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MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013

Revenue up, but Innovista garages still in red Parking facilities’ debt cost USC $1.1 million in 2012 fiscal year Thad Moore

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The Horizon and Discovery parking garages are bringing in more money, but USC is still spending about $1 million a year to keep them afloat.

The two Innovista garages have been plagued wit h f inancial woes since t hey were opened about four years ago and haven’t made enough to pay off their loans, though USC officials hope

moving the Darla Moore School of Business could boost revenue.

It cost $1.8 million to run the garages and pay down their debt in the 2012 f iscal year, according to an audit conducted by Elliott Davis, a southeastern accounting fi rm, and USC had to pay nearly $1.1 million to cover the gap.

In the 2012 fi scal year, which ended in June, they brought in $683,846, a 24.3 percent increase from 2011, according to the audit.

“In 2012, we had a good year,” Tom McNeish of Elliott Davis said.

A nd that’s more than double the what they made in 2008 — about $300,000, according to McNeish.

“Now, is that enough to fund the annual debt service? Certainly not, but we are trending up,” McNeish told USC trustees Friday.

But McNeish said there’s room for revenue to grow at the garages, especially when the business school moves in 2014.

USC expects an increase in how much of the Discovery garage, which is on Park Street, is full, from about 50 percent occupancy to around 75 percent, said Derrick Huggins, the associate vice president for transportation and logistical relations. That includes hourly and daily parking.

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Participants in the Out of the Darkness walk hear speakers, march through campus and sign a memorial poster.

Walk brings suicide ‘out of the darkness’ First-annual event aims to increase awareness, raise funds Taylor Fontan

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Rain did not hinder the spirits of more t han a hu ndred walk participants Sunday as USC hosted its first Out of the Darkness Suicide Prevention Walk.

The walk was put on by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (A FSP) in hopes of providing support for those who have lost a loved one to suicide and to raise awareness about suicide.

Wa l k o r g a n i z e r s A n n e Eva ngel ist a a nd Cor i n ne Mercogliano, both fourth-year students at USC, hoped to raise $5,000 for research and education about suicide and depression.

Evangelista said that with the donations they received Sunday, they were able to exceed the $5,000

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goal.

And while the walk lasted about an hour, the efforts to raise that money began before anyone laced up their shoes Sunday afternoon.

Evangelista and Mercogliano held percent nights at restaurants like Which Wich and Yesterday’s Rest au ra nt a nd Taver n, took donations online and sold suicideawareness wristbands.

T he e vent k ic ked of f w it h a handful of speakers, including Frank A nderson, pastor of the Lut her a n C a mpu s M i n i st r y ; Student Body President Chase Mizzell; Dr. Meera Narashiman, the chairwoman of USC School of Med ici ne’s Depar t ment of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science; and head football coach Steve Spurrier.

Spurrier said he wanted to be a resource in preventing suicide as he recalled the death of former USC football player Kenny McKinley

in 2010.

A f ter t he speeches, walkers set out on a 2.4-mile course that took them around the Horseshoe to Sumter, Blossom and Pickens st reet s b efore end i ng at t he Russell House. Participants were encouraged to stop at Capstone House to take a water break and sign a memory board with their reasons for participating in the walk.

Although the main goal of the day was to raise funds for the AFSP, Evangelista said she hopes that the walk will become a new tradition at USC and throughout Columbia. “ It j u s t r e a l l y a f f e c t s t he community as a whole,” Evangelista said. “It’s affected the football team, it’s affected the counseling center and it’s affected student organizat ions, and t hey’re all coming out for this. It just shows the broad spectrum of everything.”

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The Daily Gamecock has launched a new website that editors and site designers say will allow the newspaper to expand its multimedia coverage at a t ime when Internet news is increasingly relevant.

Content w i l l st i l l be accessible at dailygamecock.com.

“I think this website will defi nitely launch us forward even more into competing with the likes of the nation’s top college newspapers,” Editor-in-Chief Kristyn Sanito said.

Easier navigation, more modern aesthetics and subdivided content sections are noticeable features of the new site. In addition, the website support system includes increased server space, which should eliminate the sluggish load times and crashes of the old website, according to Austin Price, the online editor.

The new site allows the newspaper to offer extended multimedia coverage like videos, audio content and photo slide shows that the previous website was less capable of handling.

