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vZ71%t%?ct£z!r MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,2004 Since 1908
IN THIS ISSUE
♦ NEWS
H High school
swim meet
takes over Blatt
USC hosted nearly 700
students at two
invitational swimming
meets for high schools
and private schools
across the state.
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♦ VIEWPOINTS
Rebel flag hurts
school’s image
Terrance Washington
responds to fans who
flew the Confederate flag
during College
GameDay’s telecast from
ft the State Fairgrounds.
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♦ THE MIX
■^Harvesting
new releases
The Gamecock previews
some of music’s heavy
hitters for this season.
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♦ SPORTS
Men’s soccer
wins home
tournament
Gamecocks upset
No. 16 Portland, 3-2 to
win championship at
weekend tournament to
stay undefeated.
^The USC women’s
^ soccer team lost two
over the weekend to fail
to 4-3 for the season.
Also, find out why
Stephen Fastenau isn’t
as sad as he should be
about USC’s 20-16
loss to Georgia on
Saturday.
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WEATHER
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INDEX
Comics and Crossword.8
Classifieds. .11
Horoscopes.8
Letters to the Editor.5
Online Poll.5
Police Report.2
Pitt emphasizes outreach
■ Candidate for
Arts and Sciences
dean speaks to
students, faculty
By JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
Of the remaining four candidates
for dean of the new USC College of
Arts and Sciences, Joseph Pitt
became the first to address students
and faculty members Friday
afternoon.
He spoke before an audience in
the Russell House Theater.
Pitt, head of the philosophy
department at Virginia Tech,
emphasized the importance of a
team effort in college administration
and the advantages of a faculty and
staff cooperating in their educational
goals.
“There’s nothing that drives me
crazier than a new administrator
coming in and saying, ‘Well, this is
the way we did it back at Failview,”’
Pitt said.
“I’d like to meet the department
heads one at a time. I’d like to meet
the faculty on its own turf and talk
to the students,” he said. “The
senior administration can set a goal,
but it’s up to faculty and students to
achieve those goals."
Pitt said his job would be to “lift
the barriers” blocking educational
and institutional objectives, namely
funding issues, and the plan he
outlined focused heavily on
community education and outreach.
“This university and this college
should be an active participant in the
community,” he said.
Pitt told his audience that the
College of Arts and Sciences had to
help South Carolina get its priorities
straight, citing statistics on poor
South Carolina university
enrollment.
He described education as an
“investment in the future,” adding
that people’s attitudes seemed to have
changed since he was a young man.
“There was this faith in
education,” he said. “We don’t have
that faith anymore.”
In the ’70s, Pitt said, students came
to Virginia to study agriculture or
engineering, and.at first he thought
they were just learning new
♦ Please see DEAN, page 4
NOT SO FAST, MY FRIEND
CHARLIE DAVENPORT/THE GAMECOCK
Chris Fowler, Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstriet host GameDay
on the State Fairgrounds. While Corso picked Carolina, USC
lost 20-16. ♦ For more football coverage, see page 12.
HURRICANE IVAN
WALTER ASTRADA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Jamaican boy cleans up his house after the passing of Hurricane Ivan on the outskirts of Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane Ivan is expected to hit Florida, the third hurricane this season.
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ERIC MCKNIGHT/THE GAMECOCK
USC Sumter third-year business management student
Jonathan Rodriguez goes to an off-campus Chick-Fil-A to get
some lunch. USC Sumter has no on-campus restaurants.
USC Sumter ready
for fast food options
By eric Mcknight
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SUMTER — A lack of on
campus dining options is
forcing USC-Sumter students to
nearby fast food restaurants at
meal times.
Some students have about
15 minutes between classes,
leaving them with little time to
eat their food.
But while campus officials
said they’re working out plans
with two vendors to possibly
open a food court on campus,
one local business owner said
students don’t buy enough food.
