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Top 10 news stories of the year Mergers, meetings and a Memphis meltdown dominated campus life IfA ifsHted out as a fund-raiser for breast cancer research, but it ended in a hK torn that challenged the state of USC’s race relations. During thenHRa fund-raiser sponsored by Zeta Tau Alpha, second-year bi ologystucient Tim Tice performed a skit mocking Janet Jackson’s con troversial Super Bowl halftime performance. But Tice, who is white, had black paint on his legs, which upset some members of USC’s black | community. Tice said his legs were painted black for his last skit, where he wore a painted-on tuxedo. Before everything settled down, USC of fered a public apology, moved a black staff member to the Greek Life office and set up several workshops for students to discuss the prob lem. The story lasted for about two weeks and is still generating letters and columns. For these reasons, the incident during “Big Man on Campus” is the No. 1 news story of the year. , science and math merger lier, USC President Andrew Sorensen an noun|^tne creation of a College of Arts and Science, a me$pnpUu! College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science and Mathematics. The merger of the USC’s largest college, liberal arts, with USC’s third-largest col leges will create a mega college composing about one third of USC’s students. The new college is still looking for a dean, but it will be hard to find one until a new provost is hired. Faculty members provided plenty of Sorensen public protest during discussion forums, but Sorensen felt the combined college will encourage interdisciplinary research. I rientation ard of Trustees added sexual orientation to its nondiscrim Jy, but it didn’t tell anyone. The board felt it wasn’t necessary the decision because it was mostly ceremonial. The deci after years of student requests and lobbying the administra Date ice officers found 19 ounces of the date rape drug GHB in the of Matthew Willi, then a second-year journalism student Jlumbia Hall. Willi, who had been brewing the colorless, ipressant in his dorm room, was arrested for drug trafficking. surplus r, Student Government unveiled plans to spend $190,000 in swpi^activity fees, including the newspaper readership program, Grmaie^eet lighting and a global positioning system for USC’s shut tle sWI^The surplus came from money student organizations had left , over at the end of the school year. Instead of keeping it, the money went into a special account that SG didn’t know it had. Among the items no ticeable now: $10,000 for signs showing a map of USC’s campus, $45,000 for a two year newspaper readership program and $30,000 for more lighting on Greene Street. Bcials finally reached a compromise with Columbia hoteliers |ths-long impasse that revolved around the construction of an " property. Local hotel owners were concerned that the new ied to house guests of the National Advocacy Center and vis iting VIPs, would divert business. The university broke ground on the new inn last November. of external pharmacy deans recommended in late March SC and MUSC schools of pharmacy merge with the primary located in Charleston. The recommendation came after I a year of speculation. While USC President Andrew Sorensen and MUSC President Ray Greenberg supported the merger in the face of student and faculty member protests, they want to preserve under graduate pharmacy education in Columbia. Scott i, Zachery Scott made history when he be can^CHMtate’s first openly gay student government preB^Bt any college or university. Scott won easily in onffinhe smoothest SG elections in recent years, garnering 57 percent of the popular vote. Scott ~ --i ! ark were on RHA President Adam Hark last I after a South Quad RA brought attention to lal Web site, which featured a photo of him on Sfeshoe clad only in a tube sock. Tensions rose in RHA meetings and there was talk of an impeachment hearing, but Hark censored the site and all charges were dismissed. Hark ent the USC men’s basketball team was supposed to be thMugHgsBc of the SEC — but about midway through the sea son^JIjic s SjpBaughing. USC won 13 of its first 14 games. Although theW^RoSBroundered late in the season, a trip to the semifinals of the SEC tournament gave them the boost they needed to get into the NCAA Tournament — something that had been unthinkable earlier in the season. While the Gamecocks lost to Memphis in the first round, the fact that they even made it that far in one of the country’s toughest conferences speaks for itself. PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK Forward Carlos Powell reaches for the basket during this year’s SEC Basketball Tournament. 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