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0 beautiful for
spacious Jeeps
Cars serve as a symbol of
American liberty. PAGE
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THE MIX
Controversy hits
boiling point
“Fahrenheit 9/11”
debuts amid cheers and
jeers. PAGE 6
SPORTS
Another season in
the record books
The Gamecock baseball
team ends another stellar
season. PAGE 9
INDEX
Comics and Crossword 8
Classifieds 12
Online Poll 5
Quote of the Day 6
USC Police Report 4
Sorensen might testify
BY JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
Although prosecutors said it was possible
USC President Andrew Sorensen might be
called as a witness, no further word has
emerged concerning his possible association
with the Alabama bid-rigging scandal threat
ening former Alabama Governor Don
Siegelman, among others.
Sorensen declined to comment on the case.
The charges being leveled in
the case include counts of wit
ness tampering, wire fraud,
making a false statement to the
FBI and making a false state
ment to the court. The core of
the case, however, is the alle
gation Siegelman and Paul Sorensen
Hamrick, his chief of staff, con
spired with Phillip Bobo, a Tuscaloosa doctor,
to rig bids for a contract for providing mater
nity services to Medicaid recipients, that is,
conspiracy, healthcare fraud and theft from a
federally funded program. The indictment de
scribes a network of conspirators pressuring
state officials to chance Medicaid contracting
procedures but names only those three.
“The competitive bid process used by
Alabama’s Medicaid Agency in the Maternity
Care Program was critical to ensuring the
♦ SORENSEN, SEE PAGE 2
Rock you like a hurricane
PHOTO BY MELISSA WALLACE/THE GAMECOCK
A severe storm Monday night damaged the USC campus.
USC Spartanburg
changes name
Change could be
sign of growth
BY ELLEN TWEEDY
THE GAMECOCK
USC Spartanburg changed its
name to USC Upstate on July 1 in
an effort to regionalize and grow
over the next few years.
Whether the name change is an
indication of what’s in store for
USC Union, a two-year upstate
campus, remains to be seen.
Earlier this year, Gov. Mark
Sanford suggested closing the
Union campus as a way to save
money.
USC Upstate’s mission, which
was approved by the USC Board
of Trustees and the S.C.
Commission on Higher
Education, details a metropolitan
university, which is described as
“a university that acknowledges
as its fundamental reason for be
♦ USC UPSTATE, SEE PAGE 2
Provost hopeful boasts physics experience
BY STEVEN VAN HAREN
THE GAMECOCK
Uday Sukhatme_dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences at the
State University of New York at
Buffalo, has been selected by USC
officials as one of four candidates
to replace Provost Jerry Odom.
Before coming to Buffalo in
August 2002, Sukhatme was head
of the physics department and in
terim vice provost for academic
affairs at the University of Illinois
at Chicago. He was awarded the
UIC Award for Excellence in
Teaching through his work with
faculty development programs,
the promotion and tenure process
and student retention issues.
Sukhatme earned his bache
lor’s degree in mathematics from
the University of Delhi, and de
grees in physics and theoretical
physics from MIT.
Through aggressive hiring,
Sukhatme has increased the size
of Buffalo’s tenured faculty by 13
percent in the past two years. At
Buffalo, he was instrumental in
the creation of two educational
outreach programs for high school
students: Cutting Edge, a lecture
series, and the Poetry Contest,
♦ SUKHATME, SEE PAGE 2