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.\ _ ... ; INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Defining courage through adversity A brief history of civil rights in S.C. PAGE 5 THE MIX Renewing their license to ill The Beastie Boys’ new album lives up to funky expectations. PAGE 6 SPORTS I I Weathering the Hurricanes USC beats Miami to advance in CWS PAGE 9 INDEX Comics and Crossword 8 Classifieds _11 Horoscopes 8 Online Poll 5 Quote of the Day 6 USC Police Report 4 Board OKs tuition increase BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK Facing a $3.1 million cut in state funding, a committee of the USC Board of Trustees has given pre liminary approval to a $790 million budget that would raise tuition 11 percent, or about $304 per semester for in-state undergraduate stu dents. The resulting $14.4 million will fund new programs and pay for 146 new faculty members over six years. The board’s Executive Committee is expected to vote on the new budget at a June 30 meet ing. If approved, the changes will take effect this fall. The tuition increase will affect in- and out-of-state as well as un dergraduate and graduate students at Columbia and the seven satellite campuses. As a senior university official, Harris Pastides, vice president for research and the Division of Health Sciences, had a hand in hammer ing out the budget proposal. “I am sensitive to the rise in tu ition, and I feel the pain,” he said. However, he continued, the budget represents a good compro mise to maintain and possibly im prove USC’s quality. Pastides said securing new pro fessors is a top priority. “That will be so important,” he said. “I think future students will be able to look forward to a larger, if not better, faculty at the univer sity.” He is working to implement a program that will add another 100 faculty members to expand USC’s research mission. The cost of these additions, however, will for the most part be covered by indirect cost-recovery money the federal government gives universities that get grants and contracts for re search. USC gets about $.44 for every $100 from the federal govem ♦ TUITION, SEE PAGE 2 |j§ Up, up and away All figures represent one year’s tuition for an in-state, undergraduate Provost candidate offers extensive international relations experience BY STEVEN VAN HAREN THE GAMECOCK Linda Brady, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University, has been selected by USC officials as one of four candidates to replace Provost Jerry Odom. A distinguished expert in inter national negotiations and arms con trol, Brady served as fellow at both the Carter Center at Emory University and the American Council on Education at the University of Iowa. From 1978 to 1985, Brady was an analyst for the State Department’s office of disarmament and arms con trol, as well as a special assistant for mutual and balanced force reduc tions in the Department of Defense. Before her move to N.C. State in July 2001, Brady was chairwoman of the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also taught international affairs at Georgia Tech. Brady, a professor of political sci ence, earned her political science degree from Douglass College, her master’s degree from Rutgers and her doctoral degree from The Ohio State University. The author of various books, ref ereed articles and government re ports, Brady is working on a new book, “Negotiating War’s End: The Process and Politics of War Termination.” She has recently been selected for a second two-year term on the U.S. Army War College Board of Visitors. She is a supporter of public research universities. Brady is competing for the provost position with Mark Becker of the University of Minnesota, Robert Blocker of Yale University and Uday Sukhatme of State University of New York at Buffalo. USC President Andrew Sorensen is expected to name the new provost before the summer’s end. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu