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and the luring of new teachers. She
also stressed the importance of ed
ucation.
“Education is key,” she said.
“It’s very important that every
child is able to learn. We need a
well-trained and educated citizenry
for South Carolina.”
Hammond said Spence’s ap
proach to education would be to
continue to give schools as much
local control as possible.
“The best way to raise money
for schools is on the local level,”
Hammond said.
The current crisis in the Mid
dle East and a bill that would in
vigorate the peace process and con
demn the encouragement of
violence and terrorism there was
also a hot topic with the crowd.
Although Hammond said he
didn’t know Spence’s view on that
specific bill, he assured the audi
ence that “Congressman Spence is
doing everything he can to stop
the bloodshed in the Middle East.”
Frederick said she would sup
port the bill, and “would work to
rebuild the trust between all the
countries involved.”
Although asked to comment
on their personal feelings about
the lottery, Hammond and Fred
erick refused.
Frederick ran unsuccessfully
against Spence in the fall of 1997.
Spence has served in Congress
since 1971.
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last year there were four, raising
the question of whether there will
be enough flu shots when the or
ders arrive.
“That is less of a concern for
us,” Carnesale said. “It’s impor
tant to put this in perspective.”
She said the delay should not
cause people to worry, as the state’s
llu season stru ts later compared to
other states. According to Carne
sale, South Carolina flu season
reaches its peak during January and
February, when most flu cases are
reported. She also said that im
provements in vaccine manufac
turing have made it possible for
the vaccine to become effective
after only two weeks, as opposed
to six.
“Our schedule is more flexi
ble, so we can afford this delay,”
she said.
In addition to flu shots, Car
nesale said there are good flu med
ications available as well as pre
ventative practices that can be used
—to avoid the flu bug.
“It is important to realize
that the severity of the upcoming
winter flu season is unknown and
cannot be predicted,” said a
spokesperson for the CDC in At
lanta.
Suggested preventative tips re
leased by the TSHC and the
CDC include eating properly, get
ting plenty of sleep, maintaining
fitness and avoiding getting “run
down.”
Hill said students should be on
the lookout for announcements of
flu shot arrivals. The shots will be
given Mondays through Thursdays
from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., and from
1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Morals, money at heart of lottery debate
by Jim Davenport
Associated Press
PAXVILLE, S.C. (AP)— In the sandy
hills along Interstate 95, where South Car
olina’s closely watched lottery referen
dum will likely turn, both sides are uig
ing voters to make the right moral choice.
Churches want to strike a blow against
gambling. Gov. Jim Hodges believes vot
ers have a moral obligation to improve
education in a state that consistently ranks
at the bottom of the nation, and he sees
the lottery as the way to bankroll it.
Some swing voters here are reason
ing that a lottery may be a small vice to
pay to improve the state’s lagging schools.
“What’s a dollar a week?” asked Ce
cile Haley, who sells peach cider and Con
federate flags along with the gas at a ser
vice station in Santee. “We’ve got a lot
of money going across state lines to lot
teries. The school system definitely needs
some help.”
Hodges, a Democrat who benefited
from millions of gambling industry dol
lars in his 1998 election, has long lament
ed the $115 million a year South Car
olinians spend across the border on Georgia
lottery tickets.
That money has helped Geoigia pump
$4 billion into its public schools since
1993 and pay for its successful Hope schol
arship program, which gives every high
school student with a B average free tu
ition to state colleges and universities.
“Come on, South Carolina, don’t ru
in it for us by getting your own lottery,”
a fictional Geoigia convenience store own
er named Bubba says in pro-lottery ads.
“Just remember, here in Georgia we
luuuv South Carolinians buying our lot
tery tickets,” he says.
If voters decide Nov. 7 to lift a con
stitutional ban on the games, Hodges plans
to spend $105 million a year in lottery
money for college scholarships, $40 mil
lion for public school technology upgrades
and about $5 million for teacher training.
Republicans contend much of what
Hodges wants can be paid for without a
lottery.
Whether South Carolina becomes the
38th state with a lottery could depend on
a swath of land stretching from the state’s
Pee Dee to the Midlands along 1-95.
It is an area sandwiched between
the Republican and religiously conserva
tive Upstate, which is almost sure to vote
against a lottery, and the more live-and
let-live Lowcountry, which is more like
ly to be for it.
