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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2007 VOL. 100, NO. 135 ● SINCE 1908 Grad school pays respects to assistant dean treatment last fall, but out to hundreds, if not Anthony Edwards, who died Wednesday, worked with USC students he continued to teach his thousands, of people in some by getting involved in variety of university programs, organizations University 101 class. way or another, Berman said. “Being with students and “He was helping people at helping students even though every level of their education Chelsea Hadaway undergraduate and finished Women’s Studies, worked he was ill was very important because he was helping the NEWS EDITOR his education here when he with the African-American to him,” Berman said. “That’s freshmen with us, he was received his doctorate in Studies program and was part of what makes him so working with top junior and The assistant dean of foundations in education. the faculty adviser for the special -- that ability to reach senior students mentoring the USC graduate school, Since then, he had reached Black Graduate Student out and help others.” them and he was also a Anthony Edwards, died out to students in numerous Association. Edwards always resource to the graduate last Wednesday at Palmetto disciplines and programs. His He had also been teaching volunteered to help with students here,” Berman said. Health Baptist Care Center. leadership among students University 101 classes for workshops to train people Edwards also helped Edwards, a native of and faculty affected freshmen the past 12 to 13 years, said to teach University 101 and establish a faculty affiliate Denmark, S.C., was to Ph.D. candidates. Dan Berman, director of the made himself available to program in Women’s Studies diagnosed with colon cancer “He’s been a vital link University 101 program. mentor whoever he could, and became an affi liate of the in January of 2006 and for all of the university,” Although Edwards was Berman said. program, said Lynn Weber, underwent treatment for said Christine Ebert, the undergoing chemotherapy And Edwards had reached director of the Women’s about a year, said Melvilyn dean of the graduate school Studies program. Edwards, his niece. and associate provost for “We thought with Doctors thought he would institutional outreach. For your information: Women’s Studies we had a said. be OK, but then the cancer “He was one of the people great advocate for us in the Edwards had worked in the showed up in his lungs a who knew every person on graduate school,” Weber said. graduate school since he was month later, she said. campus.” What: Memorial Service for Anthony Edwards “There’s been a lot of changes an undergrad and knew all the Edwards had served His dedication to students When: Wednesday, April 11 at 3 p.m. in the graduate school over ins and outs at the graduate students at USC for more and learning stretched him time and Anthony was the school, drawing on his 20- than 25 years. across various fi elds. Where: Rutledge Chapel on the Horseshoe stable, reliable person you He came here as an He taught courses in could always count on,” she EDWARDS ● 2 Playboy comes to Carolina Magazine hosts pictorial audition to fi nd girls for SEC section of college issue she said she’ll tell them if she views women very well and Playboy for 10 years. Ryan James ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR makes it. does not exploit them,” she Orfanos said she is looking “I don’t know if said. for college girls who aren’t my dad looks If modeling doesn’t as polished as professional Playboy magazine hosted at Playboy work out, Eckert said models. a pictorial audition to select or not, she’d like to be a “We come to the college models for the SEC section but I social worker campus to find girls that of its college girls issue at the or a school are not as produced- Embassy Suites hotel Monday counselor. looking, that are the girl afternoon. Eden next door, young college Three to 10 girls will be Orfanos girls with energy, not don’t selected to participate in models that we’d find in want photo shoots Wednesday Miami, New York or L.A.,” him to through Saturday. Orfanos said. “Hef takes a be looking Hugh Hefner, the founder huge liking to the pictorial through. I’m and editor in chief of Playboy, that is the college girls issue defi nitely going will select three or four because he likes to show to tell my brothers so images per school. women that have something THE DAILY GAMECOCK that they don’t look Brandon Davis / Robin Eckert, a second- going on besides being a through and Jessica Horton fell from her Patterson window in 2002. year psychology student, said model or actor, that have a they know her roommate begged her to career mind.” to tell go to the audition. Orfanos said there is their frat HORTON BILL “She has wanted me to generally a lower turnout in brothers be in Playboy since she met the South than other regions that me. Plus, I’ve always wanted of the country, but that there they to. I’ve never really had the is no lack of beautiful girls. GOES TO HOUSE can’t be opportunity,” Eckert said. “It’s frustrating ... looking Eckert said she has some sometimes, because we get so at that injuries sustained in the modeling experience with many great-looking girls, but issue,” Law would require SLED fall. Alpha Modeling Group, we can only shoot so many,” Eckert The Richland County but has never done nude Orfanos said. to investigate student said. Coroner ruled the death modeling. David Rams, the Play-boy has deaths on campus accidental three months “I kind of enjoy being in photographer of the pictorial, standards and a healthy later. front of a camera and showing said he has photographed for respect for But Horton’s family off what I have in a decent many publications, but his Jess Davis women, Eckert wasn’t satisfied with the way. I enjoy having fun and respect for women draws him THE DAILY GAMECOCK investigation of her death. I think the female body is a said. to Playboy. “We feel like more should gorgeous thing and it should “[Playboy] “I love women. I think A bill that would require have been done,” said be exposed,” Eckert said. is not a dirty produced that shows in my pictures ... campus police to turn over Walter Riggan, Horton’s Eckert’s parents don’t magazine. It’s a the pictorial and has investigations of student grandfather. “It’s nothing know about the audition, but clean magazine that really been working with PLAYBOY ● 2 deaths to the South Carolina against Carolina.” Law Enforcement Division So they worked with is headed to the House after Sen. Vincent Sheheen, R- getting Senate approval. Camden, to change the law, Voices for Planned Parenthood returns to campus The “Jessica Horton requiring the immediate Campus Crime Act,” named involvement of SLED. Planned Parenthood is for a USC student who “This type of experienced As offi cial organization, determined to educate died four and a half years investigation will assure students on their sexual ago, requires all public and students and parents and VOX set to educate, aid health, safety precautions private colleges, including family that if a tragedy students in sexual health and decisions on planning two-year and technical happens that it will be to become a parent. schools, to immediately investigated by the most According to statistics report deaths and rapes to experienced officers,” said Sierra Kelly from plannedparenthood. SLED. Luanne Horton, Jessica’s THE DAILY GAMECOCK com, one in four women have Horton, whose family mother. “That was our used Planned Parenthood was living in Suwanee, Ga., hope all along by having After several years of services, and it is estimated when she enrolled, but had this bill, that it would bring being inactive, Voices for that Planned Parenthood lived in South Carolina, the most experienced law Planned Parenthood is prevents more that 494,000 moved into her sixth-fl oor enforcement to the scene coming back to campus unintended pregnancies dorm room in Patterson of a crime that involved a and will become an offi cial through the provision of Hall on Aug. 16, 2002, and death or a rape on a college group in the next few days. contraceptive services. was found lying on bushes or university campus.” While in the process Beth Hinson, co- outside the building around USC Police Chief Ernie Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK of becoming an official 6 a.m. the next morning. ● VOX aims to educate students on their right to choose. organization, Voices for VOX 2 She died hours later from HORTON ● 2 Sports The Mix Local News.............2 TODAY Tomorrow Opinion.................. 4 Former USC forward Tarence Kinsey Bright Eyes’ new CD “Cassadaga” shows Puzzles....................7 has seen success as an undrafted free how the band has evolved over time to Comics.....................7 Horoscopes...............7 agent in the NBA.