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For all Horoscopes...............8 the details, turn to page 9. Autumn to Ashes tonight. See page 6 Classifi ed................10 76 65 79 62 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2007 VOL. 101, NO. 42 ● SINCE 1908 Law school hosts pageant take low-paying or non- Male law students paying jobs. These include non-profit legal services, hold mock beauty working at prosecutor or contest to raise money public defender’s offices, and governmental or environmental jobs. Tsuyoshi Inajima The club has run a THE DAILY GAMECOCK different fundraising event in the past, but looked for a change this year. Will THE DAILY GAMECOCK fi l e p h o t o Some male law school Dillard, vice-president of Sen. Brad Setzler explained the bill Wednesday. students will face one of the PILS, came up with the their most challenging cases idea of the mock male beauty today: they must prove their pageant. He did a similar beauty. program in the past, and it The Public Interest Law was very successful, Hirsch Senators stop veto Society is hosting its first said. mock male beauty pageant, The group expects to raise with the winner to be named about $15,000 dollars from on elections bill “Mr. Litigious Gamecock.” the event. The money will Raia Hirsch, president of be granted to applicants Artium et Scientae, to the PILS, said it is going to through the reviewing Payne’s measure nixed represent the College of be just like a normal beauty committee consisting of Arts and Sciences. pageant except that the faculties and students. by student Senators Sen. Brad Setzler, a third- contestants are male. The “That program here is because of trust issues year economics student, said contestants will be judged nationally known, and they that section of the bill was based on several factors, and do a lot of good work,” vetoed because “we tried four different prizes will be Harris said. “They work Halley Nani to defi ne traditional majors, awarded according to those with a lot of underprivileged THE DAILY GAMECOCK but the university gives this criteria. folks in the community. designation to the provost.” Contestants will compete “I fi gured it’d be fun for a Student Senators overrode Those in favor of with an opening number and good cause,” he said of why one presidential veto on an overturning the veto did not interview section, and will he chose to compete in the elections bill, and an attempt get a two-thirds majority of be judged on what they wear, pageant. to override another failed. votes. said. “Win or lose [at the Senators learned of the Payne vetoed one section The contestants do not pageant], I’m expecting to line-item vetoes from of the bill that would have have to wear a swimsuit, but Tsuyoshi Inajima / THE DAILY GAMECOCK have good time, make people student body president banned computers used for do have to dress up: each Joe Harris is one of the Mr. Litigious Gamecock hopefuls. laugh, and hopefully raise a Nick Payne last week. He voting at group meetings contestant has a group of lot of money,” he said. shot down four parts of a or events. This section of female sponsors to help come The event also includes a “I’m not a golf pro or Admission is $5 per person comprehensive elections the bill did not come up up with creative costumes, date auction. The contestants anything, but I know if he or she participates in codes bill. in Wednesday’s Senate Hirsch said. will offer a date, a service or fundamentals of the grip, the the event and $7 at the door. The section of the bill meeting. “It is going to be a lot a fun outing, and audience stance, where the ball should The show will be at that was reinstated by The fi nal line-item veto, funnier and a lot less serious members can bid on it, be, and that sort of things.” 7 p.m. in the Law School Senators today requires that which struck a requirement [than a normal beauty Hirsch said. Harris said. Auditorium. The Law School all members of the Elections that students get a reminder pageant],” said Joe Harris, Harris, for example, offers Other offerings include is located at the corner of Commission be interviewed e-mail to vote on the first one of the 10 contestants a golf lesson. Harris, vice- a home cooked meal and Greene and Main Streets, by a Senate committee — day of elections, could not be signed up so far. “I’m president of the Student Bar tutoring service. across the street from Payne’s veto would have voted on because President certainly not a hot Brad Pitt Association, began playing The event is intended to Wendy’s and Kinkos. made only the Elections Andrew Sorensen had not type. But it’s going to be golf in middle school and raise money for a summer Commission and deputy yet signed the code. fun,” the second-year law plays golf at least once every grant program that enables Comments on this story? E-mail commissioner go through All Senate bills, once student said. other week. law school students to [email protected] the interview process. passed by the group, go to The effort to override the Payne and Sorensen before veto was led by Sen. Randy they take effect. Gaines, a third-year sports Setzler also used the and entertainment student. meeting to try to clear up Natives win Nobel Prize Gaines said the Senate confusion about the vetoes can’t trust the commission at last week’s meeting. to hire its own student staff. “The confusion was over Four South Carolinians have been Salk Institute. Goldstein The override passed by a a meeting that took place now serves on the Board required two-third majority between President Payne of Trustees at Rockefeller of votes. and myself and a few other awarded for past scientifi c research University and the Howard A failed attempt to senators,” Setzler said. Hughes Medical Institute, override a second line-item “During this meeting, Halley Nani South Carolinians who have and is a Regental Professor veto would have allowed we discussed and debated THE DAILY GAMECOCK taken home the prestigious at the University of Texas. students in pre-pharmacy the vetoes, and reached award for their work in Furchgott, 91, a former chemistry in 1993 for his and pre-nursing programs decisions. However, the Headlines from this year’s medicine, including Joseph USC student, won the research on cloning. While to represent those colleges. vetoes had already taken Nobel Prize awards focused Goldstein, Robert Furchgott, medical prize in 1988 for his working at Cetus Corp, a It would also have let place,” he said. on former Vice President Al Kary Mullis and Charles H. research on blood vessels. company specializing in Honors College students Gore’s win for his work on Tow nes. At the SUNY Downstate biotechnology, Mullis pursuing a specialized Comments on this story? E-mail global warming. However, Goldstein, 67, from Medical Center, Furchgott invented the polymerase degree, Baccalaureaus [email protected] less well known are the four Sumter, won the Nobel Prize used guinea pigs to study chain reaction, or PCR, in for Medicine in 1985, for tracheal smooth muscle, 1983, which copies large his research on cholesterol which ultimately led numbers of DNA strands metabolism. With his to his Nobel Prize and within a matter of hours. FOR A GREENER EARTH research partner, geneticist several other awards like He then worked with several Michael Brown, Goldstein honorary doctorates from corporations specializing discovered the low-density the Universities of Madrid, in biotechnology, such as lipoprotein or LDL receptor Lund, Gent, and North Kodak and Abbot Labs. that keeps cholesterol Carolina and the Albert After winning the Nobel at a healthy level. Besides Lasker Basic Medical Prize, Mullis won several the Nobel Prize, their Research Award. Furchgott other prizes and awards, discovery of the low-density was the chairman of the such as the Thomas Edison lipoprotein receptor earned pharmacology department Award, and was inducted awards like the United States at SUNY from 1956 to 1982, into the National Inventors’ National Medal of Science. and after retiring from that Hall of Fame. Goldstein also researched post, he became a professor And when he co-invented lipid proteins with Brown, there. Although he retired the laser, Townes, 92, from which earned the pair more from professorship in 1989, Greenville, won the prize awards, such as the Albany Furchgott still dabbles in for physics in 1964. During Medical Prize in General scientific and laboratory World War II, Townes Sciences. Following his work research. Furchgott, who worked at Bell Phones, with Brown on cholesterol worked with two other where he worked with metabolism and lipids, doctors, got the award for radar and electromagnetic Goldstein was president of his research of nitric oxide, waves.