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Eaddy, Cabinet meet
t with senate committee
on drop-date petition
By Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
One week after sending a letter to Student Government
President Jotaka Eaddy saying too much effort was being con
centrated on Student Government’s plan to extend the drop
date, student senate’s Academic Affairs Committee has met with
Eaddy and her Cabinet to discuss the issue.
The meetings came little more than one week before the
height of SG’s petition drive to extend the drop date. Another
drive to gather signatures is set for Oct. 5.
Addressing the Cabinet Wednesday night, committee mem
ber Sen. Allison Whitworth said the committee hadn’t meant
0 to cause controversy or stop the petition drive with its letter.
“We never wanted to stop this petition drive or anything,”
Whitworth said. “We never intended to cause this much of an
uproar.”
Whitworth said the committee misunderstood the amount
of effort that was going into the drop date extension. She said
the committee never intended to present its views as those of
the majority of students, but rather they were trying to repre
sent the minority of students who might not strongly support
the drop date extension.
“Wfe just wanted to represent the few students who aren’t
that adamant about it,” she said.
Whitworth said she plans to participate in the Oct. 5 cam
paign.
Sen. Tyson Nettles, who chairs the committee, told The
Gamecock that while the meeting had addressed some of his
concerns, his opinion wasn’t changed.
“I don’t really think we came to an agreement about it,” he
said.
Nettles said that, even if the drop date does need to be
changed, he doesn’t think the petition is the right way to address
the issue.
0 “We don’t feel like it’s important enough to warrant a pe
tition,” Nettles said.
Nettles did say he thought he had a better understanding of
the issues Cabinet was working on after the meeting with Ead
dy.
“I tliink the committee’s comments about too much effort
being focused on it may not have been correct,” Nettles said.
Nettles said he doesn’t support changing the drop date.
But he said he would vote for a bill or resolution supporting such
a change because of the support the proposal has and because
Nettles says he wants to personally back Eaddy in her efforts
to complete her “Contract with Carolina.”
Nettles said he didn’t intend on voting for pending legisla
tion supporting the petition drive to move the drop date because
he didn’t agree with the drive. Nettles also said he didn’t plan
on participating in the Oct. 5 event.
The third member of the committee, Sen. Shereef El-Ibiary,
couldn’t be reached for comment.
Eaddy said the meeting gave her a better understanding of
the committee’s point of view.
“I still disagree with some of the things that were in the let
ter, but I basically understand,” Eaddy said.
Eaddy said her disagreement with the committee wouldn’t
prevent Cabinet from working with the committee in the fu
ture.
“They are interested in working with Cabinet on some oth
er issues,” she said.
Cabinet will now work with the senate’s Student Services
Committee on the drop-date campaign, Eaddy said.
Eaddy also said she respected Whitworth’s decision to par
ticipate in the petition drive despite her reservations.
“She’s going to be out there on October 5th really repre
senting her college,” Eaddy said. “I have a lot, a lot, of respect
for Allison for that.”
Sen. Jessica Lentini, who chairs the Student Services Com
mittee, said the committee’s role would be to organize sen
ate’s participation in the campaign. SG plans to have senators in
front of their respective colleges on Oct. 5, and Lentini said the
committee would organize that effort, as well as having a sena
tor from each college talk to that college’s dean.
“My plan is to have each college elect one senator to do
this,” Lentini said.
According to Academic Affairs Director Heather Homick,
who is spearheading Cabinet’s effort to extend the drop date,
the number of signatures collected on full petitions stood at
2,202 as of Wednesday night. She said that didn’t include in
complete petitions that have been placed outside the SG office
or those students are carrying around.
“There’s a bunch floating around,” Homick said.
Eaddy said that, counting the signatures of the petitions in
the SG office, the number of signatures has probably hit 2,500.
“We’re one-fourth of the way there,” Eaddy said.
Eaddy said the number of petitions made her want to work
harder to reach SG’s goal of collecting 10,000 signatures. She
said that SG would try to double the numbers of signatures at
the Thursday petition campaign.
“The word is out,” she said. “There’s a buzz on campus about
it.”
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Two schools get grant
by Charles Prashaw
The Gamecock
Public health and marine science researchers have re
ceived a grant to study the effects of pesticide runoff.
The research money, nearly $700,000, was granted to
USC from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis
tration to support ongoing research in “environmentally
sustainable coastal development.”
This means USC researchers will study the effect of com
mercial and residential developments on coastal ecosys
tems. In particular, researchers will study how pesticide runoff
from gold courses affects coastal environments. The researchers
will develop ways golf course managers and designers can de
crease pollution in their environments. The $700,000 adds to
the recent recording setting amounts of research money that
the university has received over the past year.
“This definitely adds to the laige amounts of research
money the university lias been raising recently,” USC spokesman
Jason Snyder said.
The award is part of an on-going Urbanization and South
ern Estuarine Systems project, which Sen. Fritz Hollings helped
establish in 1990. The project was originally designed to pro
vide science-based research to state and local resource man
agers and coastal public interest groups, like the various grass
root organizations thoughout the state.
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oyer the next, several months.
“This grant will allow researchers to assess how coastal
ecosystems respond to development activities along the South
Carolina coast,” he said. “We need to manage the wetlands
now, since human developments along the coast are only
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