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THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 VOL. 101, NO. 44 ● SINCE 1908 Investigators make progress at beach house Ocean Isle mayor says fi re likely accidental

Estes Thomspon Th e Associated Press

OCEAN ISLE BEACH, N.C. - For the group of college buddies spending a late-season weekend at a friend’s beach house, the deck overlooking a canal was the center of their good times. It was where they talked, listened to music and danced late into the night. But investigators fear the deck just two blocks from the beach may also have been the starting point of

a fast-moving fire that killed seven The Associated Press

/ people, including a group of high school friends who went off to college together. The storm of fi re and smoke — so daunting that fi refi ghters radioed for backup before they even arrived at the scene — enveloped the home early Mary Ann Chastain Sunday, killing six students from USC ABOVE: Six and one from Clemson University. Six other USC students in the house garnet wreaths survived. REMEMBERING and one purple Ocean Isle Beach Mayor Debbie wreath stand Smith said Monday that investigators in the center of believe the fi re was likely accidental FRIENDS Greene Street in and started in the rear of the house, memory of the either on or near the deck facing the seven students canal on the west side of the house. lost in the house That side of the residence appeared to Students gather to honor memory of sisters, fi re in North be the most heavily damaged. Carolina. Investigators should be able to brothers, loved ones from USC, Clemson INSET: Two Delta determine where the fi re started, but Delta Delta may have trouble finding a specific Travis Frayard President Andrew Sorensen, as cause, said Dr. Rolin Barrett, a STAFF WRITER he spoke during the service. sorority sisters consulting engineer with Raleigh- Six USC students and one embrace during based Barrett Engineering who has The members of Delta Delta Clemson student died Sunday the candlelight been involved in almost 1,000 fire Delta and Sigma Alpha Epsilon after a fire burned a North Lizzie Wilson / THE DAILY GAMECOCK vigil. investigations. solemnly filed into the Russell Carolina beach house. “So many things are consumed House Ballroom on Monday As Sorensen spoke, stifled in fire that you can’t tell what they night, followed by the families of sobs could be heard around the were like beforehand,” he said. “If a the six USC students who died ballroom as students in mourning cigarette did it, then the cigarette was Sunday. tried to remain quiet. probably consumed.” The families sat in the front Sorensen told students that Investigators quizzed dozens of row for the service, while Tri- this tragedy does not simply college students who filled several Delt sisters fi lled in behind them, affect the Gamecock nation, but homes near the site of the disaster. taking up nearly a quarter of the the Clemson nation, and other Rebecca Wood, the president of the ballroom as they sat together in universities around the country. Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity at their sorority shirts. Jay Laura, SAE president, said the University of North Carolina, said To their right, SAE brothers what happened was a “unique police wanted to know if the college fi lled the seats on the other side and unfortunate” event that students were using a grill or a small of the hall. All were dressed in brought out the best in the Greek outdoor fi replace called a chiminea. coat and tie; all were moved by community and the student body She told investigators she didn’t see the loss of their friends. as a whole. anyone using the chiminea, and all the “This is not just a garnet Lauren Hodge, Tri-Delt THE DAILY GAMECOCK grilling was done far from the house. and black tragedy, but also a Lizzy Sheppard / Nathan Harper shows his concern for the deceased students by Police in the beachfront community, purple and orange tragedy,” said FRIENDS ● 2 pinning on a black ribbon handed out by Greek members. which has only about 500 full-time residents, are working with the State Bureau of Investigation and federal offi cials. Autopsies will take place at the state medical examiner’s offi ce in Chapel Hill. Facebook provides support system “It may be a few days,” spokeswoman Sharon Artis said. “We have not his support. “If you’re In some groups students share identifi ed any of them yet.” Popular social networking site “I hate to see in college it some of their best memories of Bob Alexander, who lives directly this happen. affects you. If their friends, whom The Daily across the canal from the burned used as outlet for reactions, I guess we all you’re a student Gamecock is not naming yet home, said the students were out on emotions, memories of victims think things it affects you. because their identities have not the deck Saturday, getting ready to like this happen If you are in been confi rmed. watch South Carolina’s football game to other people, but not us. I guess a fraternity or sorority it affects One student described a victim Brad Maxwell at Tennessee. STAFF WRITER we were wrong. Friends, family you,” Goyer said. as “the most caring and smiley, Alexander remembered seeing two members and students stay strong,” She said she didn’t anticipate the smart person you would ever meet. people — a college-aged man and Killian said on the group wall. amount of support that was shown She was always fun to be around As students heard about one young woman — dancing on the More than 3,700 people have on the Web site. because she was always right there Sunday’s fi re, they turned online deck around 11 p.m. A short time joined the group, not just from “I’m blown away. Its hard to with you.” to share support and memories of later, USC’s loss to the Volunteers USC, but also from across the understand that we really are all The Clemson student that was the friends they had lost. was over, and the Gamecocks had country. connected,” Goyer said. “And killed in the fi re was described by Facebook.com quickly became the neighboring Tar Heels over to Amanda Goyer, a third-year Facebook in particular shows that one student as “probably the most an outlet for students to express commiserate. Wood and a few others psychology student at Rhodes we all deal with life and death vibrant, hilarious person I have their reactions to the deaths of six from UNC stayed up late dancing and College, spent two years at USC situations…all we can do is support ever met. She lit up a room.” USC students at a North Carolina munching on leftover football snacks and is a member of the Delta Delta one another.” Another student remembered a beach house. with their new friends. Delta sorority. She said she would also be victim and tried to make sense of “By talking with friends and Wood left around 1:30 a.m., but “I’m so far away, and everyone passing around cards for Tri-Delta his death. communicating, I’m realizing Alexander said the lights were still on there is coming together as a and SAE from Rhodes College to “You will be truly missed by I’m not in this alone,” said Travis at the doomed beach house as late as community…I felt I couldn’t do sign in a show of support for their many. You are a wonderful person Killian, a first-year undecided 2:30 a.m. He awoke to the sound of anything,” Goyer said. cross-campus families. and sometimes things happen student who was a friend of one of sirens a few minutes after 7 a.m. Goyer created a facebook Online, students and others for a reason. God has a plan for the victims. “Flames were halfway across the group, “Pray for the victims and continue to show their support for everyone.” Killian created a facebook group, channel,” Alexander said. “The fire friends and family of the Ocean the victims in more than 10 groups “RIP students who perished on was roaring and cracking. You could Isle fi re,” that has more than 2,200 that memorialize the students and Comments on this story? E-mail Oct. 28, 2007,” in an effort to show already see inside the house.” members. the fi re that killed them. [email protected]

