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The body of a park gardener James Hipolite, lies on the steps of a national monument near
the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday. Witnesses said the man was shot
when U.N. troops fired in response to shooting near the palace as Powell was meeting with
Haiti’s interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue on Wednesday. The body remained there a
day after he was shot.
Dozen killed in Haiti prison riot
during Powell’s diplomatic visit
By AMY BRACKEN
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti —
U.N peacekeepers patrolled the
streets of Haiti’s capital as
gunfire rang out Thursday, a day
after a prison riot and shootouts
killed a dozen people and left
scores injured during a visit by
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
City workers dragged the
bullet-riddled body of park
gardener James Hipolite, 24,
from the steps of a national
monument in front of the
National Palace on Thursday
morning. Witnesses said the
man was shot the day before
when U.N. troops fired in
response to shooting near the
palace after Powell met with
Haiti’s interim Prime Minister
Gerard Latortue on Wednesday.
Jordanian police working
with U.N. troops fired several
shots from the palace in response
to shooting nearby, s'iid U.N.
spokesman Toussaint Kongo
Doudou. An investigation was
being conducted into the
gardener’s killing, Kongo
Doudou said.
“The situation of security?
There is none,” said Ulrich
Balthazar, a security guard at
Independence Park who said he
witnessed Wednesday’s
shooting. “We’re demanding
Latortue leave because he cannot
lead the country. We need
someone competent.”
Latortue was named to head
an interim government
supported by the United States
following a three-week rebellion
that forced ousted President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile
on Feb. 29.
Despite sporadic gunfire
Thursday that wounded at least
three people in different parts of
the capital, merchants returned
to the streets and business was
running normally.
U.N. peacekeepers patrolled
streets on foot and in vehicles,
and the entire 6,000-strong force
was on alert for more violence.
Wednesday’s bloodshed,
likely orchestrated to coincide
with Powell’s visit, underscored
the daunting challenges
confronting Latortue’s
government, which has
promised to hold elections late
next year.
More than 100 people have
been killed in political violence
since Sept. 30, when Aristide
groups stepped up protests
demanding his return.
Tensions have also been
mounting between the interim
government and former soldiers
who led the rebellion and want
the reinstatement of the army,
which they say Aristide illegally
disbanded in 1994. They also
want back pay and refuse to put
down their arms.
Latortue has accused Aristide
of orchestrating the violence
from exile in South Africa, a
charge Aristide has denied.
Aristide claims the United Stated
forced him to leave the country,
a claim U.S. officials deny.
“They have to forcefully take
on those armed individuals of
the kind who were firing this
morning,” Powell said late
Wednesday before leaving the
strife-torn country.
Seven inmates were killed in a
prison riot that broke out as
Powell left the country late
Wednesday, prison director
Fritzner Pierre said. Armed with
knives and rocks, they tried to
break free as gunmen outside
opened fire, said Pierre, who
believed the disturbance was
connected to plans to transfer
some inmates.
Pierre said the slain inmates
were killed by other prisoners for
refusing to go along with their
escape plan. Many being held
there are members of Aristide’s
administration but there was no
immediate information on the
identities of those killed. Nor
was it clear if any arrests had
been made in the killings.
The prison uprising came
after shooting broke out in the
Aristide stronghold of Bel Air,
blocks away from the National
Palace.
Gunshots, including several
long bursts of automatic fire,
erupted in front of the palace
shortly after Powell entered. A
palace security official- said a shot
was fired from a passing car, and
U.N. forces guarding the palace
returned fire. Balthazar said that
was when the gardener was
killed.
In addition, five people were
killed in shooting around Bel Air
and scores were wounded,
according to a count of bodies
and patients at Port-au-Prince
General Hospital.
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where Donna Richter acts as interim
dean. Sorensen and Vice President for
Research Harris Pastides are expected to
make an offer to a finalist in each search
within the coming weeks.
Becker is overseeing dean searches for
both the South Carolina Honors
College and School of Music, as deans
Peter Sederberg and Jamal Rossi,
respectfvely, have announced they will
be leaving those positions in 2005. The
provost will consult with Sorensen for
final hiring decisions, as he did in hiring
his first dean at USC, Mary Ann
Fitzpatrick, who received the offer in
September to lead the newly merged
College of Arts and Sciences. She will
begin her tenure in January.
Hospitality, Retail and Sports
Management College Dean Pat Moody,
who is the chairwoman of the Social
Work dean search committee, said she
thinks the university’s process in
recruiting and interviewing is intense.
“Our goal is to find an excellent
candidate as quickly as we can but to
also do a very thorough job,” Moody
said. Deans typically serve as the head of
a dean search committee.
The process at USC involves having
the committee write a description of the
person and his or her qualifications and
goals who they would like to have fill a
particular position. The description is
circulated in academic journals like the
“Chronicle on Higher Education,” and
administrators use their personal
contacts at other universities to get the
word out that a position will be available
for application. “It’s mostly done word
of-mouth,” Becker said, adding that he
found out about his job from a
professional contact.
Once applications are received, the
search committee is in charge of finding
which of the applicants could potentially
fit the dean description and begins a
vetting process.
“We’re always open to nominations,”
Moody said. “Certainly if faculty want
to nominate potential candidates, we’ll
be willing to review those.”
Becker said the ---
vetting process can
be problematic
because sitting
deans at other
universities might
not want to let
administrators at
tneir universities
know that they are thinking about leaving
for a better offer, or at least a different
offer. So committees often conduct
private interviews away from both
campuses.
The committee then names three or
four finalists to bring to campus to meet
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with students, faculty and administrators
and to have faculty members evaluate
them through an interview that typically
lasts two full days.
