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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 49 ● SINCE 1908 Student section too crowded JEEP program assists With non-students youth in gaining skills in designated seats, South Carolina program helps kids enter work safety concerns arise force, learn social values

Josh Dawsey Chris Cox STAFF WRITER STAFF WRITER Following a relatively A local youth enrichment program is making strides normal Carolina gameday in the Midlands by helping young teens progress as that included tailgating with members of society and employees in the work force. friends, Noelle Ransom tried The Juveniles Experiencing Excellence Program, or to enter Williams-Brice JEEP for short , was created a little less than three years Stadium Saturday night, only ago in a few select areas, but it now stretches statewide to be turned away. through 19 counties due to the program’s dramatic “We just went in the success. normal student section way. JEEP is funded by the state of South Carolina in They had all the cops and it partnership with the Department of Juvenile Justice. was roped off,” the fourth- According to the mission statement, JEEP’s goal year nursing student said. is “to help at-risk youth with special emotional “We were able to get in where and/or behavioral needs” and to “improve their the seats were, but when we Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK overall functioning at school, at home, and in their went to sit down, they had all The student section at the LSU game reached capacity causing frustrations for all involved. communities.” the sections roped out. We Sarah Ryan, a third-year criminal justice student, ended up leaving. It sucked department is in charge of said allowing more people have security. said she began working with the program last January that we couldn’t go into the event facilities management, into the game would have “At the fi rst two entrances, and that she has noticed a major improvement in the game and had to watch it on which controls who enters been a safety hazard. I saw people waving tickets, attitudes of its students. television.” the student section, Edwards “The north end zone got but the cops disregarded the “I feel like I have reached several of the kids that I’ve Ransom was one of dozens said. so crowded that it wasn’t tickets,” Patel said. “Even taught,” Ryan said. “It’s very satisfying to know that of students that said they had Jeff Davis , the associate possible for people to move when I could get in the you were able to change the lives of a few students, problems getting into the athletic director in charge around safely,” Brewer said. game, I was getting squished even if it is just one or two. I can tell that this semester, game Saturday. of event management, was “We had to restrict access trying to get in. People were the determination of the students is greater because USC officials said the not available for comment to two portals under the pushing me into the rail. It of their willingness to successfully complete our problem is the number of Monday. scoreboard, and we roped off was crazy.” program.” non-students populating the Edwards said the ticket the end zone area and didn’t Should students desire Ryan said many of her students experience change student section. system wasn’t to blame. let people in for a certain a guaranteed spot in the and progress from the very beginning, as students are Anna Edwards, the According to Edwards, period of time.” student section, they should encouraged to sign up for the program if they feel they university’s director of the university offered Meera Patel, a first-year arrive earlier, Edwards said. are troubled young adults in need of guidance. student services, said many approximately 10,000 tickets business student, said she “Students that wait until “They can be recommended by anybody who people sit in the section who for the game, but only arrived at the game near the last minute to get into the believes that they are an at-risk child, but kids can also aren’t actually students. 8,850 tickets were actually the end of the first quarter. game are the ones that maybe sign up on their own to do it as long as they believe that “People are familiar scanned, meaning 11 percent She was told by cops to try don’t get in,” Edwards said. it is a program that they need,” Ryan said. “Almost all with the student section if of students who didn’t cancel another entrance. At the “It’s really best to get there of the kids this semester have signed up on their own.” they are an alum or if they their tickets never went into other entrance, she was told earlier.” With many of the program’s students being rough have friends in the student the game. by cops again to move to around the edges, the job of its coordinator becomes section,” Edwards said. Jerry Brewer, the associate another entrance. Finally, she Comments on this story? E-mail that much more complicated. The university athletics vice president for student life, found an entrance that didn’t [email protected] “It can be kind of diffi cult sometimes, but we also try to get one-on-one time with each of them and fi nd out what’s going on in their personal lives,” Ryan said. “The more we can relate with them, the more they trust us, which helps us teach them what they need to Program to attract Greek sports fans know.” What separates JEEP from the rest of the pack is the Gamecock Challenge rewards top program’s hands-on approach to allowing students to learn about how life is in the proverbial “real world.” organizations with money, prizes While the program is in a classroom environment Monday through Wednesday, the students use Thursday through Sunday to complete their 80-hour Liz Segrist NEWS EDITOR internship, where they earn a designated $6.55 per hour. “We get them an internship at a job somewhere in Social fraternities and sororities in the the community and we work with a lot of different Greek community now have the chance to organizations,” Ryan said. compete for prizes such as check written to Students use their classroom time to learn the the philanthropy of their choice, simply by appropriate way to function in their respective jobs, attending certain USC athletic events. which in turns helps them in their everyday lives. Ben Tackett , a fourth-year business “We get them in the classroom and teach them the management and marketing student and a building blocks of getting and keeping a job, the right USC Athletics Department intern, came and wrong way to interview and job etiquette,” Ryan up with the Gamecock Challenge, a new said. “What they learn ends up translating over to their program beginning Thursday. personal lives and how they act in society.” “I’m a Sigma Chi, and I thought it’d be The students remain active even when in the a good way to get the Greek community Jamie Pescatore/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK classroom as hands-on exercises help prepare them for together and show that we are as supportive The USC Athletic Department encourages the Greek community to support athletics. the jobs they carry during the semester. of athletics just like everyone else,” Tackett “We really try and focus on what the kids are going said. to get points. out there for all the basketball games. [He’s] to enjoy but also what they’re going to learn the most Courtney Sergeant, a third-year “At the end of the year, we’ll tally it up putting a lot of focus on the students,” from,” Ryan said. “We try to avoid sitting them at a marketing student, is one of the marketing and it’ll be based on percentages because Tackett said. desk and doing nothing but book work.” interns for USC Athletics working to launch each sorority and fraternity has a different Tackett said they wanted to expand Ryan said that while the program has helped its the Gamecock Challenge. number of members,” she said. student attention to all types of sports. students grow as employees in the work force, it has “We’re trying to get more students Whichever Greek organization has the “We wanted to get some more attention also helped them create a more positive path in their interested in the games,” Sergeant said. highest percentage come April will get for the smaller sports who don’t get a lot of lives. “Basically, it’s to increase participation for $1,000 donated to the philanthropy of attention, such as volleyball and soccer,” he “Students’ improvement in JEEP can range games.” their choice, a cookout with USC Men’s said. anywhere from ceasing gang activity to using their The interns decided to pick one game Basketball Coach Darrin Horn and the Sergeant said they wanted this competition internship to fi nd jobs that help their families,” Ryan for each sport, beginning with the women’s chance for a member of their organization simply to increase participation in sports, said. “It’s been great to hear about the success of my soccer game versus LSU Thursday at 7 p.m. to throw the fi rst baseball at the fi rst home ticket sales and overall attendance levels. previous students to this day. A year from now, I hope Tackett said they are “open to any other game next season. “We fi gured we’d start with the Greeks I get to hear positive feedback on the ones I’m teaching organizations that want to come forward “I don’t know how much the girls will like since they’re the easiest to target, including now, and I think I will.” and bring us any ideas.” the last one, but hopefully everyone will,” Greek village and non-Greek village For more information on the JEEP program and Sergeant said they will have a marketing Sergeant joked. sororities and fraternities as well,” she said. how you can contribute, contact Sharelle Holliday at table set up at each designated game Tackett said Horn is encouraging student 803-253-4050 or by e-mail at [email protected]. with sign-up sheets for each sorority and participation. Comments on this story? E-mail fraternity. Students simply sign their name “He’s really pushing the students to get [email protected] Comments on this story? 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Sports The Mix Opinion...... 4 TODAY WEDNESDAY Puzzles...... 7 Volleyball comes back from a loss Andrew Graczyk faces his toughest Comics...... 7 to Florida with a strong game dilemma yet in this week’s edition Classifi ed...... 10 against Auburn. See page 8 of ‘Graczykstan.’ See page 5 74 43 70 47 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 pageTWO Daily Theme PIC OF THE DAY The Impact Movement Women’s Bible Study Q & A with 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Russell House, Room 304 Administrator of the

Brothers of Nubian Descent meeting 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. RH, Room 302 Week Freshman Council meeting 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thomas Leatherman, RH, Room 315 USC anthropology AAAS meeting 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. professor RH Theater

Carolina Service Q: What are your plans for Keri Goff / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Council meeting The Asheville-based Jon Scales Fourchestra brings steel drum jazz fusion rhythms to 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Halloween? RH, Room 303 A: I’ll be going to a party thrown by a the Russell House Patio on Monday afternoon.

