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“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
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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.”
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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
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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
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