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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 VOL. 110, NO. 47 ● SINCE 1908 USC FACULTY BONUSES TOTAL $4.1 MILLION According to data obtained human resources, and are taken on more administrative bonus each year on top of ‘Salary adjustments’ by The Daily Gamecock, 237 temporary and intended to be duties, Byrd said. He used a dean’s salary for serving as average more than faculty and administration moved around when necessary. the example of a professor provost. $17,400 per employee members with salaries above The majority, 148, are serving as a department chair Of the bonuses, 57 went $100,000 per year got bonuses “administrative supplements” or endowed chair. Provost to those who temporarily Colin Campbell averaging more than $17,400 — additional compensation Michael Amiridis, for instance, assumed additional or higher- [email protected] this year. That’s about $1,000 for faculty members who have has received a regular $50,000 less per bonus than the 2010 BONUSES ● 2 USC came under sharp average, but to 91 more people. criticism last year when it was All told, the bonuses, or, reported that the university as USC calls them, “salary had doled out more than $2.7 237 faculty and administration members with salaries adjustments,” totaled more million in bonuses to 146 of its than $4.1 million. top earners. But the university above $100,000 per year got bonuses averaging more The bonuses come in four handed them out again this year categories, according to Chris — in fact, it gave out more. than $17,400 this year, totaling more than $4.1 million. Byrd, the vice president for Law students take SNAP challenge Participants live off $4 a day Priyanka Juneja [email protected] A few USC law students have been learning what it’s like to go hungry this week. In honor of the university’s Hunger Awareness Week several students are participating in the SNAP challenge, living like those who survive on food stamps — a budget of about $4 per day. SNAP stands for “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” formerly known as the Food Stamp Program . SNAP Undead rise for WUSC radio works toward ending hunger and improving the health of those with Appearances of the “walkers” Zombie Walk held Wednesday low incomes by helping ranged from traditional zombie chic, individuals and families to raise money for station with scars and bloody mouths and buy the food they faces, to animals, TV characters and Paula Novacki need for an adequately even a zombie soldier who’d gone [email protected] nutritional diet. AWOL years ago. According to a Dripping with blood and walking Kalyn Oyer , a second-year fact sheet given to with a ragged swagger, more than journalism student, took a creative participants, the SNAP 100 undead monks, nuns, robots and approach to her outfit for the big challenge asks each witches rose on Halloween night to day by pairing an old, dark Native participant to live feast. American dress with striking facial on the same budget But these music-loving brain eaters markings of blood and decay. as people living on weren’t scanning the horizon for With all of the gore on display at food stamps, which human flesh. It turns out that the the Russell House, the group began to is approximately $4 massive milky-eyed herd making up trudge down Greene Street. per day for a week . the third annual Zombie Walk was in “Imagine people walking slowly, Third-year law student the mood for a meaty Southwestern creepily—maybe something like ‘The and participant in spread at Moe’s. Walking Dead,’” Oyer said . the challenge Daniel The event is hosted each year by Unlike prior years, when the undead Craig explained in an USC’s student-run radio station army started its march at Russell email why he wanted WUSC-FM to raise awareness (and House and ended at a party in Five to be involved in the the undead) for the station. Points, the zombies paraded around challenge. “Each year we are responsible for campus this year before ending at “I decided to coming up with a $13,000 budget Moe’s for an evening feast and a participate in the by ourselves,” said Kate Appelbaum , percent night benefi tting WUSC. SNAP challenge to a second-year broadcast journalism “When Halloween occurs on a make others aware of student and the public affairs director Wednesday night, a party in Five food insecurity in our for WUSC . “All I really spent was Points just may not be the best community while also just a couple of bucks for makeup. We decision,” said Calvin Koon-Stack , Photos by Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK personally experiencing even got the USCPD to escort us for WUSC held its annual Zombie Walk on Wednesday, the challenges that free.” ZOMBIES ● 2 ending with a percent night at Moe’s on Main Street. families on SNAP benefi ts face every day,” he said. Director of the pro bono program Pamela Sandy relief fundraiser to be held Friday Robinson explained that by participating ‘Gamecocks Sandstorm for partnership with the Sandstorm for Sandy. Cash “New Jersey, which was the last year she found out Sandy’ pairs with Red Cross university, Student donations will be accepted, worst hit, is the fi fth largest living on less than $5 a Government and as well as donations using feeder state to our university. day can be diffi cult and The University of MyCarolina, students will Carolina Cash. Unfortunately, many students dull. South Carolina will host raise money for the Red Cross Scott is also working with have lost their homes, and “We did this last “Gamecocks Sandstorm for Disaster Relief Fund. Friday’s the Red Cross to create a a few have been unable to year, and we learned Sandy,” a fundraiser for the event is planned as the first USC-themed website that reach their parents because of a lot about ourselves victims of Hurricane Sandy, of several fundraisers to aid will allow people to donate infrastructure damage.” and how boring and on Friday, Nov. 2, from 11 the relief effort, according to online. non-nutritional a daily a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Spencer Scott, a second-year “Thirty-five percent of — Compiled by Caroline diet like this is and how Russell House. business management student students here at Carolina Baity, Assistant News Editor restrictive it can be to In a multilateral and creator of Gamecocks are out-of-state,” Scott said. SNAP ● 2 Thursday Carolina Concerts Halloween critics Women’s soccer 66° 41° Veteran artists like Columnist Wojciech The Gamecocks’ Pretty Lights and Danak says the Cath- up-and-down season Willie Nelson are set olic Church’s recent ended with a loss Friday to play Columbia’s criticisms of Hallow- to Texas A&M in the Township Auditorium. een are unfounded. SEC Tournament. 74° 42° See page 5 See page 4 See page 8 Thursday, November 1, 2012 2 ZOMBIES ● Continued from 1 a fourth-year English student and the station manager for WUSC. “Our goal is really just to go around campus and emphasize publicity [for WUSC].” The zombies congregated in front of Russell House, where they applied blood and made finishing touches to their respective ensembles before they set off. The blood, made from corn starch, cocoa powder and red food coloring, is just as edible but not as delicious as human blood. Amber Brown , a first-year English student, heard that in case the mob decided to attack, the “zombie escape plan” from USC was for all students on campus to report the bottom fl oor of the Thomas Cooper Library. However, Carman Fowler , a fi rst-year criminology student, disagreed. “There would be nowhere to push the zombies out if we were on the bottom fl oor. It would be most logical to go to the top so we could push them out of windows,” she said. “It’s not as dorky as people think it is to be prepared for a zombie apocalypse. You have Ph.D. professors doing research on this topic,” Fowler said . “Find me a bike, a gun and a Walmart, and I’m good to go.” THE DAILY GAMECOCK Brian Almond / Comments on this story? Ryan Stevens, a second-year English student, prepares for WUSC’s Halloween Zombie Walk Wednesday afternoon. Visit dailygamecock.com/news SNAP ● Continued from 1 what to eat, students must make BONUSES ● Cont. from 1 complementary and fund, Hickman said, not sacrifi ces. Robinson explained how alternative medicine. tuition. life in general,” she said. level responsibilities. a low budget forces a student to Only one bonus came Byrd said he and With the difficulties of For instance, Charles really think about how simple food as a result of “special USC’s administration finding food to fit their daily Bierbauer, the dean of situations can become complex. assignment pay” — a don’t normally review budget, students are beginning the College of Mass “I had a student debating about $21,000 reassignment the university’s bonuses to understand what it is like for Communications and whether to have coffee or milk,” of former Admissions when they consider those who live on food stamps.