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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 34 ● SINCE 1908 Assistant coaches get contract extensions 6 o 9 r e raises due t January 2015, except for defensive coordinator $180,000 this year and $200,000 in 2014, versus f eceiv o Lorenzo Ward’s , which lasts through Jan. 31, 2016. $150,000 last year. football program’s success All of the coaches except Ward will receive the —Co-offensive coordinators Shawn Elliott and Thad Moore same incentive packages they already have, Tanner Steve Spurrier Jr., and special teams coordinator [email protected] said. Joe Robinson will be paid $250,000 this year, the That includes a $30,000 bonus if the team same as last year, but they will get $275,000 next AIKEN — USC’s board of trustees approved makes it to a Bowl Championship Series game — year. Over the next two years, they’ll also receive contract extensions for the football team’s nine $20,000 for the Capital One , Cotton, Chick-fi l-A $150,000 total in media payouts. assistant coaches , including base pay raises for six. or Outback bowls , or $15,000 if the team makes —Running backs coach Everette Sands will The raises mark the recent successes of the it to any other bowl, according to their contracts. make $215,000 this year and $230,000 next year, team, which has had two consecutive 11-win They also get access to a car. up from $185,000 last year. seasons, said Athletics Director Ray Tanner. For most of the coaches, the new contracts “It’s been outstanding,” Tanner said. “I don’t represent a base pay raise. Quarterbacks coach G.A. Mangus will continue think we’ve ever been at this level in Gamecock to be paid $175,000; his pay was frozen by the football. We’ve got some wonderful coaches who —Linebackers coach Kirk Botkin will be paid NCAA until July 2014, Tanner said. Defensive have done a tremendous job, and they’re very $225,000 this year and $250,000 in 2014, compared line coach Deke Adams , who’s new to the team, deserving of these increases.” to $185,000 last year, according to state records. The contracts are good through the end of —Secondary coach Grady Brown will make COACHES ● 2 $188.9 million approved for ‘FOR THE KIDS’ 30 facilities improvements

New School of Law, Hamilton College renovation get OK

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AIKEN — USC’s board of trustees approved a bevy of building and renovation projects, mostly for the Columbia campus, Thursday — 30 in all, worth $188.9 million. The biggest: a new, $80 million building for the School of Law, which will open in 2016. The board approved a funding package that would include $48.1 Matt DeMarco / THE DAILY GAMECOCK million in university bonds, $10 USCDM members distribute T-shirts and dancer information packets Thursday as dancers register for tonight’s event. million in state bonds, $10 million in state money and the $11.9 million in private donations it has in the bank. Dance Marathon ready for 15th year Robert Wilcox, the law school’s dean , said he expected to eventually USC Dance Marathon (USCDM) is putting the fi nal In order to preserve enough money for the charity, have more of the project — about touches on tonight’s 24-hour dancing philanthropy event. USCDM never exceeds the necessary amount of spending. $17 million — paid by fundraising The organization benefits Columbia’s Palmetto Health In addition, participants are required to raise a specific Children’s Hospital, a member of the Children’s Miracle amount, from dancers raising at least $150 to directors efforts as promised donations come Network, and is the largest student-run philanthropy in reaching a $500 minimum, according to Knight. in, including $2 million that went South Carolina. The event raised $177,229.05 last year. In addition to the USCDM executive and morale teams, unclaimed in a class-action lawsuit. The event, on its 15th consecutive year, is in its final many fraternities and sororities also raise money for the As a board committee held a private stages of preparation as dancers turn in remaining donations event. Knight says USCDM has high expectations to discussion Thursday morning, Wilcox and pick up their team-colored T-shirts. Setup will begin surpass last year’s total. got a phone call saying the school had promptly this morning. “Nothing beats the feelings of joining with fellow just gotten a $300,000 gift in hand. Dance Marathon also requires a lot more preparation Gamecocks to truly save children’s lives and have fun while “I think you need to go into during the two semesters leading up to the event, often in doing it,” Knight said. “Dance Marathon is much more executive session a little more often,” the form of seeking donations. than another philanthropic organization. It is a celebration Wilcox told trustees. “Throughout the year we host many percent nights, a to honor the kids who fi ght for their lives every day. It’s a A new law school building has long 5k, mini marathons at local high schools, and … many of pledge to stand for kids who can’t.” been a goal of the university, and our dancers have hosted their own fundraisers with their The 2013 Dance Marathon will begin today at 7 p.m. fundraising began before the turn of teams,” USCDM Dancer Relations Director Leslie Knight in the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center. the century. A chunk of the project said in an email. Students will be on their feet until 7 p.m. Saturday. was funded in 1999, when the state Knight says her participation as a dancer last year drew legislature voted to give USC $10 her closer to the organization and the cause. As of Thursday — Compiled by Evan D. Gatti, Assistant Copy Desk Chief night, Dance Marathon has 862 registered dancers — the million. DG USC President Harris Pastides largest number of participants to date, according to Knight. called the building “the biggest domino” in a chain of projects to add classrooms for undergraduates on the Columbia campus, where space has grown tight. “We are comfortable, but snug,” Counselor discusses porn addictions Pastides said. the center as part of their student fees. response. Six students said yes, and 14 USC hasn’t analyzed how many Wright: ‘I want everybody Wright pointed out that outside of USC, said no. more undergraduate students it could to talk about sex’ sessions with a therapist could cost up She also clarifi ed at the beginning of add as a result of the new space, to $100 to $140 per hour. Wright is a the presentation that she wouldn’t be Pastides said. Sydney Patterson [email protected] counselor at the center who specializes showing any porn, then said she wouldn’t Trustees also approved a $64.5 in sexual health. be offended if anyone left right then. million plan to renovate the Close/ She said that as a society, we don’t talk She had students fill out a Hipp building , which the Department “G SPOTS.” about sex, but that’s not how it should be. questionnaire rating their “sexual of Justice will lease for 20 years, Or, as Dr. Sarah Wright clarifi ed to “I want everybody to talk about sex,” values,” or how much importance they according to USC Chief Financial students in her lecture Tuesday night: she said, adding that she talks about it place on possible aspects of a sexual Officer Ed Walton . The justice “Gamecocks Speaking Proactively on “a little more casually than the average relationship. Among them: monogamy; department will pay $5.4 million a Topic s of Sex ua l it y.” bear.” bondage, dominance, sadism and year for the building. Wright led a seminar in the She took a poll via text message asking masochism (BDSM); masturbation; The justice department will cover Russell House focused primarily on the audience of about 25 if they thought celibacy; and watching porn alone or $49.5 million of the project, said pornography — what it is, how it plays porn use was inherently problematic. with a partner. Derek Gruner, Facilities’ director of into personal values, how to talk about it Though not everyone responded, She outlined what porn is, legally, planning and programming. and when it becomes a problem. 12 students said no, and six said yes. and the “AAA engine,” or what makes Projects cause price boost: She started with a plug for the Responses to the second poll — “I think it popular. She asked students what they Athletics accounted for more than a university’s Counseling and Human I or someone I care about may have an Development Center. Students get 12 issue with porn use” — got a similar PORN ● 3 FACILITIES ● 2 one-on-one sessions with counselors at