Sports Mix Local News...... 2 TODAY Wednesday Opinion...... 5 After Saturday night’s near comeback, Making a Halloween costume — even at Puzzles...... 7 can the Gamecocks offense keep the the last minute — can be easy and fun if Comics...... 7 Horoscopes...... 7 ball rolling? See page 8 you pay attention to detail. See page 6 Classifi ed...... 10 70 48 74 58 PAGE 2 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 Library exhibits USC ties to WWI

USC that acted in World ‘Forward Together’ War I, 82 were killed in highlights contribution to action, according to a display of notes. battles during 1900s “Most students are surprised that the university has tried to Halley Nani memorialize alumni killed THE DAILY GAMECOCK in the war with plaques and markers around the The South Caroliniana campus, but many of them Library is hosting an have been lost,” West said. exhibit illustrating the As for faculty state’s involvement in involvement, substitutes World War I titled were needed for almost “Forward Together: South half of the university’s Carolina in World War I.” professors by 1918, as many The library joins the of them had taken leaves of McKissick Museum, absence to contribute to the Historic Columbia fi ghting in Europe. Foundation, the South The display features a Carolina State Museum timeline of the university’s and the South Carolina reactions to the war effort Confederate Relic Room and it shows important and Military Museum. movements in the effort. The exhibit features For instance, when displays of timelines and then President Currell details that show how USC and Board of Trustees THE DAILY GAMECOCK contributed to the World established a military Brad Maxwell / War I war effort. training unit and when the These students lined up as early as 8:30 Sunday night to get prime spots for football ticket distribution. World War I had a Student Army Training profound effect on the Center (SATC) was added. university, according The display has student to Elizabeth West, a drawings, literature, university archivist. poems, pamphlets, pictures Getting the golden ticket “World War I had a of student military units tremendous impact on and articles on student and the university’s ability faculty developments in Line stretches across campus as many fans wait for Florida game admission to function and this Europe. university takes a look It also features postcards “This is the last time we wrapped around the Russell cold weather with blankets at that,” West said. “It written by students and Brad Maxwell STAFF WRITER can camp out,” Shaw said. House and past Thomas and warm clothes. shows how the university faculties to their loved Many students agreed with Cooper Library as word “I have like fi ve blankets reacted to the demand on ones. Shaw, remembering that spread that people had and 10 layers of clothes,” its resources and how the For more information, Die-hard Carolina fans online ticket distribution camped out. Around 9 Loague said. university reacted to those please visit www.sc.edu/ filed in line to pick up will be in effect next football a.m., the line wound past Though many students demands.” library/socar. student tickets for the USC season. Longstreet Theater to the set up tents for the night, The World War I vs. Florida game as early as “It’s the last time ever shuttle stop past the Coker others slept on the ground, display “has had very Comments on this story? E-mail 8:30 p.m. Sunday. Doors to to stand in line for student Life Sciences building. Most like Brittany Deedy, a fi rst- positive feedback. It has [email protected] the Russell House opened at tickets,” said Brittany students carried two IDs, year history student. gotten exposure through 7 a.m. Monday. Loague, a fi rst-year fashion- and many skipped class to Despite two consecutive a symposium about World “It’s a big game. It’s merchandising student. wait in line. losses to Vanderbilt War I that was recently Florida,” said Harsh Shaw, Loague and her friends Those who waited during University and the held [at the library] and if you a fi rst-year business student were among the first to the day were bundled with University of Tennessee, through classes coming who had joined the ranks of begin setting up camp sweatshirts and sweatpants, students came out in full in to see it for history the loyal fans around 9 p.m. around 8:30 p.m. but those who stayed the force to get tickets. courses,” West said. Shaw and his friends She and friends played night wore even more, as The exhibit points out came from various areas of football, watched a movie, temperatures dipped to the that during World War I, campus such as West Quad, ate and hung out with other low 40s. freshman and sophomore ggoo Bates House and even off- Comments on this story? E-mail students who camped out. Loague, like many participation in military campus apartments. [email protected] The exhibit is open from The line for tickets students, was prepared for training for the hour 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on was required, while Mondays, Wednesdays, upperclassmen were given ● counselors would be available painted on Greene Street, wholeness.” and Fridays; from FRIENDS Continued from 1 a choice in partaking in the for any students that wished where six wreaths stood, A moment of silence 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. on war effort. This resulted president, said before each to discuss the events of the somber reminders of the followed, the only sound Tuesdays and Thursdays; in over three-fourths of sorority meeting, the sisters weekend. students who were not audible besides the sniffl es of and from 9 a.m. to 1 the USC student body gather around and, among At the service, students there. those who couldn’t hold back p.m. on Saturdays. The being involved in war other things, promise to love were told that, as they grieve, The street, normally their tears. exhibit runs through preparations. one another. the nation grieves with them. bustling, was silent. Laura and Hodge lay March 31. Of over 500 alumni from Together, they told The school has been fl ooded Frank Anderson, pastor of bouquets of flowers at the those who had come to with condolences from across the Lutheran Ministry on foot of the wreaths and led pay their respects about the country, including two campus, led a prayer, reading their groups back to their how the students who died university presidents that the 42nd Psalm as hundreds fraternity and sorority in the accident would be oversaw tragedies at their bowed their heads. houses in the Greek Village, remembered in thoughts and schools. “How can something but other students stayed, prayers, and would be sorely After the service was this terrible happen to our silent, still and refl ective. missed by those they left completed, students, faculty, friends?” he asked. “How can News Editor Jess Davis behind. families and friends walked we survive this loss?” contributed to this story. Gena Runnion, director outside for a candlelit vigil. Anderson prayed to of Greek Life, was also They grasped small white “bring peace to the Carolina there to remind students candles and gathered in a Gamecock community, and Comments on this story? E-mail that chaplains and grief huddle around the gamecock in time (bring) healing and [email protected]

4 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 Counselors lend help to students Center director says staff will reply to any, all needs