Campus Crusade for member of faculty. Local National World Christ Prayer meeting 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Dabo Swinney was glad ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Ten ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A RH Dining Room that Clemson played last hours a day, every day, Pakistani court has ordered week. He’s just as happy that Elizabeth Feudale-Bowes an American detained for Pastafarians meeting Q: What was the last magazine you he, his staff and his players confines herself to a two more weeks after he 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. can take this Saturday off. galvanized-steel-and- was accused of trying to Leconte, Room 112 purchased? A week after Clemson porcelain shed outside her enter a militant stronghold coach Tommy Bowden house . Inside are a toilet, a near the Afghan border, A: It might have been Cooks abruptly left the program, metal cabinet, a box spring police said Monday. RHA Senate meeting Swinney and the Tigers with the metal coils exposed, The extended detention 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Illustrated. haven’t fully processed the and a pile of organic cotton of 20-year-old Jude Kenan Currell, Room 107 fallout. blankets. Aluminum foil of Raleigh, North Carolina “There was a nuclear bomb covers the window. comes as America’s top that went off here a week The place is as austere diplomat in the region, ago,” Swinney said Monday. as a prison cell — but it’s Assistant Secretary of State Filipino-American “Total chaos rampant also her sanctuary from an Richard Boucher , praised Student Association Q: What would your occupation be if through the halls, and all of outside world that she said Pakistan for its military meeting a sudden you have a game makes her violently ill. offensive against al-Qaida 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. you were not teaching? to play. There was division She and her husband said and Taliban militants in RH, Room 203 A: Oh, I can’t even imagine. If I had here in a lot of ways.” they call the structure “the the lawless tribal regions So Clemson’s interim bubble.” bordering Afghanistan. coach spent the following This bubble, though, may Some U.S. offi cials doubt Gamecocks for to pick one, it would be working for few days doing whatever be about to burst: A judge that Islamabad is willing or Freedom meeting a global N.G.O. (non-governmental he could to instill unity. has ordered it taken down able to take on the militants 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. And in his eyes, it worked, by the end of the month. and criticized earlier army RH, Room 302 organization). despite the Tigers 21-17 loss Some of the couple’s operations that ended in to Georgia Tech. He saw neighbors in suburban short-lived peace deals they improvement in the team’s South Whitehall Township said gave the extremists GAMMA meeting play and an on-fi eld fi re that complained that the time to regroup. 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. had largely been missing 160-square-foot building is But Boucher said he was RH, Room 305 from the former Atlantic unstable and so unsightly encouraged by what he was Q: What is your favorite television Coast Conference favorites. it could drag down their seeing in the border region Mid-season changes are property values. The couple of Bajur , where troops Hillel Foundation program? rare in college football also hooked up electrical, launched a major offensive meeting and perhaps even rarer at water and sewer service in August that officials 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. A: I don’t think that I even have one. Clemson, where it hadn’t without securing permits. claim has killed 1,000 RH, Room 205 happened since Bud Saunders “For the wife’s medical militants.

left the Tigers in the middle problems, there is “I think it is good of the 1926 season. sympathy. For the owner’s Pakistan is taking serious USC Symphony “You’ve got turmoil, defiance of the township’s military action against Orchestra people saying things,” lawful directives, there is the terrorists,” Boucher 7:30 p.m. Q: What is your personal mantra or Swinney said. “My objective no excuse,” Judge Carol told reporters after three Koger Center for the Arts saying? was to try and bring some McGinley ruled earlier this days of meetings with calmness and some sanity, month. Pakistani leaders, including A: It doesn’t get any better than this. and to try and develop some Feudale-Bowes, 52 , the president. “We have SHARE meeting normalcy and unity.” said she was diagnosed seen the government has 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. This week, Swinney several years ago with shown the determination RH Dining Room hopes to develop sharper “environmental illness,” and willingness to see this

pass patterns and crisper described as extreme through to the end.” — Compiled by Halley Nani blocking. sensitivity to everyday substances. — Th e Associated Press

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Halloween is occasion EDITORIAL BOARD Editor Managing Editor for mischief, BRAD MAXWELL CALLI BURNETT Copy Desk Chief Assistant Copy Desk Chief fun for all AMANDA DAVIS PAUL BOWERS News Editor Sports Editor LIZ SEGRIST MICHAEL AGUILAR

Holiday brings candy, Th e Mix Editor Viewpoints Editor costumes, chance for COLIN JONES JOSH RABON Design Director Photography Editor students to let loose ELIZABETH HOWELL CHRISTINE GALLIGAN Halloween — or El Dia de las Brujas for you Spanish speakers out there— is nearly upon us, and I, for one, IN OUR OPINION cannot wait. Yes, that’s right, All Hallows Eve is right around the No single scapegoat corner. I know RESISTANCE IS FUTILE it’s still two weeks away Procrastination not always bad for seating situation and I should probably have harder. That’s not really The benefit If you had a ticket to Saturday’s contest between the saved this for Cleaning house, other procrastination. That’s just of constructive next week, but Gamecocks and the LSU Tigers, but were barricaded TIMOTHY assignments justify work strategy. If you’re one procrastination is that you I can’t help it. I VICARRI of these people, this article can get things done but from the stands by the police and men in yellow jackets, am downright Th ird-year putting off homework isn’t for you. still procrastinate. And it’s you are probably looking for a scapegoat. thrilled. As fi nance Procrastination — it’s But if you’re like me and guilt-free. Yeah, you may I patiently Unfortunately for the students who were sent student the college student’s best prefer alphabetizing your feel bad that you waited wait for the frenemy. condiment drawer rather so long to do your project, packing, there was no one lynching post on which to booze-filled We’ve all been there. than typing your literature but you got four other lean. TicketReturn seems a likely candidate, but only and -fueled costume parties, Everyone reading this paper, allow me to introduce minute assignments done horror movies, haunted 8,850 students scanned their way into the game, well column can recall the the idea of constructive in the process of delaying. houses, carved pumpkins, below the limit. So who is there? last time they sat at their procrastination. So instead of regretting crazy shenanigans and of computer, Basically, the idea behind wasting three hours on a The easiest thing to do course the skimpy costumes If there aren’t extra beginning a procrastination is to put off ‘70s sitcom, you’re feeling in Five Points (C’mon ladies, would be to blame the non- project that something you don’t feel accomplished that you have don’t let me down) that seats for fans who students who made their was due in like doing and replace that no homework for the next mark this time of year, I mere hours