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Students to decide elections date
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• FILE PHOTO BY CANOI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
Adam Bourne, last year’s Student Government Elections
i commissioner, announces the results of last year’s race. If the
upcoming amendment to SG’s constitution passes, elections
might not be held until after spring break.
Vote could move
SG elections to
two weeks after
spring break
BY KATHERINE HALLORAN
THE GAMECOCK
Students will vote online at VIP
on Wednesday and Thursday to
decide when Student Government
elections will be held.
The vote will center on remov
ing the part of the SG constitution
— article V, section 2, line 1—that
requires elections to be held be
fore spring break.
Brooke Vickery, 2003 Elections
commissioner and a fourth-year
marketing student, proposed the
legislation to move the elections
date so that the elections process
would be more efficient.
Vickery researched other in
stitutions’ election processes and
thinks the change would give stu
dent-body representatives more
time to complete projects, such as
initiatives and fund-raisers, and
would shorten the transition be
tween administrations.
“I am hoping that students will
see the great benefits of this
change, want to see it pass and
vote for it,” Vickery said.
She said that under the current
process, it is hard to continue
working when new representa
tives come in and must get accus
tomed to their responsibilities. If
the amendment passes, elections
Proposed Dates
If a vote passes to amend Student Government’s
constitution, these dates will be followed:
♦ March 3 - Informational meeting
♦ March 4-5 - Filing for office
♦ March 18 - Candidates’ meeting
♦ March 31-April 1 - Elections
♦ April 3-4 - Possible run-off
will be held March 31 through
April 1. The Elections
Commission could return to the
earlier election date if things do
not go as planned.
“We want to try and see if this
works,” Vickery said.
Second-year biology student
and College-of Science and
Mathematics Sen. Tricia Daniels
thinks the new legislation could
increase voter turnout.
“Hopefully, more people will
get out and vote,” Daniels said. “I
think more people would vote be
cause they wouldn’t be anxious to
leave for spring break and would
be around campus.” Daniels said
♦ ELECTION, SEE PAGE 2
meeting
of the
minds
1 USC’s quiz-bowl
team works its
way up despite
little funding
BY ADAM BEAM
THE CAMKOjCK
A profile of a quiz-bowl enthu
siast usually follows the tune of
someone growing up watching
“Jeopardy” and dreaming of one
day becoming the master of triv
ia.
Not so with David James.
The third-year history student
► and president of USC’s quiz-bowl
team grew up with a less-than-ide
al view of the famous quiz-game
show.
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give away $1,000 to answer these
easy questions,” he said.
While James has been answer
ing “easy” questions on
“Jeopardy” since middle school,
the USC quiz-bowl team has also
been answering its fair share of
quiz-bowl questions, earning it a
high reputation, though it’s only
8 years old.
Former USC student T.C. Ford
founded Carolina’s quiz-bowl team
in 1995, and six years ago, the team
rose to a top-five ranking in the
Academic Competition Top 25
I Poll. The team now sits 25th, right
7 behind the University of
Pittsburgh.
“They voted us 25th, but by the
end of the year, if they do it again,
I’m sure we’ll be a lot better,”
James said.
That’s because this year, the
team drove all the way to Iowa
State for a tournament and came
in second out of 15 teams. It also
came in second at a tournament in
♦ QUIZ BOWL, SEE PAGE 2
Holtz gets vote of confidence
The university
extended USC
i head football
coach Lou Holtz’s
contract on
Tuesday. He is now
signed until 2007,
which gives him
five more years
with the
Gamecocks.
Carolina missed
out on a bowl this
season, in which it
went 5-7, but Holtz
Is determined to
get the team back
in the postseason.
“You take your
bounces and you
hope to get back
up,” he said during
his final weekly
news conference.
♦FOR FULL
STORY, SEE
PAGE 7.
1 PHOTO BY CANDI
I HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK .
Grant will keep water-research center open
BY EMMA RITCH
the qamecock
An $800,000 Department of
Energy grant will keep USC's
Center for Water Research and
Policy open through September
2004.
Tom Temples, the center’s di
rector and a USC research asso
ciate professor in the School of
the Environment, said, “This is
an opportunity to continue the
work we’ve been doing.”
The Center for Water
Research and Policy “would have
probably gone away” without the
grant, but “now we can continue
our work and hopefully expand
our program,” he said.
Temples said that with the
DOE grant, the center will “work
on developing a groundwater
model to pump and treat water.”
The grant will also help the cen
ter extend its research capacity
and develop bioremediation tech
nology to enhance the abilities of
natural systems to clean con
taminated water.
The DOE grant will go to the
water-research center, the Civil
and Environmental Engineering
Department, the School ol
Geological Sciences, the Norman
J. Arnold School of Public
An $800,000 grant will
allow the center to
continue its research.
Health, and the Health Sciences
Department, Temples said.
He said the Center for Water
Research and Policy is the “co
ordinating organization for the
multidisciplinary water research
on campus.”
The center works with
groundwater, he said, such as
that in Lake Murray and the
DOE’s Savannah River Site.
Temples said the center em
ploys “new technology using
buffering systems to control the
pH of groundwater.” PH is a mea
sure of acidity.
The center is also researching
the growth of hydrilla, an aquat
ic bacteria, in Lake Murray.
Temples said U.S. Sen. Fritz
Hollins was essential in helping
the center receive the grant. “He
worked with the DOE to get fund
ing appropriated for us,”
Temples said.
Hollins said, “This funding
will enable the center to build on
its impressive track record and
continue its important research
on the water and ecosystems af
fected by the Savannah River
Site.”
The Center for Research and
Policy began with a DOE grant
in 1997.
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Kenya alone to investigate hotel attacks
BY MATTHEW ROSENBERG
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOMBASA, KENYA - Kenya
will not heed Israeli demands to
turn over some evidence in the
attacks on an Israeli-owned hotel
and an Israeli jetliner, saying
Sunday it would conduct the in
vestigation alone. The Israeli de
fense minister said al-Qaida was
the main suspect in the attacks.
The dispute threatened to de
lay the investigation into the sui
cide bombing Thursday of an
Israeli-owned hotel, which killed
15 people, and the failed downing
of an Israeli charter jet moments
earlier. American and Israeli
leaders both
questioned
Kenya’s abili
ty to conduct a
thorough
probe.
Kenyan po
lice officials
said Israeli
anfhnritioc
want to take pieces from a four
wheel-drive Mitsubishi Pajero
that exploded outside the hotel on
Thursday, killing 10 Kenyans,
three Israelis and the bombers in
side. Israel also wants the launch
ers and missile
casings from
shoulder
launched rock
ets thought to
have been used
in the failed at
tempt to shoot
down the Israeli
phortor nlono
“None of this evidence is going
back to Israel. This evidence is
our responsibility,” Kenyan bomb
“None of this evidence
is going back to Israel.
This evidence is our
responsibility.”
CHARLES JAMU
KENYAN BOMB SPECIALIST
specialist Charles Jamu said.
Raanan Gissin, spokesman for
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, said from Jerusalem that
Kenya had been cooperating “up
to now,” but that the Kenyans
weren’t prepared for the investi
gation.
“They were not geared to this
kind of a threat dr they don’t have
the necessary resources or tech
nological capabilities that would
enable them to deal with that,”
Gissin said.
♦ KENYA, SEE PAGE 2
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