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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2018
DATES TO KNOW: Feb. 5-6: Filing Feb. 13: Candidate’s meeting and start of soft campaigning Feb. 20: Executive candidates debate and start of hard campaigning Feb. 27-28: Regular elections March 6-7: Run-off elections April 3: Inauguration
VOL. 110, NO. 07 ● SINCE 1908
Graduate grant fuels crab study
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At the 2017 candidate debate, Ross Lordo went up against Stone Davis and Ty Dillard for student body president.
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Student Gov candidate filing begins elections process Larissa Johnson @LALARISSAJ
Student Government elections kick off Monday, with fi ling for bot h execut ive posit ions and senate seats. For the first time, elec t ions for spea ker of t he student senate will be included with the other executive positions of president, vice president and treasurer. A referendum to add the new
executive position passed during last year’s elections. The speaker of the student senate will fill the vice president’s duties leading the student senate. Starting with the upcoming Student Government, the vice president will work with the president on administrative issues rather than dealing with the senate. The student senate elections take place over the same timeline as the executive positions, with
50 seats divided by academic college. After fi ling — fees are $5 for senators and $50 for executive positions — soft campaigning begins Feb. 13, followed by the executive debate Feb. 20 and regular elections Feb. 27-28. Students interested in running can file at the Leadership and Service Center in Russell House from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday.
Black History Month celebrations continue in Columbia
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I n addit ion to last w e e k e n d ’s p a r a d e , Colu mbia a nd it s u n iver sit ie s w i l l b e hosting several events in celebration of black
history. Celebrations began last weekend with the 14t h annual K aramu Statewide Black H istor y Pa r ade a nd Fest ival. The parade traveled through Five Poi nt s a nd ended at
Mart in Lut her K ing Jr. Pa rk i n t i me for the festival to begin, complete with vendors and live music. I n add it ion, ever y week of February the Nickelodeon Theater on Ma i n St reet w il l
pre sent sc reen i ng s o f “ B l a c k S t o r i e s ,” a film that “captures moment s t hat ser ve as m ilestones for an entire movement and ex plore s t hem f rom SEEBHMPAGE2
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Zachar y Cannizzo came to USC for g r a d u at e s c h o o l t o answer one question: W hy a re m a ng rove t ree c r ab s on m a nmade dock s bigger than crabs in the salt marsh? Cannizzo, a graduate st udent i n ma r i ne science, does his field work in Florida over t he su m mers, and traditionally funding for t h at work c a me f r o m h i s a d v i s o r. However, his advisor h a s moved on f rom USC and so have Ca n n izz o’s s u m mer research funds. T h at ’s w he r e t he Of f ice of t he V ice President for Research comes in. Every year t hey award select students like Cannizzo w it h t he Suppor t to Promote Advancement of Research and C re at iv it y re se a rc h grant. To receive the grant, applicants must subm it a proposa l package consisting of a three-page narrative about t heir research a nd it s i mp or t a nc e along with a two-page bibl iog r aphy. T h is year, 54 students from 10 different programs re c ei ved t he g r a nt , allotting them $5,000 per recipient. The SPA RC g rant ser ves multiple purposes: to provide funding to those that need one last step in order to complete their research or need to do additional work that would take their research to t he next level. It also provides st udents with a platform for gaining experience in applying for national fellowship
and grant awards after graduation. Recipients can use the grant for anything from supplies to salaries. For Cannizzo, t he g r a nt d id a bit of both. His current research focuses on the mangrove t ree crab, the range shift it has been u ndergoi ng i n the last decade due to climate change and the impact of man-made structures on the crab’s ability to undergo this shift. “ T h e S PA R C i s essent ia l ly goi ng to be paying my tuition a nd sa la r y over t he summer,” he said. The SPA RC g rant h a s a l lowed h i m to bot h cont i nue h is summer pursuits, when t he c r ab s a r e mo s t active, and to develop a bioenergetics model to definitively answer h is ma i n quest ion about how a ma nmade dock improves the development of the crabs t hat m ig rated from mangrove trees compared to ones that m ig rated i nstead to nearby salt marshes. “H istorically in the sciences when we look at a species that moves i nto a new e c o s y s t em , b e c au s e we immediately assume it’s invasive, t he m ajor it y of t he research is on how is this species impacting t h e e c o s y s t e m i t ’s colonized,” Cannizzo said. “But, as climate cha nge cont i nues, we ex pect more a nd more native species to colonize new habitats, a nd so we need to start t hink ing about how these species are impacted by the new habitat.”
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