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Members of the Sigma A lpha Epsilon fraternity gathered yesterday at t he Rut ledge Chapel in t he Horseshoe surrounded by friends and family to mourn the loss of USC student Ryan DeLoach .
D e L o a c h p a s s e d a w a y l a s t Wednesday after a tragic car accident. A memoria l ser v ice was held at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday to honor his memory.
The service began with an opening statement by Director of Greek Life Ron Binder. Binder said that students should be celebrating DeLoach’s life and that he had a big heart.
Binder said DeLoach was a true gentleman and touched everyone’s lives. Binder said in closing that it was not the years in one’s life that matter, but the life in their years.
Pastor Frank Anderson followed Binder. Anderson said that students should fi nd comfort in knowing that DeLoach is in a better place.
A f ter a br ie f prayer, t wo of DeLoach’s fraternity brothers shared their fond memories of DeLoach. They both said that DeLoach loved the outdoors and that he encouraged
others to love it too. They said DeLoach touched so
many lives that he would truly be missed and that he taught others to live, think and love better.
The ceremon ie s c losed w it h comments from DeLoach’s mother Linda Annand . Annand said she fondly remembers the good times she shared with her son and how much fun they all had as a family.
She then said that she had two requests for the members of the
audience. First, she said she wants everyone to remember that every action has a consequence and to keep that in mind when you are making decisions. Second, she said that on Monday — which would have been DeLoach’s 21st birthday — she would like everyone to light a candle for him and to honor the memory of his life.
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The Leag ue of t he South descended onto c a m p u s We d n e s d a y afternoon, pleading for secession while singing “Dixie” with the backdrop of a Confederate flag on the Russell House Patio.
T he g roup’s leader Rober t Lampley sa id South Carolina should secede.
“ S o u t h C a r o l i n a should leave the union immediately,” Lampley said. “We’d be better off without the government’s
taxes.” L a m p l e y s a i d h i s
group’s mission is to re s tore f reedom for all citizens by leading S o u t h C a r o l i n a t o it s ow n independent
gover n ment . He sa id the federal government has enslaved its citizens since the founding fathers wrote the Constitution.
Lampley, along with various others from the group, read poetry and literature dating back to the Revolutionary War.
“We are confederates, and we bel ieve in the South,” Lampley said. “We’d be better off if the South [had] won the Civil War.”
T h e g r o u p ’s We b s i t e do e s n’t r e f e r to
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University President Harris Pastides signs the memorial book in Rutledge Chapel for Ryan DeLoach, who died in a car accident last Wednesday.
Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER
pushes for S.C. secession with little campus response
President ial pol it ics are coming to the McK issick Museum — South Carolina style.
Glenn McCall , a national committee member of the Republican Party, and Don Fowler , t he for mer s t ate chairman of the Democratic Party, will spar in an hour-long debate 6 p.m. tonight at the McKissick Museum.
Charles Bierbauer , former CN N cor respondent and current dean of the school
o f j ou r n a l i s m a nd m a s s c o m m u n i c a t i o n s , w i l l moderate.
The debate organizers hope to localize the presidential election and highlight a new exhibit, “Carrying the State: Presidential Campaigns and Politics.” The exhibit looks to examine the role South Carolina has played in the nat ional polit ical scene throughout history.
The event is open to the public.
McKissick Museum hosts McKissick Museum hosts post-presidential debatepost-presidential debate
Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER
SAE holds memorial for fallen student Fraternity honors brother with
prayers, shared memories
Kyle Moores STAFF WRITER
C o m m e n t s o n t h i s s t o r y ? E - m a i l gamecocknews@sc.edu
DIXIE 6
At least 330 jobs would be cut and state payrolls would be slashed by at least $57 million under plans lawmakers are considering as they struggle to balance spending plans with lagging state revenues that fall nearly a half billion dollars short of expectations.
State agencies have told Gov. Mark Sanford they could
trim their work force of 64,916 full-time workers and 8,750 temps by slicing positions from a wide range of offi ces such as mailrooms, museums, health care agencies and the Highway Patrol.
The toll on the state payroll could rival the last rounds of budget cuts. During the 2002, 2003 and 2004 fi scal years combined, 736 state employees lost jobs through layoffs.
State job cuts meant to fi x S.C. budget problems Jim Davenport Th e Associated Press
BUDGET 6
Student Pulse REGINA FERGUSON, fi rst-year opera student
BEN SMITH, fourth-year criminal justice student
JACOB EVANS, fi rst-year pre-pharmacy student
CHUCK TURNER, fi rst-year mechanical engineering student
“McCain has because I think McCain has a lot more experience and can hold himself better onstage.”
“I think Obama is better at speaking, but McCain is wiser and knows more.”
“I would say Obama [has done] better because he actually has a plan to solve the economic crisis. McCain is only disputing what Obama is saying and not actually giving a plan.”
“Obama is really good at speaking but doesn’t give straight answers and McCain flip-flops a lot. I just don’t think I can declare a winner.”
“I think McCain gives more straightforward answers, but Obama tends to beat around the bush.”
STEPHEN MITNAUL, fourth-year chemical engineering student
KATIE HUSS, second-year nursing student
“I think Obama has because of his ability to relate to the audience. McCain is older and is a little bit out of touch.”
“I think Obama has because he seems more confident and sounds like he knows what he’s talking about.”
Which presidential candidate do you think has Which presidential candidate do you think has done better in the debates?done better in the debates?
— Compiled by Assistant News Editor Kara Apel
Charles Dharapak / The Associated Press
Sen. Barack Obama responds to a question from debate moderator Bob Schieffer.
Hoping to rebound from sagging poll numbers and an election that has already been predicted as a Democratic win by CNN, Sen. John McCain
came out swinging Wednesday night in the final debate at Hofstra University.
T he most heated pa r t of the debate focused on the candidates’ responses to the current economic crisis, called by Obama “the worst fi nancial crisis since the Great Depression.”
With both parties looking to appeal to the middle class, Joe the Plumber — an Ohio resident looking to buy a small
business — became the baseline for economic policies.
“Unlike Sen. Obama, I will not stand for a tax increase on small business income,” McCain said, referring to his assertion that Obama plans to raise taxes on the middle class. “I don’t want Joe the Plumber to share his wealth. I want him to make the money himself.”
O b a m a r e f u t e d t h e
Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER
DEBATE 3
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Student Ray Curbelo and Mims Goza, director of Children’s Miracle Network at Palmetto Health Foundation, wrap boxes in preparation for a dance marathon event.
PIC OF THE DAY
THURSDAY, OCT. 9
Burglary in the 2nd Degree, 9:15 a.m. 101 South Bull St. An unknown suspect tore away a screen
door in order to gain access to the front porch. Suspect then broke open a window to gain access to the residence. No items were taken and forensic evidence was not found at the scene.
Estimated damage: $50 Reporting offi cer: M. Winnington
Burglary in the 3rd Degree, Petit Larceny, 9:45 a.m.
New Public School of Health, 921 Assembly St.
Victim stated that an unknown suspect took $140 in $20 bills and approximately $10 in $1 bills from the victim’s petty cash envelope.
Victim stated the envelope is typically stored in an unlocked drawer. The scene was processed and the envelope was taken as evidence.
Estimated damages: $150 Reporting offi cer: J. DuPree
FRIDAY, OCT. 10
Breaking & Entering of a Motor Vehicle, Petit Larceny, 4:00 p.m.
800 Greene St. An unknown suspect removed the catalytic
converters in two vehicles by cutting them with an unknown device. Digital prints were taken at the same, but produced negative results.
Estimated damages: $400 Reporting offi cer: C. Thompson
— Compiled by Staff Writer Kyle Moores
BAGHDAD — American soldiers killed the alleged No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, a Moroccan who trained in Afghanistan, recruited foreign fighters a nd r a n operat ion s i n northern Iraq where Sunni insurgents remain a potent threat, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
T h e m a n , w h o t h e military said was known as Abu Qaswarah, died Oct. 5 during a raid on a building in the northern cit y of Mosul that served as a major “command and cont rol location” for the region. Four other insurgents were killed in the operation, the U.S. said.
