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Weather Have questions for your Student Government TODAY Debate nets poor turnout candidates? Send them to HIGH 75° at gamecockeditor@ Two of 12 candidates last week in academics sc.edu to be submitted committee to get teachers for the SG debates discuss platforms, to work more with students Wednesday and TONIGHT on their book lists.” Thursday. Questions LOW 52° argue qualifi cations If elected to student directed to senatorial senate, Kevin Burke, a fi rst- candidates in the Josh Dawsey year undecided student, said College of Arts and STAFF WRITER he would look to implement Sciences, as well TOMORROW a business learning as candidates for HIGH 76° Of the 12 candidates community executive offi ce, running for the business similar to should be submitted school district (district 5) that of the by Tuesday at 5 p.m. of student senate, only two pre-med, Attend the next two Inside showed up to debate the pre-law and debates and if you miss merits of their platform in engineering them, check out our coverage the day after. SPORTS the BA building Tuesday schools. night, causing the debate to “The Executive Debate: last only 11 minutes. BURKE business Six elections commission school is Tomorrow, noon, members attended the so big, but Greene Street debate. Hakeem Jefferson, a there isn’t second-year political science a business Presidential, vice student and vice president living presidential and the candidate Alex Stroman’s community treasurer candidates will answer questions campaign manager, for all the from students. The comprised the entire business moderator will ask audience. students questions from “Four people said they ANANIAN to mingle students taken from were coming,” said Amanda and grow a fi sh bowl. Each The DG Sports Editors Byrum, the elections together,” Burke said. candidate has one break down what’s commissioner. “I don’t really “That’s something minute to respond. know where the rest of them especially important to the Each candidate gotten into Gamecock are.” business constituents that will also have the basketball this season. Megan Ananian , a second- it’s implemented. We need Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK opportunity to ask one year management and to get the ball rolling on Two business school candidates debated Monday night. question to another See page 8 entrepreneurship student, that.” candidate of their said her current efforts on Ananian said a lack of choosing. Burke said the fact that of the business school. But student senate made her a internships is the largest College of Arts and both he and Ananian the fact that Megan and I strong candidate for the problem in the school. Sciences Senatorial attended the debate is a good showed up shows we would THE MIX job. “With the economy Debate: Thursday enough reason for election. be able to represent them “I’m working with as stagnant as it is today, 7 p.m., Coker Life “I think to begin it in an effi cient and effective Andrew Gaeckle right now getting students access to Sciences Building, speaks to the dedication of manner.” to lobby the state house internships should be our Room 005 us,” Burke said. “For two next Tuesday for teachers’ priority,” she said. “If we Don’t forget to vote! of us only to show up, it budgets and more funding have internships, students Elections are Feb. 16 doesn’t refl ect the best way Comments on this story? E-mail for the university,” Ananian have more access to having a and 17 from 9 a.m. to it could for the constituents [email protected] said. “We drafted a letter job once they graduate.” 5 p.m. on VIP. Secretary says drug Miss the Grammys? Check out who test failures worsen performed, who went home winners and who unemployment rates went home empty- handed. S.C. offi cial receives requested See page 5 information to analyze job loss

