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Sorensen plans for new year
C KEVIN FELLNER
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USC President Andrew
Sorensen has negotiations with re
search campus planners and state
legislators — as well as plenty of
travel — to look forward to in the
coming year and appears to be mo
tivated by all of them, although he
can’t say the same about the
health of the state’s economy.
Sorensen said the research cam
pus initiative is moving along with
successes such as the formation of
the USC Research Campus
Foundation in December and a
groundbreaking planned for ear
ly spring for the building of two re
search facilities on Assembly
Street across from the Strom
Thurmond Wellness and Fitness
Center.
The foundation is aimed at
bringing together people like
lawyers and developers to move
the process along. A director and
governing board for the founda
tion have not been named yet.
Sorensen said this step is nec
essary to move the process faster
than state agencies, including
USC, have the legal capacity to do.
“You have to be able to move
more quickly than state bureau
cracies typically do,” he said, not
ing that corporations looking to
partner with the university typi
cally won’t wait two years while
the state moves the proposal
through the required processes.
Sorensen is also supporting a
bill the university helped lobby for
that would free the university
from the state procurement code.
The bill could be acted upon as ear
ly as the first week of the state
Legislature’s session later this
month. The procurement code
states that a private corporation
can’t develop property owned by
the state, as would be necessary to
achieve the university’s vision of
public-private partnerships on the
proposed research campus.
Sorensen said the bill, like the
forming of the foundation, would
be in the interest of moving the
♦ SORENSEN, SEE PAGE 4
Students lose popular music store
BY ALEXIS STRATTON
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After 19 years, Manifest Discs
& Tapes will be closing, leaving
fewer options for students seeking
music from independent or local
artists, used CDs and other music
\ paraphernalia.
The independent music store
j chain was opened in February
1985 by owner and president Carl
Singmaster, and it has since
spread across the Carolinas. With
^tthe discontinuation of singles
__ J^Ales, rising CD prices and music
^^ownloading, four of the five
Manifest stores will be closed by
March. The Charleston store will
remain open under riew owner
ship.
At the Columbia store, located
at Boozer Shopping Colter on the
corner of Broad River and Bush
River roads, some, students
lamented the store’s closing.
Rachal Hatton, a third-year
women’s studies student and
WUSC DJ, said she was sad
Manifest is going out of business.
Hatton, who shops at Manifest
regularly, said she goes to
Manifest before other stores, be
cause it offers the best selection of
independent music.
“A lot of people aren’t into in
dependent music and an indepen
dent store,” which might have
contributed to Manifest’s closing,
she said. Hatton said those who
prefer independent music, like
some WUSC DJs, “don’t have any
where to go now.”
Local high school students
Chris Davis and Joel Duke said
they shop at Manifest because it
has a larger CD selection and is
not as expensive as other stores.
“They have CDs you can’t find
at other places, mainly ones that
don’t have big record labels be
hind [them],” Duke said. He also
PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK
Customers check out the selection at Manifest Music on Bush River and Broad River roads. Four
of the five Manifest locations in the Caroilnas, including this one, will be closed by March.
said he didn’t understand why
Manifest was closing, because
“people are in here all the time.”
Davis said he thinks students
might have contributed to
Manifest’s decline because “a lot
of people are shopping on the
Internet more than here.”
Joe Maxim, a first-year gradu
ate accounting student at USC,
said he went to Manifest recently
to look for some older albums he
thought he could find in the used
♦ MANIFEST, SEE PAGE 4
Cocky's win was based on both popular vote and Judging.
Despite third place
in poll, Cocky wins
Mascot of the Year
BY TRICIA RIDGWAY
Till-: OAMKCOCK
USC proved to the rest of the
country what Carolina fans al
ready knew — as far as mascots
are concerned, Cocky is a cut
above the rest.
The lovable rooster was
named Capital One National
Mascot of the Year on Jan. 1 at
the Capital
es his sense of school spirit. Ev
when we were losing footb;
games, he did his best to keep t
crowd interested and pump
up," she said.
The judges evaluated the m;
cots' ability to excite fans, spor
manship, originality, prof<
sionalism and community s(
vice involvement. Despite tou
competition, Cocky stood out
the judges.
one Bowl in
Orlando, Fla.
Cocky's
victory came
from popular
votes and
rankings by a
panel of five
judges.
Students and
fans cast
nearly 4:6
million votes
at capi
“As far as getting a
college football crowd
psyched for a big game,
he’s right up there with
2003 Heisman winner
Janson White in our
book.”
