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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.
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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
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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
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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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