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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 55 ● SINCE 1908 Friends remembered at vigil

Fraternity, sorority mourn lives lost in Ocean Isle on one-year anniversary

Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER For the fi rst time since the fi re that killed seven of his friends a year ago, Tripp Wylie returned to Ocean Isle Beach yesterday. Wylie, who survived of the fi re, said the trip aided the healing process. “I felt really comforted this morning there,” Wylie said. “Those seven people were with me today, and they helped me get some closure.” Wylie, a third-year fi nance student, was one of more than a hundred students who gathered Tuesday night in the backyard of the Delta Delta Delta sorority house for a candlelit vigil to remember the USC Leah Roble / THE DAILY GAMECOCK students lost in the fi re. The sorority decided to dedicate a pine tree in memory of their Students gather for a candlelit vigil at the Delta Delta Delta house where Rev. Frank Anderson, right, spoke during a tree dedication. sisters. “It’s just something we did to help president and third-year elementary pastor and the fi rst minister to come to the pray was bittersweet. remember the girls on our anniversary,” education student. sorority house following the fi re, said the Anderson said he vividly remembers said Leslie Coones, the Delta Delta Delta Rev. Frank Anderson, the USC Lutheran opportunity to come back on Tuesday to VIGIL ● 3 RHA undergoes budget trimming Travel, food expenses frozen for association to prepare for potential spending cuts; generates mixed reactions Lindsay Wolfe THE DAILY GAMECOCK

The Residence Hall Association received news last night that its spending for food and travel will be frozen. Ben Forsche, the graduate advisor to RHA who delivered the news, said the hold is proposed for the rest of the school year. Forsche, a higher education and student affairs graduate student, said that the RHA’s end-of-year budget, which required an allocation of $170.75 and included food, was approved to go forward. However, future smaller events involving food or travel may not be approved. The freeze, which was instated by Student Affairs Vice Keri Goff / THE DAILY GAMECOCK President Dennis Pruitt, is an attempt to be proactive about budget cuts proposed for the next school year, Forsche said. Kyle Petersen, left, representing and Alex Stroman, right, representing debate Vice President Joe Saglimbeni, a fi fth-year criminal justice student, said he suggests that concerned senators should “stay on your job” by hosting focus groups, giving resident surveys and drafting friendly resolutions addressing their concerns. Students debate election issues “Don’t lose focus and don’t get discouraged,” Saglimbeni said to the Senate. “It’ll be okay. It’s just money.” but focused primarily on issues related to college students such Leaders of College Republicans, Democrats discuss Saglimbeni said everyone is “kind of feeling hurt.” as college education, taxes and the economy. “I don’t really see the big deal of just holding off spending on The event was set up much like a presidential debate party stances, compare candidates’ positions food and travel for a week while we give the people that know with the moderator presenting questions to the candidate’s what they’re talking about a chance to fi gure out what we’re at Gamecock Leadership Society event representatives who had a response and rebuttal period. going to be doing,” Saglimbeni said. Brian Roche , the Leadership Society external affairs Ami Emery, a second-year biology student and the senate’s Michael Ulmer director, said he organized the event that brought together the THE DAILY GAMECOCK national communications coordinator, said the freeze on travel two student groups to debate. spending will not affect the coming South Atlantic Affi liate of “We wanted to put on this event to raise student awareness College and University Residence Halls conference because Representatives from the College Democrats and College about each candidates’ stances on the things that will directly travel is being backed by fundraising. Republicans sparred over election issues last night in the impact them,” said the second-year business student. “The RHA President Jaime Shook was not at Tuesday’s Senate Russell House Theatre in a debate sponsored by the Gamecock leadership in America will drastically change for at least the Leadership Society. The debate dealt with a range of topics, DEBATE ● 3 BUDGET ● 3 Ark. school shooting leaves 2 students dead, 1 injured

University offi cials, students say they feel safe after Sunday night’s shootings near the Arkansas Hall “It does not seem at this time that it was a random act,” dormitory. Police said offi cers were seeking four suspects said campus police Lt. Preston Grumbles. despite violence, attack shocks community but said there was no continuing threat to the 12,500-student Swindle said two people were questioned overnight but campus 30 miles north of Little Rock. that no arrests were made. One suspect was pulled over by Jon Gambrell Campus police Lt. Rhonda Swindle said the dead were police, and another turned himself in at the police station, Th e Associated Press Ryan Henderson, 18, of Little Rock, who lived in Arkansas authorities said. Police said they believed they knew the Hall; and Chavares Block, 19, of Dermott, a UCA student identity of the other two suspects. CONWAY, Ark. — The interim president of the University who lived off-campus. A non-student, Martrevis Norman of The site of the shootings — an alley between Arkansas of Central Arkansas said Monday “our campus is safe” but Blytheville, was shot in the leg but had been released from Hall and the Snow Fine Arts Center — was empty late promised a review of the school’s security measures after two the hospital. Monday morning. One male student wept slightly nearby, people were shot dead near a dormitory. Police said the suspects were all male and from the central President Tom Courtway canceled classes for Monday Arkansas area but were not students. SHOOTIING ● 3

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Campus Crusade for Fun Facts: Christ Prayer meeting 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. Rutledge Chapel Moore School of Business Condom give-a-way • 9: the number of majors in the Moore 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Russell House Lobby 1 School of Business.

Stress Management • 1919: the year the school was founded, 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Greene Street originally called the School of Commerce. Korean Christian Fellow Bible Study • 1973: the year construction on the H. 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. RH, Room 302 William Close Building, the current