Russell Haber, counseling grief.” center director, said he and He said the common his staff will be on hand to denominator among all the help grieving students and students in the counseling parents. center is a sense of “We’ve had about 10 overwhelming sadness. calls from parents who “They feel like they’ve were wanting information lost something very dear about how to help their to them,” Haber said. children,” he said. While students are being Haber said the counseled, Haber said counseling center is now counselors are doing their handling five phone lines best to focus on their jobs, instead of the traditional not their shared grief. two. “I think at this point “There’s a mess of the counselors are like phones in the front offi ce,” everyone else: we just go he said. about our jobs and not pay Amid an infl ux of calls, enough attention to what’s counselors are busy in the going on inside,” he said. community, meeting with Haber said he is glad to university 101 classes and serve the campus in the other special groups. face of something he’d Patrick Collard / The Associated Press “We’ve met at the never seen before. People gather in Simpsonville for a memorial service for the seven college students who died Sunday in the fi re. Tri-Delt house,” he said. “I think our energy is “There have been requests going to be of use.” at other places.” Students can sign a Counselors were present banner on Greene Street Clemson mourns lost student at the vigil Monday night, with memories of their Haber said. friends. The banner was of students at Clemson. Hannah Workman said. “It director of Counseling and “Basically we will put up by BGLSA and will Tiger community Clemson University makes for decent odds that Psychological Services at respond to whatever be given to Delta Delta President James F. Baker someone would know at least Clemson, said the counselors request we get,” he said. Delta and Sigma Alpha pulls together in issued a statement Monday, one person.” will be present at the vigil. “I think students Epsilon. response to accident offering condolences to the The name of the Clemson “Students are finding are in shock,” he said. To cont act t he families and friends of the student who died has not support among themselves,” “Some students are very counseling center, call students who died. been confi rmed yet. Contreras said. “They are emotional. Some students 803-777-5223. Katie Jones “As the Clemson family “We were just told that a finding solace in coming are kind of not in touch —From staff reports STAFF WRITER mourns the loss of one of Clemson student was killed together.” with feeling. Some students our students, we reach out in the fi re,” said John Gouch, Contreras could not kind of feel lost.” As USC mourns the loss to our sister institution, the Assistant Director and confirm if they had “We’re seeing students Comments on this story? E-mail of the seven students who University of South Carolina, Online News Manager of the experienced an increase in in different phases of [email protected] died in the Ocean Isle Beach in their loss,” he said. “In our Anderson Independent-Mail. students seeking counseling, house fi re, Clemson shares in state all of us are connected, Clemson fraternities and but said they were prepared the grief. and we feel their loss as they sororities will hold a vigil for for an increase. “We’re thinking about feel our loss.” the deceased on Wednesday Workman said that the NEWSBRIEFS y’all and about how close Clemson and USC students night at 8:30. deaths have not sunk in with Clemson University and the alike are feeling the loss. “It’s a tragedy that both Clemson students. Th e Associated Press Woman found shot after University of South Carolina “I can’t imagine being in schools are sharing,” Smith “A lot of students here Greenwood County wreck Horry County police are and how many friends we Columbia, being on y’all’s said. talked about it in a detached GREENWOOD — investigate death of man found share,” said Joy Smith, dean campus,” Clemson sophomore Raquel Contreras, way…they’re stunned,” Deputies responding to in car trunk Workman said. MYRTLE BEACH a wreck in Greenwood The elementary school County say they found —Horry County Police are that the Clemson student a woman with a gunshot investigating the death of attended held a remembrance wound to her chest. an 83-year-old man found ceremony Monday night. Deputies say Sonya in the trunk of a car as a A funeral date or location Johnson of Saluda told them homicide. has not been set, said Nina that her husband forced Authorities say the car was Mitchell, human resources her off state Highway 702 parked at a Myrtle Beach manager for Brookwood around 6:45 a.m. Monday, restaurant for several days Church. The Clemson then shot her once in the before an employee reported student and her family were chest. a foul odor Saturday and the members of Brookwood in Authorities say Johnson’s body of Joseph McMillan Greenville, according to husband Thomas Johnson, was found. Mitchell. shot and killed himself a Horry County police “It’s a terrible tragedy; it’s short time later after he was spokesman Sgt. Bob Carr very sad what the campuses chased by Saluda County says the case is being are going through,” Gouch deputies. investigated as a homicide said. Sonya Johnson was taken and have determined to a Greenville hospital. McMillan was killed Her condition was not Comments on this story? E-mail somewhere else in the immediately available. [email protected] county. Suspect dies after 10-story dive from hospital window BALTIMORE — A South Carolina man who allegedly had confessed to his girlfriend’s murder smashed a window at a hospital where he was being evaluated for chest pains and leaped 10 stories to his death, police said. Damon Smith, 27, was pronounced dead at the Mercy Medical Center about noon Sunday, shortly after he slipped out of a pair of handcuffs, struggled with an offi cer guarding him and leaped to his death. Maryland State Police had arrested the South Carolina native on Friday after a car accident, about four hours after college student Veronica Fludd, of Summerton, S.C., was found stabbed to death in the home of her aunt and uncle. Police said Smith had self-inflicted wounds and bloody socks when he was arrested. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 PAGE 5

