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The University of South Carolina Monday, January 30, 2006 Vol. 99, No, 55 ® Since 1908
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Jess Dauis
STAFF WRITER
The office of Gov. Mark
Sanford reached out to
USC’s Student Government
in hopes of finding support
for Sanford’s proposed
tuition cap, but student
leaders don’t approve.
Meghan Hughes, vice
chair of the South Carolina
State Students Association,
said that the organization
has taken a stance against
the cap, as it is currently
written.
“We basically think there
are other options to explore
beyond doing a tuition cap,”
said Hughes, a third-year
public relations and political
science student.
The cap, proposed by the
governor and discussed in
his State of the State address,
would be placed at $250
above the Higher Education
Price Index, which last year
was 3.5 percent.
Representatives from the
governor’s office contacted
the USC Student Senate in
hopes of finding students
who support the cap.
Student Body Treasurer
Tommy Preston said that
the governor “recognizes
(that) the only way (the bill)
will pass is with student
endorsement.”
Major student groups have
been contacted to try to gain
support, Preston said. That
support would come in the
form of speaking at various
meetings and events to show
that students think the bill is
a good idea. *
But Hughes and Preston
say that the bill is “an easy
way out” for the governor
to reduce the cost of higher
education. They both said
that the state is trying to
avoid giving money from its
budget to higher education
institutions.
Hughes called the bill a
“quick fix for a problem that
needs a long-term solution.”
University officials are not
sure yet what their position
is on the issue, said USC
spokesman Russ McKinney.
“At this point, university
officials have been meeting
and talking with different
members of the General
Assembly to gauge what the
thinking is on that matter.
Once we go through that,
we’ll go toward a firm
TUITIOn • 3
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Candidate
boasts
chemical
engineering
experience
Jackie Alexander
| ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
USC officials continue the
search for a new engineering
dean as candidate interviews
resume today.
Jim Ely of the Colorado
School of Mines is the second
finalist to speak with USC
administrators in a series of
interviews and presentations
that will conclude Tuesday.
Ely is the head of CSM’s
chemical engineering
department. He has worked
at CSM for 15 years in
various positions, including
^director of the Colorado
Institute for Fuels and
Energy Research.
As a professor since 1991,
Ely has taught more than 20
courses at CSM from entry
level to graduate courses
and has supervised 13 PhD
theses.
Kesearch runaraising, a
qualification noted by the
College of Engineering and
Information Technology
Dean Search Committee,
has been part of Ely’s career
at CSM. Ely has raised over
$4.3 million since August
1991.
His most recently
^completed initiative included
Pa thermodynamic evaluation
system for pure and mixed
chemists from the National
Institute of Standards and
Technology totaling $75,000
since October 2004.
Ely is working on research
focusing on thermophysical
properties for renewable
energy, founded by
the National Science
Foundation.
“Concern for the
environment and the
simultaneous need to
compete in a global
^economy” are two issues
"important to Ely, according
to his faculty Web site. He
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Talkin’ to God about your porn collection
Jacinta Chen / THE GAMECOCK
Garret Curry, University Chaplain and pastor of the Shack Campus Ministry, spoke Sunday about potential
addictions to pornography. A multimedia presentation showed the dangers of porn and ways to escape addiction.
Porn habit?
Porn Sunday shows students addictive aspects of pornography
Josh Rabon
THE GAMECOCK
Students gathered in the Russell
House on Sunday to learn
about xxxchurch.com and gather
resources about porn addiction.
Students attended out of curiosity,
personal interest and response to
PornSunday’s advertisements on
campus.
“I came because of the shock value
of everything,” said fourth-year
religious studies student Dan Knott.
“And I have heard of the ministry
and their perspective.”
University chaplain and Shack
Campus Ministry pastor Garret
Curry headlined PornSunday,
which was organized by ten student
organizations. Curry learned of
PornSunday through the work of
Mike Foster and Craig Gross, the
creators of xxxchurch.com.
Curry emphasized the addictive
nature in the role of pornography in
everyday life.
“Porn can be addictive,” Curry
said. “... that addiction can be
destructive.’
Curry made his point clear by
using a multimedia presentation
composed of student interviews, in
depth testimonials and statistics.
USC students polled about porn
on film had varying opinions, ranging
from “it degrades women” to “I love
porn.” Most students took a more
middle ground opinion of “it can be
OK in moderation.”
Curry also made it clear that porn
is not an uncommon issue that occurs
rarely in society or only in seedy
locations. Mainstream rap artist
Kayne West recently confessed to a
pornography addiction in a Rolling
Stone interview.
At a 2002 meeting of the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers,
two-thirds of lawyers stated that
excessive porn use was a factor in
over half of the cases they handled
and that porn played almost no role
in the cases eight years earlier.
Curry also provided students with
three primary ways in which pom
can adversely affect those who use it:
pom can lead to a serious addiction,
porn can endorse the degradation
of females and porn can motivate
relational dysfunction. Once
involved with porn, however, there
is a clear method of escape, Curry
said.
“Talk to God about it,” Curry said.
“Second, talk to someone else about
it, and three get rid of it.”
Curry said networking and support
groups are key to overcoming pom
addiction.
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OFFICIALS
WARN OF
POSSIBLE
ATM SCAM
Bina Uasselli
STAFF WRITER
The Crime Prevention
Office of USG is trying
to warn students about an
ATM scam that could come
to the university.
According to Cpl. Kenneth
Adams the scam involves
the criminal slipping a small
piece of plastic into the
ATM that prevents the card
from being expelled from
the machine.
The criminal then waits
for someone to use the
ATM. Once they lose their
card in the machine, the
crook approaches them and
suggests that he knows how
to get the card back.
The criminal instructs
the ATM patron to enter
their PEN number while the
criminal holds down both
the “cancel” and “enter”
keys. The criminal continues
doing this until the victim’s
PIN number is memorized.
After the victim becomes
frustrated and leaves, the
criminal pretends to do the
same.
out once tne victim is out
of sight the crook returns to
the machine and removes
the piece of plastic and the
victim’s ATM card along
with it.
Adams said USC received
the scam alert through
a network of shared
information with other
universities.
Adams said he has not
heard of any incidents at
USC, but he also had “no
info about who exactly is
doing it or how many times
it has been done.”
Adams stressed that upon
losing a card to an ATM
people should cancel the
card, just in case.
After losing a bank card,
there are “two places you
need to call: the bank the
card belongs to and the
company that has the ATM,”
said Adams.
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Viewpoints
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his take on the election of
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The Mix
Revamped
Nintendo is set
to release a redesigned
version of its
DS hand-held gaming
console in March.
Sports
Beautiful winners
USC’s women’s ,5*
basketball team beat
Arkansas on Sunday ™
for their second SEC ft
win of the season. dl Ij
INDEX
Comics & Crossword..6
Classifieds.8
Horoscopes.6
Opinion.4
Police Report..2