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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 37 ● SINCE 1908 Women’s Quad renovation hits possible delay State board vote pushed back for member concerns Thad Moore [email protected] Renovations to the Women’s Quadrangle could be held up as a vote by the state Budget and Control Board to approve them was delayed Tuesday. A member of the board still had questions about the $27.2 million project as the $34 million bond to pay for it was about to go up for approval, so USC requested to push the vote back. The delay could cause issues for the Photos by Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK project. Models show off outfi ts that were designed with thousands of condoms at the sixth annual Project Condom Wednesday night. The state budget board isn’t scheduled to meet until May 7, around when USC officials had planned to start upgrading the three residence Students roll out condom fashion halls. That could delay the start of the work, which is already expected to BGLSA takes top prize Second-year variation of sexual science student Caitlin close the dorms next year, according international relations freedom, they said; it was Cox of the look she helped in annual sexual health to an email from university spokesman student Tori Moore and meant to represent the create for Changing Wes Hickman. They were expected runway competition fi rst-year English student need for a destigmatization Carolina . “You can still be Raven Mathewes secured of homosexual sex. safe while sexy.” Mikelle Street DELAYS ● 3 [email protected] fi rst place with the outfi t, Last year’s winner, The group created the which included a rainbow- Alpha Phi Omega, came outfit with a Mardi Gras colored American fl ag. in second place this year, theme and was named the The Bisexual, Gay, “What better symbol with one of the night’s two audience’s choice of the Lesbian, Straight Alliance for America than Captain Wonder Woman-themed night after 284 votes were took home top prize at America?” Mathewes pieces. Third place went to tallied. the sixth annual Project asked. a team from Bedsider.org, Nearly 400 students Condom competition The look, which was who created a gladiator. attended the event, down Tuesday, w it h a Capt a i n the product of about a “It’s about making safe from more than 500 America theme and more month’s work, was meant decisions while drinking,” last year, according to than 3,000 red, white and to represent a different said second-year exercise blue condoms. CONDOM ● 4 Elephants stomp through Greek Village Some things were just like normal by the Greek Village Tuesday morning: Traffic on Blossom Street was snarled, and a train blocked cars on Lincoln Street. But this time, there were elephants. To the chagrin of drivers and the delight of a gaggle of children, a chain of the massive mammals Andrew Askins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK trudged off a train toward the Colonial Life Arena, linking tails and trunks. SPRING The children and a handful of USC students had a few things in common at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey’s annual PRACTICE Elephant Walk: They stood fascinated, they braved a chilly, rainy morning and, in large part, Defensive coordinator they were skipping class. The circus kicks off Thursday Lorenzo Ward said night at 7 p.m. and continues Tuesday defensive end with eight performances through Sunday afternoon. Ticket prices Jadeveon Clowney has a range from $15 to $74. lot to do if he’s going to be —Compiled by Thad Moore, News the nation’s top recruit. Editor Andrew Askins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK SEE PAGE 10 More of Greene Street to be blocked off Road to be closed during day from Preston Transportation about blocking traffi c on Greene Street, according to university spokesman Wes College to Pickens Street after quad renovation from around Preston Residential College to near Hickman. They’d be closed from 9 a.m. to 4 Pickens Street during school days, according p.m. Thad Moore to Derek Gruner, Facilities planning and The road closures are planned to start in [email protected] programming director. mid-May, according to a presentation to USC The project would see the installation of three trustees last week, the same time the university USC plans to start “training” drivers to avoid new gates: one just past the Petigru College is planning to start a $27.2 million project to Greene Street during the day, as it plans to gate parking lot entrance, one that would enclose renovate the Women’s Quadrangle. off more of the road. Preston Residential College and one uphill The affected area is in a primary pedestrian The university plans to meet with city from the Russell House’s loading dock that pathway that’s grown congested with Petigru’s government and the state Department of would eliminate some on-street parking on Bull GREENE ● 2 Wednesday Ivy & Leo Harmful wages Baseball wins big 57° 33° The new boutique Columnist Matt Cole- USC won its second brings low-priced man discusses the consecutive shutout fashions to the For- harmful effects that in baseball Tuesday Thursday est Acres shopping increasing minimum with a 10-0 home vic- center. wages would have on tory over Ball State. 62° 34° the labor force. See page 6 See page 5 See page 10 2 Wednesday, March 6, 2013 In Brief. Poll: Most SC residents Suspect spends $1k TSA to allow some support Medicaid growth of stolen cash on pizza pocket knives on planes South Carolina won’t be participating in Someone in Irmo’s evidently hungry Flying home for spring break? Don’t try an expansion of Medicaid, but a majority for pizza. to take your pocket knife on board — not of older residents support one, according Lexington County deputies are yet, at least. to a new poll. investigating a case of credit card fraud The Transportation Security The AARP surveyed residents 45 that included more than $1,000 of food at Administration announced it would start and older and found 54 percent favored a Pizza Hut on St. Andrews Road, WIS letting passengers take pocket knives on the Medicaid expansion included in the reports. planes, as long as they’re not more than Patient Protection and Affordable Care Over the course of 21 transactions , 2.36 inches long and half an inch wide. Act, or “Obamacare,” The Post and the suspect — police aren’t sure who In an average month, a large airport Courier reported. — racked up a total of $1,047.96 in will rack up 850 pounds of carry-ons According to the AARP, it would make purchases, a representative of Pizza Hut’s prohibited by the TSA and jettisoned by 329,000 more South Carolinians eligible corporate offi ce told investigators. passengers. About half of that consists of for the program. The suspect had been ordering food knives. The expansion was made optional by with two different names and addresses. The change will start April 25, and, as the Supreme Court in 2012, and South In all, the representative said, the Irmo The Wall Street Journal described it, it’s Carolina — led by Gov. Nikki Haley, state location has seen 64 other purchases that “one of the biggest moves to scale back Health and Human Services Director involved fraud. the stringent airport-security measures Tony Keck and Republican legislators — established after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror has opted out, according to The Post and —Thad Moore, News Editor attacks.” Courier. —Thad Moore, News Editor —Thad Moore, News Editor GREENE ● Cont. from 1 university is compiling estimates. renovation work. The project would USC counted the require city approval vehicle and pedestrian because of the road New Greene Street gates traffic last year at six closure, and the intersections that state Department of would be affected, Transportation would Hickman said, but need to be notified specific numbers because it would affect Petigru weren’t available by traffi c fl ow on Pickens Woodrow Old New Preston press time. and Blossom streets, Gate Gate USC is also planning which are state-run, to build a traffi c circle according to Hickman. on Bull Street starting “We’ve had a Greene Street in April of 2014, series of meetings so drivers can turn with city staff and New around more easily if don’t anticipate any Gate they don’t know about objections,” Hickman New Old Women’s Gate Gate the closure, Gruner wrote in an email Quad said. Doing so would response. Russell also allow for a new House bus stop. How much the projects will cost hasn’t Callcott been determined yet, Pickens Street Hickman said, as the DG Bull Street THE DAILY GAMECOCK Map not to scale Austin Price / C AROLINA 2012 Follow us Hear the news every hour WANT ALL OF THIS on the hour on WUSC 90.5 FM or at IN 90.5 SECONDS? facebook.com/905seconds thegamecock@ BECAUSE THAT’S ALL YOUR ATTENTION SPAN CAN TAKE SOMETIMES.