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It takes a bigger village
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The university is looking to expand Greek Village, but space is limited in Columbia — a lot on Blossom Street being considered could accomodate four or five more houses.
Greek life searching for new locations to expand village Natalie Pita
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With 20 houses and some chapters e x p a n d i n g t o u p w a r d s o f 38 0 members, students and universit y officials agree it is time for expansion in Greek Village. In recent years, Greek life numbers increased at an exponent ial rate. Multiple fraternities and sororities have already requested new housing, and the demand for space is increasing as Fraternity Council and Sorority Council approve organizations to colonize on “The only way you can reduce [membership] is to have more groups. To have more groups, you have to have more housing,” said Jerry Brewer, associate vice president of student affairs and academic support. “If individuals are going to be successful, they need a house.” A location on Blossom Street was ident if ied as a potent ial spot for expansion, which could accommodate
four or five new houses, according to the University of South Carolina Greek Village expansion plan. Brewer said the university is in the process of obtaining land for the expansion, and USC is considering adding up to six new houses. There is not currently a timeline for the project. Brewer said recruitment numbers reveal the necessity of the project, but the process still requires time. A nd rew Stewa r t , pre sident of Fraternity Council, said he hopes the project will be finished within five years, since he thinks the university will reach its threshold for Greek life around that time. The project has yet to be presented to the Board of Trustees, but the general concept is included in the universit y’s housing master plan. Right now, USC is in the stage of general conversations and deciding between several different possible locations. Indiv idual chapters prov ide all funding for the houses, which makes
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Greek Life by the numbers
21% of student over
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41 organizations
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Leadership and Service Center Senate numbers rise to year’s has new goals for new space Newly renovated center aims to accommodate needs of more students with return to campus Natalie Pita
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The Leadership and Service Center on the second floor of Russell House isn’t just getting a makeover — it’s getting a whole new mentality. T he old Leadersh ip a nd Ser v ice Center,
previously called the Campus Life Center, housed several campus entities like Student Government, leadership programs and communit y ser vice programs. Before, everything was separated, but after the remodeling, the lay of the land will be different. “ T here wa s some overlap but ver y l it t le collaboration across those areas, and a lot of it had
highest total 3 new senators sworn in, leaving 47 members and 3 remaining vacancies Collyn Taylor
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CENTER • 3 Three new senators were sworn in to the student Senate Wednesday, bringing the total to 47 senators, the highest number Student Government has seen this year. Newly-elected senators Brittany Draganosky and Robert Gilbert were appointed to positions with the College of A rts and Science, and Kelley Kennedy was appointed to the position with the Darla Moore School of Business. Kennedy was also appointed to the Student Services committee. The senate only has three vacant seats to fi ll before the Senate is at capacity. “I hope everyone is going to bring more ideas to the table,” Student Body Vice President Donnie Iorio said. “The new people came in with some cool ideas ... Getting some people in with fresh perspective is pretty cool.” While thanking the office for their work, Iorio said t hat now he’s excited about t he Malique Rankin / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
Remodeling of the new SLC is set to be completed in spring of 2015 and will be more interactive for students.
