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Officials confirm Upstate pharmacy school
■ New campus plans
include announcement
of executive dean DiPiro
By TAYLOR SMITH
STAFF WHITER
Tuesday’s announcement of a third venue for the
South Carolina College of Pharmacy has USC
officials looking forward to the prospects of creating a
new pharmacy program, but has rekindled skepticism
and outrage among some pharmacy students.
Speaking in the State House foyer, USC
President Andrew Sorensen announced that a $5
million investment from the Greenville Hospital
System Endowment will provide the necessary
funding for a third pharmacy program in that
hospital system, which also relies on USC and
MUSC schools of pharmacy.
“This will meet the needs of young people in the
upstate,” said Harris Pastides, vice president for
Research and Health Sciences. “But it also means
they can spend pan of the time in Columbia and
Charleston as well.”
The USC Board of Trustees approved the
merger of the USC School of Pharmacy with
MUSC’s Pharmacy School in October and
approved the naming of Executive Dean Joseph
DiPiro in December. DiPiro will resign as assistant
dean of the University of Georgia’s College of
Pharmacy and of the College of Pharmacy and the
School of Medicine at the Medical College of
Georgia to take the job in May.
DiPiro, who also attended the news conference,
said he is excited about the donation and new
campus.
“This is really important — absolutely necessary
♦ Please see VENUE, page 5 USC President Andrew Sorensen announces on Tuesday a $5 million investment from the Greenville Hospital System to fund the new campus.
Change stolen from
USC parking meters
■ Twenty machines vandalized during winter break
By THOMAS CHANDLER
THE GAMECOCK
Sitting right on the curb, brimming with
silver change, packing meters might have
seemed ideal targets for at least one
Columbia-area thief still at large after a
December spree.
A string of parking meter vandalism
during Christmas break left 20 machines
damaged beyond repair, said Director of Law
Enforcement and Safety Ernest Ellis.
Ellis estimated the replacement cost at
$75 per meter. Damage to one or two meters
occurred along Wheat Street, College Street
and the Capstone meter lot, with a larger
group of 14 battered meters in the Business
Administration Building’s lot. Ellis said he
thinks the Columbia Police Department had
similar trouble with damage to their meters as
well. 1 he means or vandalism is stm
unknown.
USCPD incident reports date
the first incident in the string of
thefts to Dec. 10, when they found
five meters had been forcibly
removed from their posts. They
later found four of these in bad
condition behind a dumpster on BA
Building grounds. The culprits
likely got away with about $50 per
meter, according to an incident
report filed by officer Marc Weiss.
Though fingerprint dusting revealed
no clues regarding the suspect’s
identity, police did find some blood
on the face of one broken meter.
Ellis said an investigation is
under way and that the police have
a lead in the case.
Police reported three more
incidents of parking meter
vandalism on the morning of Dec.
25, at 451 Wheat, 902 Barnwell
and 1700 College streets. The
meters had not been taken from
their posts or broken into.
Ellis said he was unsure whether
the thefts were the work of one
criminal or several but that the
crimes were fairly distinctive.
“We cannot prove they were
linked right now. It is still under investigation,
but obviously that’s an unusual crime. Perhaps
the person who committed one may have
committed all of those crimes,” Ellis said.
Parking Services Director Derrick Huggins
could not be reached for comment, but
officers at the USC Police headquarters said
funds for replacement meters came from that
department. When asked whether measures
could be taken to prevent such crimes from
occurring again, Ellis expressed doubt.
“Anywhere you have property in the
public’s access, vandalism can occur,” he said.
“The meters are very securely attached to the
poles, but certainly it’s an issue of vandalism
that occurs in the public domain, and it is
subject to continuing.”
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SARAH ZILINSKV/THE GAMECUGK
Fourteen parking meters in the Business
Administration Building lot were vandalized
last week. Police incident reports indicate
that the spree began Dec. 10.
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"Courage: The Carolina Story that Changed America," a McKissick Museum
exhibit that features photographs, video, displays and interactive art, shows the
efforts of local and regional activists who helped support the civil rights
movement. The exhibit will be on display through Feb. 26.
Forum to students:
Is the dream alive?
By RYAN JANIES
THE GAMECOCK
USC students and staff
reflected on the life and legacy
of Martin Luther King Jr. on
Thursday as a forum discussed
the question: Is the dream alive?
A three-panelist group and a
moderator facilitated the
discussion and allowed the
audience to offer its input.
Cleveland Sellers, director of
African-American studies at
USC, Christopher Leevy
Johnson, USC professor of
African-American Studies, and
Catherine Fleming Bruce, from
the Modjeska Monteith
Simkins Center for Justice,
Ethics, and Human Rights, sat
on the panel. Cynthia Pryor
Hardy, owner and host of a
WFMV 95.3 radio show,
moderated the discussion.
Sellers, who participated in
the civil rights movement and
knew King, centered the
discussion on King’s humanity
and the lessons that could be
learned from his life.
“Dr. King never enjoyed
being the most outspoken
person for the civil rights
movement. There was a lot of
responsibility that came along
with that,” he said.
Several students stood up to
offer their insight on the how
pop culture had molded the way
blacks see themselves, and how
luminaries and entrepreneurs
like Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and
Russell Simmons have offered
invaluable economic
opportunities and inspiration to
blacks.
“African-Americans were
taught for over 200 years to hate
themselves and each other. There
is so much hatred within the
African-American community,”
♦ Please see MLK, page 4
New official
looks to bring
out-of-state
funds to USC
By TYLER RAY
THE GAMECOCK
USC’s newly appointed assistant vice
president for university development said she’s
going to “take the university’s fund-raising
activities up a notch, so bam!”
Michelle Dodenhoff quoted fellow New
Orleans native Emeril Lagasse in the first meeting
with her staff. Dodenhoff said she hopes to bring
some interstate flavor to alumni giving programs,
encouraging outreach to errant students.
One of Dodenhoffs goals is to expand the
scope of the university’s development program.
“I think we need not only look inside USC,
but outside of the state as university alumni move
away from South Carolina,” she said.
She said university donors’ charity was one of
the greatest surprises for her at USC.
I he alumni donors, those 1 have met so far,
are incredibly generous and loyal. There is real
pride in this institution for the alumni.”
Though Dodenhoff comes to USC with 21
years experience in the university development
field, she said the job would still provide a
challenge.
“One of the major challenges of any
development job is the competition for the
philanthropic dollar, and what’s important is to
distinguish us as a unique university,” she said.
“We are because we are the flagship university of
the state. What we do here, beyond the mission
of the students, has an impact on the state, and so
it poses a great challenge.”
Dodenhoff will be responsible for organizing
and coordinating USC’s various fund-raising
efforts, including major gifts, planned giving,
annual giving and corporate giving, as well as
managing the fund raising conducted by USC’s
component schools and colleges.
Dodenhoff said USC’s leadership attracted
her.
“I was very impressed with Dr. Sorensen and
his leadership team’s vision for the university, so
to have the opportunity to help raise the money
to make that vision a reality was very appealing,”
she said.
She said her job entails more than attracting
♦ Please see DODENHOFF, page 5
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