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■ SHARON Continued from page 1 Bank and Gaza must end. President Bush has since said that it would be “unrealistic” to expect Israel to remove large Israeli population centers in the West Bank. Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat said Sharon confirmed Palestinian fears that the disengagement plan is a ploy to cement Israel’s control over large areas of the West Bank. U.S. and European Union officials have assured the Palestinians that they would only back disengagement as part of the road map. “Sharon’s intention is to destroy the road map and to dictate his long-term interim solution of Gaza as a prison and 40 percent of the West Bank within a wall, and this will not fly,” Erekat said. According to polls published Wednesday in Yediot and Maariv dailies, 58 percent of Israelis support Sharon’s disengagement plan, and about one-third oppose it. Both surveys had error margins of 4.4 percentage points. ■ DEAN Continued from page 1 Science and Mathematics. Liberal Arts is the largest college on campus, followed by Science and Math in third. The merger creates a mega college encompassing more than 40 percent of USC undergraduate students. Glover characterized faculty members as “a cherished resource who should drive the agenda of the new college.” He added that faculty members who devote themselves to their work deserve the support of the administration. Glover also emphasized the “external constituency” of alumni, donors, board members and legislators.” He said faculty members should not see the dean as a “nameless, faceless person somewhere moving chess pieces.” Glover outlined a plan whereby he T would have lunch with 10 randomly selected professors periodically in order to hear their questions and concerns. After his outline, Glover fielded questions on a variety of topics, but some of the toughest came about his opinion of the Value Centered Management system at USC. The management system is a factor in determining the allocation of grant money, as well as professors’ tenure and promotion. As Glover had said that “truly merging the colleges” was one of his main goals, many professors asked how he expected professors to join if they were basically in competition with one another for grants and promotions. Glover re-emphasized his idea that the professors should “cooperate, not compete,” and he added that ■ VOTE Continued from page 1 Compton said he and Kelly have been working steadily for the past few weeks to get the event planned and that most of it came together at the last minute. "We are pretty excited that all this came together," Kelly said. "And we are especially excited to get all these businesses on board." Admission and food at the event will be free thanks to Olive Garden, Mellow Mushroom, Village Idiot and businesses from the Five Points area. Compton said he considered doing something like this through Armed Chair Productions in the i— . j^jru i _...._ _.nwi —u 111 iiiiiii i it JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Student Government President Zachery Scott talks with Arts and Sciences dean candidate Joseph Glover Friday in the Russell Flouse Theatre. Glover is one of four candidates for the position. while VCM was an important tool, if a conflict arose whereby the best interests of the university were at stake, VCM could be modified. “We’re not going to be run on formulas,” Glover said. Professors also questioned Glover’s assertion that USC should serve “external constituencies.” Several professors questioned Glover as to what extent he saw USC as beholden to corporate donors. Citing what he saw as “that we will probably never see the level of state funding for public universities we had 50 years ago,” Glover said outside monies were essential. However he pointed out that only areas where USC’s interests were already directed would be served. “If a corporation was to come to us and say, ‘We’ll offer you a billion dollars for the cloning of a human being,’ obviously that is a large amount of money, but we will not be involved in that.” Professors from varied disciphnes questioned Glover as to what, if any, programs he might regard as top priorities in the new college. Glover pointed out that “you simply cannot be a strong college of arts and sciences without a strong English department, without a strong history department.” However, he added that while there were four critical “bases” in math, English, history and the sciences of chemistry and biology, the other programs in the college were no less deserving. Glover said he envisioned the new College of Arts and Science “as the cultural and artistic heart” of the university, and the community. He said he envisioned the staff as “teacher/scholars” who could “commit the fruits of their labor to their students.” He said he supports inter disciplinary work by professors, as well as inter-disciplinary study by students. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu spring primaries, but he decided against it. "We wanted to do it on the largest scale possible, so we put it off," Compton said. "But we decided since it was an election year and Columbia has such a good independent music scene, we started planning for one this fall.” Local bands that will be performing are Samwise, The Columbia Improv Collective, Mourning After, Fastest Steed on Earth, Deja Voodoo, Infinite, Sterling Y and Beleveled. Kelly says the evening is structured so people can stop in and see whatever bands they want and register to vote at any time during the evening. "Each band is playing a 30 minute set, so we will probably get done close to midnight," Kelly said. In addition to the bands and restaurant establishments that will be displayed at the event, Kelly said the event is bipartisan, but that the Young Democrats and College Republicans may have tables set up to help with voter registration and recruitment for their respective parties. "The goal is to have enough tables for people to get registered and informed," Compton said. Compton added that this event is not to be confused with the official USC Rock the Vote event that is being held on the USC campus Sept. 27. "The reason that these two events are so close together is