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SG senator mixes his
ambition with aperture
“The person taking the picture was
squeezing a rubber ducky so Senator
Thurmond would look at the camera,”
Preston said. “I have tears rolling down
my eyes in the picture. It was a really sad
moment.”
Because of his collection, Preston has
had his picture taken with President
Bush in the oval office and Mark
Roscoe, head of Bush’s re-election
committee, at the headquarters for the
national Republican Party.
Starting out with 15 pictures, Preston
expanded his collection over the summer
during his internship in Washington.
Preston was selected as one of 12
students on a committee researching
why most eligible young people do not
vote in presidential elections.
“A lot of students told us they weren’t
voting because the government didn’t do
anything for them,” Preston said.
Preston also worked in close contact
with many senators encouraging young
people to vote. They went on a tour to
12 cities speaking with students about
the importance of every vote.
“Most students think their vote
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doesn’t count, but that’s not true,”
Preston said. “We worked with different
programs like Rock the Vote and
Declare Yourself to find ways to get
college students motivated.”
Preston said he stays in touch with
many members of the committee, such
as Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R
Tenn.; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; and
Senate candidate Inez Tenenbaum, D
S.C., whom Preston considers “one of
my mentors.”
Through Student Government,
Preston is also trying to motivate USC
students to get to the polls on Tuesday.
He is serving as the election coordinator
in his residence hall, registering students
to vote and helping them contact tjieir
elections offices for absentee ballots.
Preston said he wants to be governor
and someday be in Congress.
“I’m the type of person that believes I
was put on this earth for a certain
reason, and my reason is to be a good
political leader.”
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night of few tricks and many treats.
There were treats for the Greek
students, too. They were treated to the
joys of making Halloween special to
some of Columbia’s scariest little ghosts
and goblins.
Zeta Tau Alpha member and
second-year studio art student Margaret
Wienges said she immediately felt the
rewards of the carnival.
“It’s a great opportunity to make
sure the boys and girls get to enjoy
Halloween,” she said. “I enjoy being a
part of that.”
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maintain its own curriculum • and
admissions process in order to
maintain its top-10 ranking in the
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy
Education for admissions standards.
“Dr. Pastides seems very sympathetic
toward our views on it,” he said.
Despite students’ claim that people
associated with the college as a whole
are against the merger plan, several
notable voices have weighed in for
support. The State newspaper endorsed
the plan for its focus on advancing
research interests in South Carolina.
Alumnus Donald Beam donated $5
million to USC pharmacy education in
September and said he hopes to see a
smooth integration to one school.
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best interests is implemented.
“The accredited program at USC
won’t go away anytime soon,” he said.
Mayer said a joint curriculum isn’t at
all in the students’ best interest because
MUSC has a hospital-related teaching
method while USC has a model
emphasizing more laboratory
instruction. He said the only motivation
is to bring more research money to both
universities, a goal he said is admirable.
Pastides and other administrators
will readily admit that they are
interested in bringing in more money
but also want to develop the strongest
single program the state could offer.
Mayer said he wants USC to
to be involved in voter registration, and
to be active in all the local campaigns.
We’ve got two main goals. One is to get
some of the independent vote and to
make head way in the Republican
strongholds in the state, and the other is
to encourage voting in general,” Day said.
Getting out the 18- to 24-year-old
demographic to the polls was especially
important, Day said, since that group
usually lags behind others.
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John Edwards and Kerry-backer Claudia
Kennedy, a three-star general. The Young
Democrats held 'debate watches at
Delaney’s Pub for both the Presidential
and Vice Presidential debates, and have
hosted political discussion forums with the
College Republicans over the past few
weeks. Katie Day, president of the Young
Democrats and second-year political
science and finance student, said that as
the election drew near the group was
making an all-out push to get out the
Democratic vote in South Carolina.
“We’re encouraging all our members
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peace and grass-roots democracy,” Chris
Gibbs, USC Green Party president, said.
Gibbs said the Greens would be poll
watching on Election Day, as they had
candidates in a number of races that the)'
expected to do well.
Democrats at USC have also been busy
as Young Democrats have volunteered at
fund-raisers and events for prominent
Democrats like vice presidential candidate
justified.
“There are far more important
things that local law enforcement
should be spending their time and
resources on,” said Jeff Friedland, a
fifth-year marketing and management
student. “The thing is, there’s always
going to be underage kids going out
and drinking. Most of these kids walk
back from Five Points. I would contend
that the bigger problem lies with
drinkers who are of age, because they
are the ones mostly who go to Five
Points, throw a few back and then drive
home. Underage drinkers who go
downtown are more likely to make a
night of it.”
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police departments.
“In the Lexington 5 school district
alone, the number of retailers selling to
underage people was reduced by 50
percent over the last year, mostly due to
this program,” she said.
Daniels said the enforcement
program has 75 officers and that the
officers work beyond their normal work
schedule for the enforcement team,
doing these duties in addition to their
normal day of work.
According to LRADAC, the
enforcement team performed 1,950
operations between August 2003 and
September 2004. Out of these, 316
arrests were made.
While the program has been
enormously successful, not all USC
students agree that this objective is
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the last week in October. The week
recognizes the death of Kiki Camarena,
a Texas DEA agent who died in the line
of duty, and raises awareness of
substance abuse issues.
Daniels said the enforcement team is
funded by the Enforcing Underage
Drinking Laws from the justice
department.
“These awards will hopefully allow us
to secure even more funding by raising
the program’s notoriety, so we can
continue to help curb underage
drinking,” she said.
Plans to expand the program include
working with the Columbia and Cayce
By TARYN GOMULINSKI
THE GAMECOCK
SG Sen. Tommy Preston has been
collecting pictures of himself with
politicians he has met during the past
two years.
Preston, a second-year political
science student, Preston has more than
100 framed photographs of different
politicians.
“I would like to hang all of them up
on my wall, but I don’t have enough
room,” Preston said.
Preston decorated his dorm room
with about 65 of the pictures, displaying
the ones of the more recognizable
leaders. The photographs are centered
on a mounted copy of the U.S.
Constitution, which “represents what
we are in government,” Preston said.
Preston has had his picture taken
with George W. Bush, John Kerry, John
Edwards, Hillary Clinton and many
other prominent political figures.
Preston’s favorite picture, however, is
one taken of him with the late Sen.
Strom Thurmond in July 2002.