“The news industry in general is moving toward multimedia and Web-based content,” Price said. “With our old website, we were really slacking with that because we pretty much just put our printed stories online. It was a pretty outdated website.

“The way that ... most people that are in college read t he news is online. A nd t he fact that we have the printed edition around campus makes it pretty easy to pick up and read in class. But we want to give people more content when they visit our website than they can fi nd in the paper and give them a reason to go there.”

Price said the site design process began just before winter break. He and others involved in the site design looked at major national newspapers’ and college newspapers’ websites to help model the new site after, Price said.

The new website is operated on the Gryphon Content Management System, a product of SN Works, a website development group at Michigan State University’s The State News student newspaper.

T he ne w s y s t e m w i l l c o s t T he D a i l y Gamecock $8,000 this year to launch the site and run it for a year, Director of Student Media Scott Lindenberg said. It’ll cost $5,100 per year after that.

The paper had spent about $81 per year for ser ver space on its old Joomla system, Lindenberg said.

The Daily Gamecock moved to Joomla in 2010, according to Price, and now joins a number of other college newspapers across the country, including the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Daily Tar Heel and the University of Pennsylvania’s Daily Pennsylvanian on Gryphon.

“We’ve got an impressive print product,” Sanito said. “So now I think this website will fi nally match all of what we put into the printed product that people pick up every day.”

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Taylor Swift’s “Red” tour rocked a sold-out Colonial Life Arena Saturday night. Read more in The Mix on page 7.

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Columbia residents shaved their heads at Jillian’s Saturday to raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation’s cancer research.

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Stevan Novakovic discusses the NCAA’s vague rules and their unfair attempts to make the state compromise its culture.

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The Gamecocks lost three consecutive home games to the Razorbacks at Carolina Stadium this weekend.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

In Brief.

Sheriffs to hold meeting after 4 lawmen indicted

Authorities searching for missing inmate

ETV faces layoffs after federal budget cuts

There are 46 sheriffs in South Carolina, and in the last three years, five of them have been arrested.

So in April, sheriffs plan to meet in Columbia to talk about what they can do to keep out of trouble, the Associated Press reported.

The most recent arrest came last week when Sam Parker, Chesterfield County’s sheriff, was indicted on six misdemeanor charges.

It was the latest in a string of incidents that began in May 2010 after more than a decade without having a sheriff indicted, the AP reported.

Three of the four indictments have involved misuse of inmate labor.

The state Department of Corrections is looking for an inmate at a minimum security prison who went missing Sunday.

The State reported that Maurice Vandell Bailey, 25, was last seen at his work-release site, a Miyo’s restaurant on Harbison Boulevard. He was two years into a five-year sentence for an armed robbery in Newberry County.

Bailey would have been eligible for parole in February 2014 and was being held at the Campbell Pre-Release Center on Broad River Road. He didn’t show up at a 7 p.m. headcount.

According to The State, Bailey is a 6-foot-1-inch black male who weighs 185 pounds and was last seen wearing a tan prison uniform.

Mandatory federal cuts could force the state’s ETV to cut back and lay workers off, The State reported.

ETV President Linda O’Bryon told a state Senate panel that she wasn’t sure how many jobs would be cut or programs dropped because of the so-called “sequester” budget cuts, but she said they would be “significant.”

ETV isn’t new to budget cuts and layoffs. It now employs 130 workers, down from 225 in 2008, and it gets $9 million from the state, down from $16.5 million in 2008, according to The State.

Because of the across-the-board mandatory cuts in federal government, ETV will lose $588,000.

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GARAGES ● Continued from 1 Street’s Horizon garage, which is 65 percent occupied, he said.

Across campus, Huggins said USC expects the business school’s move will open up more short-term parking for students around the fi nancial aid office and Gambrell Hall.

But he doesn’t expect occupancy rates on the north end of campus to d rop much because USC is planning to change how its shuttles operate in 2014 to make it easier to get across the university’s growing

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campus.

The system will begin to favor point-to-point routes rather than the loops buses follow now, and Hugg i ns ex pect s st udent s w ill eventually lose the mentality that they need to park near their classes.

