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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 83 ● SINCE 1908 Classes canceled for serious weather affairs to see the signifi cance Decisions, procedure it may have on the students vis-à-vis class schedules or to delay university activity other events and then we approved by Sorensen just kind of have to see what our neighbors do,” McKinney said. Ryan James Libby Roof, community STAFF WRITER services supervisor for Lexington County schools, As many students said the decision to delay or discovered Thursday, all cancel classes is often made classes before 10 a.m. were early in the morning before canceled due to dangerous school starts. road conditions. “Several of the districts in What many may not have the Midlands area decided known is the process that to go ahead and make determines the decision to that decision yesterday cancel classes. afternoon,” Roof said. Russ McKinney, “When you’ve got an director of university ongoing situation that’s communications, said the developing, they make university takes many decisions based on the different factors into information that comes account and that USC from those sources,” Roof President Andrew Sorensen said. must ultimately approve the Roof said the decision. superintendent’s office “The primary factor every works closely with local time you have a situation media in such situations to like this is one of safety,” announce the decision as McKinney said. “It’s purely quickly as possible. Connor Huston / THE DAILY GAMECOCK a judgment call every time. “Our office makes every Commuters had a break yesterday morning when Sorensen canceled early classes because of dangerously icy roads. You have to make the safest effort to get the word out. call for the most people. We do that several ways,” Lexington County superintendent, will talk to district transportation employees had no problems “We check with the Roof said. Schools District One Web the other Lexington County supervisors and other with this. weather bureau; we ask the “We have a district site cited safety as the superintendents very early in district administrator,” “I didn’t think it was a university law enforcement information line that we primary determinant in the the morning, if necessary. according to the Web site. bad idea. I mean, it’s still office, police departments, can do any breaking news, decision. In that conversation, they The Russell House a business. You still have and we try to keep up with we notify all the media and It also lists the different will consider information Bookstore opened at its people coming in just like road conditions. ask them to report it; we put sources that contributed to from the S.C. Highway normal time despite class any other business. I wasn’t “We certainly check with it on our Web site, and the its decision. Patrol, Lexington County cancellations. Some the vice president of student schools are informed.” “Dr. Karen Woodward, Emergency Preparedness, student bookstore WEATHER ● 3 Cultural heritage brings pride Student motivated to succeed by family’s work ethic, values, traditions Ashleigh Orthen settled us in and gave my dad “I grew up watching my University of South Carolina, THE DAILY GAMECOCK his first hotel,” Patel said. mom and dad scrub toilets said without learning the “My uncle is also my second just so they would be able ropes of the hotel business There are numerous Patels dad, just as my cousins are to buy me diapers,” Patel and working so hard, she enrolled at USC and this considered my brothers and said. “Watching them and would not be where she is Indian surname is as popular sisters. A family never comes my other family members today. as Smith is. from India stranded; they as I grew older turned me “My dream has always But one student said her always have their family no into such a hard worker. It’s been to do something in the Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK last name tells a true story of matter what.” defi nitely a true story of how medical fi eld. I love working Among other goodies, the McEntire Air National Guard how hard work pays off. Patel said India has the hard work builds character hard because of growing received USC gear in their care packages for Christmas. Mona Patel, a fourth-year second largest population and pays off.” up in the hotel,” Patel said. biology student, said while in the world under China’s Patel, who will be “I will be a Family Nurse she was growing up in North and many families are a lot graduating in May and Practitioner after attending and South Carolina, she was bigger there than they are in then attending the Medical MUSC no matter what it Soldiers fi ghting in the only Indian in her area. America. takes to get me there.” It wasn’t until she came “People in the U.S. have And getting there has not to USC that she began to Iraq send thank you smaller families sometimes been the easiest road for notice there are many others because they don’t believe in Patel. just like her … and with the “I have a neighbor over family like we do in India,” “Growing up, it did not same last name. U101 class gets involved there, so I got in touch with Patel said. “They also tend bother me one bit that I was Patel’s parents lived him,” Headley said. to work only for themselves, the only Indian in school,” by sending care in India for about five Soldiers from the while we work for our entire Patel said. “But after 9/11, McEntire Air National years before she was born. packages to troops family. Why stand alone I experienced some racial Guard, which includes They decided to move to when you can stand with 50 discrimination, but I wasn’t several men and women New Zealand after Patel’s people?” scared.” from Columbia, sent the grandfather died because her Kathleen Kemp Patel’s family owns a “I am pretty sure I was THE DAILY GAMECOCK students a picture, and aunt lived there. Her parents business full of hotels, such discriminated because other the students got to work then brought her to the U.S. as the one in Bennettsville, people do not know about my collecting items to send. when she was six months Students who sent holiday called the Marlboro Inn. heritage. I am just as much care packages to troops They made fl iers and set old. She said without the hotels an American as I am Indian, overseas have recently up bags and boxes around “My dad was the last one Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK and their family values, they and even though I have dark received a surprising e- campus, which they were to come over to the United would not be where they are Mona Patel practices Indian mail: a thank you note from responsible for monitoring. States. My uncle definitely ● today. traditions with her family. PATEL 3 Iraq. Some students supplied The students sent the items themselves. packages as part of a project Headley received an assigned by their University e-mail from the soldiers House passes bill lowering interest rates on student loans 101 teacher, June Headley. with pictures of them “I taught two sections opening the care packages Reduction for need-based aid helps college kids pay tuition costs faster, cheaper, easier of University 101, and as well as a thank you note each student was required including well wishes for Jim Kuhnhenn and Democrats in the Though clearly popular, toward tuition relief. to complete 10 hours the Gamecock’s coming Th e Associated Press Senate derailed ethics and the legislation sparked a “Many young people find of community service,” year. In it, Dean Widener, lobbying reform that the new debate over where to set the themselves where I was when I Headley said. “I made them Headley’s neighbor who is WASHINGTON — The Democratic majority had made nation’s education priorities was at age 18, wondering what do it together (as a class).” currently doing his second Democratic-controlled House their fi rst legislative initiative. - helping college graduates pay they will do with their lives,” The students satisfied tour in Iraq, wrote: voted to cut interest rates The House legislation, off their debts or expanding said Rep. Linda Sanchez, half of their requirement by “The goodies have been on need-based student loans passed 356-71, would slice federal grants for low-income D-Calif., a daughter of doing a “Service Saturday” put to good use and your Wednesday, steadily whittling rates on the subsidized loans students. immigrants who is still paying washing cars for disabled caring thoughts made what could have been a dreary its list of early legislative from 6.8 percent to 3.4 percent Democrats conceded off her student loans. “To people, but Headley decided Christmas one filled with priorities. in stages over five years at a Congress needs to do more to those students, especially those to let her students decide how to do the other half.