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Amendments
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Wright said.
SG Vice President Zachery
Scott, a fourth-year political sci
ence student, agreed with mir
roring the federal apportionment
system.
“We figured if it's good enough
for the federal government, it's
good enough for USC," he said.
Wright said she hopes the
amendment will help fill empty
senate seats.
“The senate always has, any
where in the year, between five
and 12 vacancies, and that's a
problem," she said. The new sys
tem of apportionment will “guar
antee that the senate will be more
full, more competitive.”
Dreiling, a fourth-y^ar politi
cal science student, said the sec
ond amendment works to foster
a better and more clearly defined
relationship between CSJC and
SG.
The amendment outlines judi
cial authority, the organizations
roles in judiciary matters and the
responsibilities and election oi
the chief justice and members oi
CSJC.
“In the past our relationship
has kind of been a little bit, 1
guess, leery, so we've kind of de
fined our relationship a little bil
more," she said. The amendment
“helps our two organizations be
better able to work together more
efficiently."
Scott said that after working
on this amendment for three
years, he is eager for it to go to
vote. He attributed the three-year
creation process to delays caused
by one-year terms but said
Dreiling has been a great help by
giving CSJC and the senate the
autonomy to push the amend
ment through.
If approved, the apportion
ment amendment will apply to
spring 2005 elections and the
CSJC amendment will go imme
diately into effect.
The amendments in full are
viewable on the SG Web site.
Students can also request copies
of them in the SG office in the
Russell House. SG will also dis
play the amendments in The
Gamecock on Monday.
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GPS
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each stop; rather, the buses run
on several loops that are sup
posed to be compact enough so
that specific times would be un
necessary. But as many USC stu
dents have discovered, the small
est things—from traffic lights to
train tracks — can throw the bus
es off schedule.
The new system will track any
delays and relay this information
to a central server, meaning stu
dents will be able to check bus ar
rivals online or even on their mo
bile phones or personal organiz
ers. Also, displays will be posted
at each bus stop and in campus
buildings that will show the ap
proximate location of each bus.
Those who might be unfamiliar
with the campus’ layout would be
able to use these displays to ac
. cess information about the bus
route, direction, and bus stop
they would need for a specific
destination.
“We are hoping that once the
GPS system is set up, the volume
of riders will go up to the point
that we can purchase more shut
tles and have more frequent ar
rival times, making the system
even more efficient," SG
President Katie Dreiling said.
SG contributed $30,000 to
wards the project, believing that
the parking problem is one of the
biggest issues facing the univer
sity. The money came from a
rollover fund from student activ
ity fees. The money was spent
primarily on the GPS project, the
construction of a new parking
garage, and the $12,000 per
semester newspaper readership
program, which began fall 2003.
“The biggest complaints we
hear from students on campus
are about the lack of parking, and
so we knew we had to use at least
a portion of this money to ad
dress that problem," Dreiling
said. Adding more parking
spaces wasn't an option, she said,
because paved parking spaces
usually run about $6,000 each,
meaning SG would have been
able to afford very few spaces.
Dreiling said it was clear that
upgrading the shuttle system was
the best option in terms of cost
effectiveness and looking toward
the future.
“We can’t just keep adding
spaces forever; this project was
a way to look ahead and find a
creative and long-term solution
to the parking problem."
In addition to funding the GPS
system, SG also recently suc
ceeded in getting the adminis
tration to give the go-ahead to be
gin construction on another
parking garage for students, a
project that will likely use much
of the remaining funds from the
rollover account.
USC is purchasing the GPS
system from a Los Angeles-based
company. SG and Parking
Services met with several firms
and watched presentations to
find the best system and the best
company around.
“NextBus was able to give us
the assurance of high-quality at
the best price, and we're glad to
be working with them on this
project," Information Resource
Coordinator for Parking Services
Chris Howard said.
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woodturner like Babb demon
strates a specific expertise in
woodturning to the amateur
crafters in the club who are devel
oping their skills in the art.