Protest-free

EDITORIAL BOARD campuses

Editor Managing Editor JACKIE ALEXANDER MICHAEL BAUMANN something News Editor Copy Desk Chief JESS DAVIS LAUREN SMITH to celebrate Metro Editor Viewpoints Editor LIZ SEGRIST KELLY LACORTE Vietnam War-era protests Th e Mix Editor Sports Editor ANDREA LUCAS ALEX RILEY should be discouraged, Design Director Assistant Sports Editor not heralded in history LIZZIE WILSON CORY BURKARTH A line on the cover article in this month’s Garnet & Black bemoans, “…where IN OUR OPINION have all the protests gone?” The current war in Iraq combined with a visceral, blinding hatred Media insensitivity of President Bush has left Band together to mourn victims lost many liberals crosses line of decency dreaming of it can be time to remember that Students must give each their glory hard to even we are all members of a Shame on you, CNN. days during other support needed for function in community. Each member the Vietnam On the renowned news channel, some executive in a the blaze’s of USC has been hit by BRAD LEAKE coping with loss after fi re War. cushy offi ce decided that playing the 911 tapes from the wake. As this tragedy and everyone Fourth-year For me, and for the rest of Armed someone is trying to find his or political house fi re in Ocean Isle, N.C., was a good idea on Monday the students at USC, the with emotion, who was her own way to cope. In science past two days have been songs and night. The esteemed station also found it prudent to loop DARREN personally this time, remember even student very saddening. I did not drugs, student video of the fi re as it killed seven students. PRICE connected during grief and tragedy, it know any of those lost at protesters Second-year with last is important to lean on one It’s different from Sept. 11 when tapes were played live Ocean Isle on Sunday, and worked hard to destroy the I have very few friends print year’s tragic another. — that was news. When you know what has happened, morale of the US military who lost friends. journalism shooting Pray for those who were and ensure defeat in that your fellow students died, it’s just insensitive. Even without a personal student at Virginia lost and be there for those Vietnam. connection to the fire, Tech a nd a who are most affected. We are not advocating The highlight for the I, like many others, still resident of Blacksburg, Va., Reach out to friends deeply a complete moratorium hippies at USC was their The media must fi nd feel the sting of loss, and I personally know how it affected by the loss of “takeover” of the Russell on videos of the fire; it is have trouble wrapping feels to have to attempt to friends, be a shoulder to balance between House in May 1970. Five important that people are my mind around what go about my day as news lean on or a friend to lift hundred students trashed happened. How could coverage plagues my home, spirits. Listen to them if covering the news and aware of what is happening the Russell House for seven families have lost all the while knowing they need to talk. If they several hours before quickly here. However, someone their sons and daughters? nothing about the welfare want to be alone, leave intruding on lives. chickening out. Only 41 were should have used better It is hard to comprehend, of my family and friends. them be. But make sure arrested when the patrolmen and even harder to begin To say it is diffi cult is quite make yourself available to judgement and played the arrived. to understand what those a gross understatement. It each other in the coming One of these brave videos only online, where people can view them at their who lost friends and family is impossible. days. patriots, former USC student discretion. feel. SAEs and Tri-Delts have After a tragedy such Brett Bursey, is quoted in For some touched by the it the hardest of all. They’ve as the one that occurred USC spokesman Russ McKinney said the media must the magazine labeling the tragedy, it may be easier been plagued by national on Sunday in Ocean fi nd balance between covering the news and intruding heroism and sacrifice of to just go about their day and local media attempting Isle, it is important that the soldiers, sailors, airmen on the lives of others. CNN has not found this delicate as usual, and now, at least, to get a perspective from everyone in USC band and Marines in Vietnam, detach themselves from the students closest to the together in grief. A college balance, instead leaning grossly to intruding and treading including the 58,226 who the tragedy. Sometimes fire, having not only to campus is, above all else, a on grieving hearts.Reporters as far away as Los Angeles lost their lives, as “stupid.” it is easier to go to class cope with the loss of their community, and that needs Rooting against the and New York tried to work any angle they could. or to stand in line for brothers and sisters, but to be remembered in times United States military in Even local and regional media outlets aren’t without Florida tickets as if it they have to dodge media of grief. those times, much like today, was a normal day than to frenzy in their grief. By being there for the fault. They swarmed the Greek Village during a time of guaranteed you a successful attempt to juggle school Everyone deals with the other members of the career and positive, even mourning. and mourning. It can be tragedy differently, but it community, we can help fawning, coverage from the We pledge to respect the grieving while sharing the difficult to grieve when is important to remember each other cope with the media. there is so much to do. that everyone must deal tragedy and deal with stories about the students’ lives. As the student newspaper, For instance, actress For others, especially with it somehow. Sunday’s loss. we grieve as well but strive to inform you, our readers. Jane Fonda, whose picture those closest to the tragedy, Now is an important We just wish everyone else would do the same. is prominently featured in the g&b article, is arguably the most famous protester CORRECTIONS during the Vietnam War era. She gave direct aid and In Monday’s Viewpoints, the Saw IV column was written LETTERS TO THE EDITOR comfort to the enemy by by Kimi Timmers, a third-year journalism student. When young people families. As a member of other university staff visiting North Vietnam and The Daily Gamecock regrets the error. are ripped away from a the Gamecock Nation, attended. The Greek encouraging the communist If you see an error in today’s paper, we want to know about campus community, it I am saddened by this Life and Student Life soldiers in their struggle to it. E-mail us at [email protected] hurts all of us deeply. tragedy. I can only hope offi ces helped us with all kill Americans. We at Virginia Tech that everyone can pull arrangements necessary to In a series of photos, appreciate the support together and give a tribute settle Blayne’s affairs with Fonda is seen posing on an IT’S YOUR RIGHT shown by the Gamecocks on Greene Street to these tremendous respect, grace anti-aircraft gun, laughing Voice your opinion on message boards at www.dailygamecock.com during the spring, and I students. and dignity. The Sports and joking with its North or send letters to the editor at [email protected] simply wanted everyone Management Department Vietnamese crew. there to know that our Burton Hilton established a scholarship In an Aug. 22, 1972 thoughts and prayers are Ely, Nevada in Blayne’s memory to broadcast from Hanoi, About The Daily Gamecock with you as the university which countless members she falsely claimed that copes with the loss of of the Gamecock family American POWs were being Editor CONTACT INFORMATION those young people. have contributed. treated humanely. Upon JACKIE ALEXANDER Offi ces located on the third fl oor of the Russell House On the evening of Managing Editor Editor: [email protected] For me, the lesson to The Alpha Tau Omega their rescue, these soldiers, MICHAEL BAUMANN News: [email protected] March 4, 2006, our son be learned from April, brothers hosted a lovely including Sen. John McCain, Online Editor Metro: [email protected] Blayne, a freshman at ASHLEY PARKS Viewpoints: [email protected] and again from Sunday’s reception for our family showed the world their scars. Th e Mix: [email protected] Assistant Online Editor USC at the time, died as a Sports: [email protected] BOJAN KULUSIC tragedy, is this: Take and friends after the In response, Fonda labeled Online: www.dailygamecock.com result of injuries sustained Copy Desk Chief time to get to know your memorial service. Many of these war heroes “hypocrites Newsroom: 777-7726; Sports: 777-7182 in an automobile accident LAUREN SMITH Editor’s Offi ce: 777-3914 classmates and professors Blayne’s fellow students, and liars,” according to Assistant Copy Desk Chief Fax: 777-6482 as he was traveling home and colleagues as best fraternity brothers, Christopher Andersen’s book CALLI BURNETT to Raleigh, N.C. for Design Director you can. What makes us fraternity faculty adviser, “Citizen Jane.” LIZZIE WILSON Spring Break. proud of our schools really fraternity housemother Yet Fonda still enjoys a Assistant Design Director MICHAEL AGUILAR, AUSTIN The Daily Gamecock is On Sunday morning GREG HENDERSON COLLINS, ALMAR FLOTILDES, has very little to do with and other faculty made successful acting career the editorially independent March 5, I received a News Editor TRAVIS FRAYARD, KATIE student newspaper of the JESS DAVIS JONES, BRAD MAXWELL, sports, and everything to the trip to Raleigh for the and the adoration of University of South Carolina. phone call from (President Metro Editor MARY PINA, KATHLEEN do with people - so value service there. Hollywood and the media. It is published daily during Andrew) Sorensen LIZ SEGRIST ROGERS, JACK ROZIER them above all else. One In short, the university In a similar fashion, the Viewpoints Editor Public Relations Director the fall and spring semesters offering condolences on KELLY LACORTE MARY ELIZABETH SISK and nine times during the never knows how long a and all associated with it Democrats nominated behalf of the university Assistant Viewpoints Editor Graduate Assistant summer with the exception of friend or a stranger’s smile treated us like family. For a politician who falsely AMANDA DAVIS KATIE CLARK university holidays and exam and his family. He assured will be around. that reason we will always accused American soldiers Th e Mix Editor Student Media Director periods. Opinions expressed us that his offi ce and the ANDREA LUCAS SCOTT LINDENBERG in The Daily Gamecock are Try not to make sense be Gamecocks! of atrocities in Vietnam for Assistant Mix Editor Faculty Adviser university stood ready those of the editors or author TYLER MOBLEY ERIK COLLINS of things too quickly - let I know in my heart president. Embracing evil and not those of the University to help our family in our Sports Editor Creative Director the anger or wonder (or that the university which communist dictatorships of South Carolina. Th e Board tragedy in any way that ALEX RILEY EDGAR SANTANA both) help us all learn the responded so lovingly and undermining the United Assistant Sports Editor Business Manager of Student Publications we needed. CORY BURKARTH CAROLYN GRIFFIN and Communications is value of life. The Hokies and genuinely to our States military is a virtue to From that point Photo Editor Advertising Manager the publisher of The Daily mourn with you. family will respond in like many liberals; enough to get EMILY DAVIS SARAH SCARBOROUGH Gamecock forward we have had a . Th e Department manner in this tragedy. John Kerry nominated at Copy Editors Classifi eds Manager of Student Media is ANNA BRIGHT, PAUL BOWERS, SHERRY F. HOLMES remarkable outpouring the newspaper’s parent Ross Perkins Please know that our least. TRAVIS HARDY, CHELSEY Production Manager The Daily of support from everyone KARNS, HOPE KITTERMAN, C. NEIL SCOTT organization. Virginia Tech hearts are broken for these There is nothing to be Gamecock at the university. Greek EDDIE MANN, ED PHARR, ARTIE Creative Services is supported in School of Education families and the university proud of when we look back PHILLIPS, ERIN SHARKEY, BEN BUCHANAN, BRANDON part by student-activity fees. 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That a beautiful memorial Page Designers WARING, LIZZIE WILSON purchased for $1 each from time to come. similar protests have not JULIA ANDERSON, KEVIN Advertising the Department of Student service for Blayne in the ARCHIE, CARLY GALLAGHER, KARRIEMA CALHOUN, ALEX My heart goes out to taken root on college Media. chapel on the Horseshoe, SARAH ROBERTS, ABIGAIL CAMPION, BEN CRANE, CHRIS those who lost their lives Stephen Brown campuses today is a thing to GARRISON, MEREDITH RAY KRAUTLER, JAMIE SHOOK, which Dr. Sorensen and Staff Writers JAYLENE WILLIAMS yesterday and to their Raleigh, NC be celebrated. “Th e farther away you walk from your problems, the longer the walk back is to fi xing them.” -– Anonymous

