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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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