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PROGRflm • CORTinUEO PROmi Megan Hamilton, : second-year busines: management student anc SI student leader, said the program has influencec her to consider entering the field of academia as ; career. , “In my session las Thursday, I asked the students to raise theii hands if they were at mj session before the last tes1 and made an A or B-plus,’ Hamilton said. “I was ver) excited to see the amouni of students that raisec their hands.” In addition to building their own skills, SI leader: are paid about $1,500 per semester. i “The money aside, I ; would still do SI, because [ of the feeling you get as students come through ' the door of your session ready to ask questions and further their understanding,” Hamilton said. Classes offered under the program include Biology 101 and 102; Chemistry 111 and 112; History 111; Math 111, 141 and 142; Philosophy 110; and Psychology 101, 110 and 227. Comments on this story? E-mail : gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu -1 library • conuniicDFRomi books wing June 14, Willis said. The rare books collection gained national recognition from The New York Times in 2004 for acquiring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unproduced screenplay, “Infidelity.” Patrick Scott, director of special collections, said he hopes the new wing will bring more students to the rare books section of the library. “People know we’re here since we do have the lobby exhibit, but with the addition we’re hoping that a greater variety of students will appear,” Scott said. The current rare books section of the library is crowded and does not allow very much digitization of the books, Scott said. “Our job is to preserve stuff that could be lost, make sense of it, and make it available,” Scott said. However, this is difficult to do because “the space is inadequate for the amount of material,” Scott said. The Political Collections section is housed below the Colonial Center, said Herb Hartsook, the director of South Carolina political collections. The current space provides plenty of room for the manuscripts of many political leaders, Hartsook said, but it is far removed from campus and is not equipped to house delicate materials. “We’re currently in a converted warehouse and the temperature and humidity controls are not what we need,” Hartsook said. The collections include the political manuscripts of Fritz Hollings, Bryan Corn and Lindsey Graham. “We have almost all unique materials,” Hartsook said. “If something happens to them, they’re gone.” Following the addition to the library, Willis said he is hopeful they will be able to get more work done on the library. “The building is in pretty desperate need of renovation,” he said. Willis said he hopes that if they get approval and funding for the renovation, they will be able to make the library better for the students. “We hope to make it a more student-centered, user-centered facility than it is,” he said. The Student Senate passed two resolutions concerning the library Tuesday, said Jonathan Ross, a senator and second-year political science student. One resolution announced the senate’s support for the library to gain the $150,000 needed to conduct feasibility studies on the renovations. The other resolution supported the library being open 24 hours on weekdays. “(The new wings) will be something that future students will enjoy,” Ross said. “I wholeheartedly support these efforts.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@givm.sc. edu Homeless • conunoeo FRomi “acting with friends and people important to (them) about the things important to (them).” The camp passed the time until an anticipated 11 p.m. showdown with police by going over anti-arrest techniques and playing bongos and a harmonica. The police arrived at 11:20 p.m., and the group left without incident after a cruiser drove onto the lawn of the park. The camp said they were “testing the water” in hopes of returning for a much larger gathering April 28. The group said they are “trying to make this not just a fleeting action.” According to their fliers, the group has a number of demands for Columbia: ending the arrests of homeless individuals for nonviolent crimes such as loitering; a fully funded and furnished homeless center within downtown; an end to the “corporate-welfare and city-supported renewal of downtown”; the resignation of Coble, Austin and all other city government officials; the disbandment of the Columbia Police Department; the conversion of the State House into a homeless shelter; the riches of Columbia’s wealthiest distributed to the homeless; and free distribution of food by Wal-Mart, Food Lion and all other grocery stores in tfre city. There are 1,522 homeless people in Richland County according to a January 2005 count, The State reported. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gurm. sc. edu FREE • COnTinUEDFROfni needed, give it to a friend.” The flier referred to a promotion at Subway similar to one Traylor Disbrow, a third-year history student, said he tried to participate in. “I had to fill out a credit card application,” Disbrow said. “It asked your address, Social Security number — basically your personal information.” Disbrow said he tried to avoid the invasive nature of the promotion by giving a false Social Security number. “I gave them a false number, and when they asked me what mine was, I didn’t know,” Disbrow said. “I didn’t get a free sandwich.” Josh Hilbe, a second-year finance student, said he won a free stereo by participating in an online survey. “It was a survey for Coca Cola products,” Hilbe said. “It asked my age, e mail address, how often I drank Coke, how often I drank other soda products than Coke — that sort of stuff.” Hilbe said although he completed the survey, he wasn’t guaranteed to win the stereo, but ended up receiving one. “I completed it and they basically put me into a drawing, and I got an e-mail about a week later saying I had won a stereo” Hilbe said. “I got it in about four weeks.” Jimmy Hogan, a fourth year electrical engineering student, said he is trying to get a free iPod but is having some trouble. “I have begun the process, but unfortunately the offer I filled out for someone else to get credit is pending for some reason, and now I’m stuck and have to call Stamps.com to resolve the issue,” Hogan said. Hogan said Stamps.com offers the ability to print your own stamps for a fee, but although he said it was one of the cooler services he had to sign up for as part of the promotion, he still planned to cancel it eventually. “Basically the way it usually works is that a certain company gets paid to refer customers to another company,” Hogan said. “Say you sign up online at Everyfreegift.com, a common Web site for these offers. You would have to fill out five, six or seven offers from other companies listed on that page to get the ‘free’ item.” Hogan said companies make money by giving things away because most people who begin the promotion never complete it, but many of his friends had received prizes by finishing. “The reason they make money doing this is most people don’t complete the offers they sign up for,” Hogan said. “One of my close friends is supposed to be getting a plasma television in the next few months, and some of my friends already have new video iPods.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gunn.sc. edu. Doin’ it daily in the fall. THi^AMEGOGK The Last Paper-and-Pencil MCAT is in August. BEGIN Y 0 U R PREP NOW. 5/13 - 8/12 Mondays and Wednesdays, 6pm 5/30 • 8/12 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6pm Saturdays, 10am 8/3-8/12 Mondays - Thursdays, 1pm Call or visit us online today to enroll! Higher*tcArstore guaranteed or 1-800-KAP-TE5T | kaptest.com/mcat yourmoneyf>acic. 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