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r AMECOCK - WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3, 2005 -- » gagS IN THIS ISSUE ♦ SPORTS Brewmaster Alex Riley looks back at the MVP career of former Gamecock Ryan Brewer. Page 6 ♦ THE MIX Swung into swing The Art Bar will feature performances Saturday by local favorites and their renditions of hip classics. Page 4 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Tearing down the Honeycombs? Carefully planning for future growth means USC avoids housing headaches. Page 3 INDEX Classifieds.8 Online Poll..3 Police Report..2 USC announces new Nanoeenter director By IAN CHAMBERLAIN THE GAMECOCK University officials announced on Thursday a new director for USCs NanoCenter. Harris Pastides, vice president for research and health sciences, named Thomas Vogt the center’s new director. Vogt most recently worked on developing a nanocenter at New York’s Brookhaven National Lab. “Dr. Vogt represents the caliber of researcher critical to the continued growth and V0GT maturation of our nanotechnology program here at USC,” Pastides said in a USC News release. Vogt will join the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as a tenured professor, though his administrative duties and research will probably restrict his ability to teach classes initially, Pastides said. Vogt will also mentor undergraduate and graduate students, and Pastides said this decision is primarily up to Vogt and the head of his department, Dan Reger. Vogt will replace Richard Adams as head of the NanoCenter, but Adams will still be an active scientist at the center and be given the title “founding director,” Pastides said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocksports@gwm.sc.edu tile, rnuiu/mc univi Director of Student Development and University Housing Gene Luna said the Towers could be torn down as early as June 2006. A new residence hall is planned for the site. Towers near final stretch • Trustees, Sorensen set tentative timetable for razing, replacement By JUSTIN CHAPURA THE GAMECOCK With West Quads completion and the design phase of a new residence hall under way, the Towers could be coming down as early as June 2006, administration officials said Tuesday^ The Board of Trustees and USC President Andrew Sorensen “have given initial support to develop a plan for replacing the Towers, on the premise that they are to be taken down next summer,” said Gene Luna, director of Student Development and University Housing. Luna said Housing will continue to “treat them like were keeping them for the next 10 years,” but said he believes there is a “good possibility”, the Towers will be removed soon and a new residence hall will take its place. Razing the four dorms — Moore, LaBorde, Snowden and Douglas — has long been on the university’s agenda as it seeks to create a research campus. In 2002, The Gamecock reported the Board of Trustees’ plan to tear down the dorms pending ♦ TOWERS, page 2 Hyman: Students’ fall tickets not at risk By AMANDA ALPERT THE GAMECOCK USC Athletics Director Eric Hyman announced Thursday a record number of football ticket sales, but said it will not affect students’ allotment this fall. With record sales in 2002 and a decrease in 2003-2004, 2005 has set the record as the most successful year for individual ticket sales from the USC Athletic Ticket,* Office. Selling 62,618 tickets for the 2005 season surpasses the 2002 mark by more than 500 tickets. This is just another mark in the road for Gamecock football,” said Joe Balazs, a third-year mathematics student. “With all of the excitement coming in this season, higher ticket sales just prove that this is going to be the best season yet. Everyone is . just so excited about it.” Clay Wilson, assistant to Julius Grant, associate director of ticket operations, said sales increases shouldn’t worry students, as the rise will affect other areas of ticket allocation like the Gamecock Club. ♦ TICKETS, page 2