Members of the Palmetto
Woodturners, who meet in the
back of Mann Tool & Supply in
West Columbia, bring their cre
ations to the monthly meeting for
both exposure and critique. And
they are quick to differentiate
their art from woodworking, say
ing that their goal is to create ob
jects from one piece of wood with
one tool—the lathe.
“People who generally get inter
ested in woodtuming usually grav
itate away from woodworking,"
said Gary Dickey, the Southern
states representative who started
the Columbia club in 1998.
Dickey said
woodturning is a
“subtractive art,"
meaning that as
woodturners are
crafting a piece of
wood they have to
look at the project
in terms of decon
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arts, like painting, that build layer
upon layer in construction.
“We have to be careful in cut
ting the wood because once it's cut,
it's gone forever," Dickey said.
The woodturners' creations
range from functional to artistic.
One-piece salad bowls and vases
were the most common object on
display at the Feb. 6 meeting. And
those pieces vary in intricacy from
wide-open tops equal to the width
of the body, to narrow tops that are
just one-fifth the width of the
piece's body, making it look like a
wooden milk jug with an entirely
hollowed interior.
Alongside the bowls.were
Japanese Ikebana vases. These
pieces have spiky metal inserts in
their centers that support flowers
and branches, allowing for
Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower
arranging. Tom Harvard, a pal
metto member who is also a full
time woodturner, said he makes
five or six of these vases a day and
sells them for about $70 each.
People are attracted to the art
for a variety of different reasons.
One of the newer members to
the club, Ronald Protts, said he has
been turning on-and-off for about
one year. “I get a chance to experi
ment with the wood and enjoy
some leisure time," Protts said. He
added that he is currently making
spindles and bowls — the bowls be
ing more challenging.
Tommy Rhoden; another mem
ber of the club who has been turn
ing for 15 years, said it is the chal
lenge of mastering the wooden hat
that interests him.
“I have about 20 busted hats ly
ing all around my shop," Rhoden
said.
Rhoden said creating the wood
en hat is one of the harder pieces
because the brim requires such a
uniform thinness and that the
wood has to be especially wet and
green to make the brim bend into a
cowboy shape.
Along with passion for the art,
the woodturning club has an on
going mild de
bate about
woodturning
philosophy.
The
“purists” hold
the art to its
most basic
form. They do
not condone
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ings — only creations that can be
made with one block of wood and
the lathe.
Others view the end product as
most important and allow any
method to achieve the crafter's vi
sion. They Qse techniques such as
polychromatic turning, which is
the process of gluing multiple types
of wood together into a block shape
and upon turning the wood it cre
ates a multicolored result; and
ebonizing, which is the process of
burning wood with a blowtorch
while it is spinning on the lathe, cre
ating a black polished look.
The art of woodturning isn’t
new to the palmetto club or to the
200 other woodtuming groups na
tionwide.
“Its an art and craft that has gone
on for 3,000 years," said Dickey.
In its earliest days, woodturn
ing was done without electric-pow
ered lathes. Crafters would find a
small bendable tree and tie a
string to the upper limb. Then they
would wrap the string around the
piece of wood they wanted to
“People who generally
get interested in
woodturning usually
gravitate away from
woodworking.”
GARY DICKEY
FOUNDER OF PALMETTO WOODTURNERS
carve, which was supported by
two stable legs planted in the
ground, and extend the rope to a
foot pedal. The crafter would then
pump the pedal and cause the tree
to bend and release, spinning the
log. From that humble beginning,
woodtuming has evolved through
water-powered lathes to the mo
torized machines used today.
But the technology behind
woodturning has not stagnated.
New lathing technologies include
the use of lasers to gauge depth as
a crafter is hollowing out the in
side of a piece. Babb, the hat spe
cialist from Newfoundland, used
a light bulb to standardize the thin
ness of the hat's body by shaving
the thin, wet wood until the light
shone penetrated uniformly.
Through the technological ad
vances and philosophical differ
ences the Palmetto Woodturners
experience in their monthly meet
ings and specialty demonstrations,
the club is roughing away the
edges of amateurism and refining
their skills.
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