chore with something more three days. way into the student section. cannot help but look back to should be in the despite the exciting. What constructive Sure, it’s going to be On Saturday night, the Halloweens past and think fact it was procrastination does is difficult to choose more how things change. nosebleeds, they section was overrun with assigned a allow you to procrastinate work over being just plain From innocent trick-or- MANDI month ago. by replacing one obligation lazy. But normally, fi nishing fans who thought it would treating of years long past can’t take them. SORDELET We can all with something that’s smaller chores before be a good idea to take some to where most of us find Th ird-year relate to actually productive. tackling a big one makes ourselves now, it is amazing unsuspecting student’s seat. public relations that sinking For example, it’s 1 a.m. the wait more satisfying. how this holiday can hold Of course, non-students couldn’t get into the student student feeling that on a Wednesday and you Not to mention that all the such different meanings over stirs in our have a literature paper on smaller jobs will invigorate section if not for the athletics department. It is their just the span of a decade or stomachs realism due for a 9 a.m. and prepare you for the two. Now don’t get me wrong, job to make sure that everyone fi nds the right seat, and due to the lethal class. The idea to put off huge, lurking assignment I still love candy. Reese is the they didn’t do their jobs to the best of their ability. combination of anxiety, the paper is tempting, and that still lies ahead. man. His phenomenal little Starbucks, writer’s block a “Three’s Company” So the next time you’re We wouldn’t even be having this conversation if the peanut butter-fi lled chocolate and waiting until the last marathon just started on trying to find anything students who couldn’t get in after kickoff came to the cups have the candy business minute. We’ve all filled TV Land. What to do? better to do besides your on lockdown, and I don’t game earlier. After all, if there aren’t extra seats for fans out those pointless surveys Well, in order current essay, project care what anybody says, you on Myspace, updated to procrastinate or chore, look to all the who should be in the nosebleeds, they can’t take them. are never too old to trick or our iTunes and searched constructively, the first other little things you’ve Each group is somewhat to blame. The non-student treat. for quirky new Facebook thing you do is turn off the been putting off and What’s really nice about fans at the game should sit in their own seats, and bumper stickers, all in TV and start cleaning your do those instead. Your Halloween now, though, is the athletic department should prevent them from the hopes of distracting room. Or go over some key bumper sticker requests on that it is the one time during ourselves from the work terms for your marketing Facebook might go down a wandering to the student section. But by the same the year where it is perfectly that we should be doing. exam next week. Or read bit, but at least your grades acceptable to unleash a count, students should be in the stands by kickoff Some claim they are that chapter you’ve been will be rising and your little of that inner demon anyway, not trying to get during the fi rst quarter. more productive when they ignoring in your American personal effects will be or monster in all of us. wait until the last minute, History book. As for me, organized. So to all involved, do your part. Despite obvious While some out there have that the pressure helps I started writing this Procrastination – what a explanations, there is no excuse for students who got no problem doing that on a them to focus and work column. wonderful thing. weekly or even daily basis, tickets and attended the game to be turned away. they usually wind up serving 10 to 20, get deported, or have a failing liver before CORRECTIONS they turn 30. For the average Rising food costs unacceptable If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know about person, Halloween is the it. E-mail us at [email protected] only opportunity throughout Spiraling prices need Lars Perner , the assistant This is still less than what the year to go all out and let marketing professor at the economists have predicted. good times roll. Well, that to level off as grain, University of Southern Yet with crude oil prices ITʼS YOUR RIGHT and St. Patrick’s Day, Cinco oil begin to decline California , simply stated dropping more than 50 Voice your opinion on message boards at www.dailygamecock.com de Mayo, Carolina home in an Associated Press percent since July, there or send letters to the editor at [email protected] games, birthdays, bachelor Everyone has heard of article that the food should not be any sort of and bachelorette parties, pint price gouging when it industry’s companies base rise at all. About The Daily Gamecock night and Easter, but on the comes to pumping gas. Not their prices on how their With the world on the October 31 everyone dresses until recently have we seen competitors are pricing brink of economic crises, Editor CONTACT INFORMATION BRAD MAXWELL Offi ces located on the third fl oor of the Russell House up in bitchin’ costumes! gas prices come back down their goods, not necessarily maybe big mortgage and Managing Editor Editor: [email protected] Harmless troublemaking to a “reasonable price.” on the price of ingredients insurance companies are CALLI BURNETT News: [email protected] Copy Desk Chief Viewpoints: [email protected] is what this holiday is all Yet the big oil companies that go into producing not going to be the only AMANDA DAVIS Th e Mix: [email protected] about right now. Once you aren’t the only ones with the finished product. ones to blame. Assistant Copy Desk Chief Sports: [email protected] PAUL BOWERS Public Relations: [email protected] get old, you’re going to be price hikes. If you aren’t This basically means that In the free-market Online: www.dailygamecock.com Design Director Newsroom: 777-7726 too busy checking your kids’ a student who frequents Tropicana is more worried community where ELIZABETH HOWELL Sports: 777-7182 Assistant Design Director Editor’s Offi ce: 777-3914 candy for needles and stuff the Russell about how much Minute Americans live today, one A.J. BIKOWSKI Fax: 777-6482 to go bobbing for apples in House Maid is price-tagging a would assume that there News Editor Everclear. I would like it to and you pint of orange juice than would be options on what LIZ SEGRIST Assistant News Editor MOORES, MARIN MUELLER The Daily Gamecock is be known, though, that I occasionally how much it actually costs to buy, but with competing KARA APEL Public Relations Director the editorially independent do not in anyway condone venture out to grow and squeeze a few companies raising the Viewpoints Editor CAM BYRD student newspaper of the JOSHUA RABON Assistant PR Director University of South Carolina. vandalism or the intentional to a grocery oranges. grocery bill to higher Assistant Viewpoints Editor CHRISTINA STRITZINGER It is published daily during destruction of property on store, you This undeniably is levels together, people are DARREN PRICE Graduate Assistant Th e Mix Editor JESICA JOHNSON the fall and spring semesters Halloween or ever. I know AARON may have nothing other than price not left with any varied COLIN JONES Student Media Director and nine times during the for some that is a favorite GADBURY noticed that gouging. It is unreasonable choices. People need food Assistant Mix Editor SCOTT LINDENBERG summer with the exception of pastime, but anyone who prices have for the American consumer to live, and the days of ELLEN MEDER Faculty Adviser university holidays and exam First-year Sports Editor ERIK COLLINS periods. Opinions