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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 90 ● SINCE 1908 Grad school celebrates centennial Students awarded cash prizes for posters, displays at gala Kathleen Kemp Six entries were awarded THE DAILY GAMECOCK $1,000 grand prizes while 10 others were awarded The graduate school $500 prizes. held its centennial gala Vasanthi Rao, a fi rst-year Wednesday night in the special education graduate Russell House. student, won a $500 prize The proceedings included for her entry: an illustrated remarks from various poster created on Photoshop members of the graduate that reads, “Graduate school school, university President is like a box of chocolates: Andrew Sorensen and you never know what you’re former dean George Reeves, going to get.” the longest serving dean in “I think I was trying to the history of the graduate combine a Southern theme school. and what is good about Centennial, graduate graduate school,” Rao school and trustee fellows said. “I haven’t really been were also honored. creative; this contest forced Graduate school Dean me to do that.” Christine Ebert spoke at the Students from all areas ceremony. of the graduate school were “I see it as a wonderful invited to submit posters or opportunity to celebrate the displays. quality of graduate students Mekell Mikell, president we have at the university,” of the Graduate Student Ebert said. Association, participated in “I’m impressed, just so the judging. impressed.” “You might think someone Sorensen said he hopes in, say, the engineering many graduate students school wouldn’t have this will consider becoming kind of creativity, but then professors. you look around [at the “Well, the faculty and posters] and see that’s not creative side of a diverse Brandon Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK students are the heart of the true,” Mikell said. graduate student body. university,” Sorensen said. The displays ranged “You get to see a different Above: Chef Jim Jackson “Graduate students work from computer generated side of the students,” Reese created an ice sculpture for so close with faculty and designs and paintings to an said. play a vital role in the oversized chess board or “I’m one of the the centennial celebration education of students.” a poster made using parts underserved, single-parent to capture the gala’s spirit. To celebrate the graduate from computers. households. You get to get school’s hundreth year, Deocha Reese, a master’s one degree and come back Right: President Andrew students submitted posters student in human resources for another; I see it as a Sorensen said he hopes and displays that reflect who won $500 for a graphite blessing.” many graduate students what the school means to drawing, said she thought ● them. the contest showed the GALA 2 will become professors. Obama travels to New Orleans Senate committee visits Gulf Coast city, criticizes president’s recovery plan Michael Kunzelman Th e Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama toured hurricane-scarred New Orleans on Monday Brandon Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK after criticizing the White The Colonial Center was named by Pollstar as the best House for the slow pace of college arena in the world, up from No. 2 last year. recovery from storms that hit the Gulf Coast almost a year and a half ago. “There is not a sense USC arena named of urgency out of this White House and this administration,” Obama Alex Brandon / Th e Associated Press said during a Senate No. 1 by magazine committee hearing on the Barack Obama, along with fellow Democrat Mary Landrieu and independent Joseph response to hurricanes Lieberman, attends a Senate committe hearing concerning hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The Colonial Center has a entire state. Katrina and Rita. “If new No. 1 to add to its belt: “This No. 1 ranking nothing else, I hope that boarded a bus that carried underway. that Louisiana, while it No. 1 college arena in the exhibits that it is the premier this hearing helps restore them from the Louisiana At the hearing, Obama received as much as seven world, according to Pollstar university arena in the that sense of urgency.” Supreme Court building urged federal, state and times more damage than Magazine’s yearly rankings. country,” Hyman said. “I The hearing by the in the relatively unscathed local authorities to try to Mississippi from Katrina, The Colonial Center am sure that the Gamecock Senate Committee on French Quarter to Jackson speed up the process of has had only twice as much moves up from the No. 2 nation is as proud as I am of Homeland Security and Barracks, the badly getting aid money into the money — $10.4 billion to spot it earned last year. The the Colonial Center.” Governmental Affairs was flooded National Guard hands of storm victims. Mississippi’s $5.2 billion. arena was also ranked the The Colonial Center was attended by Obama, D-Ill., headquarters, and then to He also expressed support Bush’s coordinator for No. 40 arena in the nation also ranked No. 1 arena in committee chairman Joseph the largely uninhabited for proposals to waive a the Gulf Coast recovery, and No. 59 in the world. the Carolinas. Lieberman, I-Conn., Lower 9th Ward. federal requirement that Donald Powell, blamed the Last year, the arena placed Pollstar Magazine chooses and Sen. Mary Landrieu, “Welcome to the isle of states provide matching disparity on caps Congress No. 35 nationally and No. the winning arenas in its D-La. New Orleans!! Forgotten money for federal aid, and set limiting the percentage 52 globally. year-end rankings based on After hearing a few hours by our own country,” for a change in funding of money a state can get Eric Hyman, USC ticket sales for touring shows of testimony from federal, read a sign carried by one formulas governing the arising from a disaster. athletics director, said in in 2006. The magazine state and local officials, of several protesters on allocation of aid to states. a recent news release that started the rankings in the senators and staffers OBAMA ● 2 the street as the tour got Landrieu had complained the arena is a home for the 2002. Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion..................4 USC guard Tré Kelley earns SEC Player of the Week Rapper Styles P puts out his sophomore Puzzles....................6 honors, while the Columbia Inferno prepare to release “Time Is Money” and makes the grade Comics.....................6 Horoscopes...............6 battle the Charlotte Checkers. See page 7 with three out of fi ve stars. See page 5 Classifi ed.................8 54 28 48 31 PAGE 2 TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2007 Five Points hot spots lack lasting luster Campus-area restaurants, night clubs fi nd diffi culty surviving in long run Brandon Cooper as Rockafella’s, a rock club THE DAILY GAMECOCK whose disappearance, coupled with The Elbow Room’s The Elbow Room, formerly swan song, left Five Points located at 812 Harden St., without a live music venue. closed its doors in early 2002. Though Delaney’s has Since then, its Five Points filled has somewhat filled spot has been home to three this void in recent years, other bars: Liquid Nightlife, Columbia residents have to Drink and The Saloon. go to Headliners in the Vista This is a common or New Brookland Tavern phenomenon in Five Points. on State Street in West It doesnít take a fifth-year Columbia to catch national senior to remember when acts. Good Times was Cockpit, The class of 2000 might when Sharky’s Too was remember 711 Saluda Ave. Rafters and Pour House was when it was known as the Minglewood. New bars open Monkey Bar, but today and generate buzz, only to it is home to Delaney’s go the way of the buffalo Speakeasy. and lose their popularity to Speakeasy General another recent addition. Manager Ryan Gleason The problem, however, is said many people open bars not an isolated one. A study believing that it will be conducted by Ohio State easy but soon discover the University found that 26 opposite to be true. He cites percent of restaurants and a lack of experience among bars close within the first bar owners and managers as year of business. reasons for their early exit. “They say that if you can Also, Gleason said, in Five make it past your fi rst year, Points all the bars are “kind you’ll be alright,” said Henry of the sameî — a criticism Kelly Bobrow / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Lees, general manager of from which Speakeasy, a jazz Group Therapy remains a popular bar in Columbia since opening in 1978, despite newer establishments moving in. Jake’s Bar & Grill on Devine and cigar bar, is exempt. Street. Lees credits a large Not all bars in Five Points outdoor deck and an emphasis have departed prematurely, differs from his own, Lees 1978 as well, but is primarily Club.” groups dedicated to their on cleanliness for keeping his however.