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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 08 ● SINCE 1908 Plans for new health center advance Designs not set for $27 million building, which could break ground as early as December Thad Moore & Sarah Ellis [email protected] Student Health Services could break ground on a new, $27 million health center as early as December. The building hasn’t been designed yet, but architects and designers have started to seek input from Health Services staff and students, including at a student forum Thursday evening, said Nicole Carrico , the offi ce’s spokeswoman . Health Services has been taking funds from the student health fee over the past few years to pay for the construction, Carrico said. It’ll be designed by Quackenbush Architects and Perkins+Will , who were selected in a bid process for their experience with healthcare facilities and their aesthetics, which usually feature lots of glass and an open design, Carrico said. She compared the building’s design to the look of the renovated Patterson Hall. “It will be a very transparent, welcoming place to visit,” said Doug Quackenbush, of Quackenbush Architects, at Thursday’s forum. “We’re very excited about how it could really improve the campus.” The 60,000-square-foot building will go up next to the Andrew Askins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK CENTER ● 3 A ceiling in the 38-year-old Thomson Student Health Center is crumbling because of water damage. Scholarship program grows with new gift USC to add 5 Carolina Scholars in Fall 2013 Sydney Patterson [email protected] USC will partner with the Stamps Family Charitable Foundation to increase the size of the Carolina Scholars program beginning in Fall 2013. Five more in-state students will receive the $10,000-per-year scholarship, meaning the university will now award 25 of the scholarships each year. Each of the Stamps Scholars will be awarded an additional $8,000 as an “enrichment fund” for study abroad programs, internships Photos by Nick Nalbone / THE DAILY GAMECOCK and other experiential learning, according Rebecca Davenport’s show, “Step Right Up! Sideshows in America,” to a university press release. displays the artist’s original work and relics from sideshow history. The Stamps Foundation will fund half of the new scholarships, and other donors will match those gifts to round out the total. USC will join 33 other universities Exhibit explores sideshow culture that already partner with the Stamps Foundation, including the University of series , “Step Right Up! Sideshows in America,” Chicago , Notre Dame and the University Davenport show opens at McKissick which includes original works and relics of sideshow of Michigan . Museum, runs until May 11 culture, opened Thursday evening with a reception Jan Smoak , the associate director of at the museum . the Office of Fellowships and Scholar Hannah Jeffrey The exhibit incorporates a variety of Davenport’s Programs , called the opportunity to join [email protected] work with descriptions of each sideshow scene’s the Stamps program a “now or never historical signifi cance and the deeper meanings each proposition” in an email to current The McKissick Museum has held its share of represents. Carolina Scholars and likened the intriguing exhibits over the years, but its current Davenport’s pieces are bright, but shadowed university’s application to competing for show is perhaps one of the most bizarre. a national scholarship. Beaufort-based artist Rebecca Davenport’s carnival SIDESHOW ● 2 “They wanted to add some additional schools, but they weren’t going to be adding schools forever,” said Novella Beskid , OFSP’s director . USC is the only school from South Carolina and the fourth Southeastern Wintry weather unlikely today Conference school to partner with the foundation, along with Georgia, Louisiana State University and the University of Don’t count on a snow day today. but the NWS doesn’t expect any accumulation. Mississippi . Columbia’s not likely to get wintry weather If you’re traveling north today for the The Stamps Foundation was founded this morning, though there’s been some chatter weekend, though, watch out. North Carolina by Penny and E. Roe Stamps at their alma throughout the week about the possibility of will likely experience road issues, since freezing maters, Georgia Tech and Michigan. freezing rain this morning. rain will likely stick there, Schuetrum said. This year, only 120 students in the That precipitation will come later in the day, In South Carolina, the state Emergency country were accepted as Stamps Scholars when the temperature has warmed to the upper Management Division will be sanding roads out of the 160,000 who applied . 