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See page 6 Classifi ed.................10 81 76 76 65 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2007 VOL. 101, NO. 41 ● SINCE 1908 Fitzgerald Honors residence collection to open Fall 2009 2008 to Fall 2009, there USC spokesman have been no further clarifi es comments, delays. on exhibit He also said that while says plans on track no construction company bid lower than $41 million Th omas Cooper Library opens in the fi rst round of bids, a company has been The honors residence rare literature display to public, chosen to build the dorm hall is still slated to for between $40 and $41 encourages student research be open in Fall 2009, million. USC spokesman Russ THE DAILY GAMECOCK He said he could not Lizzy Sheppard / McKinney said Tuesday, Vivi Koutrakos collection release the company’s the graduate and doctorate Fitzgerald revival after correcting what he said THE DAILY GAMECOCK on Fitzgerald in the world, name for seven to 10 levels have written papers World War II. the day before. was acquired by the Thomas days. using our materials.” Also, there is a first McKinney said he A new, free exhibit opened Cooper Library in 1994. Luna said he does not Fitzgerald is notorious for edition copy of “Tender is accidentally told the to the public this month on USC got even more have an exact date for his literary success of novels, the Night” on display, an reporter the wrong year USC’s Mezzanine level of the Fitzgerald holdings in 2004 when construction will like “The Great Gatsby,” autographed copy of “This and said the dorm is Thomas Cooper Library. with the Warner Bros./ start but said it will be which eventually made him Side of Paradise” to actress supposed to be fi nished in The “F. Scott Fitzgerald Turner Entertainment F. soon. a famous American author. Lois Moran and his last July 2009. and Hollywood” exhibit Scott Fitzgerald Screenplay “We’re expecting to see But when his stories were project, the unfinished The Daily Gamecock details artifacts of the Collection, which was dirt moving within the first written in the 1920s, manuscript of “The Last reported Tuesday that author’s pursuit of purchased by the Educational next couple of weeks,” he they were made into silent Tycoon.” McKinney said the dorm Hollywood screenwriting in Foundation, according to the said. “Construction will fi lms to pay the bills. An exhibit on “Scotty” would be completed in the 1930s. news release. be well under way by This display “tells a story Fitzgerald, the author’s only 2010. The newspaper also According to a news release, Since the library’s Thanksgiving.” of another part of his life,” daughter, is also available reported that Gene Luna, the exhibit draws from collection is so extensive The residence hall, Sudduth said. and includes a brochure. project manager, said the two university collections, and rare, many people come on the site of the former The exhibit follows his An optional 5-to date was Fall 2009. the Matthew J. and Aryln from across the Southeast Towers dor m, w il l be experience chronologically. 10-minute tour is offered McKinney contacted Bruccoli Collection of come to use it. open to honors freshman Visitors will first see the through library services for the newspaper Tuesday F. Scott Fitzgerald and “You can not do research and select honors treatment of movies in his individuals or classes. Visit to clarify his statements, the Warner Bros./Turner on Fitzgerald without sophomores. fiction in the 1920s and any time between 8 a.m.- to saying he got “some bad Entertainment F. Scott coming here,” said Elizabeth --Jess Davis, News Editor 1930s. 4:30 p.m. information.” Fitzgerald collection. Sudduth, head of rare books Then, visitors will discover McKinney and Luna The Matthew J. and Aryln and special collections his major screenwriting work said that since the fi nish Comments on this story? E-mail Bruccoli Collection of F. processing and services. in 1937-1939, the publication date was pushed from Fall [email protected] Scott Fitzgerald, the most “We’re here to encourage Comments on this story? E-mail of his final novel and the [email protected] comprehensive research research…many students on Malibu wildfi res destroy Film fest land, force evacuations focuses on a fire burned about 10,000 world rifts California residents, acres, or nearly 16 square miles, in just a few hours as Amnesty group look homes suff er amid about 250 fi refi ghters tried out of control blaze to get a handle on it. at human rights Ten buildings were destroyed, but it wasn’t clear Noaki Schwartz Katie Jones how many were homes, said STAFF WRITER Th e Associated Press county Fire Inspector Ron Haralson. Between 500 and MALIBU, Calif. -- Nearly 800 people fl ed the area, and A series of five films a dozen wildfi res driven by three people were injured. showing on campus this powerful Santa Ana winds “There are several week aims to highlight the spread across Southern hundred homes in the path plight of suffering Africans, California on Sunday, killing of this fi re,” Haralson said. Mexicans and Americans, one person near San Diego, Meanwhile, in Malibu, organizers said. destroying several homes about 700 firefighters The USC chapter of and a church in celebrity- worked to protect about 200 Amnesty International’s laden Malibu, and forcing homes in several upscale THE DAILY GAMECOCK second annual film festival hundreds from their homes. Special to communities nestled in the takes place this week. The Malibu fire was hills, officials said. About Pamela Conley Ulich said. It began Monday with among at least 10 blazes that 250,000 people evacuated and thousands 1,500 people fled the fires, In all, five homes and “Stranger in My Homeland,” burned more than 35,000 Wildfires of homes at risk in seven counties. offi cials said. two commercial buildings a documentary that told acres, stretching from north The blaze, which started had been confirmed lost the stories of Zimbabwean of Santa Barbara to San 5 Santa Clarita in Malibu Canyon, had throughout the Malibu area, 15 Lake Arrowhead refugees and the country’s Diego, as hot weather and Santa Paula charred at least 1,200 acres Freeman said. Nine more history. hurricane-strength winds and destroyed a church homes were damaged, he Topanga “There is so much going marked the height of the and several homes, one of said. on in the world that we traditional wildfi re season. Los Angeles them a landmark castle. No The fire is expected to don’t know about and that Four firefighters and at 5 residents or fi refi ghters were burn for another two to California we should know about,” least 10 other people were Actively burning area injured, Los Angeles County three days, he said. Until Mission Viejo said second-year history injured and taken to hospitals Laguna Fire Chief P. Michael the blaze is extinguished, student Kirsten Selvig. “It is in connection with the fi re Beach Fallbrook Freeman said. “there will literally be important that we know.” near San Diego, said Matt 50 km 15 The winds carried thousands of homes that will Escondido Jane Luxner, a fourth-year Streck, a spokesman for the 50 miles embers across the Pacific be threatened at one time or French student and co-chair California Department of Pacific Ramona Coast Highway, closing the another,” he said. of the fi lm festival, said she Forestry. Details on the U.S. Ocean Poway popular road and setting Fire crews early Sunday wants to educate with the death were not immediately California fi re to cars and trees in the found downed power lines, San Diego fi lm festival. available. parking lot of a shopping which may have started the Coronado “We hope that people The blaze burned more center where a supermarket, fi re, Capt. Mike Brown said. come out and like the fi lms than 14,000 acres — or about © 2007 MCT drug store and other shops Late Sunday morning, Source: MODIS, USDA Forest Service MEXICO and learn about the issues,” 22 square miles — near a Graphic: Jutta Scheibe, Majbrit Hoyrup were damaged. It briefly palm trees bent in half and she said. “We try to bring highway about 70 miles threatened Pepperdine embers were carried through information to the film southeast of San Diego, just “We’re all scared to death, windows. Chunks of brick University. the air as winds gusted to screenings about things that north of the border town of and we have nowhere to go,” fell from the exterior of TV footage showed several 60 to 65 mph.