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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 15 ● SINCE 1908 Law Center renovations to cost $25 million USC likely to take on $44 million College of Hospitality, Retail and delaying work on other buildings accessible and has been worn down in debt for new building Sport Management and add general around campus. signifi cantly, Gruner said. classroom space, said Ed Walton , Tackling issues in the Law Center, A renovation would convert the USC’s chief fi nancial offi cer. USC’s third-largest classroom law library into classroom space, Thad Moore [email protected] The university will also likely need building, would require the potentially add laboratories, plant to renovate the Taylor and Horry- university to take on additional debt, grass in place of the building’s Guignard houses, which will share he said. parking lot and build a two-story Moving the School of Law could a block with the new law school and The building is currently worth lobby between its two main wings, trigger a need for $30 million of could house new initiatives, Walton $35 million, said Derek Gruner, Gruner said. renovations on campus as USC said. The Taylor House, for example, Facilities’ director of planning Some trustees at the board’s pushes to add classroom space and could house a new Rule of Law and programming , and it’s grown retreat Sunday balked at the cost of move students out of outdated center, said Robert Wilcox, the dean outdated since it was fi nished in 1973 . the renovations paired with the debts buildings, university officials told of School of Law. It was short on women’s restrooms, USC will incur in building the new trustees Sunday. Work on the houses will cost $4 has asbestos issues so serious that law school complex. Once the law school moves out, it’ll million and $1.2 million, respectively, workers can’t remove ceiling tiles, In all, Walton said, without cost about $25 million to renovate Walton said, and could be paid for by needs to be made more handicap the old Law Center to house the LAW ● 2 Class gathers for Super Bowl, but not for football Budweiser’s ‘Brotherhood’ seems advertising group favorite Evan D. Gatti [email protected] Students and faculty in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications gathered together Sunday night, but not just to watch the Super Bowl. Instead, they came to rate the ads. Bonnie Drewniany , a USC professor who has taught the journalism course “Super Bowl of Advertising” for the past decade, said her students evaluated the commercials throughout the night based on three criteria: likability, persuasion and brand identifi cation. Votes are registered and averaged to determine the winner of the annual Cocky award . Sunday’s favorite appeared to be Budweiser’s “Brotherhood,” which shows the reunion of Courtesy of USC Athletics one of the beer company’s famous Clydesdale Athletics is considering building a plaza outside Williams-Brice Stadium and an indoor football practice facility. horses and the man who raised it. According to Drewniany, this year’s voting process proved much different than others. “So much of the surprise has left because so Athletics considers $51 million for new facilities many ads were posted online ahead of time,” Drewniany said. Football, Williams-Brice the football team and a handful of USC’s tailgating complex on Kim Barrett , a fourth-year public relations non-revenue sports. the site of the old State Farmers major, found a commonality among the most would receive bulk of The two most expensive projects Market. successful ads. planned spending focus on the football team. That project is still being “I think the ones that have done the best According to Derek Gruner, designed, but could be fi nished by have the humor factor and the celebrity factor,” Thad Moore Facilities’ director of planning and late 2014, according to Gruner. Barrett said. [email protected] programming, Athletics is drawing Athletics is also starting to move That hardly comes at a surprise, because up plans for a $17.55 million indoor forward with a plan to convert humor tends to yield the popular vote, she said. USC could spend $51 million practice facility and practice fi elds the parking areas surrounding Kevin Walker , fourth-year advertising major, to spruce up Williams-Brice at the back of the Garnet Way, Stadium and improve facilities for ATHLETICS ● 2ADVERTISING ● 3 Photos by Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Members of Midtown Fellowship, including a number of USC students, hosted a Super Bowl viewing party at Transitions, a Columbia homeless shelter, for the fourth year Sunday night. Students watch game with homeless at Transitions Sunday Midtown Fellowship hosts overlooked, but Sunday was different. Martin has been homeless since last April. He A group of USC students with Midtown lost his job after an expensive battle with cancer fourth-annual party at shelter Fellowship had come to Transitions, a homeless and could no longer afford housing, he said. shelter downtown — where Martin, 55, lives — “It seems to be a huge issue, especially with Steven Moore for a Super Bowl party. people my age,” Martin said. [email protected] “It’s wonderful that they take the time to do In June 2012, there were 664 homeless people something for us,” he said. “It’s a great experience, in shelters in Richland County, including 252 Glenn Martin thinks he and the rest of and it helps to know that at least someone is Columbia’s homeless population are normally thinking about you.” TRANSITIONS ● 3 Monday Warm Bodies Congress Gridlock Martin takes blame 57° 37° Senior Mix writer Columnist Max USC head coach Tyler Simpson re- Stolarczyk says that Frank Martin said he views a new zombie the threat of no re- did not prepare his Tuesday fi lm with a fresh twist election would induce team well enough on the ‘Romeo and Congress to make for the game against 65° 42° Juliet’ love story. wiser decisions. Georgia Saturday. See page 5 See page 4 See page 8 2 Monday, February 4, 2013 In Brief. State senator to off er gun Haley proposes additional Police investigating pair permit classes for teachers funding for prison system of drug store robberies Some South Carolina teachers may soon be The Lee Correctional Institute in Bishopville Columbia police are hoping to get to the bottom packing heat thanks to state Sen. Katrina Shealy. had its share of issues last year, and now, its of a pair of armed robberies at pharmacies on The Lexington Republican announced in problems may be spurring change. Broad River Road over the last week. a release last week that she would be offering Gov. Nikki Haley’s budget proposal includes Saturday morning, a man allegedly held up free concealed weapon permit classes to the an $18 million increase in funding for the a Walgreens at 7412 Broad River Road and state’s teachers and school administrators in South Carolina Department of Corrections, demanded pain medicine from a pharmacist, just mid-February. including a 3-percent pay raise for corrections days after a similar incident at a Rite Aid down the The classes, which usually cost between $85 and offi cers and $3 million for maintenance work, road on the 1500 block, according to a police press $100, will involve both written and shooting tests. The State reported. release. Whether the two are connected isn’t clear. Shealy, who supports allowing concealed weapons Since April, prisoners in the Lee facility have The man in Saturday’s robbery is described as in schools, stressed the importance of these classes captured two offi cers, stabbed one and twice a white male wearing a light-colored sweatshirt, in the wake of recent mass shootings like the one taken over portions of the jail. They’ve also a white or tan baseball cap, blue jeans and white at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, snuck out to get drugs and used cellphones to tennis shoes. He’s believed to have fl ed in an older Conn., in December, which left 20 children and six assemble riots, according to The State. model dark blue four-door pickup truck with adults dead. damage on the right side. “It is imperative we do all we can to keep our —Thad Moore, News Editor No one was injured in either of the two children safe and our schools secure,” she said in incidents, and police are asking anyone with the release. information about the incidents to submit tips on Crimestoppers. —Amanda Coyne, Assistant News Editor —Thad Moore, News Editor LAW ● Cont. from 1 Wilcox said the school country. would most likely need The new complex raising tuition, somewhere between will feature smaller USC can afford up $43 million and $44 classrooms, more event to $9.33 million in million. space and a ceremonial additional annual state Wilcox said he courtroom to host institutional bond hoped to pull down court proceedings, payments; without one more major gift Wilcox said.