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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. compactor when they climbed team for USC students to The walk is sponsored and in a garbage truck to get out of participate in the 2.5-mile organized by Spring Valley the rain. walk. High School’s International The accident was blamed on Marcia Deal, Club. Niehaus,said the club faulty equipment, but it infl amed administrative assistant picks an issue to focus on at Courtesy of Bodybuilding and Fitness Club tensions that had festered for in the Moore School of The trophy winners of last year’s Mr. and Miss USC Championships competition. years over low wages and poor Business undergraduate DARFUR ● 3 working conditions. FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008

Local National World TODAY Saturday Sunday Installing a new fire BROCKWAY, Pa. — A HARARE, Zimbabwe — sprinkler system in a home pre-dawn fire engulfed a Intruders ransacked offices or business could bring tax western Pennsylvania home of the main opposition party breaks worth about half their where three generations and police detained foreign cost under a bill sent to the of the same family lived journalists Thursday in an Senate on Thursday. Thursday, killing 10 people, ominous sign that President The legislation allows most of them children, while Robert Mugabe might turn local governments to decide the patriarch worked an to intimidation and violence whether to offer tax breaks overnight shift. in trying to stave off an 83 64 77 57 78 58 of up to 25 percent of the Authorities identifi ed the electoral threat to his 28-year fire sprinkler system’s dead as a 40-year-old woman rule. cost. That money would and nine people under 20, Earlier, Mugabe apparently be matched by state tax including two infants. Most launched his campaign for an breaks. Property owners of the younger ones were expected run-off presidential with sprinkler systems also children or grandchildren ballot even before the offi cial PIC OF THE DAY typically get breaks on their of the woman, Kimberly results of Saturday’s election fi re insurance. Peterson. were announced, with The legislation is in Two members of the state media portraying the response to a deadly furniture family escaped, including a opposition as divided and store fire in Charleston young woman who jumped controlled by former colonial last year that killed nine from the second floor and ruler Britain. fi refi ghters. Authorities have ran naked and screaming Five days after the vote, said sprinklers would have for help, officials said. The the Zimbabwe Electoral at least delayed the spread of roaring flames melted the Commission still had not the fi re that was the greatest siding on a neighboring released results on the loss of fi refi ghters since the house. presidential election despite Sept. 11 attacks on the World Fire Chief Kris Benson increasing international Trade Center. said the front of the house pressure, including from “I think it’s going to help,” was ablaze when he arrived former U.N. chief Kofi Columbia Fire Chief Bradley at 2:50 a.m. and tried to enter Annan, who recently Anderson said. through a side door, but was mediated an end to Kenya’s It’s unclear how many forced back by smoke and postelection violence. counties may offer the tax fl ames. The opposition Movement breaks or, given the economy, “This fi re had a very, very for Democratic Change how many can afford it. good jump on us,” the chief already asserted its leader, Robert Croom, lobbyist said. Morgan Tsvangirai, won the for the South Carolina Jaime Hynds, a newspaper presidency outright, but said Association of Counties, said editor who lives across it was prepared to compete in there were no estimates of the street from the home, any run-off. THE DAILY GAMECOCK how much the typical county said she was awakened at The police raids came a Cristina Kubicki/ might offer. Some county about 2:30 a.m. by a naked day after official results Phillip Mason, a second-year mechanical engineering student, buckles down to administrators now are woman shouting for help. showed Mugabe’s party had study for the fi nal test of the semester. having a hard enough time The woman jumped from lost control of parliament’s writing budgets that allow the second fl oor and ran to 210-member lower house. for meager pay increase, he Hynds’ home, according to The election commission was said. her newspaper, The Courier- slow on the 60 elected seats in “I don’t know that they’d Express of DuBois. the Senate, releasing the fi rst be able to afford it,” Croom Peterson’s husband, returns late Thursday that Visit us said. Douglas Peterson Jr., was at gave five seats each to the An earlier version of the work in a nearby town when opposition and ruling party. bill had no state tax breaks, he learned about the fi re. He Tsvangirai tried to reassure but let counties give tax arrived around 4 a.m. at the security chiefs who vowed a credits worth 80 percent of house on a main drag lined week ago not to serve anyone www.dailygamecock.com the installation’s cost. with several other single- but Mugabe, according to a family homes, offi cials said. source close to the leader. —Compiled by The Associated Press @ The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 2008 3