Jim Davenport VIEWPOINTS Th e Associated Press South Carolina Commerce Secretary Joe ‘The C-List’ Taylor said Monday that job-seekers who looks at fail drug tests are contributing to the state’s how we unemployment problems. South Carolina’s 9.5 percent jobless rate treat one in December was the nation’s third highest. Charles Dharapak / The Associated Press another in CAM BYRD And the Employment Security Commission our less Fifth-year President holds a town hall meeting about the economic stimulus package Monday at has been forced to seek federal loans since stellar public Concord Community High School in Elkhart, Ind., where he campaigned last year. September to cover unemployment checks. relations On Monday, Taylor briefed fellow moments. student members of Gov. Mark Sanford’s Cabinet on efforts to force the commission to give Obama campaigns stimulus plan him details about the state’s unemployed, See page 4 including age, education, how frequently they’ve been jobless and why they lost jobs. Tuesday vote on its $838 billion Obama’s effort began in front of President back on trail Taylor’s request for that data was at the version of his economic plan. a rowdy crowd, and not just at any center of Sanford’s Jan. 22 threat to fire to garner public support The Democratic president high school, but the one where he the commission’s three members if they is venturing confidently into campaigned last August. for economic deal don’t deliver the information by midnight Online Exclusive Republican areas — fi rst Elkhart, As when he ran for offi ce, Obama Monday. Taylor said the information is and next Fort Myers, Fla. — that sought to connect with real people ● Mark S. Smith and Ben Feller are coping with staggering job by explaining the debate on their JOBS 3 Th e Associated Press losses. A Republican, Gov. Charlie terms. In doing so, he depicted SG Crist , will introduce Obama at the the tendency of describing the ELKHART, Ind. — Three weeks Tuesday town hall in Florida. economy in numerical terms TODAY’S ago, Washington was the scene for And if that isn’t enough to — nearly 600,000 jobs lost last RECYCLEMANIA a historic day of hope, majesty, big emphasize that Obama wants month, a rising unemployment 09 ideas and bipartisanship. people to see how all this plays in rate of 7.6 percent — as some sort PICKUP SPOTS Then the inauguration faded Peoria, Obama is literally going to of Washington-speak. USC’s campus-wide, four-week competitive and the messy governing began. Peoria, Ill. Thursday. “We’re talking about parents recycling program sponsored by Coca-Cola The blame about failed ideas The passage of a bill in the who’ve lost their health care and SG continues with drop-off locations on SG ELECTIONS 2009 emerged, and Barack Obama Senate seems safe. But then the and lie awake at night praying central campus today. Students in residence Stay updated throughout needed to get some magic back. House, which passed a different their kids don’t get sick,” he said. halls or the Greek Village can earn prizes for Cue the campaign. version, must reconcile differences “We’re talking about families the most recyclables. the week about this Seeking to a giant economic with the Senate. Obama, citing who’ve lost the home that was the Capstone: curb at oak tree on Barnwell Street year’s Student Govern- stimulus deal in Congress, Obama economic conditions that grow corner, their foundation for their Columbia Hall: curb on Barnwell Street ment election news in our bolted Washington in favor of worse each day, is pushing for a American dream.” Desaussure: curb behind building by parking another audience: everyday, bill to land on his desk by next Obama employed other lot special elections tab. Look hurting people. His town hall in Monday, Presidents Day. campaign techniques that play French House: curb by circle out for audio slideshows northern Indiana on Monday was So he hit the road, away from well outside the Capital Beltway. Harper/Elliot: curb behind building by parking of the executive candi- the start of a week-long job, what White House press secretary He rejected Washington lot featuring Obama’s two strongest Robert Gibbs called Washington’s gridlock: “We can’t posture and Maxcy: curb by alleyway dates later this week. Pinckney/Legare: curb behind building by assets: himself and his promise of “myopic viewpoint.” Gibbs said bicker and resort to the same parking lot help. the trip was not about “explaining failed ideas.” Preston: curb behind building by access lane www.dailygamecock.com Part of his package was a to Indiana what’s going on He prodded Congress to act Rutledge: curb behind building by parking lot prime-time news conference at in Washington. This is taking with his most dire language to Thornwell: curb behind building by parking the White House Monday night, Washington to show them what’s lot as the Senate moved toward a going on in Indiana.” PLAN ● 3 Woodrow: curb behind building by parking lot TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 pageTWO Q & A with PIC OF THE DAY USC administrator ofW theeeekek • If you are interested in joining the new session of Weight Watchers on RRyanyan Burke,Burke, a VVisitorsisitors CenterCenter campus, please contact Melinda Poore at 803- uuniversityniversity ambassadorambassador 777-7602 or mnpoore@ moore.sc.edu for more information. The cost is $98 and the class meets for Q: What was the fi rst job you ever 10 weeks each Thursday on held? the eighth fl oor of the BA. A: I think I worked on a farm when I was • USC will host the next 12 haying. I harvested the hay. Healthy Carolina Farmers Market Feb. 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. between the gates Hannah Carroll / THE DAILY GAMECOCK on Greene Street in front Q: What’s your absolute favorite meal? Hand-blown glass and silver rings from Bohemian at 2736 Devine St. due to the of the RH. Cash payment A: My mother’s steak soup with salmon is due to the farmer at the weather Saturday, many of the Devine Street shops opened their stores to the sidewalk. time of purchase. This and a fruit salad. event is co-sponsored by SG and the South Carolina Local National World Agriculture Department. Q: What do you enjoy the most about South Carolina needs to ROCKDALE, Ill. — A WHITTLESEA, Australia For more information, conduct a state investigation holding tank at a Caterpillar — Disaster officials found contact Healthy Carolina your job? into a 1968 shooting by facility in a Chicago suburb charred bodies on roadsides Coordinator Holly Harring state troopers and police broke Sunday, spilling about and in crashed cars — grim at (803) 777-0597. A: Meeting prospective students and their that killed three civil rights 65,000 gallons of oil sludge signs of the futile attempt to families. protesters and wounded 27 and contaminating a 3-mile flee raging wildfires fed by more in what became known section of the Des Plaines 60 mph winds, record heat • The Thomson Student as the Orangeburg Massacre, River, offi cials said. and drought that caught even Health Center will provide said a state lawmaker The substance was reported fire-savvy Australians by free fl u shots at tomorrow’s Q: If you could meet any U.S. whose father was one of the to be hydraulic and cutting surprise. Farmers Market for wounded. oil, said Maggie Carson , As the death toll rose USC students, faculty president, deceased or alive, who After Sunday’s 41st the Illinois Emergency Monday to 166 in Australia’s and staff today from 10 would it be and why? anniversary of the event, Management Agency worst wildfire disaster, a.m. to 2 p.m. The shots Rep. Bakari Sellers said spokeswoman. suspicions that some of the will be administered by A: It would defi nitely be Th omas Jeff erson, he will reintroduce a bill “It is being contained, and 400 blazes were caused by Student Health Center from last year calling for an there is no evidence of a fi sh arson led police to declare professionals. Free fl u shots he’s a huge badass. official state investigation kill or harm to water fowl,” crime scenes in some of the are also available at the into the shootings on the Carson said in an e-mail. incinerated towns. Thomson Student Health campus of South Carolina Most of the sludge spilled The fi res near Melbourne Center, which is open from Q: Where are you originally from? State University. on land, but 6,000 gallons in southeastern Australia 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday Sellers, D-Denmark, is seeped into Des Plaines destroyed more than 750 through Friday and 4 p.m. A: Bradford, Mass. the son of Cleveland Sellers, River water, U.S. Coast homes, left 5,000 people to 8 p.m. Sunday. For more who was shot during the Guard Petty Offi cer William homeless and burned 850 information, call (803) 777- and later became the Mitchell said. He said the square miles of land, the 7026. — Compiled by News Editor Liz Segrist only person convicted in the oil waste poses no risk to Victoria Country Fire Service case, spending seven months human health but could be said. in prison for inciting a riot. dangerous to animals in the Whole forests were reduced He was later pardoned and contaminated area. to leafless, charred trunks. is now the Voorhees College The Coast Guard said Farmland was in ashes. president. barge and boat traffi c along The scale of the disaster The Orangeburg Massacre the river had been stopped. shocked a nation that endures in February 1968 was the Caterpillar Inc., the deadly firestorms every few culmination of several Peoria-based maker of years. Officials said panic The USC community wants to know what your organization has going on this days of after a mining and construction and the freight-train speed of week, and The Daily Gamecock wants to help you spread the word. If your white bowling alley owner machinery, confirmed in a the walls of fl ames probably refused to allow blacks in his statement Sunday that “an accounted for the unusually

organization has an upcoming meeting or event you want publicized, contact business. A tense standoff undetermined amount of high death toll. [email protected] or stop by our offi ce in the Russell House, room between protesters and waste oil” overfl owed from a “It was very quick and police ended in the shooting storage area at the company’s ferocious and took everyone 333. by state troopers and other manufacturing facility in by surprise,” said Jack Barber, “Carolina Briefs” submissions should include the time, place, name and a lawmen who believed they Joliet . who with his wife, a neighbor, had been fired on after an “Caterpillar has notified six cats and a dog sought description of the meeting or event, as well as a contact person for any officer was struck in the appropriate authorities refuge with fi ve other people face with a thrown piece of about this overfl ow, and the on a cricket fi eld surrounded questions. The description shouldn’t exceed 50 words. Submissions should be wood. company immediately began by trees in Kinglake. sent no later than 5:30 p.m. two days before publication. Sunday’s commemoration corrective action when the “All around us was 100- included the fi rst screening overfl ow was discovered,” the foot fl ames ringing the oval, The Daily Gamecock reserves the right to edit, condense or hold any of a new documentary, statement said. “The company and we ran where the wind submission. “Scarred Justice: The is coordinating efforts to wasn’t. It was swirling all over Orangeburg Massacre 1968.” contain and remediate this the place,” he said. “For three The hour-long fi lm includes overfl ow.” hours, we dodged the wind.” interviews with survivors The company also said Firefighters battled more and with former Gov. it would investigate the than a dozen blazes that Robert E. McNair, who was incident and “put in place burned out of control across in offi ce when the shooting management practices that Victoria state Monday, happened. He refused to talk minimize the potential for although conditions were Copper Beech publicly about it for nearly future occurrences.” much cooler than Saturday. 40 years before writing in State and federal EPA Forecasters said temperatures a biography that he took response teams, as well would rise later this week, Valentine Night Oyster Roast responsibility for the weight as teams from Caterpillar, posing a risk of fl are-ups. of what happened. were working with local Blazes have been burning After the fi lm, Orangeburg organizations to contain for weeks across several On the Mayor Paul Miller apologized the spill and clean the area, states in southern Australia, for the city’s support of a Carson said. for this time of loose white bowling alley owner Federal EPA spokeswoman year. whose refusal to allow blacks Ginny Narsett said the But the worst drought in cockaboose! inside sparked the protests. cleanup will take at least a a century in the south had few days. left forests extra dry, and On February 10 from 7-10 p.m., we will transport any & all The federal agency said the Saturday’s temperature was oil leaked when a pump failed 117 degrees. students to and from Copper Beech to the Loose on a 40,000-gallon tank. Cockaboose with our shuttle. Meet at the clubhouse! — Th e Associated Press Drink specials! Live music!Eat free oysters! FAMOUS SLAW DOGS Free Application fee all day! $ 99 2FOR Visit our leasing office at: 2 1051 Southern Dr. • Columbia, SC 803-255-0170 www.CBeech.com The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 PAGE 3

