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lEhc Gamecock Thursday, November 2 • Grand larceny, fraud, (JSC Beaufort (Hilton Head campus). Ann Liles of the (JSC purchasing division said someone stole two VISA purchasing cards and made several unauthorized purchases. Reporting officer: W. Snyder. • Disorderly conduct, College and As sembly streets. Officer E. Stoudemire reported that Rodney Brown, 35, was very unsteady on his feet, had slurred speech and had a strong odor of alcohol on him. Brown was observed ap preaching Officer Gass, in plain clothes, and attempting to sell several CDs from a black case. He was later arrested and transported to Richland County De tention Center. It couldn’t be deter mined whether the CDs were stolen or not. Friday, November 3 • Autobreaking, tampering with autos, larceny of stereo, resisting arrest, Blatt RE. Center parking lot. Report ing officer E. Stoudemire, along with other officers, was dispatched to the above location in regard to reports of two attempting to get inside several ve hicles at the incident location. Plain clothed officer M. Gass went to the lo cation, while other officers surrounded the perimeter in marked police cars. M. Gass said he saw the two subjects, Malume Green and Antwan Bunch, both 20, try to break into a 1991 Oldsmobile. After trying to approach one of the subjects, botli Bunch and Green took off on foot in opposite directions. Gass called in other officers on a cell phone wliile he attempted to follow one of the subjects off foot. Bunch was arrested by officers Et tenget, Whitlock and Forte in the USCPD parking lot. Green was arrest ed near a creek south of the location by officers Gass and Stoudemire. Later, one of the subjects admitted he was break ing into cars and trying to steal stereos, and that he had earlier stolen a JVC stereo from a Saturn paiked outside Cliff Apartments. Lottery from page 1 and... it’s going to keep more kids who are from South Carolina in South Car olina.” Geddings said the new students would force some students to go to other in stitutions in the state, such as USC Spar1 tanbuig, more fully utilizing those schools. “Those institutions are not fully uti lized right now,” Geddings said. Geddings said students could look forward to two new $2,000-a-year schol arships if the referendum gives the go ahead to the lottery. One of the new schol arships would award students who get a 3.0 GPA, according to Geddings. That includes students currently attending state schools. The other lottery-funded schol arship would give incoming students with a 1000 on the SAT an additional $2,000 a year. The lottery would also provide $12 million in need-based scholarships and allow students to go to the state’s tech nical colleges for free. According to Geddings, those schol arships would also not affect students’ eligibility for the Palmetto Scholars or LIFE scholarships. Students are prohib ited from having more than one of those scholarships.at the same time, because both are administered by the state. But the new scholarships would be awarded by an “education lottery corporation,” Geddings said, and students could get both. The lottery would also provide $50 million for new technology in grades K 12, Geddings said. “It’s going to change the face of ed ucation in South Carolina if the lottery is approved,” he said. But Kenneth Wingate, a member of No Lottery 2000’s executive com mittee, disagreed with Geddings’ char acterization of the lottery. He said that, without legislation spelling out how the state will use the funds, the scholar ships are no sure thing. He said political pressure might cause legislators to de vote more money to K-12 education than under lottery supporters’ plan. “There's no guaranteed benefit of any kind, first of all,” Wingate said. He also said the lottery would have more costs than benefits. And the lottery wouldn’t produce any new wealth, Wingate added. He said the lottery would just draw away mon ey from other purchases that would pro duce additional tax money. “It’s disingenuous. It’s smoke-and mirrors to say that the lottery is creating wealth,” Wingate said. “They’re just mov ing money from one pocket into anoth er pocket.” Wingate also said lottery supporters’ numbers don’t add up. Lottery sup porters usually say a lottery will bring $150 million to the state. But Wingate said lottery supporters were promising more than that — 100,000 new schol arships at $2,000 each; free technical col lege for the 62,000 students currently at tending those schools, which Wingate said would conservatively cost about $ 1,000 apiece; as well as $40 million for computers and $8 million for new teach ers — a total of $310 million. But Wingate also said lottery mon ey wasn’t necessary to give students more scholarship money. He pointed to a bill recently passed by the legislature that raised the LIFE scholarship from $2,000 a year to $3,000 a year. “We already have the money to pro vide the scholarships,” he said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. GMP from page 1 way for the state to raise