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See page 5 dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 VOL. 101, NO. 114 ● SINCE 1908 CITY Students walk for research MOURNS Annual event allows USC president of Relay for Life at USC, an organization working with the MLK JR. organizations to help in American Cancer Society to bring the Relay for Life fundraising event fi nding cure for cancer to campus. The American Cancer Society also notes that one in two DEATH Sean Gruber men and one in three women will STAFF WRITER develop cancer in their lifetime. The event’s purpose is to raise Memphis citizens remember It killed 559,312 Americans in money for cancer research and, 2005. ultimately, a cure for cancer. events that happened 40 Nearly one quarter of all “It’s this annual thing put on by years ago today American deaths in 2005, it also the American Cancer Society, and killed more, in one year, than the you walk all night with your team number of US soldiers who died in to represent the hardships that Woody Baird the Vietnam War. people with cancer go through,” Th e Associated Press It’s cancer, and Brandon Martin, said Rachel Roland, the co-captain MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Joe a third-year theater student, wants of the Women’s Quad and Alpha Warren dropped his head to do something about it. Beta Gamma relay teams. “We to his hands, sobbing as he “I started getting involved in have a South Carolina USC theme, remembered back 40 years to middle school. My mom was the so all the teams are based around Courtesy of THE DAILY GAMECOCK the bitter garbage workers strike chair of the local relay events,” events and organizations in the Annual Relay for Life put on by the American Cancer Society will take that drew Martin Luther King Martin said. “I’ve worked in region. We’re using the Carolina place at 7 p.m. today at Blatt Field and will last until 7 a.m Saturday. Jr. to Memphis — and to his Relay for Life since I was 13. Cup. Others will create teams based death. What I do goes beyond me. It’s on football, the band and so on.” $30,000.” $600,” said Roland, a first-year Warren, 86, was one of the just overwhelming to think one in This year’s relay will feature According to the Columbia’s hospitality student “My other team 1,300 black sanitation workers three people have been affected entertainment including Guitar InCom manager Chandra Heyward, has raised $2,575; we’re hoping to who walked off the job in 1968 by cancer. It can be stressful, but Hero and ping-pong tournaments, the event hopes to gain $60,000 hit $3,000 by the end of the relay. with a strike that tore at the in the end you know you’ve done live bands, an outside movie and in donations. Donations will be If we get $100 dollars donated for foundation of the city’s white- something great.” food. The relay will open with a accepted during the relay. each team member, it would be only rule. Martin is the speech by defensive coordinator “We stared fundraising around great.” “They talked to you like you Ellis Johnson. Cocky and the January, and we will continue on Martin does not want students to were a dog, and they worked you cheerleading team will also be at the night of the event,” Martin think they have to donate to enjoy like a dog,” he said, his shoulders the event. said. “We wanted to get most of the relay. trembling. “But I couldn’t fi nd a Students have come out the donations before the event so “You don’t have to sign up online job nowhere else.” in full force to support the we could just party and have a good or donate to come,” Martin said. The 65-day strike for the event. time; we didn’t want to have to “Come out and have a good time.” right to unionize ended with “We have 40 teams worry about finances during the The Relay for Life will take place a victory for the workers. But organized,” Roland said. relay.” 7 p.m. Friday at Blatt Field. It will King’s assassination stained this “Individually, we Some teams have already neared last until 7 a.m. Saturday. Southern city for years, limiting have over 730 their donations goals. its prosperity and hurting its participants. “My Women’s Quad team’s goal Comments on this story? reputation worldwide. We’ve raised was $500, and we ended up with E-mail [email protected] “It took a decade of growth out of the Memphis regional economy,” said David Ciscel, a University of Memphis economist. “It was a time of Men, women compete for fairly rapid growth in the South, and it was a time when Atlanta and Nashville kind of left us bodybuilding recognition behind ... People just didn’t want to associate with us.” “I’m persevering and for the Bodybuilding and The city’s fortunes eventually Students prepare for trying to do what I can,” Fitness Club for the past improved, thanks largely to Mr. and Miss USC he said. “During the 22 years. a young cargo airline named off season, the guys try “People misinterpret the Federal Express that in the early Championships to build as much muscle word bodybuilding,” he 1980s showed that Memphis mass as possible.” Brei said. “Bodybuilding really could still be a good place to do recommends “a peppy means you care about the business. The airline grew into Katie Jones STAFF WRITER partner” for the days when way you look and feel. today’s FedEx Corp. one would rather take a There is the competitive “It rescued Memphis,” Ciscel nap than work out. side of bodybuilding, said. The Bodybuilding Justin Burcham, a where you get up on stage The sanitation strike and and Fitness Club, the public health and physical and pose and that’s what King’s assassination made clear second-oldest sports club activity graduate student, this event is about.” to blacks and whites alike that at USC, will hold its 29th is the Bodybuilding and Greenlaw said the “the old plantation mentality annual Mr. and Miss Fitness Club’s president Bodybuilding and Fitness had to be dumped,” said Michael USC Championships in and competing for the fi rst Club usually maintains a Honey, author of “Going Down the Blatt PE Center on time in bodybuilding. 3.4 grade point average, Jericho Road,” a history of the Saturday at 7 p.m. “It’s a challenge that I calling the club “brains Memphis strike and King’s The championships will haven’t taken on before. and brawn.” struggle for economic justice for Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK feature 14 men and eight It’s certainly opened my In a club dominated the poor. Students gathered at the State House for the Darfur rally. women. Mr. USC is a eyes,” he said. “It was by males, being female In the 1960s, close to 60 bodybuilding competition, more a challenge than I provides a different percent of black families in while Miss USC is a fi gure thought it would be. It’s experience, according to Memphis lived in poverty, competition. interesting to see your two women in the club. Honey said, and few jobs other Moore school to Vice President of body change over the last Kristen Marchant, than manual labor were open to Membership Eric Brei, a couple months.” a second-year political blacks. third-year English student, Harrison Greenlaw, science student, and Today the city has a poverty walk for Darfur is competing in Mr. USC director of orientation rate of nearly 24 percent overall, for the third time. and testing, is the adviser COMPETE ● 3 almost twice the national fi gure, Student team will help division, helped to organize and 30 percent among black the team because she residents. raise awareness, money thought it would be a good But the good jobs, in for Sudan confl ict experience for students to government and the private have. sector, are no longer reserved “We view this as an for whites. Memphis, which was Kara Apel opportunity to raise 40 percent black in the 1960s, STAFF WRITER awareness about global is now more than 60 percent Fifteen USC students will issues,” Deal said. black. It has had a black mayor participate in the 5k Walk Walk for Darfur since 1991. for Darfur on Saturday. has approximately 70 The strike began in February The Moore School of participants pre-registered 1968 after two sanitation Business Undergraduate so far, said Annie Niehause, workers were crushed by a trash Advising Office formed a one of the organizers.