The announcement of Abu Qaswarah’s death was withheld until Wednesday t o a l l o w f o r p o s i t i v e identifi cation, the military said.
A m e r i c a n o f f i c i a l s described Abu Qaswarah, also known as Abu Sara, as a charismatic fi gure who had rallied al-Qaida’s network i n t he nor t h a f ter t he movement suffered major setbacks in Baghdad and other former strongholds.
The Swedish news agency TT reported that the man was also a Swedish citizen. Swedish offi cials confi rmed that a Moroccan Swede suspected of al-Qaida ties was killed in early October and that he was on the U.N. and the EU terror watch lists.
South Carolina education officials say 25 percent of the state’s high schools met federal education goals this year.
A n d f o r t h e t h i r d consecutive year, not one of the state’s 85 school districts met all of its goals.
R e s u l t s r e l e a s e d Wednesday show just 50 of the state’s 200 high schools m ade “adequ ate yea r ly progress” under federa l No C h i ld Lef t Beh i nd standards. That’s down from 60 last year.
Overall, the state met 27 of 37 goals, down from last year’s 28 goals met.
Results released earlier t h i s mont h showed 18 percent of elementary and middle schools met all of their goals.
No Child Lef t Behind requires schools to meet annual goals toward the law’s ultimate achievement — that every student in America master grade-level st andards by 2014. The No Child Left Behind law requires schools to meet annual goals on progress toward the law’s ultimate aim — that every student in America, regardless of race, poverty or disability, master grade-level standards by 2014.
To meet test ing goals on the state’s High School Assessment Program, half of the students in each group had to score “profi cient” or “advanced” in math, and 52 percent had to do so in English.
ORLANDO — Prosecutors h a v e D N A t e s t s a n d hair samples. They have testimony about “the smell of death” in the trunk of the suspect’s car.
What they do not have is a body.
Prosecutors building a case against a single 22-year-old Florida mother accused of killing her young daughter will have to rely on forensic evidence and persuade a jury that Casey Anthony lacks credibility and had a motive, legal experts say.
To help build the case, t he prosec utor w i l l be using what he described as cutting-edge forensic tests, including air test ing for compounds released when a body decomposes.
Prosec utor s have not been specif ic about how the evidence led to charges a g a i n s t A n t h o n y, b u t experts say it is possible to get a conviction without a body, with several cases, including some in Florida, as examples.
“ S o m e t i m e s circumstantial evidence is as powerful, or more powerful than the body itself,” said Donald Jones, a professor of c r i m i na l l aw at t he University of Miami.
Since 3-year-old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance w a s r e p o r t e d i n Ju l y, investigators have taken air samples from her mother’s car t runk and tested for the presence of her DNA. Hair samples also have been analyzed. — The Associated Press
FMLA Jewelry Sale 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Russell House lobby
Choose To Lose session 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. RH, Room 303
Nihon Club meeting 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Humanities 403
EMPOWER meetings 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. RH, Room 303
Emerging Leaders Student Panel
Tea and Grits Lecture Series
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Gressette
Academic Team practice 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Humanities 317
RH, Room 348
MSA meeting 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. RH, Room 302
NASHI meeting 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Gambrell 151
Leader Adam Gardner, president of Adam Gardner, president of F lying Gamecock Skydiving F lying Gamecock Skydiving
ClubClub
Q & A WITHQ & A WITH
USC STUDENT ORGANIZATIONUSC STUDENT ORGANIZATION
Q: What got you into skydiving?Q: What got you into skydiving?
A: A friend of a friend made a tandem skydive and told A: A friend of a friend made a tandem skydive and told me about it.me about it.
Q: How many times have you been Q: How many times have you been skydiving?skydiving?
A: Over the past four years, I’ve made a couple hundred A: Over the past four years, I’ve made a couple hundred jumps.jumps.
Q: Where do you usually skydive?Q: Where do you usually skydive?
A: We usually skydive in Chester, S.C., near Rock Hill.A: We usually skydive in Chester, S.C., near Rock Hill.
Q: What’s your favorite song right now?Q: What’s your favorite song right now?
A: I would probably have to say “Touched” by V.A.S.T.A: I would probably have to say “Touched” by V.A.S.T.
— Compiled by Assistant News Editor Kara Apel— Compiled by Assistant News Editor Kara Apel
PAGE 3The Daily Gamecock THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
Campus Wellness is hosting a Healthy Tailgating cooking class today at 6 p.m. in the Public Health Research Center kitchen (Room
107). The class will provide participants with a
sampling of healthy food and the campus dietician will be in attendance to answer any questions.
Students must pre-register and can call (803) 576-9393.
--Compiled by Assistant News Editor Kara Apel
Class teaches how to cook tasty tailgate food
assertions, saying he plans to raise taxes only on the highest fi ve percent — those making more than $250,000 per year.
The economy also led Obama to compare McCain to Bush once again, leading to one of the most pointed barbs of the night from McCain.
“Senator Obama, I am not President Bush,” McCain said. “If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.”
The debate quickly became nasty. Negative politicking once again took the forefront, with McCain crit icizing O b a m a ’ s a s s o c i a t i o n with Wil l iam Ayers, an underground terrorist in the 1960s. Following the attack, Obama backed away from William Ayers, calling Ayers’s actions in the 1960s “despicable.”
“Mr. Ayers is not involved in my campaign. He has never been involved in my campaign,” Obama said. “He will not advise me in the White House.”
O t her hy p e d i s s ue s , such as the high number of negative advertisements in
the campaign, were attacked by both candidates.
“Senator McCain, your ads have been 100 percent negative in this race,” Obama said.
“You’ve ran t he most negative advertisements ever,” McCain retorted.
F i n a l l y d i s c u s s i n g a social issue — abortion — brought forth another heated exchange. McCain has been criticized by conservatives in the past for a lackluster pro- life record, but he strongly supported a pro-life stance in the debate. Obama continued his support of Roe vs. Wade.
Not surprisingly, with their last appeals to the audience, both candidates went to the talking points they know best.
“I’ve served this country my entire life, and if you’d give me another chance, I’d be humbled and honored,” McCain said.
“Failed policies and politics of the last eight years won’t fi x things,” Obama said. “We need fundamental change in this country, and that’s what I’ll bring.”
DEBATE Continued from 1
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Last night, students at the University of South Carolina and across the nation were faced with two candidates for president, each presenting his own views on how to make the United States a
better county. S e n . Jo h n
M c C a i n s h o w e d n u m e r o u s times how he is a proven leader and reformer who has served his country in many different w a y s . S e n . Barack Obama was just words,
just speeches and just more empty rhetoric.
On the first issue of the n ight , the economy, a l l Obama could do was attempt to tie McCain — someone who has opposed his own party on the issue countless times — to President Bush. Mc C a i n re s p onde d b y saying, “I’m not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.”
O b a m a l a s t n i g h t embraced his inner socialist as McCain referred to him as “Senator Government.” This is the quintessential Barack Obama — “Senator G o v e r n m e nt .” B a r a c k Obama believes that the government knows better what is best for you and your family than you do.
On taxes, Obama thinks that we need to tax the very people who employ the majority of Americans (which will, in turn, cause the prices of groceries, gas and other services to rise).
On educat ion, Obama do e s n’t o f f e r a ny r ea l solution. The United States spends more money than any country on education, y e t t he Un it e d S t a t e s constantly underperforms other countries in that area.
Obama’s solution: Throw more money at the status quo. McCain’s solut ion: Reform the way the money is being spent, reward good teachers and “fi nd teachers who are underperforming a new line of work.”
