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The Red & Black | Friday, September i, 2006 | 5A
Candidate’s pool party draws Univ. Republicans
By MATTHEW QUINN
mquinn@randb.com
The lightning may have
forced them out of the pool,
and the rain may have forced
them onto the porch, but
that didn’t stop the
University’s College
Republicans from having a
good time at the home of
State Senate candidate Bill
Cowsert.
Cowsert got the idea from
his dealings with the College
Republicans. Though his
original plan was to have the
party as a reward for his cam
paign volunteers, Cowsert
decided to change the focus
of the party to recruiting new
volunteers for his campaign.
“I got to thinking it’d be
great to entertain (the
College Republicans) at my
home,” he said. “They
jumped on the idea.”
He felt the party, in addi
tion to being enjoyable, would
be beneficial to his campaign.
“I think it will help (stu
dents) get to know me and
my family on a more personal
basis,” he said. Cowsert said
it’s good for
people to see
him as a nor
mal person
rather than
just a candi
date.
The party
offered ham
burgers, hot
dogs and
cookies, as
well as a lively
soundtrack of classic rock,
country and the band Earth,
Wind and Fire.
“If the sun were to come
out, we’d crank up Bob
Marley and Jimmy Buffett,”
Cowsert said.
Despite the weather,
Cowsert said the party was a
success.
When the weather drove
the guests indoors, they
sprawled throughout the
house. Some hung out on the
porch, while others talked
politics with Cowsert in the
living room. Others chatted
with Cowsert’s wife, Amy, in
the kitchen or played air
hockey and arcade games in
the basement.
Amy said she thought 50
people came to the party,
while Cowsert and campaign
manager Chris Herdener, a
University student, said
between 70 and 80 showed
up, with 40 people there at
any given time.
The party also proved to
be a recruiting bonanza.
“Probably 70 or 80, closer
to 70,” Herdener said when
asked how many volunteers
signed up. The volunteers will
work at various tasks like
door-to-door campaigning.
Sophomores and juniors
dominated the attendance;
freshmen were few and far
between.
Kevin Ewalt, a junior from
Marietta, had an explanation.
“Freshmen melt in the
rain,” he said.
Despite the weather, Amy
Cowsert thought the event
was a success.
“It was great,” she said. “I
love entertaining the kids.”
And this may be only the
beginning.
“We hope to have an even
bigger party in November,”
Cowsert said.
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and Harvard University.
He said there is no timeline
on when a proposed policy
would be finished and ready
to submit to University
Council for a vote.
Under the University’s cur
rent drug and alcohol policy,
after one alcohol-related
offense, a student must enroll
in an alcohol awareness class
and is put on probation for
the remainder of the current
semester and the next two
semesters.
Upon a second alcohol-
related offense while on proba
tion, a student is suspended
for the current semester and
one subsequent semester.
Representatives from
SGA, Student Affairs,
University Police, University
Housing and Judicial
Programs all drafted their
own versions of an amnesty
policy and brought to the
committee’s August meeting,
Peper said.
“Someone from the police
is going to have a different
perspective than someone
from student government,”
Atkinson said.
Peper said the main differ
ence between the proposals
was who would get amnesty.
There was debate about
whether amnesty should
extend to an underage friend
seeking help for another
intoxicated student, Peper
said.
Peper said they also dis
cussed how many times a stu
dent could claim amnesty.
DRUG POLICY GROUP
What: The first meeting of the
local chapter of Students for a
Sensible Drug Policy
Where: Tate Plaza
When: 7:30 p.m., Sept. 22
For more information: Contact
Michael Stramiello at
stram@uga.edu. Information on
the national organization is
available at www.ssdp.org.
SGA’s draft of the policy
defines “habitual” use as two
medical amnesty incidents.
“We’re not promoting this
to be used as sanctuary,”
Peper said.
Though he did not want to
comment on what he wrote in
his draft, University police
chief Jimmy Williamson
agreed.
“We should make sure there
are no loopholes,” he said.
Atkinson took the sugges
tions from each committee
member and is compiling
them into one document that
will be discussed at the next
meeting on Sept. 6.
Some students losing HOPE early
By KRISTA FRANKS
For The Red & Black
This is the last semester
the HOPE Scholarship will
pay Laura Brown’s tuition,
but she still has two more
semesters to complete before
she graduates.
Majoring in both fabric
design and photography has
caused Brown, a fifth-year
senior from Columbus, to
exceed the number of hours
HOPE will cover.
Brown, who transferred
from Columbus State
University after her freshman
year, was required to take
extra classes.
She took two photography
classes at Columbus State,
but when she came to the
University and entered the
Lamar Dodd School of Art,
the school did not accept the
credits.
“If you transfer, especially
in the art department, it puts
you behind,” Brown said.
Brown’s situation is com
mon among University stu
dents, who flock to advisers
every year with questions
about HOPE.
D.J. Ogilvie, a senior from
LaGrange, probably will have
to pay for some of his tuition
during his fifth year at the
University.
When Ogilvie came to the
University he wasn’t sure
what he wanted to major in.
He switched back and forth
between criminal justice and
history and finally decided on
history.