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Drought Response Committee School bus driver leaves sick Man sentenced in Clemson warns counties of dry forecast child in neighboring yard
student murder case
A school bus driver is unemployed after leaving a sick child on the side of the road and driving off Wednesday, WLTX reported. The incident happened in the morning when 11-year-old Joe Stone called his mother from the bus complaining of chest pains and saying he couldn’t breathe and was going to throw up. When he told the bus driver, she pulled over at the next stop and left the child in the grass by a neighbor’s driveway. The neighbor, a family friend, called Stone’s mother who drove over to pick up her son. The mother, Victoria Stone, said she found him hunched over by the neighbor’s house, feet from the road. Melissa Robinette, spokeswoman from the Spartanburg District Five School District, said the driver “resigned in lieu of termination” after the incident and that the driver violated district policies. Stone’s parents have also filed a report with the school’s resource officer and his case will be assigned to an investigator. —Collyn Taylor, Assistant News Editor
GREEK VILLAGE • Continued from 1 it cheaper for the university. “It’s a wonderful financial way of adding housing to campus because b a s ic a l l y b et we e n t he n at io n a l organization and the alumni of the groups, they fund the construction,” Brewer said. “The university just needs to provide land and infrastructure.” W hen a f rater n it y or soror it y org a n iz at ion dec ide s it wa nt s to build a new house, current and former members will contract an architect and raise the funds. Once t he organizat ion picks a builder, the architect is reviewed based on university requirements. T he Fr at e r n it y a nd S o r o r it y
A ruling has been made in the case involving the stabbing and killing of a Clemson student. Lester Mosley Jr., 20, was found g uilt y of murder Wednesday and faces 50 years in prison. The prosecution argued that Mosley and three other men entered the house of a Clemson student in December 2012, wanting to rob the house because they had heard someone living there had a large quantity of marijuana. Authorities said that while others searched for the drugs, Mosley pistol-whipped the residents and his gun fi red, killing Steven Grich. Mosley testified in his defense, saying that he was never in the home. The other suspects pleaded guilty and testified in Mosley’s trial. —Collyn Taylor, Assistant News Editor
Due to low river flows in nine counties to the west and south of Columbia, The South Carolina Drought Response Committee has declared a low-level drought for those counties, The State reported. A i ken, A l lenda le, Ba mberg, Ba r nwel l, Colleton, Edgefield, Hampton, Lexington and Ora ngebu rg cou nt ies were told to ex pect a i nc ipient d rought , t he le a st se vere of t he SCDRC’s four drought levels. The reason for the drought, according to the Department of Natural Resources, is the low levels of the Edisto and Salkehatchie river basins over the summer. While the panel has indicated a drought, no farmers in those counties have reported serious drought problems. Officials say that rainfall in the state has been wide-ranging. Aiken reported less than 9 inches of rain while counties in the Tidewater region reported close to 30 inches of rain over t he summer. —Collyn Taylor, Assistant News Editor
C ou nc i l i s c u r rent l y ac cept i n g applications for new housing, and several organizations have submitted applications and started fundraising f or t he a l mo s t $30 0 , 0 0 0 dow n payment. Even when the funds are collected, Brewer said the project is challenging undertaking — the original Greek Village, constructed in 2002, has set a high bar. “We were so successful with Greek Village [No. 1]. It turned out so well, functionally and aesthetically. We had other schools coming to visit and modeling their Greek Village after ours,” Brewer said. “That’s very good, but when you try to do Greek Village [No. 2], that’s a challenge.” DG
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CENTER • Continued from 1 to do with the space,” Kelly Wuest, the director of the Leadership and Service Center, said. “With the new space, that’s all going to change.” During the construction, these of f ices a re bei ng housed i n t he Blatt Physical Education Center. While in this space, organizations have focused on getting ready for t heir new, integrat ing space and discovering where interactions in the programs can occur and creating a bigger picture of involvement for students. Different offices the Leadership and Ser v ice Center have already started expanding and improving their pre-existing programs. The Emerging Leaders Program has expanded to include organization leaders and upperclassmen, rather than just freshmen. The Skill Builder Leadership Workshop Series has also grown and will combine efforts to offer more diverse leadership tools. Employees of the Leadership and Service Center are also receiving a position and title change — they will all become “leadership coaches,” though they will each have different
specializations. Wuest hopes that the staff will be able to assist students one-on-one that will “spark [some] really cool things. “I really think that it’s going to allow students to have one place to go. We are by no means the experts on leadership,” Wuest said. “But we hope we become the place where students say ‘I want to get involved and this is the place I can go to do that.’” The space was desig ned to encou r age i n novat ion , a nd it ’s equipped with the technolog y to match. A nd by t he t ime t he new Leadership and Service Center opens in spring 2015, Wuest said, student life will have a clearer mission and a clearer vision. “We don’t claim to be everything for everyone, but we hope to either we enough or refer them to other places,” she said.
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SENATE • Continued from 1 new senators joi n i ng t hei r new committees. “A ll of t hese commit tees have these huge projects that they are working on and we are getting to the point where we are seeing those get solidified, which is where we will see legislation. They’re doing a lot in their committees and they’re going to do more.” A long w it h appoi nt i ng new
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sen ator s , t he Sen ate pre sented a resolution to the Office of PreProfessional Advising, thank ing t hem f or t he work t he y do on campus. “It’s great for t his depart ment and it’s great for us because we do appreciate [them],” Iorio said. “It’s cool to give them a formal thank you.”
