8 University Daily Kansan Friday, February 29, 1980 Republicans make amends at South Carolina debate COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP)—Four Republican presidential candidates, their anger from the election have sparred over whether a sparred good-natured about the event has caused the incident and get to the incident and on with the campaign. In their first verbal joint junt since Ronald Reagan, the White House shire, the GOP candidates debated at the University of South Carolina in advance of State's March 8 Republican primary elections. The mood was remarkably friendly, contrary to some expectations that the three candidates who ran behind Beagle in a New York election concentrate their fire on the front-runner. Much of the debate dealt with political strategy. Each of the hopefuls bid for South Carolina's' sizeable black vote, each citing his record on civil rights and race relations. And each candidate cited his experience when all were asked what made them more qualified for the presidency than the others. Former Texas Gov. John Connally brushed off poll shows him running far behind in the race, saying his campaign would begin in South Carolina. "I'm not the least interested in polls," said Connally. Early in the debate, the discussion turned to last week's conference host in Nashua, where four Republican candidates were running for Keanu and George Bush went one-on-one. Bush, who drew heat from Reagan and the excluded candidates for refusing to enter discussions to expand the debate, said, "I want to report about it and go forward." I want to regard about it and go forward." February gains extra day today To find today's date again, you have to loose over three years on the calendar. This is the traditional reason that every fourth year is called a leap year, Jerry Stannard, professor of history, said vetteday. "But like much of folk history, this is hard to prove." Stannard said. "I don't know that it's the truth," he said, "but it's the most commonly accepted explanation." The extra day began to be added once every four years in 730 when the year was found to be about $365\frac{1}{4}$ days long. But because the year is 11 minutes short of 364½ days long, leap years every four years were adding an unintended extra day every 100 years. Pope Gregory eliminated 10 days, Oct. 5-15, in 1826, to correct the 800-year-old error. He then adjusted the calendar to eliminate Feb. 29 every 100 years. There will be no leap year in 2000. The more erotic it gets...the more beautiful it feels. Varsity Downtown 843-1065 University residence halls are filling up quickly, and the last year, but not fast enough to constitute an increasing trend, Fred McElhenne, president of residential programs, said yesterday. Dorms more than half full for fall ORP started accepting 1980 contracts only 18 days ago and already 52 percent of the spaces in all residence halls have been filled, he said. "In comparison to the number of days the contracts had been out last year, we are about one percent ahead." McElhenie said. This is fairly typical each year, he said. Things will "flatten out" in the coming weeks because ORP's bark mailing system is getting more and incoming students is nearly finished. McElhenie said the halls probably would start near capacity in May. After that, McElhenie said, he expected another fall, and an upwelling in July late and August. "Those who put it off could find that they were the ones who preferred to honour them," he said. "Durant's number of years, he has shown a marked increase in the number it's attracting, so it's even more attractive." McElhene said the students who postponed signing contracts until July or August often were not assigned to their chosen halls. The upwing will be caused by late applicants and students who cancel contracts before the July 11 deadline, he said. The number of Oliver Hall contracts was also running ahead of last year, McElhenie said. None of the eight University residence halls is now full.
Number of residence hall roomsRooms filled to datePercentage of rooms filled
Ellsworth64830046
GSP-Corbin76357876
Hashinger40628370
JRP41615036
Lewis43235883
McCollum96021723
Oliver67445568
Templin43211025
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