COMPETE ● Continued from 1 school. Marchant competed Justina Kelly, a second-year in the Miss USC figure accounting student, are both competition last year, but is offi cers in the Bodybuilding Crime Report not competing this year due and Fitness Club. Kelly is to time constraints. vice president of events and “Last year I had more Marchant is secretary. Both time, but I still didn’t expressed thoughts that the WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2 have enough time to do term “bodybuilding” scares everything I could have a lot of females away. Petit larceny, 8:30 p.m. Breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, petit larceny, to get in tip-top shape,” “I wish we did have more Russell House, 1400 Greene St. 6:50 p.m. Marchant said. females that were interested The victim said she left her wallet on a bench in a lobby 800 Devine St. The Bodybuilding in it,” Marchant said. “I of the Russell House and then found it in the second fl oor The victim said someone broke through the driver’s and Fitness Club also think a lot of females are bathroom with items missing including an iPod. side front window of the vehicle and removed a gym bag holds an octathalon and a intimidated by the fact that Estimated value: $312 containing clothing, an MP3 player, headphones and two strength meet in addition we don’t have that many Responding offi cer: J. DuPree locks. to Mr. and Miss USC females in the club. I was Estimated value: $240 Championships, which is intimidated at fi rst. I think Burglary, 11 p.m. Responding offi cer: M. Hollbrooks the longest running event that by the title of the club, Wardlaw, 820 Main St. held by the club. Admission they think big, buff guys. The victim said someone stole her wallet from her -Compiled by Sierra Kelly to the competition is $3 for The title is Bodybuilding offi ce. USC students with their and Fitness; we do more Estimated value: $100 Carolina Card and $5 for than just talk about lifting Responding offi cers: A. Mitchell and B. Simon non-students. Attendance weights and how to gain last year was approximately muscle.” 300 people and Greenlaw The Bodybuilding and expects the same this year. DARFUR ● Continued from 1 year, but Niehaus hopes as the Janjaweed has been children. Fitness Club encompasses “Don’t knock it until you the International Club will responsible for attacking “We hope it will be health and nutritional try it,” Brei said. “There is the beginning of the year. make the walk an annual and killing thousands of directed more toward information, cardiovascular a social taboo around men “This year we decided to event. Darfurian civilians. They children,” Niehaus said. activities and an elementary wearing banana hammocks, focus on Darfur,” Niehaus One hundred percent of are also responsible for The Walk for Darfur will anatomy education. People but it’s a very cool time. said. Other issues the club Walk for Darfur’s donations destroying food and water start at Clemson Extension of all fitness levels are You get to see all these guys has focused on in the past will go to the United supplies and setting villages (Sandhills Research Center) welcome, Greenlaw said. and girls and see the results include global warming Nations Children’s Fund, on fi re. at 900 Clemson St. from 10 While the club has no of their months of hard as well as child soldiers in or UNICEF, to benefit It is a current social a.m. — 1 p.m. Cost to join rules on what can and work.” Uganda. Darfur. Niehaus said the justice issue that Niehaus is $5, but $15 if participants cannot be eaten, most eat Niehaus, a sophomore at International Club decided and her club hope to spread want a T-shirt. extremely healthy and avoid Comments on this story? E-mail Spring Valley, said this is to pick UNICEF because knowledge about. Anyone who missed the alcohol. [email protected] the fi rst big event the club it gives all of its profits to “The people in Darfur are deadline to join the USC “I never eat fast food,” has organized. Darfur. really struggling,” Niehaus team can still participate in Kelly said. “I saw ‘Super “We usually just do stuff The ongoing conflict in said. “We’re just trying to the walk by showing up on Size Me’ and it scarred me • KAYAKING inside of the school so it’s Darfur has already killed do everything we can to Saturday before 10 a.m. for life.” • TUBING our first time branching 400,000 civilians and raise awareness.” Kelly said the last time • CANOEING out and doing something displaced 2 million. Niehaus said she wasn’t Comments on this story? E-mail she ate fast food was her 1107 State Street • Cayce, SC 29033 (803) 796 - 4505 bigger,” Niehaus said. The Darfur is located in the entirely sure about what the [email protected] freshman year of high www.adventurecarolina.com club currently has 25-30 western part of Sudan, donations would go toward regular members. a country in eastern in Darfur, but is under the This is the walk’s first Africa. A group known impression that it will help

