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New deans face same old challenges “The faculty has worked very hard to restructure the school to make sure we are in front financially. Our challenges today are financial in a different way. If we really want to be a great music institution we have to be willing to invest.” — Jamal Rossi, former dean of the USC School of Music “We are threatened like every department at USC in that the university has burdened austere budgets on the back of students without getting state support. This directly hurts the Honors College » too. — Peter Sederberg, former dean of the S. C. Honors College ■ DEANS Continued from page 1 science,” Becker said. “His experiences developing nationally prominent partnerships and teams across a broad spectrum of disciplines make him an extremely well qualified leader for the South Carolina Honors College.” Harding will replace Jamal Rossi, who is taking a position at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music in New York. Baird will replace Peter Sederberg, who is retiring. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu Former FBI official W. Mark Felt identifies himself as ‘Deep Throat’ By SHARON THEIMER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Breaking a 30-year silence, former FBI official W. Mark Felt stepped forward Tuesday as Deep Throat, the secret Washington Post source that helped bring down President Nixon during the Watergate scandal. Within hours, the paper confirmed his claim. “It’s the last secret” of the story, said Ben Bradlee, the paper’s top editor at the time the riveting political drama played out three decades ago. It tumbled out in stages during the day — first when a lawyer quoted Felt in a magazine article as having said he was the source; then when the former FBI man’s family issued a statement hailing him as a “great American hero.” Within hours, the newspaper confirmed Felt’s claim, ending one of the most enduring mysteries in American politics and journalism. The scandal that brought Nixon’s resignation began with a burglary and attempted tapping of phones in Democratic offices at the Watergate office building during his 1972 re-election campaign. It went on to include disclosures of covert Nixon administration spying on and retaliating against a host of perceived enemies. But the most devastating disclosure was Nixon’s own role in trying to cover-up his administration’s involvement. “I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” Felt, the former No. 2 man at the FBI, was quoted as saying in Vanity Fair. He kept his secret even from his family for almost three decades before his declaration. Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein issued a statement saying, “W. Mark Felt was ‘Deep Throat’ and helped us immeasurably in our Watergate coverage. However, as the record shows, many other sources and officials assisted us and other reporters for the hundreds of stories that were written in The Washington Post about Watergate.” The reporters and Bradlee had kept the identity of Deep Throat secret at his request, saying his name would be revealed upon his death. But then Felt revealed it himself. Even the existence of Deep Throat, nicknamed for an X-rated movie of the early 1970s, was kept secret for a time. Woodward and Bernstein revealed their reporting had been aided by a Nixon administration source in their best-selling book “All the Presidents Men." The identity of the source has sparked endless speculation over the last three decades. Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig, White House press aide Diane Sawyer, White House counsel John Dean and speechwriter Pat Buchanan and adviser Len Garment were among those mentioned as possibilities. Felt himself was mentioned several times over the years as a candidate for Deep Throat, but he regularly denied he was the source. “I would have done better,” ♦ DEEP THROAT, page 4 While we USC BRIEFS Recent law graduate killed in Va. shooting Twenty-five-year-old David Kusa, a recent USC School of Law graduate, was killed Saturday in Virginia Beach, Va. According to news reports, Kusa was an impersonal victim of a shooting spree that began with a dispute involving 27-year-old Marcus Garrett and the mother of his child. Kusa was originally from Apex, N.C., and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Energy specialists to speak in Columbia While General Electric is introducing its five-year plan to reduce greenhouse gases by 1 percent, two specialists from the United Kingdom are creating typical savings of 15-25 percent annually. Danny Stefanini and Andrew Bowley will conduct an energy seminar at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Suggs & Kelly Law Center Vista Community Room. Conference topics include ways save energy, eliminate chemicals and reduce maintenance and greenhouse gas. The conference is sponsored by Savastat-USA. Representatives from the Energy Department and the S.C. Energy Department will attend. Lead contamination found in fountains Testing of some drinking fountains in the USC School of Law has revealed high levels of lead. USC shut down the contaminated fountains and has since begun to install lead filters on others. Some contaminated fountains have been replaced by bottled water coolers. USC student wins court competition Ryan Gilsenan, a second-year law student, won the J. Woodrow Lewis Moot Court Competition. Gilsenan, of Raleigh, N.C., advanced to the finals, held before the South Carolina Supreme Court, where he successfully argued for states’ rights in determining medicinal marijuana usage. The Lewis competition permits second- and third-year law students to debate a legal issue in the context of an appellate court proceeding. Political science 10th in publication rates USC’s political science department is 10th in the nation for publication rates of faculty research in journals associated with the American Society for Public Administration, according to a study in the Journal of Public Affairs Education. Three professors at Auburn University and the University of Alabama did the study. McMaster to house children’s workshop The USC art department will offer its first summer Young Artists Workshop for students in grades one through three and six through eight. This is the first year the art department has offered a summer program for children. 1 he workshop, Drawing, Painting and More!,” will be held weekly from 8:30 a.m. to noon and run June 20 to July 8. The cost is $120 per week, or $100 for children of USC faculty and staff members. Fees pay for snacks and supplies. Early registration is encouraged, but parents may register children until the start of the camp. To register or for more information, call Lisa Williams at 926-4846 or 777-3137. For more information about USC’s art department, visit its Web site, www.cas.sc.edu/art/.