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FACILITIES ● Continued from 1 third of the projects OK’d at the meeting, with a slate In Brief. of 11 projects worth more than $51 million, including $14 million for an indoor practice facility. Columbia man sues Football ticket holders will foot the bill for part of Police seize $10k of those projects, Athletics Director Ray Tanner said. Snapchat co-founders USC will increase the price of a season ticket by marijuana from home $45, or 14 percent, to $365, Tanner said, and the cost of a single-game seat will go up on average $6.42. A Columbia man claims he is a co-creator of Snapchat More than $10,000 worth of marijuana was seized In all, the increase is expected to generate about $2 and is suing two of the three founders of the photo- from a Columbia home by the Columbia Police million each year, “a major component” in USC’s plan sharing application, WIS reported. Department’s Drug Suppression Team Thursday, to pay for the projects, he said. The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County alleges including an “indoor grow operation,” according to Because of the price hike, Tanner said the that Frank Reginald Brown IV agreed to market the a CPD release. Gamecock Club was backing off a due increase it app with two Stanford classmates, but they cut off both Benjamin Doar, 25, has been charged with passed last year. their business partnership and all contact with Brown manufacturing marijuana, posession of marijuana With the raised prices, Tanner said USC should be in August 2011. Shortly after, co-founders Robert with the intent to distribute and possession of between the sixth and eighth most expensive ticket in Cornelius Murphy and Evan Thomas Spiegel changed marijuana with intent to distribute near a school . the Southeastern Conference. the app’s name from Picaboo to its current moniker, as Offi cers seized a mature marijuana plant with an “I’m sure there’ll be some (backlash),” Tanner said. well as changed passwords for the start-up’s servers and estimated value of $5,000 from Doar’s Coatesdale “I would hope it would be minimal, but any time you accounts, according to the lawsuit. Road home. They also found 15 1-ounce bags of have a ticket increase, that’s a possibility.” The suit also states Brown wrote the app’s terms marijuana with the estimated total value of $5,250. And increasingly, ticket sales are competing with of service, privacy policy, marketing materials and The marijuana was found by police as a result of a higher quality TVs, Tanner said, so it’s becoming website’s frequently asked questions, as well as managed Crimestoppers tip. The anonymous tipster reported harder to get fans to turn out to Williams-Brice tax returns, in the summer of 2011. drug activity near Garners Ferry Road, which is Stadium. Brown said he was not compensated for his work with about two miles from Coatesville Road. That’s part of why USC is spending $14 million to the app, as it had not generated any money at the time. More than 18 pounds of marijuana were seized by spruce up the plaza outside of the stadium by August The lawsuit seeks compensatory damages. the Drug Suppression Team in 2012. The team also 2015. seized more than 38 grams of cocaine and 50 grams “When we get ready to do the plaza around — Amanda Coyne, Assistant News Editor of crack. Williams-Brice, it will continue to enhance the experience,” Tanner said. “We’re challenged to have —Amanda Coyne, people in the seats versus people at home watching Assistant News Editor Are you a FACILITIES ● 3 COACHES ● Cont. from 1 in media payouts per year and is eligible for a series of bonuses if the will be paid $225,000 this year and football team wins its conference or Social Media $250,000 next year. division and if it ranks in the top six Ward will still be paid $300,000 in the conference for total defense. per year under his three-year Superstar extension. He also receives $350,000 DG