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Editor Managing Editor JACKIE ALEXANDER MICHAEL BAUMANN minus star’s News Editor Copy Desk Chief BRAD MAXWELL CALLI BURNETT roid claims Assistant News Editor Viewpoints Editor LIZ SEGRIST AMANDA DAVIS Canseco can’t wash his Th e Mix Editor Sports Editor PAUL BOWERS ALEX RILEY hands clean by accusing Design Director Online Editor others, only hurts sport MEREDITH RAY EDDIE MANN Former Major League Baseball star Jose Canseco’s constant finger-pointing of IN OUR OPINION past and present ball players regarding steroid use is devoid of positive aspects. Canseco Senate proposal may views himself THE LIBERAL FOUNTAIN as the honest crush research dreams party, washing his hands clean Sin taxes don’t solve fi nancial trouble of his own sins by accusing A new budget proposal being discussed in the state Senate States shouldn’t rely on would be a They are too health- MICHAEL others of may spell the end of high-end research at USC. statewide conscious to ever give WUNDERLICH crimes that immorality charges to outrage. The themselves lung cancer he shares with If a Senate panel gets its way, $20 million will be taken First-year “magically while eating pizza. They print them: using from the $30 million in lottery money currently funding fi x fi scal irresponsibility delicious” are also too moral to performance Taxes are an unfortunate journalism cereal is glance at a Playboy while enhancing the much-touted endowed chairs program. These funds — part of consuming goods. student a luxury. reading Tucker Max online drugs banned You fill your car up with which are reserved for USC, Clemson and MUSC — go MONIQUE People don’t and laughing or watching by the MLB. gas, you pay taxes. You toward attracting world-renowned research professors CUNIN have to have television shows with Baseball isn’t supposed to eat out or buy groceries, Th ird-year it — just like women wearing next to be about Canseco constantly and toward major research projects such as the Innovista, you pay taxes. You buy print porn and nothing. ripping into current stars but Senate is considering cigarettes and porn, you journalism cigarettes are South Carolina Alex Rodriguez and Curt pay even higher taxes. student reallocating these funds to luxuries that lawmakers, have fun and Schilling, which only brings With the increase in Wait, cigarettes and people don’t enjoy your morality, but a darker light to a game that create new scholarships. porn? high-end research have to have. please, don’t increase taxes for many conjures up some Complain all you want This week the state Furthermore, many on goods and services just of the most memorable and has been considering a comes an improved about tuition, but the prices people cite concern about because you don’t approve innocent experiences of their 20 percent tax on porn of admission at South the health of smokers as a of them. life. magazines. For those of reputation for USC. reason for the tax. At least Richland Baseball shouldn’t be about Carolina’s three major you who love to read your People should not smoke County residents have tainted storylines, tarnished Playboy and Hustler, this research universities are real because it is bad for them fi nally started allowing the heroes and corruption. means you’ll pay more bargains by national standards. And between the LIFE — so we’re going to tax sale of beer and wine on Baseball represents for the articles than your them for endangering their Sundays. Maybe soon the something more pure than Scholarship and a bevy of others already in place, anyone girlfriend who reads own health? rest of the state, including any other sport, if only willing to put forth the effort can pay his or her way Seventeen. People don’t need state lawmakers, will follow because of the innocence it Don’t worry smokers, through college in South Carolina. cars, they are a luxury this trend and have laws evokes in anyone who has the government hasn’t and they are bad for the based on decreasing chaos ever picked up a bat and When USC alumni lobbied at the State House last week, forgotten about you. They Earth. Should we instate in society, not increasing remembers the smell of their a major issue on their agenda was preserving the endowed want to increase the tax on a 20 percent tax on car morality. fi rst glove. that pack of Camel Turkish chairs. The endowment could propel USC to the vanguard purchases? If you want to raise Baseball should take Silvers to $1. of alternative fuel and nanotech research. Chances are that if the revenue in the state, try you back to a time of fond I know pornography legislature proposed these adding toll booths on memories, whether that’s The benefits of the endowed chairs far outweigh any is the root of all evil and ideas, it would be laughed major state highways. competing in the game that cigarettes will give you shortsighted gains associated with new scholarships. With at and it would not even Most people use them, you loved yourself or going cancer, but increasing the the increase in high-end research comes