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Businesses,
Harvest Hope
unite to help
hunger in S.C.
BY MARUXA RELANO
The Gamecock
It is estimated that one in four children
in South Carolina goes hungry every day.
Harvest Hope Food Bank, a nonprofit
organization that aims to relieve hunger in
central South Carolina, teamed with the
tenants of the First Union Bank building
last week for a food drive.
“Hunger is a year-long thing; it doesn’t
vary with the seasons,” Harvest Hope
spokeswoman Veronica DelCastillo said. “But
the community is really good about conducting
food drives throughout the year.”
First Union National Bank, Trizechan
Office Properties and Scott McElveen, an
accounting firm, conducted the food drive
University
Friday, Jan. 26
■ Non-suspicious fire, 147 S.
Marion St. After the fire alarm
went off, RAs were alerted to the third
floor of the Roost where an unnamed
RA found a fire in a trash can in the
trash room. The RA put out the fire
before the Columbia Fire Department
or USCPD arrived. The reporting
officer was A. Johnson.
Thursday, Jan. 25
■ Larceny of taillights, Blossom
Street Gardge. Douglas Lanier, 19,
said unknown pcrson(s) by unknown
means removed two laillights from
his red 1998 Chevy S-10. Estimated
value of the laillights is $180 The re
porting officer was N. Beza.
■ Larceny of banners, MeBryde
Dorm, Sigma Phi Epsilon hall.
Unknown pcrson(s) by unknown
means removed one skull and cross
bone banner valued at $60, one
Sigma Phi Epsilon banner valued at
$100 and two spotlights valued at $40
from the incident location. The
reporting officer was R. Whitlock.
■ Attempted grand larceny of a
motor vehicle, 600 Park St. behind
the Coliseum. George Washington,
35, said unknown person(s) broke
out his driver’s side window then
removed the ignition by unknown
means. The reporting officer was A.
Johnson.
City
Sunday, Jan. 28
■ Public drunkenness, 830
Assembly St. Reporting officer R Gunter
said he observed Jody Mack unsteady on
his feet, using slurped speech and smelling
of alcohol. He was found urinating
behind a building.
■ Simple assault, 1200 Park St. Janies
Ganey reported to police that while he
was attempting to break up a fight in
which two other men were engaged, the
two men turned on him. Both men start
ed to kick and punch him. The report
ing olficer was M. Blair.
■ Assault with a deadly weapon,
1003 Ashley St. Michelle Jackson, 29,
reported finding Leonard Grant, 39,
lying on the ground saying he had been
shot. Jackson called the police and EMS,
who transported the victim to Palmetto
Richland Memorial Hospital. Grant told
police he was involved in a verbal
altercation with an older man when the
man pulled out a pistol and shot him in
the leg. The reporting officer was J.
Braun.
Saturday, Jan. 27
■ Assault with a deadly weapon,
2300 Two Notch Road. Toy White, 23,
said he saw an unknown man get shot in
the right arm and the back with a
handgun. The reporting officer was E.
Murphy.
■ Shoplifting less than $1,000,
Wal-Mart Superstore, 5240 Forest
Drive. A cashier observed Olga
Logvinova, 42, place a lady’s cardigan
sweater worth $ 16.94 under her arm and
exit the store without paying.
Trees need protection, too,
says Columbia City Council
BY EUGENE KODILLO
The Gamecock
A recommendation for a trge
protection, landscaping and buffer yard
ordinance was discussed this past Wednes
day when the Columbia City Council
met at Hand Middle School.
The proposed Tree and Appearance
Commission would authorize the plant
ing, care and protection of public trees,
according to city officials.
The proposed ordinance is similar to
existing ordinances in Charlotte, NiC,
and Fulton County, Ga.
It would preserve hardwood trees
with diameters more than 24 inches and
softwood trees more than 30 inches in
diameter.
The ordinance, which covers timber
harvesting, would punish non-compliers
with a maximum fine of $500 per viola
tion.
Overall, most City Council mem
bers agreed the ordinance was a step in
the right direction the city should take.
Some area residents voiced concents
‘I want our city to be developed more like
Hilton Head and less like Myrtle Beach.’
Mark Sally
Columbia Resident
about overdevelopment issues.
“I want our city to be developed more
like Hilton Head and less like Myrtle
Beach,” said Columbia resident, Mark
Sally.
Other citizens agreed with Sally and
his views of Columbia’s appearance, and
some of them expressed their feelings to
Council.
“It’s a matter of appearance and pride
in our community. It makes us like our
community better and it makes us feel
more committed to it,” Columbia resi
dent Joint Stucker said.
Not all of the citizens present were
in favor of the ordinance.
Columbia resident Mark Watson
came to the location as the lone oppo
sition to the proposed ordinance.
“What a man does on his own prop
erty should be his own business,” Wat
son said.
Watson felt that this ordinance would
raise the property value increasing home
prices for people moving into the area.
“Please consider the fact that this
will increase the cost of a home, a new
home, developed in our area,” Watson
said.
The city desk can be reached at
gamecockcitydesk@holmail.com
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Gov. Hodges proposes
$636 million budget
for bridge construction
by Brooke Bryenton
The Gamecock
Gov. Jim Hodges released a
proposal earlier this month
outlining a $636 million budget for
the construction of a new Cooper
River Bridge.
The bridge will replace the John
P. Grace Memorial and Silas N.
Pearman bridges, built in the 1920s
and 1966, respectively.
The S.C. Department of Trans
portation is studying preliminary
plans for the 3.1-mile, eight-lane
bridge, which will run from Mount
Pleasant to Charleston.
