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NEWS 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. COWSERT AMNESTY: Proposals traded, compiled >- From Page 1A University, Duke University, University of Pennsylvania 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. The UGA Alumni Association Presents * 9t ing SO Years The Nations Greatest Mascot CO AS W® VT e I n -roe Friday, September I 5:30 p.m. - 7 p.m. Steqeman Coliseum FREE Admission First 1,000 Guests Will Receive a FREE First Friday T-shirt Prize Drawings for Great Gifts Including: Georgia vs. Florida Football Tickets, Gift Card to the UGA Bookstore, UGA Alumni Association Gift Basket, Canvas Print of Uga VI and more SPECIAL GUESTS: Coach Mark Rlcht, the 2006 Football Team, UGA Athletic Director Damon Evans. Uga VI, Hairy Dawg, UGA Alumni Association President Swann Seiler and GEORGIA A POWER OEOIVQtA iKADirtO^ na A * Fed x Kinko's. *46 NEWS WOCl TV ATLANTA K; DAVV ‘ ATHENS BANNER HEKAI.1) New ID numbers not yet ready By ELISABETH PARRISH eparrish@randb.com 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. — Contributing: Kelly Proctor Get Fuzzy® by Darby Conley i have a V m HE WoN MULTI-pHASep \ THE CONTEST. 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