an improved make a story in The State. and you’ll even get revenue to your first Major League tax on luxuries because The reason people are from out-of-state travelers. ball game and seeing your reputation for USC, which means the attraction of more society frowns upon them so quick to tax cigarettes Better yet, why not better idols play. investors and businesses, which could mean actually mean is just ridiculous. and porn is because it does manage the money you While Canseco might see If someone wanted more scholarships in the long run. not affect the majority of have been given and cut himself as doing the public to place a 20 percent tax people directly. out unnecessary spending. and the league a service by USC is beginning to make headlines and turn heads with on Lucky Charms, there high-ranked programs. At this juncture, few decisions could uncovering stars who might be doping from his time make less sense than the decision to slash our endowment being in the league, all he’s by two-thirds. really doing is smearing THECOCKBLOCK black tar over each base on CORRECTIONS READER DISCUSSION FROM DAILYGAMECOCK.COM every diamond of ballpark anywhere. If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know about In the religion of Fools columns in todays In response to It’s tragic for the kids it. E-mail us at [email protected] political correctness, it’s paper! My new favorite ‘SJSU blood drives that are now where we a greater sin to possibly word is “transphobia.” suspended’ by Jenny used to be, playing at their offend someone than to Sinkhoe local recreational leagues, endanger someone else’s It may not bother you IT’S YOUR RIGHT if your offended don’t hustling hard to make the life. Welcome to the what people do with their Voice your opinion on message boards at give blood, that is your varsity cuts, living with their www.dailygamecock.com current sorry world we own bodies, but it should or send letters to the editor at right, to impose PC beloved teams. With the [email protected] live in. bother you that they are in such an important cloud people like Canseco bringing a child into this issue is a$#nine. certain cast over the game, it’ll never It seems more like world. About The Daily Gamecock religions are against be as innocent for them. a witch hunt against blood donations and Canseco isn’t the only Editor CONTACT INFORMATION homosexuals using bogus The child will call the JACKIE ALEXANDER Offi ces located on the third fl oor of the Russell House transfusions, you don’t see guilty party to blame for Managing Editor Editor: [email protected] logic and statistics. 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HIV the “transgender” thing Assistant Viewpoints Editor ANDREA LUCAS JOSH RABON It is published daily during want to give back to the one has been as outlandish Graduate Assistant the fall and spring semesters and STIs are a risk to because it’s a load of Th e Mix Editor EMILY VERNON community and to people and outspoken about the PAUL BOWERS and nine times during the ANYONE who is sexually garbage. Nobody’s who Student Media Director in need I’m sure there are steroid issue as Canseco, Assistant Mix Editor SCOTT LINDENBERG summer with the exception of active and doesn’t use they want to be in their COLIN JONES plenty other ways to do it. who’s now published two Faculty Adviser university holidays and exam protection, regardless of formative years. Get over Sports Editor ERIK COLLINS periods. Opinions expressed books on the topic, naming ALEX RILEY The Daily Gamecock sexual orientation. Anyone it. 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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 PAGE 5 NY ballet principal visits Columbia USC Dance Company collaborates with infl uential choreographer

Ellen Meder “I do miss New York,” she said. “My STAFF WRITER wonderful friends, the excitement of performing at the State Theater at Lincoln For a ballet dancer, the highest aspiration Center. But now my passion is teaching, and one can have is to dance for the famed New I want to expose my students to the best of York Cit y Ballet. ballet because that’s how they learn to be the At 7 p.m. at the Koger Center for the Arts, best.” 25 USC dance students will do the next best “These dancers work to their max and thing: perform the works of one of the most then see perfection and work even harder,” infl uential ballet choreographers of all time, said Dance faculty member Cynthia Flach. George Balanchine, with current and former USC Dance Company is the only company members of his ballet company. in Columbia with the rights to perform This is the third year the university dance Balanchine’s protected works. Calvert’s department will present “Ballet Stars of membership in the Balanchine Trust New York.” A collaboration between the two allows her to set the choreography on the companies, the benefi t show — along with company. the following gala dinner — raises funds to The fi rst piece, “Donizetti Variations,” is enhance the dance department with student part of the New York City Ballet’s “Salute scholarships. to Italy.” The second