Student Senate home of the School of Business, was meeting 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. completed. Jessamine McKeever / THE DAILY GAMECOCK RH, Rooms 322/326 • 1998: the year the Darla Moore School Students play soccer for fun at the Blatt PE Center soccer fi elds Tuesday afternoon. Young Life Girl’s of Business was dedicated. Th is became meeting 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. the fi rst major business school named RH, Rooms 204/lounge after a woman. Young Life Guy’s Bible Local National World Study • 100: the number of countries in which Fewer South Carolina HELENA-WEST HELENA, LONDON — With Iceland, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. counties are in a drought, Ark. — The family of one Pakistan, Hungary and RH, Room 302 business school alumni live. but there are concerns about of two suspects accused Ukraine already clamoring the Upstate where extreme of plotting to decapitate for mountains of cash aid, American Red Cross • 75: the number of fl ags currently fl ying drought conditions persist, black people and assassinate the $250 billion set aside by CPR Class on the building, which represent the the state’s Drought Response Barack Obama said Tuesday the International Monetary 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Committee decided in its the teen disliked blacks Fund to help struggling Leconte, Room 121 diff erent countries of current student, meeting Tuesday. and considered himself nations through the The committee added part of a “master race,” but economic crisis is beginning SAVVY meeting faculty and staff members. Th ese fl ags fl y Chesterfield, Darlington, they doubted the plot was to look puny. 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Hampton, Jasper and serious. China and oil-rich Persian RH Theater on three diff erent sides of the building Beaufort to the growing list Paul Schlesselman, Gulf states should fund the and change as the people representing the of 16 counties that are no 18, had dropped out of bulk of a major boost in the Flying Gamecocks longer in a drought. school and was looking IMF’s bailout pot, Gordon meeting fl ags come and go. Ten cou nt ies rema i n for work, his family told Brown, the British prime 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. classified as being in a The Associated Press at minister who has burnished Gambrell, Room 151 • 160: the number of teachers, scholars severe drought and three their rural Arkansas home his reputation by taking are in moderate drought Tuesday. T hey bel ieved the lead on the financial South Carolina Student and practitioners at the school. conditions. Eight counties he was in Texas when the meltdown, said Tuesday. Legislature meeting remain in the earliest Secret Service arrived Those countries have the 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. stage of drought known as Friday to seize a computer largest currency reserves Nursing, Room 127 — Information from sc.edu incipient. hard drive and notebooks of and therefore should do the Nine counties in the drawings. most, Brown said, without — Compiled by News Editor Liz Segrist northeast corner of the “He just believes that he’s specifying how much more state remain in an extreme the master race,” said his money should be added to drought, state climatologist sister, Kayla Schlesselman, the fund for helping nations Hope Mizzell said. 16, adding that she would whose banking systems Crime Report “There wasn’t signifi cant often argue with him about and currencies are being evidence that would his racial beliefs. “He would battered. warrant a downgrade,” she just say things like ‘white “We must act now. We MONDAY, OCT. 27 Estimated damages: $2,500 said, adding that weather power’ and ‘Sieg Heil’ and must set up the fund as Reporting offi cer: J. Woodfi n forecasts are calling for ‘Heil Hitler.’” quickly as possible,” Brown Breaking and entering motor vehicle, below-normal rainfall in the But she and her father, said to reporters before 11:57 a.m. Leaving the scene of an accident of an area through April. Mike, both said they didn’t heading to Paris for further 1500 Pendleton St. unattended vehicle, 4:50 p.m. Lake Hartwell, the believe he was capable of talks on the crisis with The victim said his laptop was taken out Lot E2, 1400 Wheat St. northernmost lake in a carrying out an attack. French President Nicolas of the trunk of his vehicle. The laptop is a The complainant said an unknown subject chain of three along the “I think it’s just a lot of Sarkozy. black Dell. struck his vehicle on the left side of the Georgia state line, is at a talk. He would never do “I believe it is possible in a Estimated value: $1200 hood while parked at the location. record low level, Mizzell something like this,” his very short period of time to Reporting offi cers: D. Alonzo, R. Dupree Estimated damages: $2,500 said. That has led the Army father said. create an international fund Reporting offi cers: D. Alonzo, R. Dupree Corps of Engineers to Schlesselman is charged that is strong enough to Leaving the scene of an accident of an discuss reducing the amount along with Daniel Cowart, withstand these diffi culties,” unattended vehicle, 4:23 p.m. of water that flows from 20, of Bells, Tenn. with Brown said. “It is in every Blossom Street Garage, 1300 Blossom — Compiled by Halley Nani Hartwell through Lake planning the spree. nation’s interest and in the St. Russell and Thurmond Lake Authorities described the interests of hard working The complainant said an unknown subject downstream to the Atlantic two as white supremacists families in our country and struck her vehicle while it was parked. The Ocean. who met on the Internet every country that fi nancial point of impact was on the passenger side “The inflows into the about a month ago. The contagion does not spread.” read bumper. lakes are so low,” Mizzell charges were made public said. Monday. — Associated Press

Just months from graduation, Mark and four of his fraternity brothers headed to Spring Break. Each night, one would be the designated driver. But on the final night, they decided that the least drunk among them would drive home. Mark ended up with the keys at the end of the night. The next morning, three of the men were dead, and Mark lay in the hospital critically injured and facing three felony counts of manslaughter. Instead of being the first in his family to graduate college, he would be the first to go to prison. Alpha Delta Pi & Gamma Phi Beta Present MARK STERNER DUI: A Powerful Lesson TONIGHT 7:00 P.M. Russell House Ballroom Free Admission The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 PAGE 3

● VIGIL Continued from 1 DEBATE ● Continued from 1 policies though are just SHOOTING ● Continued from 1 grounds in flak jackets BUDGET ● Continued from 1 not that good. Plus with a and blue jeans. the “somber chaos” that next four years as a result of Democratic Congress it will signs of blood still visible Courtway said classes meeting because she was engulfed the Greek Village this upcoming election.” be very hard for McCain to on the sidewalk. would resume Tuesday. meeting with President one year ago. Alex Stroman, a second- get much done.” Student T.J. Frix of “This is just an awful Pastides and other student “There was so much year political science student, As far as an Obama Russellville said he heard tragedy. It’s the worst organization heads about misinformation being represented the College presidency, Stroman said he fi ve gunshots as he studied thing that can happen the budget cuts. spread. People were saying Republicans. Stroman said respected Sen. Obama, but for a communication exam on a college campus,” some had died when they he’s supporting McCain knows he’ll take the country in his Arkansas Hall dorm Courtway said. “We hadn’t, and people were because of the senator’s in a direction different from room. He dismissed the have to start looking at saying some were alive Comments on this story? character. what he wants. noise at fi rst. everything.” when they weren’t. Every E-mail [email protected] “He represents so much of Josh Geiger, a second-year “You don’t expect to time CNN came on with what is right with America and public relations student, said hear gunshots,” he said. coverage of the fi re, no one has plans for where America he is supporting McCain in “I was like, ‘Maybe it’s knew anything,” Anderson needs to go,” Stroman said. the election. just fi reworks.’” said. “It was devastating.” “Plus, he’s the champion “There are different But soon, two One year later, Anderson of the little guy with less things here and there that bleeding men lay in the said he urges the students government intervention, and differentiate them, but hallway right outside involved to “continue he has the experience to lead McCain’s plan for Iraq and his his dorm room. Frix excelling and to bring the country.” support for the military are said he saw Norman meaning to the lives of the Kyle Petersen, a fourth-year what I like best about him,” writhing on the floor seven lost in the fi re.” English and political science Geiger said. “The debate in pain from his leg “It’s dangerous to be an 18 student, represented the tonight should have helped wound. Two resident or 19-year-old,” Anderson College Democrats. Petersen clear things up for those that advisers immediately said. “Not all decisions are said he is voting for Obama are undecided. “ began to perform CPR good, and not all places are because he has always been a Breanna Henley, a first- on the other man before safe. It’s not about blaming Democrat at heart. year biology student, said she paramedics rushed into anyone, but it’s just an “I’ve read a lot of books and was very interested in what the dorm, Frix said. awareness thing.” learned as much as I could and Obama’s representative had “I think they’re A few weeks ago, Wylie just saw the Democrats suited to say. trained for stuff like took his newest Sigma Alpha me more,” Peterson said. “Barack’s message and his that, and you could Epsilon pledge class on a Stroman said he thinks plans are better in my mind. tell,” Frix said. retreat. He said his biggest McCain’s tax plan will help He’s stable minded and I Swindle lauded the challenge to his pledge class college students more than actually trust him more,” resident advisers’ quick was for them to establish Obama’s. Henley said. “I wanted to action. relationships with more “He wants to make fi nancial learn too though about what They “performed people. aid easier to get,” he said. “In McCain’s person had to say.” CPR at some point and “You need to look at the contrast to Obama, he’ll help Dan Sabia, chair of the did not hesitate to do person next to you and see if students more by helping their Department of Political so,” the lieutenant said you have a good relationship parents, especially through Science, moderated the debate. to reporters at a news with them,” Wylie said. “I his tax cuts. He wants to give He said he believes Obama conference. “They knew the seven, and that people a hand-up instead of a would win the presidency stepped up to the plate made it easier to deal.” hand out.” based on the media’s research and helped our offi cers In the dining room of As far as Obama’s plan but was unsure if as many tremendously.” the Delta Delta Delta for education, Petersen expected college students The campus was house, a frame hangs with said Obama has a more would show up to vote. quiet Monday morning. a poster from St. Jude’s comprehensive plan. Earlier, police cruisers Hospital, the soroity’s “He’ll get more teachers in Comments on this story? E-mail circled its quiet streets, official philanthropy. the classroom, improve the [email protected] and offi cers roamed the Dozens of children from the quality of our teachers and hospital signed the poster will also raise standards,” encouraging the grieving Petersen said. “He’s got students following the a fully thought out plan tragedy last year. from Pre-K all the way to “And now these three higher education.” Petersen things remain: faith, hope said he is very pessimistic and love,” the poster reads about a possible McCain from 1 Corinthians 13. “And presidency. the greatest of these is love.” “Candidates rarely actually say what they’ll Comments on this story? E-mail actually do in office,” he [email protected] said. “The Republican’s PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008

