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GOING TO GAINESVILLE The Gamecocks travel to Steve Spurrier’s former home for a date with the No. 6 Florida Gators dailygamecock.com The University of South Carolina Friday, November 10, 2006 Vol. 100, No. 62 ● Since 1908 Columbia council axes smoking in restaurants saying it needs to happen,” Burcin Bars not aff ected by ban; said. Burcin said she was disappointed students satisfi ed, angry that the council members did not follow the lead of Greenville City Gina Vasselli Council and set a date for the ban STAFF WRITER to begin. “You could easily graduate before Columbia City Council voted seeing this go into effect,” Burcin Wednesday to make smoking in said. restaurants a thing of the past. Local student hangouts such as However, the city exempted Cool Beans, which has smoking bars from the smoking ban in the and non-smoking sections, might 4-3 vote, according to The State feel the pinch. newspaper. Sara Nicholson, a manager at Some think the move might Cool Beans, said she doesn’t give USC’s Healthy Carolina know whether the ban will affect the momentum it needs to make business. campus completely smoke-free. “People sit in the smoking “When things like this happen section, but I don’t know if it’ll piss in the city, it defi nitely doesn’t hurt people off or anything,” Nicholson us,” said Michelle Burcin, director said. of Healthy Carolina. “I don’t see Harrison Floyd, a first-year this having anything but a positive engineering student and regular effect on us.” Cool Beans customer, said he Burcin said she was disappointed thinks it will hurt business for a that the council chose to exempt while but that people will get used bars but that “a little is better than to it. nothing.” “I feel bad for the business itself, Burcin said the ruling does not but people won’t stop drinking automatically make a smoke-free coffee,” Floyd said. “I think there USC a guarantee. is something to be said for smelling “I don’t see it turning us upside down and all of a sudden everyone SMOKING ● 3 Nick Esares / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Brent Scarpo, a documentary fi lmmaker on tour with his fi lm “A Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium,” talked to USC students Thursday in the Russell House Ballroom during Creed Week recognition. Reel-time wrath Filmmaker brings hate-crime documentary to USC Special to THE DAILY GAMECOCK Three USC students and a graduate assistant help sixth- and seventh-graders learn acting basics after school at Trustus Theatre. Morgan Bradham While RHA members were attending an THE DAILY GAMECOCK annual conference in San Francisco, Scarpo’s agent contacted RHA adviser Sean McGreevey. ilmmaker Brent Scarpo of New Light Media The filmmaker was hoping to re-start the USC students help sustain FProductions presented his documentary, documentary’s tour of the East Coast, said RHA “A Journey to a Hate-Free Millennium,” in the President Terrill Wilkins, a fourth-year history Russell House Ballroom on Thursday. student. Trustus after-school program Invited by the Residence Hall Association, Crimes based on race, religion and sexual Scarpo’s presentation was part of Creed Week. orientation were the focus of the fi lm. Rebecca Wilson open for after-school activities as As Scarpo had visited the university previously Rachel Miles, a fi rst-year business student, said THE DAILY GAMECOCK part of the Afterschool Alliance, in 1999, Wilkins said he felt that the program was she attended as part of her University 101 class. a three-year grant funded by For students of Gibbes Middle a perfect fi t for Creed Week. “This documentary seemed interesting because the John S. and James L. Knight School, Trustus Theatre is not “It discourages bigotry, and promotes it included hate crimes such as Columbine High Foundation. just a place of entertainment every awareness about hate crimes, because stereotypes School, and I am also interested in the race- Kay Thigpen, co-founder of Tuesday and Thursday, but also a and culture-related misunderstanding are the Trustus and co-coordinator of place of learning. foundation of such crimes,” Wilkins said. FILM ● 2 Trustus is one of many places TRUSTUS ● 3 New e-mail system combats viruses, lack of storage space, spam will automatically block known threat from 98 percent to 69 the needed memory, South said. E- Next spring, all USC e-mail will go through program spam messages and quarantine percent, according to the GEM mail postmasters contact students messages that appear to be spam,” homepage. who are over the 50-MB