“We had a vendor who did
—i-i
their best to supply food and
services, but we just had
insufficient faculty, staff and
student participation,” said
Bruce Blumberg, assistant dean
for administrative and financial
services at USC-Sumter.
Last year, Chiek-Fil-A owner
Mike Hensley tried to open a
restaurant on campus.
Hensley said the attempt
“didn’t do enough business to
make it worth our while.”
However, several students
said they liked the idea of having
a food court on campus. Second
year business administration and
♦ Please see FAST FOOD, page 4
Category 4 hurricane
moves toward Florida
By JAY EHRHART
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands —
Hurricane Ivan battered the Cayman
Islands with ferocious 150-mph
winds Sunday, flooding homes,
ripping off roofs and toppling trees
three stories tall as its powerful eye
thundered past just offshore.
Ivan has killed at least 65 people
across the Caribbean and was
expected to strike western Cuba,
where residents have dubbed the
storm “Ivan the Terrible,” on
Monday. More than 1 million
Cubans were evacuated from their
homes.
The storm, initially predicted to
brush the Florida Keys, now
appeared to be on a track to hit the
Florida Panhandle. Mexico issued a
hurricane watch and tropical storm
warning for ' the northeastern
Yucatan Peninsula.
The hurricane, which grew to the
most powerful Category 5 with 165
mph winds Saturday, lost some
strength before tearing into the
wealthy Cayman Islands chain, a
popular scuba diving destination and
banking center. - It is the fourth
Atlantic hurricane of the season.
“It’s as bad as it can possibly get,”
Justin Uzzell, 35, said by telephone
from his fifth-floor refuge in Grand
Cayman. “It’s a horizontal blizzard.
The air is just foam.”
Donnie Ebanks, deputy chairman
of the British territory’s National
Hurricane Committee, estimated
that as many as half of Grand
Cayman’s 15,000 homes were
damaged.
At 8 p.m. EDT, Ivan’s eye was
about 210 miles southeast of the
western tip of Cuba. Hurricane
force winds extended 90 miles and
tropical storm-force winds out to
200 miles. Ivan was moving west
northwest near 10 mph and a turn
northwest was expected by Monday.
Its 150 mph winds made it a
Category 4 hurricane.
Ivan was projected to pass near or
♦ Please see IVAN, page 4
Grad Web site relaunches
By JUSTIN CHAPURA
THE GAMECOCK
The Graduate Student Association
has re-established its Web site after
its removal from the Graduate
School’s home page because of
concerns about site content.
The Web site for the GSA was
taken offline on Aug. 25 after a new
version had been launched five days
earlier. Christine Ebert, interim dean
of the graduate school and former
adviser to the organization,
recommended the removal, citing a
failure to comply with University
Web site policy. A new Web site,
located at http://www.uscgsa.org,
was launched on Aug. 27 on. an off
campus server.
Ebert said that she called Kevin
Simmonds, president of the GSA, on
the night the Web site was removed.
“The University has specific
procedures that a Web site has to go
through. Certain information should
be on there, and someone has to check
it,” Ebert said. “For instance, a
disclaimer that the GSA’s Web site is
the opinion of the organization, and
not the Graduate School.” She said that
procedures allowed for Web sites that
did not include certain information to
be taken off of the university’s server
immediately.
Ebert resigned as adviser to the
GSA in late August. She said that the
GSA’s bylaws needed t<> be
submitted to the adviser, then passed
on to the dean for approval. At the
time of the Web site’s removal, Dr.
Ebert was in both positions,' an
example she gave as a reason for her
resignation as adviser to the GSA.
Nabeela Zahid, a second-year
media arts graduate student who is
also secretary, graduate assistant and
Web master for the GSA, said
procedures for posting on the Web
site were never discussed prior to its
removal.
“There were a lot of things I was
supposed to do, but nobody told me
about that. USC does have policies in
place for Web site content, but I had no
♦ Please see WEB SITE, page 4