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Gamecocks
set to renew
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• USC to face Maryland
in NIT semifinals Tuesday
By ALEX RILEY
STAFF WRITER
Whether you fear the turtle or the
kickin’ chicken, Carolina (18-13) and
Maryland (19-12) will square off at 9 p.m.
Tuesday on ESPN in the NIT semifinals
in a renewal of an old ACC rivalry.
With a 26-31 all-time record against the
Terps and a 7-1 record at neutral sites, the
Gamecocks have not seen Maryland since
the 1997-98 season, when the Terps were
the first game the Gamecocks won en
route to a 23-8 record and an NCAA
A Tournament berth.
This time around, Carolina faces a
Maryland squad that found itself as a
bubble team lacking enough juice to make
it to the big dance. After falling to
Clemson for the third time in the season
during the ACC Tournament, the Terps
were left out of the NCAAs but accepted a
bid to the NIT, where they have reeled off
wins against Oral Roberts, Davidson and
TCU. The Terps also have impressive wins
against Georgia Tech and a season sweep
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and a drubbing at the hands of Virginia
Tech in the season finale cost Maryland
the chance to dance.
The game also renews the rivalry
between two of the game’s premier
coaches, as Gary Williams and Dave
Odom renew their play against each other.
A Williams has put in. 16 years at his alma
mater, winning more than 300 games and
the 2002 national title as the Terps’ head
coach. Odom, formerly Wake Forest’s
head coach, took the Demon Deacons to
the Sweet 16 twice, and once to the Elite
Eight. He also won an NIT championship
in his time at Wake. Since coming to
USC, Odom has taken Carolina to the
NIT championship game and an NCAA
berth last season.
“(Williams and I) are very good friends.
We came in the league at the same time
with both teams down,” Odom said. “I
don’t think we played against each other
before we both went to Maryland and
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INDEX
Comics & Crossword..9
Classifieds.12
Horoscopes..9
Letters to the Editor..6
Online Poll..6
Police Report..2
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North Carolina’s Raymond Felton celebrates during the final minute of UNC’s 88-82 win against Wisconsin in the NCAA East
Regional in Syracuse, N.Y., on Sunday. UNC will play Michigan State in the Final Four next Saturday. See page 11 for a
recap of this weekend’s NCAA Tournament games.
Alabama
sues famed
sports artist
By MARLIN CADDELI
THE (U. ALABAMA) CRIMSON WHITE
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — His artwork
graces the halls of the Paul “Bear” Bryant
Hall Museum and the homes of many
Alabama football fans. Students can see it all
around campus. But the University of
Alabama is suing the artist, Daniel Moore,
for painting pictures of Crimson Tide
football players and jerseys without paying
licensing fees to use Alabama football
trademarks.
Moore says this issue is about his rights as
an artist. UA officials say the issue is about
protecting its trademarks. Now it might take
a federal judge to resolve the dispute.
When the university licenses something,
the artist pays a royalty fee to the university
for any amount of money the artist makes
on his work.
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university, claiming the university violated
the U.S. Visual Artists Rights Act. His suit
also claims the university is guilty of
intentional interference with business
relations and of violating the Alabama
Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
Moore, who has painted scenes depicting
UA sports for more than 20 years, said the
university is trying to make him look like a
“stick in the mud” who won’t negotiate with
UA officials.
He said he has tried to negotiate with UA
officials, but they don’t want to negotiate
with him.
Their way of finding common ground is
to agree with their point of view and leave it
alone,” he said.
The university has received royalties from
Moore for years, UA spokeswoman Janet
Griffith said in a statement. In 2000,
Moore’s company told the university that it
no longer needed a license to market
paintings and refused to pay, according to
the release.
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Palestinian riot police stand in front of the building where the revolutionary council
of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party is meeting in Gaza City on Sunday.
Palestinian leader slams Israel
about West Bank settlements
By MARK LAVIE
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Palestinian leader
Mahmoud Abbas criticized Israel and
indirectly the United States about Jewish
settlements Sunday, and Israel’s defense
minister warned he would send troops into
Gaza to seize Palestinian anti-aircraft
missiles — the latest threats to efforts to
expand a truce into lasting peace.
