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.. ...... www.gamecock.sc.edu UNIVERSITY OF S O uth Carolina Columbia. S.C. Runoff candidates answer questions Editor’s note: The Gamecock sat down with Studeni Government presidential candidates Jotaka Eaddy ant Katie Taylor to ask questions and stimulate a debate or SG issues. The runoff election is from 9 a.m. today tc 5 p.m. Thursday, and students can still vole online ai vip.sc.edu. ♦ Gamecock: If you had $1 million to spend on any USC organization in any way, what do you think you would spend it on and why? Taylor Well, I think the big tiling is that I’d spend it or safety. I’d spend it on the USC Police Department be cause I feel like they’re agroup of people who need more motivation; I think they need higher salaries. Also, as t member of the S.C. Students Association, I realize a lol of the professors here are wonderful, but they leave tc other colleges where they get higher salaries. Eaddy: Well, I would have to say safety because one part of my platform is systems for safety and really increas ing money for the USCPD. Research shows that USC policemen are leaving the university after one or two years to go on to SLED or the Columbia PD, and their wages are way too low. And I’ve met and spoken with USC policemen, and they share that sentiment, as well. Gamecock: I think you’ve both probably heard about the man who was found dead Feb. 12 in the Senate Street garage. Do you have any proposals for parking garages and increasing safety and security there? KT: I know that you published a picture in The Game cock a while back that showed the Blossom Street tower, and there was no one in it. I think that shows you right there that’s something that needs to be changed. There are patrols in the garages, but there need to be more active patrols. If you’ve ever been in Senate Street [garage], it’s a pretty scary place, and I wouldn’t walk there with Gve people, much less by myself. 1 think there need to be more active patrols. And sorjiebody should watch the video camera while it’s running, not after the event has happened. JE: I’m sure you’ve probably heard about my “systems for safely.” In that, we ask for more patrol on campus between 12 a.m. and 7 a.m„ and I imagine [the event in Senate Street garage] did happen between those, hours. So we would need more patrol there, as well as getting manned security at Blossom Street or any garage on cam pus. And also an interesting thing would be to have a type of booth set up there where students could go once they have parked their cars. They could go there and wait with someone when they call Alpha Phi Omega [escort ser vice] so they’re not sitting in their cars on the seventh floor of the garage or the third floor by themselves. But Q&A SEE PAGE A2 DUI bill ’debate resumes in Senate by Leigh Strope Associated Press Columbia - Drinking and driving was back on the road Tuesday in the Senate as debate resumed on a bill that would au tomatically find drivers who have a blood alcohol content level of 0.10 percent or higher drunk. But opponents of the bill say it lakes away people’s right to a jury trial. They * had control of the floor and were stalling a vote by trying to talk the bill to death. No progress had been made by late afternoon. Senate Majority Leader John Land, D-Manning, chided fellow lawmakers for sitting in their chairs “as if you were a cow watching a passing train — not at all interested.” Land, one of the most eloquent speak ers in the Statehouse, was passionate as he talked about the right to a jury trial that Americans have fought and died for. “You’d give it up just to get re-elect ed,” he said to the bill’s supporters, re ferring to the pressure of lobbyists that in clude Mothers Against Drunk Driving for * passage. South Carolina and Massachusetts are the only two slates that don’t automati cally consider a driver drunk above a spec ified blood alcohol level, known as “ille gal per se.” Supporters said South Gtrolina should join the rest of the country. “If we want to go down that slippery slope, we can look at the Confederate flag,” shot back Sen. Ernie Passailaigue, D-Charleston. South Gtrolina is the on ly suite that still Hies the flag from the Statehouse dome, and debate to remove it has dominated the session so far. A jury may infer that a driver with a blood-alcohol content of at least 0.10 per cent is under the influence under current suite law. But a prosecutor must show that • drying actually affected tlie driver’s abil ity to operate the car safely. Sen. Brad Hutto, D-Orangebuig, of fered an amendment that would auto matically consider a driver intoxicated at 0.15 percent blood-alcohol content, in stead of the 0.10 percent bill supporters wanted. But supporters wouldn’t agree. Several times, debate had to be stopped to summon senators back into the cham ber after some objected to the lack of a quorum that must be present. But Land's attempts to adjourn for the day failed. BUT SEE PAGE A2 __ Construction continues on East Quad Amy Goulding Photo Editor Workers continue construction on East Quadrangle, which Is on Blossom Street The residence hall is scheduled to open In fall 2000. The Booker T. Washington Center, which featured a memori al to former Gamecock football standout and Heisman Trophy winner George Rogers, was tom down last year to make room for the quad. - Tab Henderson The Gamecock Student Government presidential candidates Jotaka Eaddy, left, and Katie Taylor discuss their platforms during an Interview with The Gamecock. Taylor files second appeal against infraction by Brandon Larrabee Associate News Editor Student Government presidential can didate Katie Taylor has again appealed the SG Elections Commission’s decision to issue her two