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www.dailygamecock.com _MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2004_ Since 1908 TeacherReviews. Web site shuts down Founder pulls plug on popular page after threats BY Z’ANNE COVELL TIIK GAMECOCK TeacherReviews.com, a free Web site started in 1999 that al lows students from universities across the country to share their opinions of professors, was shut down last Monday after a profes sor threatened to sue the site’s founder because of an inappro priate review. According to founder Dylan • Greene, the’professor’s com plaints were understandable. “He was justified, because the things said were inappropriate for any setting — true or not,” Greene said. Greene said he believes he could have won the lawsuit, but be did not want the complica tions. “I don't have the money for a lawyer or the time because I have a full-time job outside of Teacher Reviews,” Greene said. “It would be too much of a hassle, and I didn’t think it was necessary.” To avoid the lawsuit, Greene decided to shut down the site un til changes caq be made to pre vent complaints. “There needs to be changes made to the site so the reviews can be more trustworthy and professors don’t have these is sues,” Greene said. “Only a very small nurfl ber of professors do have these problems, but I want that number to be none. Greene said the changes would include the ability for any user to remove a review that he finds in appropriate and the ability for professors to delete reviews about themselves and even remove themselves from the system en tirely. Greene also wants professors to receive an e-mail notification when a new review is posted about them and separation be tween a professor’s recent re views and older ones. According to Greene, the site will be back up as soon as these changes are made. Greene an ticipates the changes will take two to four weeks to complete, depending on his in come. Greene must tuna the changes with his own money and with the help of dona tions. Students and professors in terested in donating to TeacherReviews.com can visit a link on Greene’s Web site. Greene said he hopes the “This site is designed to help students get the best education possible and the most for their money.” DYLAN GREENE TEACHERREVIEWS.COM FOUNDER changes will eliminate professors’ concerns, because the site was never intended to be offensive. “The reason I started the site was because I had a really good professor that I wanted other stu dents to know about,” Greene said. “This site is designed to help students get the best education possible and the most for their money.” Greene said the Web site also aids professors in educating stu dents. “The professors like the feed back because it helps them be come a better professor, and when a professor gets good ratings, it can be a great ego booster.” Student Government support ed TeacherReviews.com earlier this year during a promotion of online services available for stu dents. “We support it because USC doesn't have their own system for students to view professor rat ♦ TEACHER REVIEW, SEE PAGE 3 BellSouth to remove campus pay phones after low revenues BY JULIE LEDBETTER THK (iAMKCOCK BellSouth will no longer sup port campus pay phones because they are not generating enough revenue. David Jones, head of commu nications at Computer Services, said that while pay phones might have been useful in the past, stu dents no longer have a need for them. “Now if you look around cam pus, probably a high percentage of the students have a cell phone with them,” he said. “So there is no real need for them to go up to a pay phone and use it.” BellSouth has already begun the process of removing pay phones from campus. “They mon itor the revenue of the pay phones by number and, at ran dom, they are removing pay phones that aren’t generating enough revenue,” Jones said. They have already removed some pay phones, and there is no schedule for the removal of the rest. “You may walk by a location on campus that has a pay phone today, and go by there Monday morning and its gone,” he said. PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK Only one pay phone remains in Capstone, as removal begins. Some venues have requested that pay phones be reinstalled at their previous locations such as larger venues like the Coliseum and Longstreet Theatre. After a venue has requested a pay phone be installed, Sprint has agreed to replace the removed pay phone. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu Treasurer candidate works from experience PHOTO BY MORGAN FORO/THE GAMECOCI Kenyatta Frazier, left, stops to talk with of his fraternity brothei Trey Simpkins. Frazier is running for SG treasurer. BY CARRIE GOODIN THBCAMEGOCK Kenyatta Frazier’s got a prob lem. “I never want to say no,” he said. “I just want to give, give, give.” But his inability to turn peo ple away might just make him a prime candidate for Student Government treasurer when elections begin Feb. 23. Frazier said he mainly wants to focus on SG’s finance commit tee. The primary purpose of the committee is to vote on student organizations’ financial propos als and decide who gets money and how much money they get. The proposals are then sent to the senate and voted on again. Because the finance committee chair is normally filled by one of the senators, there is always one senator who can’t vote. Frazier said he has a solution to this problem. “I’d like to see the treasurer as the chairman of the finance committee so that every senator ; would be free to have his vote on ♦ FRAZIER SEE PAGE 3 Sestions A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CANDIDATES What is in your CD player right now? Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory What’s the last book you read? A book from the “Left Behind" series What’s your favorite place to eat in Columbia? Grilled Teriyaki in Five Points Who is your hero? Frederick Douglass What’s the best class you’ve taken at USC? History 415, the history of Black Americans Kentucky heartbreaker • PHOTO BY MATT GOINS/THE KERNEL Forward Erik Daniels goes to the hoop against USC In the Wildcats’ 65-64 win over the Gamecocks Saturday. Pilot program offers chance to fly for less Be A Pilot helps students register for certificates for flight lessons BY JESSICA FOSTER THE (JAMEOOCK Sitting in class, listening to the monotonous drone of an unenthu siastic professor, students can sohietimes find themselves in a daze with their heads in the clouds. Through the Be A Pilot program, students can actu ally have their heads in the clouds. Be A Pilot lets students register for a certificate to take an intro ductory flight lesson for $49, about half the cost of a typical flying les son. The two-hour introductory course is a “discovery flight” de signed to familiarize students with the basics of flying a single-engine airplane, said Mike Costello, flight instructor and owner of Horizon Aeronautics. From day one, stu dents get to taxi to the runway, pull back on the controls to take off and fly at more than 2,500 feet. The certificate can be taken to any of the 2,000 participating flight schools nationwide. CASA of SC, Horizon Aeronautics and Midlands Aviation are the three participating flight schools in Columbia. The first lesson aims to help stu dents get comfortable with-flying and realize it is safe and that peo ple do it every day, Costello said. Training requires 30 flight hours for a recreational pilot cer tificate and 40 hours for a private pilot certificate. Many opt for ad ditional instruction. The national average is 65 hours for a private Certificate. The cost of lessons after the in troductory lesson varies by re gion, program and the student’s ability. Costello said dual instruc tion is $93 per lesson and su pervised in struction is $67 per lesson at Horizon. Twenty hours of each are re quired to get a private pilot cer tificate. Scholarships are also available through organizations such as the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the National Coalition for Aviation Education and the Student Pilot Network. There are several options for someone with a private pilot li cense. Corporate flight operations, charter and air taxis, business fly ing and public service flying are just a few of the career options for pilots. But even those who don’t plan ♦ PILOT, SEE PAGE 3 “It gives you a break from the world.” CALEB BARR SECOND-YEAR CHEMISTRY STUDENTS TAKING FLYING LESSONS • •• -;r' , ;■ • _,_ ♦ IRAQ The country might guarantees victory for SG its own net of complexity, hold early elections after a candidates using these FOR MORE SEE PAGE 5 visit from Prince Charles. FOR campaign themes. FOR ♦ SCRATCH Men’s MORE SEE PAGE 3 MORE SEE PAGE 4 basketball is defeated by 1 ♦ RECONSTRUCTION ♦ COMING UP ROSES Stock point by the Kentucky REMEM8ERED South up on V-Day frivolity from the Wildcats. FOR MORE SEE | Carolina should have comfort of your own student PAGE 8. r America’s first national union stores. FOR MORE SEE ♦ CRAZTEKMISWomen’s monument to Reconstruction. 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