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.USC could double Moore’s gift
Alumna pledges $45 million more
if business school accepts challenge
Z’ANNE COVELL
THE GAMECOCK
USC alumna Darla Moore gave
$45 million to USC’s business
school Friday and promised $45
million more if USC can match it.
Joel Smith, dean of the Moore
School of Business, said the busi
ness school will raise the money
during the next three to five years.
USC President Andrew Sorensen
said the Board of Trustees has
signed a legally-binding commit
ment, promising $15 million.
Sorensen said the other $30 mil
lion will be raised through private
funds.
“Her generosity does not mean
we can take it easy now and put
our oars in the water,” Sorensen
said. “In fact, we must work even
more diligently to meet her chal
lenges and expectations.”
Moore’s gift also makes her
combined donations the largest
contribution ever given to a U.S.
business school, according to
Smith. Moore donated $25 million
in 1998 that, among other things,
named the business school after
her.
According to Smith, the $45 mil
lion donated by Moore will be used
to renovate the Close and Hipp
Buildings, where the business
school is located, while the re
maining $45 million will be added
to the school’s endowment.
“This is going to put us in the
position to be on a level playing
field with the top schools in the
country in terms of facilities, and
then, this additional endowment
will put us in a better position to
♦ MOORE, SEE PAGE 3
“Her generosity does not mean
we can take It easy now and
put our oars in the water. In
fact, we must work even more
diligently to meet her
challenges and expectations”
ANDREW SORENSEN
use PRESIDENT
Moving.on
J*rovost, professor
retire, stay involved
Odom plans to teach,
spend time at home
BY ADAM BEAM
THE GAMECOCK
This August, Provost Jerry Odom will
trade the powers and responsibilities of
USC’s top academic officer for the rigors of
teaching introductory chemistry to about
200 students.
“I don’t intend to relax that much,” he
said.
For seven years, Odom has weathered
^Qe storm of budget cuts, hiring freezes, in
creasing tuition and dwindling faculty. He
has led a committee that, during the fall of
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2001, turned the university upside down as
colleges scrambled to write reports on why
they shouldn’t be consoli
dated or eliminated com
pletely.
And he also made a trip
to Russia in January 1998 to
pick up Ben, his now seven
year-old adopted son. Odom
said his son was the main
reason he chose to step
Odom down from USC’s adminis
tration. Ben plays baseball,
and Odom, who is an assistant coach for his
son’s team, can now attend more games.
But Odom doesn’t leave completely sat
♦ ODOM, SEE PAGE 3
mm
1963-64: Works at a textile mill to help pay
for college
1964: Graduates from UNC-Chapel Hill
1968: Doctorate from Indiana University
1968-69: Spends year at University of
Bristol on a National Science Foundation
fellowship.
1969: Becomes USC assistant professor in
chemistry.
1974: Promoted to associate professor
^^977: Promoted to professor
1986: Becomes chairman of the chemistry
department
1994: Becomes dean of the college of
science and math
1997: Becomes provost
2001: Chairman of the Strategic Directives
and Initiatives Committee. Introduces Value
Centered Management, a new budgeting
system.
2003: Announces will leave provost’s office
to return to teaching. Last day will be Aug. 15.
Greiner ends 37-year
career, will still teach
BY Z’ANNE COVELL
tuecamecock
Don Greiner, who has taught English at
USC since 1967 and served as USC’s first as
sociate provost and dean of undergraduate
affairs since 1993, will retire this June but
plans to return next spring to teach.
Greiner was faced with either leaving
the administration and returning to the
English Department or officially retiring
with the option of teaching.
“I chose the latter because I’ve had 11
^fears in the central administration, and the
^est part of my week is Tuesday and
Thursday morning from 9:30 until 11, when
I’m in the classroom teaching,” Greiner
said.
Although Greiner says he thoroughly en
joys being a professor, he did not originally
intend to pursue a doctorate degree. Greiner
was raised in a medical family, and while
he said there was no pressure to pursue
medicine, he said he wanted to because he
admired his parents.
