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USC Upstate CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 0 ing its relationship to its sur rounding cities, their connecting corridors and expanding popula tions.” USC Upstate has become the largest provider of academic pro grams at the University Center in Greenville. UCG is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to helping the citizens of the Greater Greenville Metropolitan Area of South Carolina gain access to ed ucational opportunities. The university decided to change its name to augment its current role. The name “Upstate” is meant to represent South Carolina’s 1-85 corridor. In focus groups used for research by USC Upstate, the new name was ap pealing to both out-of-region and out-of-state residents. USC Upstate plans to grow and develop significantly over the next few years, not only on its Spartanburg campus, but in Greenville as well. The new name is expected to help with this de velopment and reach its vision of a metropolitan campus. Numerous editorial page edi tors have noted USC Upstate’s role in its surrounding area, from The Greenville News to The Spartanburg Herald-Journal. In the Herald-Journal in January 2004, the article says, “USCS is be coming a major regional institu tion. It has grown its student body and developed its programs to meet the needs of the Upstate.” John Stockwell, chancellor of USC Upstate, said in a June 30 news release, “This name change positions the university to serve both as a catalyst and support for efforts to think, plan and act re gionally as other important en terprises have done.” Stockwell added, “It both sig nals and impels the continued ex pansion of partnerships and serv ices across the 1-85 corridor. The change in name also further ce ments this university’s relation ship with the USC system.” Shaunta Manigault, a fourth year communications student at USC Spartanburg, said, “USC Upstate presents a more regional appeal. It creates a stronger bond to USC Columbia and USC Greenville. The name complements the vision the university has for the future.” The new name will not cost the students any money whatsoever, and will be issued on diplomas for graduating students starting with the December 2004 class. The logo will remain the same, as well as the athletic colors. However, the nick name will be changed from the Rifles in late August. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu Sorensen CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 federal funding was properly ex pended to the highest benefit of Alabama’s poor, pregnant women,” said U.S. Attorney Alice H. Martin in a news release. “Today’s charges allege that corrup’tion and the at tempted corruption of that process denied Alabama citizens of the hon est services of former Governor Siegelman and his Chief of Staff Hamrick, all for the benefit of Dr. Bobo.” Siegelman and Hamrick are al leged to have, among other things, moved money in the Special Education Trust Fund budget to the State Fire College in Tuscaloosa so Bobo could use the money, by way of fraudulent con tracts, to pay off a competitor in the Maternity Care Program bid process, where over $100 million was at stake. Sorensen was president of the University of Alabama when, prosecutors claim, Siegelman and Hamrick lifted over half a million dollars from the educa tion fund. Sorensen’s possible signifi cance as a witness lies in the alle gation of the indictment that he was approached by Siegelman and invited to join the conspiracy. It also alleges he was approached by a Siegelman aide and asked to in tervene in the scheme. Siegelman has pleaded inno cent and awaits trial in late August. The former governor dis missed the charges as political maneuvering, an attempt to weak en him and the state Democratic Party before the 2006 election. “My purpose is to really ensure that the whole truth comes out, not just bits and pieces, but the whole truth,” Siegelman was re porting as saying in The State. “I know in my heart that if the whole truth comes out that the people of Alabama and the jury that is to be selected will see for themselves that I have done noth ing wrong.” Bobo called the charges “cre ative.” The current investigation stems from one dating back to 2001, which resulted in Bobo’s conviction for fraud in attempts to secure Medicaid contracts, but the conviction was later thrown out. The trial date is August 2. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknewsdiigwm.sc.edu jsmb ♦ Sukhatme CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 judged by UB’s top scholars. He oversees the school’s 30 depart ments and an annual budget of $85 million. A researcher in phenomenol ogy of high-energy hadronic in teractions and consequences of supersymmetric quantum me chanics, his research has yield ed 177 publications and has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. Some of . his research was named in the 1994 American Journal of Physics list of “most memorable papers.” Sukhatme is competing for the provost position with Mark Becker of the University of Minnesota, Robert Blocker of Yale University and Linda Brady of North Carolina State University. 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