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Greek Village expansion plan needs more foresight ISSUE USC to buy Columbia land for new houses. OUR STANCE The preferred spot won’t house enough students.
burner, and understandably so. Now, however, when at least six more houses are needed to account for potential Greek organizations, the school is looking to looking at a plot of land on Blossom Street,
Here’s the deal: for a Greek organization to be grounded on campus, it needs a house. It needs a central hub to plan events, build close relationships and have a place members can call home. Greek organizations focused around communit y ser v ice or another specific interest may not put so much stake in having a property in the village, but the number of those joining Greek organizations have been growing very rapidly in the past few years. That risk of overcrowding is why the Greek Village expansion plan — still in the early stages of development — is sorely overdue. Not that the university could have done much about it. With the construction of the business school and Women’s Quad renovation taking up the past few years, Greek life’s needs were put on the back
“We do not envy the school in their choices. It is very hard to requisition land in a city like Columbia.” which would only hold four or five houses, maximum. The danger here is that if the upswing in the Greek population continues, even more expensive land deals would be necessary not long after these new houses are built. We feel that if the school is going to buy land, it should do so with a long view of the future of Greek life in mind. The space should be chosen with future expansions in mind, instead of putting a cap on a community that would inevitably outgrow the space, like was done in
2002. Additionally, the location of these houses could have an effect on new members’ desire to join them. Already, not having a house is a disincentive for those looking to have a continuous communal atmosphere. W hat would those potential Greek life students think if they f ind t hey’re pledging a house located significantly far away from the central Greek Village? W hile it might not dissuade some, others might see it as reason enough to d rop t he conc ept altogether. We do not envy the school in their choices. It is very hard to requisition land in a city like Columbia, let alone find somewhere that appeases all parties. We understand this is a difficult position to be in. Even so, if the university fails to account for the growth of the student body’s Greek population now, more pla n n i ng a nd re planning will soon be needed. Sure, 2002 was 12 years ago, but we should be thinking even further into the future.
Depressed? Try empathizing Putting yourself in context of others gives insight There are few things easier to sink into than depression. You don’t even have to do anything. It’s the mental equivalent of finding yourself immersed in quicksand and not really feeling up to crawling out. That’s the key to the whole deal: once you begin thinking that you’re “not really feeling up” to doing dayto-day activities, congratulations: you’re depressed. T he s t a nd a rd l i ne o n t he subject is that depression is most likely to grip you when you enter college. A nd that’s sometimes true. Homesickness, displacement, failure to gel, whatever you want to call it, can bring full-fledged no-nonsense depression like a tidal wave silently rushing toward shore. But the feeling that you’re being sucked into the earth, one sinking step at a time, can hit you in any time and at any place. That’s what makes it so precarious. Not every feeling is a reaction to an outside event or occurrence, much as the utilitarian schools of thought would like to believe. The utilitarian idea of happiness has a carrot-and-stick concept at its heart. A hungry person becomes
happier when he buys a sandwich, while an overstressed person is less happy when an unexpected test comes around. Human beings do not work that way. The hungry person in question might be on a religious fast, and takes comfort in carrying on the tradition of his ancestors. The overstressed person could fi nd a certain grim happiness in knowing that, after this last hurdle, they m ight f i nd some rest. Ben These t hings Crawford aren’t predictable Second-year a nd c a n b e v e r y English and Russian student complicated. Depression a lso has a way of welding the circle of self-hatred and self-pity tightly together. They compliment each other almost beautifully. Self-pity, the “Oh, poor me” syndrome, soon becomes “What am I saying, ‘Oh, poor me’ for? This is ridiculous.” And then, before you know it, it’s “Oh, poor me” again. Rinse and repeat. T he Cz ech w r iter M i la n Kundera capt ures the essence of t h is c ycle i n h is “Book of Laughter and Forgetting.” The
Correction: Two stories in Tuesday’s In Brief section were mislabeled. “USC students vote more than the average South Carolinian” and “Columbia police consider using body cameras” should have been reversed. The Daily Gamecock regrets the error.
