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No summer vacation for SG ‘musketeers’ Albany Gault TKHKCICR Three students stayed in Columbia this summer to represent you this school year. This is what they have accomplished. Student Government President Justin Williams, Vice-President i^yan Holt and Secretary/Treasurer Tommy Preston are legislating machines when it comes to bettering campus. The three officers, often called “the three musketeers,” attend meetings together and have been to the State House to speak about issues important to students. < “President Williams has a policy 4 ' --- that everyone works as a team, and it makes a difference,” Preston said. The officers are happy to say they have formed relationships with administrators, and that it is not all business. Williams has been meeting with USC President Andrew Sorensen and Provost Mark Becker to see if they can extend the credit-hour limit to help students financially.' The current policy charges students extra for semesters exceeding 16 hours. “My number one priority is to get the 16-hour credit limit extended to 18 hours,” Williams said. SG will reveal its Contract for Carolina Sept. 1, a 12-item agenda to improve life at Carolina. The State newspaper will be added to the Readership Program in the fall, which already provides free copies of USA Today, The New York Times and The Wallstreet Journal for students. “No student funds are being used,” Williams said. SG has also partnered with the USC Police Department to form the Protect Your Books Program, beginning this fall. The program is designed to help decrease textbook theft by creating an invisible stamping process. After stamping students’ books using special ink, USCPD can help locate the missing books using a black light. Stamping stations will be set up at campus bookstores. Preston recently pushed an initiative to start the Student Comptrollers, who will serve as financial advisors to student organizations. They will help organizations understand paperwork, meet deadlines and prepare budgets while also explaining the university’s allocation and funding processes. Comptrollers will receive one credit hour from the Moore School of Business Finance Department. SG has also developed an idea for making away football games easier to attend. Derived from an annual SEC student government exchange conference, The Carolina Convoy 2005 will take students to away games in buses. Students will pay a fee for the bus trip, a game ticket, a T-shirt and gift bag. A trip is planned in the fall to the Auburn football game Oct. 1. SG has many ideas for students, Holt said. “We are really excited about the new year and hope to carry over what we did in the summer to the fall,” Holt said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockneuis@gwm. sc. edu I I flfiSeftBCH • CflBMftfBOiRI 4 4 * “A lot of those types of things are going on. People just don’t think of it: as research. It’s all about « asking questions. If a costuming Student has to ask, ‘What did they Jvear in the 1400s,’ that’s research,” fvlorris said. J Research has been historically fimited for USC undergraduates. Several established opportunities ire those in the pharmacy and < " psychology departments, the latter featuring a summer research program headed by James Coleman, an undergraduate research enthusiast recently named Office of Undergraduate Research’s Research Mentor of the Year. Morris hinted at an interaction between the undergraduate research office and the Honors College, which touts a curriculum featuring “research-based learning,” a method of immersing students in research experience throughout their college careers. Morris touted the success of the Honors Colleges MARE program, an undergraduate marine science project in its eighth year. Morris said that while the office continues to grow, interested students should browse the office’s Web site. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edit SHBFfie • conTifiuen prooi m t the university’s larger research campus plans. • “It’s a 5-million-square-foot iream,” said Rick Kelly, USC vice president and chief financial officer. • The initial phase of the research campus will be composed of seven buildings, two of which will be parking garages with more than 2,400 spaces, according to a report from the USC Times Web site, www.sc.edu/usctimes. The phase includes a new office building for the public health school, replacing Carolina Plaza. Construction of the research campus is set to begin in early 2007 and should be completed later that year, Kelly said. According to USC’s Web site, www.sc.edu, the research campus project will cost about $140 million. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu THE BIGGEST BACK TO SCHOOL P ISTER SALE Where: RUSSELL HOUSE i UNIVERSITY UNION ' f JF 2nd Floor Lobby When: * ik Mon. Aug. 22 thru Fri. Aug. 26 PS] RUSSELL HOUSE f .JB UNIVERSITY UNION | Only $6, $7 and $8 ^ MRRY PINCKNEY UJRTERS/THE GRMECOCK Fifth-year pharmacy student Miles Ervin researches transmembranes involving the esophagus in the Coker Life Sciences Building on Aug. 3. USC has gotten majority funding for the research campus. ..n. .1..I.. ...iiii.. 11 III III " '.v,\ r _I