PAM GIRARDO
CAPITAL ONE MASCOT SPOKESWOMAN
As tar
getting a c<
lege 'footb;
crowd psych
for a big gan
. he's fight i
there with 2C
Heisman wi
ner Jasi
White in o
book," sa
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mascot
spokeswomc
talonebowl.com between Sept. 4
and Dec. 22. Cocky earned 18.1
percent of the popular vote,
putting him behind Aubie, the
tiger from Auburn University,
with 23.8 percent, and Ohio
State’s Brutus Buckeye with 34
percent.
Laura Aboyan, a third-year
public relations student and
member of the color guard, said
she voted online every day and
was excited when, she heard
Cocky won.
"I really think that he de
served to win because of how de
voted he is to USC. He never los
Pam Girardo in a news releas
Although the victory w
cause for celebration on campi
the announcement during t
bowl game was brief.
“The announcement only la
ed about two minutes. It w
such a big deal on campus, a
it never crossed my mind that
wasn't a big deal everywhe
else,.” said Jacqui O'Neill, a thii
year studio art student.
Twelve mascots selected
members of the All-Ameri
Mascot Team competed agair
♦ COCKY, SEE PAGE 4
4JSC plans for merger by observing schools, searching for dean
BY KEVIN FELLNER
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University administrators are
searching for a dean to lead the
new College of Arts and Sciences,
the result of a merger between the
two largest colleges expected lat
er this year.
The Board of Trustees approved
in December the merger of the
College of Liberal Arts and the
College of Science and
Mathematics to become the
College of Arts and Sciences, to
create by far the university’s
largest college.
Administrators say out of
USC’s estimated 20 peer institu
tions, which are those universi
ties with similar demographics
and academic programs, all of
them have arts and sciences inte
grated in a single college.
“It’s quite atypical to have them
split like this. So when the dean of
liberal arts retired, I said to my
self let’s take a look at this,”
Sorensen said, noting that he con
sulted with administrators from
both colleges and former USC
President John Palms.
“It’s quite atypical to
have them split like this.
So when the dean of
liberal arts retired, I
said to myself let’s take
a look at this.”
ANDREW SORENSEN
use PRESIDENT
“It’s a very common and very
traditional way of organizing
those academic operations,” said
John Skvoretz, interim dean of the
College of Liberal Arts. He re
placed Joan Stewart, who left the
university last summer.
Sorensen formed a committee
to study how integrated arts and
sciences programs work at sim
ilar universities and how suc
cessful a merger might be at
USC. The committee was com
prised of faculty members and
administrators from both col
leges. Sorensen said he person
ally held more than four hours of
meetings to discuss the potential
merger directly with faculty
members.
“I had a huge amount of dis
cussion about this on campus,
and in the end I agreed with the
recommendation that they
should be merged,” Sorensen
said.
Skvoretz said he felt it was a
very open process that had to
weather some criticism along the
way.
“There have been reservations
among some faculty members,” he
said. “Those reservations have
been aired, and everyone is ready
to go forward.”
Liberal Arts is the largest col
lege on campus and Science ai
Math is the fourth largest. T1
merger would foster Sorenser
push for a more interdisciplina
mentality on campus, especial
concerning research.
Some faculty members initi:
ly questioned whether a merg
would reduce emphasis on a p?
ticular department’s achiev
ments.
“Disciplines hold their inc
vidual work,” Skvoretz sai
“You can’t have interdisciplina
♦ MERGER, SEE PAGE 4
♦ READERSHIP The State no
longer available for free. FOR
MORE SEE PAGE 3.
♦ SAFE ZONE Housing staff
to be trained to assist the
gay and lesbian community.
FOR MORE SEE PAGE4
♦ BIRTH CONTROL James
Madison to offer “morning
after” pill. FOR MORE SEE
PAGE 10
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♦ I D0N7 WANT MY MTV
Harold Valentine says people
who watch MTV are neither
smart nor sexy. FOR MORE
SEE PAGE 16
♦ HITTING THE BOOKS The
new semester gives students
the opportunity to improve
their GPAs. FOR MORE SEE
PAGE 17
♦ THE ENERGIZER BUNNY
Lord of the Rings never ends,
but it's still good. FOR MORE
SEE PAGE 17
♦ BASKETBALL Men's
basketball wins 7-of-9 during
break, including one over
Georgia on the road. FOR
MORE SEE PAGE 20
4+ CHA-CHA-CHANGES Lou
Holtz hires three new coaches
and declares himself
offensive coordinator. FOR
MORE SEE PAGE 20
Index
Comics and Crossword 19
Classifieds 23
Horoscopes 19
Letters to the Editor_ 15
Online Poll 15 :
Police Report 2
Entertainment News2
USC Calender 16
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