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INSIDE vn&W6wr*iTs Just say no to Barbie dolls Showdown between guy and chick magazines. PAGE 5 TlHSvMX Tunes... at an art bar? Get out The Art Bar offers regional and national live music. PAGE 6 mkf&s USC athletes go for the gold Several Gamecocks are competing for spots on the U.S. Olympic team. PAGE 9 lltt&CX Comics and Crossword 8 Classifieds 11 Horoscopes 8 Online Poll 5 Quote of the Day 6 Law school raises tuition BY ANNA HUNTLEY THE GAMECOCK The USC School of Law was ranked 82nd among the nation’s law schools by U.S. flews and World Report but could be headed for a no. 1 ranking for the highest cost among the nation’s state law schools. USC’s law school will experience a 10 per cent increase in tuition this coming fall, a $642 dollar increase per se mester, placing in-state attendance costs at $14,188 per year. The USC School of Law now car ries a price tag approximately dou ble that of University of Georgia’s law school, which was ranked 31st in the nation. Furthermore, its tu ition is greater than that of many of the top-ranked law schools, includ ing the University of California Berkeley, the University of Texas Austin, and the University of Iowa, ranked 13th, 16th, and 23rd in the na tion, respectively. The USC Board of Trustees was responsible for the decision to in crease the tuition of the university’s schools and programs. The tuition increase will help to fund the 3 per cent raise to which the entire University faculty and staff are en titled as state employees. According to Dean Burnelle Powell: “That (the rise in tuition) is not unlike what’s going on across the nation.” Powell continued, “No matter where they (law students) go, there will have been, or will be, such a tu ition adjustment.” He claimed the revenues generat ed from the tuition increase would not only help to build and maintain a more diverse and top-quality law school faculty, but also help to fur ♦ TUITION, SEE PAGE 3 PHOTO BY MELISSA WALLACE/THE GAMECOCK Students heading back to the USC School of Law will return to find a 10 percent Increase in their tuition bills. ‘Greeced’ lightning PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK USC’s Lashlnda Demus qualified for the 400 meter hurdles next month In Athens. USC to use GEM for official e-mails BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK USC will rely exclusively on the Gamecock E-mail system to deliv er official e-mail messages to stu dents beginning in August, a move intended to make commu nication of important information easier and more reliable. Before, the university sent e mails to the address provided by students in the directory. But that system was a nightmare to man age and kept many students in the dark about information like reg istration appointment dates, said Barbara Blaney, university regis trar. “It got worse and worse and worse,” Blaney said of the old sys tem. “It was just turning out to be totally unreliable.” As a result, USC will no longer e-mail messages to students using popular services like Hotmail or Yahoo. Students must check their GEM accounts for warnings of im pending registration cancellation and registration appointment dates, as well as other important announcements. Blaney said it’s up to students whether they for ward messages from their GEM inboxes to other accounts. ♦ GEM, SEE PAGE 2