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Mary Pina Halloween on Wednesday. kit out with you for those there are some really simple dress up in all one color and While you’re out doing STAFF WRITER If you want to make a just-in-case mess-ups. You costume choices that won’t go as blue, or better yet, go as some last minute Halloween Halloween costume be sure never know if something is kill your budget and ensure one of the Blue Man Group. shopping, pick up some Should you make or buy to block off a couple of hours going to happen while you’re you have a neat costume. One Web site I checked out cheap stuff for next year. your Halloween costume? every so often to fi nish your out, and a costume mishap Check out your closet. had the idea of being a used You never know what you’re There are benefi ts to both. project and start at least a isn’t something you want to You’d be surprised what car salesman; all you need is going to need for next year’s Being a student and taking week in advance happen. you’ll fi nd. If you have a long a bad plaid suit and you’re costume, and if you can fi nd the time out of your schedule Don’t start a costume you I started making my skirt, some sandals and a good to go. it for a great deal, get it now for making a costume can be don’t know how to make. costume last week but never bunch of scarves, you’ve got Start your Halloween and hold on to it. really hard. Sometimes it is One year for Halloween fi nished it. I was hand-sewing a gypsy costume. All black shopping today. A lot of As with every holiday, worth the effort when you I got a little big for my something really simple but always works for Halloween. places are putting what they be safe! Go in groups, stay go out for Halloween and britches and decided to got lost in my schoolwork Buy some animal ears and have left for Halloween on away from places that look have a unique costume. make a costume that was too and had no time to fi nish. you have yourself a costume. sale. You should be able to shady and never, never go But where can you find technical for my sewing skill Some students have already If that fails be a ghost. All pick up some sure cheap into a gas station in a robber the time? Sadly, if you didn’t at the time. hit up the local costume you need is a white sheet and accessories for fi nal touches costume. start making your costume If you had the time to shops, Wal-Mart and the some scissors. to any costume. It’s the little last week, you won’t have make your costume, don’t Halloween stores. If you Come up with something things that sometimes make Comments on this story? E-mail it finished in time for forget to bring a small sewing were left in my predicament simple or funny. Be a color - a great costume. [email protected] ‘Bigfoot’ steps No. 4 doesn’t slice as sharply New installment of ‘Saw’ franchise ultimately repeats tricks of previous fi lms

