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Vandalism
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“It doesn’t make you feel good
to be part of the Carolina
Community when other students
are doing this,” Dargan said. “We
want to make it very clear that
we’ve never done this to other
groups on campus and we never
plan to.”
In the future, Dargan said, the
College Republicans plan to invest
in more vinyl banners and
stronger locks, but that will have
to wait until the group can raise
more money.
“We don’t have enough to pur
^?nase another banner now,” he
said.
Cocktails President Laura
Fisher, a second-year political sci
ence student, said her group had
been targeted as well. The organi
zation put up about 300 flyers
across campus to advertise the
group’s spring concert. Fisher said
within days, most of the flyers were
littering the ground, especially
“around the science building, and
even in dorms like Capstone.”
After checking to be sure they
had complied with all the rules re
garding posting around campus
and finding themselves in full
compliance, the members of
Cocktails recognized they had
been victims of the vandalism.
• Students around the university
^pressed concern over the trend.
“It’s wrong to try to silence
someone just because you disagree
with their viewpoint,” first-year
biology student Matt Allen said.
First-year sports management
student Justin Dale agreed. .
“College is about opening up to
new ideas, not putting down peo
ple or groups you don’t like. That’s
just childish,” he said.
The vandalism of organiza
tions’ signs violates the Carolinian
Creed. The Creed is a document
that states, among other things, all
members of the Carolina
Community must “respect the
rights and property of others.”
According to the Creed, this re
spect must extend past lines of
race, color and religion, to the fel
•wship and community at USC.
—News editor Michael LaForgia
contributed to this report.
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Reading Day
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Thursday.
“We decided to do this three
months ago, and we had no idea
when reading day was. I have
an exam on Friday at 9 a.m., so
I’ll be studying my tail offlate
Thursday night when I get back
after eight hours of driving,”
Todd said.
For Jimmy Buffett fans,
Thursday is a particularly spe
cial occasion. Buffett will be per
forming at the Colonial Center
for his “Return Of The Far Side
Of The World” tour with the
Coral Reefer Band at 8 p.m.
Second-year chemistry stu
dent Nate Paulich said he will
put his studying off until the
weekend to see Buffett in con
pprf
“Buffett only comes here
once a year. His music is the
most fun music in the world. I
don’t have any exams until
Monday,” Paulich said.
Some students have man
aged to miss the crunch time of
finals through take-home ex
ams and look at Thursday as
just another day.
Third-year English student
Carl Vann said he’ll be spend
ing reading day playing video
games and catching up on rest.
“I don’t really have to study.
Most of my exams are in my
less important classes,” Vann
said. “Most of my classes I just
have to turn papers in so I’m al
ready done.”
But some students will use
reading day for its intended
purpose.
“I’m going to be studying all
day for chemistry and history
because my grades are riding
on those two finals. There are a
million things I’d rather be do
ing but I’ll be stuck in my room
pretty much for the whole day,”
first-year chemistry student
Kimberly Painter said.
The women’s quad is playing
host to an exam-breaker event
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday
with activities including mak
ing stress balls, decorating cups
and taking pictures.
Held outside in the middle of
the quad, the event will allow
students to drop by and snack
on popcorn, snow cones, ham
burgers and hot dogs while lis
tening to music and playing
games.
me nau government ana
resident assistants in the wom
en’s quad have put together this
event that will allow residents
to take a break from studying
and have fun while reminisc
ing with friends they’ve made
throughout the year,” said Cara
Jenkins, a first-year graduate
student in higher education stu
dent affairs and residence hall
director for McClintock.
“Even though reading day is
Thursday, I have a major cal
culus exam that’s on Friday,
and the professor is holding a
review Thursday afternoon,”
first-year business student
Grecia Lopez said. “So I’ll be de
voted to Calculus that day.”
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to stimulate the state’s lumbering
economy with jobs and incoming
monies.
“When used wisely, tax incen
tives can be an important tool for
states to encourage business,” said
Donald Schunk, an assistant eco
nomics professor at USC who spe
cializes in Southern economies.
Schunk referenced the tax in
centive pull and landing of the
BMW plant in the Upstate as an
example of lost tax money being
strongly outweighed by other eco
nomic increases.
“These kinds of incentives cer
tainly have the potential to work,”
Schunk said. “There are a lot of
examples where it does work.”
“In the case of motion pic
tures,” he said, “that’s probably
going to bring in some money.”
The proposed tax incentive is
coming at a time when movie pro
duction companies are more often
choosing to film at the cheapest lo
cations.
Location shooting is partly to
get a good look, but the bottom line
is where you can get a film made
with the most quality and effec
tiveness for the least amount of
money,” said Ina Hark, director of
the Film Studies department.
“It’s a business,” she added.
The act has made its way
through the House and is in the
Senate Finance Committee where
it is awaiting further attention.
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bad for our state in 1998.”
Beasley lost an incumbent bid
for governor to Jim Hodges in
1998. In deference to the need for
higher voter turnout, though,
Swaisgood gave Beasley some
credit.
“I think it’s good that we have
a candidate of any party coming
to campus, if it will help move up
our state from 48th-place in voter
turnout,” Swaisgood said:
Beasley has been to several
universities as a part of his
campaign to win the
Republican nomination for U.S.
Senate. The seat is being vacat
ed by long-time Democratic
Sen. Fritz Hollings, who an
nounced his retirement in
August.
Also running for the nomina
tion is former S.C. Attorney
General Charlie Condon, Myrtle
Beach Mayor Mark McBride,
Hilton Head businesswoman
Orly Benny Davis, Charleston
real estate developer Thomas
Ravenel -and U.S. Rep. Jim
DeMint, R-S.C.
Dargan said each*of the can
didates has been invited to speak
to the USC College Republicans,
but Beasley was the only candi- .
date to agree to appear in per
son.
“The campaign manager
from Jim DeMint’s campaign
spoke to us last semester,” .
Dargan said. “But all the other
candidates — Ravenel backed
out at the last minute, and
Condon never responded to our -
invitation at all.”
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