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Elders CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 policy. She said 61 percent of Americans are overweight, 26 percent of women are sexually abused before the age of 25,50 per cent of patients in Columbia hos pitals are there as a result of a preventable illness, and 39 per cent of college students admit to binge drinking. The statistics helped define Elders’ point that there is too much “sick care” in this county and not enough health care pro moting preventative medical and lifestyle habits. Second-year electronic jour nalism student Kenneth Moton said he enjoyed listening to Elders speak and having the op portunity to meet her after ward. “I thought she was really amaz ing,” Moton said. “I agreed with her that education about health care is really key and important, and how you take care of yourself matters.” Elders said her advice to col lege students is “to get the very best education that they can and use it to make a difference in their community.” Elders added: “The first thing students can do to improve health care is to take care of themselves. Secondly, they can fight for health education to ed ucate people on how to be healthy.” She also said she would like to see more students going into health care fields in college. Elders earned a bachelor’s de gree in biology from Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark. She earned a master’s degree and a medical degree and later taught at the University of Arkansas. She was appointed director of Arkansas’ health department in 1987 by then-Gov. Bill Clinton. She is currently retired. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Lottery CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 "The governor doesn’t like everything in the lottery com promise, but he feels it’s a good faith compromise,” said Hodges’ spokesman Jay Reiff. "He feels he can support it because the cen terpiece is scholarships and he believes that’s what the voters in South Carolina supported.” Most Republicans also walked away happy. "I think the thing that I’m most proud of is we did all those things without a bond bill and we did all those things without borrowing money,” said Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence. Senators spent more than a week haggling among them selves on the compromise. Most of the negotiations were made be hind closed doors by key leaders as other senators filibustered. _ Sen. Arthur Ravenel, R Mount Pleasant, complained about this process on the Senate floor Thursday. "The legislation before us as to what to do with the lottery money, has it been debated by the Senate or been debated in any of the appropriate committees? Absolutely not,” Ravenel said. This is the way the Senate has, for years, reached agreement on important issues, Leatherman said. Moore agreed. "A lot of times, trying to work out differences requires some in terpretations and explanations from staff that you can’t do as con veniently on the floor,” he said. There’s nothing illegal about the closed door negotiations as long as just a few senators are in volved, said Bill Rogers, execu tive director of the South Carolina Press Association. "I’ve seen that happen repeat edly over there. It’s just part of the political process,” said John Crangle, executive director of the government watchdog group South Carolina Common Cause. * University of South Carolina SAFE SPRING BREAK WEEK 1001 Don't get caught in a PINCH! FRIDAY. 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For additional information, please contact the Office of Student & Parent Programs at 777-7130. —A-«---*-* The bill now moves to the House, where representatives can either concur with the Senate and send it to the governor, or refuse to concur and send it to a conference com mittee where lawmakers from both sides will work out a compromise. "All of us had conversations about trying to have the best pack age that we can defend in confer ence, and I’m confident that we can defend anything in here and fight hard to make sure that it stays,” Moore said. House Ways and Means Chairman Bobby Harrell expects some disagreement with the Senate’s version. House members likely will fight for more funding forK-12, he said. The lottery law passed last year ( says the General Assembly must appropriate lottery proceeds an nually. One thing not included in the spending plan that needs to be ad dressed next year is carry-forward funds, Leatherman said. 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