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RHA ammends constitution with sexual orientation clause By JACOB DAVIS STAFF WRITER The RHA Senate amended its constitution Tuesday night to meet compliance guidelines that allow them to continue to be recognized as an official . student organization on campus. The * legislative changes were semantic, but RHA President Adam Hark said the changes were necessary to assure compliance. RHA added several paragraphs to reinforce the Carolinian Creed’s rejection of discrimination and to clarify the issue of who can advise student organizations. The decision to affirm the legislation was unanimous. The RHA Senate also heard a presentation from Adele Markowitz, program director of the Office for Sexual Health and Violence Prevention. She I POLITICS Continued from page 1 residence halls, so too are candidates and staff members from campaigning in them. m “The residence hall community is ^ even more protective because you have to live there. You have to think about each situation in the context of environment,” Brewer said. Officials working with student organizations have encouraged student leaders to bring candidates and pundits to speak on campus and engage students in the political process as long as they are invited at the discretion of an organization. Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. John Edwards announced his candidacy for president last year in front of the handed out information packets for each hall government and stressed the need for participation in World AIDS Day activities. Markowitz asked the RHA Senate to provide her with $672 to help cover costs for events, including the costs for materials for an AIDS quilt to be assembled by student organizations and red ribbons to be passed out around campus. Markowitz also announced that free, confidential AIDS/HIV testing would be available for students in the Russell House Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 30. Sen. Patrick Walsh from McBryde Quad was also allotted $500 by legislation he proposed helping to cover costs for the Halloween Extravaganza being held by a number of residence halls * next Wednesday. The halls participating in the Russell House, which Brewer said is the best location to provide equal access for campaign volunteers to reach a student audience. “An auxiliary part of the mission is to invite outside speakers and outside entities to come to campus and speak to students and discuss ideas and issues,” Brewer said, adding that USC’s primary focus of educating wouldn’t be overshadowed by political events. The American Council on Education prepared last year an outline based on judicial and Internal Revenue Service rulings that specify the potential proper and improper political entanglements of a public university community. It states, among other things, that in certain cases, universities can become involved in a political message if it is clear that an educational interest Extravaganza, including McBryde Quad, the Towers, Bates and Bates West, will gather at Davis Field from 6:30 to 9 p.m. to put on games and activities for children from the Columbia area. Walsh said the money would go to help pay for advertising for the event, as well as supplies for the event itself. The senate also ^accepted President Adam Hark’s nomination of Nick Perez to replace Robert Veronne, who is on leave of absence, as acting chairman of the Programming Committee. Hark said Veronne’s leave of absence would probably extend through the semester, and it was not fair that the Programming Committee be shorthanded. Perez has previously been associated with RHA through the parking project and NRHH. Comments on this story ? E-mail gamecocknews@gumt.sc. edu is advanced with respect to students and the political process. Such circumstances include a class in which students are required to volunteer a certain number of hours for a campaign so long as the university doesn’t specify a particular campaign or party or a student newspaper receiving university funds doesn’t endorse a candidate or political point of view. Pruitt said he hasn’t seen any cases on campus of employees or organizations misusing university time or resources to further a political message but that such behavior is often done without realizing that it’s against university policy. He said Student Affairs is working on an ongoing effort to keep students informed of potential hazards of their extracurricular activity. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu ► PANEL Continued from page 1 identity for African literature professor Qiana Whitted. Smith withheld a third question to open the floor for students. One concerning the use of the word “urban,” often associated with hip-hop culture, and its implications of poor black communities bore on a second presented by Lawrence Coleman about the cultural exploitation of African-Americans in music and media. Panelists found fault with both those who distort the African American culture for sale and viewers who witness and mimic the fabricated traits, but also noted the benefits of the hip-hop culture, which has inspired underground poetry movements and in some cases more independent thought. “I’m glad I got a diverse opinion from people of different age groups, with broad perspectives and not just one view,” Coleman said. Discussion closed with Justin Williams’ broader question as to what middle path blacks might take toward unity and nationalism. Melissa Pearson, an adjunct African-American studies professor, first raised the point that the community must not create a strangling solidarity that squeezes the multi-pan African culture into one set of traits. Leary called for a path to inner peace, and, in closing, Middleton advised that the “ego” of black organizations should “I’m glad I got a diverse opinion of different age groups... and not just one view.” LAWRENCE COLEMAN PRESENTER be reduced to stop hindering progress. The AAAS will also host a Kuumba Lounge and Fashion Show set for Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, at 7:30 p.m. in the Russell House Ballroom as part of USC’s Cultural Week. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com ggbalt Sex SfterrHart \ (™*ult Oalke^ ^a kal ikey kad la lacoste came if am... ■ I . 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