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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
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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
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ROSALIND HARVEY Staff Writer
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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.
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very similar to that of American students
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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,
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Seitzmeyer said. US<
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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
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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
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)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.
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CEDR1C SCOTT Staff Writer said
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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
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How many Valentine's Day cards were
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ist ANSWER: 900,000.
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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
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