expressed does that is dumb. Seriously, steadily to have to pay these hiked hunting and gathering are MICHAEL AGUILAR Creative Director in The Daily Gamecock are public relations EDGAR SANTANA don’t do that crap. risen. At prices. In a consumer- far behind the American Assistant Sports Editor those of the editors or author student MICHAEL BAUMANN Business Manager and not those of the University Aside from that, breaking first it based society, we have no people. Photo Editor CAROLYN GRIFFIN the law is also something that seemed as choice but to continue The check-out counter CHRISTINE GALLIGAN Advertising Manager of South Carolina. Th e Board Assistant Photo Editor SARAH SCARBOROUGH of Student Publications I do not condone. Only in if the rising oil and grain shopping for food. must be monitored. If ALAN TAUBER Classifi eds Manager and Communications is the instances where no one is prices were the cause of The Consumer Price people are losing their Copy Editors SHERRY F. HOLMES the publisher of The Daily watching or no one will tell this. But people will soon Index, which is an ability to afford houses, EDDIE MANN, MEGAN Production Manager Gamecock. Th e Department VANDERSNICK, EMILY AHO, C. NEIL SCOTT of Student Media is SARAH LADA, OLIVIA JONES, and nobody suffers any loss or notice that those prices do inflation calculator that the last thing this country Creative Services the newspaper’s parent KENNY DORIAN, SARAH KEVIN ARCHIE, A.J. The Daily physical harm is breaking the not correlate with the ever- determines the price needs is people to lose PETERMAN, LYDIA DISABATINO BIKOWSKI, ASHLEY organization. Gamecock law a good thing, and even if rising prices of sustenance. differences of goods from their ability to purchase Page Designers BLEWER-BUDNICK, KAILEY is supported in those criteria are met, then Food is a commodity that a previous economic food. The way that food MORGAN REID, LIZZIE WARING, LIZZIE WILSON, part by student-activity fees. ERICKSON, KERYN SENN, TAI VU One free copy per reader. still don’t do it because it’s we will never be able to go period while at the same companies are pricing BOBBY SUTTON, TAI VU, Advertising Additional copies may be against the law, silly. Unless, without. time eliminating the price food must be reevaluated AMANDA SMITH, ALEX OTT, BEN CRANE, CARLY purchased for $1 each from CAMILLE HOLLEMAN GALLAGHER, JULIE the Department of Student that is, you can read between One would ask why the of energy, reports that if we are ever to return CANTER, JAYME Staff Writers Media. the lines, in which case have reduction of gas prices prices have risen only 0.1 to some sort of economic CHRIS COX, JOSH DAWSEY, PIGNTELLO, CANDACE HALEY DREIS, JIMMY REYNOLDS, MEGHAN fun, be safe and hope your does not correspond with percent according to the balance. GILMORE, SEAN GRUBER, TANKERSLY, LAUREN costume is taser proof. the decreasing oil prices. U.S. Labor Department. DREW LATTIER, KYLE SPIRES, NATALIE HICKS “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is.” — Sir Francis Bacon

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 PAGE 5 USC Symphony says hello to cello Award-winning string musician Díaz accompanies orchestra for second show of season, brings intense, charismatic performance to stage

Ashley Warren gained a reputation for Díaz is very active with hand in marriage. The story THE DAILY GAMECOCK intense and charismatic the Díaz String Trio, also contains magic bullets performances. featuring violinist Andres and a twist of events. The The USC Symphony Díaz has performed with Cardenes and violinist overture for this opera made Orchestra will perform the Atlanta Symphony, with Roberto Díaz. They made history for drawing most of tonight at 7:30 in the the American Symphony the debut of a string trio its musical material from the Koger Center. Student at Carnegie Hall and with written for them by Guther opera itself. Mendelssohn’s tickets are available for the symphony orchestras Schuller at Carnegie Hall Symphony No. 3 (Scottish) $8. During the special of Milwaukee, Seattle, in 2003. Since then, the trio was inspired by the ruins performance, the second of Rochester and Chicago. has performed all across the of castle of Mary Queen of this season, acclaimed cellist He has also performed at United States, Canada and Scots and depicts a somber Andrés Díaz will join the the Ravinia Festival with South America. Recently mood. symphony. the National Symphony appointed head of the string Portnoy urged students Díaz will perform Orchestra. department at Southern to come and support their Haydn’s Cello Concerto Díaz is known for Methodist University, Díaz fellow Gamecocks in the in D major, a very exciting inserting personality and now lives in Dallas with his symphony. piece that contains high character into his musicto wife and two sons. “Just about all are register and double stop make it stand out from that The orchestra will also music majors. Some are passages. Episodes in the of musicians who perform perform Weber’s Der undergraduate and some are concerto contain fast notes in a strict and superficial Freischütz Overture and graduate students. They are and leaps in range to show manner. Mendelssohn’s beautiful all your fellow students,” off the talent and range of Díaz’s summer festival Symphony No. 3 (Scottish). Portnoy said. “Not every the cellist. appearances include the Donald Portnoy, conductor university has a symphony Díaz, born in Chile, began Tanglewood, Saratoga, and director of the orchestra, orchestra, so we are really to study cello at the age of Spoleto, Bravo! Colorado, said that tonight’s pieces are blessed to have a fine five. By the age of eight, Santa Fe and La Joya festivals. “exciting and easy to listen symphony orchestra … and Díaz had moved to Atlanta Díaz also tours nationally to.” it is very exciting to have a to study at the Georgia with many festivals. Weber’s Der Freischütz world-class cellist to come Academy of Music with For his performances at Overture comes from his and play here.” Martha Gerchefski. Díaz Tanglewood, Díaz won the romantic opera. The music THE DAILY GAMECOCK won fi rst prize in the 1986 Pierre Mayer Memorial tells the story of a shooting Special to Naumburg International Award for Outstanding contest, the winner of which Comments on this story? E-mail Andrés Díaz joins the USC Symphony Orchestra tonight. The Cello Competition and String Player. will receive a desired bride’s [email protected] renowned musician has played venues such as Carnegie Hall. Graczykstan: A column, not a country

Expecting unexpected If the advice instead means time in the morning, days “expect that which you in which I expect only a leads to unexpected ordinarily would not,” then slow progression of glaciers existential quandary the advisor is presuming to and mammoths and in know not only that which which South Carolina only the advisee already expects expects implicit or covert I’m sure that most of you in this situation but also for attacks from the federal have heard the somewhat all other similar situations. government. In short, to popular phrase advising These expectations would assume knowledge of a people to “expect the necessarily differ from person’s precise expectations unexpected.” It is not a advisee to is somewhat absurd. bad thing to urge caution advisee. Assuming, then, that or preparedness, but the For someone still wants to implications of this phrase example, on give valid advice on this can be quite dire. a typical day subject, the options become Simply thinking about you might somewhat narrower. The the phrase itself can raise expect the best way to express the same problems. For example, if sun to rise ANDREW general sentiment would someone advises you to at a certain GRACZYK likely be in the simple phrase expect the unexpected, general