infractions in connection with an e-mail sent by her boyfriend. Taylor’s second appeal was sent to the Office of Student and Alumni Services in a letter dated Monday. It follows an ap peal to Attorney General Chris Dorsel, which Dorsel turned down. According to Elections Commissioner Emily LeMaster, Director of Student Life Jerry Brewer would make the final deci sion on the appeal, which is Taylor’s last chance to have the commission’s ruling overturned. The infractions deal with an e-mail sent to College of Engineering students by Russell Quattlebaum. The e-mail asked students to vote for Taylor in the presi dential election, held last Wednesday and Thursday. The SG Elections Commission gave Taylor one infraction each for e-mail solicitation and violating the code defin ing a candidate’s campaign staff. “Russell-is in fact Katie Taylor’s boyfriend and is a fraternity brother of her campaign manager, David Hill,” says the appeal, signed by Taylor and Hill. “How ever, despite his close ties to the Taylor campaign, RUSSELL WAS IN NO WAY AUTHORIZED TO SEND THE E MAIL.” The appeal also repeats the campaign’s denial of having previous knowledge of the e-mail. “We first learned of the e-mail after it had already been sent when it was too late to stop it,” the appeal says. “We bolli know the codes and knew that the e-mail would have been an infraction if we had sent it. Anyone who thinks we plotted the whole e-mail in some elaborate scheme of getting Russell to sign the e-mail, deny ing knowledge of it, and then claiming he wasn’t on staff, must think we are total idiots.” In the appeal, the Taylor campaign takes issue with Dorsel’s reasoning that Quattlebaum was, in fact, a member of Taylor’s campaign staff and with LeMaster’s assertion that as a previous senate candidate, Quattlebaum knew the elections codes. “Ms. LeMaster pointed out that Rus sell had run for senate last year and should know the codes, but anyone who knows Russell knows he did not take that seri ously and never read tire codes even though he should have,” the appeal says. “The fact of the matter is that at the last minute, Russell made a quick decision without drinking of the consequences and sent out an e-mail through a university lislserve trying to help Iris girlfriend, but did it willr INFRACTION see page M Business school ranked internationally Staff Reports The Gamecock The Darla Moore School of Business recently placed in the lop 50 rankings by the Financial Times of London. The school was ranked 34th in the world. The Financial Times bases its rank ings on almost two dozen categories, in cluding salary, career progress, percent age of placement, percentage of international faculty and research. The ranking was based on the school’s MBA, 1MEA and M1BS graduate busi ness programs. Rod Roenfeldt, interim dean of the business school, expressed his pride in the school. “The Darla Moore School of Busi ness has built many outstanding programs, and we are equally proud of our faculty, our alumni and our students, all of whom have made this ranking possible,” he said. “It is extremely gratifying to see their work and our preparation receive inter national attention.” In its assessment of “international mo bility,” which describes how mobile the alumni are in the international job mar ket, the Times ranked USC business grad uates best among all U.S. schools, above the Thunderbird Graduate School, the Wharton School at the University of Penn sylvania and Yale and Harvard universi ties. The school’s Master of Internation al Business Studies Program, which cel ebrated its 25th anniversary last year, fea tures a unique curriculum that comprises requirements in foreign-language train ing, cultural studies and overseas intern ships in addition to core courses. The 14-month International Master of Business Administration Program is run in conjunction with the Vienna Busi ness and Economics University, where students spend roughly six months learn ing management theory in an Austrian business school. Students in the two-year Master of Business Administration Program, the school’s original graduate business pro gram, are required to spend one summer performing on-the-job training through the school’s MBA Field Consulting Program or doing an internship. In another recent ranking, done by professors at the University of Georgia, the University of Illinois and Southern Methodist University, the business school ranked 30th nationally in terms of re search productivity. The rankings were based on a survey of 20 “top-tier” busi ness journals from 1986-1998 and put USC ahead of Dartmouth (43), Vander bilt (49) and Yale (56). Specifically, USC ranked second in insurance, international business and re al estate; third in production and opera tion managament; 12th in management information systems; and 21st in mar keting. The rankings are the most recent in a string of accolades for Uie business school. US. News & World Report has ranked the school’s undergraduate international business program top in the country and the graduate International Business Pro gram second nationally, the 10th con secutive year the program has been ranked either first or second by the magazine. ‘The ... School of Business has built many out standing programs, and we are equally proud of our faculty, our alumni and our students, all of whom have made this ranking possible.’ Ron Roenfeldt Interim dean of business Weather Inside Datebook Online Poll Today \ 65 f 50 Thursday ► 69 » 52 I Encore confesses to the Reverend Encore! Wednesday • Student Senate, 5 p.m., RH Theater • University Ambas sadors, 8 p.m.. Visitor Center Thursday ! February1 *KAACP\6pm • SALA, 7:30 p.m. Do you feel safe on campus? Vote at www.gamecock.sc.edu. Results will be published Friday. v ^