“Saw IV” through the tape basically where there’s more mystery into spotlight ★★★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩ informing the detective that involved but for the most even though he is dead, his part is like any other of the Almar Flotildes work will persist. fi lms. Low-budget fi lm made by Columbia llawyerawyer MOVIE REVIEWER And from there, the game There are numerous continues. scenes of lose-lose situations wins international awards and acclaimlaim Jigsaw is returning from Two FBI agents, Strahm just like in the previous the grave, and he would like (Scott Patterson) and Perez ‘Saw’ movies. This one, too, “The Long Way Home: A the rights to sellll the movie nothinnothingg wrong with anyoneannyone to play another game. (Athena Karkanis), are on lives by the John Kramer Bigfoot Story” himself and to allow local intervinterviewediiewed as parpartt of tthehe Well, he’s not exactly back the case to assist Detective mantra that people have to ★★★★ out of ✩✩✩✩✩ businesses too sell the movie BigfBigfootooot story; thetheyy are justjus in this fourth installment of Hoffman sort out the latest save their own lives – that also. councountrytry folks. the Saw franchise. But Tobin of Jigsaw’s games. Meanwhile “salvation is in their hands,” Mary Pina “TheThe LLongong Way Home” is ThThereere are littlittlelee sprsprinklesin Bell does reprise his role as SWAT Commander Rigg, as John Kramer would say. THE DAILY GAMECOCK a fi lm aaboutboutu fi nding the truth off hhumorumor throughthrouggh tthehe plot. the maniacal serial killing the last offi cer untouched by There may even be less in tthehe mmostosst bizarre situation. 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Whether it was previous fi lms. more about John Kramer’s sense knows not to, but Dipping intointoo his own savings hohometownmetown of Indian CCampam meant to be funny or not, it Skulls crack. Flesh is back-story leading up to his then again, if they didn’t, to create ththishis film, CromerCromeer MoMountain,untain, N.C. was great. impaled. Limbs are torn. fi rst victim. there wouldn’t be much of puts togtogetheretthher 71 minutesminutees of Galloway wanders up andand “The Long Way Home” There are plot twists, traps It’s hard to critique a fi lm a movie. huhumor,mor, ssadnessaddness and Bigfoot.Biggffoot. dodownwn Transylvania CoCounty,unt was fi lmed primarily in upper waiting around the corner like Saw, which is made This fourth installment “The LLongong Way Home”HHome” N.C., in search of hishis story. Pickens County and lower and rusty old devices that mostly for cheap thrills. 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TThehee fi llmm hhas believes in Bigfoot and is out recommended. It’s weird, but Jigsaw and his apprentice one-on-one survival match alsoo beenbeen screenedscreenedd fourfo times to fi nd and kill him. that’s the whole point. In the Amanda are long dead. where two men are cruelly Comments on this story? E-mail in CColumbia,olumu biia, twicet at the Through his travels and long run, it’s just about one The fi rst scenes of the fi lm chained by the neck to a [email protected] Indie GrGritsits FFilm Festival and interviews,nte Galloway learns man’s journey to discover the display a graphic dissection device that could easily crush twice at the Nickelodeon. frfromom a ddrag queen friend that truth about Bigfoot, but in of Jigsaw’s corpse. Even bones. 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HOROSCOPES PIC OF THE DAY PAUL BOWERS the scene Aries Nope. Move along. Taurus You will be run down by a Ford Pinto. You will emerge as the clear victor of the collision. USC Gemini Odds are your photography professor won’t be amused by your Polaroid. He clearly L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio doesn’t know sophisticated shake-and-develop technology when he sees it. Cancer Stamp collecting is a fun pastime… if you live in the Midwest. Leo Don’t do drugs. And not just out of self-preservation: a cartoon lion told you so. Virgo Turns out that cake from last year didn’t originally have fur. Give it a shave before digging in. Libra Boston’s classic hit “More Than a Feeling” has been stuck in your head all day. If not, then it is now. Scorpio You will learn how to play a lime green guitar that shoots electric eels from the headstock. Use it to battle invading mutants and communists. Sagittarius Tired of holding intelligent conversations Cristina Kubicki / THE DAILY GAMECOCK with people whom you have The line for the Florida ticket distribution Monday morning stretched from the front actually, physically met? Thank heavens for Facebook. of the Russell House all the way down Sumter Street to the old site of the Towers. MURDER BY DEATH, DUE VITTORIO” Capricorn Swig some EAST, BRAVE HORATIOUS, Part of the Nick’s Afternoon Gatorade and wear a FOR SCIENCE! Sneak Peek Series polyester warm-up suit to Inside the Box ◆ By Marlowe Leverette / Th e Daily Gamecock 7 p.m. Noon, 1:30 p.m. your exam today. People will $10 $5 like you, and you’ll probably The New Brookland The Nickelodeon Theatre, earn bonus points. Really. Tavern, 122 State St. 937 Main St. Aquarius Those men with tear gas cans and “JOSHUA” ACOUSTIC CAFÉ loudspeakers are probably 6, 8 p.m. 9:30-11:30 p.m. not here to get your cat $5.50 Starbucks in the University out of the tree. It might The Nickelodeon Theatre, Bookstore have to do with your 937 Main St. protest group’s twelve- CLEMSON LOTTERY week clothing boycott. “L’ORCHESTRA DI PIAZZA 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Pisces Duck!