limit. Jamie Hudson said Kimberly South, media South said. Quarantine messages Steve Wright, the technician who There are about 65,000 student THE DAILY GAMECOCK spokesperson for Technology will not dent the 50-MB mailbox designed the GEM system, said e-mail accounts and 15,000 faculty Services. limit. GEM holds 297 GB of memory, 75 e-mail accounts, which includes USC students will begin using a Student mailboxes will have 50 Gamecock E-mail (GEM) has percent of which is full. affiliates, guests and sponsored new e-mail system next spring that megabytes of memory, while faculty been experiencing problems caused “There are some students who do retirees. blocks spam and deletes messages and staff are allotted 300 MB, by reaching its storage capacity, not check mail and these messages South said at least 75 people are after 60 days. South said. Any message older than South said. add up and create a huge burden on “devoted to supporting student, Tech nolog y Ser v ices w i l l 60 days will be deleted. GEM’s 210-gigabyte the system that serves out e-mail,” faculty and staff e-mail systems” implement a new Microsoft-based The new system storage capacity has been South said. with at least 15 people working e-mail system meant to combine will feature a “spam increased to 280 GB, Messages are also backed up on a university e-mail into one system, management solution that decreasing the “fullness” server called UTS, which increases E-MAIL ● 2 Viewpoints The Mix Classifieds.......... A8 Chase Stoudenmire says we Lewis Black has parlayed an angry, incensed comedy style Crossword.......... A7 side Horoscopes......... A7 in should forgo political parties into a career of skewering pundits on both sides of the aisle. Opinion............ A4 for street gangs. A4 Bow down to the Badass of the Month. A5 Police Report..... A2 The Daily Gamecock ● Friday, November 10, 2006 ON THE WEB at Weather Forecast www.dailygamecock.com TODAY SAT. SUN. MON. TUE. Read online five days a week. “I’ve had lots of shoes.” High 82 High 80 High 62 High 63 High 72 CHURCH TALK Low 53 Low 45 Low 41 Low 47 Low 61 CRIME REPORT CAROLINA in BRIEF WEDNESDAY, Intersection Saxophone quartet NOV. 8 of Sumter and to play2 recital hall Defrauding hotel Wheat streets restaurant, disturbing Police reported The New Century schools, resisting Christopher Hart, 19, Saxophone Quartet will arrest, 12:20 p.m. was arrested for having be featured Saturday at the Russell House, marijuana in his vehicle. School of Music as part of 1400 Greene St. Responding offi cer: the Southern Exposure Police reported Bernard J.M. Harrelson New Music Series. Sherman, 22, was arrested The concert will be and jailed for carrying Disturbing schools, held at 7:30 p.m. in the away food items, being 3:45 a.m. recital hall. chased around campus, Pendleton Street Revolutionary disturbing classes and Garage, 1501 Etudes, written by running across traffic Pendleton St. composer David Lang, from the offi cer. Police reported Andrew will premiere alongside Responding offi cer: Jolly, 19, Sean Kissinger, Jacob ter Veldhuis’ R. Baker 19, and Michael Smith, “Heartbreakers.” 20, were each arrested and “Heartbreakers” jailed for having a pellet THURSDAY, NOV. 9 features a multimedia gun fi ght in the garage. Simple possession arrangement for Responding offi cer: of marijuana, saxophone quartet with J.M. Simmons 12:55 a.m. DVD projections. Ter Veldhuis will attend Aidan Zanders / THE DAILY GAMECOCK the premiere and give a John Allen, a reporter on Vatican affairs, speaks Thursday afternoon in Rutledge Chapel lecture at 2:30 p.m. in about the inadequacy and inaccuracy of the media’s coverage of Church affairs. Room 210 of the School Bush, Pelosi discuss of Music. “We’re thrilled to host the New Century State Nation World cooperation over lunch Saxophone Quartet and composer Jacob ter High school exit exam Oil company settles Iraqi health minister: Jennifer Loven House speaker, next in line Veldhuis, who’s a major Th e Associated Press to the presidency after the passing rate increases death-related lawsuit 150,000 dead in war musical fi gure in Europe,” vice president. John Fitz Rogers, artistic WASHINGTON “The elections are The percentage of South GALVESTON, Texas — BP BAGHDAD, Iraq — A director of Southern — President Bush and now behind us, and the Carolina students who PLC settled on Thursday stunning new death count Exposure and associate House Speaker-to-be congresswoman’s party passed the high school exit the only remaining death- emerged Thursday, as Iraq’s professor of composition Nancy Pelosi, perhaps the won,” Bush said.