● JOBS Continued from 1 before that drug test failures were adding to the state’s critical to putting people Defense says ex-chief not guilty unemployment problem. back to work and putting “It’s the first time I’ve money back into the jobless talked to him about it,” claims trust fund. Sterling could face 25 years Sanford said. “It was an Taylor said he’s hearing interesting point.” for fraud, conspiracy charges that part of the challenge Taylor said the data in helping people find might also let the state’s work can be linked to job- Jeffrey Collins law enforcement agencies seekers fl unking pre-hiring Th e Associated Press “know where you may have drug tests, but he did not hot spots and things.” provide data to quantify the LEXINGTON — The former chairman And the overall jobless problem. of a South Carolina investment company information “may compel “One of my concerns did nothing criminal and fought for the you to do different strategies — and I get in trouble firm’s investors until the end, losing when it comes to deploying sometimes because people more than $16 million of his and his your law enforcement don’t like to hear it — but family’s money, a defense lawyer said officers,” Taylor told State one of the complaints that I Monday. Law Enforcement Division hear out there are drug test Jack Sterling made “mistakes of bad Chief Reggie Lloyd and failures,” Taylor said. judgment, not mistakes of a bad heart” Highway Patrol Executive If failed drug tests are and is innocent of the securities fraud Director Mark Keel . adding to unemployment in and conspiracy charges against him, While the data won’t a specifi c part of the state, defense attorney Bart Daniel said in his identify specifi c individuals, the state’s substance abuse opening statement. Taylor said it’s critical to agency needs to get involved Prosecutors contend he spun, hid create programs to put in educating people and and omitted information about the people back to work. law enforcement should be true fi nancial condition of his company But “none of this tuned in, Taylor said. because he feared investors would start information has been By itself, bringing new withdrawing money. available,” Taylor said after jobs to a community “is not Both sides agree Sterling turned he requested it more than going to cure the problem. day-to-day operations of HomeGold a year ago. “I’ve been told You know, we need to go Financial Inc. over to CEO Ronald that I can get anything I ask in and teach people what Sheppard in 2000, three years before Mary Ann Chastain / The Associated Press for, it just wasn’t a priority.” a negative impact a failed the company collapsed along with Jack Sterling, former board chairman of HomeGold Financial Inc., sits in the The commission has said drug test will have on their subsidiary Carolina Investors , causing courtroom during the opening arguments at the start of his trial Monday. Taylor’s request required life: not just the job they 8,000 investors to lose around $275 computer work that was lost, but their ability to be million. better spent making sure rehired over the next 90 Sheppard was convicted of securities “These good people didn’t lose their history. Sheppard and the other four people got benefi ts. days to six months.” fraud, conspiracy and obtaining property money because of Jack Sterling,” Daniel were convicted or pleaded guilty. The South Carolina The state’s Employment by false pretenses two years ago and was said. “They lost their money in spite of The courtroom was about half-full Employment Security Security Commission sentenced to 20 years in prison. Daniel Jack’s best efforts to fi ght and turn that Monday, split between Sterling’s family Commission has given advises people on its Web said he “pillaged, plundered and stole” company around.” and supporters and angry investors. A Gov. Mark Sanford site that they must lose from HomeGold, carefully hiding his Sterling, 70, has been free on bail number of people who lost money with the unemployment their job “through no fault tracks. since he was indicted nearly three years Carolina Investors were older, and the data he demanded after of your own” to qualify for In the meantime, Sterling kept trying ago and faces up to 25 years in prison if cash was often a nest egg for retirement threatening to fi re the three unemployment checks. to save the company he took over in convicted. He is the final HomeGold or college fund for their children or commissioners. Sanford said after the 1991, his attorney said during his trial or Carolina executive to stand trial in grandchildren. meeting that he hadn’t heard that’s expected to last a couple weeks. one of the biggest bankruptcies in state