“As you ramp up even more on your transit programs, it doesn’t really mat ter where you park,” Huggins said. “Basically, students will purchase what is open and then adjust their walk times, their walk paths and transit options.”

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The Horizon (above) and Discovery parking garages have had low occupancy since they opened four years ago, costing USC millions of dollars despite revenue growth.

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Crime Blotter The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.

Reports from March 15 to March 22 Larceny/Theft from building — 8 Trespass — 2 Vandalism/Destruction of property — 6 Drunkenness — 2 Drug/Narcotics violation — 1 Disorderly conduct — 3 Fake/Other ID use — 1 Burglary/Breaking and entering — 2 Fraud (credit card/ATM) — 1 Larceny (other) — 1 Larceny of bicycle — 1 Harassment (telephone calls) — 1

— Officers saw a man who appeared unsteady on his feet at the corner of Bull and Greene streets around 5:30 p.m. March 16. The man “spit all over himself” and attempted to enter the Callcott Social Science Center. After initially refusing to stop when police asked him to, the man told the officers that he did not know where he was or where he was going and that he was “very confused about being confused.”

The officers noticed that he smelled of alcohol and called paramedics. He was transported to Palmetto Health Baptist.

— An officer witnessed a student facing the road and urinating under a street lamp while a large group of people walked by him early in the morning of March 17. As the student was zipping up his pants, the officer made contact with him and noticed that the student was slurring his words

and smelled strongly of alcohol. The student said that he had been drinking in Five Points and was on his way back to his residence hall. After searching the student, the officer found a fake Florida ID in his pocket and placed him under arrest for public disorderly conduct.

— Public Intoxication of the Week: An officer saw a man who appeared to be intoxicated walking near the corner of Gibbes Court and Barnwell Street early in the morning of March 17. The officer saw the man attempt to enter a house at 16 Gibbes Court, and, once the man learned the door was locked, he began urinating on the front corner of the house. The officer then approached the man, who smelled strongly of alcohol and said that he was staying with a friend who lived in the house but did not own it or have a key.

When the officer asked the man to call

his friend, the man stated that he had lost his phone and could not remember his friend’s phone number. The officer called a taxi to bring the man to a hotel for the night and warned the man that if he returned, he would be arrested. Thirty minutes later, the man returned and was arrested for public intoxication.

— Compiled by Amanda Coyne, Assistant News Editor Editor’s N ote: USC’s Division of Law Enforcement and Safety only made detailed reports available for incidents on or before March 18 as of Sunday afternoon. Basic information about incidents on or before March 22 were available on the division’s website, but without reports.

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‘Big Brother’ hopefuls arrive in Columbia for casting call Nearly 40 colorful characters come to Sunday afternoon tryouts Sarah Martin

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Mitchell Jones really wants to be on CBS’s “Big Brother.”

The Key West, Fla., native drove to Columbia for a Sunday afternoon audition for the show, and it’s not the first time he’s done so. Last year, he tried out in Cincinnati.

“I’ll let you in on a little secret,” Jones said, leaning in and whispering conspiratorially. “I made it to the top 20 last year.”

The Sunday casting call at JT’s Kia in Columbia allowed the public to audition to compete on the television show with an on-camera interview. Larger-thanlife personalities are key to the show, and almost 40 would-be participants turned out, all eager to show off their quirks and colorful personalities.

Eying his competition, Jones, who prefers “Q-Mitch,” felt good about his odds.

“I’m confident I’m going to get even farther this time around,” Jones said with a wink.

Among his competition was Meegan Looper, of Fayetteville, N.C., who made her presence known immediately, decked out in leopard print clothes and furry boots. She drove three hours to make her pitch. “‘Big Brother’ is my favorite show to watch, and it would be my dream come true to be on it,” Looper said. “It’s just so addicting.”

The show pits 16 contestants against each other by isolating them in a house for about three months with limited

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contact with the outside world. This year marks its 15th season in the U.S., which will premiere in June.

Looper said she thinks she’d be a good pick for the competition and jumped at the chance to show off her personality.

“There are a lot of good qualities about myself,” she said. “I can be a friend to anyone in the house, and I am funky and awesome. I can wow America and build a relationship with each and every contestant in the house.”

Contestants in the casting call were given a list of guidelines with tips on how to impress producers.

Among them: “Stand out,” “exaggerate your personality” and “be annoying.”

