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TOie (5amcrock Clyburn from page 1 designated to improve economic de velopment in Columbia and Sumter,” Derrick said. If Clyburn is re-elected, he hopes to sustain the projects he has started. “[He] wishes to continue his ef forts to bring economic development to the 6th district, especially since it is the poorest in the state,” Derrick said. Education is another important is sue for Clyburn, Derrick said. “Jim Clyburn is a big proponent of Pell grants and federal aid to col lege students,” she said. “He is also for amending affirmative action in stead of ending it like his opponent, Vince Ellison,” Derrick said. Republican Vince Ellison also ran for the District 6 congressional seat in 1998. He was born in Brownsville Tenn., but now resides in Columbia. Ellison, a Tennessee native and graduate of Memphis State Univer sity, served as president of the African American Unity Congress and worked as a corrections officer for the South Carolina Department of Corrections from 1990 to 1995. Ellison did not return attempts for comment. A televised debate between Clybum and Ellison will air on SCETV at 9 p.m. Monday. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. Petition from page 1 “It’s just another way to make us equal with the AAU,” she said. Even some students who used to be SG members decided to help in the a* drive for signatures. 01 Former Sen. Virgil Platt said he keeps up with what SG is doing, and he decided to help in the petition dri ve because “it’s directly affecting all students here. “I don’t see a reason why you wouldn’t” support changing the drop date, Platte said. “You can’t be hurt by it; it can only help.” Preliminary counts indicate SG boosted their total number of signa tures from 3,000 to 4,182. However, that number didn’t include signatures senators received while standing in front of their colleges but hadn’t yet turned in. It also didn’t include out standing petitions being passed around by other students. According to Eaddy, the number of signatures is probably over the 5,000 mark. “It’s a good number,” she said, pointing out that the number of sig natures represents almost twice as many people than who voted in last year’s SG elections. Though the number is short of the official goal—SG had wanted to have 7,500 signatures by the end of the day, three-quarters of its overall goal - Ead dy said she wasn’t disappointed. Eaddy said that, while the pro posal’s fate wouldn’t be decided by whether 10,000 signatures were col lected, SG could have the rest of its goal within two weeks. “I think 5,000 is very encourag ing,” Eaddy said. “I’m not at all upset with 5,000.” The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. 'Vantage from page 1 he would take advantage of the offer. “I would bank with iVantage be cause it’s low-hassle and its starting benefits,” he said. Many students also have concerns about iVantage. The very nature of the Internet encourages free access to information. This causes concern among many stu dents regarding the safety of their fi nancial information. IVantage hopes to limit these concerns through the usage of advanced encryption tech nology. Yant said he wouldn’t be con cerned. “I wouldn’t have any real se curity concerns,” Yant said. “Not now, anyway. Maybe two or three years ago, I would have, but not today.” . IVantage might be offering stu dents the services they are very much interested in; however, students still have concerns. “I love the flexibility,” said San dra Tracy, psychology junior. “I can have access to my money just about everywhere. On the other hand, I wouldn’t because they don’t have the personal touch that conies with an es tablished bank.” The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmaiLcom. 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Leisure Ministries Center (2nd building past sanctuary building) Shandon United Methodist Church 3407 Devine Street, Columbia, SC 29205 Teens gather at MADD summit by Eugene Rodillo The Gamecock More than 400 teens from the Unit ed States, Puerto Rico and Guam gathered at the Mothers Against Drunk Drivers Na tional Youth Summit in Washington, D.C., this past week to address what some call a growing problem with today’s youth: underage drinking. “The delegates [brought] solutions on how to stop underage drinking,” MADD spokeswoman Staci Maiers said. Four hundred thirty-five teens took part as delegates. One delegate was chosen from each U.S. congressional district, with each hav ing to answer questions on an application. Delegates were then chosen to partici pate. Some of them were just interested in joining the fight against underage drink ing, while others, according to Maiers, had “personal tragedies” as their reason for joining. It is estimated by the Center for Sub stance Abuse Prevention that eiglit young people die every day from aleohol-relat I ed crashes. v “It was necessary for teens to take part in this for the fact that it primarily con cerned them,” said another spokeswoman for MADD, who refused to be identified. “Because of this, we should make them part of the solution.” Since alcohol use is the No. 1 drug problem among young people, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, those at MADD thought it only made sense that teens help find a solution on how to stop underage drink ing. Delegates took part in a myriad of events, including a press conference on Capitol Hill, a'chance to talk and discuss issues with members of Congress, and a Dodge/Plymouth Neon'Drunk Driving Simulator, to name a few. National Youth Summit Delegates Jes sica Barrientos, Megan Kohls, Chequan Lewis and Adam Schein released the top recommendations that the teens formed. Some of these included an “increased ex cise tax on alcoholic beverages with the revenue to be used to fund alcohol aware ness and prevention programs.” Another suggestion was to have a “re quirement of magnetic strips and/or bar codes on all driver’s licenses and ID cards issued by the state for age verification and detection of fake IDs, and requirement of tall alcohol sales establishments to use elec tronic ID/license scanners to verify age.” Congress on Oct. 3 passed a new na tional drunk-driving limit of .08 percent blood-alcohol content. It is estimated tliat each year about 500 highway fatalities could be prevented if each state imple mented the .08 percent standard. Tire .08 percent EAC has already been put into practice by 18 states, including Texas, California, North Carolina, Utah and Florida. Alcohol-related deaths in 1999 came to a total of 15,786, with Texas and Cal ifornia at the top of the list. Texas had 1,734, and California had 1,351. 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