Second-year “expect more.” This phrase what does it really mean? If time in the physics is always valid: No matter you expect the unexpected, morning, an student how much any person or then the unexpected existentialist group expects, since humans becomes one with the would expect never have infi nite capacity expected, but if you are still only him or herself to rise, I it will always be possible to expecting the unexpected would expect the immediate add expectation. Now that as this occurs and you now arrival of the next ice age we have gotten over the expect everything, then by and South Carolina would logical and philosophical expecting the unexpected likely expect overt federal barriers behind the advice, you will be expecting aggression. Of course, there the only problem remains nothing. As useful as that may be some days on which when the advice is given and would be for Zen Buddhism something else is expected actually heeded. or, apparently, the Carter by these same parties. While it may always administration, it is not a There may be some days be technically possible situation that most people in which you expect the to “expect more,” there would advise in daily life. sun to rise at a different GRACZYKSTAN ● 6 Maddow storms MSNBC ratings with new show ‘Liberal-minded’ Maddow, a Castro Valley, Courtesy of MCT Campus Calif., native and Stanford grad, can sleep at all these Molly Shannon and Selma Blair star as Kath and Kim in NBC’s new comedy “Kath & Kim.” host gets rave reviews days. The relentless blur with intellect, smile that is her life consists of daily anchoring duties for ‘Kath and Kim’ lacks laughs Chuck Barney the “Air America” radio MCT Campus network and blogging rediscovering her sexuality through a new assignments for the Australian sitcom adaptation romance that Kim seems set on ending. It’s about 10:30 p.m. Huffington Post. She is Kim’s disapproval of her mother’s choice creates in New York and Rachel also penning a book on the proves entertaining, not very funny the main conflict of the show. Other plot Maddow has just finished heavy topic of American developments include Kim’s husband trying her nightly television gig militarism since 1989. Michael S. Wirtz / MCT Campus “Kath & Kim” to win her back, Kath’s boyfriend attempting at the MSNBC studio But the job generating Rachel Maddow waits ★★★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩ to propose and Kim getting a new MySpace in Rockefeller Center, the most buzz is one she has on the set of “The Rachel picture to let the world know she is single. but she’s still very much held for only a few weeks. Maddow Show. Ashley Warren Kim is a bratty 20-something threatening her “wired.” Now, she just As the liberal-minded, THE DAILY GAMECOCK newlywed husband with divorce for asking her desperately wants to cop John McCain-bashing host to do things such as “microwave dinner once some Zs. of “The Rachel Maddow anyone I’ve ever known.” NBC’s newest sitcom, “Kath and Kim,” in a while.” Kim’s character is essentially that “If I don’t get to sleep Show” on MSNBC, she has She’s also got smarts premiered at 8:30 last Thursday night . The of a 12-year-old in a woman’s body, making by midnight, the prospects boldly bolted into the cable to spare. Maddow, 35, second episode of the season will air this her at times seem completely unbelievable and for a good night’s rest are TV boys club of political is a Rhodes scholar with Thursday at the same time. Based off the entirely un-relatable. However, Blair does an about one in a million,” she punditry while racking up a doctorate in political popular Australian show of the same name, excellent job of portraying the character by said in a phone interview mostly rave reviews and science from Oxford. She “Kath and Kim” chronicles the lives of a using her ability to effectively whine, pout, and while walking briskly along robust ratings. is a lesbian who came out dysfunctional mother and daughter. roll her eyes. Sixth Avenue toward her “She has supernatural at the age of 17. She wrote Kim (Selma Blair) is Kath’s daughter and In the pilot episode, Kath tries to help Kim apartment. “I might as well reserves of energy,” said Bill her dissertation on AIDS has just moved back in with her mother and her husband reunite so as to get Kim to hit myself over the head Wolff, Maddow’s executive activism in prisons. (Molly Shannon) after a falling out with with a ball-peen hammer.” producer. “She works “She’s pretty unreal,” ● her husband. Kath, on the other hand, is K & K 6 It’s a wonder that harder and longer than MADDOW ● 6 PAGE 6 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 ● K & K ● Continued from 5 where both the title characters’ MADDOW Continued from 5 romantic interests work. move out, while balancing her Banks’s starring roles The clothes worn by Kath Wolff said. “Intellectually, admit it’s “surreal” to see own romance with a sandwich and Kim are perhaps the most she kind of runs laps around their daughter beaming all shop owner. interesting and visually pleasing everyone.” over television (she appeared Phil (John Michael Higgins) take over theaters in fall part of the show, as they each Maddow warmed up for on “The Tonight Show is extremely cheesy, making have their own distinct style. her current assignment With Jay Leno” last week). him the perfect match for Kath Actress lands major Kath’s body-hugging outfits with regular guest bookings But they knew early on they who is eccentric, a bit tacky contain a lot of animal print, parts in some of on CNN and MSNBC, weren’t raising a typical and completely out of touch. full white ensembles and 80’s including the network’s top- child. The relationship between season’s biggest fi lms workout wear. Kim wears rated program, “Countdown Rachel’s interest in current the mother and daughter, short shorts and cropped with Keith Olbermann.” events surfaced when she while dysfunctional, is still tops in array of bright colors. After watching her more began reading newspapers a bit heartwarming at times. Though they live in average Roger Moore than hold her own with the from cover to cover in Kath and Kim share a real, Th e Associated Press suburbia, Kath and Kim’s likes of Chris Matthews, elementary school. Her visible loving bond, while still outfits exemplify how out of Tucker Ca rlson, Olber ma n n tenaciousness was apparent managing to be extremely self- Everything’s coming touch with reality they are. and others, MSNBC execs in the way she amassed absorbed and shallow. up Elizabeth Banks at Obsessed with celebrities, concluded it was time to let bumps and bruises as a While advertised as funny, the movies this fall. tacky jewelry and inserting her fl y solo. three-sport athlete at Castro the relationship also proves She’s half the title in phrases such as “What the She is the fi rst openly gay Valley High (“We gave away to be interesting more than the raunchy comedy bedazzle?” into everyday woman with a national news six pairs of crutches when anything. “Zack and Miri Make conversation, Kath and Kim Amanda Parks / The Associated Press program, yet she doesn’t she went off to college,” said Parts of the show are very a Porno,” scheduled are quite entertaining, though even own a TV. Elaine). Her nonconformist predictable. It isn’t difficult to open Oct. 31. She Elizabeth Banks stars in not very funny. “It’s not any kind of ways were evident when, as for viewers to guess how Kath plays Laura Bush in new movies like “W.” The pilot ends with mother intellectual snobbery,” said the valedictorian of her high or Kim will react or behave Oliver Stone’s more and daughter toasting to global and “Zack and Miri.” Maddow, who splits her school class, she ditched the in any given situation. The prestigious, less raunchy warming, because with Kath’s time between New York conventional