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Carolina News Convention attempts to restore political faith " College Presss Exchange Philadelphia - Eager for students long soured on the state of American politics to get involved and make important changes, some pretty big names are head lining “We the People 2000,” a national convention expected to draw thousands of students from campuses throughout the United States to the City of Broth erly Love. This year’s three-day convention, to kick off Friday in Philadelphia, is spon sored by The Foundation for Individual Responsibility and Social Trust, also known |ps FIRST. Scheduled speakers include Ari zona Sen. John McCain; Marian Wight Edelman, president of the Children’s De • April 8 Disorderly conduct. Saige Frye Base ball Stadium. The responding officer ob _ __]_l :_* • served subject in side stadium during event without proper tickets. The Subject was intox icated with ah odor of an alcoholic beverage on his breath and person, was unsteady on feet and had slurred | speech. The sub | ject was arrested for disorderly conduct and transported to Richland County Detention Center. The search incident after arrest revealed a pair of vice grips and a steak knife, which were taken into safekeeping and placed into evidence locker. •April 7 Solicitation for prostitution. McMas ter’s College. The responding officer was in plain clothes and at the incident location when the officer was approached by the subject. The subject asked if the officer was working, and the officer said, “yes.” The subject said he didn’t have any money. He then drove off and con tinued to circle the block for several minutes. He then approached the offi cer again, and the officer got in the car \ _____ fense Fund; hip-hop artist Chuck D. and Wendy Kopp, president of Teach for America. Student delegates from campuses across the nation are expected to endorse a “Generational Action Plan” designed to restore young people’s faith in the de mocratic process. Participants also will discuss a variety of issues of concern to today’s college students, including ethnic diversity; technology management; in creasing population and dwindling nat ural resources. The convention embraces all types of politically active youth, from conser vative to liberal, and works to re-shape Generation X’s idea of politics. and asked what the subjected wanted to do. He said he had $5, and the officer again asked what he wanted to do. The . .. 1. • -a. . . : j i- _ subject said he wanted oral sex. The investigation continues. Evi dence was placed in a locker. •April 6 Simple possession of marijuana. The responding officer investigated a re port of a possibly armed male sub ject making threats near Columbia Hall in a red Plymouth Neon. The officer ob served the suspect vehicle on Greene Street and stopped the vehicle at the in cident location. The driver stepped from his vehicle and produced his S.C. dri ver’s license and registration. The offi cer observed, in plain view, a plastic bag containing a green plant believed to be marijuana in the driver’s door. The dri ver was arrested and when advised of his rights, he said he understood. The first subject was cuffed and transported to USC Police Department and then to RCDC. The other suspects weren’t found to be connected to the crime and were released. The evidence was placed in a locker. Anti-sweatshop group causes campus concern college press Exchange New York - Several university offi cials said they were pleasantly surprised by last week’s first meeting of the Work ers Rights Consortium, a new anti-sweat shop group pushed primarily by stu dents and labor groups. At the same time, university offi cials from 33 of the 44 institutions that have agreed to join the consortium ques tioned the proposed structure of the or ganization’s governing board. Univer sity officials said they feared the board’s makeup — which now stands at three students, three university officials and six members who mostly represent la bor unions and labor-rights groups — would weaken university input. School officials also pressed for a broader base from wliich students would be chosen to serve on the board. Under the current proposal, student board members would come from United Stu dents Against Sweatshops, a group that works in association with the consor Uum. University officials said they would prefer to see students outside the orga nization also qualify to serve. Despite their concerns, many uni versity officials at the April 7 meeting said they were impressed with all of the planning and work that has been con tributed to the consortium. “They really are sincerely com mitted to collaboration with the uni versities,” Damon R. Sims, associate dean of students at Indiana University, told The Chronicle of Higher Educa tion. The consortium has been operated from a one-room office in a New York church while two recent college graduates have traveled to campuses across the countiy to rally student sup port. Their work has been driven in part by opposition to the Fair Labor Asso ciation, another anti-sweatshop group that evolved from talks with the U.S. Labor Department. About 130 colleges and universities have joined the associ ation, which many students have criti cized as being too corporate. New comic features Latino hero by Susan Parrot Associated Press Dallas — Baldo, the subject of a new nationally syndicated comic strip that makes its debut today, is like a lot of teen agers: He longs to be noticed by the pret tiest girl in school. He enjoys a good game of soccer. And he’s building his very own car. He’s also Latino. And the car he’s piec ing together is a low-rider. Cartoons depicting mostly Hispanic characters are rare. “There certainly has been a dearth of strips in that area. It is something we have been looking for and when we saw Bal do, we knew it was the one,” said Lee Salem, vice president and editor of the Universal Press Syndicate, which is launch ing the strip in English and Spanish ver sions in nearly 100 newspapers. Only three other Universal Press Syn dicate comics have started out with high er numbers, Salem said: “For Better or For Worse,” “Calvin & Hobbes” and “The Boondocks.” “It’s a combination of defined market need and a good strip with characters that have a lot of humor potential,” Salem said. The daily cartoon is written by Hec tor Cantu, an assistant features editor at The Dallas Morning News, and drawn by Carlos Castellanos, a free-lance artist from West Palm Beach, Fla. Cantu said he had wanted to create a cartoon since he began reading Mad mag azine as a child. He said he found little that resembled his own Mexican-Amer ican heritage in the cartoon books and comic pages. 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