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QUESTIONS? ? Email Chelsea Rhodes at [email protected] PORN ● Continued from 1 is subjective. Wright said porn use can be classifi ed thought the three As stand for; one as an addiction — even though it’s not responded with “arousal,” and another offi cially recognized as a mental illness yelled out a word for a person’s behind. — when it signifi cantly impacts the daily “No, but thank you for just yelling out life of the user. ‘a--,’” she said, laughing, then listed the She advised students either dealing correct answers: anonymity, affordability with a porn addiction or supporting and accessibility. someone who is to talk to someone they She also talked about “the good, the trust and to keep a log of use “just to bad and the ugly of porn.” be aware of it.” She listed “four options She said it can make viewers more to end misery”: change the situation, comfortable with their sexuality or change how you think or feel, change facilitate arousal (the good). It can lessen how you react or stay miserable. commitment in relationships (the bad) “There’s a lot of power in choice,” she or at its worst, it can encourage what she said. called the “rape myth,” which is when Wright has a few more lectures viewing violent porn makes people think coming up this semester. There will be a that all women secretly want to be raped. similar information-oriented seminar on The bottom line, she said, is that abortion Tuesday, April 9, and she said everyone has a private sexual self, and one about masturbation is in the works. that’s OK. Partners’ sexual values can “I could talk for hours about differ, and watching porn can even be masturbation,” she said. a “deal breaker” for some. But she said policing your partner won’t work, and DG that ultimately, what’s right and wrong

FACILITIES ● Continued from 2 May 2014 and will cost the university $15 million, unless it receives money for the game.” it from the state. When offi cials made Maintenance needs: their pitch for funding from the state Other projects given a green light legislature earlier this year, Hamilton Thursday included a slew of deferred was the only maintenance project in maintenance needs and classroom Columbia they requested money for. updates. Chief among them is Hamilton Other projects include: the Institute for African College , a building Walton said was “in — Three projects worth a total of desperate need of renovation.” $1.19 million to upgrade classrooms in That project plans to add classrooms the Booker T. Washington Complex American Research and offices in the building’s gym and ($460,000), LeConte College ($400,000) improve the interior, heating and air and the Swearingen Engineering Center conditioning in a wing by Pendleton ($330,000) . The Booker T. Washington Bancroft Prize-Winning Historian Street. project also includes work on the Once it’s completed in August 2015, building’s auditorium. Dr. Tomiko Brown-Nagin the building will house the College — A $575,000 project to repair the of Social Work , which is currently outdoor pool at the Strom Thurmond Professor of Law and History at in DeSaussure College , opening that Wellness and Fitness Center. Harvard University. building for future work. — $4.64 million in upgrades to the “DeSaussure will be another exciting university’s energy facilities and other one,” Walton said. utility systems. Title of Lecture: Does Protest Work? The Hamilton project will begin in DG Date: March 7, 2013 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Graniteville Room in the Thomas Cooper Library

Brown-Nagin’s award winning monograph focuses on the South’s largest and most economically important city, from the 1940s through 1950, to demonstrate how the Civil Rights Movement features a wide array of activists and varied approaches to activism. This event is co-sponsored by The African American Studies Program and The History Center. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture.

SPRING SPORTS Friday, March 1 Equestrian vs. Delaware State - 1pm Men’s Tennis vs. Texas A&M - 5pm Sunday, March 3 SCHEDULE Women’s Basketball vs. Florida - 1pm Men’s Tennis vs. Clemson - 1pm Baseball vs. Clemson - 3pm Tuesday, March 5 Baseball vs. Ball State - 7pm Wednesday, March 6 Men’s Basketball vs. Mississippi State - 7pm Baseball vs. Ball State - 7pm Friday, March 8 Men’s Tennis vs. Florida - 5pm Baseball vs. Rider - 7pm Saturday March 9 Baseball vs. Rider - 4pm Sunday March 10 Baseball vs. Rider - 1:30pm Tuesday, March 12 Baseball vs. USC Upstate - 7pm Wednesday, March 13 Baseball vs. Davidson - 7pm Friday, March 15 Women’s Tennis vs. Tennesse - 5pm Softball vs. Alabama - 7pm Saturday, March 16 Softball vs. Alabama - 12pm Sunday, March 17 Softball vs. Alabama - 1pm Women’s Tennis vs. Georgia - 1:30pm Friday, March 1, 2013 4 EDITORIAL BOARD KRISTYN SANITO SYDNEY PATTERSON Dental practices Editor-in-Chief Managing Editor

