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After years of SG service, President
Corey Ford says he's ready to lead
by Brandon Larrabee
The'13amecock
It wasn’t newly elected Student Government
President Corey Ford’s strongest area. Even he
admits that his speaking style can come across
as a bit stiff.
But in Rutledge Chapel on Wednesday, giving
a speech in which he encouraged SG members to
unify after a bruising election, Ford seemed to have
found his voice. He was more relaxed, more
comfortable. He was speaking the words more than
reading them.
“Whether it be the ending of friendsliips or the
ambition to defeat one’s opponent, the taint of
mistrust lias made its mark on our electoral process,”
Ford said. “What confidence students liad in Student
Government certainly has been broken and has
continued to erode since then.”
After three years of holding SG positions varying
from Freshman Council member to vice president,
Corey Ford is about to take on his most visible
position yet — and he’ll be the one who has to fix
the oiganization’s broken trust.
As president, Ford will be expected to serve as
a spokesman and leader for SG, an organization
often regarded by students as powerless. He’ll need
to set the agenda—something he specifically avoided
as vice president to let then-SG President Jotaka
Eaddy do so — and try to convince university
students SG is still relevant.
When Ford came to USC in 1998, he says, he
wanted to follow up his high school experience on
student council at the college level. He joined
Freshman Council, then decided to go for a seat on
senate.
“I’ve always liked debate; I’ve always liked
legislative activity,” Ford said.
But he wasn’t necessarily a natural.
“It took a while to get used to it,” Ford said.
Ford ran for vice president in the 2000 SG
elections, wanting to give more oiganization to the
body. He also admits he had a run for the presidency
in mind.
But leading senate would end up turning him
off to SG. Senate got off to a slow start, which lasted
for several weeks. When senate finally did get
organized to act on issues such as the lottery, its
message sometimes got muddled. It took senate a
week to figure out that a resolution supporting the
lottery failed.
“I was turned off, and I was not intending to
run (for president),” Ford said.
But an even lower point in senate’s year would
persuade Ford that he did need to run. During a
debate about a set of amendments to the SG elections
codes, senators began to act immature and petty,
Ford said. He decided his work with SG wasn’t
done.
Alter seeing now baa tilings were ana being
re-motivated, then that’s when I decided to run,”
Ford said.
Ford didn’t try to duck responsibility for senate’s
activity — or lack of it — during the presidential
campaign, Eaddy pointed out.
“I think that shows a bit about Corey’s character,”
she said.
Eaddy, who compliments Ford on his job as vice
president, said she feels confident that Ford will do
well as president.
“I feel that he’s going to do a great job this year,”
she said.
Former Sen. Nathan White, who ran
unsuccessfully to succeed Ford in this year’s elections,
said Ford did a good job in his term as vice president.
“I think Corey did an outstanding job,” White
said.
Ann Marie Miani/The Gamecock
Taryn Collins, a third year student in the College of Nursing, holds the leash of her
pet, Lulu, as the Rev. Patrick Price blesses the 12-year-old dog. About 20 pets were
present for Sunday’s annual animal blessing service, held at the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship Church of Columbia on Heyward Street.
File Photo
SG Presidot Corey Ford takes his oath of office during Wednesday’s inauguration.
Ford’s gos include forming a Campus Action Network and exteding the drop date.
But he ;so said he would have allowed a “more
laid-back evironment” for senate, recalling Ford’s
tendency trtell senators not to talk when another
member hd the floor. He said senators were often
talking abat the legislation at hand, and stopping
that convesation might not have been good for
senate.
“I thirithat hurts the legislative process,” White
said.
Wheirord ran for president, he faced Donald
Brock an Angela Wilson. Repeating a feat he
accomplised in a four-way vice-presidential race
the year before, Ford won outright with an impressive
59 percent of the vote.
Ford took it as a mandate.
Now, he says, it’s his job to set the SG agenda.
He’s promised to form a Campus Action Network
among student organizations and continue Eaddy’s
push to extend the drop date, among other goals.