Americans should stay EDITORIAL BOARD Editor Managing Editor wary of low BRAD MAXWELL CALLI BURNETT Copy Desk Chief Assistant Copy Desk Chief fuel prices AMANDA DAVIS PAUL BOWERS News Editor Sports Editor LIZ SEGRIST MICHAEL AGUILAR

Despite low gas costs, Th e Mix Editor Viewpoints Editor summer pump pains COLIN JONES JOSH RABON Design Director Photography Editor should be remembered ELIZABETH HOWELL CHRISTINE GALLIGAN Do you remember when gas was nearly $4 a gallon and some of us had to make the choice between getting IN OUR OPINION half a tank of gas or getting a case of Bud Light? Although gas prices have Children shouldn’t fallen for 41 THE MCCOLOUGH EXPRESS straight days to a national McCain passes ‘test of mettle’ touch machine guns average just more than a party and giving it free Leader Mitch McConnell There are certain hobbies that fathers pass on to $2.60, and Republican candidate reign over the federal challenged the act in court), prices down their sons: sports, soap car derbies and model planes, BUDDY worthy of maverick government. In voting for but the act represents an to $2.35 in BELLEW McCain, however, one picks attempt by McCain to just to name a few. But is it responsible to pass on a Columbia, title, endorsement Second-year a man unafraid to clash with make forward progress, love of semi-automatic weapons? we should be Yesterday, I was a bit biology either party in fi ghting for even while alienating many hesitant about disappointed when I read An 8-year-old boy died last weekend at a gun fair student what he believes is right. in his party. increasing that The Daily Gamecock Much of McCain’s Or consider one of the in Massachusetts after shooting himself in the head our driving had endorsed Barack record has been obscured many immigration bills with an Uzi semi-automatic rifl e. He was fi ring the habits. As the price of gas Obama. Particularly by Democratic rhetoric proposed or supported by skyrocketed and stayed unsettling is that the weapon in a shooting range and lost control of the and even by misguided McCain, such as the one he consistent over the $3-mark endorsement seems to weapon, with his father and gun instructor just feet Republican campaign proposed in 2005, or the one well after the summer turn into an indictment strategies, but when the he sponsored in 2006, or the away. Now prosecutors are driving season, Americans of the Republican Party, Children should election is over, exaggerated one he supported in 2007 fi nally wised up and looked particularly in Congress, left to decide whether or claims made on the — all with support from for alternative methods of with a final not have access not legal action is possible campaign trail will give way across the aisle and with transportation. Not only plea to to real action as our elected considerable opposition or prudent. did we stop buying gas- “see what to semi-automatic offi cials get back to work. from within his own party This wasn’t a case of a guzzling SUVs and demand the other In this environment, (McCain nearly killed his higher fuel efficiency, but side can weapons, period. child getting his hands on away from the cameras primary campaign with we also started car-pooling accomplish.” and teleprompter, McCain the last bill). Here again, something he shouldn’t and looked for mass But the has proved that he can get McCain put “country fi rst,” have because his parents transportation. Democrats things done, even when rather than party. Even the citizens of the PEYTON now have weren’t around to stop him. Supervising adults MCCOLLOUGH that involves going against Last week, Sen. Joe Biden rural and suburban parts their turn were there — his father and an instructor gave his fellow Republicans. spoke of a “generated crisis” of upstate South Carolina First-year in Congress For those aware of the designed to “test the mettle” him permission to use the gun, in public no less. If demanded better mass political and if they disparity between campaign of Obama. I think he’s on to transportation resources science are able to nothing less, they were irresponsible. It is one thing promises and reality, this is something. America faces in order to cut the cost of student increase their to pass on hobbies to a child — but to put a semi- comforting. crises all the time, and in transportation. majorities One doesn’t have to a way, they serve to “test automatic weapon in a young child’s hands is idiotic This common sense in both houses, as they look far for examples of the mettle” of our elected and negligent. approach to the sky-high expect to do, then they will McCain’s commitment officials. McCain knows gas prices along with falling certainly play a substantial Allowing a young child, whose decision-making to finding solutions. For this, and during his tenure prices in oil have shown role in policy-making, example, take the Bipartisan of service, whether as a lies in the responsibilities of the adults around him, the big-wig CEOs that regardless of who occupies Campaign Reform Act of sailor or legislator, he has to handle a dangerous weapon is not only dangerous Americans will not stand the Oval Offi ce. 2002, cosponsored with faced several crises, large to be extorted for their last It’s a big mistake to to the child, but also to every one else at the fair. In Democratic Sen. Russ and small. Although he’s penny. dismiss John McCain addition, the instructor should have known that the Feingold. Some of the been dealt many blows in The only concern that simply on the basis of party. act has been struck down the process, figuratively fi repower of the weapon was much greater than the I have now is that many In voting for Obama, one (interestingly enough, and literally, the maverick people will forget the lessons may very well be picking strength of an 8-year-old. current Senate Minority has passed them. learned during this rough This sad story should remind everyone of one summer and resort back to thing, if nothing else: Children should not have our old habits. Hopefully, access to semi-automatic weapons, period. Americans will not forget that while we struggled to fill our tanks, we also Shades look ridiculous on neck had problems paying for CORRECTIONS essentials like milk and eggs. If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know about because they had to wear However, it is absolutely Our movement towards Croakies for boating, it. E-mail us at [email protected] these strings to keep their absurd to wear these energy conservation and not campus; fashion glasses on while they were ridiculous looking things reduced demand on fossil playing sports. I always felt while walking