preapproved most monotonous of all of “W.,” which opened Banks won the busy schedule it is really nice and the Massachusetts graduation address at the their antics is the way the Friday. And you can’t go Laura role after a that she can “get a savage tan home she shares with artist last minute in favor of an mother and daughter begin an to the movies without short meeting with in fi ve minutes.” Susan Mikula, her partner improvised speech about argument only to stop midway seeing the trailer for her Stone, the acclaimed of nine years. “It’s more of social responsibility. to give a compliment or fi rst big horror picture, director of “Platoon,” a constitutional weakness. It drew a standing mention how cute something is. “The Uninvited,” due “Wall Street,” “JFK” When the TV is on, I can’t ovation. The show is shot primarily Comments on this story? E-mail out in January. and “Nixon.” Banks get anything done.” As for her keen debating in Kath’s house and the mall, [email protected] “It’s weird to be thinks she got the job But plenty of people skills, they often materialized standing on a street because “he wanted a are watching her. Since in the verbal skirmishes she corner in New York lightness to her, not ● correlation between the launching on Sept. 8, “The waged with her parents and GRACZYKSTAN Continued from 5 City and have the taxi some Stepford wife.” To Pope visiting the USA and Rachel Maddow Show” older brother David. drive by with the sign get Laura Bush’s accent, does come a point where heightened aggression of has doubled the ratings of “A nytime we would have on top that has your “I kept her in my ear for expecting more leads to what manatees, was there any Dan Abrams, the previous a disagreement, she could name and face on it,” the whole movie, her psychologists like to call harm in being prepared? Is occupant of the time slot. outtalk me and give me a she said. “Surreal, for interview with Charlie “abject paranoia.” Of course, there any harm in dropping a Even more impressive, run for money,” Elaine said. sure.” Rose on my iPod, one of the great things small object every morning to it has occasionally bested “It got to the point where So those years being listening to her between about paranoia is that those make sure that gravity has not the Nielsen numbers of I’d have to say, ‘OK, we’re labeled “the blond scenes.” affl icted may actually suspect significantly changed since Olbermann and CNN’s not going to discuss it Parker Posey” may be “Zack and Miri” is that they are. This even the night before? Is there Larry King. anymore.’” over for Banks, 34. a complete departure, leads to another interesting any harm in philosophically The keys to her success? After graduating from “Of course, I’m with Banks playing a set of questions: Does the analyzing simple phrases to Maddow blends that Stanford in 3 years, Maddow flattered by the working class woman suspicion of paranoia itself the point of absurdity? In all impressive intellect with settled in San Francisco, comparison,” she said whose 10th high school not constitute paranoia? Or, of these cases, the answer is a quick wit, a refreshing where she worked to graciously, having done reunion — and the fact by writing this, am I not “no.” It may not be necessary, calmness and engaging promote AIDS prevention her time in supporting that she and her roomie propagating the problem? but it is good sometimes to smile. Like other and gay rights, focusing roles on “Scrubs,” in (Seth Rogen) can’t make I could assure you that it consider those things that unabashedly partisan cable especially on getting small parts in “The the rent — causes her to is statistically unlikely that comprise the possible but not TV commentators, she leads medicine to HIV-positive 40-Year Old Virgin,” realize she’s made a lot most of you are paranoid, but the probable. emphatic cheers for her side, prison inmates. Then it was “Fred Claus” and of bad choices. Her next I never really trust statistics. Plus, when the manatees but does so with a touch onto Massachusetts to fi nish “Invincible.” bad choice? Making a Either way, the possibility attack en masse on a morning of self-deprecation and a her dissertation. Early reviews are porn film, with her cannot be ruled out. It is when gravity changes disarming brand of charm. It was there that calling her role as a roommate and best certainly unlikely, though, immediately after the glaciers “There’s a sardonic Maddow’s broadcast skills down-and-outer who friend, to raise cash. that it is a problem about arrive in South Carolina, at quality to her, but she’s not began to emerge. Friends turns to porn “the “There’s a lot of which you should be unduly least someone will be ready. mean-spirited,” said Tom urged her to enter a contest heart” (The Hollywood Miri in me,” Banks concerned. Paranoia can have Benedicitas. Rosenstiel, director for the being held by a Holyoke Reporter) of “Zack said. “She might be my its uses, after all. It never Project for Excellence in radio station to find a new and Miri.” And she’s favorite character that hurts to be prepared. Even Comments on this story? E-mail Journalism. “The nastiness on-air personality. With no earning great notices I’ve ever played. She’s if there was no statistical [email protected] is missing. She obviously experience to speak of, she for her Laura Bush, a lovable loser, just a knows how to connect with auditioned and was hired with Variety’s Todd little lost in life. She’s her audience.” on the spot. She thrived in McCarthy saying her so lost that she doesn’t And behold her motto: the job and in 2004, “Air performance “goes realize she’s in love with “Mind over chatter,” a fi rm America” lured her away. a long way toward her best friend. That’s rebuttal to the obnoxious As an athlete, the 5-foot- clarifying the close lost. I responded not shouting matches that 11 Maddow likened herself marital bond” between to the title, which is plague cable television. As a to Eddie the Eagle, the the president and his catchy, yes, but to the rule, only one guest appears gung-ho, fish-out-of-water wife. romance.” on Maddow’s show at a time, Olympic ski jumper who “They’re a good But the part she thereby cutting down on the soared into the hearts of match,” Banks said of “fought for?” That would din. fans despite a glaring lack the First Couple, which be the villainous turn in “I’m just trying to pay of talent. Now, she sees she and Josh Brolin “The Uninvited.” back the universe,” she said some similarities in her TV play from courtship “Delicious,” she said. of the show’s gift of less persona. during George W.’s “I wanted to show that gab. “In a way, I think viewers drinking years through I could do it. Very That doesn’t mean identify with me because I most of their White ‘Hand That Rocks the Maddow runs from a fi ght. seem real,” said the woman House days. “They Cradle,’ that character She admittedly loves to who refers to herself as a complement each other. (a wife who menaces the argue (“Going toe-to-toe “total dork.” “Everyone had They’re very yin and teenage daughter of her and hashing things out is the idea that they could do 700 Gervais St. yang. Not everybody new husband). You’re fun”), and one of her favorite what Eddie did on the ski Tickets at www.etix.com gets together with their not sure of her motives, foes is arch-conservative ramp and I think there’s 93.5 Presents “Friday Night Live” equivalent. He makes not sure of her past. 