“Right now, I’m in the forefront,” Ford said.
“I’m the one that has to come up with the ideas and
take the lead.”
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Columbia church blesses
animals in annual service
by Erin O’Neal
The Gamecock
A1 dogs might go to heaven — but first,
they nust go to church.
Tb Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of
Coluibia hosted its annual animal blessing
servic Sunday at its church at 2701 Heyward
St.
Nit only does the church accept all walks
of faih — their congregation is made up of
Pagas, Buddhists and various other religions
— bit all walks of life, as well.
/bout 20 pets were present for Sunday’s
cereiony.
Trough most of the animals were dogs this
year previous years drew many different kinds
of admals.
We had a parrot one year; we had a boa
contrictor another year... I think someone
broght a goldfish one year,” said the Rev. Patrick
Prie, a minister at the fellowship.
Price, who is also a USC chaplain, presided
ovr the short service. He stressed the importance
of he relationship between humans and animals.
“Throughout history, [animals] have played
a najor role in human culture and thought,”
Pice said. “They’re like us — offspring of the
gtat mystery.”
Price said religion, philosophy and
government all seek to determine who’s a part
of the community.
For the parishioners of the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship of Columbia, that
definition of community includes pets.
“We honor our relationships with our animal
friends and family members,” Price said.
Price delivered a 15-minute sermon
highlighting the similarities shared between
humans and their animal companions.
“We no longer know how to listen to the
wisdom of the various four-legged, six-legged,
finned and winged creatures,” Price said. “They
are our ancestors as well as our kindred.”
Following the sermon, Price gave individual
blessings to each animal, along with a closing
prayer for those present and those too sick to
attend.
Taryn Collins, a third-year student in the
College of Nursing, brought her 12-year-old
dog, Lulu, to the church to be blessed.
“I missed the animal blessing last year, so I
decided to take her out,” Collins said.
The animal blessing service is held every
year near Earth Day or the beginning of
spring.
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TOP TEN
Week of March 23
PB Guided By Voices
M Isolation Drills
Sepulture
The Raging Teens
Rock ‘n’ Roll Party
□ Various Artists
O’Brother, Where Art Thou?
soundtrack
□ Swag
Catch-All
C Hefner
We Love the City
Cash Audio
Orange Sessions
Momus
Folktronic
Blackbox Recorder
England Made Me
Rae and Christian -
Sleepwalking
In The News
■ Radio City Music
Hall to produce new
springtime show
NEW YORK (AP)-The
landmark Radio City Music Hall,
which has attracted thousands of
visitors over the years for its annual
Christmas Spectacular, will produce a
new springtime show starting next
year.
Billed as a “musical theater
explosion of color and self
expression,” the Radio City Camivale
Spectacular is designed to celebrate
the diverse background of all New
Yorkers, producers said Wednesday.
“Our objective is to create a
world-class production that is worthy
of Radio City Music Hall and that
begins a new tradition for the people
of New York,” said James L. Dolan,
president and chief executive officer
of Cable vision Systems Corp., which
runs the theater.
The production team behind the
show includes Peter Minshall, who
will create oversized human sculpture
puppets similar to those he designed
for the 1992 and 1996 Summer
Olympics.
Besides the stage performance, the
show will extend into the theater’s
Rockefeller Center neighborhood,
where special Camivale parades will
take place.
The show is scheduled to debut in
May 2002.
■ Essence names
honorees for 2001
awards show
NEW YORK (AP)- Actor
Samuel L. Jackson, tennis stars Venus
and Serena Williams and neurosurgeon
Dr. Keith Black will be among the
honorees at The Essence Awards
2001.
The awards show will be taped
April 27 at The Theatre at Madison
Square Garden. It will air as a prime
time special on the Fox network at a
later date.
Steve Harvey and D. L. Hughley
will be the evening’s hosts.
This year’s theme, “Courage and
Tenacity,” pays tribute to people who
have exhibited strength in the face of
adversity through hard work,
determination and discipline.