On the economic crisis,
McCain unvei led a new plan to use some of the $750 billion in bailout money to pay off the bad mortgages for homeowners. This would help solve the crisis while keeping people in their homes. Obama’s plan (or lack thereof ) was more of the same: “John McCain is going to cont inue the failed policies of George W. Bush.”
So with the final debate over, and less than three weeks until the election, it is your turn to decide whether you wish to vote in favor of socialism or in favor of reform.
McCain has always put his country first. McCain has a record of leadership, of reform and of tackling hard issues that were not always popular with his party.
M c C a i n w i l l b e t he steady hand of leadership in these questionable times, while Obama will just be the empty rhetoric that he demonstrates over and over again.
This is an historic election — just make sure when you cast your vote that you know where the candidates stand. McCain has stood for his country, fought for his country and surrounded himself with people who have done the same.
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A l e x S t r o m a n i s t h e cha i r man o f the Co l l ege Republicans.
Student leaders sound off on presidential debateStudent leaders sound off on presidential debate Obama keeps cool while same old ‘fi ghting mad’
McCain makes expected low blows
HAKEEM JEFFERSON Second-year political science & African American studies student
ALEX STROMAN Second-year political science student
McCain distances self from Bush, shows leadership ability while Obama embraces ‘inner socialist’
M o s t A m e r i c a n s watching last night’s debate were eagerly waiting for the candidates to give them something other than the usual stump speeches that of fer much of nothing
o u t s i d e o f what voters h a v e s e e n over the past months on the major news networks.
S o m e w e r e e v e n w o n d e r i n g wh ich Sen. John McCain would show u p t o t h e debate, and w i t h i n t he
fi rst 15 minutes it was quite clear that we would see a presidential candidate who has watched the polls sway in a direction opposite his liking.
It was obvious that we would see a presidential candidate who witnessed the success of Karl Rove’s pol it ica l s t rateg y and bel ieves that the same tactics would work in this historic election.
It was obvious that we would see in tonight’s debate a man who was willing to stoop to the level of others in his party to win in November.
Most political observers would agree that if McCain were to “win” last night’s debate he would have to do a much better job than he had done in past debates.
As a liberal viewer, I will be the first to admit that McCain’s performance s u r p a s s e d h i s o t h e r performances, though most would agree he had set the bar pretty low for himself.
I t ’ s u n f o r t u n a t e , however, that McCain would measure “winning” by the number of times he attacked his opponent or the number of times he made some snide remark to excite his base.
It ’s unfortunate that McCain, a great American hero, would diminish the importance and gravity of the issues facing the A m e r i c a n p e o p l e b y focusing more on exciting
the base than on talking about solutions to problems affecting folks like me and those who live in Gable, S.C., who could only dream of having $250,000 in their bank accounts.
I can’t speak for the rest of those who have watched this political season unfold, but I am sick and tired of hearing McCain talk at leng t h about Obama’s associations while failing to talk about what he would do to improve the lives of American citizens.
After last night’s debate, it i s pret t y c lear t hat McCain and Gov. Sarah Pa l in are comfor table with merely exciting the Republican base during a time in which Democrats and Republ icans must join toget her to solve the problems facing this nation, but more and more Americans are sending the McCain campaign a message that they are more than Six-Pack Joes and soccer moms.
Sen. Barack Obama in tonight’s debate showed the American people that he can win by talking about substantive issues. He can win without attacking his opponent’s character or his patriotism.
McCain wanted Obama to lose his cool and break a sweat in tonight’s debate, but Obama proved that he is the type of leader t h is cou nt r y needs at this moment — one who is willing to fight for the American people, but one who is not “fi ghting mad.”
Maybe McCain could learn from a polit ician a few years h is jun ior — desperate times don’t always call for desperate measures.
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Hakee m Je f f e r s on i s a s uppo r t e r o f Bara ck Obama and has campaigned ex ten s ive l y f o r Bara ck Obama in South Carolina.
PAGE 4 The Daily Gamecock THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2008
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Group of Eight major industrial countries said Wednesday they will meet “in the near future” for a global summit to tackle the fi nancial crisis.
In a joint statement released by the W hite House, the G-8 leaders sa id they were united in their commitment to resolve the crisis by strengthening their fi nancial institutions and restoring confi dence.
The statement said the leaders of the eight countries — the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada and Russia — would meet “at an appropriate time in the near future.”
The statement indicated that the G-8 nations would include other key nat ions in the discussions which will be aimed at drafting “an agenda for reforms to meet the challenges of the 21st century.”
Earlier on Wednesday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the meeting could be held as soon as November.
He said the discussions should i nclude not on ly t he world’s richest nations but also such major emerging economies as China and India.
“I bel ieve there is scope for agreement in the next few days that we will have an international meeting to take common action ... for very large and very radical changes,” Brown told reporters before a meet ing w it h ot her European Union leaders for talks in Brussels on the fi nancial crisis.
German Chancel lor A ngela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy also called for a G-8 meeting.
Merkel said reform was needed
so that “something like this can never happen again” while Sarkozy said the meeting should be held in New York “where everything started.”
The current f inancia l cr isis began more than a year ago with heavy losses sustained by fi nancial institutions in the United States on their investments in subprime mortgages.
Brown said that an overhaul of global fi nancial organizations like the International Monetary Fund and the creation of better rules governing fi nancial markets were “urgently needed so that we can restore confi dence.”
In a document obtained by The Associated Press, Brown said he wanted banks to rethink how they deal with risk.
He also called for strengthened rules covering such issues as the amount of reserves banks must hold to cover potent ia l losses and improving transparency in fi nancial markets.
In their joint statement, the G-8 leaders praised the actions taken by fi nance ministers and central bank
governors of the G-7 countries last Friday when they adopted a fi ve-point action plan to deal the current fi nancial troubles.
That plan pledged ef forts to keep major financial institutions from failing and to unfreeze credit markets. The G-7 includes al l the countries in the G-8 except Russia.
President Bush met with the G-7 offi cials on Saturday and then later in the day attended a session of the Group of 20 nations which includes the G-7 countries and major emerging markets such as China, India and Brazil.
In the joint statement Wednesday, the G-8 leaders said changes to the regulatory and institutional regimes of the world’s f inancial sectors were needed to “remedy defi ciencies exposed by the current crisis.”
“ We a r e c o n f i d e n t t h a t , working together, we will meet the present challenges and return our economies to stabilit y and prosperity,” the leaders said in their statement.
G-8 announce global summit on fi nancial crisis
Martin Crutsinger Th e Associated Press
U.S., seven other major countries discuss worldwide banking
in developed, developing nations
Remy de la Mauviniere / The Associated Press
Cars bearing the national of fl ags of some of the Eurogroup members are seen in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace.
WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney w a s t r e a t e d “ w i t ho u t complication” Wednesday for an abnormal heartbeat, his off ice said, making a short visit to a hospital to restore his normal rhythm with an electric shock.
It was the second time in less than a year that Cheney, a 67-year-old with a h istor y of four hear t attacks, had experienced a n d b e e n t r e a t e d f o r an atrial f ibrillat ion, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart. The episode caused the vice president to cancel his attendance at a political campaign event in Illinois.
S e n s i n g a p r o b l e m early Wednesday, Cheney saw t he W h ite Hou se physician, who discovered t he v ice pres ident was
experiencing a recurrence of the irregular heartbeat. Cheney part ic ipated in regular morning briefings w i t h P r e s id e nt Bu s h , among other duties, and remained working at the White House until he went to George Washington University Hospital in the afternoon for treatment.
The process took nearly t wo hours, af ter which Cheney went home, said Megan Mitchell, a Cheney spokeswoman.
“An electrical impulse was delivered to restore the heart to normal rhythm,” she said. “The procedure went smoothly and without complication.”
Cheney told Bush of his condition. The president responded “like he would w it h a ny f r iend ,” sa id spokesman Tony Fratto, by wishing the vice president well and telling him to “go and make sure the doctors do what they need to do.”
Later, in Ada, Mich., Bush told reporters that Cheney is “going to be fi ne.”
