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SEE PAGES Election 5-8 Guide2008 IN NEWS FOR ELECTION COVERAGE dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 57 ● SINCE 1908 Homecoming week ‘paints the town garnet and black’ New theme pays On Tuesday, Showcase, the food to Harvest Hope the competition to Food Bank. tribute to bond determine Homecoming The second event will be King and Queen will be a concert in which singer- between city, campus held at the Koger Center at songwriter David McMillin 7 p.m. and rock band The Last Kyle Moores “Showcase is one of Goodnight will perform STAFF WRITER the lasting traditions of beginning at 5 p.m. homecoming week,” said On Friday fraternities This week will be Homecoming advisor Becka and sororities will perform homecoming week at USC Neary. “It is one of the few routines and compete for and a number of activities events that has remained prizes in a step show, a new have been planned to get through the changes in event this year. The show students hyped up for the homecoming,” Neary said, will begin at 8 p.m. in the Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK homecoming game against “it will be a hit or miss for Carolina Coliseum. Tickets Arkansas this Saturday. attendance due to Election for the step show are $3 for This year’s theme will be Day, so we encourage students, faculty and staff “Paint the Town Garnet everyone to come out and with a University ID and and Black,” a tribute to enjoy the event.” $5 for the general public. the city of Columbia that On Wednesday, there will Tickets can be purchased will highlight the close two different activities aimed at the door, at the Russell relationship between the at livening up Greene Street. House information desk, campus and the surrounding The first event, Canned by calling (803) 251-2222 or community. Creations, is an annual online at http://coliseum. Today w il l be Cock fest contest co-sponsored by sc.edu. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Carolina Service Council. “I hope everyone comes Greene Street in front of During the event, out to enjoy the events,” Russell House. It will students will use canned and Neary said. “Coming off of feature music, games and non-perishable food items the big win over Tennessee giveaways and will be to create sculptures that everyone is excited about highlighted by student represent the Homecoming football, and we hope they organizations that will be theme. get excited over homecoming decorating designated spaces Students will begin week as well. on Davis Field, adjacent to building at 10 a.m., and after the Russell House, to refl ect THE DAILY GAMECOCK the sculptures are judged at Juan Blas / the Homecoming theme. Comments on this story? E-mail 1 p.m., students will donate [email protected] Homecoming week includes big performances from the marching band and Cocky. GAMECOCKS KEEP BOWL HOPES ALIVE Sanford to pass $488M in fi rst of many rounds of budget cuts Faltering economy, legislature’s instructional material costs and other areas. Meanwhile, schools are losing overspending forces slashing more than $100 million because of slowing sales tax collections that help of healthcare, college spending cover costs of add-ons like gifted and talented programs. Jim Davenport At the Education Department’s Th e Associated Press headquarters, a 13 percent cut in personnel costs is mandated. South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford “How we’re going to take that is said Thursday he’ll let $488 million in something we’re still working on,” agency state spending cuts go into effect and spokesman Jim Foster said. The agency carve deeply into healthcare and college must fi gure out how to do that without spending plans, and he warned that more cutting mandated state programs. budget cuts are coming in the months In a 10-page letter to House Speaker and years ahead. Bobby Harrell, Sanford praised legislators The state’s $7 billion budget ran into for targeting the spending cuts rather problems when it went into effect July than slicing across-the-board. Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK 1 as the economy continued to sour and “That being said,” he continued, “I consumers spent and earned less than want to be very clear — the budget USC long snapper Charles Turner forces Tennessee’s Dennis Rogan to fumble needed to keep state government in the situation we’ve found ourselves in was on a punt return in the four th quarter of Saturday’s game. Carolina’s 27-6 black. predictable, preventable and guaranteed “I am going to let the bill go through based on the run-up in state spending win, coupled with Georgia’s loss to Florida, kept the Gamecocks mathemati- without signature. I’m not going to make over the last four years and ignoring” cally alive in the SEC East race. any amendment to it. There will be no Sanford’s calls to change spending vetoes,” Sanford told reporters Thursday priorities. afternoon. The cuts go into effect after The Republican governor blamed midnight Thursday. the GOP-controlled Legislature for Sanford noted that any veto would overspending and ignoring repeated add to state spending in the face of more warnings the economy would slow. He Spur by Spur Coverage expected bad economic news. cited spending that’s swollen the size of “I believe very fi rmly that we’re in the government by 40 percent in four years. fi rst round of budget cuts in what will Legislators reject that claim because be a multiyear round of budget cuts. So it contrasts a low point in state spending Follow along with Th e Daily Gamecock’s coverage of the our take was that we would have many after the last recession with the peak of different bites at the apple,” Sanford a growing economy. State Budget Offi ce 2008 presidential election. Th ere will be updates and said. data shows South Carolina’s general fund The state Education Department spending increased by 33 percent during blogging throughout tomorrow night on www.dailygamecock. already is trying to figure out how to the past fi ve years and 15 percent when com and extensive coverage of the results for Wednesday’s issue. deal with the fi rst bite at its apple: $9.1 adjusted for infl ation. million in cuts. Nearly half are among Sanford renewed his call for legislators operations at its Columbia headquarters and the rest fall on school bus and BUDGET ● 4 Sports The Mix TODAY TUESDAY Opinion............... 9 Michael Aguilar explains why USC’s The Whig serves up food Puzzles................ 12 win against Tennesee is nothing to that will please despite party Comics................ 12 Classifi ed.................. 13 brag about. See page 14 affi liations. See page 10 68 53 68 49 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2008 page TWO GDailyAMECOCK Theme PIC OF THE DAY Navigator Staff OF THE meeting QUESTION 10 a.m. to noon Russell House, Room 348 Get Out the Vote Week 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. RH Lobby What did you do about voting African American Male in Tuesday’s election? Institute meeting A) I’m registered to vote in South Carolina and am 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. RH, Room 305 planning to do so. Gamecock Leadership B) I’m registered to vote in another state and I’m going Society meeting 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. RH, Room 303 there to vote. Students for Life C) I registered to vote in another state and I sent in an meeting 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. absentee ballot. RH, Room 302 Jamie Pescatore / THE DAILY GAMECOCK D) I’m registered to vote in South Carolina and sent in Young children fl ooded into the Greek Village on Halloween to collect candy Indian Cultural and play games like “Mummy Wrap-Up” at Trick-or-Treat with the Greeks. Exchange an absentee ballot. 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. RH, Room 203 E) I’m registered to vote, but I’m not going to. Red Cross Club F) I’m not registered to vote. Local National World meeting Freddie Grinnell wanted SEATTLE — Machinists BAGHDAD — Iraq expects 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. his children to do some old- union members ratifi ed a new an American response to RH, Room 304 Last Week’s Poll Results: fashioned trick-or-treating. contract with The Boeing requested changes in a draft After taking the family to Co. on Saturday, ending an security pact soon after this Orthodox Christian What did people do for a Halloween gathering, he eight-week strike that cut the week’s U.S. presidential Fellowship meeting drove to a neighborhood airplane maker’s profi ts and election, an aide to the prime 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Halloween night in this small city and stalled jetliner deliveries. minister said Sunday.