piece, “Barber Violin “This year’s program is hold-onto-your- Concerto,” which portrays a balance of seats quality,” said Susan Anderson, artistic classical and contemporary dance through director of the dance department. “It is a two couples, is by Peter Martins. The diverse and rigorous program, infused with final variation on the program, another both the traditional and the inventive.” Balanchine called “Western Symphony,” Some students, including Bonnie Boiter- celebrates American ideals, the Old West Jolley, Susan Dabney, Ben Hankinson and folk dancing. and Lindsey Shatzer, are dancing in this With previous performances in Augusta performance for the third consecutive year. and Charleston, the final Columbia This exposure, based on past USC Dance performance will include an extra treat for Company performances, is thoroughly viewers. Calvert’s extensive networking and evident in the caliber of the dancers’ work. negotiation continued up until Wednesday, The idea behind the collaboration is that when it was found out that Wendy Whelan the connection is a great recruitment device would be joining the show. Whelan is for the ever-growing dance department, perhaps the premier dancer in the world which began offering bachelor’s degrees in right now. dance in the fall of 2005. With exponential “She is incredible. Her technique is enough growth, Anderson anticipates 70 dance to put any mortal to shame,” Flach said of majors next fall, more than doubling what Whelan. With a particularly angular and was anticipated for the fourth year of the fi nely tuned body of muscle, the 41-year old’s fl ourishing program. amazing grace and agility is awe-inspiring. In a state that is perhaps not known for Other talented New York City Ballet extensive patronage of ballet, how is such a dancers gracing the stage will be Benjamin link forged? Columbia native Stacey Calvert, Millepied, Megan Fairchild, Albert Evans, Photos courtesy of Paul Kolnik / The New York City Ballet now associate artistic director and artist-in- Charles Askegard, Abi Stafford and Teresa New York City Ballet dancers Wendy Whelan and Albert Evans dance to “Barber’s Violin residence of the USC Dance Company, is the Reichlen. Concerto,” one of the pieces that will be performed at “Ballet Stars of New York.” instrumental connector. After growing up The dancers will be accompanied by the dancing in her mother’s co-owned Columbia School of Music’s Symphony Orchestra, studio, Calvert-Brodie School of Dance, conducted by Professor Donald Portnoy. Calvert moved to New York City at 17 to Tickets are $25 for students, $30 for adults and will include a pre-show reception, a Early arrival for the performance is attend the School of American Ballet. After and $35 for orchestra seating. To reserve a post-show cocktail hour, a formal dinner recommended. a 20-year career as a soloist at New York ticket, call 803-777-5112. Or, to charge, call and interaction with the dancers. For more City Ballet, Calvert chose to move home six 803-251-2222. information on the gala, contact the dance Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockfeatures@ years ago. For the formal gala, tickets are $300 each offi ce at 803-777-7264. sc.edu Ivy-leaguer grads hit blog, music scene

month ago on XL Recordings. Both “A-Punk” and “Cape Cod Vampire Weekend’s new record “We managed to make a lot of headway Kwassa Kwassa” demonstrate the band’s without a label,” Baio marveled. “We did unique mix of typical dorm-room, book- spreads from internet, combines everything ourselves for a very long wormy rock — the Smiths are an obvious African sounds with indie-rock time. We didn’t even have a manager influence — with something atypical: until, like, December of last year.” African music. The band half-jokingly Predictably, the Vampire boys are describes its sound as “Upper West Chris Riemenschneider trying to brush off any negative reaction Side Soweto,” referencing both their MCT Campus to their fast rise. Manhattan roots and a South African “There gets to be this sort of meta- musical hotbed. H. Lorren Au Jr. / MCT Campus This time last year, the fellas in analysis where, as soon as a band gets Baio credited singer-guitarist Ezra Aaron Kraten produces artwork that adorns digital Vampire Weekend had already started to popular, the idea of a backlash is the Koening and keyboardist Rostam devices as Gelaskins iPod and laptop protector skins. feel the buzz. They were being touted by first thing that comes up,” Baio said. Batmanglij (both music majors at infl uential music Web sites and courted “In a way, you can even consider it a Columbia) for bringing the African by record companies. Success was just privilege to have people out there hating sounds into the band — particularly one Louis Vuitton or Benetton lyrical on you. It means your music’s getting soukous music, one of the styles made Artist adds personality, reference away. out there.” famous in the West via Paul Simon’s Only one thing stood “Graceland” album. in their way: Bassist “When we fashion to tech gadgets Chris Baio still had to formed the band, gadgets is a growing