“He said he was confi dent,
Deb Riechmann Th e Associated Press
Cheney ‘going to be fi ne’ after abnormal heartbeat VP makes second hospital visit in short span, forced to cancel campaign event
HEART 6
Although we finally figured out where the air came from — and yes, Ryan Holt, it costs money — we want to know where the water is coming from. Based on prices in Pandini’s, it must fl ow from a crystal geyser in Fiji.
While getting worked up over balloons, air and tap water is a little silly, the principle matters: Nickel-and- diming students is getting old. Pandini’s will happily provide a thimble posing as a cup, but it’ll set you back 23 cents.
We have a l ready been through this. It may seem like ancient history, but Biobox- gate was only a few months ago. Is the cost of a miniature Dixie cup really 23 cents?
I n a l l ser iousness , t he companies in the Russel l
House aren’t there to feed students and simply break even. They are out to make a profi t, as they should. But on the same token, it seems some are becoming a little too comfortable with the oligopoly the university has provided for them.
While they may have contracts and leases, there is no guarantee they will be renewed. Without doubt, there are many fi rms that would love to place their restaurants in the heart of the captive USC market. While we don’t expect something for nothing, students should receive equal service and treatment as they would in a similar off-campus establishment — especially when the prices are the same. Just because they know many students have meal plans and limited mobility doesn’t mean they have the right to rip people off.
Sugarhill Gang infl uence extends beyond hip-hop, blurs border of rock, rap
I r e c e n t l y h a d a conversation with my music- snob roommate about the history of pop music. What I realized over the course of the conversation is that it’s incredibly diffi cult to deal in absolutes when you’re talking about pop music. It’s next to impossible to speak
in terms like “the best.” V a r i o u s s o u r c e s have named everything f r o m “Stairway to Heaven” to “Smells Like Teen Spirit” t o Tr a c y Chapman’s “G ive Me One Reason
to Stay Here” as the best song ever. It’s just not a very easy thing to do.
The other thing I realized is that there is one absolute in popular music — that “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang is the most infl uential song of the past 75 years.
T he G a ng i s by no means the most infl uential pop artist or group of the past 75 years — that would probably be Elvis Presley or Chuck Berry — but until the New Jersey trio released their 14-minute magnum opus in 1979, popular music meant rock and roll or some derivative thereof.
Nowadays, pop music is split into two groups: hip-hop and rock, with few artists, OutKast and The Roots among them, blurring the line between the two. Before “Rapper’s Del ight ,” rap and hip- hop were insignif icant counterculture genres that most white people had never heard of. Artists like Gil Scott-Heron only came to prominence later. Once “Rapper’s Delight” went gold, everything began to change.
Without the Sugarhill Gang, there would be no Tupac, no N.W.A., no Will Smith, no Eminem, no 50 Cent, no Kanye West. Don’t like any of those artists?
The effects of Sugarhill G a n g ’s b r e a k i n g r ap into the mainstream are further-reaching than you
might think. Think about it this way: If there’s no “Rapper’s Delight,” there’s no hip-hop. Without hip- hop, New K ids on the Block would lose a major infl uence. From there, the boy bands of the 1990s would not have existed, and, by extension, Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, M a r o o n 5 a nd o t he r various, sundry acts that we take for granted may or may not have anything to do with rap as we consider it.
The infl uence of rap on modern pop can be likened to the infl uence of country blues on early jazz and rock and roll. While blues was once an arcane, very racially centered form of music, it inf luenced jazz and later rock indelibly once people like Berry and Presley had the wherewithal to put the two together.
I n t h e s a m e v e i n , mainstream rap is not only important in and of itself — and its importance cannot be overemphasized in artistic, social and political terms — it’s important in the sense that it has left a mark on all other pop music.
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Candidates fail to show diff erences, consistency McCain, Obama come up short in terms of actual plans, direction for U.S.
You know what I really like? Flair and showmanship.
What could possibly be better? Moving speeches, big ideas with little follow- t h r o u g h , u n a n s w e r e d
questions that appear to be a n s w e r e d . W h a t m o r e could we ask of presidential candidates?
H o w a b o u t s o m e s u b s t a n c e ? H o w a b o u t actual follow- t hrough and m ap p e d - out plans of how to
fi x the economic crisis? How about an actual plan of action in Iraq and Afghanistan? How about health care reform that doesn’t have the words ‘universal’ and ‘healthcare’ in the same paragraph? How about a simple answered question?
OK, so maybe I don’t like f lare and showmanship. So sue me. I like substance with my choice of president.
This is a major issue facing the moderate, undecided voters in America. It isn’t the economy, the war, healthcare or immigration. Nope, it’s actual substance in regards to those issues. Today, the game of politics has become a simple equation of being as vague as possible to deceive voters into actually thinking the candidate generally cares about the populace so he or she can advance the agenda of one’s political party and his or her own self-interest.
Hate to say it, but politics is merely a game, and we are its pawns. Why do you think only a few states are being targeted? You don’t see Barack Obama campaigning heavily in conservative South Carolina, nor do you see John McCain campaigning in liberal California. Elections come down to a handful of states every four years — usually Ohio and Florida — which has contributed to the numbers game that is politics.
The election and campaign doesn’t even resemble logical debate, but rather a car show with two models at opposite ends of the spectrum. The voters can pick from the classic Ford Pinto with the engine in the back and the f lint bumper, or the f lashy 2009 Ferrari with the 22-inch rims, top-of-the-line stereo and 27” TVs on the inside. Neither really works that well. The Pinto has a lot of miles and could give out at any minute and is a scratch away from blowing its top, while the Ferrari, though shiny and eye-catching, is new and really hasn’t gone through safety inspections and road testing.
I swear, if one of these cars would just show that it has a working engine, is reliable and won’t break down halfway through the four-year trip, I’ll gladly take out the loan and buy it — assuming my bank is still in business.
It has gotten to the point that if one of the two would just answer a question, and not dance around the bush, I’d probably vote for him on the spot. That is, if I don’t pass out from shock fi rst.
IN YOUR OPINION Obama-Ayers facts often misrepresented
The struggling McCain camp has been leveling utterly vague accusations about the connect ion between Barack Obama and William Ayers without even mentioning half of the facts. Politics based on the simple word association such as “William Ayers, Terrorist, Obama” is an insultingly low measure of voter intelligence. In light of all of the propaganda being fl ung around, I feel obligated to clear the air on this issue so we can all be at least a little more lucid with our thoughts on this election.
W i l l i a m Ayer s was a member of Weather Underg rou nd , wh ich did in fact bomb several bu i ld ings du r ing t he V i e t n a m W a r e r a , including the Pentagon. These at tacks were in r e s p o n s e t o v a r io u s incidents of corruption within the government, and in some cases police forces and the FBI. In each of these episodes, the Weathermen always gave notice of their intent to bomb a building at lea s t a n hou r before so t hat t he bu i ld i ng could be evacuated. The Pe nt a g on b omb, f o r
example, exploded in a ladies’ restroom in the evacuated Air Force wing of the Pentagon. The only casualt ies in any of the group’s activities were three of their own who died when a bomb accidentally went off in their apartment.
Put in context of the Vietnam era’s polit ical u p h e a v a l a n d t h e government corruption the Weathermen were protesting, it is extremely h a r d t o c o m p l e t e l y condemn their actions, but it is also impossible to completely ju st i f y any form of terrorism. At the worst, we are left believing that Ayers was a young, ent husiast ic pol it ica l ac t iv ist who got too carried away in f ight i ng gover n ment cor r upt ion but never actually hurt anyone. All charges against Ayers were dropped. Today he is a nationally renowned professor of education at the University of Illinois, specializing in methods of reaching inner-city youth. He has also been known to lecture at Harvard as well as other universities on the subject.
