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IN THIS ISSUE
W?NEWS
“USCs oldest
elevator lifts
its last load
Board of Trustees OKs
more than $500,000 to
replace McKissick
elevator.
Page 3
♦ VIEWPOINTS
Teeny-boppers
invade campus
Curtis Chow bemoans
the outbreak of colorful
pants, Hollister and
flagrant mid-riffs.
♦ THE MIX
Groups urge
student voters
The College Republicans
and Young Democrats
are doing their part to
make sure every college
student's voice is heard
come this November.
Page 10
♦ SPORTS
Odom has
high hopes
Coach Dave Odom talks
about his expectations
for the upcoming
basketball season.
Page 13
WEATHER
♦TODAY j ♦THURS.
High 85 High 83
Low 65 Low 63
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INDEX
Comics and Crossword.12
Classifieds.15
Horoscopes.12
Letters to the Editor.8
Online Poll.8
Police Report.2
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VISUAL COMMUNICATION
JENNI DILLARD/THE GAMECOCK
Andrea Johnson, left, a deaf USC sign language professor, provides signing instruction to third-year nursing student Katie Arnold.
Turning a blind eye to limits
By LaDONNA BEEKER
THE GAMECOCK
USC American Sign Language
teacher Andrea Johnson does not let her
disability keep her from enjoying life.
Johnson has been at USC since
August and is a teacher’s assistant for
the deaf education class at Crayton
Middle School, but has been teaching
ASL for five years. She previously
taught at the South Carolina School for
the Deaf and Blind in the Outreach
Department and as ah ASL tutor.
“I like to teach students how to sign,
but I enjoy the social interaction with the
wide range of students from beginning to
advance levels,” Johnson said through an
interpreter. While she teaches more
hearing students than deaf students, it does
not add difficulty to her teaching ability.
“South Carolina needs interpreters,
so I hope they learn sign language and
maybe one day become interpreters.”
Sign language is not a major at
USC, but Johnson hopes that will
change. The class she teaches counts as
an elective. One of her students, third
year nursing student Katie Arnold, said
she is looking for another school to
transfer to so she can major in sign
language and interpretation.
“I thought about (being an
interpreter) a long time ago, but by taking
this class made me think more about it,”
Arnold said. “The idea that she is deaf
helps me use sign more because it is the
only way to communicate with her."
Johnson is on the South Carolina
Association of the Deaf board as secretary
and neasurer. She spends most of her
time helping out the deaf by attending
♦ Please see TEACHER, page 5
Commuter student lot opens
■ Officials optimistic
temporary spaces will
reduce congestion
By JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
Parking Services has opened a
temporary commuter student parking lot
near the intersection of Bull and Whaley
streets.
Derrick Huggins, director of the
department, said the idea was to reduce
the congestion at other lots in the area and
give commuter students a better chance of
finding spaces.
“Right now commuter and residential
students are competing for the Bates
House parking lot,” he said. “It’s a
competitive area and we feel it’ll at least
relieve some of the pressure.”
Huafeng Zhou, a graduate biostatistics
student, said he has recently had trouble
with parking.
“I live on Pendleton Street, but there’s
no place to park,” he said, emerging from
his car in the Bates parking lot, about
seven blocks away.
“I just started parking here last week,
since they closed the one on Pendleton,”
he said. Zhou said he was glad to hear
about the new spaces.
Stephen Hamilton, a fourth-year music
student living at Bates West, said he didn’t
think the new lot would significantly
affect competition.
“There’s really nothing they can do,”
he said. “I mean, as soon as they open
something up they’re going to swarm to
fill it up.
“If you go down to the Colonial Center
there was a lot of parking. Last year if you
drove down, there were always one or two
spaces, but now it’s filled up. If they build
another lot, it’s just going to get filled up.
I’m not sure there’s anything they can do
besides just build 20 or 30 parking
garages,” he said.
The new parking lot was built on the
site of the old Gateway Academy Child
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Parking
services has
temporarily
opened a
student
parking lot
on the
corner of
Bull and
Whaley
streets at
the old child
develop
ment center
location.
Parking
officials say
they don’t
know how
long the lot
will exist.
