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- Carolina News Platform from page A1 “I think once the university sees it go through a test run... they will back it as a complete program,” Hartney said. However, Eaddy said a Safe Ride pro gram is not realistic. “As a member of student senate, it’s understood that, realistically, Safe Ride is not going to happen,” she saitj. “I think we need to focus on a student service ride.” Eaddy’s plan would involve taking stu dents to grocery stores and Wal-Mart as well as having a night shuttle around the campus. Scott said he would endorse a Safe Ride program focused on campus, such as extending shuttlecock hours on weekdays. He said the program could later be ex tended toward Five Points, “if we see the need.” “I think that too many people have been just solely focusing on Five Points,” Scott said “I think our principle concern should be on campus at first.” Taylor said she would focus on mak ing Greene Street safer, and rejected the idea of extending Safe Ride to stores. “It [Safe Ride] would be a nice pro gram but... it would be a hard program to push through,” Taylor said. “I think the most feasible option „ would be making walking back from Five Points safer,” she said She proposed adding call boxes and lighting, as well as increasing patrols of Greene Street. Scott and Hartney also talked about a card, similar to a system at Clemson, ) which would serve a laiger variety of pur poses than those already used by USC students. Scott’s “Garnet Card” could be used at the bookstores, libraries, and to get change for doing laudry. “I think that could be an unbelievable convenience,” Scott said Hartney’s card would also help stu dents get change for laundry. “What that does is eliminate the need 1 ilar to online syllabuses. She pointed to systems at the Honors College and the En gineering School that allow students to view information on their classes before signing up. She said faculty members give deans the necessary information to create the syllabuses in advance, and that infor mation could just be collected in a single place. “If the Honors College and Engineering already do that, why not let everybody do it?” she asked. Eaddy and Taylor also proposed a sys tem of graduate mentors for undergrad uate students. “I think there’s a big gap between our graduate students and undergraduate stu dents,” Eaddy said. Taylor said the undergraduate student would pay the graduate student $5 an hour, while SG paid another $5 an hour. She said the rates would make the program at tractive to graduate students. “It’s been really successful at Clem son,” Taylor said. Eaddy said voters should vote for her because of her Contract for Carolina, which she said will be displayed in public places and will have major goals checked off as they are accomplished. “I have a plan, and a plan that works,” Eaddy said. “I have a Contract for Car olina, and I’m just asking all the students to sign on.” Scott said he wanted to see positive things happen to the university and he al so hoped for high voter turnout. “I’d just really like to see good things for the university,” Scott said. “I just re ally hope that a lot of people go out this year. It’d just be something really special.” Taylor said the candidates’ platforms, not their experience; should be an issue. “I don’t think it’s so much... what you have accomplished,” Taylor said. “It’s who’s going to make the biggest change.” Harney urged students to look to the future. “I think USC... needs to be concerned ^ with its future and the changes it’s present ly undergoing,” Hartney said. 'or change machines in all of the residence rails,” Hartney said. Eaddy and Taylor mentioned the pos iibility of moving the drop/add date. Eaddy proposed moving the drop date vhile keeping the add date where it is. “It gives every student the opportu rity to drop at least one class within this sxtended drop period,” Eaddy said. Taylor proposed adding an extra Mon day and Tuesday to the drop/add period, which she said would give students four classes and a weekend to decide whether they want to remain in their Monday Wednesday-Friday classes and three class es and a weekend to decide about Tues day-Thursday classes. However, she said she would discuss it with the deans and the faculty. Taylor also proposed a program sim _ _ 1_1 * I m ~~ Eaddy Hartney Scott Taylor Look for 250-word candidate platforms, as submitted by each candidate, in Wednesday’s edition of The Gamecock. / * __ 'x ' ■ Greek Village from page A1 Gamma Rho and Alpha Kappa Alpha. She said no sorority will build until all of the other ten sororities are prepared, and it’s binding until October 2001. Monts also said these ten sororities are meeting on a regular basis to help each other pian and get the contract overturned. Munsey compared the future transi tion to moving from a “dorm into a man sion. “It’s going to take the university up to another level,” Munsey said. “It’s go ing to bring students closer together and make Greek life more visible.” Sigma Phi Epsilon president and eco nomics junior Greg Hogan said he agreed that the Greek Village would have a positive influence on the university’s cam pus. “It will help out with recruitment,” he said. “Right now, I think the housing hurts recruitment.” Brewer said he agreed projects will improve the USC campus. “We feel confident that this is an en richment,” he said. “It’s an investment that will help the university in many ways. [It will help] from the academic side, the co-curricular side and the school spirit side.” Brewer also said he is ready for the project to begin. “I’m ready to start working,” he said. “I’m tired of talking about it.” Lecture from page A1 were enough complete skeletons of early hominids to prove that we evolved out of them. Other Bibical controversies Ross took on were Noah’s flood — which he said wouldn’t have left a sedimental deposits that could be traced — and the different accounts in the Bible on creation. Ross said that the different accounts on which came fust humans or the land animals, which some believe points to different Gensis authors, was just a translation error. Ross also runs the Reason to Believe Center in Pasadena, Calif which sells a variety of books and material that support re ligious creationism. JM.L. college penalizes fraternity by Aileen Soper College Press Exchange Belmont, N.C.—Belmont Abbey Col lege has suspended the pledging privi leges of a fraternity while it investi gates what led to an 18-year-old pledge’s trip to the hospital Monday after drink ing beer and wine at an on-campus par ty, college officials said. The pledge, who is on the school’s soccer team, drank at a Sunday night gath ering attended by members of the Chi Delta Sigma fraternity, said college spokes woman Beth Baigar. She wouldn’t give the student’s name. The fraternity’s charter was suspended following an October 1998 “round die-world” party after which at least one member was taken to the hospital for binge drinking. During the suspension, which was lifted after a year, the frater nity could not engage in any fraternity related activities, Baigar said The fraternity, an independent chap ter without a national affiliation, was pun ished with a $1,-500 fine and 600 hours of community service. “They essentially did their time and said they had learned their lesson, and their privileges were restored,” Bar gar said. “The fact that they were sus pended last year shows (the college ad ministration) doesn’t take this lightly.” The initial emergency call came at 3:10 a.m. Monday from a second-floor room in the O’Connell Hall dormitory, said Chris Cloninger, an operations su pervisor for Gaston County communi cations. The caller told an emeigency dispatcher that a student was “extreme ly drunk” and was having severe trouble breathing, Cloninger said. An ambulance crew found an 18 year-old male student who had difficul tv wakincr nn Ha u/ac hrnicoH haH a swollen nose and lip and was extremely intoxicated, said Terry Begley, assistant operations supervisor with Gaston Emer gency Medical Services. Ambulance workers started an IV and took him to Gaston Memorial Hospital. Baigar said the student was a mem ber of the school’s soccer team last se mester. Head coach Paul Stahlschmidt did not return calls Thursday after noon. 4 Bargar said the student was re leased from the hospital Monday and re turned to campus. College officials have said they do not know the student’s blood alcohol level or how he was injured. The Sunday night party violated the col lege’s alcohol policy, which bans students under age 21 from drinking, Baigar said. The policy also requires event orga nizers to get permission for parties at tended by underage students where al '"nhnl ic canrarl Tin's Valentine's Week... 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