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Swimming, diving teams get feet Olson not only performed well in her specialty, the 100 fly, but she also posted wet, fi nd some encouragement in a solid time in the 200 fl y, swimming well enough for a second place fi nish. She then Friday’s UNC losses helped lead the relay team that fi nished fi rst in the women’s 400 medley relay. Michael Aguilar Part of that 400 medley relay team was SPORTS EDITOR redshirt junior Sharntelle McLean . McLean spent all of last year training to qualify for Swimming and diving were the last of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She competed for the fall sports to debut last Friday. The Trinidad and Tobago, the place of her birth. Gamecocks opened at home against tough McLean gave UNC some stiff competition competition, facing off against No. 12/14 by fi nishing only one hundredth of a second UNC . The Tar Heels had already lost to behind UNC’s Rebecca Lane. McLean also Georgia on both the men’s and women’s side took third in the 100 freestyle. but appeared as though they weren’t ready to Moody did take plenty of positives away have a repeat loss to USC. from the meet, including the steps that the Although three Carolina divers qualifi ed team has taken versus the 2007-2008 team. for NCAA Zone competition, the Gamecocks “Nicholas Walkotten was really good for us could not muster enough to beat the Tar in the 100 fl y,” Moody said. “And it was good Heels on either the men’s or women’s side. to see Kyle Cormier and Sharntelle McLean The women lost 176-124, and the men back in action for us. Andrew Atzhorn had a dropped their meet 184-115. great 200 IM. So there were a lot of bright “I’m never happy with losing,” USC spots, but until we can build some more coach McGee Moody said. “But looking depth, we have to get better in some spots. at individual performances, we had several We’ve got to bring in another solid recruiting that swam really, really well. We were very class. That said, this team has made huge competitive, but North Carolina just has a strides. They are light-years ahead of where lot more depth than we do. They have a very they were last year. The kids are excited and strong program, and Coach [Rich] DeSelm is driven to succeed, and that’s what we want making them better and better every year. It moving forward.” will be fun to swim them on a regular basis.” The Tar Heels more or less dominated the Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@mailbox. meets. However, Carolina did see success sc.edu in some areas. Specifically, USC women’s diving showed that it has the potential to compete with anyone in the nation. Senior Nicholas Walkotten showed that he hasn’t lost any time from last season’s All-SEC form by taking the 100 butterfl y and swimming a strong butterfly leg in the 400 medley relay to give the Gamecocks second place. Several freshmen also performed well for the Gamecocks, specifi cally Lindsey Olson who won the 100 fl y. On the boards, Carolina depended on the strong performances of sophomore Taryn Zack , freshman Helen Alvey and junior Allison Barr , who fi nished fi rst, second and third respectively in the one-meter dive. Zack took fi rst place in the three-meter dive. Barr fi nished second in the three-meter dive and Alvey took fourth. All three of the divers posted NCAA Zone-qualifying scores with their dives. Senior Amanda Dunnigan had a respectable performance as well. Dunnigan posted three second place fi nishes and, most impressively, shaved a second and a half off of her previous personal best in the 100 breaststroke. “I was very proud of the way Amanda swam tonight,” Moody said. “To get a PR in the fi rst meet of the season just shows how far Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK she’s come.” Carolina swimmers, below, and freshman diver Ryan Kuser, above, prepare to dive in their opening meet against the UNC Tar Heels last Friday.

Visiting Memphis rains COME TO THE NEXT Volleyball bounces on Gamecocks’ parade Home Game back against Auburn OCT. 29 Carolina follows leaders’ for the set and recorded Soccer drops home decision save. The Gamecocks again made it three aces. interesting in the 67th minute when examples for road trip However, the momentum 2-0 to Tigers, fails to Stephen Morrissey missed a shot, USC VS. UAB win against rival squad did not carry over to the capitalize on shot opportunities and then Blake Brettschneider made second set as Auburn came an attempt but had his shot saved, AT out and dominated Carolina James Kratch too. On the ensuing possession, Jeff THE DAILY GAMECOCK while the Gamecocks were Chaz Brown Scannella had an open break and 7 P.M. unable to get any offense THE DAILY GAMECOCK a nice pass, but the following shot The USC Volleyball going. The Tigers, led by missed as well. team bounced back from Kelly Fidero’s five kills in Playing in the rain can sometimes Memphis put the game away in the Memphis player was driving down an early week loss to the frame, hit .600 as a team be fun. Playing catch-up in the rain 77th minute. After an inbound pass, the right side at what looked like a national powerhouse Florida and registered five blocks for 87 minutes, not so fun. The men’s Ryan Ruble made a quick pass to one-on-one situation, but Traynor this past Sunday. They in the set as Auburn won soccer team had to do both in a 2-0 Parker Duncan, who made a short kick came out of nowhere to make a slide salvaged the road trip on the set 25-13, their largest defeat handed out by Memphis on into the right side of the net for the save, kicking the ball out of bounds. the strength of sophomore margin of victory for a set Friday night. Michael Coburn drilled fi nal tally. After the Tigers fi nished Traynor got up and yelled “Let’s Megan Laughlin’s 14 kills on the season. a free kick into the upper left portion celebrating, the Gamecocks applied go Gamecocks!” and the offense and double-doubles from USC regrouped heading of the net past a diving Jimmy Maurer pressure, forcing three consecutive responded with a couple of shots on sophomore Hannah Lawing into the third set and jumped to put the Tigers up 1-0 in the third corner kicks, but Memphis’s defense goal. But they still couldn’t hit the and juniors Ivana Kujundzic out to a 7-3 lead early on. minute in what proved to be the again held strong and did not allow back of the net. and Bridget Denson- Auburn would close to 12-10, winning score, pushing Memphis’s any shots. Memphis tried to make it 2-0 before Dorman. The team defeated but Carolina would go on a record to 5-8 (3-2) in their third South Carolina entered the locker halftime when Ruble had a wide-open conference rival Auburn in 9-2 run from there to take a consecutive conference victory. room in unfamiliar waters. No, the shot on the right side, but Maurer four sets, 25-11, 13-25, 25- nine point advantage, 21-12. The Gamecocks remained winless locker room was not fl ooding because had a fantastic save tipping the ball 18, 25-17, improving their The Tigers would fi ght back since Oct. 4, falling to 6-5-2 (1-2- of the rain, but they had not trailed at over the goal for his only save of the season record to 15-4 with a to 21-15, but Carolina was 1). Memphis’ defense held strong, halftime all season. The Gamecocks half. Maurer fi nished with three saves 7-3 mark in SEC play. able to take over from there, only allowing 10 shots on goal, and encountered other unfortunate fi rsts on the game on Memphis’s six shots. The Gamecocks took winning the set 25-18. goalkeeper Michael Goodlett made on this gloomy night. Memphis’s South Carolina had 10 shots on goal the attack to the Tigers The fourth set once again fi ve saves in his second shutout of the victory was their first ever against and attempted nine corner kicks. (5-16, 0-10) right out of saw the Gamecocks take season. USC did not make it easy on USC in men’s soccer. The loss was The Gamecocks hope to get back the gate, jumping out to control, jumping out to 5-1 Goodlett with several opportunities also the first time the Gamecocks on track as they travel to Huntington, a commanding 18-7 lead and 12-6 leads. The USC to tie the game, but they could not have suffered defeat at Stone Stadium W.Va. to face Marshall on Saturday at minutes into the first set lead was as large as nine put it in. all year. 7 p.m. in C-USA action. and fi nishing the frame on points, 16-7, but once again In the 32nd minute, Kevan While the team looked quite a 5-0 run to close at 25-11, Auburn was able to turn it Hawkins drove down the field and discouraged late in the game, Will handing Auburn its worst around, going on a 7-2 run fired a shot that bounced off of Traynor did his best to fire up the Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@ set loss of the year. Carolina to pull the score to 18-14. Goodlett, Sam Arthur rebounded Gamecocks. In the 65th minute, a mailbox.sc.edu had a .357 hitting percentage and shot, but the goalie made another VBALL ● 9 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008 PAGE 9