“untranslatable” Czech word litost, translated by him to mean “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery,” sums up the feeling I’m attempting to talk about quite nicely. It has two stages: shame and the desire to take revenge on the person who shamed you. It moves one to do petty things for revenge and makes one feel the inevitable guilt all the more. Kundera goes on to write that this feeling is a closed circle. It doesn’t matter what’s going on around you, the snake continues to eat its own tail. You are so caught up in how you’re feeling and what you should do, that everyone else sort of fades out of your thinking. What makes this relevant to the regular USC college student is that — let’s be honest — very few young people aren’t caught up in navelgazing of some kind or another. So what’s the answer here? Well, some part of it has to be placing yourself emotionally and mentally in the context of other people. If you are able to recognize the sheer volume of misery taking place locally and around the world, some of your smaller torments might seem smaller in retrospect. And this is not a “there but for the grace of god” sort of answer. My advice: talk to people, if you can. Tr y to amass the k ind of knowledge in which you can find your place in the world. I’ve found some real solace talking with others about their problems and trying to help them through it. In the end, it feels strangely good to be able to say, “I’ve been there.”
Graham gives wacko rhetoric Don’t let the war-mongers send U.S. troops to war in Iraq again “This is a war we’re f ight ing, it is not a counterterrorism operation! This is not Somalia; this is not Yemen; this is a turning point in the war on terror. Our strategy will fail yet again. This president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home.” Our own Senator Lindsey Graham is back at his old tricks, fear mongering to the best of his ability. Graham historically favors the “fire and brimstone” method of rhetorical persuasion, where in if we don’t do exactly what he says we’re all going to suffer the greatest of consequences. If the above quote weren’t needlessly terrifying enough, Graham added this juicy tidbit at the end of his Fox News interview earlier this week: “[T]his is the last best chance, to knock him out, then they will open the gates of hell to spill out on the world. This is not a Sunni versus Sunni problem, this is ISIL versus mankind.” Ross This isn’t the first time Graham Abbott ha s t reated pol it ic s l i ke h is Third-year personal perish, to preach to at his history student predilection. Here’s Graham, in 2013, on the impending nuclear attack on Charleston that will happen if we fail to attack Syria (ironically, in support of ISIS and other rebel groups): “If we get Syria wrong, within six months, and you can quote me on this, there will be a war between Iran and Israel over their nuclear program. My fear is that it wont come to America on top of a missile, it’ll come in the belly of a ship in the Charleston or New York harbor.” Graham was also one of t he leaders who pushed us into Iraq in 2003 because, “Saddam would not voluntarily part with his weapons of mass destruction.” It’s awfully hard to part with something you already don’t have, similar to the way I can’t part with my Lindsey Graham for Senate sticker. I guess Graham is just really, really terrified of the entire Middle East. Perhaps he should invest in a nightlight. Perhaps some should be sent to check under Graham’s bed every night for terrorists. Perhaps Graham is one of the least intelligent individuals ever to survive to adulthood (though that level of intellect would probably be par for the course in individuals holding political office). Or, perhaps, Graham’s biggest campaign contributor is an energy company that majorly benefits from American intervention in a region swimming in gasoline. Whichever of the two is the case, Graham’s poor track record we should cause us to take pause before we allow him to scare us into another war in Iraq.
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Master cellist has SC history
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Zuill Bailey studied at Juilliard and teaches at the University of Texas at El Paso, giving him education experience.
Zuill Bailey to perform at Koger Center of the Arts this Thursday Arthur Braswell @TDG_MIX
Concert cellists are highly dedicated to their craft, often pushing themselves to the height of human ability. So, when someone is widely considered to be one of the best cellists in the world, that really means something. This Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Koger Center of the Arts, the USC Symphony will host renowned cellist Zuill Bailey. His performance of the Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante for cello and orchestra will mark Koger’s first performance of the semester. Ba i le y, a Ju i l l ia rd g r adu ate , h a s h ad a n extensive career playing all over the world. His
past performances include Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center of the Arts in Washington, D.C. and concerts in Russia with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Along with his impressive resumé comes an always-earnest approach to one of the world’s most sacred arts. “Ever y performance is ver y, ver y different. Where you are in your life at that time and what it signifies at that moment,” Bailey said. “They mean such different things, and that’s the whole idea of dedicating one’s life to music. It’s fi nding a way to express yourself, the composer’s wishes, and the
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Bailey has a connection to South Carolina as a longtime friend of Maestro Portnoy, the conductor of the show.
