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NEWS 1 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2015 VOL. 106, NO. 43 ● SINCE 1908 Student Proving Ground petitions showcases student, kickoff alumni entrepreneurs time Patrick Ingraham @PATTYMILLS11 A USC student started a petition Monday urging the NCAA, SEC, ESPN and the university to change the kick-off time of the Nov. 28 matchup against in-state rival Clemson from 12 p.m. to a later time slot. Since the petition went online at approximately 5 p.m. Monday, it accumulated over 8,000 signatures in Cody Scoggins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK less than 24 hours. Senior Virginia transfer Sarah Imovbioh Second-year mechanical is averaging a double-double this year. engineering student Jay Selesky listed several reasons he started the petition, including the amount of noon games the football team has Gamecocks had this season, the importance and history of the rivalry, Clemson’s status as number one in the college Cody Scoggins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK football rankings, inconvenient travel USC alumnus Trey Gordner was one of the winners of this year’s competition. ready to plans for Clemson fans, hardships the team and the community have Hannah Treece awards finances that are crucial for endured after the devastating impact @H_TREECE getting our ideas off of the ground of October’s flooding and the take on and turning them into early stage resignation of Steve Spurrier as head The Proving Ground, USC’s start-ups.” football coach. sixth annual “Shark Tank”-inspired The competition consisted of three “The atmosphere of a noon entrepreneurial competition, rounds, with the fi nal round hosting Clemson game versus the atmosphere of an awarded nearly $90,000 in prizes six finalists and two fan-favorite afternoon or night game just isn’t Tuesday night at the Darla Moore competitors. The competition was Will Helms a fair comparison,” Selesky said. School of Business. Dean Kress, the broken up into three categories: the @WHELMS21 “Especially in such an important head of the Faber Fluor Social Impact game like this one, Williams-Brice Entrepreneurship Category, the The No. 2 South Carolina needs to be in full swing, and it will Center, organized “I think this has really Maxient Innovation women’s basketball team will be be diffi cult to get it there for a game the competition Category and the on the move after back-to-back that starts at noon.” as part of Global encouraged us and Avenir Discovery home games. Selesky said he was not expecting Entrepreneurship galvanized us to get out Category. There The Gamecocks head to the amount of signatures and backing week. was also a Fan Clemson Wednesday for a his petition has received thus far. “USC hosts there and go faster and Favorite Category showdown with the 1-1 Tigers in “I am very surprised by the support this event to give harder in the next couple of sponsored by Jervey Gym. The Tigers snuck the petition has received,” Selesky students the stellar SCRA Technology away with a 43-36 win against said. “I knew there would be support, opportunity to months.” Ventures. Charleston Southern, but lost 63- but I didn’t expect 8,000 signatures share their ideas The audience 47 to Coastal Carolina on Sunday. less than a day later.” with a larger -Trey Gordner, USC alumnus was encouraged The game will be the first of Selesky said he reached out to audience, which is to participate five-straight road games for the friends at Clemson and tried to share extremely helpful in throughout the Gamecocks, concluding with the petition via Facebook “Class of proving a concepts market validation,” night on social media and voted on a three-game tournament in 20XX” pages. Tony Klor, USC Entrepreneurship the fan favorite by following a link on Waikiki, Hawaii. “I have heard that Clemson fans are Club president and fourth-year entrepreneurial management and SEEPETITIONPAGE3marketing student, said. “USC also SEEPROVINGPAGE3 SEECLEMSONPAGE8 Game Ball Run appeals to rivalry spirit Emily Barber more involvement from the rest of @EMILYRISA the university and the rest of the community.” In the early hours of this coming In fundraising this year, Sigma Friday morning, 40 brothers from Nu has been reaching out to more USC’s Sigma Nu fraternity will be alumni and local businesses. Much running across roughly 90 miles of the money raised comes from of South Carolina road in the 38th individual brothers’ efforts, but for annual Game Ball Run. the fi rst time, some USC alumni have The Game Ball Run is part challenged Clemson alumni to see of USC’s Rivalry Week against which group can raise more for the Clemson. The Clemson Sigma Nu Game Ball Run. Theta Zeta chapter will run the ball Almond said that they raised about to Greenwood, South Carolina. From $35,000 last year, and the goal for there, USC’s Delta chapter will run this year is $40,000. As of Tuesday the ball the rest of the way back to evening, they have raised $25,200. Columbia. They will arrive back on Some of the money raised will go campus around noon Friday. toward paying for the event, but a In total, the two Sigma Nu chapters large portion will be given directly will cover about 140 miles, and USC’s to the Marcus Lattimore Foundation. chapter will cover just under 90. The Courtesy of Sigma Nu Delta Chapter Both Almond and Stathakis have brothers, in pairs, will take shifts The 38th Annual Game Ball Run will raise money for the Marcus Lattimore Foundation. run it before and will be participating of about three miles at a time. The that we get from the fraternity house Gamecock fans are excited about again this year. They both said the brothers not running at the time will to the stadium safely.” that,” he said. “The other thing I like run, though tiring, is worth the be on a bus following the runners, The run serves as a major about working with this foundation effort because of its contribution to who will be accompanied by a USC philanthropy event for Sigma Nu. is it’s a small foundation … We the community. police escort the entire way. The fi rst run took place in 1977, and know where the money’s going, and “One of the most rewarding The last leg of the run, from the until the early 1990s, USC Sigma Nus specifi cally it’s helping out people in things was actually coming up into Sigma Nu fraternity house to the would run the ball the full distance our area. It’s really cool to see what’s Greenwood and running the ball and George Rogers statue at Williams- with no Clemson participation. going to come from what we raise.” actually seeing the Huddle House,” Brice Stadium, will be overseen by Originally, the run raised money The partnership is partly in Stathakis said. “But at the same time, Columbia police. This last stretch for multiple sclerosis. This year, response to Clemson’s partnership knowing that what you did was not is open to the public, and an entire Sigma Nu partnered with the Marcus with Dabo Swinney’s All In Team just for the hell of it. It was actually a lane of traffi c will be closed down to Lattimore Foundation, which is Foundation last year, according to really good thing, and … that’s kind accommodate the crowd. dedicated to helping young athletes Craig Almond, fourth-year public of what the fraternity’s about.” “Definitely safety is a main medically and academically. Stathakis relations student and Sigma Nu Delta The run is this Friday, but priority,” said John Stathakis, fourth- said the partnership is significant chapter president. donations will be accepted until year real estate and marketing student because it is more personal to “We’re really playing up the the USC-Clemson football game and Sigma Nu philanthropy chair. students, alumni and Gamecock fans rivalry week aspect of it,” Almond Saturday, Nov. 28. Donations can be “[Police] consider it a parade ... there alike. said. “Since they’ve gotten Dabo made on the USC Sigma Nu website will be about three or four officers “Being with Lattimore has involved, and now we’ve gotten at http://carolinadeltachapter.wix. that will be assisting it, making sure helped us with awareness, because Marcus involved … We really want com/sigmanudeltachapter. 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