PLAN ● Continued from 1 And he revisited the main Obama slipped in a dig at a fourth home or a fifth theme of his campaign: his former rival, Republican home.” date: “Our nation will sink “You sent us there to change Sen. John McCain, who won The president said most into a crisis that at some things...and that’s exactly this Indiana county in the people, like him, have one point we may be unable to what I intend to do.” election. McCain said during house. reverse.” In an unplanned, campaign- the campaign he wasn’t sure “Now, keep in mind, the He poked fun at lawmakers like moment, at one point how many homes that he and house that I’m in, in D.C., even as he sought their help: Obama’s microphone didn’t his wife owned; Obama on I’m just borrowing that,” he “This bill isn’t perfect. It’s work. Monday made light of those said of the White House. coming out of Washington; The campaign flavor who might have “a second “That’s the people’s house.” it’s going through Congress.” emerged once more as home or a third home or PAGE 6 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Entry system at Roost dorm EDITORIAL BOARD Editor needs update BRAD MAXWELL Managing Editor Copy Desk Chief Rulebreaking RAs cause AMANDA DAVIS EDDIE MANN News Editor Sports Editor confl ict, disregard access LIZ SEGRIST MICHAEL AGUILAR policies in residence hall Th e Mix Editor Viewpoints Editor It happens at least three COLIN JONES PAUL BOWERS times an hour. Design Director Photography Editor I am sitting at the desk MORGAN REID ALAN TAUBER eating Easy Mac and watching “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Just as Charlie is singing the musical fi nale of “The Cross-border park’s Nightman Cometh,” desperately trying to destruction saddening impress the waitress, I hear a rat-tat-tat on the glass THE C-LIST The border between San Diego and Tijuana used to be a door. Startled, special place. I drop my fork Since 1971, the westernmost three miles of the U.S.-Mexico and my lap is border was a place where friends and family from both sides could scalded by hot A civil discussion on fi ghting meet and share conversation, meals and companionship. Called macaroni. I Friendship Park, it was one of few places where Americans, can imagine the feeling was me since I have the whole get up to let Sometimes argument not Mexican immigrants and Mexicans could meet in solidarity. mutual. rational thought issue to deal in the latest That is, until the Department of Homeland Security bulldozed worth losing frienship, What permits us to with. egghead who the once grassy Friendship Park to build an additional two fences behave in such a reckless So what are we going to EMILY forgot his ID must fi nd middle ground to separate the countries. The reason? To prevent supposed manner? Shouldn’t learning do about it? WEITHMAN and I trip over “I no doubt deserved my illegal activities, including passing of illegal documents and humanize character and Obviously some are lost Second-year my bookbag. enemies, but I don’t believe narcotics between the two restrict it from being cruel? like the Titanic. For the broadcast I open the I deserved my friends,” said nations. Despite this notion, it is rest we ought to begin by journalism door. “Hey the great American poet It was not as Unfortunately, this was student uncanny how able we are as thinking about who we are uh, I live here, Walt Whitman. a pointless and extremely college students to trample talking to and what we are but I forgot my ID,” comes In recent memory, I’ve though people were unfortunate waste. Despite on our relationships and saying. For an environment the usual rousing response, had some complex and the reasons Department of friendships with hardly a of free thought, it never sans ‘thank you.’ stimulating discussions with trying to illegally pass Homeland Security officials second thought. Until the ceases to amaze me the “Do you have any other people close gave, there was little reason damage is delivered, the amount of close-minded and into America at kind of ID on you?” I ask as to me and to destroy the park and build sharp tongues keep at it. self-absorbed individuals I sit down to wipe the cheese ended up with a bigger fence. It was not as Halfway through my fi fth walking around. No offense Friendship Park. off my pants and look up an uneasy though people were trying to year, it seems the conflicts if you qualify as one of those his name. If he does, good. feeling. There illegally pass into America at I’ve witnessed and been a special people. I check the card against was one Friendship Park. Rather, they were coming to see husbands, go part of propose that the Imagine you fought with his room number and he’s about social to a multinational worship service or a cross-border cultural more infamous a jackass or the friend you ate lunch with free to go. Other times, he progress in event. Friendship Park was truly unique and refreshing. Now it heinously bitchy we can be, yesterday. Would it be worth has nothing on him and I CAM BYRD the world, one is as ordinary and disappointing as any of the other 1,950 miles the more peer respect that losing them? Take this to am forced to restrict him Fifth-year about quality of chain link that divides the U.S. and Mexico. comes our way ... unless you mind when caught in the heat to the lobby until he can public journalism This is to say nothing of the economic implications of happen to be on the receiving of the moment as you spar locate a friend or an RM relations (we can destroying the park. Such frivolous and expensive projects are end. This ought to be an mercilessly against someone to let him in. I get a lot of student discuss my unnecessary in the current economic landscape. improper relationship, but it you adore or rather see only eye rolling and “Are you work later), The destruction of Friendship Park accomplishes one thing. It is almost as if we have been once a year. It might help serious?” remarks. Yes, I one about relationships — proves how mistrusting we are of our southern neighbors that we conditioned to participate in apologies count for better am. Follow the system. and the list goes on. won’t even allow separated lovers to hold hands through a fence. this fashion. occasions ... like when you’re Unfortunately for Backing up, that uneasy Maybe the behavior stems married. No one wants to many of the residents, feeling was rational CORRECTIONS from the reality that life make up verses for having a the security system at the thought kicking in like In the Feb. 6 issue of The Daily Gamecock, a box on the is uncertain during AND functioning friendship. Roost is, suffice to say, adrenaline shakily wearing front page should have read: “Come raise money for breast after college ... so we throw Muhammad Ali was right less than par. As most of off. I felt awful knowing cancer.” The Daily Gamecock regrets the error. I our weight around, trying when he said, “Friendship us on campus are aware, the exchanging of words f you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know about it. to feel more important or is the hardest thing in the dorms are accessed by the probably would have E-mail us at [email protected] get recognized. For some world to explain.” CarolinaCard. In most transacted differently had (probably the majority), I No matter how dorms, there is a card swipe it not been for this glaring ITʼS YOUR RIGHT bet it’s because of not being inexplicable it may be, we at the door and another at absence. I figured that socially mature. Others, all have friendships, want The goal of The Daily in school and area of study. the desk so desk assistants speaking to — let alone perhaps it’s a ragin’ Napoleon them and place great value Gamecock’s Viewpoints page We also invite student leaders such as myself can verify encountering — these complex. Still, some just on keeping them. Here’s one is to stimulate discussion in the and USC faculty members to residents. individuals again would be have to learn when to shut that will be improving on University of South Carolina submit guest columns. Columnists In the Roost, however, unusual and unwelcome. I up. I think this is probably that in the future. community. All published authors should keep submissions to about there is only one card swipe at the door. This may not are expected to provide logical 500 words in length and include seem like much of an issue, arguments to back their views. the author’s name and position. but according to my job, The Daily Gamecock encourages Guest columns are limited to three I have to make sure each Students need to get informed readers to voice opinions and offers per author per semester. person that comes through three methods of expression: letters The editor reserves the right to the door lives there. This to the editor, guest columns and edit and condense submissions for consequences when it With all the fuss about feedback on dailygamecock.com. length and clarity, or not publish means that every time Co-eds don’t know details comes to services. If we student government Letters and guest columns at all. two or more people walk of ‘problems,’ should continue to accept 4,000 elections, now is not the should be submitted via e-mail to All submissions become the through the door, I have or more freshmen on an time to waste valuable [email protected]. Letters property of The Daily Gamecock to stop every person who inquire before solving annual basis, then confl icts breath on issues that cannot must be 200 to 300 words in length and must conform to the legal did not swipe and either with parking, housing be resolved. SG cannot and include the author’s name, year standards of USC Student Media. check their ID’s or make The university has far or dining services are create a building and they them walk back outside, fewer problems than you inevitable. surely cannot fund it. About The Daily Gamecock swipe their cards and walk might think. Can we fi x the problem If you really want some back in. With more than Use the airplane analogy. 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There are only two kinds PAUL BOWERS University of South Carolina. it is a hassle for both people commercial TY ZEIGLER Assistant Viewpoints Editor It is published daily during OK so the logical answer of possible answers. You Director in front of and behind the flight DARREN PRICE CAM BYRD the fall and spring semesters is that service dictates can be placated until you Th e Mix Editor desk. But because of a lack business and do just that, Graduate Assistant and nine times during the COLIN JONES the amount of students stop being a hassle, or you JESICA JOHNSON summer with the exception of of technology, we must do not expect the costs to Assistant Mix Editor Student Media Director university holidays and exam accepted and retained. can get the truth and live ELLEN MEDER make up for it. When some pay themselves. SCOTT LINDENBERG periods. Opinions expressed That allowance with it. Sports Editor Faculty Adviser The Daily Gamecock desk assistants are slack As it relates to parking, MICHAEL AGUILAR in are necessitates requirement. The real issue is ERIK COLLINS Assistant Sports Editor those of the editors or author about the rules, others come suppose the university Creative Director What good would an economics. Just as I said CHRIS COX and not those of the University off as bad guys, making our unveiled a new lot with EDGAR SANTANA Photo Editor exact amount of goods last week, this is a business. Business Manager of South Carolina. Th e Board ALAN TAUBER job even harder. 5,000 spaces. That is not CAROLYN GRIFFIN of Student Publications and services do if students The service aspect can only Assistant Photo Editor Although it is the very many. Make it 10,000 Manager and Communications is KERI GOFF had the choice to look happen if funding allows. SARAH SCARBOROUGH the publisher of The Daily farthest residence dorm spaces. How many of them Multimedia Directors Classifi eds Manager Gamecock elsewhere? So now you Most importantly, we ALLIE BOARDMAN, JONATHAN . Th e Department from campus, the Roost would sell? The mortgage SHERRY F. HOLMES must live, eat and dine should ask questions before BATTAGLIA of Student Media is is still a part of our will not pay itself. Never Production Manager the newspaper’s parent on campus. No car? Just giving orders or making Copy Editors C. NEIL SCOTT MEGAN VANDERSNICK, BESS organization. The Daily college and deserves the mind the fact that we are Creative Services pay for the satisfaction of suggestions. The choices ZHOU, ANNA LANE, SARAH Gamecock KEVIN ARCHIE, LAURA is supported in same treatment. It needs running out of arenas with LADA, OLIVIA JONES, KENNY knowing you have a space you make every day are CORDER, LIZ HOWELL, JASON part by student-activity fees. DORIAN, SARAH PETERMAN, better technology from identity issues to cover RICHBURG, MIKE STEINIGER, One free copy per reader. if you need it. the biggest impact you can ANNA CHAMBERS, HANNAH NOAH WILLIAMS, TAI VU Additional copies may be administrators and better costs. MCCARTNEY, KELSEY PACER, Some schools have on how the university Advertising attitudes from both The issue is simple. LINDSAY WOLFE purchased for $1 each from compromise your liberty operates. Asking for JULIE CANTER, CARLY the Department of Student residents and personnel. The university accepts Page Designers GALLAGHER, NATALIE HICKS, CHRISTEN RUBLE, CAMILLE Media. for their security. Our conformance only mirrors JAYME PIGNTELLO, CANDACE Or else I might be forced more students each year. HOLLEMAN, LIZ HOWELL, institution takes the risk of the demands that could just REYNOLDS, LAUREN SPIRES, to wear a bib. This is no problem unto MARILYNN JOYNER giving us choices. as easily be on you. MEGHAN TANKERSLY itself, but it has enormous “Alas for those that never sing, But die with all their music in them!”