Becker said interview questions give
candidates the best idea of what the vision
of the administration is for the university
and the specific college and that a
—:- candidate gets the
best perception of
the strengths and
weaknesses of the
program.
“I see this
institution as
taking academics
very seriously ana
leadership just as seriously,” he said,
adding that growth initiatives like the
research campus make any dean position
at USC more appealing in what is a
competitive process to attract top
candidates nationally.
Sorensen, with the help of
recommendations from the search
committee, then offers the job to one of
the candidates. Officials say the process,
which takes about six to nine months, is
similar at all universities, except that
some use private firms to seek potential
candidates. USC rarely uses such
methods. Becker said that when he
chaired a search committee at his former
university that a private firm was used
and wound up choosing all candidates
with whom he was familiar anyway.
Deans choose to come and go from
the position for many reasons. The public
health school, for instance, is looking for
a new dean because its last one, Harris
Pastides, was offered his current job as
USC’s vice president for research.
“I think the thing that made me look
at this job very seriously was that there
were these obvious challenges and
obvious opportunities in the field of
education in South Carolina,” said
College of Education Dean Les
Sternberg, who came to USC from
Bowling Green State University in 2000.
He said the state’s position as struggling
with equity and achievement in public
schools weighed heavily on his decision
because he knew the education college
here would be providing a significant
portion of the state’s qualified teachers.
Sternberg, who serves on the pharmacy
dean search committee, served under four
presidents and six provosts in his six years
at Bowling Green and said that turnover
in the administration is OK because
faculty-student relationships are what
matter the most in a particular college.
“I don’t think students would have
any particular consternation over a dean
leaving,” Sternberg said. “They might
react to a large number of faculty
leaving in a particular department or
area because a dean leaves, but those
cases are very rare.”
Becker said he sees the changing dean
situation as just another part of his job.
“I don’t see dean searches as a bad
thing,” he said. “It’s just part of the
natural life of the university.”
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funding through the U.S. Department of
Defense and with that research, produced
the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) project.
King was a part of that research and
after graduating from the incubator
program, he started IDV as a
subcontracting entity of VTB and then
began transforming the technology
capabilities to personal computers.
“Actually, when the project started (in
1996) he brought in some key
knowledge,” Dougal said. “That is the
neat thing about this, there are a number
of people participating here and this work
has been going on for a number of years.”
If the product does well, and King
obviously believes it will, Lisa Rooney, the
Director for the Intellectual Property
Office, says the university and the students
who are responsible for the development
of the program oyer the past eight years are
eligible to receive some of the proceeds.
“Any revenue that comes in is
divided among inventors,” Rooney said.
“And some of the inventors are students
and they will actually be seeing part of
the revenue that I will be getting.”
Some American universities hold
significant licensing deals like tfie
University of Florida and Gatorade, but
Dougal feels that because this program
currently has no consumer applications,
large revenue may not be conceivable.
“From the student perspective this is
extremely exciting because they can get
employed in South Carolina and work at
a company like this,” Dougal said. “The
things we are good at teaching are the
areas they need employees so this is a
great opportunity.”
Determining who receives money
though, may be a little more
complicated than one inventor though,
Dcugal says that because there have
been so many students assisting with the
program “it will be quite complicated to
figure out” who gets money.
The VTB project is still active at
USC and Dougal said currently there are
about 12 undergraduates and 30
graduates working to create new
innovations for system design industry.
“The thirty graduates students is the
most in the engineering school and may
be the most graduates in the entire
university to work on one project,”
Dougal said.
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■ SUMMIT
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of students,” he said. “But what’s
happening, now, is more of those
students are getting lost in the shuffle.”
More and more talented students in
need of significant financial aid are
applying to out-of-state schools, Pruitt
said.
“One of our goals is to keep that
—
intellectual capital — bright students —
even if they are poor students. That’s
why we’re looking at this program,
because we knew we needed to do more
for this kind of student.”
Scott was among representatives
from USC who worked with College
Summit over the summer.
“I thought this would work great
with USC,” he said. “They flew me out
to Denver to work with a delegation of
students from South Carolina.”
Scott said attending College Summit
convinced him of the program’s
effectiveness.
“Whenever you send a kid to college
you have, in a sense, broken that poverty
line, so hopefully their children will go
to college, and their children’s children
will go to college,” he said. “That’s how
you fix a community.”
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USC President Andrew Sorensen
has been a spokesman for the program
since his first year at the university. He
said he is consistently impressed with
how much money the Family Fund
network of supporters has been able to
procure.
“The generosity of our faculty and
staff is unprecedented,” Sorensen said.
USC falls below the national average
in faculty member pay and is roughly
equivalent to the national average for
public universities.
Mauer said most universities with
similar programs usually target
$100,000 to $200,000 a year as a
suitable goal. She said USC has 25
departments with 100 percent
participation, nearly doubling the 13 at
this time last year, and has 85
departments with increased
participation from previous years.
The theme for the campaign is “Be a
Part of the Tradition” with that
tradition of solid fundraising extending
to the alumni. With more than 210,000
living alumni, USC ranks ninth
nationally among public schools in
percent of alumni who donate annually
and tops Clemson’s endowment by a
market value of nearly $100 million.
Mauer said she sees faculty and staff
members getting energized by the
campaign through the weekly
departmental updates that her office
circulates.
“It’s about understanding where
Carolina is right now and where it can
go from here,” Mauer said about the key
to increasing participation.
The development office promotes
the campaign just like alumni
campaigns by sending solicitation
brochures to all departments, including
nonacademic ones. Regional campuses
also participate in the Family Fund
campaigns.
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