its educational standards. As Barnes noted the $13 billion the United States spent on the’ GI Bill, a program that created scholarships for those who had served in the Army, Hodges voiced his support for a lottery providing similar benefits. “It (the lottery) has the potential impact to be like the GI Bill for South Carolina,” he said. Unlike video poker, Hodges added that the lottery would involve the will of the public and be regulated and con trolled by the state. In addition, it would allow South Carolina to accom modate the increased demand for jobs re quiring secondary school. Determining what to do about work-force development and the educa tion level of students is the primary focus of the Georgia governor, who like Hodges originally opposed a lottery. But also like Hodges, Barnes became a supporter and admits he was wrong after seeing the lottery’s success and control over the years. He said there is no reason not to encour age it and attempt to spread its positive effects. “You’ll be amazed,” he said. “It takes only a small time [for the lottery ] to pro vide benefits.” According to Hodges, if Tuesday’s ref erendum passes, the lottery would start up in January. While both governors spoke in favor of the lottery and most Student Govern ment members on hand embraced it, there was some opposition among the crowd. Melanie Dukes, a fifth-year pharma cy student, voted against the lottery with her absentee ballot. 0 “Teaching and allowing people to fur ther their education through others who are taught to spend big, cheapens the val ue the state places on education,” she said. “If we care enough about education, we should be willing to pay more taxes. 1 personally am willing to pay other tax es than allow people to waste money hop ing to win big.” 5 The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmaiLcom. J President from page 1 called Retirement Savings Plus, entails “tax-free savings accounts that will en able working Americans to build a re tirement nest egg in addition to Social Se curity’s guaranteed benefit.” However, issues haven’t been the on ly focus of this past week’s last minute campaigning. While both candidates have been working feverishly in the last week to lure votes, education and social security issues were in danger of taking a back seat to scandal. The Bush camp was seemingly dealt a tough blow with the revelation Thursday about the governor’s drunken driving arrest 24 years ago. But neither group believes the news will have much of an impact on the election. “I don’t think it’s going to affect” Bush, Mangone said “I think the American peo ple will understand he was forthright in saying he had a problem with alcohol and did something about it.” Clermont had the same impression. “I think it will maybe do damage on a few percentage points with independent voters who care about character, but I don’t think it will affect his campaign.” According to the latest polls, the drunk-driving story hasn’t hurt Bush’s slin^ lead. Bush leads 49 percent to Gore’s 4^ percent in an ABC News tracking poll. Results are similar in other national polls. John Huiett contributed to this story. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmaiLcom. Turnout from page 1 day. Like their older counterparts, students and young people say they don’t vote for a variety of reasons, from lack of inter est to mistrust of government. Rock the Vote, an MTV-based voter organization, registered more than 1 million people ages 18-24 for this year’s election. It recent ly surveyed college-age voters and found that young people overwhelmingly said government corruption discouraged them to vote. Some USC students had similar views. Pharmacy graduate student Andrew Larkin described himself as a militant an ti-voter. “I just can’t bring myself to partici pate in the process,” he said. “I don’t think I’ll ever end up of voting.” Larkin said there are general prob lems with politicians not being scholarly or well-qualified for public offices. “I have the utmost confidence that my fellow Americans will vote for the worst possible candidate to whatever of fice it may be,” Larkin said. Other students had a brighter view of the state of politics and voting. “It is especially important for young people to vote,” junior English major Kara Monk said. “We don’t use the right, and we could make a difference if we did.” Freshman biology major Kieran Daw son said he already voted absentee for Gore. He said that, although it was the fiist time in his life he has voted, he knows how important it is for people to make their voices heard. “Everyone needs to vote; every vote counts.” he said. Business major Zegnep Tangel also _ voted absentee for Gore. This year’s elec tion was her first voting experience, but it won’t be her last. “Hopefully I’ll continue to vote,” Tangel said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. AN HISTORIC RESIDENCE Efficiency $445 One Bedroom $505 Two Bedroom $540 Rents include all utilities and cable TV. All rates quoted are month to month. 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