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Entries for p.m. Datebookmay Student Government Senate, be submitted H ipPfcj 5 p.m., RH Theater to The Amnesty International, 5 p.m., Gamecock on RH 302 the third floor Scuba Club, 5:30 p.m., Blatt of the Russell | p p p j^gl P.E. Center Hmise. There Kirw B88 "LuagsH H PAT M Miniofrioc Rnrtv Rr Srail is a box in the 5:30 p.m., 728 Pickens St. newsroom RATEBOOK ' Intervarsity Chapter Prayer, designated for 7:15 a.m., RH 315 Datebook Women Student's Association, entries. 8 p.m., RH American Marketing Sundays Associations, 8:30 p.m., BA 002 PALM Campus Ministry, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Worship and Dinner, 5:30 p.m., 728 9:15 p.m. Pickens St. i ? BGLA, 8 p.m., BA 436 Cabinet, 6 p.m., Witten Rm. Into the Streets, 4 pm, Preston Seminar Room Mondays ' Carolina Productions Concerts, Fraternity Council, 4:30 p.m. 7 p-m,RH Witten Room Peer Conduct Board, 7:30 pan., ? "Carolina for ^ 8:30 P'm" RH303 RH302 Homecoming Commission, 630 ? 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Keep MDA's lifesaving research moving forward; ; MDA |L I I I Muscular Dystrophy Association TURN 1-800-572-1717 # ' Im w<; SPORTS 12 TM ^Sc^tStetest EA SPORTS win cool prizes in sports skills coi Ct ?f* O i:e Monday, Octo OG L o c o t * o n Russell House Universit f fl fflt e [ I 0:00 a.m. - 2:( ' {0> WsW W **~* Carolina production* presented by: 1 HOMELESS continued from page 1 Frazier, coordinator of Shelters at Sistercare Inc. Tor most of the women, when they leave with their children, it is a last resort. [And] in most cases these women don't have skills, and thevVp nnemnlnvpd They must have first month's rent, a deposit, money for utilities, and they've almost never signed a contract for a place to live," Frazier said. Nationally, many shelters are forced to turn away abused women and their children at a rate of almost one out of every five in some cities. Sistercare, however, has experienced a 35 percent decrease in tum-aways from 1995 to the present, Sistercare Director of Community Development Janice Cohen said. Reasons why Sistercare has experienced a decrease in the number of women who seeks its assistance are hard to pinpoint. "I think, right now, there's been decrease in the number we turn away partly due to the fact that we've added another shelter," Cohen said. "We do try to get the word out about Sistercare, about domestic violence and about our crisis line through community action SENATE continued from page 1 Hall said. According to Finance Code 306.15 of the constitution, student activity fees may not be used to fund any religious or political donation. The finance committee interprets it as saying although they can fund a campus organization that happens to be political or religious, they cannot fund any of its activities that support or condone a specific political or religious agenda. I he only thing we have is trust, Hall said when asked about controlling how organizations spend the allotted money. "The report we receive at the end of the fiscal year on what they have spent their funds is all we have to go on. In order to receive funds from SG, an organization must present, in great detail, the projects for which they are requesting funds, and the specific amount of funds requested. The finance committee fully expects an organization's end-of-the-year report to reflect how the money was spent.. "I don't think you'd fund an organization's political event unless it would benefit the entire student body," Director of Student Development and Correction In Wednesday's edition of the paper, Tipus C 5 here > video games and tipetitions! ber 28 ^ y Union Patio J >0 p.m. ^ Sp 1 efforts." According to Cohen, the addition of the new shelter makes turn-aways less frequent, but the question of why they are turning away fewer women remains: Is it because requests for assistance have actually decreased, or is the organization now able to fulfill the requests of nearly everyone who asks for their help? According to the NCH, between 1973 and 1993,2.2 million low-rent units J * 1 C i.1 1 1 T 1 AArt disappeared irom ine marKei. in iyira, the total of low-rent reached 6.5 million while the number of renters increased from 7.4 million to 11.2 million. That gap between available housing and those who need it is the