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Winner of the 1996 CMA Pacemaker Award WEATHER | V jfl I INDEX it Hht 0amtcock n Serving USC since 1908 Interfaith week returns to USC STAFF REPORTS r or tne nrst time in more tnan two decades, USC will celebrate Religious Awareness Days, an interfaith celebration of sprntualityiind-morality that will include an interfaith prayer breakfast, daily prayers of different faiths, lectures and a two-day Partners in Dialogue conference. Religious Awareness Days will be observed from Feb. 18 to Feb. 25. At the prayer breakfast, which will be held at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 25, in the Russell House ballroom, members of the faculty, staff and student population ? representing a diversity of faiths ? will comment on the special value of prayer and religious beliefs in their lives. USC President Dr. John Palms and USC Board of Trustees Chairman William Hubbard will be at the breakfast to offer greetings. The student choir, A Touch of Faith, will provide a selection of gospel music. Tickets for the breakfast, open only to the USC community, are $2 and can be reserved by,calling 777-3196. Palms said it is important for the university to sponsor the breakfast and other events during Religious Awareness Days because of the university's responsibility to provide moral and civic leadership for its students. "The university is a place for the pursuit of understanding and truth with reason and holistic, rational perspectives that are not dogmatic and doctrinaire," Palms said. "It is also the university's responsibility to help shape students' sense of societal responsibility and ethics." After the breakfast, Dr. William Willimon, dean of the chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke University, will give a lecture, God Goes to College: Religion and Values in Higher Education, at 8:45 a.m. in the Russell House theater. The Partners in Dialogue conference will be held Feb. 22 to Feb. 23 in Gambrell Hall. The theme for the sixth annual interfaith conference is The Journey RELIGION page 2 Senator re CARA PELLATT Staff Writer Sen. Matthew Richardson urged senators to become more active in their senatorial roles at Wednesday's Senate meeting. In an "attempt to motivate," he criticized the number of absences accumulated by some senators. "We have not had Dr. Palms address the Senate. Do we want to have Dr. Palms address the Senate in the condition ifs in?Richardson said. In a debate over whether or not to allow Sen. Richardson more time to University intc ROSALIND HARVEY Staff Writer That new student in the seat next to j be from South Carolina. In fact, they mi be from this country. USC undergraduate and graduate p attracting students from around the woi The countries with the most student ri at USC are China, India, South Korea, Ec and England. Patricia Wilier, director of internatior said most of these students are stuc departments of science and math administration, engineering, liberal art health. Requirements for admission to the u very similar to that of American students However, an English proficiency test m ~ ^tEmPS ^SSBHv ?4| <m M I ll "^85(8 PP^ *$$ M Here comes I ANNA SETTARATH Staff Writer USC's first solar car, the "Sun King," entered the Sunrayce 97 competition andJhelped advance USC into the future. The Gamecock Sunrayce 97 team consists of more than 20 engineering and business students, and the team began developing their ideas in August, 1995, and ^ have continued into this semester. Jeff Morehouse is the adviser of the team and oversees their design, construction, testing and modification. Sunrayce 97 will begin in Indianapolis on June 19 and will continue for 1,230 miles to Colorado Springs. The race will last 10 days and the car may not use a drop of fuel. The energy collected will power an electric engine ranging from two to ten horse power. The team with the lowest cumulative time wins cash awards. "USC is the only team in South Carolina to participate j in this nation-wide competition," team member Mickey | Wakefield said. The "Sun King" is two meters wide, six meters long y and 1.2 meters tall. It has a cockpit and Solar panels * on the hood. The solar cars use photovoltaics or "solar cells" to capture sunlight and transform it into electricity. Teams have to account for the sunlight availability, traffic patterns and terrain in order to have a successful race. Although the team receives funds from the Department of Engineering, they said they need more contributions in the form of money, time and materials. "Working from an estimated budget of $50,000, we ? expect most of our contributions to come from individuals, hnsinpsflps anH mmnratinns " nrrviprt Hirwtnr Rphprra Seitzmeyer said. US< 19 primands Senate speak, Sen. Graham / / i King argued against ^ ^ ( allowing the extra five we wa?t '? ^ave Dr. Palms minutes. address the Senate in the t "I try to come to condition it's in? r every meeting," King e said. t "I even skip class Sen. Matthew Richardson t on Wednesdays to come _ 1 here," he said. y y j He said the senators who were present did not need Senate voted to allow to hear Richardson s message. more minutes. Sen. Susanne Newman commented Sen. Richardson all on the importance of the senators the low number of bill ^national programs grc before admission. All students from non-english speaki countries must take a test of English as a forei r?u might not language (TOEFL). ght not even The TOEFL is similar to the SAT American studei must take for admission, she said, irograms are Recruiting of international students is not as acti dd- . as recruiting