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See page 10 classics and bombs. See page 7 Classifi ed................12 68 38 65 43 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2007 VOL. 101, NO. 62 ● SINCE 1908 CLASS SIZES Clubs forfeit cash commission in order to do the fashion show which are Student groups losing research on what student sold out every year,” Guyton organizations typically said. She said because of a EXCEED funds to university need, using the new lack of funding they have under current system tracking system, and ease to have clothes donated and this burden off the fi nance receive sponsorships. LIMITS committee. “It would help Student The committee, led by Government in allocating Brad Maxwell STAFF WRITER the student body treasurer, their funds. They’ll know will submit a recommended which events are successful With sections containing budget to the Senate every year,” Guyton said. hundreds of students, Hundreds of thousands Finance Committee. The Guyton said AAAS of dollars are left unspent commission of no more receives anywhere between Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK colleges overwhelmed by student organizations than 10 members will also $5000 and $8000 for an This teddy bear is hiding a hookah on the inside. year after year — and the include the chair of the entire year. money isn’t going back Senate Finance Committee, Brown recently proposed Justin Pope to the students, said SG four members appointed by a bill that would access Teddies not just for Th e Associated Press Treasurer Alesha Brown. the student body president about $2500 from next year’s Brown said there is and six other members budget to aid in funding BOULDER, Colo. — On a trend for some student the Russell House 5000 cuddling anymore weekday mornings, the organizations to request account, a fund specifi cally Cristol Chemistry Building more money than they There is a for Russell House events. Bookah Bears conceal popular smoking vessels at the University of Colorado typically spend and the “ The Senate Finance is a hive of activity. Every senate finance committee continuous Committee recently hour, hundreds of laptop- doesn’t do enough research disapproved of the bill Katie Jones for their quality and toting students file in and to allocate funds properly. inefficiency because they were afraid STAFF WRITER craftsmanship,” McVay out of its theater-style “There is a continuous we wouldn’t have enough said. lecture halls, where classes inefficiency in the whole in the whole money, according to With hookahs and Nathan Gibson, a first- are scheduled back to back. allocation process,” allocation Brown. hookah bars becoming year biology student, also In all, there are 33 courses said Brown, a third-year Brown said after fi nding increasingly popular, USC served as a Bookah Bear at Colorado with 400 political science student. process. out the amount of money student Jeremy Meggs and tester. students or more. Three According to Brown, SG Treasurer” available isn’t a problem, Daniel Rovin added to the “Everyone I have shown have more than 1,200. Most one student organization Alesha Brown she will propose the bill trend in a unique way. one to has agreed that it is are broken into sections, received $7,500 and didn’t again. Working together in awesome,” Gibson said. but even those may have spend any. approved by the Senate. To help st udent Greenville last summer, McVay himself does not hundreds of students. One Jerry Brewer, assistant The legislation, approved organizations formulate Bookah Bears were born. own a Bookah Bear, but chemistry course is so vice president for Student by the Senate Finance their budget for the next “The idea came about due said Bookah Bears are great big that the only place on Affairs, agreed with Committee, will receive its fiscal year, a Treasurer’s to Rovin and I just being in gifts. campus where everyone can Brown. fi rst reading at Wednesday’s Review Workshop will be the right state of mind one “From my experience, take the fi nal exam at once “It’s clear there is plenty Senate meeting. on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in day when we were sitting everybody that saw the is the Coors Event Center, of money,” Brewer said. He Amber Guyton, president the Senate chambers. around with friends,” said bears fell in love with them Colorado’s basketball arena. said student organizations of the Association of “I strongly encourage Meggs, a second-year and they thought it was a Such arrangements just aren’t using the money. African American Students people to come,” Brown undeclared student. really cool and unique way are here to stay on U.S. Extra money is put into and a third-year advertising said. She said the workshop The idea of Bookah Bears to smoke hookah,” McVay campuses. a general university pool student, said she hopes is not mandatory but open is a simple one: to combine said. There already are 18 at the end of the fi scal year the legislation eases the to anyone wanting to two timeless items. The Meggs also stressed the million American college to be divided among all the process of funding and will attend. hookah, a water pipe with value of a Bookah Bear as students, and that number university’s departments, be a big help to student hoses used for smoking a gift. is expected to increase by 2 Brewer said. organizations. tobacco, has been around “It’s classy, the perfect million over the next eight Brown proposes there “I think it’s a very good Comments on this story? E-mail for hundreds of years. When gift for your everyday adult years, as the value of a college should be an allocation idea. We have events like [email protected] put in a classic toy, a teddy that may want to keep his or degree continues to climb. bear, it becomes a “virtually her smoke life private from To get ever yone t h rough indestructible, concealable, all,” he said. their coursework, monstrous completely airtight” way of The teddy bear is not the class sizes are unavoidable. Residence Hall Visitation Update smoking, Meggs said. fi rst thing Meggs and Rovin That does not have to be “The bookah bear is combined with a hookah. a bad thing. At their best, majority of students voted to a fully lovable two-hosed They first made a Yamaha giant classes can be effective Achange visitation policy in their Dorm Votes for change Total votes hookah that is entirely student model saxophone and inspiring - a way to get dorms, allowing overnight visitors concealed within a teddy,” into a water pipe. the best teachers in front of of the opposite sex on weekends. Bates 323 326 Meggs said. “You had to play a certain the most students. Students voted on Blackboard Rovin, a first-year jazz note to cover up all the keys But according to Carl from Nov. 12 to 16. Of those Capstone 390 411 saxophone performance to keep smoke and water Wieman, who won the 2001 who voted, in each dorm nearly student at The New School from exiting the chamber Nobel Prize as a physicist at everyone wanted the change. These Columbia 268 272 in New York, said their before getting up to the Colorado, such successes are results don’t mean the entire dorm Maxcy 106 115 product is obvious in its mouthpiece,” Meggs said of rare. will change its policy – residence appeal. their fi rst creation. Students often tune hall directors still have to tally McClintock 101 107 “Who doesn’t want a Meggs said their first out and are turned off. votes floor by floor and the final loveable teddy bear that project led to the creation of Charismatic lecturers get decisions haven’t been released yet, Patterson 496 508 serves a practical purpose?” the Bookah Bears, but the good reviews but, the data the Housing department said. Roost 114 115 Rovin said. hookah-in-a-stuffed-animal show, are no more effective “Overall, these results appear Meggs invited Jake McVay, concept is not limited to than others at making the to indicate overwhelming support Sims 196 199 a second-year mechanical teddy bears. most important concepts for a change,” said Steve Smith, engineering student, to test “The direction we seem stick. vice-president of the Residence Wade 115 121 the product. to be going towards now is Most remarkably, when Hall Association and a fourth-year Hampton “I’ve used two different it comes to teaching not math student. Source: Residence Hall Association / Compiled by Jess Davis bears and I can vouch HOOKAH ● 3 just “facts” but conveying to students the scientific approach to problem- solving, research shows that students end up thinking Spanish Vines drinks to business success less like professionals after completing these classes New wine company brings Harris Teeter and is working on than when they started.