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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
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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,
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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
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