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INSIDE: Men’s basketball plays last game in Carolina Coliseum PHOTO BY CANO! HAUGLUM Runners jump off the starting line as the signal was sounded to start the Fidler 5K on Saturday morning. Trent Kirk, the overall winner, is pictured as No. 339. A RAGE THAT’S JUST BEGUN Fidler 5K raises $9,122 to fight blood cancers BY LOGAN BARLOW THE GAMECOCK A crowd of hundreds braved the rain Saturday morning to partic ipate in the Fidler 5K, a race to honor Professor Emeritus Paul Fidler and to raise money to fight blood cancers leukemia and lym phoma. The event raised $9,122, just short of the $10,000 goal. Fidler, a USC leader for more than 35 years, is fighting chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The event was sponsored by The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the USC Student Personnel Association and the Delta Tau Delta fraterni ty, of which Fidler is a member. Participants began arriving at the Blatt P.E. Center around 10 a.m. Frank Canning, The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s execu tive director, spoke to participants before the race. “Whatever pain and discomfort we’re about to all undergo out there is really nothing compared to what cancer patients face every minute,” he said. “ So when you’re out there running or walking, just keep that in mind.” Jay Reiff, Gov. Jim Hodges’ communications director, read a proclamation from the governor that declares March 2,2002, to be Dr. PaulFidler Day. Kevin Snyder, a second-year master’s student in higher educa- . tion administration and a mem ber of Delta Tau Delta, was the event’s main organizer, and was instrumental in getting Delta Tau Delta to be a sponsor. “When I found out that Dr. ♦ HOLER 5K, SEE PAGE 5 Bornemann to appeal commission’s ruling BY BRANDON LARRABEE tllK HAMMOCK Former Student Government presidential candidate David Bornemann said Sunday he will appeal the Elections Commission’s decision not to throw out last week’s runoff election results. “If this election stands, it’ll be a stain on this university’s repu tation and Student Government’s reputation,” Bornemann said. “We can’t let fraud become the standard of winning Student Government elections.” Bornemann said his campaign was willing to exhaust all of its ap peals. “We are prepared to take it to the highest level,” he said. Bornemann, a senator for the Moore School of Business, lost last week’s runoff to Parliamentarian Ankit Patel. The re sults were an nounced Thursday. “It’s clear that we have a presi dent who cheated Bomemann tQ get elected - Chrissy Stauffer, Bomemann’s campaign manager. Last Friday, Bomemann’s cam paign filed a dozen violations alleg ing that Patel committed illegal acts that affected the election’s outcome. The commission met for five hours on Saturday and issued Patel three infractions, but decided not to overturn the election’s outcome. The commission voted to give Patel one infraction for door-to door campaigning in residence halls, one for a mass e-mail and one for campaigning in the Business Administration building. Bomemann criticized the com mission for combining eight al leged violations of the residence hall policy into one infraction. “I think bundling up all the different residence halls into one infraction was a mistake,” he said. The commission voted 4-2 against throwing out the results. The ma jority included Commissioner Adam Bourne and commission members Ameenah Pridgen, Katrina Bevis and Adam Musgrave. Dissenting were members Dante Tyus and Brock Vergakis. After the ruling, Patel main tained that his campaign did noth ♦ BORNEMANN, SEE PAGE 2 Students protest Horseshoe decision Student Senate passes resolution against letting in sophomores BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK Administrators told students the Horseshoe would become an honors community, and now the students are talking back. On Wednesday, the Student Senate passed a resolution asking the Housing Department to re consider any change in the cur rent policy and requesting that the recent decision be terminated. The resolution, sponsored by Student Government President Pro Tempore Brook Bristow and College of Science and Mathematics Sen. Chris Odom, ♦ HORSESHOE, SEEPAGES Strikes continue on Afghan targets U.S.