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Varied performers, interesting The performances were a 2007” for Best distinct highlight, including Electronic/Dance mash-ups keep show some unusual collaborations , Metallica lively, entertaining like the Jonas Brothers and for Best Metal , T.I. and Justin Performance for Haley Dreis Timberlake, and Radiohead “My Apocalypse” STAFF WRITER with the “other” USC’s Trojan and Radiohead for The Grammy Awards aired marching band. Best Alternative Sunday night with some big A very pregnant M.I.A. Music Album for surprises. Grammy nominee performed “Swagga Like Us” “In Rainbows.” allegedly assaulted with in a tight polka A wide variety of titles an unidentifi ed woman, police dot outfi t. were awarded, in 110 different announced before the show. And Singer- “fields,” or categories, ranging and rightfully snagged the award for from Best Tropical Latin Album walked away with victories for Best New Artist. She performed to Best Polka Album. Interesting Album of the Year and Record her critically praised “Chasing wins went to Al Gore for Best of the Year for “” Pavements” in a duo next to a Spoken Word Album for “An and “Please Read The Letter,” performance of Sugarland’s “Stay.” Inconvenient Truth,” and “Juno” respectively. Her works have been previously for Best Compilation Soundtrack Although the award for Album nominated for a Mercury Prize . Album. of the Year was predicted to go Other big and predictable wins to ’s “Viva La Vida,” the went to for Best band still made out with of Male Pop Vocal Performance Comments on this story? E-mail the Year and Best Rock Album . in “Say,” for “Alive [email protected]