around fuels will inevitably reduce trend not practical ITʼS YOUR RIGHT sorry for them. So, imagine campus. Though I know the price of groceries and USC has many strict my surprise when I came to there is always the risk of help out the people who requirements — decorative Voice your opinion on message boards at www.dailygamecock.com a city just four hours south “juking” yourself out at or send letters to the editor at were hurt most by the gas rain boots, Costa Del [email protected] of me where it is considered the sight of an oncoming crisis — the working class. Mar Sunglasses, Sperrys, cool to wear this socially bicycle or Segway, I can An even bigger impact palmetto tree belts, destructive apparatus. assure you that your About The Daily Gamecock of our alternative sources obscenely short shorts and Even those of us with sunglasses can withstand Editor of transportation was Rainbow fl ip-fl ops. CONTACT INFORMATION poor vision cannot avoid even the most awkward BRAD MAXWELL Offi ces located on the third fl oor of the Russell House the reality that each of Obviously, Managing Editor the sunglasses-eating “spaz out” atop your head Editor: [email protected] us can contribute to the I am not CALLI BURNETT News: [email protected] worms draping around sans Croakies. Copy Desk Chief Viewpoints: [email protected] conservation of our planet. talking AMANDA DAVIS Th e Mix: [email protected] our peers’ necks. Okay, so Now, at times, I can Sports: [email protected] Our willingness to get more about the Assistant Copy Desk Chief maybe they don’t really forgive those of you campus PAUL BOWERS Public Relations: [email protected] fuel efficient vehicles and university’s Online: www.dailygamecock.com look like a worm eating Croakie wearers who Design Director Newsroom: 777-7726 by cutting down on our academic ELIZABETH HOWELL Sports: 777-7182 a pair of sunglasses, but choose to go with a neutral individual use of cars, we requirements Assistant Design Director Editor’s Offi ce: 777-3914 they do look ridiculous. design for your eyeglass A.J. BIKOWSKI Fax: 777-6482 have made a significant for News Editor There is no practicality hosiery. Your sunglasses are stride in becoming a part RACHEL admission, LIZ SEGRIST in the contraption known not going to be offended Assistant News Editor MOORES, MARIN MUELLER The Daily Gamecock is of a world-wide effort to cut WRIGHT but instead KARA APEL as Croakies — unless of if you don’t attach them Public Relations Director the editorially independent down on global warming. of the many Viewpoints Editor CAM BYRD student newspaper of the Th ird-year JOSHUA RABON course you are a 4—year— to your neck with Vera Assistant PR Director University of South Carolina. The biggest reason why we English fashion Assistant Viewpoints Editor CHRISTINA STRITZINGER old unable to wear contacts Bradley or Palmetto Tree It is published daily during should embrace our attitude student requirements DARREN PRICE Graduate Assistant while playing basketball. decorated straps. A simple Th e Mix Editor JESICA JOHNSON the fall and spring semesters towards fuel effi ciency and to be a good, I could totally understand red, cream or black would COLIN JONES Student Media Director and nine times during the energy conservation is the conforming Assistant Mix Editor SCOTT LINDENBERG summer with the exception of if a person was wearing do just fi ne. I really prefer message that we send to the Gamecock student. I must ELLEN MEDER Faculty Adviser university holidays and exam them while running, not to be distracted during Sports Editor ERIK COLLINS periods. Opinions expressed oil companies. We should admit that I never thought MICHAEL AGUILAR Creative Director in The Daily Gamecock are boating, fishing or doing class trying to figure out EDGAR SANTANA show them that we will not I would fall into the trap Assistant Sports Editor those of the editors or author some type of activity that what kind of insane looking MICHAEL BAUMANN Business Manager back down, and we will no of buying a $70 pair of CAROLYN GRIFFIN and not those of the University may result in a loss of those fi sh is printed on the back Photo Editor longer pay more than $3 a boat shoes. However, I CHRISTINE GALLIGAN Advertising Manager of South Carolina. Th e Board precious Costa Del Mar of your neck. Assistant Photo Editor SARAH SCARBOROUGH of Student Publications gallon for gas. If we start am ashamed to admit that sunglasses. I myself would Some may be highly ALAN TAUBER Classifi eds Manager and Communications is buying gasoline like it’s half I did. While I find some Copy Editors SHERRY F. HOLMES the publisher of The Daily never haphazardly place offended by my Croakie EDDIE MANN, MEGAN Gamecock off Under Armour gear, of these “necessities” Production Manager . Th e Department $150 sunglasses on top bashing, but I simply VANDERSNICK, EMILY AHO, C. NEIL SCOTT of Student Media is then the oil companies will somewhat practical, albeit SARAH LADA, OLIVIA JONES, Creative Services of my head or even over do not understand the the newspaper’s parent KENNY DORIAN, SARAH KEVIN ARCHIE, A.J. The Daily again toy with us and gouge very expensive, there is PETERMAN, LYDIA DISABATINO BIKOWSKI, ASHLEY organization. my eyes while running or concept. Perhaps if Gamecock us for every penny that we one fashion statement I Page Designers BLEWER-BUDNICK, KAILEY is supported in biking without fi rst making someone could give me a are worth. They don’t care simply do not understand MORGAN REID, LIZZIE WARING, LIZZIE WILSON, part by student-activity fees. sure they were attached convincing argument as to ERICKSON, KERYN SENN, TAI VU One free copy per reader. about the price of groceries, — Croakies. to my neck. After all, you their practicality, I would BOBBY SUTTON, TAI VU, Advertising Additional copies may be the environment or even the Before I came to South AMANDA SMITH, ALEX OTT, BEN CRANE, CARLY purchased for $1 each from never know when you’ll turn over a new leaf. Until CAMILLE HOLLEMAN GALLAGHER, JULIE the Department of Student consumer for that matter; Carolina, I thought CANTER, JAYME hit that unexpected bump, then, you won’t see me Staff Writers Media. they just care about their Croakies were called Rec CHRIS COX, JOSH DAWSEY, PIGNTELLO, CANDACE sending the Oakleys fl ying wearing my sunglasses as a HALEY DREIS, JIMMY bottom line and how much Specs. Kids from my REYNOLDS, MEGHAN into oncoming traffi c. necklace. GILMORE, SEAN GRUBER, TANKERSLY, LAUREN they can make off us. town would get picked on DREW LATTIER, KYLE SPIRES, NATALIE HICKS “‘Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.” — William Shakespeare