market, graduate from Columbia Ezra was listening California native one of according to ABI Research. University, where the to a compilation of A report it released last year band had formed only a Madagascar guitar many to enter growing predicts that the mobile year earlier. pop music called phone accessory market “We were meeting with `Madagascar Guitar digital accessory market will grow steadily in the labels while I was still a Vol. 2,’” he said. “At next five years and will senior and still writing the same time, Rostam Sonya Smith generate more than $80 papers and all that,” Baio was listening to MCT Campus billion in revenue in 2012 recalled, calling from a [South African singer] SANTA ANA, Calif. — 150 percent more than tour van last week as the Brenda Fassie a lot. — Tinsel, acrylic paint, the estimated $32 billion in band traveled from San As far as our sound magnesium printing plates, 2007. The mobile accessory Francisco to Portland, goes, it started with spray paint, matches and market includes cases, Ore. “On some level, it Ezra’s guitar playing, wood. These are just some Bluetooth headsets, GPS was harder to concentrate, and particularly the of the materials used in the receivers and speakers. but I liked the things I was inspiration came from art of Aaron Kraten. “The number of studying in college, so it the guitar tone. We But Kraten’s art isn’t mobile phone accessory wasn’t too hard.” would feed off that.” just in galleries. His pieces products is expanding, Such has been the Of course, are also found on iPods, with new products driven whirlwind for Vampire referencing African Courtesy of Vampire Weekend Motorola Razrs and the by technology as well as Weekend: Last March they music while wearing backs of Dell laptops. by customer fashion and were Ivy League college The members of Afro-indie act Vampire Weekend are fresh out of V-neck sweaters and Toronto, Ca nada-based personalization needs,” said boys with a little band on college and learning to cope with making music in the real world. singing about dorm- Gelaskins puts Kraten’s Shailendra Pandey, ABI the side; this March they room parties and art on those gadgets, along Research industry analyst. appeared on “Saturday Night Live” and The music in this case actually is vacationing on Cape Cod has spawned with the art of 55 other Brian Dunn, vice the cover of Spin magazine as “the best getting out beyond the blogosphere. its own bit of skepticism over the group. people. The company sells president of Gelaskins, said new band of the year — already?!” Radio stations are spinning the Baio laughed off that criticism, too. the so-called skins online the company was created The New York-based, Afropop- infectiously bouncy single “A-Punk” “I’ll be honest: Three-quarters of and at various retail outlets in 2005 to meet customers’ inspired indie-rockers are still on the as well as “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa,” the band has never actually been to around the country. The demand for fashionable upside of a wave of hype that started with the song with the fashion-designer Cape Cod, just Ezra,” he said. “We are sticker-like art pieces are electronics. music bloggers and Brooklyn hipsters. references and a line about copulating to who we are. If you look at a lot of rock made to protect mobile “They were bored with all Vampire Weekend’s rapid ascent is a Peter Gabriel. The album, meanwhile, bands that people enjoy, plenty of them phones, music players and of the other protection out true sign of the times. Music’s online has already sold more than 100,000 are people with college degrees. I don’t laptops. there,” Dunn said. “They revolution makes it possible to generate copies since its release (impressive think there’s any correlation between This business of were too thick, non-stylish a buzz, even before there’s a record out. nowadays), and it’s consistently among what kind of education you got and personalizing people’s and all looked the same.” VW’s self-titled CD just came out a the hot sellers on iTunes. whether or not you’re a good musician. The Daily Gamecock ● FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 6

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With all No. 1 seeds in, Third baseman James run to title could create The Carolina baseball Darnell has also been team travels to Athens this key in the lineup for the instant classics on court weekend to take on SEC Gamecocks, earning East foe Georgia. The National Player of the three-game weekend series Week after last weekend’s After weeks of games and will begin Friday night performance. The junior millions of busted brackets as Carolina’s fourth SEC from California hit three worldwide, the fi eld of 65 has series of the season. home runs in one game, been dwindled to the Final The Gamecocks will tying a USC record. Four. For the first time in look to have a successful Darnell is now leading the the history of the NCAA road trip after playing nine team in home runs with Tournament, the Final Four of their last 10 games at nine on the year. comprises the four No. 1 home. The Bulldogs will be seeds