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www.dailygamecock.com MONDAY, OCTOBER 4,2 004 Since 1908 IN THIS ISSUE ^ NEWS TJ.S. officials concerned with terrorism fund-raising Focus turns to tri-border area where Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina meet and where funds for Islamic extremists are abundant. Page 3 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Two sharp dressed men APyan Holt addresses the fashion choices of President Bush and Senator Kerry. Page 4 W- J mr ♦THE MIX Devine Fashion Natalie Netzel takes a stroll down store-lined Devine Street, where „ unique shops welcome the fashion-sawy. Page 6 ♦ SPORTS USC defense stops Bama The Gamecock Sports staff breaks down Carolina’s 20-3 victory over the Tide. Page 12 WEATHER ♦ TODAY I High 76 Low 70 mo cvTcwnrn cnocr ♦ TUES. High 83 Low 64 INDEX Comics and Crossword...7 Classifieds.11 Horoscopes.7 Letters to the Editor.4 Online Poll.4 Police Report.2 f If * Medical students lend hand to hospice care By Z'ANNE COVELL THE GAMECOCK USC’s School of Medicine professors usually teach their students how to save lives, but during students’ third year, they also learn how to help patients whose lives cannot be saved. Professors Ellen Roberts and Joshua Thornhill of the MUSC designed a program with Lutheran Hospice, which gives third-year medical students the opportunity to visit hospice patients and learn how to deal with patients diagnosed with incurable illnesses. “Students usually focus on saving lives, which is important, but they also need to know what to do for patients who cannot be helped medically," Thornhill said. According to Ginette Messer, director of volunteer services at Lutheran Hospice, which serves Richland, Lexington and Newberry counties, hospice patients suffer from numerous illnesses and all have been given six months or less to live. Lutheran Hospice provides social, volunteer and chaplain services for its patients, who can either be living at home or in an inpatient facility. riospice patients have stopped searching for a cure and accept the consequences of their terminal illnesses. Each student is paired with his own patient, and they are required to visit their assigned patients at least four times sJi.rirw* 1. o - -cr-~ - psychiatric rotation. Thornhill said he decided to incorporate the hospice program into medical student’s psychiatric rotation because students observe and study the mentality of patients nearing death. “Students must try to understand someone at the end of their life cycle,” Thornhill said. According to Messer, the program attempts to help students become more comfortable with both the process of dying and the actual death. Before students begin visiting patients, they take a survey that assesses their comfort level for death, and they take it again after their eight-week rotation to see if their comfort level has changed. “C___i_j _ i__ more comfortable, but others, who initially thought they were OK with death, find that they are not,” Messer said. i naa never reany naa the opportunity to see people suffering from a long-term illness face their death.” JAMAE CAMPBELL FOURTH-YEAR MEDICAL STUDENT Jamae Campbell, a fourth-year medical student, said she found the program increased her comfort level by exposing her to the death process for patients who know death is approaching. “I had never really had the opportunity to see people suffering from a long-term illness face their death as it slowly progresses,” Campbell said. “It’s the opposite of hospitals, where people die immediately and unexpectedly from emergency traumas like car accidents.” According to fourth-year medical student Alex Getz, the program helped him understand that death cannot always be avoided. “It teaches us that no matter what we do we can’t save everybody, and everyone’s time will come,” Getz said. Messer said the program also shows students how ♦ Please see HOSPICE, page 3 GRAND MARKETPLACE t AFC franchise co-owner Sally Lou, left, watches first-year advertising student Elizabeth Finley, right, as ^ Finley browses the sushi display at the Grand Marketplace. Despite new barriers near cash registers, ■ shoplifters make off with about $350 worth of sushi every week, owners say. >Ripped off Shoplifters cause problems for cafeteria vendors By MICHAEL LaFORGIA THE GAMECOCK Winston Lou thinks twice before going to the bathroom. He always hesitates before leaving his place by the big sushi refrigerator in the Grand Marketplace, he says, for fear someone will grab a box and slip past the cashier without paying. “I can’t walk away for a minute,” said Lou, who shares ownership of the cafeteria’s AFC sushi franchise with his mother, Sally. On the first day of fall classes, shoplifters stole 50 boxes of sushi, or about $250, from Lou’s counter. Since then, the cafeteria’s management has stepped in, adding retractable rolls of nylon tape to close off walkways past empty registers. But managers haven’t always been so accommodating, Lou said. “I told the management to do it last semester, but they didn’t agree with me,” he said of restricting access to the open dining hall. He added that USC Dining Services cited cosmetic reasons for not setting up barriers sooner. With the nylon tape in place, Lou loses less, he said. But when he checks his records against AFC Daily Revenue Reports, he inevitably comes up short by about 10 boxes a day, or $350 a week. Some boxes of sushi cost as much as $7.25. “1 never get paid exacdy what I sell,” said Lou. He added that the problem isn’t confined to the sushi counter and that thieves pilfer bags of chips and other portable items from the Grand Marketplace, too. USC Dining Services General Manager Mike Scheffres said Sodexho, the campus food provider, typically doesn’t worry about shoplifting ♦ Please see THEFT, page 3 l % Hydrogen fuel has S. C. future, researchers say * $2 million grant to help USC study merits of alternative energy source By KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK USC landed a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Energy Department for hydrogen fuel research last week as administrators declared alternative energy developments would continue to be a research goal for USC and the state. “This is an urgent area of research for our state and national economy, particularly in light of this week’s news about rising fuel costs,” said Ralph White, dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology. The 18-month grant awarded to the engineering school will be used to develop new ways of storing and transporting hydrogen fuel, which experts hope will soon be applicable in substituting for earth’s finite supply of fossil fuels without using materials that would release environmentally hazardous carbon dioxide gas. Professor Michael Matthews, who along with James Ritter, John Weidner and John Van Zee will be working with Energy Department experts on continuing this type of fuel cell research at USC, said a practical goal for their research is to learn how to best control hydrogen energy ICdkllUIU “You can think about stepping on the gas pedal in your car. You’d want the pedal to respond immediately and accelerate quickly,” Matthews said, referring to experts’ belief that hydrogen energy, if controlled properly, could be used to power cars and other vehicles. Matthews said he thinks with aggressive research developments automobile manufacturers could be' marketing hydrogen-powered cars within a decade. With a cooperative race among universities and private .entities to develop efficient alternative energy sources, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., anticipates South Carolina could play an integral role in the process with its research universities leading the way. “What /Detroit is to automobiles, South Carolina could be to hydrogen energy,” Graham’s communications director Kevin Bishop said. “We have a diversified economy and the cutting edge technology.” Bishop said Graham is co chairman of the Senate’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Caucus and looks forward to the continuing interest private corporations could have in cooperative resevch being done at the state’s universities. “Sen. Graham certainly feels that this is a worthwhile investment,” he said. The National Science Foundation nas already runaea use s Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, which White said would help the university focus even more research attention to alternative energy and make the university more competitive for grants like last week’s DOE funding. Matthews, who has been working with hydrogen research at USC for seven years, said hydrogen energy research still needs considerable attention before practical uses are possible. One challenge, he said, is that hydrogen, unlike fossil fuels, needs a source of energy to produce the reactions that yield its energy potential. But he said he and his colleagues are encouraged by breakthroughs that have already been achieved. “The researchers in this area understand the needs and the challenges, and they understand that no solution will be easy,” Matthews said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknetvs@gwm.se. edu FILE PHOTO/THE GAMECOCI USC students build a float for the 2003 Homecoming parade. HOMECOMING Carnival kicks off festivities by b I tVtN VAN HAKtN THE GAMECOCK A week of Homecoming activities that will culminate in a USC-Ole Miss showdown at Williams-Brice Stadium begins today. “Carolina Fever: Warming Up the South” is the theme for Homecoming 2004. “Our theme was a little bit more fun to play with,” said Kai Wright, Homecoming commissioner and fourth year English student. “(The commission) had a lot more ideas, and they just incorporated the theme well.” Homecoming Week kicks off with Spurs and Struts tonight at 5 p.m. at Davis Field. The carnival celebration will feature booths, games and a dance competition. The USC cheerleaders and the Coquettes will perform. ^ Wright said Spurs and Struts is the most popular Homecoming event, besides the football game. “We’ve gotten about 1,500 people” in previous years, she said. The USC Showcase begins Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Koger Center. The formal competition ends with the crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen. Tickets are $5 in advance and $6 at the door and can be purchased at the Russell House Information Center. Wright and the Homecoming Commission, a 10-student group, have been planning the week’s festivities since March, including the new,Carolina Jam, a Hawaiian luau starting at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Russell House Ballroom. The luau will feature live music, a DJ and free food. The Homecoming parade begift»>at 4 p.m. Friday at the USC Greek Village. The parade will go up Assembly Street, pass the State House on Gcrvais Street and go down Sumter Street. Public viewing stands will be set up in front of the Horseshoe. Also on Friday, Cockfest, the annual pep rally, will begin at 8 p.m. at Williams-Brice Stadium. The rally will include a skit competition, live entertainment and fireworks. Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the gate, and $3 for children 12 and under. Tickets can be purchased at the Russell House Information Center. Wright, who has been commissioner since January, said the commission’s goal this year was to get all students involved. The commission spent last week promoting Homecoming events in ♦ Please see HOMECOMING, page $