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ings,” SG President Katie
Dreiling said. “It is an outlet for
students to use, but it is not mon
itored by the university, so there
is no guarantee of accuracy.”
Dreiling would like to see a ser
vice similar to
TeacherReviews.com on
Blackboard in the future, but un
til then many students plan to con
tinue using TeacherReviews.com.
“It is a good idea because it
helps students know what to ex
pect,” said Shannon Kendrick, a
second-year advertising student.
“The fact a guy is suing over this
is totally ridiculous because it’s
just one student’s opinion. They
should be able to deal with criti
cism.”
Teresa Mark, a first-year biol
ogy student, is eager for the site’s
return.
“I don’t think it should’ve been
down, because it’s a very useful
tool for students,” Mark said. “It’s
unfair to those students who are
using the site appropriately.”
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on pursuing a career in aviation
find the experience worthwhile.
Caleb Barr, a second-year chem
istry student, takes flying lessons
for recreational purposes and said
for him flying is a means of escape.
“It gives you a break from the
world,” said Barr, who taken
lessons since September. “It gets
you away and lets you focus on
something else for a while.”
While recreational pilots are re
stricted to 50 miles from the air
port where they received their
training, private pilots can fly
where they want as long as they
follow applicable regulations.
Costello, a USC graduate, said that
flight enabled him to experience
places he previously had only seen
in textbooks.
“One day you can go to Canada
and see a different culture, and the
next day you could go to the
Bahamas and see something 180 de
grees the opposite,” Costello said.
Donn Heikkila, a flight student
at Horizon, called flying “one of
the most special experiences
you’ll have.”
“The first time you go solo,
you’ll always remember it,”
Heikkila said.
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the issues,” Frazier said.
Part of the treasurer’s duty is to
lead workshops in which treasur
ers of student organizations sub
mit proposals and learn how to car
ry out their duties and handle their
finances. In addition to leading the
workshops, Frazier plans on as
sisting each organization’s trea
surer with writing proposals.
Frazier said he wants to meet each
organization’s treasurer.
Frazier said he wants to assist
student organizations that aren’t
generally part of the SG budget,
such as fraternities, sororities and
political organizations, and help
them and their treasurers. If there
is any money left over from the
primary funds, these organiza
tions might see some special
events funds. But even if they
don’t, Frazier still wants to help.
Frazier said if elected he will
make sure the books are updated
and correct so different organiza
tions can receive funds. Other du
ties include communicating infor
mation about student organization
fees to SG administrators and serv
ing as an advocate with students
when finances are adjusted.
“I’m hardworking, dependable
and open-minded. I’m a people
person,” Frazier said.
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the Year for the Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity and is currently Alpha
l Phi Alpha’s education chairman.
Frazier became an active mem
ber of USC’s community service
branch of the NAACP in fall 2003.
He was a member of Family of
African American Pre-Med
Students for a year.
Frazier, an Aiken native, is cur
rently pre-med. and wants to be a
surgeon. His favorite movies are
The Lord of the Rings films and his
favorite musician is Jay-Z.
News editor Michael LaForgia
contributed to this report.
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Iraq considers early elections
BY HAMZA HENDAWI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD, IRAQ - U N. ex
perts met with Iraqi leaders for
the first time Sunday to discuss
the chances of holding early
elections as Prince Charles
made a surprise visit and Japan
expanded its first military de
ployment to a combat zone since
World War II.
In fresh violence, insurgents
attacked separate U.S. Army con
voys with explosives, killing one
soldier and wounding three oth
ers, witnesses said. The soldier
was killed when a roadside bomb
exploded near Mahmudiyah, 20
miles south of Baghdad, a mili
tary spokesman said.
Prince Charles made a sur
prise visit to British troops, the
first member of the royal fami
ly to go to Iraq since Saddam
Hussein’s ouster.
At a former Saddam palace in
the city of Basra, the prince min
gled with about 200 soldiers.
Security was tight for the
prince’s 51/2-hour visit. His staff
only allowed journalists to report
that he’d been to Iraq after he left
for Iran — the first member of a
British royal family to visit that
country in 33 years.
In southeastern Iraq, a heavily
armored convoy of Japanese sol
diers arrived as part of Tokyo’s
first military deployment in a
hostile region since 1945.
The ground troops, mostly
engineers, lead a deployment
that will eventually reach about
800 soldiers in a humanitarian
mission to improve water sup
plies and other infrastructure
projects around Samawah.
Another 200 soldiers will re
main in Kuwait.
The U.N. team, led by veter
an diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi,
sat down with the U.S.-appoint
ed Iraqi Governing Council to
start determining whether leg
islative elections can be held by
June 30, when the Americans
plan to transfer sovereignty to
Iraqis.
The current U.S. plan is to
choose legislators in regional
caucuses — a move opposed by
the country’s most powerful
Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah
Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani. If ear
ly elections are deemed unfeasi
ble, the U.N. team will offer al
ternatives to the American plan.
Failure to find a formula for
establishing a new Iraqi gov
ernment acceptable to al-Sistani
and Iraq’s other religious and
ethnic communities could sab
otage White House plans for
scaling back the U.S. role here.
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