Incensed over a repeat of U.S. support
for Israel retaining main settlement blocs
in the West Bank in a peace deal, Abbas
did not name the United States, but his
target was dear.
“Any talk of settlements that is not a
discussion of stopping them is
unacceptable,” Abbas said. “Here I’m
talking about the discussions of annexing
settlement blocs. This is unacceptable
because this affects final status issues.”
The Palestinians claim all of the West
Bank.
The issue resurfaced over the weekend
with a leaked Foreign Ministry document
that quoted U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer
as saying the United States did not support
Israel keeping West Bank settlements.
Kurtzer angrily denied the report, |
repeating a statement from President Bush
that a peace settlement would have to take
into account Israel’s main settlement
blocs.
The leak came against the background
of reports that Israel plans to expand the
largest one, Maaleh Adumim, next to
Jerusalem, by building 3,500 new homes.
In April, during a visit by Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon, Bush said he
understood that some West Bank Jewish
settlements would remain in place.
“In light of new realities on the ground,
including already existing major Israeli
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USC to face
professor
shortages
By TAYLOR SMITH
STAFF WRITER
With 350 faculty members retiring in
the next five years, USC will be looking at
an academic crisis if new teachers cannot
be hired to fill the vacancies. An aggressive
plan of hiring 100 new faculty during the
same five-year period is in place, but USC
President Andrew Sorensen said students
should aspire to fill the void.
“I want more young people to say, ‘I
want to be a professor,’” Sorensen said.
Sorensen said he realizes the difficulty in
recruiting a new generation of faculty that
can make more money in fields outside
academia, but also cites the incentives of a
life in scholarship over other areas.
“I am in the ironic position of recruiting
high-tech companies, who will offer people
with a grass roots degree more money than
a Ph.D. starting off as an assistant
professor,” Sorensen said. “You could
graduate from our engineering college with
a degree in special competence of
nanotechnology and start out with a
higher salary than someone with a Ph.D.
in English.”
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scholarship will take passion, but he said
he believes USC is doing more now and
will do more in the future to curb such
enthusiasm for a career in higher
education. Future efforts to do so could be
an ulterior motive of the upcoming
research campus, he said, which would not
only serve as an asset to any educator at
USC, but also a catalyst for becoming a
teacher.
“It is my hope that some of the students
that get involved in this research will really
get pumped,” Sorensen said. “And they
will say, ‘You know, I want to do this for
the rest of my life.’”
When he started his Ph.D. at Yale
University, Sorensen said he was aspiring
to be a professor at a small liberal arts
school where he could “hang out with the
students.” After immersing himself in the
doctoral program though, he said he
acquired a taste for research that has never
left him.
“I don’t meant that is better,” Sorensen
said. “But I give you a personal testimony
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Baptist students
open up doors
to ‘struggling’
homosexuals
By KEREN HENDERSON
KENTUCKY (U. KENTUCKY) KERNEL
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Dissatisfied with
some evangelical Christians’ response to
homosexuality, five students from the
Baptist Student Union have started Open
Door, an organization for students
“struggling” with their sexual orientation.
“It seemed to us that there was very
little being done by the Christian
community to address homosexuality,”
said Jeremy Tackett, a communication
senior who helped start the group this
semester. “And the only efforts anyone has
seen so far have been negative.”
Open Door is the first organization of
its Jcind in university history and the only
one at a Kentucky university. Tackett said
the group, which meets every Monday for
discussion, is not designed to fight the gay
and lesbian community.
“We are not a protest group, but a
support group,” he said. “Our only
purpose is to serve as one part of an effort
to help people leave the homosexual
lifestyle who have chosen to do so.”
Jonathan Bopp, former president of
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organization for gay, lesbian, bisexual and
transgender students, said he thinks the
students responsible for Open Door have
good intentions.
At the same time, he said he questions
their ability to keep the positive image they
claim, and although he disagrees with the
group’s position on homosexuality, Bopp
said the organization could be helpful for
some students.
“There are people out there looking for
a group like that,” he said. “They are
finally away from their parents and dealing
with their feelings for the same sex but
don’t want them. Maybe they’ve gotten
into the wrong crowd. A group like Open
Door would be a good way to deal with
that.”
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