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RHn • connnueD mem 3 programming fund to give money to what the bill calls “frivolous expenditures such as televisions and other luxury items” and make individual halls fund them using their own money. The resolution was amended to include the D119 equipment and renovations fund. The resolution’s authors, LaBorde president and second year Spanish student Paul Spence and first-year biology student, Sen. Don Pate, said they didn’t want it to become a “slippery slope.” “We’re not saying that we can’t buy these things, but we don’t want to spend all our money on them (and we should) leave some money for programming,” Spence said. Preston Moderator Jack Ellis said the resolution would “limit the power of the RHA (and) directly attacks a previous resolution.” “(It) doesn’t seem like something I want on the books,” he said. The resolution failed. . The last resolution addressed the funding of the Carolina Student Judicial Council and suggested that the RHA and the Student Government discontinue spending money on it. Funding for CSJC should come direedy from the university, the resolution said. Language in the resolution says, “The Residence Hall Association’s chronic funding of the Carolina Student Judicial Council is unique in its ability to create a potential breeding ground for moral and logistical conflicts. (Sic)” The resolution was tabled at the request of ' the author, Senator Heyward Harvin of Capstone, a first-year political science student, to fix problems he saw in it. I During the open discussion session, it was suggested by one senator that the RHA establish a weekend route to Harbison Boulevard via Carolina Shuttle. The RHA would not have to fund these trips, but it would simply serve to organize the development of the shuttle route. Legislation might be proposed later based on residents’ reactions to the idea. A senator from Moore also brought up that the fire alarms in Moore often go off at inconvenient times. President Terrill Wilkins, a third-year political science student, said University Housing might allow the RHA to take the initiative to reduce the number of false alarms by funding cameras to be placed near mistake-prone alarms. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gtvm. sc. edu ponci • conTinucD mom i Several students called out rallying cries from their assigned teams, some trying to remember the calls and responses while joking with former rival teams. “We do kid, and we talk about the team leaders and who did this and who did that, but it really was a joint effort,” said Alcohol and Drug Programs Director Larrell Wilkinson, who was also involved in the trip. Wilkinson praised the groups earnestness, citing how it only took 90 njinutes for the trip’s roster to fill up on the first day it was offered. “Even though (money is) the most necessary thing for Biloxi, time is the most delicate thing,” said fourth-year business administration student Brittany Gordon. Gordon said giving up time made a impact in Biloxi on a human level. Wilkinson said an elderly resident told him privately the USC volunteers “restored (her) faith in young people.” Such residents made the entire <► trip worth it, said Wall, who gave several anecdotes of Hurricane Katrina victims thanking the students. “Some of us took a walk through the city ... and two folks sitting on a porch stood up and applauded us,” Wall said. Student Government Treasurer Tommy Preston, a third-year political science student, shared a story of sentiment for the volunteer group from Washington. “A few days ago, I got a call from Senator Lindsey Graham’s office .... The staff were so excited to see that Carolina students were going there to help out,” Preston said. “Kelley (Cox, a fourth-year psychology student) and I did a presentation for the Board of Trustees, and at the end they gave us a standing ovation.” Another trip to the region is tentatively planned by the Methodist Student Network for early December after fall exams or shortly before the spring semester begins. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknetvs@gwm. sc. edu *__ SEBBTE # CBBTIBUEB FRBBII Committee, a group comprised of ordinary since the fall semester students who will tackle began. Williams’ three-pronged A bill amending the agenda for his term. Electoral Code to provide Williams said for a Senate review applications for the session of the codes was minority affairs cabinet withdrawn by its sponsor, position are being taken, Sen. Jonathan Ross, a after it recently became second-year political vacant, science student. Ross said Delegates to the South he was planning to Carolina Student replace the bill with new Legislature from Bob language advocating a Jones University and direct overhaul of the Clemson University were rules that elect Student in attendance at the Government leaders. meeting. The student SG President Justin run mock legislature is Williams, a fourth-year holding its fall session public relations' student, through Sunday, announced the creation of the Presidential Comments on this story? E-mail Student Issues gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu i : : ~-1 TH#%AMECOCK Nobody covers USC better: Nobody. AYI facta Riverbend Li Apartments yg[j| jj 0CKM>1HIMOr.K WCMmkMk CwoBvXNf* »wnBW) Wfl«i’ f 7 ^ FfttVCSBOMAU* MAKAOtU •? BN HAttAetMMT SMVtCIf*. MC sSSS / V’ 11 NEW SONGS including the HIT Who You'd Be Today