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 PAGE 5 Films that frighten Horror movies span several spooky genres, enhance Halloween experience

Jimmy Gilmore STAFF WRITER

“Psycho.” “The Exorcist.” “Halloween.” As far as seminal horror movies go, it’s hard to top that trio of terror. But watching them year after year gets a little tepid, so why not try branching out to some of the other best horror fi lms ever made?

The Zombie Movie

Zombies are a pretty acquired taste and something of a lost art; who doesn’t admire a makeup team devoted to dangling limbs and buckets of blood? While it’s tempting to grab that much-triumphed “Night of the Living Dead,” or even its comedic alternate “Shaun of the Dead,” go the middle-ground with Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” and “Evil Dead II.” As far as cheaply produced gore that makes you Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK squirm one second only to laugh the next goes, they are a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og3GjHuNPQY pair of over-the-top masterpieces. clip of the week

The Haunted Ghost story from Portugal creates eerie effect in encounter with mysterious fi gure House Movie Robert Johnson THE DAILY GAMECOCK

A debate over whether the original “The Haunting” or “House on Haunted Hill” best capture the playful terror of After a week of school, students all over can fi nally look forward to their favorite spooky 1950s haunted house movies could probably rage endlessly, holiday Friday. Many of us love the costume parties and cheap haunted houses. Others so turn instead to Stanley Kubrick’s gigantic nightmare have their slasher movies. “The Shining.” Bizarre colors and creepy visuals clash However, there are quick ways to get you in the mood for All Hallows Eve, and among maniacally against Jack Nicholson’s unhinged father- them is YouTube. In fact, there are a surprising number of videos of spooks and ghosts turned-killer, and nothing comes close to topping that on the site. It is easy to assume that they would all be incredibly cheesy, but this isn’t musical score. Though it’s admittedly fl awed and imperfect necessarily true. Some of them are done fairly well, at least for YouTube videos. at times, “The Shining” is still one of the more disturbing This week’s YouTube video is a ghost story that comes from Portugal. It involves three and frightening of modern fi lms. people driving along aimlessly on anonymous roads. The camera is on a night vision setting of some kind. After some time, they start to encounter strange problems with their camera, and a person appears. You can guess what happens from there. Unfortunately, the dialogue is all in Portuguese, but there are poorly translated subtitles. Most of the dialogue just builds up tension, anyway. Anyhow, the fi nal effect is very interesting and perhaps a The Serial Killer little eerie. Movie Comments on this story? E-mail [email protected]

Michael? Jason? Freddy? Yeah, they all have a respectable body count, but that leaves out the most elegant of them all — Hannibal. While it’s sure fun to watch those teenagers get what’s coming to them in all the ‘80s slasher movies, “The Silence of the Lambs” is still one of the best horror movies ever made. Anthony Hopkins is tour de force with every little nuance in his best role, but most people seem to forget about Ted Levine’s utterly disturbing Buffalo Bill.

1 OF MONTREAL Skeletal Lamping Polyvinyl The Monster Movie 2 I’M FROM BARCELONA Who Killed Harry Houdini? Mute 3 THIS MACHINE IS ME Make Your Move 4 NOAH AND THE WHALE Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down Cherry Tree-Interscope Monster movies have traditionally attracted the best B-movie horror creatures, none quite as fun as Universal’s 5 MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA Let My Pride Be What’s Left Behind block from the 1930s and ‘40s. Although many would say 6 DEAR AND THE HEADLIGHTS Drunk Like Bible Times Equal Vision Bela Lugosi’s “Dracula” is the best classic monster on the block, that thoroughly discounts James Whales’s stunning 7 OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW Tennessee Pusher Nettwerk “Frankenstein” from 1933, with Boris Karloff as the Monster. 8 ROSEBUDS Life Like Merge Not to mention famed silent film director F.W. Murnau already came dangerously close to perfecting the subgenre 9 DEERHOOF Offend Maggie Kill Rock Stars all the way back in 1922 with his “Nosferatu,” starring the 10 HER SPACE HOLIDAY Sleep Tigers [EP] Mush thoroughly creepy Max Schreck. 11 REPLACEMENTS Radio Sampler Rhino 12 NIGHTWATCHMAN The Fabled City Epic 13 KARL BLAU Nature’s Got Away K 14 HELLO TOMORROW Au Revoir [EP] Science Fiction 15 JAPANESE MOTORS Japanese Motors Vice 16 AIDS WOLF Cities Of Glass Skin Graft Movie 17 SUBWAYS All Or Nothing Sire-Warner Bros. 18 INNERPARTYSYSTEM Innerpartysystem Island For some reason, horror only gets better when it gets 19 SUBMARINES Honeysuckle Weeks Nettwerk crossed with sci-fi , that other genre of deplorable, gloriously 20 JAY REATARD Matador Singles ‘08 Matador bad movies. While Ridley Scott’s “Alien” will probably always be the most perfect piece of synergy between the 21 MV AND EE WITH THE GOLDEN ROAD Gettin Gone Ecstatic Peace two seemingly disparate genres, John Carpenter’s remake 22 FADED PAPER FIGURES Dynamo Self-Released of “The Thing” is the next best thing; it still stands up as a carefully observed study in group paranoia. Not to mention 23 VALIENT THORR Immortalizer Volcom it has some of the most amazing special makeup effects ever 24 TEAM GENIUS Team Genius Self-Released pulled off, including a head detaching from its body only to spout spider legs. 25 RED CAR WIRE Let’s Never Get Older 26 PHYSICS OF MEANING Snake Charmer Destiny At The Stroke Of Midnight 27 BLITZEN TRAPPER Furr SUB POP 28 SWAYS Happy Days Are Coming BMI Regardless of what your personal favorite kind of horror movie is, pulling anything out of this lineup should guarantee a scream-fi lled Halloween weekend. 29 AWESOME COLOR Electric Aborigines Ecstatic Peace

