Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_Carolina News_ News Commentary All eyes on South Carolina South Carolina experi enced something unusual Saturday. .The entire world was watching us. I first be came aware of this when I swerved in Joel Sawyer 10 oncoming traffic is a senior on Greene Street to political science avoid the two major. He can be mammothneWs . reached by e-mail at: ofthe.&7: "jj . . canopies sat in front joe _sawyef 0f the fountain out hotmatl.com side, intermittent ly filled with re porters and camera people. Tentacles of audio-video equipment spread out from the trucks and canopies like kudzu. It all led to one place: the tifird floor of the Russell House. Tire university agreed to provide a headquarters for the television media in the Russell House. The crews used the fountain in front of the Thomas Coop er Library as a backdrop for live reports. News crews from all over the world crowded into Room 315, huddling around laptops and editing machines, waiting for the results of aprimary that could have shaped the political foture of this country, and even the world. fgl “The interesting thing about this election is that this state has been the lynchpin,” Gina London, a CNN Head line News anchor, said John McCain’s victory in New Hampshire, coupled with his virtual dead heat with George W. Bush going into Saturday, drew die attention of media crews from all over. Crews from CNN, the Canadian Television Broadcasting "Corporation, the Spanish news channel Uni vision, and even an Australian news channel trekked to little South Caroli na to watch us vote. And vote we did A record 500,000 people voted in Saturday’s primary. Some voted to renew the strength of Bush’s campaign, which had waned in recent months. Others wanted to send die McCain train hurdling through South Carolina, as it had done in New Hampshire. Some wanted to make a statement by voting for Alan Keyes. I spent Saturday afternoon driving around to some of the polls talking to people. According to Lisa Maseng, Re publican president of V&rd 13, more people had voted at 11:00 o’clock than voted all day in 1996. Jean Parker, who voted at Ward 13, said, “It’s amazing to me that our little state can have that ef fect on a national campaign.” When all the votes were counted, the upset many anticipated didn’t hap pen. Bush garnered 53 percent of the vote to McCain’s 42 percent. Keyes, who had already hopped a plane to Michigan before the first vote was cast, grabbed only 5 percent> So once again, the people of South Carolina backed the establishment can didate. Nothing earth-shattering hap pened here. \W didn’t shake the foun dation of the Republican Party. V& didn’t make political history. Now the vans, the reporters, the equpnent are all gone. But South Carolina did make a state ment. . Wfe sent 500,000 voters to the polls. tyfe have issued a challenge to every other state in terms of political partic ipation. We have set the tempo. In a decade where political apathy has been at an all-time high, we got out there and voted. South Carolina’s primary usually just serves to confirm what everyone else knows will happen. But this year, we had a chance to make a difference. And even if we didn’t make history in choosing a candidate, we made history in voter participation. The whole world watched as we raised the bar for political participation. Every South Carolinian, Democrat or Republican should be proud. Web site from page A1 textbooks back for only $30 and then see ing my friends have to buy them the fol lowing semester for 80,” Fogle said. Originally, according to the Web site, the program’s aim was to provide college students with a free, efficient medium for exchanging textbooks. However, it grew to include all as pects of college life and is now subdivid ed into tnore than 30 categories, includ ing one in which businesses that want to specifically market to college students can . post advertisements. With the help of IQ Interactive, a Web site development company, Fogle and Porter completed the project in October. According to Fogle, “the site currently gets several hundred hits a day and is gain ing momentum.” Fogle and Porter said they hope to see more interactions on the site not only from USC, but also from other campuses. Investment from page A1 FMA did a lot of research on other universities that run student investment portfolios. They found that students usu ally do very well. Ohio State Universi ty’s student investment portfolio is now $12 million. Dr. Ron Rogers, the FMA faculty ad viser, said, “This is a big step forward. This [the USC horizons fund] will make our students very attractive in the job market as they can demonstrate they are able to manage large amounts of mon ey. It will also attract students to USC that might not have been interested oth erwise. Any student interested in a ca reer in finance or investments would con sider this an attractive opportunity.” Rogers also said research indicates the program will be a success. “There are * about 100 of them (student investment organizations)^ the country, and. many of the ories we studied actually beat the standard and poor, as well as the profes sional money managers that are paid thou sands of dollars to manage the fund pro fessionally. Wfe would like to beat the S&P 500. We had a mock portfolio going for about 8 weeks while we were doing re search for the proposal and we actually doubled the S&P through that.” Daily management of the money will be taken care of by three committees from the FMA. The investment committee, the accounting committee, and the ex ecutive committee will all be responsi ble for the horizon fund. Right now the group is mostly focused on making large, common stock investments in technojo gy. Members of the group study industry * sectors and present research data ideas at weekly meetings. I- - — /SOMUCH FOR SAVINS' ^AAYNABI MONEY. /"sure baby, YOU CAN HAVE HIM cjr jWiii NABI BioMedical Center 215 Assembly St., Columbia SC 29201 254-2280 Help children, hemophiliacs, and heart patients who receive products made from the plasma of our donors. r -- ~ LU OH, YOU'RE I THE BEST EVER.. News Analysis Bush wins 'battle of the bases' by Brandon Larrabee Associate News Editor When the history of the South Car olina GOP primary is written, it might be said that the race was a battle of the bases. A battle John McCain lost. By trying to attract the Democrats he felt would help him win, McCain may have alienated the Republicans he need ed in order to defeat George W. Bush. Or it may have been more a matter of neglect. Self-identified conservatives made up 61 percent of Saturday’s record turnout, according to a Voter News Service poll. Bush crushed McCain in that