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ALBUM OF THE YEAR: Raising Sand — Robert Plant and ELECTRONIC DANCE ALBUM: Alive 2007 — Daft Punk Alison Krauss BLUEGRASS ALBUM: Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass: RAP ALBUM: Tha Carter III — Tribute to 1946 and 1947 — Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Say — John Mayer Thunder RECORD OF THE YEAR: Please Read The Letter — Robert TRADITIONAL BLUES ALBUM: One Kind Favor — B.B. Plant and Alison Krauss King NEW ARTIST: Adele CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM: City That Care Forgot ROCK ALBUM: Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends — Dr. John and The Lower 911 — Coldplay NEW AGE ALBUM: Peace Time — Jack DeJohnette POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS: — CONTEMPORARY ALBUM: Randy in Brasil — Randy Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Brecker SONG OF THE YEAR: Viva La Vida — Coldplay JAZZ VOCAL ALBUM: Loverly — Cassandra Wilson COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL SOLO: BE-BOP — Terence VOCALS: Stay — Sugarland Blanchard R&B ALBUM: Jennifer Hudson — Jennifer Hudson JAZZ INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP: PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, NON-CLASSICAL: Rick Rubin The New — and PRODUCER OF THE YEAR, CLASSICAL: David Frost LARGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE ALBUM: Monday Night Live at FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE: the Village Vanguard — The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra — Adele LATIN JAZZ ALBUM: Song for Chico — Arturo O’Farrill POP VOCAL ALBUM: Rockferry — Duffy and The Afro—Latin Jazz Orchestra POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: I Dreamed There LATIN POP ALBUM: La Vida ... Es Un Ratico — Juanes Was No War — Eagles LATIN ROCK OR ALTERNATIVE ALBUM: 45 — Jaguares POP INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM: Jingle All the Way — Bela LATIN URBAN ALBUM: Los Extraterrestres — Wisin y Fleck & The Flecktones Yandel POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS: REGIONAL MEXICAN ALBUM: Amor, Dolor y Lagrimas — Viva La Vida — Coldplay Musica Ranchera ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM: In Rainbows — Radiohead TEJANO ALBUM: Viva La Revolucion — Ruben Ramos and SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Gravity — John The Mexican Revolution Mayer TRADITIONAL FOLK ALBUM: At 89 — Pete Seeger ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH Contemporary Folk/Americana Album: Raising Sand — VOCALS: Sex on Fire — Robert Plant and Alison Krauss HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE: Wax Simulacra — The Mars HAWAIIAN MUSIC ALBUM: Ikena — Tia Carrere and Volta Daniel Ho METAL PERFORMANCE: My Apocalypse — Metallica REGGAE ALBUM: Jah Is Real — Burning Spear ROCK INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: Peaches En CONTEMPORARY WORLD MUSIC ALBUM: Global Drum Regalia — Zappa Plays Zappa Project — , , Sikiru Adepoju and ROCK SONG: Girls in Their Summer Clothes — Bruce Springsteen COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE: A Milli — Lil Wayne PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA: Juno RAP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP: Swagga Like — Various Artists Us — Jay-Z and T.I. featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne SCORE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION TELEVISION RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION: American Boy — Estelle OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA: The Dark Knight featuring Kanye West POLKA ALBUM: Let the Whole World Sing — Jimmy Sturr RAP SONG: Lollipop — Dwayne Carter, Darius Harrison, and His Orchestra James Scheffer, Stephen Garrett and Rex Zamor, GOSPEL PERFORMANCE: Get Up — Mary Mary COUNTRY SONG: Stay — Sugarland GOSPEL SONG: Help Me Believe — Kirk Franklin FEMALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Last Name — ROCK OR RAP GOSPEL ALBUM: Alive and Transported , — TobyMac MALE COUNTRY VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Letter to Me — POP/CONTEMPORARY GOSPEL ALBUM: Thy Kingdom Brad Paisley, Come — CeCe Winans COUNTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS: Killing the SOUTHERN, COUNTRY, BLUEGRASS GOSPEL: Lovin’ Blues — Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Life — Gaither Vocal Band COUNTRY INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE: Cluster TRADITIONAL GOSPEL ALBUM: Down in New Orleans — Pluck — Brad Paisley, James Burton, Vince Gill, John The Blind Boys of Alabama Jorgenson, , Brent Mason, Redd Volkaert and CONTEMPORARY R&B GOSPEL ALBUM: The Fight of My Steve Wariner Life — Kirk Franklin R&B SONG: Miss Independent — Mikkel S. Eriksen, Tor CLASSICAL ALBUM: Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Erik Hermansen and Shaffer Smith Mahagonny — James Conlon, conductor CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM: Growing Pains — Mary SONG WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR J. Blige OTHER VISUAL MEDIA: Down to Earth — WALL-E — FEMALE R&B VOCAL SOLO: Superwoman — Alicia Keys Peter Gabriel and Thomas Newman, MALE R&B VOCAL SOLO: Miss Independent — Ne—Yo MUSICAL SHOW ALBUM: In the Heights — Kurt Deutsch, R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH Alex Lacamoire, Andres Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel VOCALS: Stay With Me (By the Sea), Al Green featuring Moss and Bill Sherman, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, John Legend composer/lyricist TRADITIONAL R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE: You’ve Got SPOKEN WORD ALBUM (INCLUDES POETRY, AUDIO the Love I Need — Al Green featuring Anthony Hamilton BOOKS & STORY TELLING): An Inconvenient Truth Mark J. Terrill / The Associated Press URBAN/ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE: Be OK — (Al Gore) — Beau Bridges, Cynthia Nixon and Blair Musicians combine various styles to put on Chrisette Michele featuring will.i.am Underwood incredible collaborative performances at the DANCE RECORDING: Harder Better Faster Stronger — COMEDY ALBUM: It’s Bad for Ya — George Carlin 51st Grammy Awards on Sunday night. Daft Punk PAGE 6 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 Conan writer gets own show on Comedy Central the downtime solving Mensa puzzles. Comedian Demetri Martin turns passion into full-time “When you do stand-up and you have jokes or material career after dropping out of law school, — they’re like puzzles in a way, so you’re trying to fi gure them out. The answer isn’t like a number or something, looks to audiences to provide direction, feedback the answer is: ‘Is this funny to other people too?’ I might ruminate about something and then fi nd a punch line and Luaine Lee I’ll think I solved it, but the audience tells me if I did.” MCT Campus “So to me there’s an excitement in the uncertainty in that exchange, being up in front of people and paying UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Demetri Martin had been attention to the room and being really present. Woody to Yale and was studying law at NYU on a full scholarship Allen says the audience teaches you how you’re funny. I when he realized he was making a huge mistake . think that’s such a smart idea. ‘Cause if you pay attention “The thoroughness it requires, it was very much about they really do, they guide you, it’s immediate feedback.” doing your research and preparation. I had the realization Martin’s father died at 46 of kidney cancer. Martin this is not the right fi t for me. I’m not a thorough person,” was just 20. “I think it’s a great teacher when you lose he says in the lobby lounge of a hotel here. somebody — whatever your age — but when you see What he is, is a funny person. He never discovered how somebody who’s gone pretty much at the prime of his funny until he attended a special month-long class on life, it gives you a different sense of time and urgency,” public issues for nerdy junior high students. When the he says. “I’d read that about certain people who are hard class was over, people left notes in bags assigned to each workers, they may have lost a parent pretty young because student. you see how fi nite life is.” “And everybody there left notes saying, ‘You’re so Losing his dad so young helped this egghead muster funny.’ I thought, ‘Oh, I’m funny? OK.’ It is like a real the courage to try stand-up. “I remember when I decided tightrope — I never know. I liked speaking in front of to go to law school in New York, I said to myself, ‘OK let people even as a child. I’m not so great at it, but I never me just try stand-up once because I’m going to regret it Courtesy of DemetriMartin.com get nervous talking in front of people. I think I like the if I don’t. I just don’t want to regret not trying it. Even Following his dad’s advice to “blossom where you’re idea of that kind of communication,” he says. if it leads to nothing, I need to try it because I think I planted,” Martin has carved out his own niche in comedy. Martin’s humor is an amalgamation of who he is: part regret passive choices more than I regret actively doing philosopher, artist, critic and cerebral goof-off. After a something.’ I’d rather do something and fail than never job, you don’t have to have a career if you’re headed for tenure as a writer for Conan O’Brien, Martin will host his do it and wonder ‘What if?’ That was what compelled something. I think the key is to be passionate about the own series, “Important Things with Demetri Martin,” me to just try it,” says Martin, who’s wearing a brown thing you’re doing, he says. premiering Wednesday on Comedy Central. leather jacket, blue T-shirt with “Person” written on it “My dad used to say, ‘Blossom where you’re planted.’ The son of a Greek Orthodox priest and an and sporting a Beatles haircut. And you forget that things are so relative. Here we are at entrepreneurial mom who ran her own diner, Martin, 35, “After my first time on stage I was pretty hot that Universal City. It’s nice weather, people with their expense always was a little odd. night. I didn’t do that well, but the few jokes that worked accounts, they drive me here in a car and everything, but “My grades coupled with my inability at team sports I thought, ‘Oh, this feels right. If there’s such a thing as a you could be working in an electronic store, if you know would probably put me in the nerd category,” he nods. ‘calling’ this feels like that kind of thing. And then I just how to use that and blossom in that situation. “I like skateboarding, surfi ng and I skied but there was performed as much as possible, and that’s when I got my “It’s like losing my dad where it was great, then never basketball or soccer. I grew up in suburban Toms day jobs just so I could pay my rent.” something happened and it hurt, but fi nding stand-up was River, N.J. ... Baseball and soccer were big in my town. If Martin worked as a secretarial temp, then as a like fi nding where to plant myself. And once I was there, you weren’t good at those things, you kind of had to fi nd proofreader on legal documents and later proofing ad I forgot you have to remember to try to blossom wherever another way to feel good about yourself.” copy. you’re planted. In high school he worked in his family’s diner, passing “Once I got the day jobs I realized you can have a