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ACROSS 1 Work hard 7 Big bike, colloquially 11 Orch. section 14 Pencil end 15 Banned spray 16 Ms. Zadora 17 Hit by the Doors 19 Stock-market abbr. 20 Kind of rubber Whiteboard ◆ By Bobby Sutton / Th e Daily Gamecock 21 Minute amount 22 Hit the tub 24 Indigenous Japanese 26 Base thief 28 "__ Proposal" 32 Morales of "La Bamba" 33 Bay on the English Channel 34 Trot or canter DOWN Solutions from 10/29/07 36 Puts on years 1 Part of SASE 39 Compass dir. 2 Small combo 40 Apparition 3 Hindu music 43 Monarch's letters 4 Son of Abraham 10/30/07 44 Cry of dismay 5 Ex-G.I. 46 Indy-winner 6 Royalty fur 1 2 3 4 Luyendyk 7 Knife handle 47 Better 8 False name 49 Doe's baby 9 Armed confl ict 51 Lionel product 10 Diving birds 53 Attempt to replicate 11 Strong beams 56 "...__ right with 12 Ten-percent the world" donation 57 New Indian city? 13 Daytona entry der __" the east wind 58 "Do __ others..." 18 Less mature 38 Report 59 Beatty and 41 Huff and puff Buntline for 10/29/07 60 Small salamander 23 Perfect report card 64 Unkindly 25 Frosts 42 Stir up 61 Actress Arden, 65 Monitor display 27 Beret fi ller 45 Solemn vow casually 68 U.K. honor 28 __ facto 48 Clicks open 62 Left 69 Muffl ed sound 29 Snack 50 Middle sections 63 Very: Fr. 70 On one's back 30 Like some pillows 52 "The Tempest" king 66 Ernesto Guevara 71 Small bit 31 Unspoken 53 Dunce 67 Word before 72 Meeting of Cong. 35 Say again 54 Crisp toast 17A, 65A, 11D and 73 Beginnings 37 "Das Lied von 55 Greek god of 30D Page 8 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007

Sports give Too little, too late for offense? us moments TD drought ends, to step back, Gamecocks will fully recover need strong fi nish Football games, events Cory Burkarth ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR chances for students, fans to rebound from tragedy With 5:41 left in the third In times like these, quarter, Blake Mitchell especially since last weekend officially ended the South at this university, I am Carolina Gamecocks’ boycott reminded of the shortness of the end zone with his one- of life. I am reminded of yard touchdown run. the quickness Unfortunately, the with which Gamecocks were already down something that 21-0 when Mitchell scored, we all take for and the attempt at a comeback granted can could be best described as “too be destroyed, little, too late.” taken away or Until Mitchell’s touchdown, lost. the Gamecocks had not MICHAEL It is also reached the end zone since AGUILAR during times Oct. 13 at North Carolina. Th ird-year like these that With 15 seconds left in the English I am reminded second quarter, quarterback student as to why I Chris Smelley connected with value sports so Jared Cook in the end zone on much. a 12-yard touchdown pass. I do not pretend that The Gamecocks didn’t score a simple football game the entire second half of the will change the way that game as they barely beat the those most affected by this Tar Heels 21-15. weekend’s tragedy feel. I do A week later, there was no not pretend that the next doubt the offense would return game at Williams-Brice as the Gamecocks hosted the will be a gathering of the SEC-East’s perennial punching university family in a group bag Vanderbilt. But it was the effort to recoup from a Commodores that beat up on tragedy. What it will be is Carolina, as their 17-6 win over what I think all sports should the No. 6 Gamecocks ended be. USC’s hopes of a national It will be a three-hour-long championship. reprieve from all the things Both Mitchell and Smelley that haunt us day in and day couldn’t seem to catch any out. For three hours, the breaks as their offensive most important thing in the line struggled, and poor world for each of us will be decisions on their part lead to whether or not the incredibly interceptions. talented athletes on the fi eld But Saturday in Knoxville, Graeme Fouste / THE DAILY GAMECOCK wearing garnet and black OFFENSE ● 9 Quarterback Blake Mitchell passed for one touchdown and rushed for another in Saturday’s 27-24 overtime loss. can get into a 10-by-50- yard rectangle more times than the incredibly talented athletes wearing orange and blue. Sec Standings We will be able to cheer and yell and scream and pretend like what is going on East SEC PCT. Overall actually matters. In reality, it doesn’t; it doesn’t even come close. I think about the hours upon hours that I 4-2 .667 6-2 have dedicated to Gamecock sports, through fandom and through working for this newspaper, and I’m fl oored. 3-2 .600 5-3 If I put that time into something useful, say schoolwork for instance, there is no telling where I would be. However, every 3-3 .500 5-3 Saturday in the fall instead of doing something useful, I leave everything behind and focus on the Gamecocks. 3-3 .500 6-3 Every sporting event is meant to be like that. At least, that’s the way I see it. Every pick-up football game, 2-3 .400 6-3 every intramural game, every college and pro sporting Rogelio U. Solis / The Associated Press event is there to make light of the competition in which Arkansas tailback Felix Jones has 8 rushing touchdowns for the Razorbacks in ‘07. we constantly fi nd ourselves. 2-3 .400 5-3 Whether we are competing for grades or jobs, sports let us compete for nothing, just West SEC PCT. Overall for the sake of competing. SPORTSBRIEFS Sports are nothing more than excuses to remove 42 digs in this past weekend’s matches Cory Burkarth yourself from the harsh ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR against Ole Miss and LSU. 4-1 .800 6-2 reality that surround us all She had a career-high 25 digs in and instead do something Sunday’s win over the Tigers and recorded Football just for the sake of doing it. three blocks for Carolina. Lawing is third Following back-to-back losses to I know that none of those on the team with 2.83 kills per game. Vanderbilt and Tennessee, ESPN bumped little things can bring back 4-1 .800 7-1 On Wednesday, Lawing and the Saturday’s game between South Carolina the people whom we lost or Gamecocks (11-12, 4-10 SEC) will host and Arkansas to ESPN2. love. I don’t pretend that the No. 10 Florida (20-1, 13-1 SEC) at the The game will start at 8 p.m., and the solution for the tragedy of Volleyball Competition Facility. The broadcasting crew of Mark Jones, Bob last weekend is to watch a Gators will have a weapon of their own 4-2 .667 6-3 Davie and Stacey Dales will call the game college football game or play in Angie McGinnis, who was named the for ESPN2. The last time the Gamecocks some pick-up basketball at SEC’s Offensive Player of the Week. appeared on ESPN2, Carolina upset No. the Strom. The Gamecocks will host the Arkansas 11 Georgia 16-12. I don’t pretend to know Razorbacks on Friday. 2-3 .400 5-4 ESPN also announced that the Nov. why things like this happen 10 game against Florida will be aired on Equestrian or how we are supposed to ESPN. The game is set to begin at 7:45 Despite a strong showing from the respond. All I know is that in p.m. Hunter Seat team, the Gamecocks life we are blessed with little 1-3 .250 5-3 Women’s Volleyball equestrian team fell to Kansas State 13-7 escapes. If you look carefully, on Sunday in Manhattan, Kan. they aren’t diffi cult to fi nd. Freshman Hannah Lawing was named The team was led by equitation over They range from walking the Southeastern Conference’s Defensive fences MVP Megan Massaro, but the to class just to find a note Player of the Week on Monday. Western team lost their competition 9-1, on the door that says class 0-6 .000 2-7 Lawing, a 5’9” outside hitter from Marietta, Ga., lead the Gamecocks with BRIEFS ● 9 AGUILAR ● 9 The Daily Gamecock ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2007 9