ALICE CHANG EVAN GATTI not always Viewpoints Editor Asst. Copy Desk Chief

ANNIE PARHAM NICK NALBONE factually based Asst. Design Director Asst. Photo Editor Wisdom teeth removal KYLE HECK CHLOE GOULD Asst. Sports Editor Mix Editor may not be benefi cial Our society has become Ticket price increase accustomed to the routine nature of having wisdom teeth pulled. Many who receive this smart plan for USC recommendation from their dentist automatically proceed to In a series of new projects discussed at have them removed, the board of trustees meeting Thursday, without getting athletics was, of course, one of the major a second opinion ones. Along with an allotted $80 million for Voting Rights Act still needs oversight or questioning its law school renovations, and $64.5 million necessity. Each year for renovations of the Close/Hipp Building , Sculia’s claim ludicrous, including South Carolina. A myriad millions of these USC is planning to funnel another $51 e of research confirms that these laws teeth are extracted million into new offensiv to minorities disproportionately affect minorities based on the “Not only will it athletic projects , On Wednesday the Supreme Court and especially Latino voters — not to Chad traditional belief including indoor heard arguments for and against mention the fact that in-person voter Brown that if they are not affect our First-year risk practice facilities. Section 5 of the 1965 Voting Rights fraud is extremely rare. A study last management not removed, they wallets, but it Of course, Act. This legislation gave the federal year found only 10 legitimate cases student are sure to cause will extract the all this money government the direct oversight nationwide since 2000. Regardless, problems later on. won’t come from necessary to ensure compliance with the only thing that stopped Texas However, limited scientific money from nowhere, but USC the 15th Amendment , the right to vote from implementing their voter ID evidence actually supports this people who is doing its best despite race, gender or bill, which would have disenfranchised practice. Britain’s National Health are willing to to be smart where previous condition of a significant portion of its Latino Service announced in March it counts. Rather servitude. Though that population, was Section 5. A federal 2000 it would no longer pay for pay more and than pulling amendment was added judge blocked the bill because of its extraction unless the tooth was thus increase funds from to the Constitution in discriminatory nature. diseased or causing the patient students’ pockets 1870, almost a century Voter ID laws are not the only way pain . This was based on a report revenues for the or increasing passed before it was fully some states have attempted to pass by the University of York , which university.” tuition yet again, Steven observed. The section discriminatory legislation. Texas, concluded there was no solid the university has Moore of the Voting Rights again, was found to be discriminatory evidence to support routine decided to raise prices of football tickets Third-year Act being reviewed by federal courts in the way it redrew extraction. Patients must also take instead. political science is the controversial its districts late last year. Multiple into account the various dangers The good news is, the ticket price increase student preclearance ordinance. minority representatives saw important associated with surgery . Nerve won’t affect us at all, since we’d still get our This requires certain areas like stadiums and hospitals damage, a decreased sense of taste, free student tickets. The bad news is it would states and various other locales mysteriously removed from their complications from anesthesia affect non-student fans who now have to with histories of race-based voting districts and rewarded to their white and, in rare circumstances, even purchase seasonal tickets at a $45 increase . discrimination pre-clear any counterparts. While gerrymandering death may occur as a result of However, in Gamecock country, football new voting laws with the Justice isn’t rare, and in this case was likely surgery . tickets are a very inelastic good, meaning Department or federal courts before much more motivated by party Despite the lack of evidence, that changes in ticket prices won’t really they can take effect. Antonin Scalia, affi liation than race, the impact it had routine extraction remains a affect people’s demand for them. a conservative Supreme Court justice, was clearly along racial lines. frequent recommendation in the In this way, USC’s plan to raise the money remarked that the section constituted Given all of this, Scalia is either dental community. One possible for their new athletic projects is economically a “perpetuation of racial entitlement” willfully ignorant or senile if he really explanation for this is that dentists brilliant. Not only will it not affect our in his argument against the law. This believes Section 5 has given minorities and oral surgeons have a huge wallets, which is a huge relief to us, but it statement is completely ludicrous and an upper hand in electoral politics financial incentive to encourage will extract the money from people who are would be laughable if it weren’t such a in the South. Minorities in general their patients to undergo the willing to pay and thus increase revenues for serious matter. are less politically active than the surgery. Because the nationwide the university. Though America and the South have average, white male. Representation average cost of wisdom teeth Hopefully, the benefits from the new made leaps and bounds of progress in in Congress as well as state legislatures extraction ranges from $1,500 projects in USC athletics will trickle race relations and discrimination is for minorities is not proportional to $2,300 for a procedure often down to the rest of the university in the not nearly as prevalent as it was at to the share of the population they completed in less than an hour, it near future, but it’s also good to know that the time of the bill’s original passage, encompass. Discriminatory laws are is reasonable to believe that some USC is simultaneously investing in other it unquestionably still exists. Take, still passed in the states affected by dentists view this procedure as departments as well. With a multi-pronged for instance, the voter identification Section 5. If this is entitlement to an effi cient way of boosting their approach to facilities improvement, our laws that have been passed in many of Scalia, I’d hate to see what an equal business, regardless of whether it university can be a lot better a lot quicker. the states that require preclearance, system would look like to him. is necessary. Campus Starbucks must be more eco-friendly Coff ee giant should be environmentally “break the rules” — all Starbucks beverages must is worthwhile to recognize that Starbucks is using be served in cups with the Starbucks logo. our caffeine addictions to advertise in the same conscious, serve students in reusable cups Just to put this concept into perspective, think of way Nike and North Face use their emblems on your campus or offi ce. Just look around the room our clothes. Starbucks has mankind turning Mother Earth and count how many coffee cups you see. More For a company that originates from the eco- into our very own coffee cup cemetery. Boasting than 11,000 franchises are in the United States progressive West Coast, it is perplexing that more than 11,100 stores countrywide , Starbucks alone, and one may modestly estimate that each Starbucks has not made any notable strides to has become a staple of American diets both in the store outputs around 100 coffees a day. If every improve their environmental footprint. No one pre-graduate and postgraduate worlds. In fact, person in America were denied his or her drink in can deny that we deserve a coffee pick-me-up a Starbucks has a marketing logo so ingenious it a reusable cup yesterday, that would be 1,100,000 couple of times a day, but can we defend our need works just like cigarettes do with smokers: If you polypropylene plastic cups thrown into landfi lls, to perpetually put our coffee in a nonbiodegradable see someone else with a grande mocha light with shoved under classroom seats and smashed in cup (and lid and sleeve) every day? I would like to whip, you’ve got to have one, too. gutters. Although these cups are made from 10 ask Starbucks to lift whatever restrictions they have Yes, we have all grown fond of our respective percent recycled material, they are not recyclable on permitting the use of a customer’s cup. There campuses’ Starbucks; they have revived us many for the same reason they are impervious to leaks. is no reason we can’t continue to have our delicious a time from exam fatigue. But are we actually Though I offered to pay for my 1.5 cups of hot venti chai lattes, but in a more environmentally cognizant of the detrimental impacts our daily water, I was denied a drink in my reusable cup. chic manner. After all, our environment merits regimens have on our environment? It turns out that we the consumers aren’t paying just as much urgency as our morning cup of coffee I was recently denied hot water for a cup of tea $4 for a lukewarm cup of coffee — we are paying for does. in my Tervis at a local campus Starbucks, despite the Starbucks logo to be disseminated. This type having been served in my Tervis in previous of customer-business reciprocity is not uncommon — Julie Slivka, third-year anthropology student purchases. I was shocked, and I was told it would in the contemporary merchandising world, but it