Now t hat we k now w h o W i l l i a m Ay e r s is, let’s explore Barack
O b a m a ’ s s u p p o s e d suppor t of ter ror i sm through Ayers. At the time of the Weathermen bombings (late 60’s-mid 70’s) Obama had not even reached his teens. There are only two connections b e t ween Oba m a a nd Ayers. First is that Ayers and his wife held a meet- and-greet fundraiser for Obama among the local neighborhood for his fi rst state senate run in the mid 90’s. By this t ime, Ayers was already a well- respected professor.
T h e o n l y o t h e r reasonable connect ion is that they both served on the Woods Fund of Chicago board. The non- profi t Woods Fund group’s mission statement, by the way, is “Woods Fund of Chicago is a grant-making foundation whose goal is to increase opportunities for less-advantaged people and communities in the metropolitan area.” There you have the evidence of a t rue connect ion. Both Obama and Ayers were trying to get better l ives for the poor and disadvantaged. Guilty as sin, how dare they.
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LAKE MORRIS Th ird-year print journalism student
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the United States, only l ist ing addresses for its headquarters as Abbeville, CSA. CSA is an acronym for the Confederate States of America.
There was no audience for the presentat ion, as students walked past the group without stopping, typically only laughing and taking out their cell phones for pictures. Some chanted comments at the presenters as they walked past.
O n e s t u d e n t w h o declined to be identified, however, had something to say to the group.
“The North kicked your ass,” he said. “Just get over it.”
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Meanwhile, 2,112 workers took voluntary furloughs and 8,138 faced mandatory furloughs, or unpaid time off that preserves benefi ts.
L a s t w e e k , a g e n c i e s reported they would save about $5 mill ion through layoffs, but only detailed plans for el iminat ing 15 jobs through reductions in force. So far, no agency has submitted plans for layoffs for review, said Sam Wilkins, the director of the state Offi ce of Human Resources. Once the Legislature slices the budget next week, that should change quickly.
“The sooner that they could react to the budget cuts, the better they are able to meet that shortfall,” Wilkins said.
Wilkins has been talking with leg islators draf t ing language to allow agencies more f lexibility to furlough workers.
To save money, agencies could jet t ison temporary workers who have no job
protections and can be fired at will. Besides the $5 million from layoffs, the agencies’ suggestions for cuts involve about $4 million in savings by eliminating temporary positions.
T h e D e p a r t m e n t o f Motor Veh ic le s “ wou ld release temporary employees before they release f u l l- t i me” employee s , DM V spokeswoman Beth Parks said.
DMV has 82 temps working in fi eld offi ces and processing paperwork in mailrooms. “ It wou ld hu r t . Clea rly we wouldn’t have as many employees to do the same job,” Parks said. “The workload doesn’t decrease. Having to do it without those extra employees certainly would be painful for the agency.”
But even gett ing rid of temps may be tough for some agencies that have tailored services and budgets around workers without state health and retirement benefi ts.
“You really need to look
at it on a case-by-case basis,” Wilkins said.
Retirees who return to their jobs under a state incentive plan and new workers in probationary positions don’t have job protections, either. But eliminating those jobs as well as temporary positions can be complicated by the mix of money agencies use.
Only 28,929 of the state’s full-time workers are paid solely by state dollars. Nearly 25,000 are paid with federal ca sh. The re st a re pa id through a combination of state and federal money.
That makes it hard to say who gets a pink slip or furlough notice at agencies like the Department of Health and Environmental Control. The agency says half the $14 million in cuts it could handle would come from payroll paring, but officials are still work ing out t he det a i l s because the department has state and federally funded programs.
“ We ’ r e w a i t i n g f o r
f u r t her d i rec t ions f rom the Legislature before any decisions are made,” DHEC spokesman Jim Beasley said.
For now, agency payrolls are likely to take a hit.
“ I t h i n k some of t he agencies are going to have to look at f urloughs and probably holding positions open,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Cooper said Tuesday. “There’s a possibility that some agencies will have to lay off some people.”
Whatever cuts are needed Cooper, R-Piedmont, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Hugh Leatherman say taxes won’t be raised to fi x the budget.
“No new taxes. Absolutely not ,” s a id L eat her m a n , R-Florence. “Taxes are never timely, but particularly not with the economy the way it is. ... People throughout the state are having to do more than tighten their belts just to survive as it is.”
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the doctors are confident, and therefore I’m confi dent,” Bush said.
Cheney also experienced a t r i a l f i b r i l l a t i o n i n N o v e m b e r 2 0 0 7, a n d doctors also administered an electrical shock then in a treatment that took about 2 1/2 hours. That irregular heartbeat was discovered while White House doctors were t reat ing t he v ice president for a lingering cough from a cold.
D r . Z a y d E l d a d a h , d i r e c t o r o f c a r d i a c arrhy thmia research at Wa s h i n g t o n Ho s p i t a l Center, said it’s not unusual for Cheney to have another such episode. An estimated 2.8 million Americans have atrial f ibrillat ion, which is not life-threatening in itself.
“This k ind of rhythm problem generally does keep coming back over time,” said Eldadah, who is not involved in Cheney’s care. “The natural history of atrial fibrillation in people who have heart disease and are older is that it keeps coming back, and generally comes back more frequently.”
T he m a i n r i sk f rom atrial f ibri l lat ion is not t hat Cheney w i l l have another heart attack, but
that he eventually could have a stroke if the rhythm problem is not treated.
Atrial fibrillation causes the upper chambers of the heart to quiver, instead of pump. As a result, some blood can pool in the heart. When blood settles, it tends to clot. And if those clots are then pumped out to the body, they can lodge in tin y blood vessels in the brain and cause a stroke.
The procedure Cheney underwent Wednesday is like resetting a computer, E ld ad a h e x p l a i ned . I t i nvolve s sedat ion , a nd then an electrical charge delivered to the heart. “The heart will be turned off and on to reset it,” said Eldadah. “It’s a quick fix to restore normal rhythm.”
If the procedure doesn’t work, patients typically are put on blood thinners to prevent clotting.
“Atr ia l f ibr i l lat ion in patients like Vice President Cheney is not a source of great worry or alarm,” Eldadah said.
Cheney has had four heart attacks, starting when he was 37, and many heart- related doctor’s and hospital visits over the years since. He has had quadruple bypass surgery and two artery- clearing angioplasties.
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3. Phish Reunited
Hippies rejoice, the perennial jam band after the Grateful Dead era has returned. Phish broke up with grand celebration in 2004, and ever since then fans have been swirling rumors on the Internet. Over the past four years, fans of Phish have gotten small tastes of the band with solo tours and collaborative appearances from the members. But two weeks ago, the band announced that they would be reuniting for a three-day run of Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Va. This March festival will essential become a Mecca for every wookie hippie and Phish phreak around. Get ready and break out the bongos and hacky sacks.
Our fond childhood memories of Dr. Seuss will play a relevant part in the upcoming presidential election. A free exhibit of Dr. Seuss’s works are currently on display through Election Day, Nov. 4, at the House of Frames and Paintings Gallery (HoFP) on Devine St. to demonstrate Seuss’s political and environmental genius and the importance of involvement in the electoral process.
Few k now t he ot her s ide of Theodore Seuss Geisel’s (aka Dr. Seuss’s) literary career. He was a feisty political cartoonist during World War II for the short-lived, popular New York tabloid PM.
Alice Parritt, owner and CEO of HoFP, has been coordinating the ongoing presentations and informing attendees of Dr. Seuss’s unmasked history.
“He’s just somebody that people really relate well to their childhood and the stories they remember,”
Parritt said. “Or they love finding out that he had this whole other side that’s a little more mature and a little more edgy.”
A non-part isan Dr. Seuss for President Rally was held Monday night at the Five Points Fountain, a family-oriented celebrat ion of American politics. The rally featured appearances by political personalities, patriotic music, balloons, buttons and posters. To reach out to youth, HoFP Gallery sponsored a coloring contest and engaged teachers and students through an exploration of Dr. Seuss’s books and political cartoons.
