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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 VOL. 107, NO. 14 ● SINCE 1908 RREMEMBERINGEMEMBERING SSEPTEMBEREPTEMBER ‘I still consider Mr. Pat to be a hero’ USC student remembers crack jokes and acted as a fi xture For the next four days, neighbor killed at his at every community cookout, The Daily Gamecock will Pentagon offi ce Murphy remembers the last examine how students, evening she and faculty, staff and alumni her family spent Chloe Gould were affected by the Richard Pearce / THE DAILY GAMECOCK [email protected] with Dunn, USC students celebrate at last season’s Georgia game. playing cards in horrific tragedy that At the Pentagon on Sept. 11, her kitchen the shocked a quiet nation 2001, eight unborn children were weekend before on Sept. 11, 2001. left without fathers, and those the attacks. GEORGIA STUDENTS children’s eight mothers were left “I’m lucky We hope to provide widows. to have known content that evokes FACE BETTER ODDS Stephanie DeSimone, then DUNN him,” Murphy emotion and discourse Stephanie Dunn, was three said. “And, I’m as America reflects on months pregnant with her lucky to have daughter Alexandria when her gotten the chance to grow up this painful anniversary. AT ROAD TICKETS husband, Navy Cmdr. Patrick with a better understanding of More than anything, we Dunn , was killed on impact the whole situation.” hope the lives lost and Other SEC schools offer students while working in the outermost The news reached DeSimone the families shattered ring of the Pentagon. the evening of Sept. 11, via Navy greater share of away seats Megan Murphy , a third-year Cmdr. Marty Martin , that Dunn by terrorists looking to destroy our country’s Ryan Quinn marketing and insurance and could not been found. [email protected] risk management student, lived “When we got to my row of morale and way of life next door to the Dunn family in townhouses [that afternoon], all are never forgotten. While USC students were allotted 150 a community of townhomes in a of our neighbors were outside tickets to the Georgia away game this weekend, D.C. suburb. — most of them are military In a painful 10 years University of Georgia students received 1,000 “I still remember the face you families — and we were all in which seemingly tickets last season when the Bulldogs played in made when I told you about Mr. waiting around trying to hear nothing stayed the Columbia. Pat and how he passed away,” from people,” Murphy said. same, the United States Both universities are contractually entitled DeSimone said to Murphy. “Everyone had heard from each to 10,000 tickets in each other’s stadium. UGA Dunn, who was one of 125 other, except Stephanie, she has grappled with how students are reserved 10 percent of tickets when people killed in the Pentagon hadn’t heard from Pat.” to protect safety and their team plays in other stadiums, according that day, never had the chance to Murphy and her family privacy. to Tim Cearley, director of ticket operations meet his now 9-year-old daughter attended the Pentagon It has grappled with for UGA athletics. In contrast, USC students Alexandria. Remembered as a ● received 1.5 percent of tickets to the Georgia fun-loving guy who loved to 9/11 2 balancing the tangled interests of a changing game this season. Last week, USC athletics spokesman Steve world with its own Fink said athletics would plan to meet student needs. demand in the future. On 9/11, 2001, America All 150 student tickets for the Georgia game was resolute in shaking sold out within 30 minutes last Friday, the fi rst day they went on sale. All 100 student tickets for grief and anger, shocked the Tennessee game and all 500 student tickets and saddened by a for East Carolina University game also sold out world’s horrors. that day, and droves of students who had shown On 9/11, 2011, where TICKETS ● 2 will this country stand? —Josh Dawsey, Courtesy of arlingtoncemetery.net Editor-in-Chief Cmdr. Patrick Dunn was remembered at Arlington National Cemetery. His wife Stephanie DeSimone (right) mourned her husband’s loss 10 years ago. Dead USC visitor was former student Toxicology report found unresponsive State of the University costs $3,200 set to be completed around 11:30 a.m. in a friend’s dorm room Expenses include chair rental, the marching band, which will perform prior to the within 10 weeks and was declared dead band transportation, refreshments speech, from its campus headquarters to the Horseshoe. Ryan Quinn on the scene. The But this year’s overall budget has signifi cantly decreased [email