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Friday, March 1, 2013 5 Daddy Lion organizes benefit for Sandy Hook

Columbia bands play concert for families of shooting victims at Conundrum Music Hall

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Courtesy of therestoration.net Columbia musicians, led by local singer/ The Restoration, a Lexington band, will headline Friday’s show to benefi t the United Way Sandy Hook School Support Fund. songwriter Daddy Lion , will play a benefi t concert for Sandy Hook Elementary School tonight at conversation. Proposals for gun control have been the music as “a way to explore social issues” which Conundrum Music Hall.Daddy Lion, or Jeremy discussed since the event, and legislation is now is inspired by “a lot of fiction, mostly Southern Joseph , planned to host his fourth of a series of in the works. President Obama wants background fi ction.” benefi t concerts before the Sandy Hook Shooting checks, limitations on military-style assault weapons The style of The Restoration takes on a blend of took place three months ago in Newton, Conn. and high-capacity magazines, gun violence research, various American songbook eras, including delta He wanted to raise money for a foundation, but he gun safety, school safety and mental health checks. blues, old time, Dixie land jazz and early rock ‘n’ couldn’t pick a cause or organization. Joseph is looking forward to the concert and roll. After the Dec. 14 shooting, Joseph decided to “hopes that this will further reinforce people to talk The second headliner for tonight’s concert is the direct the upcoming concert toward the families of about what happened and then fi gure out a solution.” Company, a band from Charleston. The Company, the victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy. The money raised at the concert will benefit the also known as Co., is signed with Exit Stencil, a “I couldn’t imagine working on another cause United Way Sandy Hook School Support Fund Brooklyn, N.Y.-based indie music label. The band when something so tragic like that happened,” that provides support and resources to the affected plays “indie rock music with an inspirational soul, Joseph said. families and community. spiritual and energetic feel,” Company Lead Singer Joseph was nervous that Sandy Hook may not be The headliner for the concert is The Restoration, Brian Hannon said. an issue on people’s minds three months after the a local band from Lexington. Its fi ve members — Two local bands, Ghost @ The Feast and about. shooting. Aleks Amer , Adam Corbett, Lauren Garner , Sharon theWindow are also scheduled to play at Friday’s “I wondered if people will even still be talking Gnanashekar and Daniel Machado — generate the benefit concert. And, of course, Joseph will take about Sandy Hook,” he said. “I hope that this can evolving sound of both traditional and regional on his Daddy Lion persona to perform a set of his serve as at least a reminder to get people thinking music. dream pop music. about gun violence and what happened and not The Restoration creates “concept albums about Tonight’s show is at Conundrum Music Hall, 626 forget about it.” the American South,” according to Daniel Machado, Meeting St. in West Columbia. It starts at 8 p.m. The fact is, though, Sandy Hook has not been who sings and plays banjo, guitar, violin and and tickets are $10 at the door . All ages are welcome . forgotten and is still heavily involved in national percussion for the band. Machado also described DG

