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University Neighborhood to find place in historic register BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK The S.C. State Board of Review last Friday approved plans to list the University Neighborhood — the area east of USC bounded by railroad tracks and Gervais, Greene and Pickens streets — in the National Register of Historic Places. The decision comes after USC History Professor Robert Weyeneth and four graduate stu dents nominated the neighbor hood by researching its history and writing descriptions of its more than 170 buildings. The next step in the process will come when the National Park Service in Washington, D.C., reviews the nomination. Tracy Powers, a historian with the S.C. Department of Archives and History, said he expects the neighborhood will gain formal listing about two months after the nomination is reviewed, finalized and sent to the national office, about a 30 day process. “Plan on it taking about 90 days before we hear anything,” Powers said. The neighborhood will join more than 1,300 S.C. listings if ap proved for the national register. Powers said recognizing the district as historical is important because it reflects the ways Columbia has grown and changed since the turn of the 19th centu ry. “The University Neighborhood is a historically significant resi dential district in Columbia, South Carolina. As an example of an urban neighborhood that as sumed its present appearance be tween 1895 and 1940, it is... reflec tive of the process of community planning and development in South Carolina’s capital city,” the more than 100-page nomination reads. Most of the houses in the neighborhood were built between 1895 and 1940, Powers said. The area includes 12 apartment build ings including the Kirkland Building, the preservation of which sparked debate last year when USC sought approval to build a privately owned hotel across from the National Advocacy Center on Pendleton Street. The district also includes 14 duplexes. According to its Web site, the National Register of Historic Places records the country’s his torically significant districts, sites and buildings. Powers said that a formal listing in the national reg ister doesn’t obligate owners of historical homes to open their property to the public or restore it in any way. “It’s more recognition and doc umentation than anything else,” Powers said. He added, however, that a listing might entitle owners to a tax credit. For more information, visit the S.C. Department of Archives and History Web site at http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/his trcpl.htm. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu DNC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The Democratic convention playbook wasn’t hard to discern — present the four-term Massachusetts senator as strong on national security issues, a vet eran who won medals in one war and is now, a generation later, ready to lead the country in the current one. In excerpts released in ad vance of Heinz Kerry’s speech, the senator’s wife skipped the criti cism of the Bush administration and focused on her husband’s character. “No one will defend this nation more vigorously than he will — and he will always be first in the line of fire,” she said. Kerry is in an enviable position for a challenger, with many pre-con vention polls showing him even or slightly ahead. At the same time, a new Washington Post-ABC poll underscored the challenge con fronting the Democrat during his convention week. More than half the voters sur veyed said they knew only some or hardly at all about his positions on the issues. And after months of sustained GOP television attacks on Kerry, more than 40 percent of those polled rated the man from Massachusetts as too liberal on most issues. Student CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 scene with First Responder Ken Corbin. Corbin immediately be gan CPR on Foley, who had no vis ible injuries, police reports indi cate. Baker helped Corbin as best he could until more medical help showed up. Meanwhile, USCPD Officers Gilbert Kerwin and Belton Timbers secured the scene. When EMS arrived, they called for backup, and Foley was taken to Baptist Medical Center. Suffridge said Foley was in the ambulance by 10:27 a.m. At the hospital, emergency room doctors struggled to save Foley, but it was too late. “All medical efforts to resus citate the victim were unsuc cessful, and he was pronounced dead by Baptist E.R. medical per sonnel,” Baker’s report read. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts did not return phone calls Tuesday night to say whether medical examiners de termined a cause of death. A memorial servioe for Foley was held Sunday afternoon at Dunbar Funeral Home in Columbia, and he was buried in Kedron Baptist Church Cemetery in Aiken County. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu www.palmettobargains.com www.palmettobargains.com USC scientists study marine climatology BY ELLEN TWEEDY THE GAMECOCK USC scientists are collecting satellite data in an attempt to study climate changes. The satellites are used to ob serve marine communities all over the globe, specifically inter tidal zones — the areas where many animals and other organ isms get trapped between high and low tides. Scientists say they are the harshest environments be cause of the drastic temperature changes the animals deal with. Scientists don’t know how the temperature changes might affect the organisms’ ability to survive. This study will begin to look into that area, specifically among re gions in North America dubbed “hot spots,” where the climate change might be endangering dif ferent organisms’ survival. “The results of this project will provide scientists and reserve managers with a novel set of tools for predicting where damage from climate change is most likely to oc cur in coastal environments.” said Brian Helmuth, associate profes sor of biological sciences at USC. Intertidal organisms are well ac(justed to the aquatic lifestyle but are forced to live in the terrestri al world during low tide. Helmuth said the organisms’ body temper atures can rise and fall by a range of about 50 degrees while they are stuck in low tide. Research does not indicate how hot the organ isms actually get in nature. “Our approach is unique in that it spans a really wide range of scales, all the way from satellite level measurements of climate down to protein-ievei measure ments of stress in animals,” Helmuth said. “Studying the ef fects of climate change across such a diverse range of scales required assembling a team of experts from a-wide array of disciplines, in cluding remote sensing, climatol ogy, ecology and physiology.” Helmuth is the lead researcher on this study, funded by the $2.4 million grant awarded to USC from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Other members of the USC re search team are biologists David Wethey, Sarah Woodin and Jerry Hilbish; hydrogeologist Venkat Lakshmi and meteorology expert Helen Power. The project will also involve both graduate and under graduate students from USC. The study will begin in September. “The use of remote-sensing data in this study is a broad-sweeping approach that has never been at tempted in intertidal environments and opens the door for a novel ap plication of NOAA remote-sensing data to understand and predict the effects of climate change on natu ral ecosystems,” Helmuth said in a July 16 news release. In this sense, USC is breaking new ground by focusing such a technologically advanced study on a very important environmental is sue. This study might aid USC in gaining a new position among the world’s leading research institu tions that use remote-sensing data. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu