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m* NEWS
Father sets self
on fire at news
of son’s death
A Hollywood, Fla. man
steals a van belonging
to the Marine Corps,
before setting himself
on fire and suffering
third-degree burns after
learning of his son’s
death in Iraq.
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♦VIEWPOINTS
Black is back,
but not good
Gamecock staff
editorial believes that a
return to black jerseys
for the football team is
not necessarily a
positive thing.
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♦ THE MIX
^Photography
is back en
vogue in Cola.
Photography exhibit
frames the human
spirit, capturing its
rough, uncommon
exuberance in black and
white. Also, on-campus
fashion looks toward the
fall season for a make
over.
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♦ SPORTS
Fall soccer
season begins
USC’s mens soccer
team faces Virginia and
the women play two
games this weekend.
Check out the preview.
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INDEX
Comics and Crossword.8
Classifieds.11
Horoscopes.8
Letters to the Editor.5
Online Poll.5
Police Report.2
RUSSELL HOUSE
Marble Slab coming to campus
By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
THE GAMECOCK
Marble Slab Creamery, the popular
Houston-based ice cream company that
brought a franchise to Gervais Street last
spring, will open a shop on the second
floor of the Russell House in September.
Mike Schefferes, USC Dining
Services general manager, said the
creamery will replace Jazzman’s Cafe,
the coffee stand across from Taco Bell
and Pizza Hut in Gamecock Park, and
should open by Sept. 20.
“Marble Slab is definitely coming
to town,” he said.
“Marble Slab is definitely
coming to town.”
MIKE SCHEFFERES
USC DINING GENERAL MANAGER
SodexHo, USC’s campus food
provider, and Marble Slab struck a
deal this summer, Scheffres said.
SodexHo brokered the same kind of
deal with AFC, Inc., to bring sushi to
the Grand Market Place last fall.
Renovations began this week on the
former coffee stand, which closed
after sales suffered.
While the Marble Slab will use
what it can from the old coffee stand,
shop owner Geri Fields, who also
owns Marble Slabs in The Vista and
off Garner’s Ferry Road, is paying for
the renovations needed. The stand will
feature one frozen slab, and Fields
plans to add another in the near
future. Students can expect a slightly
limited menu, Fields said, featuring
sundaes, shakes, smoothies, yogurt
and a full line of cones.
♦ Please see MARBLE SLAB, page 4
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
USC student Ross Allen serves ice cream at the Gervais Street Marble
Slab. The popular eatery will open, a campus location next month.
Businesses to rent
third-floor spaces
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Russell House Director Carmela Carr, right, shows the
third floor blueprints to building manager Jeremy Coe.
Officials plan to lease the space for business use.
By WINNIE WINFORD
THE GAMECOCK
Students can expect some
new businesses on the third
floor of the Russell House
this year.
As construction is
completed on that part of the
union, proposals are being
taken by businesses to lease
that space.
“We’re in the process of
working with business affairs
to identify potential
tenants,” said Carmela Carr,
director for the Russell
House Student Union.
“We want to put a business
in there that students have
expressed interest in having.
We will look at what other
unions across the country are
doing, but our situation will
be unique because our student
community is unique.”
So far the union has
received a proposal from a
financial institution to lease
the area.
Carr said more that one
business may lease the space,
depending on how big of an
area they require.
♦ Please see LEASE, page 4
Students turn out as company
uses union for poster profits
By WINNIE WINFORD
THE GAMECOCK
While new businesses might soon open in the
Russell House, the concept of making a profit at
the university union is nothing new.
Prolific Art Galleries, a Yonkers, N.Y.-based
company specializing in poster sales, has sold
posters out of the Russell House for the past
few years.
The company will wrap up another five-day
sale Friday at 5 p.m. Prolific Art sales
representative Harold Magidson said the
company has not made as much money in the
Russell House as last year but that they were
still doing well.
“I don’t know if it’s because the gas prices
went up, but we are seeing the same numbers of
customers,” he said. “The purchases are
smaller.”
Magidson said French art and fine art are
popular items this year, while the alcohol
oriented and girls-in-bikinis posters, perennial
college student favorites, continue to be a big
♦ Please see POSTERS, page 4
use
students
Thomas
Maluck, left,
and Ginger
DeLoanch,
look through
posters at
the Russell
House
Thursday.
