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The State discontinued in readership program BY ADAM BEAM THB (iAMECOCK The State newspaper has been removed from USC’s popular read ership program. The program, run through USA Today and funded through Student Government, provides free copies of newspapers to stu dents. The program will now pro I vide 600 copies of USA Today and 400 copies of The New York Times Monday through Friday. The decision was made by Student Life Director Jerry Brewer along with SG President Katie Dreiling. “I was very disappointed to hear that information,” said Chris Bane, circulation director for The State. “Whoever decides on spend ing the money made the decision not to include us, because we would be competition to (The Gamecock), which I don’t agree with.” Dreiling said she was worried that if The State were readily available on campus, it would take advertising dollars away from stu dent publications. Bane said The State is trying to increase its readership with the college age group, and their ex clusion from the readership pro gram hurts that effort. “(We’d like) to get (students) into the habit, and one way to do that is to catch them at school and hopefully they will continue with it,” Bane said. Jeremy Coe, a fourth-year elec trical engineering student, said he feels The State should be part of the program, because it keeps the students up-to-date on South Carolina news. “As far as the competition thing, The Gamecock only covers what is going on at USC, not nec essarily the state,” he said. The decision was also influ enced by funding. Last semester, SG decided to fund the reader ship program using surplus mon ey from student organizations. The surplus is enough to fund the program for three years, at which point SG hopes to find some other source of funding to keep the readership program go ing. Dreiling said she plans to meet with USC President Andrew Sorensen to discuss some administrative funding for the project. The readership program will have several changes this semester. The program’s 600 copies of USA Today and 400 copies of The New York Times per weekday make it the sixth largest program in the country. The pa pers will no longer be available at residence halls but placed in locked bins at the BA building, the Coliseum and two locations in the Russell House. Students can swipe their IDs to unlock the bins. “It’s still free; it just keeps ev erybody and their brother who are not students from coming back to pick them up,” said Sandye Williams, account manager for USA Today. The bins, which cost $1,200 a piece and are paid for by the news papers in the program, will begin being used on Jan. 20. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu San Francisco’s mayor asks veteran female firefighter to be new chief BY TERENCE CHEA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO - Mayor Gavin Newsom tapped a veteran woman firefighter Saturday to take on one of the nation’s most male-dominated job titles: fire chief. If confirmed by the San Francisco Fire Commission, which is considered probable, Joanne Hayes-White will head an 1,800-person department that didn’t hire its first woman fire fighter until 1987. “I think it sends a message to young women, little girls and women in general that there are no boundaries,” Hayes-White said at an event to announce her ap pointment. “You can do whatever you like.” Hayes-White, 39, -a San Francisco firefighter for 14 years, would replace outgoing fire chief Mario Trevino, who resigned in October but agreed to stay on until Newsom took office. As of last September, just 16 U.S. fire departments had female chiefs, and none of the agencies was as large as San Francisco’s, according to the Web site of Women in the Fire Service, a non profit group in Madison, Wis. Among the larger female-headed departments were those in Cobb County, Ga.; Tacoma, Wash.; and Little Rock, Ark. The only California fire agen cies headed by a woman were in Davis and Carmel-by-the-Sea. ‘Newsom said he selected Hayes-White because of her sup port among the department’s rank and file, familiarity with its sta tions and budget experience. Hayes-White has worked in all of the city’s 41 fife stations, and has served most recently its assis tant deputy chief and director of training. Cyclist’s condition fair after mountain lion attack Thursday MISSION VIEJO, CALIF. (AP) — A former Marine who was mauled by a mountain lion while cycling in a wilderness area has been upgraded to fair condition, hospital officials said Sunday. “Her recovery is truly mirac ulous,” said the victim’s hus band, James Hjelle. Anne Hjelle was rescued Thursday from the mountain lion’s jaws by her cycling com panion, Debbie Nichols. The big cat had pounced on Hjelle and tried to drag her away, but Nichols grabbed her friend’s leg and held on as other cyfrlists threw rocks at the mountain lion until it let go. Authorities .believe the same mountain lion earlier that day at tacked and killed another cyclist, Mark Reynolds, 35, whose body was found nearby. Tests were being conducted on a 2-year-old, 110-pound male mountain lion that was tracked from the site by Orange County sheriffs deputies and killed. Tissue believed to be human was found in its stomach and DNA tests were planned to confirm a match, said Steve Edinger of the California Department of Fish and Game. 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