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Candidates face off
Five contenders
debate platforms
BY KEVIN FELLNER
THE UAMECOCK
All five of the Student
Government presidential candi
dates voiced their opinions at the
2002 SG debates Tuesday night in
the Russell House Theater, and
tried their best to persuade the at
tendees for their vote.
The debate, cosponsored by The
Gamecock, featured questions by a
panel of three moderators as well as
the audience and even the other
candidates.
SG presidential candidate Sen.
David Bornemann told listeners
he can get his goals accomplished
and that he is well-qualified for the
job. After the debate, he said he
thought he wasn’t the best public
speaker of the candidates, but he
thought that his platform spoke
well enough for itself.
Bornemann blatantly opposed
the college consolidation within
the university and said SG needs
to promote interaction among stu
dent organizations.
Sen. Brook Bristow said he
thought he did well in his first public
debate.
“As student leaders, it is time to
represent interest of our students,
not ourselves,” Bristow said in his
opening statement. He said he has
been a proven leader as the cur
rent president pro tempore. He
said he wants to urge professors to
provide online syllabi and to ex
tend the drop/add date for classes.
SG Parliamentarian and presi
dential candidate Ankit Patel de
cided to narrow his focus to pro
mote his “signature test,” a center
piece of his campaign. He said
when a president knows whose sig
nature he needs to get legislation
passed, he will produce more con
crete goals for himself and SG.
Patel also said student organi
zations need larger budgets to op
erate properly. According to Patel,
a SG president has the responsi
bility of preparing his or her own
budget to present to the Senate.
Candidate Kaleta Brown coun
tered her opponents’ views by say
ing her campaign focused on
“putting the students back in SG.”
She encouraged students to
“Make your representatives visi
ble. Go to them with your ideas.”
She added that, as president, she
would try to eliminate some of the
cliques that are prevalent in SG.
Candidate Jim McFadden added
some lightheartedness to his
speeches. He told the crowd, “I
don’t think y’all should want me
to have all the answers.” He said
his campaign brings a “fresh per
spective” to SG. He said SG could
reach solutions concurrent with
the intentions of the Board of
Trustees in both a practical and
reasonable manner.
The candidates had their
chances to refute opponents’ views.
Patel said Bornemann’s proposal
for a shuttle running from campus
to Five Points did not take into ac
count the university’s liability in
the matter. Bristow said the issue
was a lost cause because he had
spoken to Alpha Phi Omega offi
cials who had already disapproved
the system as a university-sup
ported program. Bornemann in
sisted on asking the Five Points
Association to assist with the cam
paign for the shuttle.
Brown and McFadden both dis
cussed improved parking and cam
pus beautification as part of their
platforms. McFadden said the addi
tion of green space on campus
would promote student interaction.
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Bristow vows to
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BY BRANDON LARRABEE
THE GAMECOCK
College of Journalism and Mass
Communications Senator Brook Bristow
doesn’t worry too much about what he’s
wearing.
Unlike his successor, Student
Government President Corey Ford,
Bristown doesn’t plan to wear a suit on
his weekly visits to address Student
Senate if he’s elected.
“I’ll roll in there like this,” Bristow
said recently, sporting his trademark T
shirt and jeans, “just say what I want to
say, because... I’m not a politician.”
Call it the “insider-outsider” cam
paign; Bristow, a two-term senator, is
running to reform SG, he says, cam
paigning to fix an organization of which
he’s a member.
“They’ve forsaken the actual people
they represent, which is awful," Bristow
said of SG members. That attitude, he said, -
added to student apathy, forms “a volatile
cocktail, which just doesn’t taste good.” j§|
In order to fix the indifference students
feel toward SG and change the attitude of
government members, Bristow said the
organization needs'to do “the simple
things that students actually need.”
His platform includes the creation of
SAFE, Students Allied For Education.
Bristow said the organization would
serve as a subsidiary of SG and would
help get students involved in fighting
budget cuts and tuition increases.
Bristow would also like to work with
Computer Services to improve the col
lege’s Internet access and would like to
push for universal online syllabuses. He
said the syllabuses would help students
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SG hopefuls offer ideas
Vice presidential
and treasurer
candidates face
controversy
BY ADAM BEAM
THE GAME COCK
With elections a little over a
week away, Student Government
candidates came to the Russell
House Theater last night to debate
their platforms in an attempt to
sway voters before the person-to
person campaigning begins.
The treasurer debate was
marked by controversy over how
revenue from the South Carolina
Education Lottery would be
spent. It was capped off by a tense
moment when candidate Becky
Floyd accused candidate Terrance
Beeks of not inviting her to hear
his address to the South Carolina
State Legislature this morning.
“If she took the time to actually
look at it, she can see that she got
the same e-mail as everyone else
did,” he said. Beeks claims to
have sent a mass e-mail to all the
executive officers as well as the
candidates to attend.
Floyd says she received no e
mail, adding that she checks her
e-mail daily.
Saying that the State
Legislature was “dragging its
feet” in terms of spending lottery
revenue for higher education,
Beeks plans on asking the
Legislature to sign a contract
agreeing to act by March 28.
Floyd responded by saying that
she has contacted the Senate
Finance Committee and that they
can’t make any promises about
where the money will go because
they’re not sure if they can keep
them.
“It’s not about what they want
to do, it’s about what the voters
asked them to do when they voted,”
said Beeks. Floyd pressed that the
lottery money isn’t used just for
higher education, but for K-12 as
well, a fact that treasure candidate
Brant Tosi says is more important.
“We need to focus more of the
money to K-12,” he said. “College
is a privilege, not a necessity.”
The vice-presidential debate
featured a clash of platforms.