Asked for further information on the interview process, CBS network affiliates declined comment.

The audition marks the first time “Big Brother” has visited Columbia, and some locals took advantage of the opportunity to try out.

Among them was Emily Wade, who banked on her personalit y to land her a spot on the show. She kept her appearance simple and instead relied on her love of the show to help her advance to the next round.

“I think my bubbly personality will get America and the other housemates to love me,” Wade said. “I’ve been watching [‘Big Brother’] for a long time — about six years now. My mom got me started on it, and she’s so excited I’m here now.”

Nat a l ie W i l l ia m s , a f i r st-yea r international business student, came out, too.

“I really just wanted to see who would come,” she said with a laugh. “There are some really colorful and interesting people here.”

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Trader Joe’s draws traffic, hubbub over weekend Columbians have a shorter drive to pick up their Two-Buck Chuck and other Trader Joe’s favorites, and their excitement was palpable this weekend.

Hundreds gathered outside the new store for its g rand opening Fr i d a y m o r n i n g , a n d e v e n b y Sat urday af ternoon, t he interest hadn’t waned much.

Police directed traffic, cars backed up onto Forest Drive , customers jay walked w it h bags in tow a nd neighboring businesses and streets were slammed with folks looking for parking.

Inside, checkout lines meandered, employees donned leis and customers weaved through crowded aisles as they perused the store’s famously inexpensive offerings of cheeses,

meats, frozen foods and other mostly organic options.

The store took a USC-cent ric approach for decor, with murals of cows playing football in WilliamsBrice Stadium, McKissick Museum adorned with fork-and-knife banners and other campus icons.

The new location is the chain’s third in South Carolina, with stores in Greenville and Mount Pleasant , and follows close behind W hole Foods Market, which opened on Fort Jackson Boulevard last year.

Trader Joe’s is open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 4516 Forest Drive.

— Compiled by Thad Moore, News Editor

Photo illustration by Andrew Askins / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Trader Joe’s brought its relatively inexpensive goods to Columbia with its Friday opening.

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Traffic for the new grocery store backs up into Forest Drive Saturday afternoon, and the search for parking spilled over into neighboring businesses and streets.

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EDITORIAL BOARD KRISTYN SANITO Editor-in-Chief

ALICE CHANG Viewpoints Editor

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Managing Editor

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NASA deserves chance to repeal funding cuts

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Effects of sequestration harm future innovation

Senior Mix Writer

University can learn lesson from Innovista When the Innovista project was launched around four years ago to entice high-tech companies and innovation to kick-start South Carolina’s slumping economy, the state government, working with USC, began its construction frenzy. Numerous buildings and parking garages — specifically, the Horizon and Discover y garages — were “The next time on s t r uc t e d on USC wishes to cthe margins of our build, those in campus.

Four years later, charge should these garages are make sure the not only largely demand is there v a c a n t — 6 5 percent occupancy first, instead for Horizon and of relying on 50 p e r c e n t f o r construction to Discovery — but hey ’re a lso create demand.” tdraining money from USC. As a result, USC has been forking over around $1 million each year just to pay off the debts from building the garages. All this while our university scrambles to find enough money to fix leaky roofs and run-down facilities.

Now, USC is banking on the opening of the new business school and the expansion of campus in that direction to reel in more revenue to the two empty garages. However, what USC has not considered is that students select parking based on proximity to their classes, and while the new business school may fill up Horizon and Discovery, Senate and Pendleton garages will drain as a result.

USC claims that the more efficient shuttle system in the future will make parking location irrelevant, but we have a hard time believing that will be the case.

USC will most likely be losing money for many years to come, but they can learn a lesson from it. The next time the university wishes to build, those in charge should make sure the demand is there first instead of relying on construction to create demand.

Otherwise, our ambitious projects may end up being what these garages are at a risk of becoming: a huge debt hole.

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NCAA flag rule compromises culture Organization should not pander to vocal minority A s c o l l e g e b a s k e t b a l l’s “March Madness” tou r nament cont inues, Sout h Carolina was o n c e a g a i n t h r o w n i nt o t h e spotlight regarding t he NCA A edict barring tournament games from being played in the state.

W h ile some have been quick to blame t he Confederate fl ag for the ban, it is apparent upon closer observation that this i s not ent i rely t he case.

