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Striving for
campus safety
Eight members of a
team including
representatives from
USC’s Office for Sexual
Health and Violence
Prevention and USC
Police will attend a
conference in San Diego
about the lack of
accountability for sex
offenders.
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♦ VIEWPOINTS
Clash of the
) chairmen
The S.C. Democratic &
Republican Party
chairmen address issues
of the upcoming
elections.
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♦ THE MIX
Ghost stories
Storytellers haunt State
Musei'm halls spinning
tales cf South Carolina
tied spooks.
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♦ SPORTS
Gamecocks
on a roll
The women’s soccer
team kept their SEC
Tournament hopes
alive with back-to-back
wins.
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EATHER
High 82
Low 55
♦TUESDAY
High 76
Low 50
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INDEX
Comics and Crossword.9
Classifieds.12
Horoscopes.9
Letters to the Editor.6
Online Poll..6
F|ice Report.^..2
Tenenbaum gets out-of-state help
■ Obama stumps
for Democrat who
hasn’t visited USC
By MICHAEL LaFORGIA
THE GAMECOCK
Barack Obama, Democratic U.S.
Senate candidate from Illinois and
keynote speaker at his party’s national
convention in July, joined U.S. Rep.
Jim Clyburn in Columbia Sunday
morning to campaign for U.S. Senate
candidate Inez Tenenbaum.
The appearance by Obama, who
leads his Republican opponent Alan
Keyes 68 percent to 17 percent in polls
reported by the Chicago Tribune,
highlights the importance of the S.C.
Senate race between Tenenbaum and
Republican Jim DeMint. Experts
predict that if Democrats can’t regain
the seat left open by retired Sen. Ernest
“Fritz” Hollings in November, the
party will have a hard time in South
Carolina, a state that historically re
elects incumbents.
A main focus of Sunday’s
campaign stop at Bibleway Family
Life Center was mobilizing voters,
and Obama asked the
predominantly black audience to
support Tenenbaum on Nov. 2.
With state newspapers reporting a
dead heat between DeMint and
Tenenbaum in the polls, both
candidates are taking every available
opportunity to campaign in the
remaining days before the election.
But while DeMint accepted an
invitation by the College
Republicans to campaign at USC on
Oct. 4, Tenenbaum has yet to stump
on campus. Katie Day, president of
USC Young Democrats, said her
organization invited the Democratic
candidate to speak on campus as
recently as last week.
“She wanted to come but it just
hasn’t worked out,” Day said.
“Basically it was more scheduling
conflicts than anything else.” She
added that she’s concerned that
DeMint has visited USC and
Tenenbaum has not.
“I would love to have Inez come
out so she could have a chance to
expose herself to students,” Day said.
“I think it would obviously be a lot
better if she could come.”
Spokesman Adam Kovacevich
said that while Tenenbaum hasn’t
appeared on campus, several USC
students have helped with her
campaign, including members of the
♦ Please see SUPPORT, page 3
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Barack Obama, a U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, came to South Carolina on
Sunday to support Inez Tenenbaum in her race for the U.S. Senate.
Board elects new chairman
■ Herbert Adams
to lead trustees; group
approves stadium study
By TAYLOR SMITH
STAFF WRITER
The USC Board of Trustees elected a
new chairman Friday and also discussed
the new baseball stadium and issues with
how USC counts donations to the
university.
Herbert Adams, an insurance
company president from Laurens, was
elected chairman. He replaces Mack
Whittle, a bank president who has held
the position since 2002.
“I am happy and proud to have the
respect Board of Trustees,” Adams said.
“Next to my wife agreeing to marry me,
this is the highest honor I have ever
received.”
Miles Loadholt, an attorney who
joined the board in 1996, was elected
vice chairman.
The board approved a feasibility study
for the new baseball stadium, which will
help USC officials in determining the size
and design for the structure.
“We approved what we call ‘planning
money’ where we will have an architect
do a design and we will then decide
where to place it,” Adams said.
Adams said this collaboration
between the building and grounds
committee and the intercollegiate
activities will help the Board decide
which design for the $10 million
stadium is most desirable.
“They will first look at the footprint
we decided and then they will decide
exactly what different block we own it
fits in,” Adams said.
The proposed 6,000-person
amphitheatre that could be a pan of
stadium would be paid for by Columbia.
Alumni Association president Rita
McKinney said USC was in danger of
losing a ranking in U.S. News and
World Repon that stated the amount of
alumni giving donations to USC was at
24 percent, but dropped to 21 percent
♦ Please see BOARD, page 3
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK
Adam Hammond, Clemson student body president, left, and Zachery Scott, answer questions Sunday about the constitution and officers
of the first South Carolina State Student Association.
Uniting for education
■ Student government
leaders form statewide
lobbying organization
By TAYLOR SMITH
STAFF WRITER
Three USC students were elected to
the South Carolina State Student
Association executive board this
weekend during its inaugural
convention, where student government
officers from across the state convened at
USC to write a constitution and
legitimize itself as a statewide lobbyist
group for higher education.