Company
officials said
profits have
been down
this year.
JASON
STEELMAN/THE
GAMECOCK
Merged college close
to naming new dean
By LaDONNA BEEKER
THE GAMECOCK
The largest college at USC is one
step closer to having a dean after
university officials released the
names of four finalists for the
position, which include three out
of-state candidates and one USC
candidate.
The candidates — John Skvoretz,
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USC’s College of
Liberal Arts; Mary
Anne Fitzpatrick,
deputy dean of the
College of Letters
and Science at the
University of
Wisconsin; Joseph
Glover, associate
provost for
academic affairs at the University of
Florida; and Joseph Pitt, head of the
philosophy department at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute — will visit the
campus in September to meet with
faculty members.
The merger of the College of
Liberal Arts and College of Science
and Mathematics will produce the
largest college on campus, holding
approximately 8,200 students and
500 full-time faculty members.
“I think the person coming, in
respect, will be greater than the deans
now because they will have an insight
into the merger,” said Cleveland
Sellers, director of the African
American Studies Program, which
will be part of the new college. With
the university’s new technology,
Sellers said he is interested to see how
the candidates plan to get involved.
“It is important the new dean
understands what makes USC
great,” Sellers said.
In addition to being interim dean
of the College of Liberal Arts,
Skvoretz is a distinguished
proiessor oi
sociology. He
joined the
sociology
department in
1975 and
served as the
department
chairman for
10 years.
Fitzpatrick
has experience as chairwoman for
various committees and
departments, including
communication arts and the
investigatory committee on scientific
misconduct.
“The new dean needs to certainly
be aware of the dimensions and
versatility of the state of South
Carolina because it will help him in
shaping programs,” Sellers said.
Before reaching his current
position, Glover was professor and
chairman of the mathematics
department and associate dean for
faculty affairs at Florida’s College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
“It is important the
new dean understands
what makes USC
great.”
CLEVELAND SELLERS
DIRECTOR OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
STUDIES PROGRAM
Meet the
candidates
Mary Anne
Fitzpatrick,
dean of the
College of
Letters and
Science at
the
University of
Wisconsin
Joseph
Glover,
associate
provost for
academic
affairs at the
University of
Florida
John
Skvoretz,
interim dean
for USC’s
College of
Liberal Acts
Joseph Pitt,
head of the
philosophy
department
at Virginia
Polytechnic
■ Institute
“The new dean needs to relate to
students,” first-year theatre student
Alex Bergeron said.
Pitt has traveled a long way within
♦ Please see DEANS, page 4
Sorensen urges
economic effort
■ USC president
exhorts teamwork
among leaders
By KEVIN FELLNER
THE GAMECOCK
USC President Andrew
Sorensen roused a group of more
than 100 business, political and
university leaders Thursday by
gently singing a verse of the
children’s song “The more we get
together, the happier we’ll be.”
The song, which Sorensen first
learned from children at the
opening of USC’s Gateway
Academy Child Development and
Research Center, has become an
anthem of his campaign for
cooperation for economic
development in Columbia and
the rest of the state. Not to
mention it’s an expected
showstopper at meetings these
days.
Sorensen was addressing a
meeting of Engenuity SC, a
cooperative tied to the Columbia
Chamber of Commerce that
works to bring high-wage jobs to
the Midlands. He said
cooperation is imperative because
it reduces what he calls parochial
mentality, in which people are
thinking of their own interests
and not the good of the entire
state.
Sorensen used an example of
cooperation by discussing a
recent partnership among USC,
the Medical University of South
Carolina and several hospital
systems for health sciences
research.
Sorensen said he was appalled
after his arrival at USC in 2002 at
the widespread parochial
mentality, which he imitated by
saying, “Forty-three years ago the
president of the university
insulted me, and I haven’t
forgotten it.” He said he is
instead looking to form a new
mentality that would mend “these
lingering wounds and
suspicions.”
Most of what the Engenuity
SC crowd received was an update
on the USC research campus,
which is expecting a
groundbreaking for its second
phase in November. Sorensen
told them he had plenty of
demand for occupancy by
private, research-based
corporations but he needed help
getting the project past obstacles
like the Life Sciences Act, which
has appropriated money for the
research campus but js tied up in
a court battle over its
constitutionality.
“We need the business
♦ Please see SORENSEN, page 4