largest ever recorded. A 1995 study done by the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) found that requests for housing assistance increased in 19 of the 29 participating cities. Though the majority of the cities involved in the survey were very large and metropolitan, including New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Seattle, increases in housing requests can be found in South Carolina's cities as well. "It is not our all time, but I will tell SG advisor Woody Carothers said. "Do you fund them or do you not fund them? That's a legitimate question." The senate voted to table the bill upon receipt of further information regarding the status of Amnesty International at USC. Also in question was the appropriation of $500 to the Sorority and Fraternity councils, which are made up of representatives from campus fraternities and sororities. The councils propose to sponsor a campus-wide race relations forum. "Their individual groups [in the Fraternity and Sorority councils] may be discriminatory, but the organization is putting on a campus event that will benefit all the students," finance committee member Patrick Daly said. "Its a race relations forum, not Greek relations," Hall said. In other business, the senate approved sophomore Emily Green, and seniors Molly Simpson, Amanda Lyle and Alex Vu to the Election Commission. Junior John Matthews was approved to represent the College of Applied Professional Sciences in the senate, as was freshman Heath Coleman of the College of Business Administration. Molli Miolen should have been identified as an RA in Columbia Hall. :up t< today Chnui urnii'vA onf ai Ml IV WW JVM V the Nokia* Sugar I College Football t O?y Dote ( Monda JL o ?r o f i o n I Russell House f ,Jiiciufysng t 2:00 p. CTo u rn o m <e n t i 3:00 p. feL. fori checki www.easport f. (ffi) V cofeq* . / \nHQdane/ you this: We have 2,400 apartments and 2,400 certificates of housing in our program. We currently have 4,200 requests waiting for one of those programs," Stoudenmire said. Among the 29 cities, according to the USCM study, there was an average of a 17-month wait for assistance, an average Section 8 wait of about 40 months, and a 39-month wait for vouchers. The waiting lists in Columbia reveal only slightly better situations. "We used to be able to tell people there would be an approximate wait of 12 to 18 months for Section 8 housing. We don't even give a figure anymore," Stoudenmire said, although it is under the national average. The nationwide housing crisis is poised to put millions of Americans at risk for homelessness. High rent burdens ? when more than half of the monthly income is spent on housing ? overcrowding and substandard housing are problems that constitute "worst-case needs" and put the nation's poorer segment at risk. A1996 HUD survey found that 5.3 Check us ou >ur f s nough game to win a trip Sow! in New Orleans in t ISA" 97 video game tour iy, October 2? : University Union i #n e rr?. - 2:45 p.m. r I rr? e m. - 6:00 p.m. more information: out our website at :s.com/coliegetour i million unassisted, very low-income households had worst-case needs, an 8 percent increase over the 1989 figure. Nearly 95 percent of those with worstcase needs, as deemed by HUD, paid over one-half of their income for housing. According to Stoudenmire, nationwide housing authorities are not receiving the support they need from the federal government. They are eliminating programs and reducing benefits and "that makes it difficult for us to help," she said. The CHA is the third oldest in the country, created in 1934. When they celebrated 60 years of helping low-income families and individuals m 1994, there was also a woman who had been living in public housing for 59 years. According to Stoudenmire, her children lived in ( public housing, as did her children's children. "That was the only life they knew," Stoudenmire said. "And we're trying to break that cycle of dependence on the government," but legislative and policy actions are making that difficult to do. " 2 IB li is orn tati >n. B Not one more lost life. j| Not one more grieving family. Not one more. out of B||kW Deportment of JueAce BoopogEMtne EtovnWow CooWor ^9Dnp|Plk t ONLINE! ?j\ I 3P0RTS I TM > to m he nament! X > Y | I i Patio j .^H i % W'm it^.- , ZD /SuTte^, v ?i\ I SPORTS I TM