USC Student Government President
Zachery Scott was elected chairman of
the association’s Board of Presidents;
Meghan Hughes, SCSSA’s liaison for
USC’s SG cabinet, was elected as vice
chairwoman; and SG Liberal Arts Sen.
Tommy Preston was elected as chairman
of the association’s lobbying committee.
The assembly was also able to spend
three hours in writing a constitution for
the organiza^m, which will put the 12
public school student government
presidents on a Board of Presidents that
will have a role similar to that of the
most university boards of trustees.
Scott explained that any policy will
start in the Board of Presidents and then
after approved will go to the conference
assembly (made up of every
representative at the conference) where
each school only gets one vote and then
the policy is passed.
Scott said the association’s priority is
attack statewide budget cuts “to stop the
bleeding.” After establishing themselves
though, Scott said that the organization
would be able to challenge education
policy with “the voice of students.”
“We are not a group that holds
demonstrations or fights boards of
trustees,” Scott said. “We are there to
educate the state legislature on the
importance of higher education in
South Carolina.”
Approximately 70 representatives from
12 public schools across South Carolina
assembled for a weekend of classes and
forums on the need for higher education.
The weekend started at 10 a.m.
Saturday when the group gathered on
the Horseshoe fo^- registration and then
went to the president’s house where USC
“We are not a group that holds
demonstrations or fights boards of
trustees. We are there to educate
the state legislature on the
importance of education in South
Carolina.”
ZACHERY SCOTT
use STUDENT GOVERNMENT PRESIDENT
President Andrew Sorensen talked about
the need for higher education and the
officers were able to become acquainted.
“I think it is very important to meet,”
said Steve Miano, president of USC
Aiken Student Government. “Despite
technology advances, it is always good to
meet face-to-face and get on the same
page.”
After the lunch and a reception at the
president’s house, the group then spent
the afternoon in a number of sessions
that helped the representatives on how
SCSSA can affect higher education,
recruit student volunteers and plan
campaigns.
In a session on the status of higher
education in South Carolina, Julie
Carullo from the S.C. Commission on
Higher Education said, “The role for
SCSSA at schools should be to.j^tay in
partnership with SCCHE in figuring
out how they can help with issues that
face higher education.”
SCSSA will have three meetings a
year (spring, summer and fall) and Scon
said because the majority of the schools
involved elect their officers in the spring,
the summer meeting will be a
transitional meeting where the
representatives conduct a forum over
what was learned and what can be
changed for the fall.
“A year from now we should have
this room (Gambrell 250) filled with
representatives from all public schools,”
Clemson student body president Adam
Hammond said between sessions.
Scott said there were student
government organizations before this
one, but they failed and the current
SCSSA constitution was written after
studying their problems.
“The reason for the organization is
because there is a power in numbers,”
Hammond said. “When I can introduce
myself to a legislator as part of SCSSA
with a constituency of 100,000, it packs
a punch.”
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MUSC
pharmacy
merger
official
By KEVIN FELLNER
SENIOR WRITER
The USC Board of Trustees gave
final approval Friday for the USC
School of Pharmacy to begin
integrating with the Medical
University of South Carolina’s
pharmacy school, with a full merger
planned to begin in a few years.
Trustees were quick to praise the
administration on developing the
final proposal, which calmed initial
concerns from faculty members and
students by stressing that changes
would come slowly.
“As a health professional, I think
this is one of the greatest moves
we’ve ever made as the Board of
Trustees,” said Edward Floyd, a
surgeon holding degrees from USC
and MUSC.
Trustee Darla Moore, who with
her husband has investments in
intensive care and other health care
initiatives, said administrators
recognized that funds and resources
could be better spent through
cooperation with MUSC instead of
in competition with it.
“I want to commend the
administration for your stamina,
your strength and your vision,” she
said.
Trustee Michael Mungo, who
has served on the board since 1982,
said the state is moving toward more
consolidation in its higher education
system in order to provide students
what he said was the best it can offer.
He said students should expect more
consolidation among programs in
the state’s 36 institutions in the
coming years.
Harris Pastides, vice president for
research and the proposal’s chief
organizer, said the merger wouldn’t
be possible until faculties from both
schools can come up with a unified
curriculum. A search committee is
expected to name an executive dean
for the new school sometime next
year with members from both
universities involved with the hiring.
Provosts from both universities will
also have to hire a dean to oversee
daily operations at each campus.
“I can’t underestimate the
importance of hiring a good
executive dean, not only someone
bright but someone who respects the
traditions of both institutions,”
Pastides said.
The schools’ will be fully merged
when they seek a single
accreditation after the last class of
the current curriculum is graduated
and the new curriculum is fully
implemented. At that time, the
newly formed South Carolina
College of Pharmacy will have a
single application and a single
admissions process, but students
will still have the choice of which
campus they want to attend.
Pastides estimates because of
curriculum committees and faculty
hiring committees that need to be
organized, the full merger won’t be
possible until about 2010. But, he
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