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[email protected]. Sports The Mix Men’s tennis survives Flaming Lips singer tough weekend. directs unusual fi lm. See page 7 See page 5 dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 41 ● SINCE 1908 Fire Prevention Week promotes safety “The number one cause of fi res is cooking Offi cials offer tips, protective and people leaving things on the stove,” measures for apartments, dorms Jenkins said. “You have to be conscious of not leaving things cooking while you’re not home.” Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER Ellison Neese, the president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which is the fraternity that Almost one year ago, the campus of the lost three members to the fi re, said his group University of South Carolina was in a state is cognizant of a need for more education. of disbelief when six USC students and one “Being proactive and working on things Clemson University student were killed in a like fire prevention is definitely important tragic fi re near Ocean Isle, North Carolina.