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mmm United States Gun Cole Stoudt Carving Into Art On IN THIS ISSUE Control Policy I outlook Interview I sports CampUS | TimeOut B1 C1 D1 <8*The NOW PUTT1IK OUTTWICE A WEEK a"""""» look for The Ttyer on Tuesday* and Thur&dauA <mmm October 23,2014 TIGER Established in 1907, South Carolina's oldest college newspaper roars for Clemson volume 108 issue 33 Q/thetigernews Q/@thetigercu © thetigernews. com Sitting down with a standup guy The Tiger speaks with Clemson's honorary homecoming king. Interview by: Britt Jerome glory. I'm never really comfortable Gurley and Jameis Winston. What with it to be honest because you do you expect from your players? The Tiger News (TIN): Is the have all of these people sitting there D& I expect them to appreciate preparation for a night game any looking at you and it's humbling. It's the opportunity and privilege they different than the preparation for a an amazing experience to have the have to be a Clemson tiger and to live noon or afternoon game? opportunity to rub the rock and run their lives in a way that represents this Dabo Swinney (DS): No, down the Hill and to be a part of this program and our brand in a positive the preparation is the same but the tradition that is so special to Clemson light. When they don't do that, we game day routine is different. As far and college football. It never gets old. address it and they know that there are as Sunday through Friday, it's always I'm always thinking about not falling consequences. Just do what is right. the same unless were on the road, in too, just getting down the Hill. which case we do everything a litde TTN: What are you most later in the day. TTN: What is a game day in looking forward to between now the life of Dabo Swinney like? and the end of the season? TTN: With an event as big as DSs The first thing that I do D& Continued improvement. Homecoming, is it hard to keep the when I wake up is have a little quiet I want to keep the momentum and team focused leading up to kicko ff? time, a little devotional time and then keep winning and keep getting better D& They've been pretty good we always have breakfast. When that as a football team. Let's try to have about it. This team has won a lot of is over, we go into meetings and at the very best season we can. Anything games, especially here at home, and some point I'll go back to my room could happen this season, but it's based our boys know that distractions are the and finalize my thoughts and notes. on how we work now. enemy of greatness and we talk about I'll maybe watch some college football how important it is to enjoy being a and then go to chapel and the pregame TTN: What do you want your part of Homecoming and college, but meal four hours before kick-off. We legacy here at Clemson to be? don't get distracted. Stay focus on our do a walk through before we get on D& When my time is up here at job and that is to play. It's important to the bus. I love it when we hit campus Clemson, I want people, whether they keep a good balance, which is why we because you can feel the electricity and liked me or not, to say that I made our participate in Tigerama. the excitement on this campus. After program a better place for athletes and a pregame routine, I meet with the that I impacted my players' lives and TTN: When you're standing on captains and then run down the Hill. the lives of people in the community. the top of the hill and looking out I would like to win a few games along into a sea of orange, what is going TIN: The media has been the way, but I really hope it's more through your head? buzzing lately about the personal about the fact that we build great men D& I just give God all of the lives of high profile players like Todd through our football program. "Night games are fun because you have a whole day of anticipation. During the WHY NIGHT GAMES ARE day it's hot outside, but at night it's cooler, and you get to watch the players under the bright lights," -Christine Williamson, a second year graduate student and assistant for Clemson's Athletic Communications Department. "The ucsi f The crowd is more excited, the students are louder man) I) gone and the hype is greater. We have to be at the stadium two hours before the game starts. When we have a lovev noon game I have to get up and go into wor nosphere on gamedays for a night game, I get to sleep in and hang out with emson • friends before heading over to the stadium." the no s to be -Hannah Burleson, a second year graduate student Hit and irning a masters in Human Resource Development evening with an Athletic Leadership concentration Compiled by: Evan Senken | Graphic Design by: Ciara Hautau ^\ please recycWXwL TIGER m~+ First Copy Free » • please recycle THE TIGER # * First Copy Free *\ please recycle THE TIGER t ^ ^ ^rftfMdMAM* mmm A2* OCTOBER 23, 2014 NEWS THE TIGER CUSG holds candlelight vigil Tigra Scientifica:The Daily Grind Alex Errington other vigils, was an unbelievable feel would be beneficial for Studies show that exercising is linked with tooth erosion. Contributor show of family." Freshman students, no matter their religious Maddison Martin stated that beliefs. Forrest Hemphill, a Savannah Miller dental decay. In this study, a increase in sympathetic nervous Surrounding the Reflection "even though I have only been sophomore who was a senior Contributor group of elite triathletes and a system (SNS) activity. When Pond last night, students here for a semester, the Clemson counselor with Tucker Hipps, matched control group were activated, the SNS induces the lit candles and listened to Family is something so special. said, "it would be nice to have a It is common knowledge evaluated based on different release of epinephrine from Undergraduate Student Body It's one of the reasons why I place where everyone who went that those who exercise dental characteristics. Those adrenal glands that sit on top President Maddy Thompson wanted to come to Clemson there just knew it was a place frequendy take good care of who participated regularly in of the kidneys; epinephrine and President Clements reflect and why I wanted to come of reverence and remembrance. their bodies in order to continue endurance sports displayed accelerates heart rate, raises on the losses that the Clemson here tonight." It was hard to find a place to training; this includes stretching more significant tooth decay, blood pressureand constricts Family has suffered over the years. This vigil was an event that just get out of it all, and with a their muscles, eating healthy erosion and salivary parameters blood vessels. Constricted blood The vigil was organized to honor is part of the Awareness Week chapel on-campus that would be and getting adequate amounts than the control group. vessels in the salivary glands lead the more than 650 students who efforts that are being put on by a safe place for a lot of people." of sleep. But how often would During periods of to decreased salivary activity; passed away before graduation the Clemson Student Memorial President Clements stressed you guess they think about inactivity, neither the control this means during exercise there since Clemson University was Chapel &C Garden Committee. the importance of reaching out their teeth before performing? group nor the triathletes is less saliva production, and the founded. A special emphasis Along with CUSG, this when you need help, "because The Scandinavian Journal of experienced differences in mouth becomes dry. During was placed on the four students committee is working to raise there are a lot of people going Medicine and Science in Sports saliva flow rates or salivary pH. exercise the body uses water the Clemson Family has lost awareness and funds for the through some rough times suggested in a study published Researchers first hypothesized and electrolytes in chemical this semester, Virginia Gilliam, proposed on-campus chapel. right now." in June that those who exercise that the tooth erosion was due reactions to provide the muscles Andrew O'Neil, Tucker Hipps It will be dedicated to all those To date, over $200,000 has frequendy experience greater to the athletes' consumption with ATP, the body's energy and Kendall Wernet. Family students who have passed before been raised solely from student- amounts of tooth erosion than of acidic sports drinks, but currency. This combination of and friends were present to share reaching graduation and will be led activities. The Clemson those who exercise infrequendy the trial found no association factors causes the pH in the oral stories and memories about located behind Cooper library, University Student Memorial or not at all. This phenomenon between the beverages and cavity to drop, which creates an these students with all those adjacent to the Strom Thurmond Chapel and Garden Committee may be due to the change in severity of the dental erosions. acidic environment, effectively who gathered. Four floating Institute. Dr. Cohen, faculty will have a table on Library pH of saliva that occurs during As the study progressed, it was corroding the teeth.