in the tournament. After suffering a tough no easy task for Carolina. These games, pitting the 15-3 loss last weekend UGA is coming off a two- top teams in the against Kentucky, starting game sweep of a talented country against pitcher Mike Cisco will Clemson ball club. Georgia Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK each other with open up the series at (17-10) defeated Clemson USC fi rst baseman Justin Smoak will lead the Gamecocks against SEC rival Georgia. a national title Georgia ready for a win. 6-4 and 11-3 in its mid-week on the line, The loss against Kentucky series earlier this week. Carolina starting pitcher Cooper (3-2) will close is big. We had a great win should produce was Cisco’s first of the “Our next six games in Will Atwood will try to out the series pitching on against the Citadel and some of the season. He won each of his the league are on the road, pick up his fourth win of the Sunday. against Davidson,” first best basketball earlier outings for a 4-1 so we’re going to be tested,” season on Saturday. Atwood The Gamecocks won baseman Justin Smoak said. of the season. AUSTIN record on the year. USC coach Ray Tanner is a perfect 3-0 on the both mid-week contests this “Georgia is playing well This Final SMALLWOOD Carolina has won four said. “We’ve got to have season, with all three wins week, defeating the Citadel right now, so we’re going Four has Second-year straight games, with strong some players step up for coming in SEC contests. on Tuesday, followed by to have to go there and play something fi nance student hitting a major factor in us and hopefully that will The USC bullpen will be a a 9-2 win over Davidson hard.” for everyone. all of those wins. After happen.” factor this weekend as well, on Wednesday. The The Gamecocks open the While these games will be having a dry spell early Georgia first baseman with relievers, including momentum of strong play weekend games Friday night hard to predict because all the in the season, USC’s Phil Rich Poythress had standout Brandon Todd and Craig during the week should at 6:30 p.m. in Athens. teams are so evenly matched, Disher has started to heat performances at the plate in Thomas, ready to come in boost the team entering a this is how I see this weekend up at the plate, hitting .417 the series against Clemson, and pitch later in the game. tough weekend series. turning out. in the Kentucky series. The hitting a home run in each Comments on this story? E-mail Gamecock pitcher Blake “Winning both games UCLA vs. Memphis, 6:07 red shirt senior continued of the games. [email protected] p.m. Saturday For the third year straight, UCLA will be part of the Final Four. After two straight losses to the eventual national Men’s tennis champion Florida Gators, the Bruins hope to win a championship with the help of All-American Kevin Love. goes for upset Love has provided the Bruins with an inside presence they lacked in their previous Team looks to take down a pair of SEC two trips to the Final Four. The Bruins will look to get top-tier teams in Alabama, Auburn Love involved early against an athletic but undersized Memphis team. Austin Collins STAFF WRITER UCLA has won many close games this season, something that Memphis has not had to After earning its fi rst SEC recently at the top of the worry about. This will give win of the year last Sunday lineup are Yevgeny Supeko them a great advantage if the at No. 41 Arkansas, the and Diego Cubas. game is as close as the experts Carolina men’s tennis team Supeko, a senior from think it will be. THE DAILY GAMECOCK

will attempt to notch a few Daytona Beach, Fla., plays Memphis finally got the / more conference victories No. 1 singles for USC and monkey off their back by this weekend when it hosts is coming off a 7-6(2), 7-6(5) advancing to the Final Four

Ben Fine Ben No. 24 Alabama (14-8, 4-4 victory over Blake Stode of on their third trip to the Elite SEC) and No. 26 Auburn Arkansas, the No. 90 ranked Eight. Memphis has one of (9-9, 3-5 SEC) at the Sam player in the country. most athletic and versatile Daniel Tennis Facility. The previous weekend teams in the tournament and The No. 57 Gamecocks against Mississippi, Supeko looks to run their opponent Softball hits stride (9-9, 1-7 SEC) are in last was leading the nation’s out of the gym. place in the SEC but have No. 16 player, Matthias If Memphis plays anywhere helped to spark the offense has a record of 7-8 and is a chance to make a push for Wellermann, 6-4, 4-1, but near to the way they played After slow start, Carolina not only recently but also all ninth in the SEC with an the NCAA Tournament the match was not fi nished. in the Houston Regional, aims to stay on hot streak season long is leadoff hitter ERA of 1.40. Hendon has with wins over two highly Cubas, another sophomore then no team in the country Ashton Payne. The junior also pitched 13 complete ranked conference teams. from Brazil, has won his last has a prayer against them. with weekend series currently ranks 13th in the games, including four “It will be interesting two matches at No. 2 singles However, I will have to go SEC