Stevan T he r u l i ng Novakovic s p e c i f ic a l l y s t at e s: Fourth-year “No predetermined international business student session of an NCA A c h a mpion s h ip m ay be conducted in a state where t he confederate f lag is f low n.”

There is no mention of the South Carol i na St atehouse or d irect reference to publ ic or pr ivate land upon which the flag rests. It would not be far-fetched to say that somewhere in every state of America, the Confederate f lag is f lown. The state of Florida had the largest Confederate banner in the world f lying proudly near Tampa (it was replaced two years ago with a slightly smaller f lag), yet Floridians do not risk losing games. On top of t his, anyone w it h a mediocre k nowledge of Southern history understands that there are multiple Confederate flags. The ruling, again, makes no distinction.

W hat the NCA A has decided

to do is cater to a vocal minority, the NA ACP and Black Coaches Association, in a political attempt to v i l la i n iz e t hose who cla i m Southern heritage. The NCA A i s s upp o sed to b e a n at h let ic association, not a legislative or p o l it i c a l b o d y. W it h h o ld i n g tournament games f rom Sout h Carolina is an attempt to bully an entire state to change its culture into conformit y w it h t hat of a vocal minority.

The NA ACP began a tourism boycott of South Carolina in 1999 to protest the Confederate battle f lag on top of the state Capitol.

Interestingly, the NCAA followed in 2001 with its ruling barring predetermined tournament games f rom t he st at e. W h at s or t of precedent does this set for other social issues? While much to-do has been made of t he boycot t, tourism in Sout h Carolina saw consistent increases in economic contributions from 2001 (after the boycott began) until the global fi nancial crisis of 2009, with yearly revenues rising from $14 billion to $17 billion.

The fact of the matter is that t he NCA A r uling is too broad and not enforced according to its wording. The ban inf licts harm upon a predominately black sport regarding a n issue over wh ich the coaches and athletes have no authority. South Carolina will not host tournament games this year because of a left-wing movement attempting to create controversy over the f lag, not the f lag itself.

The NC A A shou ld st ick to athletics and leave culture alone.

A s of Sat u rday mor n i ng, t he federal budget has been passed, and America can fi nally stop debating endlessly over the implications of Congress’s inaction. However, the long-awaited resolution came a little too late. Just t he d ay b efore , NASA announced t hat it would be Alice suspend i ng it s Chang educat ion and Third-year outreach programs international d u e t o f u nd i n g business student sequestration.

The sequestration effectively cut $1 billion f rom NA SA’s budget , and the cut has now curtailed training and travel expenses as well as online and media init iat ives. Even t his past week, the cuts prevented NASA scientists from attending a conference, and there’s no telling what will be cut in the future. Currently, NASA hosts a plethora of camps and programs for st udents of all ages and sponsors numerous other science and technology-related activities, all initiatives necessary to our nation’s advancement. And when belts have to be tightened on programs that train minds and foster technological development, everyone bears the consequences.

Many programs have been affected by sequestration, and NASA’s cuts are not necessarily more disastrous than cuts to welfare programs or military salaries or any of the other victims of sequest rat ion. However, there should be a process that allows the repealing of certain sequestration cuts if these cuts affect education. As it stands, one of the few things we can still credit to our country is our emphasis on progress through innovation, a principle embodied

by NASA. A blow to its ability to educate people would be a blow to America’s long-term progress.

Obama takes bold step toward two-state solution For first time in history, president openly advocates for Israeli-Palestinian peace At t he Jer usalem Convent ion Center last Thursday, President Barack Obama urged Israelis to empathize with the Palestinians, saying that “there should be t wo states for t wo people.”

Given our country’s history with Israel, it was an unexpected and bold statement. Normally, actions speak louder than words, but a presidential mention of the right-to-land tension between Israel and Palestine has normally never drifted far from paternal votes of confidence for our ally Israel. Obama continued to say that the young Palestinians he had briefly talked with were not unlike his own daughters, nor the Israeli’s sons or daughters either, trying to make the discord relatable to everyone. There’s no doubt about it: Obama took a solid first step in attempting to achieve real peace between Israel and Palestine, a feud most have probably waived as impossible to

resolve.

