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DANCE MARATHON 2003 Friday, February 21st-Saturday, February 22nd Russell House Ballroom To benefit the Children’s Hospital of Palmetto Health Applications still available in the Office of Student Life -SENATE NEWS: Legislation update from February 12, 2003: The motion passed to bring forth the Constitution for a second reading by Sen. Scott. t.'vi •*». ■?£>'> '■ « |—oy.. The proposed changes by Sen. Scott are as follows: •Article 4, Sect 2C strikes "The only opinion issued will be that of the majority". This proposed amendment did not pass. •Article 5, Sect 3B changes "elective" to "elected". This proposed amendment passed. •Article 2, Sect 7A-2 replaces "Body" with "government" This proposed amendment passed. •Article 4, Sect 3 struck and replaced with a new process of selecting members. This proposed amendment passed. •Article 2 proposed that it goes into effect elections of 2004. This proposed amendment passed. * Jr The proposed changes by Sen. Shipman are as follows: •Article 2, Sect 2A was struck and added that all candidates will be elected and shall appear on the ballot separately. This proposed amendment passed. •Article 2, Sect 2C added spending limits. This proposed amendment failed. The proposed change by Sen. Norton is as follows: •Article 4, Sect 2E was struck. This proposed amendment passed. Along with the amendments, the Constitution was voted on and passed. The motion to bring forth SBL(03)003-039 by Sen. McLaulin passed and her proposed changes to SBL(03)036 and 039 passed. Committee Reports Academics- no report Athletics- the committee met with the athletics department about the student misconduct at the last Carolina basketball game. To inform the students, there are no hard feelings. Finance- no report Judiciary- finds SBL(03)035-040 constitutional Minority Affairs- no report Powers & Responsibilities- they are still taking applications for the remaining 8 open senate seats. Rules- did not have quorum and therefore did not place anything on the docket except for SBL(03)040 041 as emergency legislation. Student Services- S.A.G.E. will be co-sponsoring Clean Carolina this year. Executive Report President Patel congratulated the Finance committee on all their hard work concerning the legislation that has recently come to the floor. He also spoke on the Constitution and answered questions; he explained that it is modeled after other university constitutions such as UFL, Tennessee and UNC Chapel Hill. Patel’s main concern was placing the President and Vice President on the same ticket for elections so in the future they will be able to work together. Special Orders Two more new senators were introduced, presented as a slate, and the motion to accept the slate passed. -CABINET NEWS: The Interfaith Council’s Panel Series Presents: WAR AND PEACE: Six Religious Perspectives Russell House Ballroom Wednesday, February 19th 2003 7:00pm-8:30pm « <*Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Baha’i, Catholic, and Unitarian Universalist Community Leaders will each summarize their religion’s view. ooQ&A session will follow. ccA multi-ethnic dinner will be served (donations are welcomed and appreciated). Announcements from Elections Commissioner, Brooke Vickery: A candidate debate will take place on March 25th at noon on Greene Street. The General Election will be held March 31st-April 1st Inauguration will be held on April 16th at 3:00pm in Rutledge Chapel. oolf you would like to have a speaker attend a meeting of your organization for more information or to answer questions, please email Brooke Vickery at vickery@gwm.sc.edu. Katie McClendon, Director of Women’s Affairs, would like to announce that tickets for the Vagina Monologues are on sale now at the Russell House Information Desk and the Koger Center. The show will take place at the Koger Center at 8:00pm on March 6th. Announcements from the International Affairs Council Director, Rohit Bhatia: World Night 2003 will take place on Friday, March 21st from 7:00pm-10:00pm in the Russell House Ballroom. A 2-day soccer tournament inspired by the World Cup is in the works for this semester. Keep reading this space for details to come! Want to find out more about what’s going on in Student Government? Please visit us at www.sg.sc.edu! Student Government exists to act as a liaison between the students and the administration of the University of South Carolina. North Korea threatens to abandon armistice BY SANG-HUN CHOE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA-In an apparent attempt to force direct di alogue with the United States, North Korea threatened Tuesday to abandon the armistice that end ed the Korean War five decades ago, accusing Washington of plan ning an attack. A spokesman of the North’s Korean People’s Army said “the situation on the Korean Peninsula is getting extremely tense” because of alleged U.S. plans to send rein forcements and build a naval blockade to prepare for a pre-emp tive attack. The nations are locked in a dispute over North Korea’s nu clear program. North Korea “will be left with no option but to take a decisive step to abandon its commitment to implement the Armistice Agreement... and free itself from the binding force of all its provi sions,” said the unidentified spokesman, quoted by the North’s state-run KCNA news agency. Armed forces of the two Koreas were in the middle of their annual winter training. But South Korean and U.S. officials saw no immedi ate indication North Korea planned to launch a major attack across the border. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the threat is part of a series of statements from Pyongyang, “all of which only serve to hurt, isolate and move North Korea backward.” He said the standoff remains a matter for the international community. Even if Tuesday’s announcement is largely symbolic, any change in the armistice could greatly increase tensions and uncertainty. The Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, leav ing the peninsula still technically in a state of war. The frontier is the world’s most heavily armed with most of the nearly 2 million troops of both sides deployed near the bor der, including 37,000 Americans stationed in the South. The threat was the latest North Korean move in an international dispute over its suspected nuclear weapons development. Recent decisions by North Korea to restart its nuclear facilities and withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty have been widely viewed as attempts to in crease tension and pressure Washington into direct negotia tions on a nonaggression pact. The North has long been under mining the armistice, calling it a “useless scrap of paper.” It has re fused to participate in armistice commission talks. Maj. Ha Ju-yeon, a spokesman at the South Korean Defense Ministry, said there were no un usual movements by North Korean troops on Tuesday along the 150 mile border. The winter training for both Korean militaries began in December. But North Korea suffers acute fuel shortages, and its mili tary’s winter maneuverings have been less vigorous in recent years, Ha said. South Korean President Kim Dae-jung called for direct dialogue between the United States and North Korea, saying such talks were crucial to international ef forts to bring a diplomatic end to the dispute. 4 The U.S. military announced on T Monday that it would conduct two joint military exercises with South Korea next month, although it said the annual maneuvers are not re lated to the nuclear dispute with North Korea. North Korea has denounced past joint U.S.-South Korea maneuvers as preparations for an invasion. The North Korean threat was is sued Monday by the spokesman of the North Korean military’s mis sion to Panmunjom, a truce village where the American-led U.N. Command and the North Korean military meet to oversee the armistice. KCNA did not release the statement until Tuesday morning. The U.N. Command, which su- g pervises the southern half of the ™ Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas, had no immediate comment on the North Korean statement. The North Korean spokesman protested the brief interception of a North Korean cargo ship carry ing Scud missiles to Yemen in December, and accused the United States of planning a naval blockade. Forum CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said, and anyone interested can contact Michael Thomas at (803) 255-8013. “The Teen Forum Show” fea tures a diverse group of high school and college students who fa cilitate debates on topics and take calls from listeners all over the state. “There is very little we don’t I talk about,” Thomas said. Josh Johnson, a third-year crim inal-justice student, is a co-host on the show. “We get all kinds of calls,” he said. “I have people call in and seem like they want to kill me, and others love me. I tend to be the most outspoken of the group and am rarely left speechless on the show.” “The group is really diverse,” he said. “I would go so far to call some of them idiots, but that is just be cause their political views are so far left that it scares me.” Johnson said the show is im portant because it gives teenagers a chance to prove they know what is going on in the world. “We talk about a lot of issues ranging from underage drinking to the war in Iraq,” he said. “It is interesting, and college and high ^ school students should definitely listen.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com --1 Go Gamecocks! Based on campus-wide survey data collected from a random sample of USC students during the fall of 2001. Funded by a grant received from the U.S. Department of Education Safe & Drug-free Schools Program: The Prevention of High-risk Drinking and Violent Behavior Among College Students Project. 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