people in the audience.” For such a dedicated performer, surprisingly, his self-expression regularly changes. With a life so devoted to one instrument, one would think that Bailey would be a man of constancy, but he insists his travels fill his life with variables. Bailey’s excited to play the Koger Center — conductor Donald Portnoy is an old friend he met in the 1990s on one of his many trips to South Carolina. Plus, he said, every group people produces a different sound. “To share this piece that we have not yet confirmed together will be very exciton,” he said. “It is what live performance is all about: a balance of trust, excitement and adrenaline.” Thanks in part to Portnoy, Bailey is familiar with the Palmetto State among his tours throughout the U.S. “I was able to work side-by-side with [Portnoy] in teaching the next generation of conductors,” Bailey said. “I’m anticipating a lot of old friends and great excitement for this Russian masterwork.” As you might expect, the virtuoso cellist is paired with an equally impressive instrument. Bailey’s cello has quite a history, long surpassing his own many journeys throughout the earth. “My cello was built in 1693 in Venice, Italy. It’s one of two by the maker, Matteo Gofriller,” said Bailey. “It has a rose carved under the fi ngerboard. It is very large and has a very broad individual sound. I feel like the luckiest person on the face of this earth to play this music from this instrument.” When he isn’t performing around the world, Bailey is a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. Instead of disrupting each other, he fi nds that his life on the road and life in the classroom complement each other swimmingly. “One of the great pleasures is to come back from a trip and tell [students] how it went,” Bailey said. “Many of my students are working on similar pieces that I’m performing. I can tell them what works, what doesn’t work. We share the process together.”
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‘Bringing Up Baby’ is screwball delight Classic film is required viewing for both fans of comedy and fans of film Screwball comedies would never have been famous in cinema without Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. I n t he golden age of screwball comedies, f ilms feat ured a female character running circles around the central male character, who is generally more challenged in the masculinity department. The film goes to engage the two in a battle-of-the-sexes-type plot, and often includes lots of physical humor, far-fetched situations and rapidfire banter.
Hepburn and Grant started it all with what’s considered to be one of the defining screwball comedies, “Bringing Up Baby,” in 1938. The film revolves around Dr. David Huxley (Grant), a zoology professor trying to marry his career-focused secretary. Huxley is in the process of creating a brontosaurus skeleton and just acquired the final piece to his project. Now, all Huxley needs is a $1 million endowment from the mysterious and wealthy Mrs. Carleton Random, so he goes to her lawyer, Mr. Peabody (George Irving). The catch: every time Huxley tries to meet with Peabody, a mysterious woman interrupts, causes problems and makes him look bad. The saboteur is Susan
Vance (Hepburn), who has recently been told by a psychiatrist that the “love impulse” in men tends to reveal itself in conflict. Vance makes it her mission — after having several conf licting interactions with Huxley — to stop his marriage to his secretary. Vance convinces David to get in her car and drive with her to her aunt’s estate, with tame leopard named “Baby” in tow. The au nt t u r ns out to be M rs. Carleton Random herself, and the game is afoot. Huxley tries to impress his donor while Vance elaborately schemes to get him to fall in love with her. Along the way, the two manage to land themselves in jail, f ind a rog ue leopard from a traveling circus and meet a peanut gallery of crazy characters. An archetypical screwball comedy, “Bringing Up Baby” doesn’t stop for air throughout its roller coaster plot. The script is one rapid-fi re quip after another, and Hepburn and Grant do a terrific job of bouncing off one another. The reactions the two have to the other is spot-on and not once does their heated relationship grow tiring. In fact,
by the end of the film, viewers are most likely wishing that there was another hour they could spend with Grant and Hepburn. There’s something about Hepburn’s flighty, flirty and fun Vance interactions w it h Grant’s oh-so-serious nerdy Huxley that’s a joy from start to finish. It’s a perfect introduction to screwball comedy for t hose t hat have never watched a film in the genre before, and the ridiculous scenarios that Vance and Huxley get themselves into are likely to make even the most serious audience members laugh. The scene where Grant dons a ladies’ robe lined with faux fur fabric in an attempt lure a wild leopard into an empty jail cell is cinematic gold. For t hose t hat fall in love wit h screwball comedy after seeing “Bringing Up Baby,” be sure to plan a movie night to see “It Happened One Night” (1934), “His Girl Friday” (1940), “The Philadelphia Story” (1940), “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (1941), “Arsenic and Old Lace” (1944) and “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House” (1948). DG
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Together, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn have strong, rapid-fire chemistry.
