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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 12 ● SINCE 1908 Band hall named for Copenhaver USC to drop Ceremony honors former director taking the helm of the program in music and business student who neurosurgery for career, million-dollar gift 1976 , announced a million-dollar received a Copenhaver scholarship, bequest to establish the James said the award and its donator have Evan D. Gatti K. Copenhaver Alumni Band affected his time at USC. [email protected] Scholarship Fund in the School “Although Mr. Copenhaver department of Music last January after his retired the year before I came to USC honored a benefactor and retirement in 2010. school, his legacy and hard work former band director at a ceremony The gift was the largest in the have touched my life almost every next month Tuesday as it named the marching music school’s history, according to day,” Harding said. “No matter band facility for him. USC President Harris Pastides. how many generations of students Program to continue as part James Copenhaver, who led “The Copenhaver Band Hall has come through this school ... Jim of Palmetto Health the university’s band programs a very nice ring to it,” Pastides said. to national prominence after Thad Moore Chase Harding, a third-year BAND ● 3 [email protected] USC dropped the School of Medicine’s neurosurgery department at a special board of trustees meeting, moving it to Palmetto Health and removing 23 employees from its payroll. The department, which included five surgeons, saw little student activity in its time associated with the university since 2006, Provost Michael Amiridis said. It will move to Palmetto Health on Feb. 15. “None of them is a long-term employee of the university,” Amiridis said. Along with ophthalmology and orthopedics, neurosurgery is one of the school’s three “non-core” departments, according to Amiridis, but unlike the other two, it doesn’t have a residency program for medical school graduates. Unlike other university clinics, no students were required to do rotations — training for third- Erin Burke / THE DAILY GAMECOCK and fourth-year students — in the James Copenhaver, the former director of bands, leads the USC Wind Ensemble in the alma mater Tuesday evening. department, but students could elect to study there. The result: Only three USC students did rotations in neurosurgery last year for a total of six weeks of instruction, Amiridis Leaving a mark on Moore said, making the department more clinical than educational. For a few hours today, students and “It doesn’t make sense,” Amiridis faculty will have a chance to leave a said. “It’s a better operation to leave small imprint on the new Business to the hospital.” Administration Building . The program is one of a number From 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., a beam from of clinical departments — called the building will be on a truck parked University Specialty Clinics — outside the old building on College subsidized by the hospital, according Street to be signed with permanent to Amiridis. markers. Palmetto Health had provided Students, professors and other USC $3.4 million per year for the passersby, including Gerald Simpson, a clinic, he said, and the university UPS driver who regularly delivers to the didn’t provide all of the faculty’s existing Moore School building, started salaries, which are generally high to mark up the white beam Tuesday. because of the relative scarcity of It’ll be the last piece of the growing neurosurgeons. skeleton to be placed at a topping out The department’s three assistant ceremony at 4 p.m. Monday. After professors received between $82,400 that, workers will begin enclosing the and $92,700 from state funds, building with exterior walls and putting according to state Budget and in systems like plumbing and electricity. Control Board records. Information about the neurosurgery chair and — Compiled by Thad Moore, News associate professor were not available. Editor NEUROSURGERY ● 2 Renée Cooper/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK Lecture series explores masculinity college, and those who enroll are audience in the Capstone Campus ‘Be a Man’ starts less engaged on campus than their Room Tuesday night. second year Tuesday female peers, according to a number Pruitt discussed an article about of articles Pruitt cited. a woman who wrote that it was hard Khadijah Dennis Men often need guidance to get for her to find a man right for her [email protected] involved in school, and Pruitt said because when she mentioned her that administrators should push to salary or lifestyle, it seemed that The “Be a Man” lecture series reach out to a diverse pool of men. men felt that her life was too good kicked off for its second year “Educators on college campuses for them. Tuesday evening with a lecture from should be mindful of ways to get There’s a growing stereotypical Dennis Pruitt, USC’s vice president men to step out of their cultural distinction between the way that for student affairs. comfort zones and spend time fathers raise men and the way that The series probes perceptions of with men of different ethnicities, women raise men, Pruitt said. It’s masculinity, stereotypes and what religions, sexual orientations and normal for a man to teach his son being a man means, including social abilities,” Pruitt said. how to perform everyday activities, gender gaps and differences between The effects of the gender gap also but it’s not normal for a woman to men’s and women’s performances. spread to life outside academics, show men how to express emotion, Those issues hit home at USC, Pruitt said. according to Kate Stone Lombardi, too. Health issues are on the rise for whose book “The Mama’s Boy Men account for about three- men, he said, and men account for 86 Myth” has been excerpted for the quarters of judicial violations at the percent of suicides. Wall Street Journal. university, Pruitt said, while women It also affects how men interact Pruitt criticized the way men’s Matthew DeMarco / THE DAILY GAMECOCK earn about 70 percent of honors and with their families and with women, Vice President for Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt speaks awards. Men are less likely to go to who were a little over half the MAN ● 2 about masculinity in a lecture Tuesday evening. Wednesday Millwood Coffee Syria intervention Leading the way 79° 44° A Shandon couple, Columnist Matt Cole- Junior Clayton who’s brewed their man discusses the Gravesande ran fi rst own roast for 13 best way for the U.S. on South Carolina’s Thursday years, opened a to carefully offer aid 4×400-meter relay, new cafe that serves in the midst of Syria’s which won the Hokie 55° 36° breakfast all day. delicate state. Invitational. See page 6 See page 5 See page 10 2 Wednesday, January 30, 2013 In Brief. SC policy change opens fl u State Supreme Court to Trial on death following vaccine supply for children hear Haley ethics appeal football game begins The South Carolina health department The state Supreme Court will decide whether The case of a man allegedly involved in the surprised physicians this week with a quick ethics claims against Gov. Nikki Haley should death of another man after a 2010 USC football change in policy to accommodate a fl u vaccine be considered by a lower court, multiple media game began Tuesday. shortage, The State reported. outlets reported. The defendant, 27-year-old Curtis Simms, Pediatricians have run out of the vaccines In November 2011, John Rainey , a is charged with involuntary manslaughter and suitable for infants 6 months to 3 years old and Republican fundraiser, filed a lawsuit that breach of peace after a fi ght with 20-year-old were facing weeks-long waits to get more. focused on whether Haley used her offi ce as a Allen Gasque resulted in Gasque being knocked But they still have access to vaccines provided Lexington County representative for personal into a roadway near Williams-Brice Stadium by the federal government for children on gain. A circuit court judge dismissed the case , where he was run over and killed, The State Medicaid and state-provided vaccines for saying that ethics charges are exclusively reported. children not covered by private health insurance the domain of the House and Senate ethics The fi ght happened on Shop Road after USC’s or Medicaid, and a temporary policy change committees. win over then-No. 1 Alabama in October 2010. allows them to use that supply for children that That pushed the charges to the House Ethics About 31 possible witnesses could testify in the have private insurance, too. Committee, which cleared Haley. trial, The State reported. It’s a one-time exception to the rules that only The Supreme Court won’t rule on the merit The court started choosing jurors — fi ve men applies to the flu vaccine, takes effect only in of the charges, but it will decide whether South and seven women — Tuesday morning, and case of a shortage in the privately funded vaccine Carolina courts can hear ethics lawsuits.