Courtesy of aceshowbiz.com Elderly ‘Quartet’ cast makes best of bad script

Film falls to ‘Amour’ "Quartet" is the directorial debut absent-minded, perky ray of to drive the plot. in Columbia opening of 75-year-old Oscar-winning actor sunshine who brings a lot of heart to The film starts off unbearably weekend battle Dustin Hoffman. Oscar-winning the home and the fi lm. cute and jovial. Oh, isn't it a hoot screenwriter Ronald Harwood wrote Cedric (Michael Gambon, who that these old people are singing and the screenplay, which is adapted played Dumbledore in all but the dancing and occasionally using dirty Jonathan Winchell [email protected] from his play of the same name. fi rst two “Harry Potter” fi lms) is a words and making sex jokes? Jean Horton (Maggie Smith of the rigid, crusty old fart who leads their Then, Jean Horton comes into “Harry Potter” series and “Downton music practice with a stern growl, the film, stepping out of a car and Abbey”) moves into Beecham House, though his bitterness is never really looking solemnly up at the castlelike “Quartet” a retirement home for musicians and explained. retirement home. NOW IN COLUMBIA singers, and realizes her ex-husband The home is in fi nancial trouble When she meets her ex-husband, Reggie (Tom Courtenay of “Doctor and ... do I even need to say what the he awkwardly avoids her even though Director: Dustin Hoffman Zhivago”) is living there. old folks decide to do to help raise she wants to reconcile and explain Starring: Maggie Smith, Wilf (Billy Connolly) is young money? her actions in the past. at heart and a dirty old rascal who They put on a show. Maggie Smith is a veteran actor Michael Gambon, Billy flirts with the young female staff This plot device is completely who generally rises above the fi lm's Connolly members, particularly Dr. Cogan unnecessary. They have the concert simplistic plot and characterization. Rating: PG-13 for language (Sheridan Smith), and keeps the annually, so there is no reason to The fi lm does not give the actors residents entertained. use the old cliché of saving the much to do, but they make the most and suggestive humor Cissy (Pauline Collins) is an retirement home/orphanage/school QUARTET ● 6 6 Friday, March 1, 2013

QUARTET ● Cont. from 5 of it. Reggie, Wilf and Cissy spend the middle Cornbread Lane opens on Main Street Saturday of the film trying to convince Jean to t's a celebration of at 2 p.m. cornbread. perform with them as a Southern staple: Four more big titles South Carolina bands a quartet at the home's cornbread. are up for grabs at the like the Mobros, the The South Carolina festival's grand pageant. Fantastic Shakers and annual benefi t. Cornbread Festival, a day The youngest, in the Men of Distinction will Will she agree to sing devoted to the delicious, 6-to-9-year-old category, perform on comedian with them and rekindle sweet or salty side, will will compete for Little J. Anthony Brown's her love for Reggie? I be at Columbia's Main Miss Corn Muffin, and stage, sponsored by wonder. Hoffman, like many Street Saturday. the oldest division, 18 to "Hotter Than A MOFO" Courtesy of aceshowbiz.com For established 25 years old, will snag the hot sauce, and the "Live actors-turned-director, cornbread cooks or prized title of Miss South Sugar-Free" 5k Run and “Quartet” in Columbia lets his actors do what they do best. Even newcomers to the Carolina Cornbread. Walk registration will start AMC Dutch Regal Tuesday, with weak material, the kitchen, there will be No glitz, ladies — it's a at 8 a.m. Square Columbiana Wednesday: cast makes the movie two cook-offs . The natural show. The South Carolina 800 Bush 1250 Bower 12:30 p.m., professional cook-off, at Columbia's most Cornbread Festival will a mostly enjoyable River Road Parkway 2 p.m., 3:50 Hyatt Park Elementary savory street, Cornbread be at the corner of Main experience. Friday, Friday: 12:30 p.m., 4:30 School, is from 10 a.m. Lane, will also open for and Newman streets. They bring their Saturday, p.m., 2 p.m., p.m., 7:15 to noon. Celebrity judge an hour from noon to 1 Admission is free. For characters to life on Sunday: 3:50 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 9:45 p.m. Melba Wilson, who p.m. Perhaps the most more information, visit screen — characters 10:45 a.m., p.m., 7:15, 9:45 started her Southern tempting part of the sccornbreadfestival.com. that would probably 1:10 p.m., 3:35 Saturday, Carmike cooking career at Sylvia's daylong celebration: just lie on the page in p.m., 6:05 Sunday: 12:30 Wynnsong Restaurant in Harlem, a cool $4 will buy you lesser hands. — Compiled by Chloe p.m., 8:20 p.m. p.m., 2 p.m., 5320 Forest N.Y., will make her picks six different samples of This is one of two Gould, The Mix Editor Monday, 3:50 p.m., Drive movies about elderly Tuesday, 4:30 p.m., Friday to people opening this Wednesday: 7:15 p.m., 9:45 Wednesday: weekend in Columbia. 1:10 p.m., 3:35 p.m., 11:30 1:40 p.m., The French-language p.m., 6:05 p.m. 4:40 p.m., 7:15 Oscar-winner "Amour" p.m., 8:20 p.m. Monday, p.m., 9:35 p.m. is the other. "Quartet" is the feel-good, funny romp with music and bright colors. "A mour" is the depressing, nearly humorless chamber piece about sickness and death. It is by far the better fi lm in every way. "Quartet" will make you feel better walking out of the theater, but "A mour" is better for you. DG