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The subjects some noteworthy offerings include Laurence character. And then it hit you. America definitely got a exhausted its usefulness is a over the coming days and Fishburne, Tyler NBC uses famous ‘SNL’ Ka-ching. taste of something on Super small price to pay to peddle weeks: Perry, Maya Rudolph, character to spur declining “It was very clear that Bowl eve, and it wasn’t just the commercial time at a premium Charley Pride, activist it was a commercial, and I carbonated caramel-colored for the buzz it creates and the Angela Davis and commercial revenue thought for our audience it sugar water. There was just a way it stops people zapping • “40th Annual NAACP Massachusetts Gov. was fun. I don’t believe it hint of desperation. through ads dead in their Image Awards” (8 p.m. Deval Patrick. compromised the integrity Media companies are tracks. Feb. 12, Fox): Halle Phil Rosenthal • “Nothing But a Man” MCT Campus of ‘MacGruber,’” Lorne hurting for many reasons, The trick for any media Berry and Tyler Perry (10 p.m. Feb. 26, Michaels, the impresario not the least of which is the outfi t is in knowing what it can host the gala, which Sundance Channel): A The first one was subtle. who launched “SNL” in 1975 fact their advertisers are truly afford to commercialize celebrates the artistic powerful, but widely Maybe you noticed it was and shepherds it today, told themselves strained in this and what will wind up costing achievements of people overlooked, 1964 film running in an ad break, maybe Advertising Age of the stunt recession. The need to find its reputation in the long run. of color and honors that examines black life not. Maybe you detected the co-opting the long-running to innovative new ways to “These are perilous times,” projects and individuals and the importance of absence of the NBC logo character. make money has everyone Michaels said, later adding, that promote diversity. self-respect. Ivan Dixon normally on screen during The second cola rifling through everything “I’ll do whatever is necessary Former Vice President stars as a railroad worker “.” advertainment — they have on hand, much like to support the network.” Al Gore and Kenya’s and Abby Lincoln plays Maybe it just seemed odd “MacGruber” sketches MacGyver, to avert disaster. Kaboom and ka-ching. Wangari Maathai the minister’s daughter when “SNL” cast member tend to up the ante in terms NBC Universal parent each will receive the who catches his eye. ’s MacGyver-like of absurdity over three General Electric, for example, Chairman’s Award. • “Black To The Future” MacGruber character paused short installments — had recently announced that its • “A Raisin in the Sun” (10 p.m. Feb. 27, VH1): to sip a Pepsi while using MacGruber changing his fourth-quarter profit fell 43 (5 p.m. Feb. 15, BET): David Alan Grier found materials to defuse a name to Pepsuder. Kaboom percent from a year earlier. The Emmy-winning hosts this lighthearted bomb that, as always happens and Ka-ching. The third had NBC Universal’s sales slipped adaptation of Lorraine four-part special in “SNL’s” “MacGruber” bits, Forte saying nothing but only 3 percent, thanks to Hansberry’s landmark that celebrates the blew up in his face. Kaboom. Pepsi over and over again. cable TV growth offsetting play about a family contributions of blacks So you fi gured there must Kaboom and ka-ching. local TV ad declines. And this struggling to get ahead to American pop culture have been a reason Forte’s As for the integrity of is a common tale for media in 1950s Chicago. since the 1970s — soda can would figure as “MacGruber,” such as it may concerns. News Corp. just last Sean “Diddy” Combs, “from ‘The Jeffersons’ prominently as “SNL” be, it could have been worse. week said it lost $6.4 billion in Phylicia Rashad and to the Jacksons, Marion castmate Kristin Wiig and At least the character wasn’t its most recent quarter. Sanaa Lathan lead the Barry to Barry Bonds, “MacGyver” star Richard buried with a feature film. Necessity is the mother of cast. and the afro to the Jheri Dean Anderson, in a cameo “The Ladies Man,” anyone? invention, and regular ads • “Simon Schama’s curl.” reprising his 1985-92 TV “It’s Pat?” “Coneheads?” and aren’t Rough Crossings” (10 enough. So you see talk- show host Conan O’Brien, who leaves NBC’s “Late Night” this month and takes   over “The Tonight Show” in June, in a beer ad that debuted during his network’s Super Bowl telecast. ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” works sponsors into material that’s part comedy, part ad. Special to The Daily Gamecock In the case of “SNL” and Will Forte’s “SNL” character “MacGruber,” selling out a MacGruber has popped up character that had probably in recent Pepsi ads. PAGE 7 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 Inside the Box ◆ By Marlowe Leverette / Th e Daily Gamecock The Scene @USC

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CHRIS COX Th e Daily Gamecock Sports Editorial Staff MICHAEL Assistant gives midconference review, what USC fans AGUILAR Sports Editor Sports Editor learned through fi rst nine league games

COX AGUILAR In Darrin Horn’s first big SEC East game, Horn’s While South Carolina’s 17-point comeback was certainly Gamecocks proved that things under the new coach were admirable, the fact of the matter was the Volunteers exposed going to be a little different than in recent years. The several areas of concern in Carolina’s team. Not only were Gamecocks trailed the Volunteers by as much as 17 points in the Gamecocks outmanned on the glass by a Volunteer team the second half, but forced their way back into the game. But with average height, but the speedy Volunteers were the with seven seconds left in the game, Mike Holmes missed fi rst squad to expose USC’s defensive transition problems. the front end of a one and one, the Vols grabbed the rebound UT’s lead was built in large part by wide-open layups when and ran out the clock. Although a loss, Horn and his team Carolina seemed lackadaisical in their defensive scheme. The showed that this year there would be no team that would be Gamecocks certainly proved their grit and mettle in not worthy of running away from USC. The Gamecocks aimed laying down after theirlarge halftime defi cit, but it showed not only to be in every game throughout the rest of their the rest of the SEC that Horn’s club is certainly beatable if season, but to win them as well. you beat them at their own game.

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COX AGUILAR While Fredrick’s time-expiring layup and Mike Holmes’ Were Florida’s Chandler Parsons’ missed free throw to amazing cross-court pass proved to be the highlight, it bounce in any other direction USC may not have come cannot be forgotten how big of a role Downey played in the out on top. The old saying goes, “Sometimes it is better to outcome. Had it not been for his clutch shooting abilities, be lucky than good,” but the one thing that Carolina fans the Gamecocks would have more than likely fallen to 1-3 and the newly dubbed Garnet Army could take away from in the SEC and on the outside looking in when it came to the game was that no matter what anyone else thought, the Selection Sunday. South Carolina trailed the Gators 67-60 Gamecocks believed they were going to win games in the with 2:27 left when the guard took over. Downey connected SEC East this season. Horn had already instilled a strong on four consecutive free throw attempts, then sank a triple confidence into his players that was unheard of under from just outside the right wing to pull Carolina within Dave Odom. Look no farther than Zam Fredrick’s quote two. Despite all of the attention Downey has received this following his game-winning layup, “I just kept believing year, he still remains one of the more unsung and taken for we were going to get another shot to win the game.” granted players of USC’s team. Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

COX AGUILAR While the late-game heroics seemed to become daily Once again Carolina needed some late-game heroics to occurences for the Gamecocks and Coach Horn, USC’s overcome an SEC East foe and once again, a member of victory in Lexington proved much more important from USC’s powerful backcourt fulfi lled that need. Many would a historical standpoint than what is happening now. Horn have claimed after the Florida game that USC’s victory was offi cially proved to Gamecock nation that he is here to turn nothing but a fl uke, a lucky bounce. Surely the mightier USC into a legitimate national power, as he joined a rare teams would prevail the next time USC tried to assert itself group of Gamecock coaches with elite status. USC winning as a member of the upper echelon. But the Gamecocks in Lexington, Ky. is about as likely as Adolph Rupp coming exploded in the second half and kept pestering the Wildcats back from the dead to return the Wildcats to glory. It was until a ten-point second half lead for UK turned into a USC’s fi rst victory in Lexington since 1997 and gives the fi ve-point lead for USC. Devan Downey would stave off the Gamecocks an opportunity to sweep the Wildcats for the UK comeback with a turnaround jumper with fi ve seconds fi rst time since that same season. SEC, meet Darrin Horn left. These Gamecocks were not going away quietly, they and his Gamecocks, because they are here to stay. had aims on the SEC East title. Paul Collins / GAMECOCKCENTRAL.COM

COX AGUILAR In any other season, the Gamecocks would have lost This game was crucial in order to understand Carolina’s this game. Just like they do in every sport, USC fi nds a character. USC had just lost a heartbreaker to the same way to lose the games it shouldn’t, especially in crucial Florida team to whom they had served a heartbreaker just times when a victory can do so much for your team and two weeks earlier. UGA came to town without a win in the university. In front of a sellout crowd for only the second SEC and having just fi red its coach. USC needed to show time ever at the Colonial Life Arena, it certainly seemed that it could come back from a tough loss and not lose plausible that the Gamecocks would falter to a far inferior momentum. The arena sold out and the Gamecocks rolled squad. But Horn and the Gamecocks would have none of over Georgia. The most surprising thing of all was that it, as USC dominated from start to fi nish over the hapless the Gamecocks did it on a night where Downey did not Bulldogs. Carolina got back on the winning track after have his best game. Sam Muldrow stepped up and scored a a disappointing midweek game and hope to carry that career high 18 points to lead Horn’s team to victory. The momentum on the road this coming weekend. game solidifi ed USC’s place as competitors in the SEC.