Comments on this story? E-mail [email protected] 30 NEW FAMILIARS The Storm PAGE 6 The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 McCain, Obama star in comic Presidential candidates depicted carried on that spirited tradition by aiming his illustrated buckshot at conservatives. And ever since the ‘50s, Mad in graphic novels, publisher draws magazine has specialized in political lampoonery of both parties. on long history of political cartoons Yet comic experts agree something more substantial is at work in this rough-and-tumble election, as cartoons Randy Myers refl ect how the 2008 campaign has engaged, outraged and MCT Campus permeated our culture. Four years ago, the likelihood of seeing George W., WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Barack Obama wins the John Kerry or on a comic book cover seemed endorsement of a green, scaly superhero with implausible. Today, nearly all the candidates have been connections and big biceps. cartooned. wields a hockey stick so she can whack at “I can’t imagine anyone lining up to buy a John Kerry the Crypt Keeper and his cronies on a “Tales From the comic,” says Andrew Farago, curator of San Francisco’s Crypt” comic cover. Cartoon Art Museum. Michelle and Barack Obama, caricatured to resemble Certainly, you did not witness a superhero from the knuckle-bumping terrorists, shock and stun normally past backing one of the major candidates. But “Savage staid New Yorker readers. Dragon” — a creation of Oakland’s Erik Larsen — did just Is this politics as usual for comics in an election year? that this year. Not to sound like a waffl ing politician, but the answer Nearly all the major players are in the comics. Hillary appears to be yes — and no. Clinton might have lost the bid for the Democratic “For almost as long as there have been comic books in nomination but she comes up a winner in her own cartoon the , there have been comics about political bio set for release in January. This month, GOP vice fi gures,” says Joe Field, owner of Flying Colors Comics in presidential running mate Palin received the dubious Concord, Calif. distinction of landing on a “Tales From the Crypt” cover, Courtesy of MCT Campus “But this year seems a bit different,” Field said. as a spoof of the disputed claim she banned library books. IDW Publishing has released comic books based on Historically, cartoons have portrayed politicos in a As for Joe Biden — sorry, the comics passed you up. presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain. less-than-fl attering light, artists often needling, chiding Even mainstream strips such as “Pearls Before Swine” and hounding those seeking or already in public offi ce. and “Get Fuzzy” have addressed the election, Farago pains to stick to facts, not innuendos. The writers and Walt Kelly, creator of “Pogo,” delighted in slyly skewering says. researchers relied on verifi able quotes, and even scrapped the likes of and Sen. Joseph McCarthy, The one recent comic receiving huge media buzz is the idea of creating a fi ctitious narrator to avoid taking among others. In the ‘70s, Garry Trudeau’s “Doonesbury” “Presidential Material,” a fl ip book featuring the cartooned any creative licenses. biographies of John McCain and Obama. Released this Dunbier hopes “Presidential Matters,” which has month by IDW Publishing, the 28-page books — each received favorable notices, reaches a broad audience and of which can be bought separately — strive to provide an encourages people to read more about the candidates. unbiased overview of both men. “I really think the audience we’re going for is one who Editor Scott Dunbier said the creative teams took great doesn’t always go into comic book stores,” Dunbier said. A combination of loyal fans coupled with the curious turned the “Dragon” issue with Obama on the cover into a success. It just went into its third printing. Larsen, co-founder of Berkeley-based Image Comics, admits the 16-year-old “Dragon” series gets political at times. One story arc even involved the fi nned superhero — once a Chicago cop — slugging George W. Bush; that is, a George W. imposter. Sales soared. But does taking the bold step of endorsing a candidate alienate potential readers? Larsen doesn’t worry. What about if his man loses? “I actually considered having John McCain win regardless; it makes for a more interesting comic.” Undoubtedly, the most intriguing and most controversial election-themed cartoon came out in the venerable New Yorker. Intended as satire, the July cover featured the Obamas in terrorist garb and touched off a contentious and raucous feud on the Internet. The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 PAGE 7 Inside the Box ◆ By Marlowe Leverette / Th e Daily Gamecock The Scene @USC

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Certainly, being able to live up to the hype has Chris Cox pleased Grimsley. STAFF WRITER “Coming in here with those expectations, you know what you have to do and you put those It’s easy to understand how a player can become aside and you just play,” she said. “If it happens, it egotistical and pig-headed with a closet stuffed of happens, and I think…,” awards, trophies and accomplishments. Grimsley paused, refl ected and let out a subtle In today’s sports world, the level-headed athlete smile, is becoming increasing irregular as media and “ ... it’s happened.” fans boast of players’ virtual immortality. The youngster’s play has clearly paid dividends So naturally, it is refreshing to see for Carolina, as Grimsley has helped guide the Alan Tauber / THE DAILY GAMECOCK freshman women’s soccer player Kayla Gamecocks to an impressive 11-4-4 record with Kayla Grimsley runs onto the fi eld for USC. Grimsley talk about her first year as a one game to play this season. Gamecock with modest words. Despite the team’s recent on-fi eld success, the record that had previously been held by another “I think I’ve done a pretty good job,” program still remains in the background of the freshman Lydia Bienias, who had initially set the Grimsley said. “I think everyone has national spotlight, which was something Grimsley mark in 1998. expectations of everybody, and living embraced during her recruiting. Grimsley also made her mark in nonconference up to those is a hard job. I With being named a Top 75 recruit by Soccer play, as she scored a goal in four consecutive feel like when I came in here Buzz and collecting three consecutive Florida high matches, two of which led Carolina to one-goal I didn’t do too much, but I school Player of the Year awards, it was a head- victories. didn’t do less than what (the scratcher to recruiting pundits when Grimsley According to Grimsley, her play may not have coaching staff) expected of me.” chose Carolina over perennial powers such as been much of a surprise to Smith, who had praised Despite Grimsley’s thoughts on her fi rst Tennessee, Florida State and Miami. the freshman throughout the preseason and regular season with the Gamecocks, the awards “It was just the fact that this is an upcoming season. speak for themselves. program,” Grimsley said. “It’s not a program that “She had seen me play numerous times at In less than two and a half months in a USC was on the top of the map, and it’s not somewhere tournaments and stuff, and she just wanted me uniform, the Lakeland, Fla. native has been that everyone would expect someone to go.” to come in and give what she had seen me do,” named both the SEC Freshman and Offensive In choosing a university that has not tasted much Grimsley said of Smith. “She wanted me to just Player of the Week as well as named to three success on the fi eld, Grimsley has set a mission to give my best and contribute as much as I could to different national teams of the week. change the way the Gamecock soccer program is this team. She wasn’t expecting too much from The most signifi cant of the awards has yet to viewed. me but she knew what I was capable of and wanted come; however, as she is currently a candidate “I want to help this program grow,” Grimsley nothing less than that.” for a spot on both the All-SEC and Freshman said. “I feel like this school and the recruits that are Grimsley and the Gamecocks close out the All-America teams.;“I was hoping (winning awards) coming in have the potential to make this one of regular season on Thursday night when they take would happen. I know what I’m capable of, and the top 10 programs in the country.” on the Florida Gators at Stone Stadium. Game time (USC coach Shelley Smith ) knows what I’m capable Grimsley’s mission is defi nitely being noticed, as is set for 8 p.m., and the match will be nationally of,” Grimsley said. “Being able to go out there and her name is prominently displayed on the stat sheet televised by the Fox Soccer Channel. show everyone what I’m capable of doing was the of almost all of USC’s games. hard part; being able to show up every game.” Grimsley began SEC play this season with a Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@mailbox. Grimsley has done more than show up, as the six-match scoring streak, which tied the USC sc.edu Gamecocks look to scorch Blazers