Parritt has been sell ing Seuss artwork for eight to 10 years and said the family-friendly rally was successful.
“It was sporadically fabulous,” Parritt said. “It ended really well, but it ended more quickly than we had hoped.”
Gallery Manager Tenisa Cassinetti has been talking to people about Dr. Seuss, hanging the gallery and coordinating the event.
Seuss was an artist before he was an author — but he became famous through his contributions as one of the world’s most celebrated icons of children’s literature.
The current exhibit includes the first-ever release of the 1942 work “Knotty Problem,” a thought-provoking cartoon focused on the issue of taxes and Capitol Hill.
Seuss was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his anti-fascist PM cartoons of 1941 and 1942 and received a special citation in 1984 “for his contribution over nearly half a century to the education and enjoyment of America’s children and their parents.”
One of Seuss’s most popular 1971 publ icat ions , “The
Lorax,” conveys environmentally charged messages that were way before their time.
The HoFP exhibit features a collection of environmentally friendly prints from “The Lorax Project,” an innovative initiative designed to engage individuals and corporations to conserve vital resources. 15 trees will be planted with the purchase of each Earth-Friendly Lorax print.
“Yertle the Turtle” was an argument against fascism. “The Sneetches” was an argument against discrimination. “The Horton Hears a Who!” was a parable on democracy. “The Cat in the Hat” was a written statement that revolutionized literacy.
The exhibit features the fi rst-ever print of the “Triple Sling Jigger” from Seuss’s most controversial work “The Butter Battle Book.” The work focused on nuclear proliferat ion and was written at the height of the Cold War. Seuss’s response to critics was “I’m not anti-military, just anti- crazy.”
Cassinetti said she observed some students stopping by the exhibit after a leisurely bike ride.
“We might get a few young men impressing their dates tonight,” said Cassinetti jokingly.
“The nicest thing about it is lots of people will step into a gallery and see an art show of Dr. Seuss — [people] who would never go to a gallery before — and you often fi nd that they’re not interested in art at all. They just like Dr. Seuss,” Parrit said. “They get introduced to a whole new place to be … It wakes people up a bit.”
The House of Frames and Paintings is located at 2828 Devine St. and is open Tuesday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
5. Biking Yes, bik ing is a broad topic for the Mix
Tape, but we couldn’t help ourselves. With the tanking economy and rising gas prices, biking has offi cially become the new cheap mode of transportation. It may be a foreign instrument to those in the oil age, but biking is back and here to stay. That is, as long as the economy is in the toilet. The best part: It’s cheap and an easy way to go green. Save for the parts, it generally does not waste environmental resources and is relatively cheap. Instead of spending cash on gas, students and residents can bike to class and work. So enjoy the recession in the best possible way. Bike away the pain.
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1. Arrested Development “Arrested Development” was quite possibly the funniest and greatest television show
of all time. Yes, that is quite a biased statement, but here at the Mix, we adore this “little show that could.” If there was ever a list of the most underrated and prematurely canceled television shows, this would defi nitely make the top fi ve. Featuring a young Michael Cera, Arrested Development followed the life and times of a family destroyed by the jailing of their corrupt father. Shot in mockumentary style and narrated by Ron Howard, the show’s hilarity and genius were prominent in its superb writing and plot. Even though the show was canceled in 2006, fans should not despair because the show plans a comeback on the silver screen in early 2010.
4. W. Whether you like President Bush or not, this
Oliver Stone interpretation should be interesting if not inciting. While I haven’t seen the fi lm yet, I expect it to spark many a argument. Stone has been known for his unusual and controversial interpretat ions of h istor y with f i lms l ike “Platoon,” “JFK” and “Nixon.” Judging from the trailer, this f ilm seems to fit the typical Stone mold. Josh Brolin appears over-the-top in his portrayal as Bush, and Richard Dreyfuss retains the slick, lizard-esque qualities of Vice President Dick Cheney. Even if the movie is a biased interpretation of the president’s life, the perspective could prove quite entertaining.
This bard of the South has often been the bane of English students across America. Complex, disjointed and often wordy, Faulkner was nevertheless beautiful in his stream of consciousness prose. Epic novels like “Absalom, Absalom!” and “The Sound and the Fury” have stood the test of time while confusing and captivating readers. But in essence, his complexity is what made his writing so enthralling. The words draw readers into a distinct world of Faulkner’s own devising and leave them stunned by the swath of topics and controversial ideas.
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In this week’s trip to the Trailer Park, studios unveil a whole slew of end-of-the-year treats. Ranging from some sentimental dramas to an independent comedy and even a dash of horror, most of these trailers look great and all play into some well-liked genres for fans to check out.
The pick for trailer of the week goes enthusiastically to “Sunshine Cleaning,” a small independent comedy/drama that’s been searching for distribution since Sundance. It stars
Amy Adams, quite possibly the most underrated and luminous young actress working right now, as a mom who starts a crime scene clean-up service and experiences profound changes in her life.
With the trailer’s joyful glimpses at Adams and wonderful co-stars Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, hopefully “Sunshine Cleaning” will be available in its slated Spring 2009 release.
In “Seven Pounds,” Will Smith re-teams with “The Pursuit of Happyness” director Gabriele Muccino for his new movie about a man who decides to change the lives of seven strangers in an act of self-redemption. The trailer is full of all the schmaltzy, tear-inducing drama you could ever hope to expect. With a release date almost mimicking “Happyness,” it will try to light the uplifting drama candle twice.
“Twilight” fans fi nally get a full, two-and-a-half minute trailer for the adaptation of the popular novel. While the fi lm is certainly playing to its fanbase, and even with some interesting parts in the trailer, it’s hard to say whether the series can make the tricky crossover into film. This one seems pretty cheesy and over the top. The unique mixture of romance and vampires will be enticing for some, but it also begs the question: When was the last time a vampire fi lm really connected with an audience?
The preview for Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling,” which goes into limited release later this month, features shot after shot of an anguished Angelina Jolie in this missing child period piece. Eastwood’s typical visual reserve and his beautiful way of watching people with his camera is the big highlight of this package.
“Changeling” got some great notices for star Jolie at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, and Hollywood’s love for Eastwood’s recent directorial winning streak will probably boost the fi lm’s popularity.
The second trailer for “Defiance,” which has left many whetting their appetites for Oscar, could still go either way and leaves some room for hesitation. Director Edward Zwick is famous for bringing intricate action to historical periods in fi lms “Glory,” “The Last Samurai” and “Blood Diamond.”
Here he takes on the Holocaust, and while the trailer seems like the action version of “Schindler’s List,” its late December
release raises the hopes high that Zwick and star Daniel Craig can bring their full dramatic talents to the table.
Lastly, Rogue Pictures shows off their new horror fi lm, “The Unborn.” Featuring everything from a creepy little kid to a head spinning to lots of screaming and an exorcism, the fi lm looks like the typical January wasteland horror fi lm.
The real draw for the film comes from writer/director David S. Goyer, a co-writer on “The Dark Knight.” Too bad “Unborn” doesn’t look like more than the usual dismissive horror fare.
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Take a deep breath. Midterms are over, and we all survived them. In recognition of this feat, it’s time to celebrate, and what better way to reward yourself for all your hard work than through a self-induced sugar coma? In the name of research, I scoured the dessert menus of some of Columbia’s best restaurants and dutifully sampled cakes, ice creams and various pastries in order to identify the best (a tough job, I know).
The resu lt? Three of Columbia’s restaurants — Mo Mo’s Bistro, Nonnah’s and Cool Beans — offer a variety of delicious desserts with something that will appeal to everyone.