“I took the normal courses in high school
that might steer me toward the sciences,
but all along I was also a heavy reader, and
I wrote a lot,” Greiner said.
As a freshman in college, Greiner was in
the pre-med program but reconsidered his
career while studying American literature
under a dynamic professor, who became his
mentor. After asking his professor what it
took to be able to talk about literature all
-day, Greiner decided to become a professor.
9 “He ironically said, ‘There’s nothing to
it. You just get a Ph.D.’ Well, I didn’t know
what a Ph.D. was, but I knew what I wanted
to do,” Greiner said. “My goal from that mo
ment on was to stand up there and teach lit
erature so getting the Ph.D. for me was
merely the means for the goal.”
Greiner also never planned to become
part of the university’s administration. But
when then USC President John Palms asked
him to help set up the office of associate
provost and dean of undergraduate aca
demic affairs in 1993, he “agreed because I
was full of ideas,” he said.
Greiner’s ideas included the Preston
♦ GREINER, SEE PAGE 5
♦ Created the First-Year Reading
Experience, wherein a USC freshman's
first experience on campus is an
academic one three days before fall
classes officially begin.
♦ Created the Office of Fellowships and
Scholar Programs, which identifies
academically talented students in their
freshman and sophomore years and
personally mentors them to compete for
such nationally prestigious fellowships
as the Rotary, Rhodes, Marshall,
Fulbright, Goldwater, NSF and Udall.
♦ With Housing, created Preston
Residential College as a living-learning
community in which 240
undergraduates worfc and socialize daily
with a live-in faculty principal and 40
faculty associates.
There’s always room for J-E-L-L-0
PHOTOS BY ADAM BEAM/THE GAMECOCK
Above, fifth-year political science student Rich Sorensen falls Into jello at Delta Zeta’s Turtle Tug fund-raiser
for Brennan elementary school. Below, Papa John’s manager Marcus Werges falls to the rugby team.
USC to offer sign language class
BY JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
Students will have the opportunity to
take an American Sign Language class
next semester resulting from a collabo
ration between Student Government and
the linguistics department.
William Edmiston, chairman of the
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Department, confirmed the class would
be offered this fall.
“It has been approved by the (faculty)
senate, and it’s been approved for the
fall,” he said. The class, ASLG 121, will
be offered during the fall semester from
5:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
SG President Zachery Scott said the
initiative for the class had been one of
his pet projects for a long time.
“It was actually an effort that I start
ed about a year and a half ago,” he said.
“Finally I had to approach a professor,
Stanley Dubinsky. I told him I was in
terested in starting up this class, and
he was very willing. He’d tried to do it
in the past, but the foreign language de
partments thought that would infringe
on the other languages.”
Dubinsky said the languages, litera
tures and cultures department used to
be broken down into the French de
partment, Classics department, Spanish
department, Italian department and
Portuguese and the Germanic, Slavic
and East Asian Languages department,
which was “pretty much the depart
ment of everything left over.”
He said that there was really no place
for ASL classes to fit.
“We had considered developing and
offering them with sort of a linguistics
imprimatur,” he said. “But now it
makes more sense to put them in
Languages, Literatures and Cultures,
now that there aren’t any departments
of particular languages. ”
Advocates expect the ASL courses to
improve the university’s image. Scott
anticipates the program will help USC
compete with other schools, as well as
provide a community service.
“We’re losing a lot of good students
to places where they’re known for their
accessibility to handicapped students,”
he said.
“I think if we offer this, one, we make
the university more attractive to those
types of students, and two, we help this
problem of a shortage of sign linguists
in South Carolina and the country.”
♦ SIGN LANGUAGE, SEE PAGE 3
What’s. Iriside
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♦ BIGGEST FAN Jenni Dillard explains why
it's OK to like Hanson. FOR MORE SEE
PAGE 12
♦ SURVIVAL TIPS Graham Culbertson
offers advice for getting through the
summer. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 9
♦ SWAMPED Ole Miss defeats softball
team in weekend series. FOR MORE SEE
PAGE 13
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Letters to the Editor 6
Online Poll 6
Police Report 2
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