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BIKES • CODTinUCD PROdl I Coleman estimates that a sturdy, long-term bike would cost $250. Lifetime maintenance for each bike would betabout $50. RHA senators voiced concerns and questions to Coleman about the new program, particularly concerning the cost of each bicycle, the lack of bicycle paths and the possibility of the bikes being stolen. “I expected all of those questions • to be asked,” Coleman said. “Most of the questions have easy answers, and if I didn’t answer them tonight, then I will in the future.” Coleman developed the idea for a bike fleet at USC, but looks to Furman University’s “Green Bike” and the University of Colorado Boulder’s bike rental programs for guidance. “Like the green bikes at Furman,” Coleman said, “we are looking for a cost-effective, but smart solution.” Coleman is also looking to the City of Columbia for support. “Many students don’t realize it, but the City of Columbia is committed to making Columbia a bike-friendly town,” Coleman said. “USC could be a hub, but it’s not yet. I’d like to see the university work with the city in permitting USC as a hub, part of a greater scheme that Columbia is already working on.” At the meeting, Coleman encouraged senators to take action. “Campus planning is reconstructing right now,” Coleman said. “If the students let them know right now that we need bike lanes, we may be able to get them.” Some RHA advisors fear the “If the students let them know right now that we need bike lanes, we may be able to get them.” KIRSTEN COLEMAN RHA senator fleet of bikes and pathways might not come at the same time. “The bikes may not be here until fall 2006, but the timing is now, the grants are now and the project proposal is now,” Coleman said. “Once the word has gotten out, it will be much easier to get the ball rolling.” Coleman said on-campus demand for bicycle use will continue to steadily increase and meeting the demands for safer and more accessible bicycling services is critical for success in the expansion in bicycling services. “By looking at what we have here on campus, the bike racks are full and the cyclists have nowhere to go,” Colerr^an said. “It easy to see that the new program will reduce time, improve students’ health and save overall emissions from the students driving around campus.” A pilot program or trial version of the program was recommended at the meeting. Student senator Jonathan Ross, a third-year political science student, offered his support to Colemans proposal. “Sen. Coleman has put in extensive time and research with this,” Ross said. “She’s moving forward in her planning and I think we should move forward with her.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu nominee • connniiEO mom i Rehnquist as chief justice of the United States. Miers, who was meeting Tuesday with Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., and Judiciary Committee member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., was nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. “I know her. I know her heart. Remember, she was part of the search committee that picked John Roberts,” said Bush, who used his Rose Garden news conference to reiterate his credentials as a conservative. Sessions wouldn’t go as far ?| Hatch, saying he plans to revies Miers’ record. But he added that he thinks “she has a good understanding of the role of a judge — that a judge should not make law.” “I am enthusiastic about this nomination and I know the president believes in Ms. Miers strongly, and I value his judgment,” Sessions said following an hour-long meeting with the nominee. HORGionD • conunucD mom i Africa to write about apartheid, covering the 1970 all-white elections. After writing a 10-part series upon returning to the U.S. after six weeks, he was banned from South Africa. However, six years later, South Africa asked him to write about the country^ positive changes. ' He returned for six weeks and wrote another 10-part column that got him banned from South Africa again. After his first experience in South Africa, he was sent to Beirut, Lebanon, and then Iraq in 1972. In 1975, he interviewed Saddam Hussein. It was like interviewing a giant boa constrictor, poised,” Hoagland said. “He was a man of extreme violence. 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