SCDOT Communications
Director Pete Poore said, “on the
Charleston side, the bridge would
start north of the existing bridges.”
“It would cross over the old
bridges somewhere in the middle of
the river and ‘touch down’ ...
south of the old bridges on the Mount
Pleasant side.”
Construction is expected to
begin in early summer and last three
to five years.
Traffic won’t be impacted
significantly because the two present
bridges will remain open during
construction.
Budget Cuts
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university — potentially chasing
other students away.“If the cut’s at 15
percent, there’s no way that tuition in
creases would make up the difference,”
lie said earlier this month.
In addition to tuition increases,
“you’re talking about programs to cut,
enrollment limitations,” Palms said.
“That’s painful.... and that would not
be a good sign, both for the students
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we’re trying to recruit, [and] for the
faculty we’re trying to recruit here.”
According to Director of Stu
dent Life Jerry Brewer, some colleges
might have to wait to fill positions if
professors leave.“That college may or
may not be able to fill that position
in a timely manner,” he said.
But problems could also arise in
attracting quality faculty in the first
place.“The marketable person is go
ing to go where the resources are,”
Brewer said.
Ford said lie was worried about the
message such a cut would send to the
citizens of South Carolina about high
I er education. “It’s sending a message
I to the citizens of the state, to the par
ents of the state, that we’re not
! giving it a high priority,” he said.
' The university desk can be reached at
) gamecockudesk@hotmaH.com
Campus Calendar
I Monday, Jan. 29
■ Meeting: Student Incubator In
j terest. 6 p.m., RH 304.
Wednesday, Jan. 31
■ Meeting: Student Incubator In
terest. 6 p.m., RH 315.
■ Speaker Date rape survivor
Katie Koestner.
7 p.m., RH Theater.
, ■ Meeting: USC Bisexual Gay
Lesbian Alliance
8 p.m., Gambrell 201.
Thursday, Feb. 1
■ Meeting: Students Associated
for Latin America.
7:30 p.m., RH 205.
Saturday, Feb. 3
■ Book-signing; Author K.
Thomas Oglesby, What Black Men
, Should Do Now: 100 Simple
Truths, Ideas, and Concepts.
1-3 p.m., Books-A-Million on Harbi
son Boulevard.
To add your events to
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Sverdrup Civil, Inc., one of three
firms participating in the bidding,
released four conceptual designs.
These included a cable-stayed
bridge, a center-tiered arch bridge
and a self-anchored suspension bridge.
It will cost an estimated $16.1
million to demolish the two existing
bridges.
SCDOT has given residents the
chance to voice their opinions about
the new bridge, which will
accommodate bicycle and
pedestrian traffic.
Interchanges will span off the
bridge at Mount Pleasant and
Charleston, with ramps at Morrison
Drive and Wingo Way.
SCDOT expects to accept a bid
and sign a contract in May.
“The people of Charleston will
have the bridge they deserve — with
no tolls, no half-measures and no
further delays,” Hodges said. “Now
we can build the bridge the Low
country needs and the entire state
can be proud of.”
The city desk can be reached at
gamecockdtydesk@hotmaNxom
from their offices at 1441 Main St.
They put boxes on each floor and signs
in the elevators urging employees and
customers to contribute nonperishable food.
“Wfe are doing different things to promote
this,” said Linda Caughman of Scott McElveen.
For example, First Union Bank gave their
employees the opportunity to wear jeans to
work on Friday if they brought four cans of
food with them.
The businesses collected food during the
day, and Harvest Hope Food Bank collected
it each night and stored it in its warehouse.
The food is distributed to different
agencies, churches and shelters who come to
Harvest Hope for help.
For Caughman, the goal is “giving
something back to the community.”
Recently, their work was publicly re
warded when Secretary of State Jim Miles
included them in his “Angel’s List,” an award
that recognizes the work of charitable
organizations that use the majority of then
money on programs for those in need rather
than on administrative and fund-raising costs.
“The organizations on the Angel’s List
create a better quality of life and keep the
giving spirit in the Carolinas,” Miles said of
the ten organizations on this year’s list.
The tenants of the First Union Bank
building chose to contact Harvest Hope to
help coordinate a food drive “for doing what
they do and doing it so well, Caughman said.
Laura Anderson, a third-year French,
Spanish and International Relations major in
the Honors College at USC, collaborated for
two years with Harvest Hope Food Bank.
With Harvest Hope Food Bank, “you can
help on a very direct level—everybody can
go out and buy a few cans of food,”
Anderson said." You are not building a house
for someone, but you are still helping, ”
In 1999, more than seven million pounds
of surplus food were distributed by Harvest
Hope Food Bank.
The organization was created in 1981. It
works in 18 different counties in central South
Carolina and serves more than 360 agencies,
including churches, soup kitchens, youth
homes, residential shelters, treatment
facilities, children’s homes and emergency
food pantries.
During the past Christmas season, 100,000
pounds of food were collected by the
organization.
The city desk can be reached at
gamecockdtydesk@hotmafl.cori
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the crowd and provide a short history of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
“This is a day for us to remember the
legacy of a great man who has taught us so
much and who did not live in our era, but
has touched all of us,” Eaddy said.
“It is not only about remembering the
dream, but everyday living the dream.”
Williams, the keynote speaker, described
his own experiences during the Civil Rights
Movement.
He spoke or his rise from poverty, his
feeling toward King and his gratitude to
everyone for contributing in the celebration.
“Yes, we are a part of an inescapable
network of mutuality,” Williams said.
“Take this commitment with you today
because not only will you make the
University of South Carolina on it’s 200th
birthday celebration a better place for
students to come, but you will make this
world a better place to live in.”
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.coni