Men’s soccer looks to take advantage of struggling UAB

Drew Lattier STAFF WRITER The South Carolina men’s soccer team will host a mid- week conference showdown against the University of Alabama-Birmingham Juan Blas / THE DAILY GAMECOCK tonight . The matchup is particularly important for Steve Spurrier has a diffi cult task ahead in Tennessee. both teams involved, as the number of games left before the end of the regular season Berry, Volunteer defense continues to dwindle. The Gamecocks enter the matchup after a promising present challenge for USC victory on the road against Marshall . The win graciously Coach expresses concern over SEC’s best defensive snapped a three game skid in which Carolina dropped two back, Carolina’s inexperience at quarterback games and tied the other . “Every time we play we gain a little bit of confi dence,” Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Michael Aguilar USC coach Mark Berson SPORTS EDITOR Sam Arthur and company streak by Clemson defenders in a win earlier this season. said. “This [the win at USC coach Steve Spurrier has plenty on his mind. Marshall] was a typical hard- He has the best defense in the SEC. His pass attack fought Conference USA “It’s a Wednesday night ways to score. Getting off to the low scoring figure into has managed to develop into the second best in the game.” match against a very good a fi ery start through the fi rst perspective, the Gamecocks SEC by yardage even with spotty play from two young Catching little rest, UAB team,” Berson said. part of the season, USC has scored nine goals in just quarterbacks. With four games left, the Gamecocks could Carolina has been forced In order for the Gamecocks had trouble scoring lately to their first four games this manage an eight-win regular season, a total that would be to quickly prepare for the to succeed against UAB, the the tune of just two goals in season. the most in seven years for USC. midweek conference game. offensive unit needs to fi nd the past four games. To put SOCCER ● 9 However, with all of that on his plate there will be something else haunting the dreams of Spurrier and his two quarterbacks, starter redshirt freshman Stephen Garcia and backup redshirt sophomore Chris Smelley , this Halloween. That something wears Volunteer orange, Spurrier deserves credit for team’s position and his name is Eric Berry . Berry undoubtedly is one of the best defenders in games at Duke, has taken SEC West leader Alabama to the nation. He appears often as the lone bright spot on Those stuck in doom, gloom, turned this team the last possession in Tuscaloosa. a Tennessee team that is currently in a whirlwind of should recognize positives around. The emphatic calls for redshirt an anemic offense, fire Fulmer rumors and a running While the freshman quarterback Stephen back that refuses to do interviews unless they are done of Gamecocks’ season Gamecocks are not Garcia have been heard, and Garcia, speaking pterodactyl. in the SEC title race, along with redshirt sophomore “Eric Berry seems to have a knack for fi nding the ball or It wasn’t very long ago that the team that will Chris Smelley, have both helmed the ball fi nds him,” Spurrier said. “So, as a defensive back everywhere, including inside the JAMES take the field this at various points a vastly improved he gets his hands on it a lot.” pages of this publication, a “sky is KRATCH Saturday at Williams- Carolina offense. Berry does more than get his hands on the ball. He gets falling” mentality was being taken First-year Brice Stadium is The unit still sputters at points; his hands on the ball almost more than any other player in regard to Carolina football, as print remarkably better the line play has been up and down at his position in the nation. Berry is tied for second in many were shouting for lineup journalism than the team that and the run game has yet to develop, Division IA with fi ve interceptions, he accounts for more changes, ridiculing play calling and student struggled to beat but it nevertheless has become than a third of Tennessee’s total interceptions on the even calling for coach Steve Spurrier Wofford at home much more productive in the past season. On top of all that, Berry is tied for the team lead to be relieved of his duties. weeks ago. weeks and taken a burden off the with fi ve pass breakups. There’s an old adage that if you Yes, the team still has weaknesses, heralded defense, even without If you ask Spurrier, some of Berry’s more impressive credit someone for a failure, then and the offense has struggled star receiver Kenny McKinley for plays are the ones that haven’t even made it to the box you also have to acknowledge their mightily at times, but there’s no several games. score. responsibility for success. doubt that USC has turned a corner So that brings us to the fi nal four “It was interesting, that fumble that wasn’t a fumble With that in mind, let it be under Spurrier this fall. games of the 2008 season. The [during last week’s Tennessee and Alabama game],” said — Spurrier, in a coaching job Since the 14-7 loss to Georgia at Gamecocks will be favored in three Spurrier said. “All of the sudden some guy picked it out of possibly more impressive than when home in September , the Gamecocks of them — this Saturday against the wad and it was Berry. He picked it up and ran it in, of he competed for national titles in are 5-3, with two SEC road wins, Tennessee, next week’s homecoming course they called it a non-fumble. But he’s just a heck of Gainesville, Fla. or doing what was including a victory over an Ole Miss SPURRIER ● 9 thought impossible by winning team that has beaten Florida and KRATCH ● 9 The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008 PAGE 9

