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Horseshoe might be all honors housing I BY KEVIN FELLNER THK (iAMSCOCK Many South Carolina Honors College sophomores will live in Horseshoe apartments next fall, but non-honors upperclassmen might have to look elsewhere for apartment-style housing. For the last several years, SCHC on-campus residents have been allotted 70 percent of the total Horseshoe housing, while non honors residents have been guar anteed 30 percent. A new plan could allow SCHC students to fill the entire Horseshoe. The new policy, debated by SCHC officials and approved by the Housing Department, will cre ate an honors community' on the Horseshoe, according to SCHC Dean Peter Sederberg. Sederberg estimates that the change, which lets rising Honors College sophomores choose Horseshoe apartments before any non-honors juniors and seniors, will increase SCHC population on the Horseshoe to about 80 to 85. Residence Hall Association President Brad Dawgert said it’s unlikely that many sophomores will refuse Horseshoe apartments, and they will probably fill the 30 percent vacated by non-honors students after this semester. “When they bring you here for the tour and walk you around the Horseshoe, they say you will defi ♦ HOUSING, SEE PAGE 3 DeSaussure 48 Harper/Elliott 48 Pinckney/Legare 48 _:_^_ Changing the Horseshoe Under a plan approved by Housing, the entire Horseshoe could be more open to Honors College students; so sophomores might get apartment style housing ahead of upperclassmen. Six of the 10 apartment-style residence halls are located on the Horseshoe. The number next to the building name indicates the capacity of the building. PHOTOS BY MARTHA WRIGHT. ( . Thomwell« 60 Rutledge 46 Woodrow 100 iRAPHIC BY BRANDON LARRABEE DANCE MARATHON PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM Participants at Dance Marathon follow direction from the dance leaders on stage in the Russell House Ballroom. STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION it 213 students at Dance Marathon raise $75,532for sick children BY GINNY THORNTON THE (iAMKCOCK Dance Marathon started off on the right foot four years ago at USC and continues to make strides for children in need. In 1999, USC students broke the national Dance Marathon record for first-year participation and fund raising. This year, 213 USC students participated in Dance Marathon and raised $75,532. Both numbers are higher than ever, according to this year’s overall chair, Bergan Brennen. USC raised almost $20,000 more this year than last. More than 90 colleges partici pate in Dance Marathon, a fund raiser started in 1973 at the Pennsylvania State University to benefit Children’s Miracle Network. Details vary at each col lege, but at USC, “dancers” are students who agree to participate in the 28-hour event and raise a minimum of $130. The money raised by USC’s Dance Marathon goes directly to Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital. In the past, funds have contributed to a neonatal inten sive care unit, a new ambulance, and the start of a camp for hear ing-impaired children. Callee Boulware, a Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital em ployee, said Dance Marathon is helping the hospital not only cre ate better facilities, but also raise awareness of the hospital’s needs. Brennan said the event is in tended to make the dancers feel tired, much like the sick children who will receive this fund-rais er’s benefits. “It’s easy for us to go home and go to sleep after this is over, but these kids don’t get to do that,” Brennan said. “We try to experi ence a little bit of what it’s like to be in their situation.” Before the event, dancers are asked to abstain from caffeine. During the event, dancers partic ipate in games, karaoke, contests and, of course, dancing. Patients well enough to leave the hospital visit the event to meet and talk with the dancers. Donnal Taylor, a 20-year-old pa tient at Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital, said Dance Marathon benefits patients’ parents because the money provides for more staff who can temporarily relieve the parents from caring for their sick children. Taylor is a longtime pa tient at the hospital and a second year visitor to Dance Marathon. “It helps the kids not only to get better quicker, but it helps them feel more at home,” Taylor said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudeskCichotmail.com Student Senate passes RHA bill Bill would let students choose residence halls’ visitation plans BY LOGAN BARLOW THE GAMECOCK At the request of Residence Hall Association members, Student Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would allow residence halls to choose their own visitation policies The bill has been sent to the Board of Trustees, the University Housing, and President John Palms. Brad Dawgert, president of the Residence Hall Association, and RHA Sen. Adam Hark introduced the recommendation to the Senate and then accepted questions from senators. Hark, a resident of Maxcy and a student in the Honors College, said he was inspired to create the recommendation because the pol icy prevented other students in the Honors College from coming together to study past 2 a.m. The recommendation is based on the three principles of “design, establish and amend.’’ Hark stated that residence halls would “re serve the right to do all three of those, so when they put a policy in place, it stands until someone decides to change things. It’s just like a constitution — it stands un til someone amends it.” “Hark said: “This does not change sign-in procedures. Also, ♦ RHA BILL, SEE PAGE 2 ft USG praised for green space PHOIU bY MAKIOA WnllinI Kara Monk, a fourth-year English student, and Wes Covington, a visiting Clemson student, study on the grass beside Longstreet Theatre. The National Wildlife Federation commended USC’s plans to create more green space and an residence hall friendly to the environment. Faculty Senate votes 68-9 against SDI report Senate questions how report will be implemented BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK After a month of deliberation, the Faculty Senate voted 68-9 last Wednesday to pass a resolution against the SDI report released in early January. Sen. Jerel Rosati from the gov ernment and international stud ies department said it was “basi cally a vote against the SDI re port, but in a polite fashion.” “I think the SDI had a huge goal and a huge task, and it couldn’t have been done in a pe riod of time with that number of people involved,” Rosati said. “It’s a thoughtful beginning, but a lot more information and study and investigation needs to be done before they can come up with real blueprint of the future.” After several conversations with the Faculty Senate, Provost and SD1 Chairman Jerry Odom said the res olution didn’t surprise him. “Well, I think that we need to hear everybody and hear what they think,” he said. “I have some concerns for some people not really seeing the big picture, but, again, I feel like everybody needs to be heard and express their opinions.” The resolution was adopted just one day before the annual Board of Trustees retreat, at which the SDI report was a ma jor topic of discussion. Various recommendations of the report have been assigned to Board committees. “I think the |~-1 SURFYOURSELF READ THE FACULTY SENATE’S ENTIRE RESOLUTION AT WWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM Board wants to know how the pres ident feels. At the same time, the Board committees will give their opinions to the full Board and we will go from there,” Odom said. The Board will begin voting on specific recommendations in March. Two resolutions, one authored by Rosati and the other by School of Law Sen. Greg Adams, were presented to the Faculty Senate after a month of meetings to dis cuss the SDI report. The Adams resolution passed. “My resolution was a little bit more to the point, but most of our language was quite similar,” Rosati said. Adams couldn’t be reached for comment. The Adams resolution is com posed of 10 parts expressing the faculty’s concerns with the SDI re port. The primary concerns deal with the report’s failure to answer “important questions about the implementation of the recom mendations” and the absence of a “goal for improvement in the teaching and service of the uni versity, which are critical compo ♦ FACULTY SENATE, SEE PAGE 2 TODAY’S WEATHER: Sunny skies. High 70, Low 43. TOMORROW'S WEATHER: Partly sunny. High 71, Low 40.