American students. ^presentation "Primarily our reputation and our faculty reputati uador, Japan js our best recruiter," Wilier said. Entry into the country requires a non-resident vi ral programs, This visa does not allow these students to becomi lying in the U.S. resident. i, business Those students who decide to work in the Unit ts and public States will find themselves limited to a certain numl of working hours and paying more in taxes, Wilier sa niversity are "International studies in the United States is t i, Wilier said, fifth largest export," Wilier said. .ust be passed "This industry is growing and we will be seei ~ Tonight, the North Carolina band Hobex ^ B I-"will be playing at the Elbow Room. The -H three-man band formed from the ashes of the popular _ _ Southern-circuit B TTl EZ power group Dillon MW M-Jk-7 "^ EXPLODES F Iiiumpiiieya iaiKeu wim ETC. about tonight's show. | he Sun King C's "Sun King" will take to the streets on June to compete in Sunrayce 97. ng MM Sophomore shot putter Bra I record in the shot put 1< E weekend with a throw of 64 - /;. n ^?w J~v sr\.* Olympian 9CHUUI S'3. RECORI for attendance "especting each passed by the senate in 1997. SBL(97)002 )ther. is the only bill that has been passed this "I just year. The first bill, SBL(97X)01, was hink that, out of withdrawn from the floor, espect, if he has "If we didn't have student activity snough time to fees to distribute and we didn't have 002, hink about this, then we would have nothing," Richardson hen we have to said. isten," Newman In other business, the senators had said. to vote on SBL(97)002 again because The they did not follow proper procedure in Richardson five passing the bill at last week's meeting. The bill was supposed to go through a 30 commented on second reading before the senators could s that have been SENATE page 2 )w, attract students ng more competition from other countries like Australia, gn Japan and England for international students," she said. its Wilier said most students go back to their home countries after graduation. She also said the international ive student dropout rate is low. "Between the selection process and the time it takes ion for a student to gain acceptance, the students are committed and use that determination to finish their sa. years here," she said. "Not to mention the financial e a investment they have already made." Cost for international students is the same for out;ed of-state residence, Wilier said. Der Romanian graduate student Claudiu Dimofte said lid. U.S. schools are different than European schools. ;he "There are more assignments and more homework here than in Romania," he said. Treasurer ca may be disai J 1 after missed CEDR1C SCOTT Staff Writer said 6HCC The final week of the 1997 Student ? Government Elections is providing the js ^ Elections Commission with an j unprecedented situation. an(j Through the first two weeks of eiect campaigning, no candidate wag handed ?eno an infraction. g Now with six days remaining until mee election day, an executive office candidate mee is possibly near disqualification. / / This could be the V# w first time in SG [Levine's] actions history a candidate disqualification, ac< has been disqualified election codes, bui from an election. g|on hag , The fate of SG Treasury candidate Terrance Levine rests on today's MaI,t,h?Shr rulingbythe .. t, , i elections commis: Elections Commission. ^ ^ According to / s Manisha Shroff, elections commissioner, the eligibility l controversy is the result of a "lack of j communication." Campaign Rule 411.30 states: "The fjna] Elections Commissioner may disqualify j any candidate, including write-in B candidates, who do not comply with the n 0 ^ rules for campaigning." com] One of those rules is attendance of j meetings. . After the filing deadline, candidates were required to attend the mandatory ? official candidates' meeting on Feb. 3 to ,jjSq learn about campaign rules and violations. coc|e Levine said he did not attend this ghrc meeting because, at that time, he had ^ "decided not to run." ^is "I talked to Manisha [Shroff) on [Feb. ejjgj 3] and asked for my deposit back," Levine > ^ jf\ ? hR j ~ ** "y ' iai ^IP Junior Tony Johnson takes a rainy How many Valentine's Day cards were ?] purchased in 1989? ist ANSWER: 900,000. ^ How many were bought by women? "n ANSWER: 80% [j Source: Harper's Index ) ? 1 ndidate lalified meeting . He said that was when Shroff mraged him to re-enter the race. The [elections] commissioner's job ree-fold," Shroff said, besides encouraging voter-turnout overseeing and regulating the ions process, Shroff said she must Durage people to file for candidacy." iince Levine did not attend the ting, he had to arrange a time to t with Shroff and the Elections Commission. Levine and Shroff were scheduled to meet warrant on Feb. 5. cording to According to t no deci- Levine, a family nade. emergency came up and he was unsuccessful in attempts to locate off Shroff that sioner Wednesday to tell her about his situation. Shroff said she "was not told of the emergency." evine said he "wants to run." le also said he has paid the lidate's fee and has spent money on icing his campaign. Nevertheless, according to Levine, nam reasons for wanting to run are because of the money he has mitted to his campaign. ie said he wants to run because he i many concerns" with equity in ling at the university. [Levine's] actions warrant ualification, according to election s, but no decision has been made," )ff said. [he Elections Commission will meet afternoon to determine Levine's bility. JONATHAN SHARPE The Gamecock stroll on the Horseshoe. JUST ,000 FOR FUN