30s, said Dave Schuetrum , a meteorologist for above Columbia, where some light accumulation USC will nominate 10 students as the National Weather Service . is possible, Schuetrum said. Stamps Scholars each year, and those Columbia has a 40 percent chance of “I don’t expect that it’s going to be an issue students will interview with Roe Stamps , precipitation today and tonight, Schuetrum here in our state,” he said. a venture capitalist from Florida. said. Adding the new scholarships could have Tonight, it’s possible that with a low around —Compiled by Thad Moore, News Editor a measurable impact on USC’s average 30, afternoon rain could turn into sleet, he said, SCHOLARSHIP ● 3 Friday Esben and the Witch Second Term USC upsets Wildcats 37° 30° The dark rockers’ Columnist Steven Tough, aggressive newest album, “Wash Moore says that defense leads the the Sins Not Only the Obama and Con- Gamecocks to their Saturday Face,” is well-round- gress need to push fi rst win over a top- ed and poetic. past partisanship to fi ve opponent since 52° 28° achieve goals. 1998. See page 5 See page 4 See page 8 2 Friday, January 25, 2013 In Brief. Michelin announces Fight for blanket takes Banks form network to expansion of SC plant turn for worse spot fraud after hacking Michelin North America Inc. is expanding its Sometimes, hogging the blanket goes South Carolina banks are banding together to create manufacturing base in South Carolina, the company terribly wrong. a network to identify fraud after the state’s Department announced Thursday . A Myrtle Beach woman was charged with of Revenue was hacked last year, according to the The company will spend $200 million and add 100 domestic violence after she allegedly choked Associated Press. jobs to its Anderson County rubber production plant, her companion and drew blood from his neck , In all, 3.3 million bank account numbers from 3.8 according to the Associated Press. The (Myrtle Beach) Sun News reported. million residents were included in the data in what’s South Carolina will provide Michelin with $1.5 She’d gotten angry after he tried to pull thought to be the biggest hacking of a state agency in million in incentives for the expansion of the Starr, S.C. more of the covers to his side. U.S. history. Of those, 1.1 million accounts are still plant , the trade newspaper Tire Business reported. The suspect, Tina Berryhill Rucker , 42 , active in South Carolina, the AP reported. The expansion adds to recent growth in South didn’t cooperate with police when they were The network should be working by the end of the Carolina tire manufacturing. In 2011, Bridgestone called around 11 p.m. , and she was intoxicated, month, Fred Green, the CEO of the South Carolina Corp. and Continental Tire announced that they’d The Sun News reported. Bankers Association, told legislators Thursday. build factories in the state, and Michelin has grown its Thursday afternoon, Rucker was being Last month, South Carolina banks and credit unions factories in recent years. detained without bond, the Associated Press were given the list of account numbers so that they could The mix of announcements led The Wall Street reported. spot potential fraud and create such a network, according Journal to speculate last year that South Carolina would to the AP. If a bank gets word of fraud or suspects it, overtake Oklahoma as “the tire-making capital of the —Thad Moore, News Editor they’ll be able to notify other institutions in the state. U.S.” —Thad Moore, News Editor —Thad Moore, News Editor Orchestra to celebrate Wagner’s 200th anniversary USC Symphony Orchestra will celebrate 19th century composer Richard Wagner’s 200th anniversary Sunday with a concert full of his most notable works. The concert will also feature seven student composers from the USC School of Music and three student winners of the annual concerto-aria competition . The orchestra will showcase the variety of Wagner’s work and its differences in sound with four major pieces: Prelude to Act III from “Lohengrin,” the “Siegfried Idyll,” the Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde” and “Ride of the Valkyries” from “The Ring.” Winners of the concerto-aria competition will also perform solos — two vocal performances and piano concerto. Johnnie Felder , a graduate student in vocal performance , will Nick Nalbone / THE DAILY GAMECOCK sing an aria from Guiseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” and Karyn Elizabeth Davenport’s exhibit is one of a series of events on American sideshow culture.