued growth of the university’s overall research pro grams and its emerging biomedi cal research enterprise.” Pastides said his primary goals are to enhance the faculty mem bers’ scholarship and external grant support across all univer sity disciplines; develop a focused approach to increasing the excel lence of research, learning and outreach in the health-science col mmmmmammmJmamm leges; and increase USC’s partici pation in the economic develop: ment of the state by developing its new research campus and in creasing its cooperation with pulh lie and private partners. “I have had five excellent and rewarding years at Carolina, and I welcome the opportunity to con tinue my career here in a new ca pacity,” Pastides said in a news release. 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