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[email protected] Thursday night, in the rematch at Colonial Life Arena, the outcome AIKEN — There’s a new sport in town. was decided in the fi rst two minutes Athletics Director Ray Tanner said the after halftime, and it was all Mizzou. Gamecocks will compete in sand volleyball, The Tigers put on a highlight an up-and-coming sport in the NCAA, next show in the other Columbia en route spring and will begin recruiting come fall . to a 90-68 victory. Nearly 30 schools have added the sport “We didn’t offer much resistance throughout the country, said Judy Van today,” coach Frank Martin said. Horn, USC’s senior associate director of “When you play a good player and Athletics. The NCAA needs 40 teams to allow them to get easy baskets, that hold a championship. rim gets bigger as the game goes on. Moritz Moritz , an assistant head coach for And they have good players.” volleyball, will coach the new team and leave Redshirt senior guard Keion the indoor volleyball team for his new job. Bell, a transfer from Pepperdine Moritz has been at USC for two seasons University, scored 24 points in the and was previously the defensive coordinator Tiger’s win — 18 of them coming at Idaho for fi ve. in the fi rst half. Redshirt sophomore He’ll also receive a pay increase from his guard Jabari Brown scored 23 points current salary of $56,650, Van Horn said, for Mizzou while star forward Alex but his paperwork hasn’t been fi nalized, and Oriakhi chipped in 18 points. Those Athletics offi cials aren’t saying how much three players combined to go 22-28 he’ll be paid. from the fi eld. “I’m sure he’s very happy about that,” Van Both teams started out quickly, Horn said of the raise. “A new challenge and combining to make six of their fi rst a new salary.” eight 3-point attempts. However, the Already, Van Horn said, Athletics has Gamecocks could not keep up with Olivia Barthel / THE DAILY GAMECOCK started getting calls from prospective the Tigers. Guard Damien Leonard, who had 20 points Thursday against Missouri, including students interested in playing since Tanner USC finished the game 10-26 six of 10 3-pointers, said that the Gamecocks just have to keep working together. fl oated the possibility at a January board of from the 3-point line while Mizzou trustees retreat. with fi re. Defensively, we never put got after us. We didn’t provide much made six of the nine three’s they The announcement came on the heels of up a fi ght today.” resistance and it didn’t get any better attempted. trustees’ approval of a $995,000 project to USC had one final run in them, as the game went on.” After USC’s Michael Carrera build a sand volleyball court in the athletic however. A Damien Leonard Leonard, who fi nished the game scored the fi rst basket of the game, village with Athletics’ operating funds. 3-pointer supported a 10-2 run for with 20 points and six 3-pointers, Mizzou went on a 13-3 run to take a The sport will get six scholarships that the Gamecocks to once again knot said that the Tigers were just more 13-5 lead with 16:02 left in the fi rst can be divided among 14 athletes, Van Horn the game at 32. Unfortunately for aggressive than the Gamecocks. half. said. Students who receive one won’t be USC, that would be as close as they “We just have to keep working, The Gamecocks eventually allowed to play indoor volleyball, but indoor would get for the rest of the game. keep playing together, help each tied it back up at 17, thanks to six players with scholarships can play sand After taking a 45-38 lead into other on defense and hope they consecutive points by junior guard volleyball, she said. halftime, Mizzou stayed hot in the miss,” Leonard said. “But tonight Brenton Williams. This time, the Sand volleyball is the first sport USC second half. The Tigers extended they were making everything.” Tigers responded with a 13-5 run to has added since 1997, when it introduced their lead to 54-40 thanks to a 9-2 For the game, Mizzou shot an pull back in front of the Gamecocks. equestrian. run over the first two-and-a-half astounding 69.6 percent from the “I think the first possession of Tanner said he doesn’t know what’s next minutes of the second half. From field for the game, 72.7 percent in the game, they got a dunk, and it for USC’s expansions, and he hasn’t started there, the Gamecocks could get no the second half. just kept coming,” Martin said. thinking much about it. closer than 11 points the rest of the “I don’t know that we could play “They are an inside-out team, not an “The next sport? I’m not sure right now,” way. any better offensively,” Missouri outside-in team. We gave them too Tanner said. “Obviously we had no answers coach Frank Haith said. many easy ones early. If you let good today,” Martin said. “We couldn’t players get clean looks at the basket defend them. Missouri came out and DG DG early in the game, you are playing