-led attacks aimed at region where Taliban regrouping BY KATHY GANNON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SURMAD, AFGHANISTAN - U.S. bombers pounded al-Qaida and Taliban positions in the eastern mountains of Afghanistan on Sunday after a 1,500-strong coalition ground at tack the day before failed to dis lodge the well-armed fighters. U.S. and Afghan forces backed by the airstrikes engaged in more “heavy” fighting Sunday against “several hundred” oppo sition fighters, said Maj. Ralph Mills, spokesman for Central Command in Tampa, Fla. Mills said that U.S. strike air craft, bombers and AC-130 gun ships were targeting enemy ve hicles, mortars, troops and caves. He would not estimate how much longer the fighting would go on. U.S. Chinook helicopters fer ried in supplies to American and other troops still in the hills, a local commander said. Afghan troops warned the op eration to dislodge the regroup ing Taliban and al-Qaida forces from their hide-outs in the mountain caves here in Paktia province was far from over. “You can’t do everything in one operation,” said Raza Khan, an Afghan fighter recovering from Saturday’s battle at the hos pital in the provincial capital, Gardez. “This is Afghanistan. This is a guerrilla war.” Leaflets dropped by U.S. air craft on the arid plains of the province urged residents to co operate: “Hand over Taliban and al-Qaida or you will be de stroyed. Come forward with in formation about Taliban and al Qaida,” read the leaflets, written in Afghanistan’s two most com mon languages, Pashtu and Dari. One American soldier and three Afghan fighters were killed Saturday on the first day of the ground operation, the ♦ AFGHANISTAN, SEE PAGE 4 _i___£_ wm \ PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Ken Wingate, Republican candidate for South Carolina governor, speaks to a member of (JSC’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes last Thursday. Candidate for governor speaks to USC students Republican says he wants to use industry to help S.C. universities BY VANESSA POSTON THE GAMECOCK Last Thursday, one of seven candidates vying for the Republican Party’s nomination for South Carolina governor spoke to USC’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Wingate, a certified public ac countant and attorney from Columbia, has never held a pub lic office, but he has been involved in Republican politics since his father-in-law, former Gov. Jim Edwards, campaigned in 1974. Wingate has worked at length in the General Assembly on such issues as education and gam bling. In 2001, he founded and ran the Lottery Accountability Board to ensure that the South Carolina Educational Lottery proceeds would be protected from mis management and fraud. Wingate has also served on advisory boards for such organizations as the American Heart Association, □SURFYOURSELF FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT KEN WINGATE, GO TO WWW.WINGATE2002.COM Columbia College and the Medical University of South Carolina. In his speech Thursday, Wingate discussed the impor tance of mentors and role mod els in the lives of Christians, particularly those in college. He listed Edwards and former Gov. Bob McNair as two of his men tors. Wingate said his role mod els have played an integral part in building his strong moral character and have prepared him well for the path on which God has led him. “The most important thing is not winning, but simply fol lowing God’s call,” Wingate said. One of Wingate’s main con cerns is the poor state of educa tion in South Carolina, which has an educational system near the bottom in national rankings. Wingate thinks intense reform is needed and has innovative ideas about how to implement changes. Wingate said that, if he be comes governor, he will reform charter school laws to lessen bu reaucratic restrictions. He also wants to make families eligible for tax credits that could be used for such things as private educa tion and resources such as com puters. Wingate said he wants to fo cus on higher education and its link to economic development. He wants to increase the pres ence of business and industry, which will enhance research and development opportunities at the state’s premier research univer sities: MUSC, USC and Clemson. He said forming partnerships is critical to economic health and to increasing advantages for growth and innovation at South Carolina’s universities. Wingate received a bachelor’s degree from Clemson University and a law degree from USC. He is a founding partner of Sweeney, Wingate and Barrow. Wingate said he thinks his strong leadership qualities, pro ♦ WINGATE, SEE PAGE 5 TODAY'S WEATHER: Partly cloudy. High 49, Low 26. TOMORROW'S WEATHER: Sunny. High 57, Low 33. —. . r ■■■. r