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©it ©am rack Emerging student leaders gather for training at USC by Mary Hartney The Gamecock About 450 students from the Southeast attended the Student Leadership Training Conference on Saturday. The conference, which USC hosted, included sessions on how to run an effective meeting, how to encourage diversity in an oiganization and how to work effectively with student media. Faculty and staff from USC and other participating schools taught the sessions. Student leaders from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Bob Jones University, Moms College and Midlands Technical College represented their schools at the conference. This was SLTC’s 15th year at USC, and coordinators had been planning for the conference for almost a year. The conference included three sessions, and students chose which presentations were most applicable to them. The keynote speaker was author Will Keim. Keim, who has written several books . including Education of Character and The Truth about College, flew in from Oregon for his speech at the conference. KeinTs speech captured the attention of all the student leaders packed into the ‘[The keynote speech] was fabulous. It was a real eye-opener. The whole time I kept thinking other students need to hear this.* Bethany Basten Conference participant Russell House ballroom. He shared 10 steps to developing character and true leadership, accentuated with anecdotes from his travels to universities and his personal life. One refrain was, “say what you mean. Do what you say. When you don’t, admit it.” Keirn also mentioned his fraternity brotherhood with USC football coach Lou Holtz. Bethany Basten, who represented USC sports clubs at the conference, said Keim’s lunchtime keynote speech was “fabulous.” “It was a real eye-opener. The whole time, I kept thinking other students need to hear this,” Basten said. Basten attended a session given by Carl Johnson, USC coordinator of Greek Life, entitled “Perception is Reality.” According to the schedule, the session showed “how to bring your life into clearer view by understanding the way you are perceived and how you perceive others.” “I really enjoyed that one,” Basten said. “He was really captivating... He showed me how to put a spin on a situation that will help me become a good leader. I learned to understand things about myself and how people see me, and that was what really hit home with me,” Basten said. At the end of the conference, participants were asked to stand and sliare one thing dtey had learned. Many students focused on the diversity programs offered in session and how they had learned to see diversity differently. Students said they had been challenged in sessions, in addition to learning a lot about different leadership styles and how to use the information in their own student organizations. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Hodges from page 1 he wasn’t sure whether private individuals at the company gave money to candidates, but he was sure that the company doesn’t give campaign contributions. “We don’t want articles written about us in The State newspaper,” Dodds said. “I can definitely see where the percep tion is here.” Officials with the South Carolina Broadcaster’s Association declined to comment on the matter, saying they didn’t know the facts in the case and didn’t want to make a judgment. Officials with the state’s Ethics Commission were unavailable. Cortney Owings, a spokesperson with I--= = - the governor’s office, said she couldn’t talk about the matter. According to Owings, the governor’s campaign manager Kevin Geddings would have to comment on the issue. Geddings was unavailable as of press time. The city desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmaiLcom Budget from page 1 intellectually around a number that big,” he said. One thing that could make cuts difficult is that 90 percent of the operating budget is used to pay employees who are under contract with the university, Olsgaard said. After years of being funded at a level below what the university should get according to the state’s formula, Olsgaard said, the university has very little left to cut. “If there were any little pools [of money], they’ve dried up into puddles,” he said. “And the puddles are pretty dry as well.” Olsgaard said the money couldn’t be raised by a tuition increase alone. Palms has said a 15 percent cut could force the university to increase tuition as much as 32 percent. “It obviously puts it way beyond the range of what any kind of acceptable tuition increase would be,” he said. “It would be unacceptable to try to build a tuition increase to make up for $23 million.” Interim Budget Director Bob Bugbee said the university’s actions to respond to a budget cut would depend on the size of cuts. He said any cut of more than 5 percent would likely cause the university to look at some of its programs and “see if we could save some money by pliminatinfr snmp nf the them.” Bugbee said the criteria for his office’s recommendations on the budget would be based on the size of any cuts.“It’s going to be a difficult decision,” he said. “It’s not something that you can do 100 percent objectively.” Martin McWilliams, a USC law professor who chairs the faculty senate Budget Committee, said he thought the university shouldn’t cut the university’s programs across-the-board. 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