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STATE 4 School might face lawsuit over memo CHARLESTON (AP) - A Berkeley County schools memo suggesting that employ ees plan their pregnancies to best use sick days could leave the district open to lawsuit, a South Carolina Education Association official says. A Sept. 22 memo details a policy change requiring em ployees to earn sick days rather than receiving them in advance and suggests that em ployees plan pregnancies around the days they’ve saved up. In the memo, Assistant Superintendent Willis Sanders writes that sick days approved in .advance for events like maternity leave “may not be approved in the future.” “Pregnancy can be planned, and employees can bank days for this,” Sanders wrote. NATION Bush meets with Schwarzenegger SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. (AP) - President Bush and California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger met privately Thursday then praised each other in a joint appearance. The movie actor called Bush “the greatest ally this golden state has in Washington.” Bush said he was glad to have met Schwarzenegger, then joked about “how much we have in common.” Both “married well,” said Bush, and “some accuse both of us of not being able to speak the language.” Bush and Schwarzenegger met privately in the president’s hotel suite Thursday before they rode in the president’s limousine to San Bernardino, where Bush gave a speech de signed to set the stage for his Asia trip, which will focus on trade and the war on terror. WORLD UN council adopts Iraq resolution UNITED NATIONS (AP) - _ The Security Council unani mously adopted a resolution Thursday aimed at attracting more troops and money to help stabilize Iraq and speed its in dependence — a diplomatic victory for Washington after the bitter dispute over the war. The resolution’s success hinges on whether it gener ates additional funds for Iraq’s reconstruction at next week’s donors conference in Madrid, Spain, and whether countries decide to send new forces to Iraq. France, Germany and Russia supported the resolu tion. But they immediately ruled out any new military or financial help, reflecting on going concern about the speed with which Washington would transfer authority to Iraqis. Service group seeks new membership to stay active BY BETH EWOLDSEN THE GAMECOCK Despite having only one mem ber last year, USC’s chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary is seeking to expand. NRHH went from being a “fair ly popular organization to practi cally falling off the face of the earth,” according to adviser Kristen Cooper, a graduate stu dent in higher education and stu dent affairs. The NRHH Palmetto Branch has been active at USC for ap proximately 10 years, according fourth-year public relations stu dent Kimberly Dressier. Dressier was the only member at the beginning of the 2002-2003 year. She has helped the program grow to 10 members. NRHH participates in volun teer services and is mainly set up to reach students living on cam pus. For the past two years, it has organized and judged the Creed Week Banner Competition. Requirements for joining in clude living on campus and hav ing at least a 2.5 GPA, as well as leadership experience. There are no fees for membership and no required amount of work. Dressier said that this require ment can be met through active membership in another USC or ganization. “We’re trying to diversify our membership so we can really be gin to affect people on campus,” Cooper said. Along with speaking to the Residence Hall Association and the Resident Life staff, the group plans on speaking to hall govern ments in the spring with hopes of reaching freshmen residents who may have new ideas. The main function of NRHH is to vote on monthly awards, which recognize students nationally and programs for monthly achieve ments. Included in the nine month ly categories are awards for advis ers, residents and students. Any student can nominate or be nominated, and the NRHH then votes on the USC-nominated stu dents and works to get them na tionally recognized. Another way the NRHH is able to recognize students is through co-sponsorship of the Academic Excellence Banquet held each spring. Students living on campus with a 3.75 GPA or higher are invited to the banquet. Last year, the group had about 200 students at^^ tend the dinner, having recently^^ raised the GPA requirement from 3.5. The organization is funded by member fund raisers as well as an allotment from RHA. The organization is also in volved in the recycling programs in the residence halls occurring at the end of each school year, as well as sponsoring RA Appreciation Week. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com SURFYOURSELF Nomination forms for monthly awards can be found online at www.housing.sc.edu/resed/nrhh BRIEFLY Trustees to discuss proposed merger The USC Board of Trustees will meet at 3 p.m. today at the uni versity’s Spartanburg campus to hear USC President Andrew Sorensen present a proposal to merge the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Science and Mathematics. On Oct. 1, Sorensen announced that a faculty committee had rec ommended a merger of two of USC’s largest colleges. Sorensen created the committee in late July to study the possibility of a merg er and whether it was right for use. The committee researched for about two months and inter viewed representatives from oth er colleges, some that had a com bined college and some that did not. Pat Maney, co-chairman of the committee, said the commit tee was not unanimous in its de cision but that everyone agreed that a merger could happen only if certain steps were taken. - ——---a -.-—-H www.dailygamecock.com Ferry CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 er and engineering factors. Ferry service resumed Thursday morning, with Molinaro reporting that the number of riders did not ap pear down. The ferries, with their free, 25-minute cruise across New York Harbor, or dinarily carry 70,000 people daily between Staten Island and lower Manhattan. ' The mangled front right side of the ferry was shored up to prevent a collapse of its uppeig^ deck. 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