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Get advice from another professional. Consider attending a bu si ne s s sem i na r or con ference over t he ne x t t w o d a y s . Yo u can learn new tricks, and your input is appreciated. Avoid a confl ict of interests or unpleasant situation.
Taurus
The nex t t wo days you’re luck y in love. Wr ite a l it t le verse. A round now you can start enjoying yourself. Talk about t he most fun part of your game. Practice your skills and latest tricks.
Gemini
Friends help you get where you want to go. Don’t run off to play and forget to take care of household chores. Take care of rout ine responsibilit ies f irst. Clean up before starting a new mess.
Cancer
Despite Mercur y retrograde, you have extra cleverness with communications today and tomorrow. Learning comes easy, and so do words. G et t hem out t here. Sidestep obstacles in t he road. Send more than once, if necessary.
Virgo
Libra
Peace a nd qu iet recharges your b at t e r ie s t o d a y a nd tomorrow. Cash in your coupons. Don’t spend on group activities or entertainment. Wrap u p a j o b w it h f i n a l touches. Schedule practical changes. The more you complete, the better you look.
Capricorn
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Aquarius
Scorpio
St udy way s to ma ke and keep lots of money. A llow yourself to get p er s u aded by a ne w i d e a . Ta l k i t o v e r w i t h y o u r p a r t n e r, and choose strategies together. Less is more now. Strengthen your infrastructure. Expand your portfolio.
Dreams offer insight. Don’t t a ke big r isk s o r t r a v e l f a r. Te a m projects go well today and tomorrow. Hang out with friends. Don’t tell ever y t h i ng you know or overstep your b o u n d s . To g e t h e r , you can move the ball farther.
Rely on partners for the next two days. Listen to the group and gather feedback. Discuss your budget honestly. Don’t even squander on a loved one. Your assig nment could change. Compromise is possible.
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Equestrian shooting for national title No. 2 Gamecocks hope to avenge NCAA runner-up finish last year Dalton Abel
@DALTON_ABEL22
Exactly fi ve months after falling in the national championship by way of a tiebreaker, the South Carolina equestrian team will officially begin its quest for a third overall national title. The No. 2 Gamecocks will open on t he road for t he f irst t ime in school history when they square of f against K ansas State Friday. Memories of a narrow defeat at the end of the last season are still fresh in the minds of the returning players and coaches, leav ing head coach Boo Major with lofty goals for the upcoming season. “We would certainly love to win the SEC again,” Major said. “To t hink t hat we can win it for t he third time in a row is about as lofty a goal as you can get. And then we’re always striving to fi nish as well as we can at the national championship.” E x per ience on t he Hu nt Seat team figures to carry the squad as only one player departed from last season’s national runner-up lineup. Senior Katherine Schmidt will lead this experienced group. T he R idgef ield, C on nec t ic ut nat ive went 30 -3-1 i n hu nt seat action en route to a pair of First Team A ll-A merica honors by the Nat iona l Col leg iate Equest r ia n Association. Schmidt is now a sixtime NCEA All-American, the most in program history. Ot her key riders for t he Gamecocks on the hunt seat team include senior Amber Henter (13-6 last season), senior Alexa Anthony (18 -9-5 last season), a nd ju n ior Samantha Smith (23-12 last season). On t he We ster n tea m, M ajor does not have the same luxury of
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Senior Katherine Schmidt has been an NCEA All-American six times in her career. stability. Five riders — three from the horsemanship lineup and two from reining lineup — who started in the national championship have g raduated. The team w ill spend the six fall meets shuff ling players in, including t heir 13 incom ing freshmen, to f ind t heir best mix
come spring. A key addition for South Carolina this season comes off of the playing su r faces. Du r i ng t he of fseason, Major convinced Hillary Dobbs to come join her coaching staff as the Hunt Seat Coach after Carol Gwin was named head coach at Southern