JASON
STEELMAN/THE
GAMECOCK
RHA reinstates partial funding for CTV affiliate
By JACOB DAVIS
THE GAMECOCK
RHA Sen. Allen Klump proposed
introducing legislation Tuesday night
calling for closer review of dining
facilities and more student interaction
with dining services officials, following
dining services second C rating in three
weeks.
The Grand Market Place received a C
rating earlier this month, while the
Carolina Diner, the restaurant at Bates
House, was closed during Parents
Weekend because of a C rating after an
unannounced^ DHEC inspection.
Klump’s comments were the first from an
organized student group expressing
concern about dining services.
The idea was strongly supported by a
number of senators, including Mike
Kucharski, President of Bates House hall
government.
“I urge all the senators to take a close
look at this situation and support Senator
Klump in addressing it,” he said.
Klump’s comments came during
RHA’s regular meeting, which is held
every Tuesday night at 7 p.m. in
Gambrell Hall. RHA President Adam
Hark opened his report during Tuesday’s
meeting in by responding to what he saw
as criticism about^he senate’s
executive board communicating their
vision for the organization.
“We have vision and direction for the
organization, but if there is one thing we
are guilty of, perhaps it is not
communicating that vision. RHA strives
to serve
its residents 100 percent. We
considered it a victory when we reserved
voting rights for senators only,” said
Hark.
He also spoke about the remaining
money in the treasury, urging the
senators to “think about the best way it
could serve their residents, and spend it
proactively.”
In addition to voting new funding for
Carolina Television, the senate also heard
from Sen. Patrick Walsh about providing
trash cans in the McBryde women’s
restrooms because the former all male
dorm now has female residents.
Senators from the Towers also
expressed interest in supplying trash cans
for Laborde. Terrill Wilkins, the affiliate
representative for Housing and Campus
Concerns, spoke about the Residence
Hall Review program that his
organization is about to begin.
Wilkins said the program would be 1
comprised of two phases. In phase one,
the Review board will sit in on hall
government meetings to hear concerns.
By Fall Break a list of concerns-from
around campus would be compiled mi to a
report. Phase Two would involve sharing
die combined concerns of each residence
lall with the campus. This would allow
!ach residence hall to see if any other
lalls shared their concerns. These
roncerns would then be addressed by
housing and Campus Concerns, which
Wilkins said would try to provide
olutions. Housing and Campus
Concerns is scheduled to meet with the
lall governments from Carolina Global
Community and South Tower first,
ollowed by Preston on Sept. 30th,Bates
tnd East Quad on Oct.3, the Towers and
Wade Hampton on Oct. 4, Simms and
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Bates
eatery
reopens
with C
rating
■ Officials say A
rating will be up
by end of the week
By TAYLOR SMITH
THE GAMECOCK
Students were able to return to
the Carolina Diner Tuesday after
the Bates House restaurant was
closed over the weekend because of a
C rating, but the restaurant hasn’t
been restored to A status because
DHEC officials haven’t returned for
an inspection.
Mike Schefffes, general manager
for Sodexho, a food management
company that oversees USC Dining
Services, said he expects the Carolina
Diner to have an A rating by the end
of the week.
“It is a waiting game,” Scheffres
said. “We asked for them to come
and re-inspect as soon as possible,
but we are at their mercy.”
The school decided to close the
restaurant, managed by Sodexho,
because of the rating it received
Friday, which stated that the
restaurant had several infractions
that earned it a grade of 76.
“We asked for them
to come and re
inspect as soon as
possible. But we are
at their mercy.”
MIKE SCHEFFRES
GENERAL MANAGER FOR SODEXHO
“DHEC did not require that we
shut it down," said Helen Zeigler,
director of business affairs for USC.
“And although the grade of C may
be good enough for DHEC to let us
remain open, it is not good enough
for us, and Sodexho needs to
understand that.”
Zeigler added that USC will be
having “serious discussions” with the
Sodexho officials and that if the
school is not satisfied with the
actions Sodexho takes, USC’s
relations with the company “will be
just as strained that as they are now.”
Scheffres said he was “very
- surprised” about the closing, saying
“I could not walk around in my
right mind and imagine we would
have a place without an A rating.”
The Carolina Diner serves mostly
first-year students who live in Bates
♦ Please see BATES, page 3