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She said she was also concerned that, at first, the bill’s supporters didn’t speak to anyone at The Gamecock or the administration, which collects the money from students. Recommended changes At the end of the meeting, College of Liberal Arts Sen. Adam Hark announced that he would try to amend the finance codes to re move the language the bill was based on. That part of the codes states, “Any student organization that publicly endorses, either through its program or through its officially recognized officers, a political candidate for any elect ed office, including student offices, shall be considered a political or ganization.” Hark said his amendment would strip that language from the codes. “Though I disagree with the cur rent bill, it has called my attention to existing flaws within the Student Government codes,” Hark said Thursday. “The bill I intend to propose is meant not only to take away the legitimacy of Sen. Wright’s and President Patel’s pro posed bill, but also to prevent fu ture proposals aimed at censorship by means of financial deprivation.” He said he agreed that the pro vision wouldn’t apply to Student Media but he thought other orga nizations should also be allowed to endorse candidates. Floyd said she wasn’t certain about Hark’s amendment. She said SG should “examine it closely” be fore acting. She said she didn’t want organizations to lose their fo cus because of endorsements. “It’s easy to get caught up in that,” Floyd said. Other action The Senate also passed or gave first reading approval to a set of bills dealing with the president’s Cabinet and staff. Two bills that the Senate ap proved set up the positions of his torian and administrative assis tant. Members in these positions would serve as Patel’s staff, rather than as members of his Cabinet, which is limited to 25 people. Hark’s was the sole vote against the bill creating an administrative assistant. He said adding appoint ed positions to SG makes it less representative. “I read the bill to imply that ex ecutive officers are incapable of SOURCE: SENATE CLERK tackling all the responsibilities of their job,” Hark said. “I think that this bill completely disagrees with the voters, who obviously believed in their capabilities when they elected them.” A third bill, which will be voted on next Wednesday, would strike a portion of the codes requiring the president to appoint Cabinet posi tions within the first three Student Senate meetings. Patel said that time limit didn’t give him enough flexibility in appointing addition al Cabinet officers later in the se mester. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Voting in Senate All non-unanimous roll call votes listed below: SBL (02)049 Bill would create an administrative assistant position as a member of the SG president's staff. Voting “Yes" AM, Bacon. Bayko. Bettin, Bowen. Bratcher, Buchanan-Feinburg. Byrd, Connelly, Cordova, Cunningham, Daniels, Foy, Grooms, Hickman, King, Mark, McLaulin, Odom. Parker, Ramsey. Scott, Smith, Snell, Stuckey, Wade, Wheeler, Wright Voting “No” Hark Absent Arvidson, Lane, McCarthy, Petty, Robertson, Shipman, Szmurlo, Tomlin, Walker Greek Week CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 iot building and racing, a Greek triathlon, and a “Wheel of Songs” competition will culminate with first, second and third place win ners among fraternities and sororities, as well as an overall winner. “This year, the focus is on in t.. ' I volvement,” Carrington said. “We would like to be on par with other SEC schools, whose Greek Weeks are a big part of the year.” Another way to gain points is participation in the two philan thropic events on Friday. Communities in Schools is ac cepting school supplies for under privileged children all day on Greene Street, while each chapter is sponsoring at least two mem bers in that night’s Relay for Life, which aids the American Cancer Society. Luminaries will be sold for $10 each in honor of someone who has cancer or has died of can cer. Also on Friday, there will be a scholarship luncheon for chapter presidents and chapter members who made 4.0 GPAs. “We’d like to see more people get involved in the Greek com munity at USC,” Carrington said. “We want to show people what we really stand for, like friendship, scholarship, and community ser vice, and we hope that will pro mote more people joining frater nities and sororities.” In an effort to make this year’s Greek Week bigger and better, there will be an all-Greek social' Saturday night in McBryde. The social will include cover band Chronic and the awards ceremo ny. Infinger said the main point of the week is unity. “I hope [everyone] comes out to be together and prove we’re not segregated and build Greek uni ty,” she said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudeskidihotmail.com Don't let anything derail your college education! 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