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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 18 ● SINCE 1908 Students, alumni lobby for state funding More than ever participate funding. in Carolina Day at Statehouse It was Carolina Day at the Statehouse, USC’s annual effort to lobby state Thad Moore legislators, which came a week after [email protected] administrators requested $41 million in state funds from a House budget Ray Tanner wasn’t keeping close tabs subcommittee. on National Signing Day Wednesday Hundreds of students and alumni afternoon. from each of the USC system’s Like most USC fans, the athletics campuses flooded the Statehouse to director was “anxious” to see how many meet with legislators, and offices and linebackers the Gamecocks would sign, colleges set up booths in the lobby to but he and other top university brass had their eyes on another prize — state CAROLINA ● 3 Nick Nalbone / THE DAILY GAMECOCK About 350 students and alumni, more than ever before, went to the Statehouse Wednesday to lobby for state funding and government support for USC’s upcoming projects. VP departing National Signing Day after raising Many of South Carolina’s 21 recruits will they get there is really what’s most important,” have chance to make immediate impact Spurrier said. $655 million The Gamecocks completed their incoming Paulina Berkovich freshman class on Wednesday, with 21 recruits [email protected] signed . Spurrier and recruiting coordinator Steve Dodenhoff to return Spurrier Jr. said many of the players will have a home to New Orleans Coach Steve Spurrier doesn’t like to attach too chance to make an immediate impact on a USC much signifi cance to Signing Day. Thad Moore “Recruiting is extremely important, but after Continued on page 8 [email protected] Michelle Dodenhoff, the vice president for development and alumni affairs, will leave USC in April after eight years, including three as a vice president. Dodenhoff led Carolina’s Promise, the university’s largest-ever capital campaign, which hopes to raise $1 billion by 2015. It had raised $655 million by the end of December, she said, and could exceed its goal. She became the associate Paulina Berkovich / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Coach Steve Spurrier (left) and recruiting coordinator Steve Spurrier Jr. announced USC’s Signing Day class Wednesday. vice president for university development in 2004 and twice served as Jesselson named professor of the year DODENHOFF an interim vice president before taking the title mostly forgotten and lost as we have I know how many incredibly dedicated, USC cello permanently in November 2009. instructor large classes of people. devoted and wonderful teachers there She’ll leave her $257,500-a-year earns statewide honor “I love it because I get to know my are, not only at USC but around the position April 12. Sarah Ellis students really well, and I know each one state at other institutions. So I feel very USC President Harris Pastides [email protected] as a real individual. And they’re really honored to have been chosen for this.” wasn’t available to comment different, and I try to teach differently to School of Music Dean Tayloe Harding Igor Stravinsky’s “The Suite Wednesday afternoon, but different students,” Jesselson said. said Jesselson is an asset to the school Italienne” was being practiced, a pianist spokesman Wes Hickman said no Jesselson’s teaching techniques have and to his students, many of whom are accompanying Robert Jesselson’s cello decisions had yet been made about earned him distinction drawn to the school specifi cally seeking student in a studio in USC’s School of interim appointments. among others in Jesselson’s instruction. Music. The teacher, with great animation “Those will be tough shoes to the profession, and “I can’t think of many professors I’ve and obvious passion, at turns listened, at fill,” Hickman said. “Michelle has most recently, he worked with who have had a greater turns instructed, at turns demonstrated. done an incredible job.” has been named the impact on students,” Harding said. “One The tempo was too quick, he said, and Over the last eight years, 2013 Governor’s of the things that makes him stand out the students accordingly adjusted their Dodenhoff said she’s seen a culture Professor of the Year is his reputation for preparing really play. Jesselson’s own tempo, though, shift around fundraising at USC. by the South Carolina good performing cellists. He can barely rarely slows. Now, it involves more offi ces around Commission of Higher accommodate all the students that wish This one-on-one coaching session is the university, and it’s seen a bigger Education . He’ll be to come here to study with him.” typical of Jesselson’s teaching style. He JESSELSON push toward landing large gifts. formally honored at a Jesselson is a high-demand professor, spends most of his days giving personal “Everyone feels that they have a ceremony in March . Harding said, with students from around instruction to his students — a total of part in the fundraising,” Dodenhoff For Jesselson, who has taught cello the country and world coming to him. around 20 in the School of Music, as well said. “It’s not just some development for more than 30 years , the honor was a Harding said Jesselson’s teaching has as a handful of precollege students. offi ce over there.” complete surprise. prepared many students to become “I’m really fortunate as a professor, Dodenhoff will become a “They surprised me in a lesson, and professional cellists and “great supporters as a teacher, to be working with such senior vice president and the chief it was just out of the blue. I thought of music.” talented and also smart students. I get development officer at Ochsner somebody was delivering me a singing “I just love to know that what I learned sort of the cream of the crop,” Jesselson Health System in New Orleans. telegram or something,” Jesselson said. and all these experiences I’ve had playing said. “This is kind of the old-fashioned It was a “gut-wrenching” family “It was quite an amazing moment, and and teaching, that I’m going to be able way of teaching, in a way. It’s this one- decision to return to her hometown, I feel very honored, especially because on-one kind of approach that has been JESSELSON ● 3 DODENHOFF ● 2 Thursday Party in the Paint Tête à Tête USC to face Alabama 57° 44° Life in Color plans its Columnists debate Gamecocks look for fi rst visit to whether USC is their 20th win of the Columbia in April renovating campus season on the road Friday to host the “world’s buildings where it’s against the Crimson largest paint party.” most needed. Tide tonight. 68° 38° See page 5 See page 4 See page 8 2 Thursday, February 7, 2013 In Brief. Mom accused of leaving College students target DeMint starting kids alone to go clubbing of Social Security scam conservative think tank A woman has been accused of leaving her 2-year-old The Internal Revenue and savings account After resigning from the U.S. Senate to head son shoeless in a Fort Mill parking lot while she was at Service has a warning for information and their the Heritage Foundation, former Sen. Jim a nightclub last weekend . broke college students: Social Security number . DeMint is starting a conservative think tank in York Count y Sheriff ’s Offi ce deputies were called Someone out there may The scheme has also South Carolina. around 10 p.m. when the toddler was seen alone in be looking to make you been aimed at church DeMint, who represented South Carolina in the Palmetto Place Apartments parking lot, WBTV even more broke. congregations in Georgia the Senate for nearly eight years , is investing reports . When a couple brought him home, they found An IRS spokesman and South Carolina, $300,000 from his campaign account to start the the door unlocked and the boy’s 4-month-old sister told WIS that 500 college where those involved Palmetto Policy Forum. The think tank will push home alone in her crib . students and Social develop relationships with for conservative ideas in South Carolina state When authorities contacted Colleen Pellettiere, the Security beneficiaries pastors and churchgoers government and conduct research. 26-year-old mother , she said she was on her way home. were “duped out of their and claim that if they DeMint will be the founding chairman of the More than an hour later, she showed up with a stamp life savings” and provided disclose their Social organization, while his former state director, on her hand and wearing only a halter top and black their Social Security Security numbers, they Ellen Weaver, will serve as president and CEO pants — no shoes or jacket . numbers to scammers . can get a “stimulus and will assume these roles March 4. Pellettiere could not explain why she left the children The scammers’ scheme credit,” which does not DeMint announced his resignation from the home alone and was charged with two counts of is an advertisement actually exist .