Candidate Katie Dreiling asked
candidate Shereef El-lbiary to
change his platform, saying that
his academic forgiveness policy
would not pass.
“I’m not going to change my
platform,” said El-libiary. He
added that he plans to attend every
faculty senate meeting and meet
with the Board of Trustees so that
he can “change their opinions.”
Dreiling focused on the three
pillars of her platform, which in
clude preserving the budget, park
ing and safety. She claims that new
spaces are already in the works
and she knows where they are.
♦ DEBATE, SEE PAGE 3
CSJC to
rule on
candidate
Council to
decide White’s
eligibility to
run for office
BY BRANDON LARRABEE
THE GAMECOCK
The Carolina Student
Judicial Council will decide
tonight whether former Student
Government Sen. Nathan White
will be allowed to officially run
for vice president.
The council, which serves as
an arbitrator for conflicts over
the SG Constitution, denied
White’s request Tuesday for an
injunction allowing him to cam
paign while the issue remained
unresolved. White had earlier
filed a challenge to a decision not
allowing him to run because he
is not in “good standing” with
the College of Liberal Arts.
“Your request for an injunc
tion is denied due to our ability
to hear your case in less than 48
hours,” Chief Justice Aaron
Hark wrote in a letter addressed
to White.
Hark, president of the council,
serves as chief justice in the event
of any constitutional challenge.
Hark said late Tuesday that
the council would quickly deal
with the manner.
“The council has decided to
handle it immediately without
any delay, due to the obvious
time issues,” Hark said.
News of the meeting capped a
series of developments Tuesday
as statements, rulings and chal
lenges whisked through the SG
election system.
Earlier in the day, SG
President Corey Ford, acting on
the recommendations of SG
Attorney General Brian Hunter
and Elections Commissioner
Adam Bourne, thought he had
cleared the way for White to run
based on White’s challenge filed
with the Carolina Student
Judicial Council.
White filed the challenge on
Monday, saying the code cited
by SG Coordinator Angela
Dusenbury only prevented
White from serving as vice pres
ident, not from running.
Dusenbury places candidates on
the online ballot.
White, who is seeking his
master’s degree from the College
of Liberal Arts and plans to at
tend USC’s Law School, was told
last week that he was ineligible
to run for the position because
he was not in good standing with
his college. _
“I challenge the applicability
of this statute in regards to my
eligibility to run for office,”
White wrote in his memoran
dum to the council. “This statute
says nothing about running for
office and there is no language
in the Student Government con
stitution or codes that states any
eligibility requirements for cam
paigning.”
In his original statement,
Ford accepted that view.
“The constitution, however
unclear [White’s] future is, does
not mention that candidates
must be in academic good stand
ing,” Ford wrote.
The statement would have al
lowed White to continue his
campaign — including partici
pating in The Gamecock/SG de
bate Tuesday evening — until
the judicial council ruled.
But Ford issued another
statement based on section H of
the codes of the Division of
Student and Alumni Services, of
which SG is a part.
“Students who do not meet
the minimum GPR require
ments at the time of elections
may not serve in a leadership ca
pacity. In the event a student is
elected to office without the min
imum GPR requirements, the
organization must hold a re-elec
tion and notify the department
of Student Life with the officer
changes within two weeks,” sec
tion H of those codes states.
“After this clause was
brought to our attention ... the
Office of the Vice President [of
Student and Alumni Services]
offered an opinion that Mr.
White could not be an officially
sanctioned candidate,” Ford
wrote in the second statement.
White said the second state
ment reinforced his reasons for
filing for office. He said Student
Life staff members have too
much influence in SG decisions.
♦ WHITE, SEE PAGE 3
Darla Moore
gives advice
BY MEGHAN MCNAIR
THEGAMBOOCK
Darla Moore reflected on the
theme of courage during her speech
to USC students Tuesday afternoon.
Moore, the first woman to be on
the cover of Fortune Magazine,
explained how courage has played
a key role in her multimillion-dol
lar success.
During her speech at the Belk
Auditorium, Moore also warned
students of the halo effect. She
said that just because someone
has done something great once
does not always mean that they
will always be great.
“Darla has a resume that is in
credible, but what is great about
her is deeper than that. She has
concern, compassion, and com
mitment for things that she cares
about,” Joel Smith, Dean of the
Business School said as he intro
duced Darla Moore. “Her concern
is very deep, she cares, she is com
passionate, she believes that
every South Carolinian must be
successful.
Moore graduated from USC with
a degree in political science, and
from there moved on to Washington
D.C. According to Moore, it was
♦ MOORE, SEE PAGE 3
INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE
El-lblary
Shereef EMbiary
♦Third-year chemistry
student.
♦Hometown: Greenville,
SC.
♦Family: One sister, 66.
♦Hobbies: running, soccer,
tennis, hospital volunteer.
♦Past and present
activities at USC:
coordinator of Second
Serving, Senate, Pi Kappa
Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.
♦Favorite song: “One" by
U2
♦Goals: To attend medical
school and practice
emergency medicine.
Dreillng
Katie Dreiling
♦Second-year political
science student.
♦Hometown: Irmo, SC.
♦Family: One brother, 23.
♦Hobbies: reading,
coordinating social
activities.
♦Past and present
activities at USC: SG
Safety Committee Chair,
Student Ambassadors,
Mock Trial, Business
Incubator Advisory Board,
Kappa Kappa Gamma.
♦Favorite song: ‘These Are
the Days,” 10,000
Maniacs.
♦Future goals: To attend
law school. .
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TOMORROW’S WEATHER: Partly Cloudy, Light wind for North East. High 52, Low 28.