USC Equestrian Team to Receive $495 K Facility

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Lee Walker / THE DAILY GAMECOCK dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 VOL. 108, NO. 29 ● SINCE 1908 USC equestrian team to receive $495k facility Locker room to be built barns, but as our team has expanded in accordance with Title IX from twenty or twenty-fi ve to forty people, the lounge area we have in Amanda Coyne the barn has become too small,” [email protected] Major said. “We’ve just outgrown it.” The board of trustees recently Redshirt sophomore and approved plans to build a new locker 2010-2011 All-American Johnna room for the equestrian team in Letchworth agrees that the upgrade accordance with Title IX . The is needed. plans, which have no start date “When we won the National for construction presently, are Championship in the 2004-2005 estimated to cost USC $495,000, season , we had 27 members on the according to Executive Associate team . Now on the 2011-2012 team Athletic Director Kevin O’Connell. we have 40 members ,” Letchworth The team currently has a lounge said. “Even with the increase in area, but no actual locker room to team members the space has accommodate the riders’ needs, remained the same, which is why a according to Head Coach Boo new locker room is needed.” Major. The lounge, adjacent to the team’s “We have been in need of a locker Blythewood equestrian center at room for a while; we have what we One Wood Farm , is a one-room call a lounge area in one of our Courtesy of USC Media Relations EQUESTRIAN ● 2 The locker room’s construction pends funding and no start date has been announced. Carolina Community Garden plots take root USC fi rst lady encourages organic eating options Aston Jeffcoat [email protected] Students are growing herbs on campus to help the idea of healthy eating habits blossom through organic and sustainable vegetables. KKelseyelsey PhillipsPhillips / TTHEHE DDAILYAILY GGAMECOCKAMECOCK The Carolina Community Garden planted its roots between Woodrow and Preston Hall on Friday, at the grand opening, near USC First Lady Patricia Moore- Pastides’ vegetable garden. “I care a lot about what I put in my body and what we serve to our guests. So we try to keep everything as organic as possible,” Moore-Pastides, who is a leading advocate in the public health fi eld said. The 21 raised plots are leased at no charge each semester to students, faculty and staff . This enables them to harvest peppers, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, romaine and even edible fl owers. Rosemary, sage and lavender should exude a pleasant aroma behind the Horseshoe. “It’s really a movement that’s growing nowadays,” Ronen Rappaport, a fi rst-year mechanical engineering student said . “Everyone has the rush-daily-basis where they have to get to class and they don’t take notice of the environment.” Rappaport is a member of the Carolina Eco-Reps and says he hopes to help spread awareness of sustainable PANASA celebrates African culture living at Carolina. Unlike organic food, which can travel thousands of miles before reaching your palette, sustainable food is Africa Night features fashion accepting donations . At press World Night and the Columbia sold and grown as locally as possible. show, poetry and dancing time, the amount raised wasn’t yet International Festival before, but Moore-Pastides said she has locals bring fresh seafood available. this is the fi rst show we’ve done on in from the Carolina and Georgia coasts at the Farmers The event featured an array of our own,” Selassie said. Market and, to eliminate the use of chemicals, she even Kelsey Phillips & Amanda Coyne [email protected] performances featuring traditional The inaugural event, which makes her own compost. staples of many African cultures. Selassie hopes to make annual, “We take our lawn clippings and vegetable scrapings “We had a poetry reading, a hosted more than 300 guests. from home and it turns into this dark soil, rich in The Pan-African Students fashion show, dance performances “I would say it was around nitrogen and nutrients that is a perfect fertilizer,” Association’s Africa Night was full from a lot of different sub-Saharan 350,” Selassie said. “I’m very, very Moore-Pastides said. of dancing, dresses and languages African countries,” said Gelila happy. It went extremely well and Moore-Pastides is launching her book “Greek Revival: of many different African Selassie, president of PANASA and I’m very proud of the work that Cooking for Life” next year, which outlines health countries. fourth-year psychology student. everyone put in.” benefi ts of a traditional Mediterranean diet, but most of The event, which was open to The event was the first of its the book is dedicated to gardening for beginners. students and the public, benefi ted kind hosted by PANASA. “Gardening is intimidating to some people and we the Red Cross by selling “Hope “We’ve participated in the don’t want it to be that way,” said Outdoor Recreation to Africa” shirts being sold and Comments on this story? 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See page 5 See page 4 See page 8 2 Monday, February 20, 2012 EQUESTRIAN ● Continued from 1 work was to go on during the Andrew Askins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK season, it may prove slightly facility with what Major called problematic, as the locker room minimal amenities. will be built next to the covered “Its just a room with two sinks, ring in which the team practices. a refrigerator, one shower and two “We’ll just have to get used to toilets,” Major said. “It’s nice, but it,” Major said. “The horses don’t it’s not big enough for 40 people.” mind the noise, but they do have to A recent visit from a gender get used to the movement. Horses equity consultant deemed the new are very timid animals and they construction necessary, O’Connell can get easily startled if someone said. He added that the new facility makes a sudden movement like will be a vast improvement upon standing up quickly from a crouch. the current one. USC honors ‘mother language’ We’ve talked about putting a “It will be brand new and much screen up so the horses can’t see larger, about 2,200 square feet, out to the construction.” and in 1954 Bangla was recognized as an with 40 lockers and a meeting Andrew Askins The Athletics department hopes [email protected] offi cial language of Pakistan . room,” O’Connell said. “It will be to minimize any interference with The event was divided into two much larger, much nicer and more practice during construction, The Bangladesh Student Association segments, with a traditional meal from in line with other locker rooms for however. hosted their fi rst tribute to International Bangladesh served in between. In other athletes.” “We want to try to be sensitive Mother Language Day at USC on Friday. the first segment, a group of students There will also be a room for to the coach, the athletes and the The club has put on events to recognize sang songs and read poems in Bangla, riders’ tack built next to the locker horses,” O’Connell said. “We this special day before, but this was the including “Amar bhaiyer rokte rangano, room. want to have the least amount of largest one they have done yet, and the (How can I forget the 21st of February)” “One of the things we’ve had intrusion into their daily lives.” fi rst time it was hosted at USC and open which was written about the shootings issues with is that a lot of the USC hopes adding the locker to all. that occurred during the strike, and student-athletes bring their own room will increase the team’s The day was originally introduced during which a group of men dressed saddles. We have a place where appeal to potential riders. by the United Nations on February in traditional garments, came up on they can store them, but it’s really “We already have one of 21, 2000, in honor of the martyrs of stage and placed flowers at the foot of out of the way,” Major said. “We’ll the best college facilities in the Bangladesh who died on that day in 1952 a reproduction of the Shaheed Minar, add on a saddle room next door country, but the locker room area fi ghting for their right to speak in their the monument constructed at the place where students can go and access has quite honestly been one of native tongue .

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