Tracy Glantz / ASSOCIATED PRESS JJuniorunior sseekseeks UUSCSC rrecordecord bbookook Zubori hopes to serve up USC history. That record ranking the number two players together in is currently held by assistant coach doubles, the number one doubles highest personal ranking in Katarina Petrovic. pair is Zubori and Vuckovic who are Carolina history “[Zubori]’s gonna break my currently ranked No. 33 together. record,” Petrovic said. “It’s the best “They play together because feeling. My job is to get people to they’re ranked 33rd in the country,” Morgan Henley THE DAILY GAMECOCK break my records.” Petrovic said. “Their fall record was Petrovic’s ranking of No. 13 in six and one. The lineup is what it is the nation was made in 2000, her based on. We don’t like to stack our sophomore year. During her time players. We go by strength and what The women’s tennis team is here as a player, she was named ITA seems to work the best. We try to see coming from its fi rst win after a two- Southeast Region Rookie of the Year if two girls don’t work well as a team. game loss into the Wednesday match and second team all-SEC honors. We do that in practice. We see who against Winthrop. Carolina is ranked She was also coached by current head plays well together. We expect that No. 32 in the country and two of the coach Arlo Elkins. from other teams too.” Gamecocks still remain undefeated: Petrovic, orginally from Serbia, Unique about the Gamecock junior Ana Marija Zubori and senior is the only female coach in America team is that the number two player Gira Schofi eld. Zubori plays at the from her country and is in her fi fth currently has a higher ranking than No. 1 doubles spot and No. 2 singles year as a Gamecock coach. She has the player in the number one spot. Sam Bennett / THE DAILY GAMECOCK spot. Zubori recently just earned her greatly aided the team by recruiting This is because Zubori won more fi rst SEC Player of the Week title. Senior Natasa Vuckovic is ranked No. 33 in doubles with Ana Zubori. fellow Serbians Zubori, senior Natasa matches against ranked players in A win Wednesday will continue Vuckovic, and Schofi eld. the fall, which helps determine her and is hoping for an easy win against the Maxcy Gregg Tennis Center. the setup for Zubori to break the Schofield is currently ranked national rankings in the spring. Winthrop. The team coasted through school’s record of highest ranking. No. 71 in the nation. Instead of The team has two more matches the match against them last year. Zubori currently is ranked No. Comments on this story? E-mail pairing the number one player and before heading into SEC competition The match is at 5 p.m. Wednesday at 14, the second-highest ranking in [email protected] The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2009 PAGE 9

With power sapped from lineup, Tanner turns to small ball.

lot of people. Now, do I think we are going to new and more creative ways to knock them be bad? I really don’t. I think we got home. Stealing, bunting, hit and runs and a pretty good club,” Tanner said at a maybe even preaching to the players the recent press conference. importance of going with a pitch just to put No returning Gamecock hitter had the ball in play will be important. more than seven home runs last season, and Strikeouts will have to be minimized and only two returning hitters had a slugging walks will have to maximized. And if you Juan Blas / THE DAILY GAMECOCK percentage more than .500. That is not to say are not a fan of playing to statistical chances, Ty Zeigler Sophomore Whit Merrifi eld tries to bunt. STAFF WRITER that no one his going to be capable of hitting in an intangible that will be a must for the the clean-up spot this year, but Parker Bangs, Gamecocks will be clutch hitting. DeAngelo Mack and freshman Jackie Bradley Even if the offense executes all of this, it be a new stadium, a new hitting coach and As documented in a piece that ran in The are not going to light up the SEC with homers will still be crucial for the pitching staff to be potentially seven different starters in the fi eld Daily Gamecock earlier this semester, the this year. strong and healthy all season. There are some from one year ago. The style of baseball the Gamecock baseball team has lost a signifi cant “I think that you have to get some power excellent pitchers and they will need to keep Gamecocks play will have to change with the portion of its offense from last season to the from Parker Bangs. He’s a guy I think is on the games close, because it is unlikely that the new environment and new players. coming season due to Major League Baseball’s cusp of becoming a power-hitting guy in the offense this year will be capable of putting large “We got some things going for us. We’re amateur draft. Last season’s top four home program. Mack is a guy that has been good, but crooked numbers on the scoreboard at will. in a new ballpark. We got almost every run hitters (76 percent of the team’s home run he has to be even better,” Tanner said. Tanner has the right set of players to play stitch of our clothing is brand new with Under production) including the third, fourth and Expect those three names and possibly small ball. The team has speed in centerfi elder Armour on board now. Coach Holbrook is in fi fth hitters in the lineup are long gone. newcomers Jeff Jones and Justin Dalles to help Whit Merrifi eld fi rst and foremost, with Mack, the program for the fi rst time. I think that you Head baseball coach Ray Tanner has a provide some power, but do not expect that to Wingo and Crisp adding to that. Those four have things that maybe can make a difference, dilemma. He can try to develop his young make up for the loss of Smoak, Havens, Darnell players also get on base at a high rate, with the the intangibles, where you raise your level of power hitters and allow the team to go through and Disher. range of their on-base percentages last season play a little bit, and hopefully that will equate a year of transition, or he can change the Coach Tanner has long been the benefactor going from .347 to .438. to a few more wins,” Tanner said. philosophy of his team and try to win ballgames of the three-run homer during his time at New comers Casey Rihn, Bobby Haney, Baseball fans can still hear the now-slightly minus the long ball. USC and at . The Sarge was a Nick Ebert, Justin Dalles and Jackie Bradley all overused phrase, “Chicks dig the long ball.” With the success of the Carolina baseball launching pad for home runs with its size and hit for high averages coming out of high school But some feel that phrase is completely false. program in recent years, fans will demand relation to the wind which usually blew out to or junior college, and that will need to continue Chicks dig the guys who hit the long ball, not more than a “rebuilding year” from Tanner’s left fi eld. for USC to be successful at manufacturing the homeruns themselves. long-time winning program. Expect them to The new stadium, currently “Carolina runs. Men are the ones who dig the long ball the scratch the idea of keeping the same offensive Stadium,” is the same size, but until they play Wingo, Crisp and Merrifi eld have all also most, but Tanner is one man who will have to philosophy and ignoring the talent that is the games through the mix of cold, heat and shown the ability to put a bunt down, which give up that fetish in order to win games this currently on the team. wind through the spring, there is no telling if could further aide the transition of the team’s season. “I would have been surprised if we have it will have the same propensity for long balls offense to an A-B-C, fundamental-based been given too much consideration because as the Sarge. offense. when you look at the statistics coming back To counter that, the key will be to get The 2009 baseball season will be a season Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@mailbox. on the resume, it’s really not there. 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