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For more information, please contact [email protected]. d a y s u n t 2il B es na t of Caroli dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2013 VOL. 111, NO. 25 ● SINCE 1908 MEET YOUR CANDIDATES Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Brian Almond / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Kenneth Bragg Chase Mizzell Josh Moore President President President ‘I can bring ‘It just comes ‘Here to represent a fresh look’ down to love’ the students’ Write-in forced runoff last year Mizzell focuses on students’ Moore hopes everyman appeal leads Bragg to pursue presidency passions in presidential run will win top spot in SG Amanda Coyne Thad Moore Chloe Gould [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kenneth Bragg never planned on running A group of people is stumbling a few feet Two garnet otters perch on either side of his for president. away, sirens are whirring down Harden Street name and “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd roars But last year, his single write-in vote fl ipped and Chase Mizzell is fiddling with his empty on, a testament to the star-spangled American the student body treasurer race upside down. Cook-Out cup. South. “That kind of changed everything,” he said. Sitting in the restaurant at about 3 a.m. He catches and cradles a football on the While eating with friends in Russell House Saturday, he’s not sure who he’d call his best Horseshoe — his shaggy golden locks peeking on election day last year, he voiced his regret friend on campus. out from a backward trucker cap — and cuts to in not having run for Student Government. A There are his colleagues in Student the Williams-Brice Stadium stands. He could be friend mentioned that he could always write his Government, his student senate staff, university celebrating a Gamecock touchdown or mourning name in, and that’s just what Bragg did. ambassadors, his friends from the Honors a fumble. He voted for himself for senator of the Residence Hall freshman year and a host of Regardless, the passion is there. College of Arts and Sciences, treasurer, vice workers at Russell House, like Marcus from Josh “Otter” Moore’s campaign video, released president and president. Chick-fi l-A. Saturday, is an all-telling, two-minute tale of His vote for treasurer forced a runoff “I don’t think that I have one single best Moore: who he is and what has sparked his between current Treasurer Coy Gibson and friend,” Mizzell said. political passions. his opponent, Yousef Ibreak. But Mizzell, a third-year international business It closes with the lasting image of the furry Bragg, a third-year economics student from student from Folly Beach, has an awful lot of aquatic mammals that act as a moniker for the Aiken, had always thought of running for a acquaintances. He’s passionate about people, presidential hopeful. position in SG, but, until recently, his target but, more than that, he’s passionate about their Four years ago, at First Night Carolina, had been student senate. passions, he said. Moore wore a T-shirt that read “Otter.” He was “I’ve always been really interested in politics,” As a rule, he tries to meet three new people a freshman, and no one knew his name. “Otter” Bragg said. “I’ve always wanted to be in a role each day on the way to class, and, when he does, stuck. where I can make a difference. I was planning about fi ve questions in — after all of the small Now, the fourth-year junior is pushing to get on running one way or the other.” talk — he drops the question: What are you that nickname on the offi cial presidential ballot. He actually intended on running for senate passionate about? It’s how people know him. last year but couldn’t fi nd the fi ling information Some riddle off their interests; he asks how he Wearing a zip-up camoufl age jacket and a camo in time. can help. Some aren’t sure; he encourages them “Cocks” hat Sunday, Moore said he’s running for This year he found the paperwork, and he to give it some thought. student rights. He is the good old boy who surfs hopes to occupy SG’s highest offi ce. Others fi nd the question jarring. and hunts and slips a curse word into every few Bragg is running on a narrower platform than But Mizzell is used to getting into people’s sentences. his opponents. It focuses mainly on funding stories. He owes that to his grandfather. “I’m sorry. I have a problem with my censor,” student organizations properly, improving Mizzell’s dad died when he was 3 months old, the history student said, halfway through an USC’s image and giving students a voice. so he and his grandfather grew close. In middle interview. His big push, however, is to turn SG into a school, they went fi shing, watched Westerns and Moore is from Tampa, Fla. He grew up “cohesive unit” that can work with the student ate watermelon. between Florida’s Cocoa Beach, Pawleys Island body and administration more effectively to And sometimes, they’d get in his yellow Chevy and his family’s farm in Evington, Va. The farm reach its goals. and drive around town until they found someone is 1,000 acres, 500 to his direct bloodline. It used “I want to make sure that ... anything that whose story they wanted to hear — from the to pen ponies, but the ponies had to go when they affects the students has the voice of the students mayor to the housekeeping staff at the Holiday started biting the cows, Moore said. attached,” Bragg said. Inn. When he was 3 years old, the born-and-bred He said he would be “as engaged as possible” They called it “scootapootin’.” Floridian started to stand up on his boogie board. with USC’s board of trustees, on which the From those conversations, Mizzell gleaned It didn’t go so well. His mom bought him a surf BRAGG • 2 MIZZELL • 2 MOORE • 2 Watch the candidates describe their motivations in this year’s elections in a video at dailygamecock.com. Monday Fifth ‘Die Hard’ fi lmSG endorsements Baseball wins 2 59° 41° Bruce Willis returns The editorial staff en- The Gamecocks as John McClane in dorses candidates for scored two victories the fi fth and weakest president, vice presi- against Liberty during Tuesday installment of the “Die dent and treasurer in opening weekend at Hard” fi lm series. the SG elections. Carolina Stadium. 62° 32° See page 7 See page 6 See page 10 2 Monday, February 18, 2013 MOORE • Continued from 1 of Moore’s platform. MIZZELL • Continued from 1 a day when there are people who have His dad worked as a deputy with the much less and do much more?” board, and he started from there. It what they called “pearls of wisdom” — Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Offi ce, In the summer after his freshman went better. tidbits of life advice that help inform and after two of his fellow offi cers were year, Mizzell and a friend spent a few “I don’t want to sound like I’m him. shot and killed on a weekend job, a weeks couch surfi ng through Colombia. bragging or anything, but I’ve been His grandfather, John Mizzell, whom 6-year-old Moore asked his dad not to The two stayed with people they met pretty much the face of surf club for the he called “Andaddy,” shared some go back to work Monday. on a website and with a man Mizzell sat past three years,” Moore said in a Daily wisdom, too. A week later, his dad left the next to on the plane there, and when Gamecock endorsement meeting. He spoke with the younger Mizzell department and became a teacher. they couldn’t find anyone, they set up The university’s surf club — which authentically, telling his stories time It’s a memory that sparked Moore’s hammocks and made do. Moore said has been around since the and time again and passing on what he’d emphasis on safety. College is about They met people who were poor, but ’50s — has gone through a few riffs learned throughout his life. having a good time, he said, and Moore Mizzell noticed they were far happier over the decades, Moore said. In the He didn’t hold back, so Chase values wants to make sure safety concerns than many. ’90s, there was a divide between those realness . Andaddy told him drinking don’t hinder any student’s experience. Now, when things get stressful, he looking to sport surf and those wanting and drugs aren’t all they’re cracked up He said he appreciates the “nostalgic remembers the people he met — that to soul surf. to be, so he hasn’t meddled in either. darkness of the Horseshoe,” but wants they were still singing and dancing and Moore is a soul surfer.