AGUILAR ● Continued from 8 sometimes, to the way you BRIEFS ● Continued from 8 The Gamecocks got a feel when Cory Boyd stiff strong performance from canceled, to the way the arms the last Tennessee giving the Wildcats the sophomore Bénédicte Horseshoe looks when you defender and walks into the overall win. Toumpsin, who finished get here for the first day end zone. Sunday’s loss is the in 19th place after scoring of a new school year, to All of these things are first time the Gamecocks a 75 (+4) each round of the how it feels leaving your there to make it all just a (2-3) have lost back-to- tournament. apartment for the fi rst time little bit easier. The best back competitions since The North River Golf in the spring in shorts and thing about sports is that it September 2004, but they Course did not allow any of short sleeves, to the way is one of the few things that ended up winning their fi rst the golfers to score better looking at someone you you can share with 84,999 national championship that than par over the weekend, love makes you feel—and other people. season. and there were only three “It was a good experience sub-70 scores. to come out and ride in a Senior Camila Mori different part of the country,” fi nished 25th in part because OFFENSE ● Continued from 8 “For real?” said coach Boo Duncan. of her strong final round, Believe it or not, it’s “We’re definitely looking when she scored a 72 (+1). the third quarter seemed true. With SEC games forward to working hard and Senior Whitney Simons to be their awakening. left against Arkansas and preparing for Georgia next opened the tournament with Tennessee’s defense only Florida, the Gamecocks weekend.” a fi rst-round score of 71 (E) got two sacks in their will have to win both, Saturday, the team will but posted 78 and 80 scores 27-24 overtime victory, and hope Georgia and compete in their last match in the fi nal two rounds, and something USC running Tennessee lose down the of the fall season at 10 a.m. she fi nished 34th. back Cory Boyd said the stretch. when they host Georgia Arkansas won the event THE DAILY GAMECOCK offensive line deserved “We can’t hang our Ben Fine / at One Wood Farm in with a combined score of credit for. heads from here,”said Brittiny Rhoades has started 18 of 19 games for Carolina. Blythewood. 886; the Gamecocks fi nished “The offensive line kicker Ryan Succop, who at 905. played good today,” Boyd missed a 40-yard fi eld goal Women’s Tennis said. “They get beat up a in overtime to seal the The Gamecocks women’s Women’s Soccer lot about not protecting game for Tennessee. tennis team won three singles It was a Senior Day the quarterback and I If the UNC win and two doubles flights at celebration on Sunday as the think they answered the was upsetting, and the the Southern Intercollegiate No. 25 Gamecocks (13-4-2, call tonight.” Vanderbilt loss was Championships on Sunday. 5-3-2 SEC) shut out Arkansas Unfortunately, the shocking, then the loss Carolina’s Gira Schofi eld 1-0. Freshman Brooke Jacobs Gamecocks came up to Tennessee may prove and Anna Marija Zubori scored her fi rst career goal in short in Knoxville, which to be deflating for the paired up and won the A-1 the win at Stone Stadium. Captain Munnerlyn Gamecocks. doubles fl ight 8-5 over a duo “It was a great effort,” said thought eliminated USC The last four games of from Armstrong Atlantic. Coach Shelley Smith. “I’m from contention in the the season are going to be Schofi eld and Zubori faced proud of our team to get a SEC-East. the make or break stretch off against each other in win on the last home game “This loss hurt us,” he for Carolina’ season, and the all-Gamecock final for on Senior Day.” said. “It probably knocked after two crushing losses, singles fl ight A-1. Schofi eld Yesterday, Jacobs was us out of the race for going the question now is does bounced back from a 6-0 loss named SEC Freshman of the to the SEC championship this team have the heart in the opening set to win 6-3, Week. Ben Fine / THE DAILY GAMECOCK game, but we still got a to get back to where they 6-3 in the fi nal two sets. Senior Laura Armstrong lot of football to play, let’s thought they would be? Megan McGavock and was in the goal for Carolina, The Inferno and goalie Todd Ford beat the Augusta Lynx try to get into a good bowl After Saturday night’s Miljana Jocic won the B-1 and earned her sixth shutout 3-2 in a shootout on Friday night at the Carolina Coliseum. game.” game, we’ll find out one draw 8-4 against USC- of the season. She has 14 When a reporter told way or another. Upstate’s pair in the final. shutouts in her career and on Friday night, defeating 5-3. him they were not yet In the third-place match of is one away from tying the Augusta Lynx 3-2 in a On Wednesday, Columbia out of the SEC-East race, Comments on this story? E-mail A-2, Natasa Vuckovic and the career record (15) and shootout. will host the South Carolina Munnerlyn responded, [email protected] Suzanna Mansour fell 8-3 to single-single season record The Inferno got goals Stingrays at the Carolina UT-Martin’s duo. (seven), both held by former from defenseman Ren Fauci Coliseum at 7:05 p.m. The The Gamecocks conclude Gamecock Elise Matthews. and left winger Daniel Inferno will stay at home for their season at the SEC Fall South Carolina will fi nish Sparre in regulation. In the the weekend, hosting the Coaches Classic in Auburn, the regular season on Friday shootout, Inferno goalie Lynx on Friday night, and Visit our Web site dailygamecock.com Ala., this weekend. night when they travel to Todd Ford blanked the Lynx the Stingrays will return to Women’s Golf Gainesville, Fla., to face No. four straight times, and play Columbia on Saturday and read Ed Cahill’s sports blog 23 Florida. Columbia’s Jeff Miles and night. Both weekend games The women’s golf team Peter Tsimikalis scored to are set for 7:05 p.m. fi nished the UA-Ann Rhoads Columbia Inferno give the Inferno the victory. 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