VBALL ● Continued from 8 to go along with her 14 kills. Women’s soccer But it wasn’t enough, as The Gamecocks will Carolina closed on a 7-4 host in-state rival South run to take the set and the Carolina State at 7 p.m. match. Thursday at the Volleyball loses two on road Kujundzic finished Competition Facility in with 11 kills and 13 digs , Columbia before hitting while Lawing had 10 the road again this Gamecocks drop two decisions in tough kills and 12 digs for her weekend for matchups trip to Alabama, Auburn; off ense fi rst double-double of the with Georgia and LSU. year . Denson-Dorman sputters, fails to score over weekend had 39 assists and 10 digs . Laughlin , returning from Comments on this story? E-mail a leg injury, had three aces [email protected] Michael Aguilar would tap the ball into an SPORTS EDITOR empty USC net from the 6-foot line to take Auburn It was a long weekend to a 1-0 lead. Frierson GGOO TTOO TTHEHE HHOMEOME FFOOTBALLOOTBALL GGAMEAME for Gamecock athletics. would strike again in the No team knows that like second half . After a foul NNOV.OV. 1 the women’s soccer team. 20 yards from the goal, she After a strong home stand struck the ball past Patton against Ole Miss and into the upper right hand Mississippi State, USC corner of the net. had a rough road trip in The weekend was a long VS. the state of Alabama. one for the Gamecocks. The phrase “stars They failed to fi nd a way fall on Alabama” graces to score against two SEC Alabama license plates, but West teams, and that Carolina’s main concern inability handed USC its over the weekend was that fi rst two losses following a 7 P.M. its shots weren’t falling three-game win streak. into the back of opponents’ The Gamecocks return Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK nets. USC was shut out home Thursday for a USC fans cheer on the team during its loss to LSU on Saturday. N over the whole weekend, game against LSU. The O EESPN2SPN2 with the Gamecocks Tigers currently are falling to Alabama on ranked first in the SEC @ UUSCSC fansfans sstilltill hhaveave Friday 1-0 and to Auburn West and would be a big on Sunday 2-0. win for Carolina, a team The Crimson Tide that is struggling to stay scored in the 17th minute competitive in a strong pplentylenty ttoo bbragrag aaboutbout off of a corner kick SEC East. that Rosaly Petriello volleyed over redshirt Tailgating, packed stadium, excited fans provide sophomore Mollie Patton ’s Comments on this story? E-mail outstretched hands for a [email protected] unique environment for Carolina football faithful goal. That shot and a shot in the seventh minute by Alabama constituted a Despite this weekend’s experience as a select few OME TO THE NEXT third of the Tide’s total C loss, there is still plenty to have taken the responsibility shot count. HHomeome GGameame be optimistic about in terms for planning an impressive The story of the rest of the overall wellbeing of pregame in hopes of of the game was missed Gamecock football. Sadly, providing lasting memories CT chances for Carolina. O . 23 Saturday was yet another for hundreds of people. The Gamecocks outshot example of how our team No matter what arguments Alabama by a count of 20- can play with the best some fans have, we also VVSS 6. However, USC could UUSCSC . LLSUSU competition in the country, benefit from a successful not capitalize. It was these only to let the ticketing system. At nearly 2 AT missed chances that made victory slip p.m. on Saturday, I realized the huge difference in the away as the that I forgot to claim my P M game. Carolina’s offense 7 . . second half ticket but was able to use could obviously beat comes to a the on-demand period just the Tide to the goal but close. hours before kickoff to get could not fi nd the back of Though into the game. the net. the majority Once in the game, our “It was a game of of fans are JAKE LUCE stadium boasts one of the missed opportunities,” probably Th ird-year best atmospheres in the USC coach Shelley frustrated sport and entire country. Williams- Smith said. “Give credit beyond entertainment Brice is impressive and management to Alabama. We limited explanation, if the Gamecocks could student their chances, but they I would like manage to win some of the put one away. We had to do my best to instill a potential upsets, it would several chances to put positive outlook despite be considered one of the one on the scoreboard continuous disappointment toughest places to play. but couldn’t get it. I on the fi eld. Our team has the ability thought we did well First, I would like to to go into any game against making decision when emphasize that we are a any opponent in the country we had opportunities.” small minority of college and play at their level. It The theme would students who have the may be frustrating when it continue Sunday as USC privilege of witnessing is at the level of Wofford fell to the Auburn Tigers top-quality football on a or UAB, but when the without scoring a goal . consistent basis. Though Gamecocks compete with Alabama certainly isn’t as fans we must endure the likes of Georgia, LSU known for its stingy heart-wrenching losses at and other top schools it is defense, allowing nearly the expense of national extremely impressive. two goals per game. championship contenders, Despite the frustration However, Auburn sits at we still have a top-tier and disappointment that fifth in the conference football team. we often leave with on in goals allowed. The Think of how much we as Saturdays, it cannot be Tiger defense certainly students benefi t from South denied that South Carolina showed its stripes against Carolina playing stiff SEC football is entertaining. Carolina. competition on a weekly Whether it’s trying to upset Auburn held Carolina basis. the defending national to 10 shots, four below When there is a quality champions or ruining the its average on the season. SEC battle being played at title hopes of conference USC outshot Auburn in Williams-Brice Stadium, foes we should appreciate the first half, but only thousands of students the college football Auburn would find the and alumni from other experience that we are so back of the net. top universities travel to proud of. In the 26th minute Columbia for a weekend of Auburn’s Katy Frierson fun. The scene at Five Points intensifies as supporters banter back and forth about team supremacy in a vocalized battleground. Already this year fans have migrated from Georgia and LSU, creating an atmosphere unique to college football. A home tailgate against a top team in the country can be a one-of- a-kind experience that a very limited number of universities can offer. Fans socialize for hours before the game whether it is with family or friends, and this social opportunity would never be available if we didn’t have a team worth cheering. I for one have been thoroughly satisfied with this year’s tailgating PAGE 10 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2008

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