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Sanford introduces plan for S.G. education PHOTO BY CHRIS TILLEY Former U.S. Congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Sanford introduced his Plan for the future of education In South Carolina in front of the McKissick Museum on Monday afternoon. Sanford's plan included a proposal to replace the Commission on Higher Education with a Board of Regents system. The change would establish a governing board instead of a coordinating board. Spring Break CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ed encouragement of travel. Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chair executive officer of Carlson Companies, a chain of travel agen cies, defended this first step in tourism preservation. “We need to keep travelers trav eling to keep working people work ing. ... Our industry desperately needs short-term and significant fi nancial incentives to keep Americans on planes, in hotels, and dining and using our great enter tainment facilities,” Nelson said. Spawning from th,e original leg islation is a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives intended to en courage American travel. The six point plan begins with an adver tising plan to promote travel with-' in the United States. It continues with a $500 tax credit for single people and a $1,000 tax credit for couples that travel within or orig inate from the United States through the end of 2002. In effect, this encourages travel both at home and abroad. Tourism and travel industries col laborating with the government to make travel safe and secure was one contiki VACATIONS for *18-35 year olds of the primary objectives of this bilL College students make up one of the bill’s primary markets, and here at USC, the area is being ad dressed by student organizations. USC’s Bateman Team, a com petitive public relations team, is trying to inform students of the op portunities that are available. It hosted Contiki’s Choose Your Own Adventure Travel Day, in which travel information was available. “We want to make sure that stu dents realize the variety of options that they have,” said Melissa Miklus, a member of the Bateman Team. “The tragedies of September 11th were awful, but at least some thing positive, like encouraging travel, can come out of it.” Contiki’s Travel Day also had local vendors that demonstrated some of the adventures that Contiki as well as many other travel companies are now offer ing. Kayaks, hot air balloons and luggage were featured at the event. “We really just want young people to take advantage of all the exciting things that are avail able,” Miklus said. “One of the best times to travel is when you are young.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com STATE New lottery games see slow business COLUMBIA (AP) - Retailers reported slower ticket sales for the first day of the Pick 3 game than the lottery’s Jan. 7 kick off, but officials from the South Carolina Education Lottery said sales had surpassed esti mates by noon Thursday. More than 2,600 retailers across the state began selling tickets for the Pick 3 game. About $558,000 in ticket sales were reported for the Pick 3 game in the first day. Lottery employees and oth er observers gathered around the studio as the first winning numbers were drawn at 6:59 p.m. Cheers erupted after George Godfrey, a Richland County deputy sheriff and one of eight draw personalities, success fully broadcast the first win ning numbers—zero, four and nine. NATION GOP postpones vote on appeals judge WASHINGTON (AP) - A top Republican forced a one-week delay in a Senate committee’s vote on Charles Pickering’s nomination to a federal ap peals court, accusing “extreme left” interest groups of “lynch ing” the Mississippi jurist by opposing him. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s majority Demo crats have said they will not ap prove the nomination. Eventual rejection of Pickering, already a federal judge, would be a'set back for President Bush in a prelude to possible future Supreme Court vacancy fights. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the committee’s ranking Republican, criticized groups that have lobbied Democrats to vote against the nomination. Unimpressed, Senate Democrats say waiting a week on Pickering will do no good. WORLD Mideast violence continues to rise JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian gunman infiltrat ed a Jewish settlement in Gaza and*killed four Israelis late Thursday. Israeli hit back early Friday with two attacks in Gaza, killing a top com mander and six other Palestinians after a day of in tense Israeli strikes through out the Palestinian territories. The attack on the settle ment wounded 20 people, five seriously, before the gunman was shot and killed, the mili tary said. .The new violence followed a day of clashes Thursday that left 13 Palestinians dead, while a Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a West Bank settle ment and two other bombing attempts were foiled. The U.S.’s Mideast envoy, Anthony Zinni, will'be return ing to the region late next week. Horseshoe CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 senior honors students don’t take more than 150 Horseshoe spaces and the SCHC doesn’t experience significant growth. “If we’re overflowed with sophomore demands for Horseshoe housing, we might go back and rethink this decision,” Sederberg said. But he said a floor in Capstone is being re served for some honors overflow if needed. Sederberg also talked about the SCHC’s long-term goals, which he said were broader and deeper than any other school in the country. “What we do is bring all the elements together,” he said. He said his primary goal as dean is to protect the integrity of the SCHC in all its dimensions. Sederberg said the new hous ing policy is just the tip of some thing more important. He refer enced key decisions being made this year between the Board of Trustees and the Strategic Directives and Initiatives Committee as part of creating the master plan for the university’s future. He said the SCHC fits into the plan by maintaining its in tegrity at a reasonable cost to the university. Sederberg said integrity within the SCHC comes from giving stu dents additional opportunities in three areasracademics, communi ty and housing. He said that though housing is a less significant priority than academics, it’s been the SCHC’s vision to use housing as an effective tool for building a community atmosphere. Sederberg organized the meet ing at the request of SG Vice President Nithya Bala. Bala at tended the meeting, along with SG President-elect Ankit Patel, RHA President Brad Dawgert, RHA Senator Adam Hark and The Gamecock Editor in Chief Mary Hartney. Hark asked why Sederberg de cided to only ask rising honors sophomores, the beneficiaries of the housing policy change, for ap proval. Sederberg said it was in the best interest of the honors students to seek their approval of an initiative the SCHC had been trying to implement since sophomore honors students were moved to Capstone in 1999. Patel said the meeting was a good idea to open up the lines of communication between stu dents and policy-makers at use. “Dr. Sederberg and. the Honors College are trying to work out a suitable compromise for housing and the other con flicts experienced by the univer sity,” he said. Bala said the meeting was helpful to the student leaders who attended but that SG is still planning to forward its resolu tion urging the administration to reverse the decision to Vice President of Student and Alumni Services Dennis Pruitt. She added that, while Sederberg ex plained the housing decision thoroughly, SG would still advo cate the majority opinion of the senators Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com I Now Leasing Private Bedrooms for Fall 2002. Roommate Matching Available. Don't Let Someone Else Pick Your Roommate. Look Over Our Roommate Cards and Find Your own. I* Free Shuttle to Campus • 24 Hour Fitness Center w/ Free Weights • Resort Style Pool w/ Hot Tub • Free Tanning Bed • 24 Hour Multimedia Center • 24 Hour Game Room w/ Pool Table • Basketball and Sand Volleyball I Lease Today For Only $100 Deposit *Not Valid with Other Offers i