University of South Carolina Scholar Commons June 2006 6-7-2006 The aiD ly Gamecock, Wednesday, June 7, 2006 University of South Carolina, Office oftude S nt Media Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2006_jun Recommended Citation University of South Carolina, Office of Student Media, "The aiD ly Gamecock, Wednesday, June 7, 2006" (2006). June. 1. https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/gamecock_2006_jun/1 This Newspaper is brought to you by the 2006 at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in June by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The University of South Carolina Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Vol. 100, No. 2 ● Since 1908 College party scene causes rise in underage drinking University programs attempt to curb students’ bad habits Nick Needham THE GAMECOCK For many underage students at USC, drinking is a part of life. Larrell Wilkinson, director of alcohol and drug programs, said that 70 percent of all students under 21 have Kelly Bobrow/THE GAMECOCK consumed alcohol in the University alcohol and drug last 30 days. free program plays host to Katie Kirkland /THE GAMECOCK “I haven’t been to a school substance free events. Geography professor Susan Cutter and her team traveled to the Gulf Coast after Katrina that hasn’t had to deal with ransacked the region. Cutter’s work will help ready future response. the problem,” Wilkinson said. It seems every student you The offi ce of alcohol and ask has a different answer. drug programs offers many Fourth-year chemistry Making Plans substance free events on student Mallory Hodgkinson campus throughout the year. didn’t start drinking until responding to disasters in and the director of the “Some of our biggest she came to college. USC research team the future. school’s Hazards Research events are the substance free “My roommate had According to the Federal Lab, traveled with four tailgates before each home alcohol in the room heads to Gulf Coast, Emergency Management teams to the Gulf Coast of football game,” Wilkinson and I wanted to try it,” prepare for future Agency, Hurricane Katrina Mississippi for a week in said. He also said USC has Hodgkinson said. killed more than 1,300 mid-October to assess the a great commitment to the The effects of drinking hurt people, caused more than geographic damage caused problem. her academically during her Drew Brooks $80 billion in costs and by the storm. Wilkinson said the freshman year. She said the NEWS EDITOR displaced over 400,000 The teams included majority of students start concept of having freedom residents, scattering them Cutter, and other notable drinking before coming to from parents plays a large After scouring the Gulf in shelters and temporary USC scholars like Jerry college. role in why many underage Coast, a USC professor homes across the nation. Mitchell, SC Geographic “The hardest question students start drinking. hopes her research Susan Cutter, a Carolina Alliance Director in the I’m trying to answer is why “The programs the will make an impact Distinguished Professor do students start drinking in in preparing for and of Geography at USC RESEARCH ● 3 the fi rst place,” he said. DRINKING ● 3 Index The Mix Sports Classifi eds.................... 13 Show your bones USC baseball 8 Calendar..................... Blake Arambula reviews faces third strike Opinion........................ 5 the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Game versus Evansville sophomore release vital to postseason 2 THE GAMECOCK ● Wednesday, June 7, 2006 summer Excavation Students dig for cultural relics in African-American historic house Meg Gaillard THE GAMECOCK he Mann-Simons African- consumption, landscape, race, T American Archaeology class, and representation and Project concluded with highlighted how these issues are its first field school and second interconnected. season of excavation at the end of The May excavation focused May. on the yard and how the Mann- Project coordinator Jakob Simons family may have used the Crockett has been working on the space. The remains of the family site that is jointly owned by the lunch counter were also located Columbia Housing Authority and during the excavation. Meg Gaillard /THE GAMECOCK the Historic Columbia Foundation Alita Huff, a volunteer from Fourth-year anthropology student James Stewart takes fi eld notes next to since 2005. Florida said that she would his unit at the Mann-Simons excavation in May. Fifteen graduate students, recommend the fi eld school, “for undergraduates and volunteers any student who has an interest in worked on the site during May African-American material culture semester. Some came as far as New and urban archaeology.” The primary goal is to understand the ways in York just for the experience of The field school not only which the material