Mo Mo’s Bistro’s pastry chef Casey Moons ha s a u n ique a nd c reat ive perspect ive that is ref lected in h is creations. I sampled his butter pecan cheesecake and chocolate ganache, both of which were exceptional. The butter pecan cheesecake is delectably creamy, but its texture is contrasted with the
crunchy pecan crust and the sweet glaze on top adds a perfect accent. Moons’s chocolate ganache is a traditional dessert with several inspired elements that give it an unexpected twist. The ganache itself
is made of intensely dark chocolate and can satisfy any craving. Complimenting the ganache is a bed of macadamia nut cookie crumbles and a cinnamon spice ice cream, which blends clove, cinnamon and other spices with a subtle kick of cayenne pepper. The desserts at Mo Mo’s are made fresh daily, and the offerings are different every day. Given the quality of these two offerings, I’m eager to see what Moons comes up with next.
Nonnah’s offers a wide variety of cakes and pies, and the restaurant’s pastry chef has a special talent for mousse. After sampling the Chocolate Temptation cake, it became obvious why Nonnah’s has been voted as having the best desserts in Columbia for the last 11 years. One of the restaurant’s standout offerings is the triple mousse cake, which alternates layers of light, airy cake with vanilla, chocolate and strawberry cream, making it reminiscent of Neapolitan ice cream. Nonnah’s desserts are so impressive because of the attention to detail in their making. The cake is never too sweet and has a hint of lemon, so it never overpowers
the fl avor of the mousse. Both the quality of the desserts and the friendliness of the staff contribute to Nonnah’s reputation as one of Columbia’s sweetest places for dessert.
The desserts at Cool Beans prove that even the strictest dietary restrictions can’t stand in the way of exceptional quality. The vegan carrot cake at Cool Beans is free of eggs and dairy products, but it is still moist and the frosting is unbelievably creamy.
Although the desserts at Cool Beans aren’t baked in-house l ike those at Nonnah’s and Mo Mo’s, they are still made locally and taste like they were just baked. This cake is appealing to vegans and non-vegans alike.
No matter what your taste, Columbia is bound to have a dessert that appeals to you. From exceptionally creative pastries and ice creams at Mo Mo’s Bistro to elegant classics at Nonnah’s or specialty fare at Cool Beans, Columbia’s many dessert offerings share one common factor: high quality.
The number of desserts offered around Columbia could easily be the sweetest thing about the city.
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Students satisfy sweet tooth in ColumbiaStudents satisfy sweet tooth in Columbia Mo Mo’s Bistro, Nonnah’s, Cool Beans
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ARIES It seems as though there’s plenty of money, but that’s not actually the case. After you pay the expenses, there’ll be just enough. TAURUS Competition keeps you keen, if you don’t get self-conscious about it. Even if the other person is cute, you’re way cuter. Use your radiant smile and the two of you might even end up friends. GEMINI Your carefully laid plans will go awry; you can bet on that. You can bet on lots of other things, too, but you’d be wiser not to. CANCER It’s getting a little easier to make others understand whatever it is you want them to know. LEO A choice that
benefi ts your public life causes stress on your private time. Is the money worth the extra stress? VIRGO A long-distance phone call helps you clear up earlier confusion. Lots of misunderstandings, most of them about money, will be cleared up in the next few days. LIBRA There are lots of things you want to buy, but you should be careful. You don’t want to go into debt or wipe out your savings account. It’ll take a little longer to do your shopping, but you’ll feel better. SCORPIO Let a steady hand steer your ship, or car, or whatever it is you’re in. Let somebody else take care of you for a while.
SAGITTARIUS It’s another day of racing around, doing what has to be done. It doesn’t all go smoothly; there are a couple of irritations. CAPRICORN Your heart is torn between two loves. You may not have to choose. There’s a good chance you can love them both completely, with no jealousy. AQUARIUS Things don’t quite work out as neatly as you’d like. If you do one thing, you won’t be able to do something else. Maybe you can get somebody else to take over one of these chores. PISCES Continue to do your homework, research, practice and whatever else requires your full attention.
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Michael Aguilar SPORTS EDITOR
While the football team gears up for a contest against LSU, the men’s soccer squad is set to host a different set of Tigers from Memphis in Conference USA action Friday. USC (6-4-2, 1-1-1) is trying to bounce back from their fi rst C-USA loss to Kentucky while Memphis (4-8, 2-2) rides the momentum of consecutive conference victories into Stone Stadium.
The Gamecocks will be looking to score more goals as their offense has struggled of late. Blake Brettschneider netted an unassisted goal in the 65th minute at Sout hern Met hod ist Un ivers it y la s t Wednesday, but USC has been held scoreless since, being on the wrong end of a penalty kick to tie SMU 1-1 and losing to Kentucky 2-0. Brettschneider has been working hard in practice, and Coach Mark Berson has taken notice.
“Up front, Blake Brettschneider has been playing exceptionally well,” Berson said. “He’s been working very hard. That’s the kind of thing that doesn’t show up in the box score, how hard they’ve been working in practice.”
Jimmy Maurer has been solid in goal
all season for USC, recording shutouts in fi ve of the six Carolina victories. Helping out Maurer are Tyler Ruthven and Will Traynor, whom Berson called the heart of the defense. These two defenders tried to make Maurer’s job a little easier by holding Kentucky to only nine shots on goal this past weekend. Traynor has also had his number of shots on goal, scoring one this season.
USC and Memphis have had two common conference opponents. SMU was defeated by Memphis 2-1 in overtime while USC tied SMU 1-1 in double overtime. Florida International was defeated by both teams, losing to USC 2-0 and to Memphis 2-1 this past Sunday.
Against FIU last Sunday, Memphis freshman Parker Duncan broke through, netting his fi rst career goals to account for all of the Tigers’ offense in their 2-1 win. Michael Goodlett has been tending the Memphis goal well, saving 50 shots thus far and recording five saves against FIU. Memphis also hung tough against then-No. 3 Creighton in a 1-0 loss.
The Gamecocks have only been shut out one other time in 2008. Earlier in the season, No. 1 Wake Forest defeated USC 1-0, but Carolina bounced back with a 3-0 pounding of Lehigh. USC looks for the same outcome against the Tigers at Stone Stadium, where they have accumulated a 5-0-1 record. Being so dominant at home and only giving up one goal in the t ie against Presbyterian has been credited to
great play as well as a raucous crowd. “We are very excited to be returning
home,” Berson said. “The student support has been outstanding all season. It is a tremendous advantage for us. I hope people will kick off their LSU weekend by stopping by the soccer stadium and supporting the
men’s soccer team.” Game time is set for 7 p.m. at Stone
Stadium.
Following loss to UK, men’s soccer takes aim at Memphis on Friday
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Sam Arthur and company will need a strong offensive performance to top Memphis.
Brettschneider, Maurer, Ruthven lead team’s charge against tough Tigers squad at home in Stone Stadium
People defi ne sports in many different ways. Sometimes a sport has to include defense, sometimes it needs to include team play, and sometimes it needs to be played in the Olympics. However, many people agree on one thing: ultimate frisbee is not a sport.
If you are one of those people, don’t tell USC’s club ultimate president, junior biomedical engineering major Kev in Anderson. Anderson, a state semifi nalist wrestler in high school, thinks plenty of his chosen college sport.
“It’s just as athletically challenging as any other sport out there, in my opinion,” Anderson said. “It’s just as physically challenging as any other sport. We go out there and practice as hard as any other club sport does, and the competition is there. For me that’s all that makes it a sport.”
Compet it ive, organized ult imate is considered a foreign sport to most or, at the very least, an uncommon game. The rules are a fairly simple mix of football, basketball and soccer.
The game combines the nonstop style of soccer with the non-contact and anti- traveling stance of basketball, added to the basic team movement style of football. The object of the game is to move the frisbee by passing it from player to player into the opposing endzone. Once a player catches the frisbee, he cannot take any more steps than are necessary to stop his forward momentum.
Carolina’s team is put together just like any other club sport team. The team pays dues, receives some funds from the university and practices multiple times a week. However, ultimate is built around the idea of “The Spirit of the Game.” The idea was the center of the invention of ultimate in 1968. “The Spirit of the Game” dictates that sportsmanship should be the center of every game and competition. That idea trickles down to the players on the team.