Methodist University in June. Dobbs opens up a new chapter of he r c a r e e r i n t he c o a c h i n g department after a very successful c a reer on hor s eb ac k . Dobb s i s perhaps most not able for bei ng t he you ngest professiona l r ider to accumulate $1 million in prize money, which came f rom her 31 grand prix wins. She also brings a bev y of international experience to share w it h t he G a mecock s, hav i ng represented the United States in two World Cup fi nals in addition to winning three gold medals and one silver medal in team competition at the Nations Cup, much to the excitement of Major. “ S h e [ D o b b s] c o m e s f r o m a phenomenal background and she has lots of respect,” Major said. “We as coaches have gelled very quickly and I think she’s gelled very quickly with our team. She’s going to be a huge asset for us.” Cupcake meets were not a c o n s id e r at io n f o r M aj o r w he n comprising t his year’s schedule. Kansas State is No. 6 in the National Collegiate Equestrian Association Preseason Poll. Looming past the Wildcats are the Georgia Bulldogs, who just happen to be the team that gave t he G amecock s a cr ush ing championship defeat. The title win launched Georgia into No. 1 in the NCEA preseason poll. Major said t hat t he early tests would be a needed measuring stick to let t he team k now what k ind of progress they have made in the preseason. “I think knowing that we do have Georgia in two weeks will help us to prepare better for Georgia,” Major said. “Win or lose [this week], it will give us a starting point for where we are and where we need to be.” DG
Women’s soccer ready for conference play D’Angelo, defense keys to 7-1 start for No. 14 South Carolina Antoine Thomas
@ANTOINETHOMAS24
After closing out its non-conference schedule, South Carolina’s women’s soccer team is now shifting its focus to conference play. T he G a meco c k s hop e to cont i nue t hei r momentum and start SEC play off right when they take on Auburn Sunday. South Carolina (7-1) will begin its conference journey riding a three-game winning streak. The team will look to its defense to continue playing a crucial role in its overall performance, as it has been a guiding force through the fi rst eight games. For the second consecutive year, the defense has only given up one goal in nonconference play. The lone score came against a loss to Clemson, who had scored 18 goals in four games leading up to its matchup with the Gamecocks. If South Carolina can continue to shut out opponents, it will be impressive in a tough SEC. Besides the Gamecocks at No. 14, the conference boasts three other nationally ranked teams, along with a few teams on the cusp. Florida and Texas A&M have spots at No. 7 and No. 11 respectively, while No. 24 Georgia recently worked its way into the top-25 after an impressive 5-1-1 start. The Gamecocks still have goals to accomplish, but the team’s performance thus far has given head coach Shelly Smith reason to be happy. “It’s a whole team effort and I’m just proud of the organization and the way they’ve stayed toget her,” she sa id. “A nd even when we’ve subst it uted players, t hey ’ve g iven u s good minutes.” South Carolina’s defensive performance is enough reason to say it has a chance to contend for a conference championship. With senior goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo leading the defense, South Carolina is the only SEC team that hasn’t given up more than three goals this year and is one of three Division I teams to allow only one goal. D’A ngelo, who was recently named SEC Defensive Player of the Week, has been monumental for her team’s success with seven shutouts. The most clean sheets any other team has is the conference is four. Smith praised her entire team for being stout on defense. “They’ve been ver y solid — we have good experience in our backline and our goalkeeper,” Smith said. “As they’ll tell you it’s everyone in front of them, it takes all eleven of them to really continue to keep team shutouts.” T he G a mecock s’ abi l it y to l i m it scor i ng
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Senior goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo boasts an impressive seven clean sheets in eight matches thus far. oppor t u n it ie s for opponent s cou ld f i na l ly push the team to its ultimate goal — an SEC championship. The task won’t be easy, as South Carolina boasted an impressive (17-4-2, 8-2-1 SEC) record last season and still weren’t crowned conference champions. Texas A&M won the SEC Championship last season and are in the mix for it again this year, while Florida and Georgia also seem to have a good chance at a conference title. Home-field advantage could be beneficial to the Gamecocks, and they’ll play at home for their matchups against the Bulldogs and Gators. South Carolina will also have Mississippi and LSU visit Stone Stadium, two squads that have a shot to compete with the best of the conference.
As the Gamecocks prepare for the grind of a conference schedule, the offense will need to capitalize when given the opportunity. The team is averaging around two goals per game, using defensive stops to transition into offensive chances. Smith knows what she has in her defense and said the team will continue to use it to help their offensive game plan. “We continue to stay on them to be organized and work hard defensively,” Smith said. “A good defensive pressure and effort will lead to our offense.” DG