Women’s Gamecocks face off against rival basketball Over past 5 years, USC is 15-6 against Clemson loses on Danny Garrison [email protected]

the road In the days leading up to South Carolina’s series against Clemson, coach Chad Holbrook has not hesitated The No. 14 Gamecocks to acknowledge what it means when the suffered their sixth loss of Gamecocks play the Tigers. the year, their fi rst to a team “Let’s be honest here — these not ranked in the top 25, games are important,” Holbrook said. Thursday night in Columbia, “It’s Clemson vs. South Carolina. It’s Mo. important to them, it’s important to USC’s SEC-leading us.” scoring defense was shredded USC (6-1) will renew one of the most by the Tiger’s junior forward heated rivalries in college baseball this Brianna Kulas, who scored 26 weekend as it opens up a three-game set points on 8-16 shooting while with the Tigers (5-2) today. Olivia Barthel/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK also grabbing 12 rebounds to South Carolina’s hot start to the USC senior fi rst baseman LB Dantzler attributes his successful start to the pace Mizzou. year is partly in thanks to senior fi rst season to his ability to use the whole fi eld. Dantzler is hitting .542 this spring. As a team, the Tigers baseman LB Dantzler, who will enter the mound in late innings for South hitter Friday, depending on how well he (16-13, 5-10 SEC) shot the Clemson series batting .542 after Carolina. Webb leads the Gamecocks can move on the banged-up leg. 53.5 percent from the field, starting all seven of the Gamecocks’ in saves with three on the year and The series will get underway and outrebounded the early contests. Dantzler leads the appears to be Holbrook’s fi rst choice at Friday at Clemson’s Doug Kingsmore Gamecocks 38-30. team in home runs (3), hits (13) and the closer position. However, Holbrook Stadium before the teams will travel Meanwhile, USC shot 32.8 runs batted in (13) to go with his lofty has not ruled out an earlier appearance to Greenville, S.C., for a neutral-site percent from the fi eld, which average at the plate. for Webb this weekend. contest . The series will conclude proved to be the difference in Dantzler credits his hot start to an “We’ve got a lot of good pitchers,” Sunday at Carolina Stadium with the the game. Freshman guard increased confi dence in the batter’s box Webb said. “Maybe if one of the starters fi rst pitch set for 3 p.m. Khadijah Sessions and senior that has allowed him to send the ball to gets into trouble early, I might be in Recent history has favored the guard Ieasia Walker paced a wider variety of spots on the fi eld. there a little earlier than usual.” Gamecocks, as they have built a 15-6 the Gamecocks (22-6, 10-5 “It wasn’t that last year I wasn’t In the early goings of the season, record against Clemson in the past SEC) with 14 points each. allowed to, but I was kind of viewed Webb has the most strikeouts among fi ve years. Two of those wins came in The loss puts a big dent in more as a home run guy,” Dantzler relievers for USC and has been willing Omaha in 2010 when the two schools USC’s hopes of earning one said. “This year I just wanted to use the to accept any role Holbrook sees fi t for faced off in the College World Series on of the top four seeds in the whole fi eld more.” him. USC’s way to its fi rst of two consecutive upcoming SEC tournament. Dantzler also attributes some of his Last Sunday, in the final game of national championships. Holbrook, However, the Gamecocks success to a broken hand he suffered in South Carolina’s three-game set against however, insists the past will not play a can fall no further than the the fall that forced him to rebuild his Albany, sophomore shortstop Joey part in this weekend’s series. fi fth seed. In addition, USC swing from square one. Pankake suffered a muscle strain in his “You can throw the records out the failed to win its 11th league Holbrook will use the same pitching right leg that has left his status for this door; the rankings don’t mean a thing,” game, which would have been rotation he has used for both weekend weekend up in the air. Holbrook said. “It’s two really good a program-high. series this year, sending sophomore “He is feeling better,” Holbrook said. baseball programs and baseball teams Jordan Montgomery to the mound “He’s certainly not a shoo-in to play going at each other. And what happened — Compiled by Kyle Heck, Friday, senior Colby Holmes Saturday right now, but he’s not doubtful either.” last year is not going to have an effect Assistant Sports Editor and closing out the weekend with Holbrook suggested Pankake could on what happens this weekend.” senior Nolan Belcher Sunday. Senior crack the starting lineup as a designated Tyler Webb has become a mainstay on DG