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' Elections CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 posters and call organizations to set up meetings to occur after the March 18 meeting, she said. Second-year political-science stu dent and candidate for vice president Zachery Scott said he has already de signed his posters and will get them printed during spring break. Presidential candidate Ginny Wright, a third-year English and Russian student, has not only al ready designed her posters, but they are already hanging in sev eral buildings on campus. With over 300 on-campus orga nizations at USC, talking to as many of them as possible is the most effective way of campaign ing, Wright said. : “I think, pretty much, the make-up of a campaign is getting your name out, visiting organiza tions and letting them know you care,” she said. Most candidates said they will be putting up signs and visiting organizations, what Wright called running “the typical campaign.” Third-year political-science stu dent Katie Dreiling said, “I have a few things up my sleeve” for her campaign for presidency. As part of her campaign, she will contin ue the baby-blue theme she used last year when she ran for vice president. Third-year political-science stu dent Tyler Odom and first-year graduate student Wes Donejiue, both running for president, said they will use Web sites to help their campaigns. Second-year computer-science student Brian “Murph” Murphy’s presidential campaign tactics will be less traditional. “It’s going to be a campaign of doom, actually,” Murphy said. “We’re doing the whole deal: posters, T-shirts, robot fights — that sort of thing.” Second-year political-science student Justin Simmons said he hasn’t decided how in-depth he will go with his campaign. He decided to run for president Tuesday dur ing lunch. A few of his friends encouraged him to run, Simmons said. “I thought if people expressed confi ■ dence in me, I sort of owed it to them to give it a shot,” he said. Ben Edwards, a third-year phi losophy student, is running for treasurer. “I’m planning to just go with the flow,” Edwards said. “I don’t want to break my bank account by any means.” Kelly Bowen, third-year English student and Edwards’ campaign manager, said of Edwards, “He’s not going to try to get golf carts or run around and be overly in your face all the time.” While in charge of Edwards’ campaign, she will also be running for one of the eight Senate seats open to liberal arts students, Bowen said. The College of Liberal Arts is one of the 14 Senate dis tricts. It is more competitive than other districts, with 17 students competing for the eight spots. Five of the Senate districts have no students running: social work, education, the medical school, health and music. Applications will be taken and considered by Student Government’s Powers and Responsibilities Committee after elections to fill any vacant seats. During the campaign period, students should be on the lookout _I for “person-to-person campaign ing,” said Vickery. Candidates are not allowed to hand out stickers, candy, individual flyers or any oth er campaign material until elec tions begin on March 31. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotma il. com I I SO ELECTIONS2003 The following students have filedfor candidacy in the Student Senate: SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS Marie Connelly Tricia Daniels Brooke Hollins Carol Copeland Michael Hickman Diana Morvey Phillip Mason Wes Lanier HOTEL, RESTAURANT AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT Alex Kronsteiner Patrick Walsh Jeremiah Sexton SOCIAL WORK No students have filed. LIBERAL ARTS Haley Smith Mark McLawhom Chris Dickson Julie Kreisman Bill Spink Kristin Andreano Esther Ks Adams Kelly Bowen Emanuel Thomason Bill Vigen Jeff Crews Joey Oppermann Lara Bratcher Cameron Burnette Adam Jenkins Brian Gaines Jana Haggard BUSINESS Daniel Kim Anjalee Dave Shaundra Cunningham Justin Seay Gwendolyn Taylor Adam Piper Ben Havird Adam Hammett Ishita Shah Tyler Macolly Elizabeth Wade EDUCATION No students have filed. ENGINEERING Trevis Hall Richard Cunningham Will Petit JOURNALISM Tyler Jeffrey Debbie Parker Joe Tomlin LAW SCHOOL Aaron Polkey MEDICAL SCHOOL No students have filed. NURSING Erin Lanford PHARMACY Allison Sharpe John Matthews Bill Cordova HEALTH No students have filed. MUSIC No students have filed. Protest CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 year social work student at Benedict College, led the march with cheers such as “Keep HOPE alive! It’s alive, it’s not dead!” The students held a brief ral ly at the State House that fea tured a keynote address by Lonnie Randolph Jr., president .of NAACP’s Columbia chapter. - “The philosopher Martin Luther said, ‘Everything in this world is done on hope,’ and that includes the education of our children,” he said during the ral ly. Adam Page, a first-year busi ness student, said that without the HOPE scholarship, he wouldn’t have been able to come to USC this year. “If they (state legislators) wanted to talk to me from per sonal experience, I could tell them all of the opportunities that this scholarship has giv en me,” he said. After the rally, students sepa rated and went into the State House in hopes of talking with “If they (state legislators) wanted to talk to me from personal experience, I could tell them all of the opportunities that this scholarship has given me.” ADAM PAGE FIRST-YEAR USC BUSINESS STUDENT state legislators about their con cerns. “We sent out informative e mails to some legislators, but I don’t think they really paid much attention, so I think it is , \ going to be a surprise to them,” said Jerome Bryant, president of USC’s chapter of the NAACP. James Gallman, president of the NAACP State Convention, said he was afraid scholarships like HOPE would be cut because there was no legislation regu lating how the lottery revenue would be spent. “The NAACP was not opposed so much as to the lottery, but that there was not enabling legisla tion at the time to say exactly how that money was going to be spent or what would be done with it,” he said. “And so as time has gone on, they have done exactly that: They’ve got the money com ing in, and now they are deciding what and how they are going to use the money, and we can see who is hurt by it.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com -1 Sorensen CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 replied that he hopes private com panies that are funding many of the initiatives would be so satis fied with their relationship with the university that they would also help fund initiatives for new parking garages. Sorensen’s message about maintaining fiscal sustainability was consistent with his usual public remarks that the universi ty needs the infusion of millions of dollars to keep a balanced bud get. He said the research campus’s proposed partnerships with pri vate corporations for joint re search would bring quick and ef ficient private investments to the university. “When I became the president of the University of Alabama in 1996,1 referred to myself as the president of a state-supported uni versity,” he said. “After several draconian budget cuts there, which equipped me for what I’m dealing with now, I began describ ing myself as the president of a state-assisted university. Now that I’ve been here... for eight months, I would describe myself having survived cuts for the system of $41 million this year and another $20 million for next year as the presi dent of a state-located university.” Sorensen’s goal is to have the research campus privately fund ed and operational in 10 years. Faculty Senate Chairman and law professor Rob Wilcox said he expects most faculty members to support the proposed campus be cause of its long-term benefits. Wilcox said many faculty mem bers look at new opportunities for the university with respect to their own colleges or departments. “I think as long as the applied science research doesn’t come at the expense of other parts of the in stitution, I think people will be very positive,” he said. “If the re search campus brings up every thing else, it will be viewed as a positive thing. If it becomes a drain on other parts of the institution, it would become a concern.” Wilcox added that he hasn’t heard such concerns from his col leagues so far. Anthropology professor Terry Weik gave approval for Sorensen’s proposed plans after the meeting. “I think this is probably one of the few avenues we can go, barring convincing the government—both federal and state — to contribute more to us and take less from our budget,” he said. “Taking from pri vate sources is probably going to be the trend for a lot of universities.” Weik said he appreciates Sorensen’s openness to cooperate with anyone willing to help this project get off the ground. • “I think it was good that the president was articulate about costs as well as benefits,” he said. “For instance, he brought up the whole issue of intellectual prop erty rights. Those are very im portant issues that he’s clearly aware of and has dealt with at oth er universities. It’s encouraging to see that he’s had experience with hard times.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudestc&mtmatl. com w 1 V 1 • * % V WINNER! 2001 TONY® AWARD FOR “REST SPECIAL THEATRICAL EVENT" iJm f : . : l She ©ramrilleNews 2002-2003 Broadway series