world is implicated in the working on the fi rst freed African- taught students and volunteers American site in Columbia. about archaeology field and lab development, maintenance, and negotiation of “The primary objective of the techniques, but also about the archaeology is to determine how history of the Mann-Simons site social relations. the material culture of the Mann- and downtown Columbia. JACOB CROCKETT Project Coordinator Simons family varied in relation to In 1825, Ben DeLane, a free changes in both family structure African-American from Charleston and Columbia’s social environment moved to Columbia and bought throughout the nineteenth and or built a house on the corner between 1891 and 1909. They house museum. twentieth century,” wrote Jakob of Richland and Marion streets. also built other houses behind The next phase of the Mann- Crockett in the course manual. The house was later owned by his the original 1403 Richland St. Simons African American Project “And the primary goal is to wife Celia Mann, and then passed house that were usually occupied is another field school held understand the ways in which the to her daughter Agnes Jackson by family members. The property on Saturdays during the fall material world is implicated in the whose husband was William “Bill” was sold to the Columbia Housing semester. development, maintenance, and Simons. Authority in 1970. The house is negotiation of social relations.” The family owned a general now managed by the Historic Comments on this story? E-mail game- The team explored issues of store and ran a lunch counter Columbia Foundation as a historic [email protected] THE GAMECOCK ● Wednesday, June 7, 2006 3 RESEARCH ● CONTINUED FROM 1 area had flooded during fl ooding, as in the cause of DRINKING ● CONTINUED FROM 1 students it’s the first time the hurricane. Katrina. away from their parents. department of geography, “We were interested During Katrina, storm university has in place don’t But Vane also contends The research, titled to see if there were some surges deposited shrimp seem to help. Students will that as time went on drinking “Predicted vs. Observed inequities,” Cutter said. boats inland miles away fi nd a way to drink if they lost its luster, especially after Social Vulnerability She found that the more from where they were want to,” she said. he turned 21. of Coastal Residents: heavily flooded regions anchored. After turning 21, “College is the perfect Hurricane Katrina Impacts were also the poorer Cutter’s study was part Hodgkinson said drinking opportunity to make unwise in Mississippi and Alabama” communities. of USC’s CRISIS initiative. wasn’t as fun anymore. decisions because the real assesses the geographical “There are lots of people The initiative included 18 “I really don’t have time world is next,” Vane said. damage wrought by Katrina who don’t have cars,” research projects funded to drink anymore; its just Wilkinson said the best as compared to the socio- Cutter said. “One of the by $400,000 in grants. not as fun as it once was,” advice he can give students economic characteristics lessons is that we need to As director of the she said. is to take pride in being of the residents along the think a little bit more about Hazards Research Lab, Her advice for underage responsible. coast. those kinds of individuals Cutter has also conducted drinkers, “Don’t run when “At least 25 percent of Researchers camped and to make preparations research on Sept. 11 and you see the cops; you’re just our students have chosen on-site due to inadequate to get those people out of Graniteville, SC. asking for more trouble.” not to consume alcohol in shelter being available harms way.” “We’re interested in Former USC student the past year,” he said. inland. The teams then The information is being what makes people and Matthew Vane found Currently, Wilkinson spread out, quickly made available to the Gulf places vulnerable to these himself miserable at college, is the only employee collecting perishable Coast states to influence types of events,” Cutter and used alcohol as his pain working in alcohol and fi eld data on the location rebuilding efforts and also said. medicine. Like Hodgkinson, drug programs. He said and extent of the havoc to improve evacuation he didn’t drink until he he would like to see the caused by Katrina. The plans for the states. came to college. university work with the data was then correlated Cutter said the most “All my friends were Five Points Association and with information on damaging aspect of already drinking, so it the Congaree Vista Guild communities to determine hurricanes is the storm became something fun for to help curb underage which were the most surges, which are caused me,” Vane said. drinking. vulnerable and why. by high winds washing Vane thinks underage The teams used GPS water inland.