with a batting average shutouts, and has come out this weekend,” said coach and holds a 3-2 mark there with the leadership and of .378 on the season. The of the bullpen for fi ve saves. Kent DeMars, who is in his in conference play. experience of UCLA to pull Keith Locklear player that has been sending Auburn comes to 24th year at South Carolina. DeMars said that he out a close win again. STAFF WRITER Payne across the plate most Columbia with an overall “They are both top-caliber noticed the team’s improved Kansas vs. North Carolina, of the season is freshman Jill record of 31-9 and an SEC teams, but I think we have a play when the squad started 8:47 Saturday The softball team will Semento. The infi elder has record of 9-5, good for shot at winning spending all This game will feature play host to a three-game provided power for Carolina third in the SEC Western them both. If of its training two of the most balanced series against the Auburn this season, leading the team division. we have any If we have any time practicing teams in the country. While Tigers this weekend at in RBIs (13), home runs (3), Similarly, the Tigers have thoughts of “ on the court, Kansas has struggled in spots Beckham Field. Carolina has slugging percentage (.539) struggled on offense this making the thoughts of rather than during the tournament, the an overall record of 17-15 and on-base percentage season with a team batting NCAAs at all, making the conditioning or Tar Heels have blown past and conference record of (.433). average .249 but have we need to win NCAAs at all, lifting weights. everyone in their sights. The 5-7, good enough for fourth Despite the performances excelled in pitching with a at least one of He feels that Tar Heels pack a powerful place in the Eastern division of Payne and Semento, the team ERA of 1.62. them.” we need to win the team is now inside-outside punch with of the SEC. Carolina team offense has Auburn has two of the The player at least one of in a position point guard Ty Lawson The Gamecocks enter the struggled, especially in top five pitchers in the most consistent them. to pick up a and All-American Tyler weekend on a four-game comparison to the other conference with regards for the ” few more SEC Hansbrough. winning streak, their second teams in the SEC. The to ERA in senior Brittany Gamecocks USC coach Kent DeMars wins, which Kansas is arguably the most longest of the season, after Gamecocks currently rank Day and freshman Lauren this season has would put it in senior team in the Final Four. losing six straight games last in the SEC in almost Schmalz. Day has a 10-2 been Pedro contention for This maturity will be needed prior to their recent winning every offensive statistical record with a 1.26 ERA and Campos, who holds a 19-10 a bid to the tournament. to ignore the storylines of streak. One of the keys to category, including hits, is only allowing batters to overall record and is 4-4 in “We’ve got [both playing their former coach, the turn-around has been RBIs, runs scored and hit .184 off her this season. the SEC at No. 3 singles. matches] on our home court, as well as rumors that their an improvement in offense batting average. Schmalz has a 5-1 record The sophomore from Brazil and that’s an advantage,” current coach may pursue from the Carolina batters. In order to make up for with a 1.12 ERA and has also has been a pleasant surprise DeMars said. “They should other jobs. During their six-game those offensive struggles, collected fi ve saves this year. this year for DeMars. be two very close matches. The key for Kansas will losing streak, the Gamecocks Carolina has needed some South Carolina and “Campos is probably Even though they are be to match the speed and were averaging a dismal 0.17 excellent support from its Auburn will play a our most improved player,” ranked a lot higher than us, versatility of the Tar Heels as runs per game off only 2.8 pitching staff. The pitchers doubleheader on Saturday, DeMars said. “He’s really I think we have closed the well as control Hansbrough hits per game. During the have responded, as the with the fi rst game starting jumped up a level. I’ve gap on them.” down low and force him into four-game winning streak, Gamecocks currently have at 1 p.m. and the second at considered moving him up Today’s match against early foul trouble. Ultimately, Carolina has improved to the fourth-lowest team ERA approximately 3 p.m. The in the lineup, but he’s done Alabama is set for 2 p.m., I see the Tar Heels being 5.75 runs per game off 9.25 in the SEC at 1.73. third game of the series will so well where he’s at, so I’d and Sunday’s match with too much for the Jayhawks hits per game, a signifi cant The staff has been be played Sunday at 2 p.m. hate to spoil anything.” Auburn will start at 1 p.m. to handle as they advance to improvement. anchored this season by Two other players that play UCLA in the National One of the players that has senior Melissa Hendon, who Comments on this story? E-mail have improved their play Comments on this story? E-mail Championship game. 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