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AMEGOCK ---WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2005--—-VMm * in mmsbut ♦ THE MIX Meet the Smiths Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie bring heat to the big screen with the action-comedy "Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Page 6 ♦ SPORTS Draft depletes USC lineup Seven Gamecocks were selected in the MLB draft. Full recap in Sports. Page 9 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Courtroom saga still a ‘Thriller Steven Van Haren talks about how Michael Jackson beat the charges and still makes him dance. Page 5 INDEX Comics and Crossword..8 Horoscopes... Online Poll.. Police Report..2 USC student killed in car accident By TAYLOR SMITH NEWS EDITOR A fourth-year nursing student was killed Sunday morning when the Honda she was driving lost control and hit a tree off Interstate 26 in Calhoun County. Logan Ashley MacDonald of Myrtle Beach was pronounced dead at 1:45 a.m. at the scene of the accident. She died of head and neck injuries, said Calhoun County Coroner Donnie Porth in a news release from The State newspaper. Highway Patrol spokesman Steve Sluder said MacDonald was traveling from Charleston to her Columbia apartment when her vehicle went into the median, overcorrected, crossed both lanes of traffic and hit a tree on the drivers side. It is unclear why her vehicle was in the median, Sluder said. S.C. Highway Patrol is investigating. Born Oct. 29, 1983, in Portland, Ore., she was the daughter of John and Kay Johnson MacDonald. Memorial services will be held 4 p.m. Friday at the Goldfinch Funeral Home’s Beach Chapel in Murrells Inlet. Comments on this story ? E-mail gamecocknetvs@gwm.sc.edu TRUSTEES PUSH HIGHER TUITION By KELLY CAVANAUGH THE GAMECOCK The USC Board of Trustees will vote June 23 on a recommendation to raise tuition $379 per semester for undergraduate in-state students. The almost 12 percent increase would affect all full time, in-state students on the Columbia campus. Student Government President Justin Williams said SG officers have been meeting with the trustees since April. “We’ve been talking and lobbying for the students, and we expected some sort of increase, but the amount will not be concrete until that meeting,” Williams said. wimams, a rourtn-year public relations student, said he will speak on behalf of students at the June 23 meeting. “My number one concern is the students’ needs and interests,” he said, “and to make sure that whatever is being spent is for the students.” According to USC’s Web site, “the tuition increase ... will generate approximately $17.8 million,” and will go toward a variety of programs, including OneCarolina, a five-year plan for expanding technology resources; a six-year faculty-hiring program to reduce class size; high-tech learning centers in Capstone and West Quad residence halls; and campus safety enhancements. The Web site did not mention the nearly $2.1 million that The State reported will go towards increased utility and water bills. Manish D^ve, a third-year biology student, was not aware of the proposed tuition increase. “I wish it went for a more worthy cause, like research,” Dave said. “I understand they’re doing a lot of renovations,” he said, but “it wasn’t what I thought it was going to go in to.” Dave said that putting money into nanoscience research would «i r> ii ucimii uui iiauuii d5 a wiiuic, a bigger community; research would have a greater good than water and utility,” he said, referring to the figure reported by The State. Dave said because of scholarships, he will not be affected, but the increase would affect low-income students. “A lot of people already have a hard time paying for college and have loans and everything, so it’s not making their life any easier.” USC President Andrew ♦ TUITION, page 3 ~ NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK College of Education Dean Les Sternberg is on Capitol Hill today discussing similarities and differences in education legislation. Education dean joins Wash ington forum By TAYLOR SMITH NEWS EDITOR USC will have a representative in Washington, D.C., today, as the College of Educations Dean Les Sternberg will be on a panel of four speakers, who will address teacher education in the United States. Beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Russell Senate Office Building, the American Association of Colleges for Education will sponsor “Teacher Education Reform: ‘No Child Left Behind’ meets the Higher Education Act.” Alongside three other prominent education deans from Princeton, Tennessee and Baylor universities, Sternberg will speak on the need for higher education partnerships that can benefit the nations grade schools. Sternberg, chairman of the governmental relations committee in AACTE, sees the importance of what he and his colleagues will push for. “We have had a specific agenda and these things that are going to take place are things this committee has proposed we do,” Sternberg said. “This is not a one person show. It is really the works of some concerned and educated individuals, and I happen to share ♦WASHINGTON, page 3