because people can't register to vote after Oct. 2," Compton said. Organizers expect about 200 people to attend, Compton said. Kelly said that if anyone would like to help with the event, they shpuld contact him at 446-6087. Those interested in joining the Trustus Theatre can visit www.trustus.org. Doors open Wednesday at 7 p.m. and the evening is free unless purchases are made at the cash bar. The Trustus Theatre is located on 520 Lady St. next to Publix. On the Web: www.rockthevote.org Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edn Comedy show suffers mishap By JON TURNER THE GAMECOCK The first Sunday Night Alive performance of the season was disrupted Sunday night when a defective prop injured a woman in the audience. A cast member pretended to toss a vase as the lights dimmed at the end of the skit, but one of the handles broke free and the prop arced into the audience of about 300 students. “It was just a skit,” said Laura Troutman, a cast member, “It wasn’t supposed to be thrown.” Troutman’s eyes were wet as she spoke. “This has never happened before. It was just a freak accident,” she said. . The show was canceled as the woman bled from cuts on her face. Sunday Night Alive is a takeoff from NBC’s popular comedy “Saturday Night Live,” but with a Christian message. Each week the show has a host, who at the end shares about his or her faith. Jamie Wright, Sunday Night Alive president, said it probably took about 60 seconds before everyone could tell what had happened. “The lights went out, and so we didn’t actually see the incident happen,” she said. She said she was backstage after the end of the skit. Fortunately, Wright said, the woman received immediate first aid from another audience member. “It was very quick,” she said, “We had a doctor in the audience.” Wright explained the way the skit was supposed to work. “We were doing kind of a spoof on the ‘Antiques Roadshow,’” she said. “We had commentators and contestants and people were just coming onstage with random items throughout and getting them appraised.” At the end of the skit, a member of the cast was to pretend to fling his antique in disgust, but the gesture was too much for the vase. Wright said the group had practiced the mock throw several times before the performance without any problems. Kim Zeigler, Sunday Night Alive secretary, said she thought the situation had been taken care of. “As far as we know (she) got medical treatment, and as far as we know (she’s) OK.” Wright said the incident was “very unfortunate,” and that cast members are looking into it further. Although she was in charge of the event and filled out a police report on the incident, Wright said she didn’t think anyone on cast had spoken to the injured woman. Wright said next Sunday’s performance should go on as planned. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockneTvs@gwm.se. edu ■ WALL Continued from page 1 place.” He said he hopes the Stop the Wall Tour will bring awareness to the USC campus of what is going on. Suzanne Fraij, first-year pre pharmacy student, agrees. A Palestinian member of MSA, Fraij said the replica will, “inform the public, at least USC, about the wall and what it means to people there,” which she says means destruction and occupation. On a larger scale, she noted the focus on the Palestinian suicide bombings and how most do not know why there is so much hatred between Palestine and Israel. “The wall represents hate,” Fraij said. Ali, Berg and Fraij said they see the replica wall as only a positive experience for the USC campus, bringing attention to the troubles in the Middle East. Since Israel is an ally of the United States, Congress is supporting the building of the wall. With the election this year, Fraij hopes the awareness raised by the replica will influence voting on the issue. For his part, Zach Bracchitta, vice president of Hillel, a Jewish organization on campus, agreed that the replica will be good for USC. Bracchitta, said, “First and foremost, it will serve to get some USC students interested in finding out what’s going on,” said Bracchitta, a third year English student. He said he sees nothing negative coming out of the Stop the Wall Tour coming to campus. 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For life. 1601 Main Street • Columbia, SC 29201 (80^) 765-9200 JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Yury Valasink, a fourth-year finance student from Belerus, leaves the Internal Programs for Students office after finding out the FBI's new authorization to access the records of international students. ■ FBI Continued from page 1 I’m going to say about that is that it wasn’t very nice,” he said. Fourth-year computer science student Sandeep Jayendran said he didn’t like the way the policy discriminated against international students. “It’s a right for everyone. Just because we’re international students we shouldn’t lose that right,” he said. “I go back home during summers and winters,” Jayendran said. “Airport security has definitely gone up a tremendous amount. People are a lot more serious about everything now. They used to be quite welcoming of international students, but that’s all gone now.” Jayendran said he didn’t feel hostility from Americans, only that he was approached in a more guarded way than he used to be. For his first few weeks in the country everyone was exceptionally friendly, but after Sept. 11, “Everything changed.” Yury Valasiuk, president of the . “It’s a right for everyone. Just because we’re international students we shouldn’t lose that right.” SANDEEP JAYENDRAN FOURTH-YEAR COMPUTER SCIENCE STUDENT USC International Students’ Association, said most foreign students felt welcome in Columbia. “Maybe not from the Middle East,” he said, “but I think from everywhere else it’s pretty much the same. Things have been different since the 9/11 attacks, and things have been different getting visas. The process has gotten harder.” Although civil liberties advocates like Williams believe “everybody on these shores is protected by the U.S. Constitution,” students like Jayendran feel as though they’ve lost a basic right to the federal government’s war on terror. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknezvs@gumt.sc. edit