group. He beat McCain badly among Republicans. Among those who identified themselves as “very conservative,” the verdict was even worse for McCain: Bush won that group 74-16. By contrast, McCain won among vot ers who identified themselves as moder ate, and he thumped Bush among liberals 63-34. McCain won 79 percent of De mocrats, compared to only 18 percent for Bush. But the Democratic turnout — 9 percent — was anything but a deciding factor. “A lot of us pundits forgot that there are 1.5 million registered Republicans in this state,” said Betty Glad, Olin D. John ston Professor of Political Science at USC. She said Bush appealed to the par ty’s base, particularly conservatives. “The real conservatives were appealed to, and they got out” to vote, Glad said. Going into Saturday, pundits had been predicting that turnout would be the dif ference. McCain needed to get Democ rats to go to the polls. “He failed on that,” Glad said. The race did draw a huge amount of voters who had never voted in a GOP pri mary before — 31 percent, or more than 150,000. But McCain only beat Bush 53-42 among that group, and lost those that had voted before by $ 59-36 maigin. Blease Graham, dean of USC’s Col lege of Criminal Justice and an expert on South Carolina politics, said McCain might have spent too much time on Democrats and independents. “He may have courted that group too much and ignored conservative Republi cans, or core Republicans,” Graham said. Ultimately, though, McCain might have struck the conservative Republicans in the state as too liberal — a fatal blow in a state where “the L-word,” as U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford called it at McCain’s rally Saturday night, is often equivalent to the kiss of death. But Bush and McCain might change strategy heading into Michigan, a must win state for McCain. Moderates are much stronger in that state, and McCain’s mes sage of reform could appeal to them. “I think McCain will probably run, in some ways, a smarter campaign,” Glad said. She said McCain should try more to pull in moderates and independents with out focusing on Democrats quite so much. But, without a win in South Caroli na, McCain will find it hard to pull off a victory in Michigan. “I think.it’s going to be an awfully steep battle,” Graham said. “I think Bush has all the advantages.” However, McCain might have been helped by Bush himself. Glad said Mc Cain could make an issue of Bush’s visit to Bob Jones University, if the senator wanted to quit his no negative ads pledge. McCain could be able to hit Bush hard without breaking the pledge, though. Sun day, he picked up the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., who supported Bush before the Bob Jones visit. The only question now is whether, with only 24 hours left until the Michi gan primary, McCain can salvage Michi gan after Bush’s blow-out victory. Or will King’s endorsement, and any thing else McCain might have planned, be too little, too late? Primary from page A1 ing in South Carolina,” Condon said. Campbell, who spoke just before Bush, said of McCain supporters, “There are a lot of people on the other side... let me tell you, you are welcomed on our side.” Other Republicans also addressed the spilt in the Republican party between Mc Cain and Bush supporters “There is a long time between now and the election and that is plenty of time for Bush to unite the party,” said Guy Kanr, a fomier press secretary for Beasley. McCain’s supporters said they be lieved the senator’s decision to stop run ning negative ads, combined with Bush’s ad campaign, hurt McCain. “I think it did hurt him and he knew “We don’t have a million-dollar ad vertising budget, so it’s really just a mat ter of getting the word out,” said Fogle, who says the site is an easier, more effi cient way of advertising. “Our site will be incredibly useful for any college student,” said Bryan Adams, FCC’s marketing director. “Once students realize how easy it is to use, it will take the place of campus bulletin boards and flyers.” when he did it, it would hurt him,” said Terry Haskins, speaker pro tern of the S.C. House of Representatives. U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., said Bush’s strategy of painting McCain as a liberal hurt the senator. “I think that, in the end, if you get tagged with the L-word... in South Car olina politics, you are in trouble,” he said. Sanford said McCain had the same voting records as Thurmond and former GOP nominee Bob Dole. “Based on the facts, he was fine,” San ford said. U.S. Rep. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., said McCain’s decision would ultimate ly benefit the campaign. “He took the high road, and that’s go ing to pay off down the road,” Graham' said. Get it |3 3 times i a week! ^(Bamecock I >• 1344c Knox Abbott Drive Two Weeks for $22 New Bulbs!(only 2 miles from campus) Find the Best Price on New and Pre-Owned Hondas www.rickhendrickhonda.com HONDA 791-5660 1650 Airport Boulevard • West Columbia, SC 29171 Win $50 Pri^e! Ear tk Day 1 T-Skirt Design Contest Event: Earth Day 2000 (April 19) * Prize: $50 • Entry Deadline: MARCH 1 Guidel ines: Submit logo design suitable for silk-screen printing application to white t-shirt to promote Earth Day 2000. Entries may he submitted in color or black and white. All timely entries ^ will he judged and cannot he returned. 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The world's largest^ampus job fair * Infractions from page A1 tionLeMaster said “In terms of the evidence, all we have to go on is the fact that a mass e-« mail, reaching possibly two to three thousand students, was sent by a per son very close to Katie,” LeMaster said “This is a serious offense, as it consti tutes solicitation, which is specifical ly prohibited by USC in the Carolina Community.” LeMaster said she was aware of the appeal by Taylor’s campaign. “We will certainly respect what ever decision is made by Chris Dorsel,” LeMaster said. The commission decided Friday that Taylor had violated two SG elec tions codes: one against mass solicita tion and another dealing with the def inition of a candidate’s campaign staff. According to SG elections codes, anyone assisting in a candidate’s cam paign with the knowledge of either the candidate or their campaign manager is part of the candidate’s campaign staff. Taylor and Hill are the only ones listed with the commission as mem bers of Taylor’s campaign staff. The commission debated whether to give Taylor two or three infractions. However, commission members felt the number of infractions should be based on the number of codes broken. They began looking into the inci dent within an hour after the runoff be tween Taylor and Eaddy was announced.