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in u 'low. dailygamecock. com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10,2004 I< THIS ISSUE ♦ NEWS U.S. storms Fallujah Sunni clerics call for election boycott after U.S. forces push way through Fallujah, Iraq. Page 6 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Liberals need to get over it Curtis Chow expounds °n why people on the far left should accept the results of the Presidential election and move on with their lives. Page 8 ♦The MIX |Ani-mania The movies “The Incredibles” and “The Polar Express" are using new animation techniques to humanize the cartoon characters. Page 10 ♦ SPORTS Ugly win in preseason use beats USC Upstate, but has lots of turnovers in first and only exhibition game for the young team. Page 12 WEATHER ♦ today High 64 Low 40 ♦ THURSDAY High 67 Low 53 FOR EXTENDED FORECAST. SEE PAGE 2. INDEX Comics and Crossword.11 Classifieds.14 Horoscopes.11 Letters to the Editor.8 Online Poll.8 Police Report..2 * f Flu-like virus limits football players By MICHAEL LaFORGIA THE GAMECOCK A handful of USC football players — including sophomore running back Cory Boyd and true-freshman defensive tackle Marque Hall — sat out of Tuesday’s practice after contracting a virus with influenza-like symptoms. Redshirt junior running back and receiver Andrea Gause is also sick. “We have several players with the flu, and Andrea Gause and Cory Boyd are confined to bed,” head coach Lou Holtz said Tuesday evening. Associate Athletics Director Kerry Tharp said the team doctor has examined the ill players, and it remains to be seen whether they will be healthy enough to ■ • r*i • J • -II 200,000 and kill another 36,000 Americans every year. While members of _ _> I I J_.ll yiay i luiiua 111 vjaiuwiuiv. on Saturday. “I’m hopeful that they will,” Tharp said. The players’ illness comes in the midst of a flu immunization shortage that began when Chiron Corp., which supplies about half of the United States’ flu shots, BOYD urirMipl/1 ikr>nf millirtn Minfp^ received flu shots Oct. 6, football players have not been vaccinated through the athletics department, Tharp said. “Had the athletics department known at the time that there would be such a severity in the current and future rlictnhiitmn rtf varrin#* rKp closes from the company’s Liverpool, England factory. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that complications from the flu hospitalize more than immunizations to the men’s basketball team would have never occurred,” athletics officials said in an Oct. 22 statement. “No other student-athletes have been immunized since, and until the shortage is over with, no other student-athlete will.” Bill Hill, director of the Thomson T-U„lrk c«‘.A members — those with chronic health conditions such as asthma or kidney center’s doctors haven’t seen any cases of the flu on campus this semester. “So far as I know, we’ve had no certified or verified case of flu as yet,” Hill said. Last week, the Department of Health and Environmental HALL So far, Hill said, only about 40 i high-risk students have taken ? advantage of the vaccine, which ■ costs $5 for those who have paid ^ fall health fees and $10 for those V who have not. Hill added that officials from the health department told him the health control, worKing wiui uie and vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, sent the health center 500 injectable doses and 75 intranasal doses of the flu vaccine. The center reserved these for high-risk students and faculty iciuci imgm gci auouicr doses. If the vaccine comes in, it should be available by the end of the week, he said. Comments on this stoiy? E-mail gaviecockneTvs@givm:sc. edit An artist’s rendering of what the new wings of the Thomas Cooper Library will look like. USC received a $2 milion donation Monday toward the $8 million needed for the construction, which could be completed as early as fall 2007. Library donation to help house special collections By TAYLOR SMITH STAFF WRITER The Thomas Cooper Library received an anonymous $2 million gift to help build new wings to house USC’s rare books and collectibles. The announcement came Monday on the Mezzanine level of the library, where officials gave reporters a tour of the vault area and other holdings, which are valued at $175 million. The wings could be completed as early as fall 2007. The pair of colonnaded glass pavilions will contain an additional 40,000 square feet of library space as well as seminar rooms, a reading room, an orientation gallery and numerous display cases. “Frankly, students want new things,” said Patrick Scott, director of rare books and special collections. “And when this building is available it will give us better storage and better teaching abilities.” Scott