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.tlAl IHfcW MYKKS Staff Writer
/)DOE) (Wi[L^r For almost twc
decades, Columbia's
very owe
annual CROF
rtf\\)jA)T Walk has beer
\ WOI"king to stifle
hunger, both at
The walk
in its 19th year, will begin at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday in Finlay Park, rain or shine,
USC says
very little
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rected The Gamecock to USC's Media
Relations for information.
A Media Relations representative
said Student Affairs would have
the most information about the incident.
Student Affairs officials could
either not be reached or directed the
newspaper to Media Relations for comment.
Her parents said their daughter
is being a great sport about her situ
ation.
"Megan said the people around
her looked worse than she did when
the accident occurred," her mother
said.
"She has been doing well," her
father said. "She is really a trooper."
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through Riverfront Park and back to thi
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A majority of the funds raised from ne^
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diana-based Church World Services ^
, for the fight against global hunger. ^
Twenty-five percent will be earmarked ^
[ for Harvest Hope and six other local me
food pantries.
, Certainly in the Midlands rai
area, there's a need to assist people len
? who are hungry," event coordinator als<
Alcohol
Our nations college students spei
ly on alcoholic beverages.
College students who drink the e
est grades. Students with D or F a
erage of 11 drinks weekly which A;
erage 3 drinks per week.
The typical student will probably
coholic beverages that for textbool
The more than 12 million coileg
States consume over 430 million i
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annual beer consumption of I
is just short of four billion cans. Sta(
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t year bought approximately 22,610 "Oui
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appreciated and needed,"
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ldustry spends each year," , ,
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dated events, are highly tar- f xaf1j'
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dream is to get all of the col- , f ,
ts to buy into their product."
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being the main contributor ?j
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nking is simply a reflection," an will pre
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evealed that 35 percent of all stu- this she
lave cut class because of their al- ?rp]
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turned papers in late or failed ?
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y because of drinkmg. probabl
phomore Michael Schrecker said the resj
s college students should learn
s a good time and also remember gure gg
should be our first priority. ?
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think college students are old SBL(97
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want to drink, let them," Schreck- ing.
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loney drinking instead of getting
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re figure that if you set somep
where people walk by, they
lp but notice it," Sen. Bo Moran
other business, SBL(97)018, an
lent to the executive codes, went
1 a first reading.
e bill amends Executive Codes
The bill states that if a major- f)
nate requests an executive apappear
before the senate body,
ointee must appear during one
ext three senate meetings. Sen.
/anNostrand believes the bill
vent a position from never bed
because an appointee never
id before senate for questions.
in. Zerell Hall doesn't believe
>uld be a problem.
lis [senatel right here repre- a
r,000 people," Hall said. "If they
ike 10 to 15 minutes, then they
y don't have the time to fulfill
xmsibility ol the position."
30, SBL(97)019, a bill to ennators
receive a student govat
operations manual, and
)021, a bill repealing finance
5.30, went through a first reade
following senators were ablincy
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