Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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— INSIDE VIEWPOINTS Fear the reaper S.C. ranked eighth in the U.S. in HIV infections. PAGE 5 THE MIX Rainer Maria goes multimedia The band’s new DVD/CD will keep fans satisfied until its next album. PAGE 6 SPORTS SEC change going out of style SEC basketball boasts a surprising number of returning stars. PAGE 9 INDEX Comics and Crossword 8 Classifieds 11 Horoscopes^ 8 Online Poll 5 Quote of the Day 6 USC Police Report 3 Fixer upper PHOTO BY MELISSA WALLACE/THE GAMECOCK Greene Street residents clean house In preparation for the return of students for the fall semester. City official chosen for Far East trip BY TIFFANY JONES THE GAMECOCK Columbia City Councilwoman Tamieka Isaac Devine was select ed as one of eight political figures from across the nation to serve as a delegate in China’s two-week po litical exchange program. Devine was the only delegate from South Carolina chosen for the program, while the other sev en ranged from different locations across the country. The program will last from July 28 to Aug. 12 ♦ DEVINE, SEE PAGE 2 Sorensen nears provost decision BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK USC President Andrew Sorensen is close to naming a new provost, a university official said. University spokesman Russ McKinney couldn’t give a timeline for the president’s decision but said he “wouldn’t be surprised” if Sorensen made the announcement soon. Sorensen has said his goal is to have the new provost in place by the start of the fall semester. McKinney couldn’t say whether the position would be filled when class es begin this fall. The announcement will end a months-long process that began when former Provost Jerry Odom announced his retirement from ad ministration last year. Whether Odom, who will return to teaching chemistry this fall, will act as provost until a replacement is found is unclear, McKinney said. He did, however, guarantee USC would not be without a provost in August. McKinney said Sorensen has been focusing a lot of attention late ly on the decision. “He would like to have some body here by the beginning of the ♦ PROVOST, SEE PAGE 2 USC excavation site yields vital discovery BY ELLEN TWEEDY THE GAMECOCK Evidence from USC’s Topper site, an archaeological excavation in Allendale County, is changing the way many archaeologists loo£ at North America. For many years, archaeologists thought the first people to settle in the Americas arrived about 12,000 years ago by traveling across the Bering Land Bridge from Asia. But the Topper excavation site, which was featured on Alan Alda’s “Scientific American Frontiers” on PBS, provided recent findings that ♦ ARCHAEOLOGY, SEE PAGE 2 PHOTO BY MELISSA WALLACE/THE GAMECOCK A whole fluted Clovis preform was found at the excavation site.