“I like ultimate because it’s more of a laid back sport,” Anderson said. “All the workouts, you volunteer to do them. You go out there and basically it’s just you hanging out with a bunch of your friends, and you’re playing a sport that’s easy to play, easy to pick up and not too intense
— although some of the workouts can be intense.”
Those intense workouts translate to just as intense games for the team. While most sports play one game per day or at a time, frisbee revolves around tournaments.
At the moment, the frisbee team is in preparation for its college season, which runs through the spring semester. However, the team uses the club season as preparation for its true season. An accurate comparison is a college football team facing off against several NFL teams before starting up its season.
“In the fall, frisbee is all about the club season,” Anderson said. “So basically we train for that at the very beginning of the fall and it’s a checkup to see where we are at the very beginning of the season. We usually don’t qualify for regionals because it’s at the very beginning and all of our rookies are brand new.”
However, this year, the team did qualify for club regionals. On top of qualifying for regionals, the team almost took down Diablo, a club team with two former USC players on it that has since qualified for club nationals.
Now the team will focus on preparing for the college season through smaller, lower-key tournaments. Eventually, later in the spring, the team will play in college regionals, followed by sectionals and fi nally nationals. The final goal for the team is to make it to nationals. However, f irst the team will have to play to regionals, something it has yet to do.
“In the past two years, we haven’t been able to qualify for the region,” Anderson said. “I defi nitely expect us to qualify for the region, and I expect us to win games in the region. I think achieving nationals is not quite a reasonable goal for us yet. As of right now, our goal is to fi nish top two or three in the section and move on to regionals.”
Anderson said that through the leadership of senior Cory Brown, the play of athletic junior Will Carmichael and the potential of up-and-coming sophomores George Lampron, Harry Bartels and Marshall Walker, this may be USC’s best team. He expects big things and wants to give fair warning to the rest of the teams in Carolina’s region.
“We’re out for blood,” Anderson said. People are entitled to their own opinion,
but after speaking with Anderson and watching the team play, it’s hard to argue against the legitimacy of USC’s ultimate as a true club sport.
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USC ultimate qualifi ed for Club Regionals this fall. Carolina has never made it to Club Regionals, and this progress has encouraged the team for the college season.
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T he Sout h Ca rol i na women’s cross country team heads to the LaVern Gibson C h a m p i o n s h i p C r o s s Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind., this weekend to compete in the 6K Indiana State Invitational Saturday afternoon.
U S C c o a c h S t a n R o s e n t h a l s c h e d u l e d this meet because, at six kilometers, it is the same distance as the conference and national championship meets.
While 6K races are rare in the Southeast, Rosenthal has scheduled the trip to Ind iana for pract ice at that distance, plus, with USC’s roster heav y on Midwesterners, it g ives some Gamecock runners the chance to compete in front of friends and family.
The meet will feature some talented competition, i nc lud i ng severa l A l l- A m e r i c a n s a n d t h e defending NCAA champion, but the Gamecocks are feeling confident as they have finished first in the G amecock Inv it at iona l and second in both the Ey e o p e n e r a n d A s i c s Winthrop Invitationals.
Despite a strong opening to the season, Rosenthal i s awa re t h at tou gher competition might lead to a disappointing finish this
weekend. “We’re definitely going
to be in a really, really difficult race,” Rosenthal said. “Most of the teams going t here are eit her nationally ranked or very
high in the region, which we’re not right now.”
Most of the top runners in the Indiana State meet have been running a full minute or more faster than USC’s best t imes in 5Ks earlier in the season.
“In cross-country, you don’t get to call timeout or set up any kind of defensive strategy, so if someone’s a minute and a half ahead, there’s a very good chance that they’re probably going to beat you,” Rosenthal said. “We’re going to work hard and run hard and compete hard, but our team results are probably going to be toward the bottom of the pack … We’l l be doing pretty good if we can fi nish around 35th or so.”
In order to stay out of the basement, Carolina will need its stars to step up.
At the head of the pack for t he G a me co c k s i s freshman Beatrice Biwott, who continued her strong season last week at the Walt Disney World Cross Country Classic, where she placed seventh in a competition which featured over 45 teams from across t he Un ited St ate s a nd Canada.
“I would expect Beatrice Biwott to … get into the top 100,” Rosenthal said. “She’d be doing well if she got into the top 50 … If she runs well, she’ll run in the low 21s and there will be a bunch of people in the 20s.
The course record’s in the 19s. She could be in the top 50 — that would be a good result.”
Rosenthal laughed off the idea that the nearly 700-mile trip would affect his team.
“ W e ’ l l g e t i n t o Indianapolis around 10 p.m. [Thursday],” Rosenthal said. “I know most college students go to bed around 8:30 or 9 at night, so that’s a little past their bedtime.”
But even with rest and a l it t le bit of luck , the tough competition might be too much for USC to overcome.
“The only meet that’s tougher wou ld b e t he NCA A championships,” Rosenthal said.
Throughout the 2008 MLB season, one team has taken the league by storm. Those of you who are baseball fans know exactly which team I’m talking about. For those of you who have just tuned in for the playoffs, let me clarify something for you.
No, you are not seeing things. Those are indeed the Tampa Bay Rays who have won the American League East and taken a commanding 3-1 series lead over the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.
What the Rays have done this season is nothing short of amazing. This is a franchise that has fi nished in last place in nine of its ten seasons of existence and has never won more than 70 games in a season. Last season, the Rays lost a Major League worst 96
games. They also happen to play in the same division as the Red Sox and the New York Yankees, a pair of historical powerhouses who have 33 World Championships between them. By all conventional logic, the Rays weren’t supposed to be anywhere near the playoffs, let alone the ALCS.
However, this Rays team has def ied conventional logic all season long. They won 97 games to post the second-best record in the league, holding off the Red Sox and Yankees on the way to their fi rst ever division title and playoff berth. And they did it with a lineup that is the fi fth youngest in the game. No member of their starting pitching staff is older than 26.
As if that weren’t amazing enough, the Rays overcame plenty of adversity along the road to the playoffs. First, they suffered a seven-game losing streak in July that dropped them out of first place. It was the type of losing streak that can ruin any team’s season, particularly for a team as inexperienced as
Tampa. But the Rays fought back, winning their next two games to reclaim the division lead.
Then, the Rays were hit with some devastating injuries. Three of their best players, outfielder Carl Crawford, third baseman Evan Longoria and closer Troy Percival all went down with injuries in August. It seemed impossible for Tampa to hold on to its slim lead without them. But as they have done all season, the resilient Rays found a way to win. Several backups came up big as the Rays hung on to win the division by two games.
The Rays have faced much fewer obstacles in the playoffs. They made quick work of the Chicago White Sox in the first round and have won six of their eight playoff games so far. Ever since a Game 1 loss to the Red Sox, the Rays have played like champions, winning three st ra ight. They looked especially dominant in the last two games, a pair of nine-run blowout wins at Boston’s Fenway Park.
As dominant as the Rays have looked lately, they are still one of the greatest underdog stories of all time. They’ve defi nitely made a fan out of me, and anyone who isn’t a lifelong fan of the Red Sox, Dodgers or Phillies should join me on the Rays’ bandwagon if you haven’t already. It’s sure been a heck of a ride so far.
St i l l , before we anoint the Rays as champions, I should point out that the Red Sox are the defending champs, and they did come back from this same 3-1 deficit last year to win the ALCS. You can never count them out, nor can you forget about the two dangerous challengers from the NL, the Phillies and Dodgers. But the Rays have been so dominant thus far in the playoffs that you have to like their chances of hanging on and winning it all. I’ll stop short of picking them to win the World Series, but I will say this: The Tampa Bay Rays have certainly proven that they belong on baseball’s biggest stage.
Rays continue to amaze in MLB playoff s
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B.J. Upton is met at the plate by fellow Rays teammates during Tampa Bay’s ALCS win.
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