protected] coroner’s office said from 2010, if you include what USC departments pay each a toxicology report Josh Dawsey other. New details have wouldn’t be completed [email protected] Last year, University Technology Services billed the emerged concerning for eight to 10 weeks. president’s offi ce about $25,000 for sound, technological a former USC student The South Carolina Law support and video editing for his address inside the found dead on campus Enforcement Division is USC can halt its countdown clock, email invites and law school, according to a bill provided to The Daily this weekend. investigating. anticipatory tweets this morning, when President Harris Gamecock Tuesday evening. The total budget for the Richland County Osterkamp’s obituary Pastides delivers his annual State of the University speech speech was just over $26,000. Coroner Gary Watts said states he attended East on the Horseshoe. This year, Luanne Lawrence, USC’s new vice president Daniel G. Osterkamp, Cooper Baptist Church But creating hype for a celebration, and then throwing for communications, chose instead to hire Jim Covington 20, of Mount Pleasant was and is survived by his the fete, costs money. for sound and technological assistance. Covington, who found dead on campus parents, Cindy and Today’s State of the University festivities are expected often produces on-campus events, charged $485. Saturday morning. Lex Osterkamp of Mt. to cost the university about $3,200, according to fi gures “Under Luanne’s direction, we have taken a The Registrar’s Office Pleasant ; his brother, provided by USC’s communications department. different and far more economical approach,” said USC confirmed Osterkamp Brian Alexander That total includes $1,100 for setup and chair rental spokeswoman Margaret Lamb. was enrolled at USC Osterkamp of Mount on the Horseshoe, $500 for refreshments, $500 for The bill shows that UTS charged $1,440 for a camera during spring 2011 Pleasant ; his sister, promotional materials, $110 for fans and decorations and operator, $1,120 for a director and $4,000 for the usage but did not sign up for Ashley Elizabeth $485 for sound. of Final Cut Suite among other charges. An email to the fall. Osterkamp’s Osterkamp of Moncks The university will spend another $480 to transport confi rm the statement with UTS spokeswoman Helen obituary in the Corner ; his maternal Epting wasn’t returned late Tuesday. Charleston Post and grandfather, Donald Pastides’ State of the The speech, which typically celebrates the Courier states he was Allan Smith of Forest, accomplishments of faculty, students and staff, will begin studying classical guitar. Va. ; and several aunts, University Address at 10 a.m. on the Horseshoe. Should it rain, the event will Osterkamp’s body was uncles and cousins. Today at 10 AM on the move indoors to the Russell House Theatre. found in DeSaussure College on the Comments on this story? Comments on this story? Horseshoe. According Visit: dailygamecock.com/ IF YOU GO Horseshoe Visit: dailygamecock.com/news to the coroner, he was news Wednesday City RootsRight to Record UGA Faceoff 81° 61° Columbia’s urban Robert Sinners says The Gamecocks pre- farm grows organic citizens should have pare to take on the vegetables, produce the right to video- Bulldogs in Athens. Thursday for community. tape encounters with police. See page 8 83° 63° See page 5 See page 4 2 Wednesday, September 7, 2011 TICKETS ● Continued from 1 tickets it could have taken, and only 5,500 out of from us,” Arnone said. “Otherwise, we would have 7,500 Tennessee tickets it could have taken. been screwed.” up at the Colonial Life Arena were turned away. “We didn’t take that amount because demand for In case of a repeat of that situation, Arnone Last season, Tennessee reserved its students 219 the tickets was not there,” Lance Grantham, USC’s recommended to Tennessee offi cials that away game tickets when the Vols came to Columbia, more than director of ticket operations , wrote in an email tickets should be sold as early as possible in order to double the amount USC students received for the response. “Sales for both slowed to a crawl before have time to negotiate sending tickets back. Tennessee road game this semester. we released the tickets back to Charlotte and UT Student Ticketing Coordinator Adrienne White As of last week, USC sold out all 10,000 of its to sell, independent of what was held for students.” said most students she sold tickets to last Friday Georgia tickets and all the tickets it accepted for Schools pay face value for seats at opposing came for ECU tickets.