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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.
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♦ VIEWPOINTS
Tearing down the
Honeycombs?
Carefully planning for future
growth means USC avoids
housing headaches.
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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.
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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