said the current space is not big enough, and the new facility would be able to house the collection in an area where it can be kept more secure and prominent. “The importance of this donation is critical,” said Paul Willis, dean of campus libraries. “Now students will be able to come in and see what we have.” Willis said that with the USC collection known worldwide for its diversity and comprehensiveness, the library’s Web site has become an outlet for exposure and the new facility would make digitization easier. “We are at that age when communication is digital,” Scott said. “And this library has books from eras like early printing, which will certainly create an asset.” The $2 million is the first step toward starting the $10 million construction project, something that USC President Andrew Sorensen said is an attainable goal. “I am a veteran optimist, but I think we can get the funding,” Sorensen said. “If we can get it lined up from people who can donate, I am hopeful that we can start (construction) by the end of the year.” If unable to raise the funds privately, USC would have to rely on the state legislature to fund the operation, which Sorensen said could take two years to accomplish. Willis said questions about the safety of the collection, while being moved next door to the new facility, are baseless. “The actual move would probably take six months,” Willis said. “There will be measures taken and they won’t have to go out of the building to move” the collection. The space that will be left on the ♦ Please see DONATION, page 4 Housing threatens fines for feces left in elevator By TAYLOR SMITH # STAFF WRITER For the second time this semester, Bates West residents on Monday discovered a bowl of feces in an elevator, which could result in a building-wide fine for the upperclassman dorm. Shortly after the discovery, a sign was posted reading: “If you are responsible for this act, please stop ... and “The entire building will be fined for the cleaning of the feces.” Andy Fink, associate director of Residence Life, said if the culprits do not come forward }then the makeshift poster threatening a building-wide fine could come true. “In repeat offenses, we want the community to be involved and aware, but it is not good to bill students for something so minor,* Fink said. “For minor things we will alert them, but we may be forced, if we can’t identify the person, to have to charge students.” Fink said instances of residence hall vandalism are seldom, but incidents of this nature are “rude and crude and unusual.” “It is a matter of cleaning,” Fink said. “If someone has to go into the elevator shaft, then that) is something Housing can’t do, so we will have to hire the elevator company, which takes money to do.” Typically, Fink said, a situation like this results in the voluntary surrender of the guilty party. He cited one such case in the Towers years ago, when a student ripped a drinking machine out of wall, which damaged the plumbing as well. With the costly nature of the crime, Fink said that the cost was enough to fine the floor, but a student came forward and went through the student discipline system. ♦ Please see ELEVATO®, page 5 ILLUSTRATION SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ----------. CHARLIE DAVENPORT/THE GAMECOCK Magdalen Lindsey, a first-year marine science student works on the house being built for Habitat for Humanity on Greene Street on Monday. After 3 years, Habitat returns By JON TURNER THE GAMECOCK Many hands make for light work, but the physical labor was the easiest part for members of the Habitat for Humanity organization at USC, who raised money for almost two years to build a house this week on Greene Street. Habitat for Humanity International is a Christian organization that raises funds and organizes volunteers to build homes for those who lack adequate shelter. Second-year political science student Jennifer Price was in charge of publicity for the event. “We have to raise about $50,000 to be able to build a house, and it takes a while to get that much money,” she said. Second-year criminal justice 7 student Tara Cloer, in charge of the group’s fund-raising efforts, said the funds had come from all over the place. “Mainly we’ve done smaller fund-raisers, like bake sales, and recently we ordered T-shirts and buttons to sell,” she said. It takes a lot of bake sales to raise $50,000. Cloer said the average sale makes, “on a good day, maybe $300, but usually about 100, depending on how hungry everyone is.” “I sent out a lot of letters to local businesses and churches to try to raise money,” she said. “We’ve been getting pretty good results from that. And most of our funds have come from local rotary clubs.” USC Habitat raked in about ♦ Please see HABITAT, page 5