KRATCH ● Continued from 8 SPURRIER ● Continued from 8 hasn’t been anything to write home about this season, it is Bryan struggles, USC game against Arkansas, a player, either he fi nds the tied for eighth in the league, and the Nov. 28 meeting ball or the ball fi nds him.” neither was LSU’s before it with archrival Clemson in That thought is very racked up almost half of its Death Valley. disconcerting for the total season sacks against ends tourney in Top 20 Assuming the team Gamecock offense. While Carolina. wins those games, USC Carolina has managed to It’s for that reason that will fi nish 8-4, no matter rack up more yards through Spurrier might have Garcia what happens against the the air than anyone in the and Smelley watch a little blame for the uncharacteristic mediocre Younger Bryan brother Gators in two weeks, and SEC other than Georgia, bit more Alabama game tape performance by the Gamecocks. probably will find itself USC also leads the league than he typically would of steps up to lead team, George Bryan IV is the brightest star playing in a quality bowl in interceptions thrown and other opponents. for the Gamecocks this week as he shot fi nishes in top 50 game. is dead last in the league in “We watched a little three over each day of tournament play. That’s quite a far cry turnover margin. Alabama tape the other His performance was good enough to from the gloom and doom Needless to say, Spurrier day,” Spurrier said. “We’re Austin Smallwood earn him a tie for 26th in the individual STAFF WRITER that many were predicting and company were looking just trying to train [Garcia results. George’s brother, freshman just more than a month for a game plan to keep the and Smelley] how to play Tuesday marked the conclusion Wesley Bryan, showed great promise ago. ball out of Berry’s hands and the game. You’ve got to of three days of rough play for the in the tournament shooting 12 over for I’ll be the fi rst to admit the perfect model may be have a plan you can’t just go Gamecocks at the Isleworth Collegiate the tournament earning him a tie for it, if you had told me that Alabama’s fifth-year senior back and say ‘Well, I’ll hit Invitational in Windermere, Fla. The 41th and the second best Gamecock Carolina would have a quarterback, John Parker somebody and if not I’ll take Gamecocks finished the tournament fi nish. Both Bryan brothers were able shot to win eight regular Wilson. Wilson managed to off running.’” with a combined score over three to stay below the average score of the season games six weeks go the entire game without No matter how much rounds of 48 strokes over par. fi eld Tuesday of 78.66 as George shot a ago, I would’ve thought throwing an interception or game tape Spurrier and his That score was good enough to give 75 and Wesley shot a 76 . you were nuts. However, taking a sack. Two feats that quarterbacks break down the Gamecocks a No. 16 finish in a The average score on Tuesday was a whole lot has changed USC has not managed to there is one part of their fi eld that included SEC foes Georgia, four strokes higher than the score on since then. accomplish in a single game game plan that will remain Alabama and Kentucky. Clemson Monday. This can be attributed to the The team is playing all season. the same. They will keep was also on the fi eld and fi nished tied pin placements being more tucked and remarkably better and “Alabama did not pass an eye, if not two or three, for sixth with a combined score of faster greens. playing with a swagger, block well against Tennessee trained on Berry throughout 31 strokes over par. The Isleworth Patrick Rada , who shot 16 over par the vibe at Williams-Brice either,” Spurrier said. “But the entire game. field was among the toughest the for the tournament, Allen Koon who on game day has changed [Wilson] got rid of it and he “They move [Berry] Gamecocks will face all season, coach shot 18 over , and Mark Silvers III , considerably, and there’s got rid of it quickly, I think around a bit so we just have Bill McDonald said. who shot 19 over , rounded out the a sense of optimism and just about every time.” to be careful where we throw “We don’t see fi elds this strong but rest of the team. The Gamecocks hope, not despair, when Spurrier’s quarterbacks, it,” Spurrier said. maybe two or three times a year,” will conclude their fall season when one thinks about the namely Garcia, will have to The Gamecocks are set McDonald said. they head to Daufuskie Island, South upcoming game. do a better job of getting rid to take on the Volunteers Georgia won the tournament in Carolina to participate in the Rees It’s been a dramatic of the ball quickly against Saturday at 7 p.m. The game convincing fashion shooting a combined Jones Intercollegiate at Haig Point. change, and a change the Volunteers than he will be televised on ESPN 2. three over as a team, 17 strokes less than The tournament will include 36 holes that the “Ol’ Ball Coach” did last time against LSU. the second place fi nisher, Alabama. on Nov. 3 followed by an additional 18 deserves a lot of credit Garcia was sacked six times. The Gamecocks had not competed holes on Nov. 4. Comments on this story? E-mail for. While Tennessee’s pass rush [email protected] in a tournament since their win at Vanderbilt’s Mason Rudolph Invitational Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@ last month. This time off may have to mailbox.sc.edu Gamecock Challenge

This week’s games: Football picks and predictions Wisconsin at MSU West at UCONN Every week, our staff will Auburn at Ole Miss predict 10 college games. Kentucky at Miss. State Florida vs. Georgia If you think you know your Tala Armstrong Kelly Miller Florida State at Ga. Tech Margaret Baird Christine Mitchell stuff, submit your picks for Clemson at Boston College Casey Batson Jordan Moore these games to sagckspt@ Abbey Beach Holly Moore Duke at Wake Forest Eva Berthold Hillary Mullinax mailbox.sc.edu Texas at Texas Tech Hannah Cappleman Christina O'Handley Courtney Collier Alice Parker Tennessee at USC Erin Crotts Sarah Parker Keela Culver Ali Perez Jill Davis Sallie Pernick Nora Dillard Staci Phillips Ella Durham Elizabeth Poole Katie Dutton Becky Rabadi Parker Edwards Savanah Reading Erica Eisen Whitney Robinson SOCCER ● Continued from 8 all season,” Getman said. “The win [over SIU-Edwardsville] was a good win because Gillian Fishman Lauren Roof Although offense has not been up to it gives us confi dence heading into the fi nal Kacey Friedman Courtney Ruble par for the Gamecocks, goalkeeper Jimmy three games of the year.” Rachel Gilbert Katie Scheffer Maurer and fellow defenders have done an Looking to spoil Carolina’s hope to win Morgan Hagerty Samantha Schwartz exceptional job on the defensive side of the at home will be UAB midfi elder Two-Boys ball recently. In last weekend’s 1-0 victory Gumede , a junior who recently has been Becky Harris Cameron Simonton over Marshall, Carolina held the opponent playing stellar offense. Gumede scored Claire Higginbotham Olivia Sinisgali scoreless, despite being outshot during the the game winner last week in the Blazer Christin Hudson Beka Tarkenton game 18-9. Maurer kept control of the net victory. Laura Jeffcoat Jessica Taylor and collected seven saves to earn him his South Carolina is currently ranked fi fth in seventh shutout of the season. the conference heading into the fi nal games Melissa Karl Dia Thomas UAB enters the contest desperate for a of the regular season. The Gamecocks must Justine Kenney Shauna Toth conference win late in the season, as the be resilient in the closing days of the season, Caitlin Kirchoff Kristina Turner Blazers have yet to win a C-USA match. turning around to play two more conference Lauren Klaus Morgan Weaver UAB was able to muster a 1-0 defeat of games in a little over a week. USC travels all non-conference foe SIU-Edwardsville last the way to Oklahoma Saturday to face Tulsa, Bonnie Laurich Amy Weinstein weekend to snap their losing streak. then returns to Columbia for a fi nal regular Megan Leach Mandy Wheeler Although UAB’s record stands at a grim season game against UCF next Friday. Brooke Lewis Colleen White 5-8-2 on the season, Blazer coach Mike Tonight’s game at Stone Stadium is slated Shannon MacAskill Christine Whitten Getman believes his team is better than the for a 7 p.m. start. numbers show. Katie Mattscheck Lindsay Williams “Obviously we’ve struggled to win games Comments on this story? E-mail sagckspt@mailbox. Kristin McKenzie Amanda Winkler this year even though we’ve played well sc.edu PAGE 10 The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008

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