It’s also an area where 70 percent of
the students qualify for free or reduced
price lunches, less than tliird of them head
to college and their average SAT score of
875 is 100 points below the state’s last
in-the-nation average.
It boils down to towns like Paxville,
and people like Scott Merriweather and
Wide McLeod.
“I’m totally against it,” McLeod de
clared as he leans against his truck. •
“You’ve got your morality reasons
first,” he said, adding that he also doesn’t
care much for one state competing against
another for gambling dollars.
Merriwehther figures people who
want to gamble are going to do it some
where. He admits he sometimes plays lot
teries in Geoigia and Florida.
“Why not? You ain’t going to hell for
it,” he said.
Senate Majority Leader John Land, a
Manning Democrat and'one of Hodges’
biggest lottery supporters, figures the Up
state will go so heavily anti-lottery that
voters here and in the Lowcountry must
approve it by a 70 percent margin.
But Hodges has reason to be worried.
Another first-term Democratic governor,
Don Siegelman of Alabama, saw his lot
tery plans go down to defeat in October
amid heavy religious opposition.
And there is evidence of a changing
mood in South Carolina, which through
years of polling has been heavily pro-lot
tery. A recent Mason-Dixon poll found
48 percent of registered voters questioned
supported a lottery and 41 percent op
posed it, a narrower margin than before.
Eleven percent of the 625 regis
tered voters remained undecided with less
than a month to go to the election. The
poll had a 4 percent margin of error.
Kevin Geddings. who runs the South
Carolina Education Lottery Coalition for
Hodges, said he expected the polls to tight
en before the vote.
He believes for the lottery to win it
must turn out large numbers of black vot
ers and earn 70 percent of their votes.
That makes the nine Pee Dee and Low
country counties that have black votin,
majorities critical.
Yet leaders of the African Methodis
Episcopal Church, who supported Hodge
two years ago, oppose a lottery. So doe
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
The NAACP, still angry the Confed
erate flag was moved front atop the State
house but not off the grounds, said thi
month that it can’t trust legislators to ge
lottery money to poor, largely black schoc
districts.
AME leaders also say Hodges tried t
meddle in church affairs after the gover
nor called meetings with various religiou
leaders earlier this year to try and get ther
to back down.
At an anti-gambling meeting in Sumte
one evening, former Republican Go\
David Beasley reminds about 75 peopl
of his 1998 defeat. “I gave up my caree
fighting for what I believe to be righi
standing against the gambling industry,
he said.
But the parking lot also is filling at !•
Bingo near Sumter Air Force Base a cou
pie of miles away. Bingo has been legs
here for years.
Mickey Gale, taking a smoke brea
before a $ 1,500 jackpot game, says h
won’t vote for the lottery or anything els
in November because he just doesn’t vott
But if there’s a lottery, “I’ll buy tick
ets,” he says.
“Whatever the people want to d
with their money, they worked for it, le
them do it.”
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“It would be unfair to be as active
if you’re not chairman,” he said, adding
that he would support Whittle as chair
man. “I don’t want to interfere with
his goals and his efforts, but I’ll be
there to support him in every way I
can.”
Campus improvements like new
residence halls, the graduate science
research center, the groundbreaking
^-1
for the Strom Thurmond Fitness and
Wellness Center and the adoption of
the board’s plan to build crosswalks
leading to the fitness and wellness cen
ter are among the accomplishments
Hubbard said made the job gratifying.
Hubbard also cited the raising of $300
million through the bicentennial cam
paign, despite critics who doubted the
university could reach the initial $200
million goal, as one of his fondest
memories.
“All of these things are accom
plishments that really give me the
greatest amount of satisfaction,” Hub
bard said.
“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it,” Hub
bard said of his time as cliairman. “I’ve
really enjoyed the contact with stu
dents. I’ve really enjoyed the contact
with faculty.”
The board also agreed to a list of
24 goals at the meeting. The list cov
ers eight areas: values, resources, stu
dents, faculty, campus, athletics,
service and public awareness. They
include achieving an endowment of
$600 million, achieving an average
SAT score of 1175 for incoming fresh
men, increasing Honors College en
rollment to 1,200 “while maintaining
or improving current academic
quality,” making USC one of the to
five undeigraduate programs in th
South and being annually ranked i
the top 25 “in all sports.”
“I think we have a real road ma]
in place,” Hubbard said of the goal;
which he said were of equal impor
tance.
“We did not number them,” Hub
bard said. “We’re going to try to el
feet progress in all of these areas.
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