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Clyburn
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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
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“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
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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.”
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gamecockudesk@hotmaiLcom.
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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
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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. The to
tal deatli rate with alcohol as a factor came
down from 1998’s 16,020 by 234 lives.
The city/state desk can be reached at
gamecockcitydesk@hotmaa.com.
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Alcohol-related deaths drop progressively
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Source: MADD statistics
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