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New lot has 120 spaces for students ■ STUDENT LOT Continued from page 1 Development Center, “but then they moved that down by the Blatt Center,” Huggins said. Parking Services got permission to turn the site into a temporary lot. “We went in and we cleaned it up and we made it 120 parking spaces,” he said. “It was like a bulldozed house. It had debris and that kind of stuff from the demolishment of the old child care center. “I’m trying to give students the opportunity to know there are additional spaces for commuter students,” Huggins said. Second-year math student Deanna Aleman said she found using a car around campus inconvenient. “We get our exercise going out here,” she said. “We only go when we absolutely have to.” She and Heather Anderson, a first-year liberal arts student, said it was inconvenient to have to walk all the way to the southernmost part of campus to reach their cars. “It’s not worth the hassle,” Aleman said, and Anderson agreed. “I’m kind of glad, actually, that I don’t have a car on campus,” Anderson said. Hamilton said he used his car every day. “I have to go out to the music building,” he said. He said he’d adjusted to the difficulty of finding parking on campus, but he wasn’t pleased with the arrangement. “If you’re here at night, you might as well stay here. I mean, if you leave, you’re not going to get another spot,” he said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknevis@gwm.sc. edu “We went in and we cleaned it up and we made it 120 parking spaces. It was a like a bulldozed house.” DERRICK HUGGINS DIRECTOR OF PARKING SERVICES Music school forms panel to fina dean By JUSTIN CHAPURA THE GAMECOCK USC is forming a search committee to hire a new music school dean after Jamal Rossi announced his resignation earlier this month. Associate Dean for Music Andrew Gowan said the committee would include faculty members of music and other disciplines, students and members of the Columbia music community. Provost Mark Becker will oversee the selection process. Rossi, who will resign May 31 to become the dean of academic affairs at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, will help the committee through the process by supplying information about the school. Eastman is rated as one of the top music programs in the nation. Rossi is an alumnus of Eastman, and Rochester is also his wife’s hometown. “We have lots of family in the area,” Rossi said. Rossi will assume additional duties when he transfers to Eastman, most of which relate to academic issues. “At Eastman, not unlike the provost here, everything dealing with academics within the school will report to me. I certainly hope to be continually involved in creating music at the school,” he said. Rossi joined USC as dean of the School of Music in August 2000. He has since hired 13 faculty members and eight staff members. A director of admissions position was created to oversee music student recruitment. Rossi said the focus of his time as dean was dealing with diminishing financial help from the state. “From an outsider’s perspective, it was becoming the trend for state institutions to experience a decline in state-sponsored funds, with more resources coming from student tuition and outside sources,” Rossi said. “We needed to create a vibrant culture for supporting the arts. Our focus was to protect the core of the school when the economy wasn’t strong." Rossi and the music faculty created a strategic plan in 2001, establishing sue major goals to strengthen the school. The school’s Web site details how most of those goals have been accomplished through hosting several music conferences, increasing its patron base and establishing distinctive programs such as the Center for Southern African-American Music and the Southeastern Piano Festival. Both Rossi and his colleagues agree the goals in the strategic plan were met with relative success despite a slow economy and diminishing funds. “I would say the recent budget problems would have kept us from hiring some faculty,” Gowan said. “However, Dr. Rossi has been fairly successful in meeting the goals outlined in the strategic plan.” Rossi, an accomplished and widely recognized saxophonist, recently played as part of the Carolina Saxophone Quartet alongside the USC Symphony Orchestra. He has been a soloist with several symphony orchestras as well as the United States Navy Band. “He is a wonderful musician, and the faculty respects him for still playing professionally,” school admissions director Jennifer Jablonski said. Rossi said he was excited to be given the opportunity to return to Eastman, but he said he would regret leaving the faculty. “The quality of our faculty is what makes everything happen; my job is to lead and facilitate,” he said. They, more than I, are responsible for our success over the past five years.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu MCKISSICK | McKissick Museum, located on the Horseshoe, has the oldest elevator in Columbia. The Board of Trustees approved more than $500,000 to replace it with a wider model. Columbia’s oldest elevator replaced at USC museum By TAYLOR SMITH THE GAMECOCK The Board of Trustees voted Friday to approve $525,000 for the McKissick Museum, which will transform what was once the oldest elevator in Columbia to a wider, shallower model. The Building and Grounds Committee approved the project Friday, much to the delight of museum officials. “This project will be wonderful,” said Lynn Robertson, executive director for the McKissick Museum. “There have been a number of times we have had people come and not be able to get in the elevator, so this will be great.” Robertson said the elevator can only hold about three people, which excludes any space for transporting equipment. “There have been exhibits we wanted to get, but we couldn’t fit it in the elevator, so we are very excited,” Robertson said. According to Robertson, the elevator shaft, which was built in 1939, has a dumbwaiter that formerly served as a way for librarians to transport books, but now will be removed for the extra space that will be needed for the renovation. In other business, the committee also discussed the new baseball stadium and approved the concept for the structure. Miles Loadholt, chairman of the Building and Grounds Committee, said that while the concept has been approved, the exact location and city affiliations have not been decided. “USC is going ahead with the baseball stadium, and if the city wants to make the stadium more of an amphitheater, then they would defray the costs,” Loadholt said. The projected amphitheater, Loadholt said, would wrap around the stadium, which will seat about 6,000 with the ability to add about 6,000 more. “The cost of the site next to the Colonial Center was so attractive because the university owns that property,” Loadholt said. 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