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USC dance students perform the traditional Tarantella at the second-annual Italian Festival and Bocce tournament Saturday.
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Carmella Roche spent most of Saturday working behind a Gelato counter, but made sure to take a little time off from scooping the dessert to dance Tarantella. “No version of the dance is the same,” said Roche, one of the general managers of Columbia’s Villa Tronco restaurant. Roche, a fourthgeneration Italian, wasn’t t he on ly one doi ng t he
Ta r a n t e l l a S a t u r d a y. Fu l l-blo o de d It a l i a n s for-t he-day danced t he Italian folk dance as part of t he second-a n nua l Italian Festival and Bocce tournament in Finlay Park. A side from dancing, t he festival was a day of musical per for ma nce, aut hent ic Italian food and culture and featured everything from Maserat is to G ondolas. Columbia’s Sons of Italy Lodge sponsored t he festival. Roche, t he co-cha ir of t he fest iva l a nd v ice president of Sons of Italy, couldn’t have been more ple a s e d w it h t he d a y ’s events.
“It’s been great,” Roche said. “We’re so thankf ul people came out and that its been so successful.” T h e I t a l i a n Fe s t i v a l covered the greater part of Finlay Park and featured t he usual assor t ment of festival tents and stages. At the center sat the biggest tent , u nder neat h t he canopy — authentic Italian food made f rom scratch from Villa Tronco. Roche said that food is one of the most important things for Italian culture. “Food a nd fa m i ly a re everything to an Italian,” Roche said. Villa Tronco has been ser v ing Italian food for
Columbia’s residents for four generations, but had probably never ser ved as many people as it did at the Fest ival Sat u rday. Head Chef Tom Sedio said that cooks from the restaurant rolled 18,000 meatballs, baked 50 trays of lasagna and made 1,200 cannolis in preparation for the event. “All of our food was made from scratch,” Sedio said. “ Nobody cook s fest iva l food more authentic than that.” The food wasn’t the only authentic cuisine offered at the festival. Wine vendors sold C h ia nt i a nd pi not Italian Festival ● 3A
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Darrin Horn Ladies Clinic teaches fundamentals
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Women who attended the second annual Ladies Clinic Saturday morning learn fundamental basketball skills.
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Women meet players, practice basketball skills in cancer charity event Derek Legette STAFF WRITER
The second Annual Darrin Horn Ladies Clinic was Saturday morning at the Gamecock Basketball practice facility. From 9 to 11:30 a.m., women of all ages came out to attend the event. All the ladies that attended were given exclusive Ladies Clinic Underarmour shirts, lunch and a tour of the facilities added to the building. The women toured throughout sections like the Coliseum, underneath the stadium, the film and medical room. The women were able to meet the coaches and to learn the basics of basketball. “It’s a ladies clinic to teach the fundamental skills of basketball,” said
Darrin Horn, head coach of the men’s basketball team. “I think it’s a great idea. It has been a big turnout and a lot of fun,” said Caroline DeHaven, a second-year business student. DeHaven helped promote the Ladies Clinic by doing public relations with the Carolina Agency. “Getting to see what all really goes into our basketball program is what it is all about,” she said. The clinic wasn’t held just for the purpose of teaching basketball, for it had charitable aspirations as well. “This will raise money and awareness for breast cancer,” said Horn. The earnings will be donated to the V Foundation for Cancer Research for the fight against breast cancer, which was founded by ESPN and Jim Valvano 15 years ago, and has raised over $90 million since then. The women learned dribbling and shooting techniques. The coaches talked about the rules of passing the ball from
the baseline and defense and showed them first-hand with quick drills that began and ended with loud whistles. The women would rotate around the basketball court in different groups as they learned different things. Horn said that they learned about offense and defense and about nutrition. Members of the Garnet Army and even Cocky made an appearance to discuss the dynamics of school spirit for Carolina basketball games. The men’s basketball team also came out and introduced themselves, while wearing t heir new home and away jerseys. Ever yone was thrilled to see them as well. Horn said much of the event was aimed at getting the participants involved. “We wanted to make it interactive,” said Horn. “We didn’t just want them to just sit around on stands and watch the whole time.” Comments on this story? E-mail sagcknew@mailbox.sc.edu
The University of South Carolina women’s soccer team captured its first SEC Championship as the Gamecocks knocked off LSU 8-7 in penalty kicks on Sunday afternoon. The title is the school’s first by a USC team since the baseball team won the 2004 conference tournament. Look for extensive coverage of Sunday’s action in Tuesday’s edition of The Daily Gamecock.
It’s late one Wednesday night, and you are walking back f rom st udy i ng at Thomas Cooper Library. You have parked your car in the Bull Street Parking garage. As you are walking you wonder: are there security cameras in the parking garages on campus? Caroline Kern, a secondyear retail student, thinks the parking garages are especially dangerous at night. “I don’t believe that there are cameras in all of t he parking garages. I think only some of them do,” Kern said. “I do not feel safe when I walk in the garages because I have no idea where the cameras are and the garages are poorly lit.” H a n n a h K it c h i n g s , a second-year exercise science student, believes that only some of the parking garages have cameras and does not feel safe. “I don’t believe that every parking garage has cameras, but we should spend t he money on having them in every garage because it is our safety. I would feel more safe if we had them in all as well as a police officer on duty,” Kitchings said. According to the University of S out h C a r ol i n a L aw Enforcement Web site, only some of the many parking garages on campus have installed CCTV cameras. It does not say which ones have them installed and which ones do not. However, located all over in every garage are Emergency Call Boxes. The USC law enforcement says no mat ter what, “People using the garages are encouraged to report any suspicious activit y to t he pol ice depa r t ment .” The USC police number is 803-777-4215 and the Web site is www.les.sc.edu. In an emergency,call 911. Also, if you are on campus late at night, there is an escort system that will escort you to anywhere you need to be on campus. The number for the APO Escort is 803-777-3825. This system is available from Sunday to Thursday, 8 p.m. to midnight. “I defi nitely think that all of the garages on campus should have cameras. There is some sketchy things that you hear about happening in garages and I don’t always feel safe walking through them,” said Emerald Persall, a first– year graphic design student. Kern says that there needs to be a change in order to protect student’s safety. “In order for me to feel safer, there should be more lights in the garages, more cameras and more security on duty,” Kern said. It’s late one Wednesday night and you are walking back f rom st udy i ng at Thomas Cooper Librar y really late. You have parked your car in the Bull Street Park ing garage. You may want to call an escort to get you safely to your car.
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