“One day I decided I liked
the History Channel way too
much, and I thought, I’ll go
with that,” he said.
Ogilvie took a lot of elec
tives while deciding on his
major, and the extra hours
probably will cause him to
exceed his HOPE eligibility.
Most undergraduate
degrees require 121 hours.
The HOPE Scholarship pays
tuition until a student com
pletes an undergraduate
degree or hits 127 hours,
according to the Office of
Student Financial Aid Web
site.
There is an exception for
landscape architecture and
pharmacy majors. These stu
dents are eligible for 150 hours
because their degrees require
more hours than most majors,
according to the Web site.
The HOPE Scholarship
counts all attempted hours
since high school graduation,
said Susan Little, the director
of the Office of Student
Financial Aid. That means
classes abandoned after the
drop-add period count toward
students’ HOPE hours.
Though advanced place
ment and joint-enrollment
hours do count as credit
hours on a transcript, they do
not count as HOPE attempt
ed hours, Little said.
For transfer students like
Brown, hours earned at anoth
er university or college — even
if the student was not receiv
ing HOPE at the time — count
toward the 127 hours of HOPE
eligibility, Little said.
Having more than one
major is another reason stu
dents go over their HOPE
hours, Little said.
Withdrawing from too
many classes also can pose a
problem for students relying
on HOPE, she said.
Laura Dowd, an adviser in
the Franklin College of Arts
and Sciences, warns against
having too many withdrawals
on a transcript for job-seek
ing purposes.
Though having one or two
withdrawals is common and
acceptable, more than that
could be a strike against a
graduate in the eyes of an
employer or to graduate
schools’ admissions boards,
Dowd said.
Little said despite what
many students seem to
believe, HOPE doesn’t require
students to be enrolled full
time.
“That is a rumor, and we
don’t know how it got start
ed,” she said, adding, howev
er, that some other scholar
ships and insurance compa
nies offering lower rates do.
Another common question
students ask Little is whether
HOPE will pay for classes
they take at other schools.
The hours also are covered
by HOPE, Little said, but stu
dents must apply to the
school and fill out additional
forms.
With about 18,000 recipi
ents, the HOPE Scholarship
will pay $95 million for stu
dents at the University this
year, she said.
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By ELISABETH PARRISH
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University Provost Arnett
Mace said Thursday that a
plan to completely phase out
Social Security numbers as a
form of student identifica
tion is still three to four years
out.
The plan, announced in
June 2005, was a seven-step
process that eventually
would substitute Social
Security numbers with
another set of digits to iden
tify students.
When the plan was rolled
out, the University formed a
task force to identify prob
lems with using social securi
ty numbers and converting
to a new system.
A breach in the Office of
Admission’s database in 2004
was a factor in the decision to
put the task force together.
University officials said at the
time that no identity theft
cases related to the breach
were ever reported.
Mace said Thursday the
University administration is
gradually integrating
changes suggested by the
task force into the
University’s system of identi
fying students.
University officials said in
August 2005 they were in
step four of the process and
that they were conducting a
“institutional change-assess
ment interviews.”
According to a timeline on
the task force’s Web site,
www.idmanage.uga.edu, the
program had been planned
through step five — surveying
the practices of peer institu
tions — by October 2005.
Completion dates for
steps six and seven have yet
to be determined according
to the Web site.
This issue resurfaced in a
Student Government
Association meeting Tuesday
night when SGA Senator
Alyssa Anderson voiced con
cern that students’ social
security numbers were still
being used as a primary
means of identification.
Anderson, a sophomore
from Peachtree City, said she
had been asked to use her
Social Security number as a
means of identification three
times in the past week.
“When I called Franklin
College, someone asked me
to leave it on an answering
machine.”
She said she also was
asked to leave it with an
Honors Program secretary
and write it on a piece of
paper for a physiology class.
“I don’t know where it’s
going, or if my professor will
just throw it in the trash.”
SGA President Jamie
Peper said Anderson spoke
when the floor was open for
senators to address Vice
President for Student Affairs
Rodney Bennett.
Peper said when
Anderson voiced her con
cerns, “you heard Dr.
Bennett gasp in the back
ground.”
He made it clear that fac
ulty had been told not to use
students’ Social Security
numbers, Peper said.
SGA Attorney General
Jamarl Glenn has adopted
the issue and will oversee its
drafting Monday night.
“That’s your life right
there in their hands. You
want to be able to trust your
teachers, but you don’t ever
know whose hands it could
get into,” Glenn said.
Provost Arnett Mace said
although no policy has ever
been enacted, the
University’s administration
has “asked all the deans to
encourage their faculty only
to use Social Security when
it’s absolutely necessary.”
“Times when they would
be absolutely essential would
be financial aid, things of
that nature,” Mace said.
SGA is drafting a resolu
tion proposing definite
changes be made to the cur
rent system on Monday
night that Glenn said he
hopes will be passed at
Tuesday’s meeting.
Lee Niedrach, a sopho
more accounting major from
Rome, said professors have
asked that he use his Social
Security number in classes
for attendance purposes.
“I don’t really mind.
(Identity theft) doesn’t real
ly bother me,” he said.
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