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ADAM SNYDER Asst. News Editor
ALLISON WILLIAMS Special Projects
Candidates for 1996-97 Student
Government executive and senatorial
positions have set goals to establish
evaything from $2 parking meter pennits
to a voting student member on the Board
of Trustees.
But are candidates aware of how to
implement these ideas and changes?
Administrators and current executive
SG officers foresee problems in setting
unreachable ideas in motion.
Current SG Vice President Darcie
Shively said candidates should have
attainable goals.
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Many USC students can't name their
current Student Government president,
much less describe what she has
accomplished for the university during
her term.
Although students may not realize
it, the work of many of USC's past SG
presidents is still reflected today.
They didn't do it to look good on their
resumes. To some of them, it had
absolutely no effect on their careers.
To others, serving as president inspired
and enriched every part of their lives.
In 1968, Civil Rights protests were
flaring up everywhere. When an
Orangeburg bowling alley rejected some
black students, students protested
intensely to attract policemen to tne
scene. During the protest, policemen shot
and killed three students.
Sam Drew, USC's SG president at
that time, took it upon himself to organize
a campuswide memorial service.
"It helped to define who we are and
what we stand for. We stood up for the
rights of students and helped keep the
university peaceful. It was a turning
point in the role SG played and established
it as a force," Drew said.
Before Drew's administration, SG
had only attended to typical duties, and
it was questionable whether he even had
the authority to organize the service.
There was "heavy student unrest"
about integration, and the memorial
service helped to "initiate talks between
students and administration about the
integration of black students," Drew said.
"This thrust us all into a much more real
world."
After graduation, his leadership
experience inspired a span of jobs for the
community. He worked in business, then
joined the Teacher Corps, which was set
up to attract people from different fields
to education to make up for a lack of
teachers.
Drew taught for two years, was a
principal for five years, headed an atrisk
school, was a school superintendent
in Union and is now director of community
education in Columbia, which concentrates
on adult education and literacy.
Having served as SG president
"provided me with a level of insight, vision
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STAFF REPORT
The Student Senate met for the
next to last time this term in a
meeting that could be deemed short
but sweet.
Three bills were passed in the
20-minute meeting, all by acclamation.
A spectator in the gallery described
the officials as "lame duck" senators.
The main legislation passed was
the budget bill. Student activities
fees totaling $744,422 were allocated
to different student organizations
across campus. A total of $300,000
will go to support salaries of the staff
working directly with student support
functions.
The senate also decided the
$100,000 administrative fee for
1996-97 will be paid in June of
1997.
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you can do, that are not too hard to goir
implement," Shively said.
For example, SG advisor Woody if th
Carothers said a voting student stuc
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has been an issue for many years, ont
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Board of Trustees meetings, but cannot sucl
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for the past 10 yeans. Itfs a complex issue," SG
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said that although the president cannot esco
vote, trustees take the president's opinions qua
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and leadership skills I couldn't have
gotten elsewhere," Drew said.
Harry Walker was SG president in
1972. He installed a student court system
at USC.
Did his experience help further his
career? "Probably not," he said.
After graduation, he attended graduate
school at USC, worked in education for
two years and now works for IBM.
Walker said it was difficult to achieve
a position like president of the school as
a black student in the 70s. But he came
out "with strong credentials," he said.
His greatest benefit from the experience
was "involvement in decisions."
Leigh Leventis' 1975 administration
closed off Greene Street during the day,
which is still in effect. He also set up a
different plan for the distribution of tickets
to sporting events.
Students had been camping out
overnight by the Russell House to get
basketball tickets, which were distributed
on a first come-first serve basis. "There :
had been student pickets about this,"
Leventis said.
Serving as president "steered me
towards politics and enhanced my notions
of going to law school," said Leventis,
who is now a lawyer. 1 was able to work
with issues that concerned me during
that time."
The night Marie-Louise Ramsdale
won SG president in 1989 she sang "We
Are the Champions" on a bar stool at the
Elbow Room, she said.
She had a good reason. During her
administration, call boxes were installed
all over campus. "Before I became student
body president, there were no call boxes.
When I left, there were 25," she said.
Ramsdale also installed the Permanent
University Safety Committee and put
together the lightways Map, which shows
the locations of the call boxes and the
safest paths to take. She also established
the Freshman Council.
After college, she went to Harvard
Law School, where she was also student
body president. "I learned so many skills
? how to get things done," Ramsdale
said. But "anyone who becomes student
body president to further their career
needs to think twice," she said.
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Vietnamese students helped organize this year's
Vietnamese New Year's celebration last Saturday
at Richland Northeast High School. Feb. 19 is New
Year's day based on the cycles of the moon.
The celebration included traditional dancing,
singing and honoring the ancestors. New Year's is
the biggest holiday in Vietnam, and the celebration
lasts a month. The Vietnamese community in Columbia
only has one formal celebration.
For one day, families stopped working and got
together with friends from Myrtle Beach, Greenville,
Spartanburg, North Augusta and Atlanta.
Queen Vo, one of the dancers, was born in the
United States. Her New Year's wish came true the
night of the celebration because she got to spend
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logged on because the Vietnamese from
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Vo also credits karaoke as helping her
learn the language.
Thuy Nguyen has been dancing in the
New Year's celebrations for fours years.
She says it's unfortunate she's too old to
get money in red envelopes from older
people, a Vietnamese tradition.
"Little kids know a lot of elders, and
they get rich quick," Nguyen said. "If
you're my age, 22, you try to get it from
the guys."
Nguyen was born in Vietnam, lived
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led by the Senate Finance officers) will work with what we already
have set up," Shively said,
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in their platforms. An example is on-line
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are also handled through Curricula and Courses Committee,
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