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AWARDS • CODTinUCDFROmr the Thomas Moore Craig Leadership Award. Each* department presented its own batch of awards and scholarships, and national fellowship and scholarship recipients were also recognized by the university. USC President Andrew Sorensen said the scholarly productivity since he became president-has exceeded his wildest expectations. Multiple winners included former SG president and fourth-year public relations student Justin Williams with four, including the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, an Outstanding Senior Award, Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and the Outstanding Public Relations Senior Award. Thomas Scott, a fourth year baccalaureus artium et scientiae student, won the Steven N. Swanger Leadership Award, an Outstanding Senior Award, Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities and was named a Truman Scholar. The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award, presented by Sorensen, is awarded each year to the top male and female seniors. The Steve N. Swanger Leadership Award, also presented by Sorensen, recognizes a senior student’s outstanding leadership ability and contributions towards the university community. In addition to students, several faculty and staff members were also recognized. Vice President of Student Affairs Dennis Pruitt was a recipient of an Outstanding Freshman Advocate Award. Provost Mark Becker was awarded the Rempel Award, presented to a member of the faculty or staff who shows particular concern for students. After the ceremony, a reception was held in the President’s House. The event was hosted by SG President Tommy Preston, a third-year political science student, and Pruitt. Sorensen was unable to attend the reception because of other engagements. On top of departmental and college awards, Carolina Campus Ministries, Student Government, Adult Student Services, Academic Affairs and Provost, University 101 Program, Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Omicron Delta Kappa and the Golden Key Honor Society also presented honors. The ceremony was closed MM with Becky Krynski, a first- ” year music student, singing the alma mater. The event was co sponsored by the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. The Chi Circle, part of ODK, is the oldest honorary leadership fraternity on campus. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu uision • coniine mom i near the river so that they no longer mar the view. The power lines will be placed under the streets. The fifth element was the development sites that will be available in the area to businesses and companies, and the final element was a park that will be the created along the river that will have an amphitheatre, bike paths and fountains and statues. “It will be a westward facing park, a sunset park,” Galehouse said. The park will have three main areas: the Senate Street Landing, the Greene Street Landing and the Wheat Street Landing. The Senate Street Landing plans are the re opening of the canal and a ferry reconnecting the sides of the river. The Greene Street Landing is the main area of the park with the amphitheatre. Sasaki also wants to use the current Amtrak lines to create a station near the park to allow people to access the park via train. “We want to connect "the park to the public transportation,” Galehouse said. The Wheat Street Landing will include the area around the new baseball stadium. The plan will cost about $108 million. The waterfront area will account for about $86 million of the budget, and Innovista will cost about $22 million. However, the property taxes from the new real estate will bring in an extra $17.7 million per year. The funding for the project will come from a combination of sources, including state funding, taxes and federal funding via the Army Corps of Engineers’ Water Resources Development Act. “Based on our experience it is very achievable,” Galehouse said. While they did not discuss a specific timeframe for the project, they talked about 15-year increments for funding. Sasaki has had plenty of experience creating a “dynamic waterfront.” The company has worked on the parks in Charleston and Indianapolis. However, both were much smaller than the planned area for Columbia. The focus of the development is to create an aesthetically pleasing area that will emphasize the river. However, issues such as creating adequate parking make that difficult to achieve. The Sasaki plan is to hide the parking garages in the middle of the blocks, so buildings surround them. They also plan to have an underground parking garage , near the river. Members of the audience seemed enthusiastic about the plan. “I can’t wait 15 years,” said one audience member. “This holds the potential to transform our city,” Coble said. “Now is the time, the place is here.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu EARTH • COnTIflUGD PROTTl I the Hope Chest jewelry stand that is raising money for domestic violence.” According to the Department of Justice, one third of women experience violence in dating relationships, but in South Carolina, criminal domestic violence laws do not apply to women who experience violence by their partners. Monica Phillips, a third year psychology student, is a member of the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA).and was promoting Earth Day by selling jewelry at their booth for The Hope Chest Fund. “The Hope Chest is a fund at USC to provide money for all women who need restraining orders or need to be relocated from their husbands,” Phillips said. Another booth at the festival was an enormous contraption with Styrofoam plates from the Russell House hanging on it. “All of those Styrofoam plates hanging are just from breakfast and lunch,” Blitch said. “It is symbolizing all of the people who could have used plates, but used the Styrofoam plates instead. It just shows how carefree people are with our environment.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknetvs@gwm.sc.edu . IBTFiGEWKl :m Binge Drinking Is... ~ If you are a woman, W consuming 4 or more drinks an hour If; ~ If you area man, If consuming 5 or more drinks an hour r\ What's the Problem? 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