Talk is cheap, though, and perhaps less so when you’re the president of the United States of America. Nonetheless, continued action regarding the settlement of this dispute ought to be expected with careful optimism. However, the actions do speak loudly, especially to an Israel that, in recent years, has found some of its right-winged politicians advocating that they do not support a t wo-state adoption which would result in a sharing of the Max holy grounds. Such aggression wasn’t Stolarczyk always found in Israel’s polit ics.

First-year Over most of the past two decades, international most politicians agreed that a twobusiness student state solution was reasonable and achievable, which makes the recent transgressions of its conservative politicians both concerning and out of touch.

W hat must be acknowledged is that Obama actually vetoed two-state solutions regarding

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Israel and Palestine in the U.N. during his fi rst term as president, though that may have been “politics as usual” and simple foundation-laying for his re-election. But now, he has a chance to actually get some work done, for better or worse.

Obama acknowledged that not everyone in his audience would likely agree with his sentiments, though he did express hope and promise that peace could be found in the two countries’ discourse. In his speech, he said that “Peace is necessary — I believe that. I believe that peace is the only path to true security. You have the opportunity to be the generation that permanently secures the Zionist dream, or you can face a growing challenge to its future.” Whether these ideals can come to fruition is left to be discovered.

Many people feel as though America ought to stay away from being the patron saint of foreign affairs until we get our own affairs in order, and I tend to agree. But when you have one of the most powerful voices in the world, as Obama does, it’s tough not to help where you can.

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Country-turned-pop star Taylor Swift plays the Colonial Life Arena Saturday night on the Columbia stop of her “Red” tour to a sold-out crowd of about 12,000 fans.

Swift paints Columbia ‘Red’ Pop star plays to sold-out crowd Saturday night Chloe Gould

CGOULD@DAILYGAMECOCK.COM

Confetti poured from the rafters — red, tissue paper hearts stuck to f lashing tiaras and settled on the brim of cowboy hats. Little girls twirled in pink tutus and scurried to the arena steps to collect the fallen keepsakes.

Taylor Swift, who brought her “Red” tour to Columbia Saturday night , sang “We A re Never Ever Get t ing Back Toget her” f rom a flying stage, dressed in a shimmering ringmaster uniform.

It was her closing number of the night, but there were no Britishaccented jabs at ex-boyfriends or brea k s for t h i n ly-vei led sn a rk .

There was an arena full of 12,000 fans , mostly elementary-aged girls dressed like their blonde-haired, blue-eyed idol, look i ng up at a moment of magic.

The confetti started falling and t he c rowd looked up, e ven t he dragged-along dads smiling at the scene.

The whole evening had that effect — even the most reluctant attendees found somet hing to enjoy. Dads were caught singing, “Romeo, save me, I’ve been feeling so alone,” and moms had a lot of questions about the talented, disheveled ginger who opened the show.

E d She er a n , w ho t e a me d up w it h Sw if t for “Ever y t hing Has

Changed” on “Red,” sang a few songs from his debut album “+” and “Be My Husband” by jazz’s Nina Simone.

“I’m in a fantastic mood — I just had a big plate of lasagna,” Sheeran said after a 10-minute “Give Me Love.”

He clapped his fist against the side of h is g u it a r, stomped h is feet against amps and peddles and clenched the mic for a few wellplaced raps. He didn’t have a band, it was just Sheeran with a tool that, he ex pla i ned, created a loop of percussion throughout the set.

During his more popular songs, “Drunk” and “The A Team” — the fi rst self-explanatory and the second about a drug-addicted prostitute — the same girls in Swift’s pajamas from the “We A re Never” music video and light-up stars that read “ D o n’t y o u d r e a m i m p o s s i b l e things” sang every word.

The crowd adored him, especially as he reclaimed the stage during Sw if t’s set for “Ever y t h ing Has Changed,” but there was a moment of confusion in his opening that we can only hope was later explained.

Two or a nge paw pr i nt s , wh ic h Sheeran has claimed as a k ind of emblem, took the monitors during “Lego House.”

The audience joined in a collective, long-lasting boo . Carolina pride runs deep at Colonial Life Arena.

In between Sheeran’s and Swift’s sets, a middle-aged woman wit h blonde ha i r a nd a fa m il ia r face SWIFT ● 10

“People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.”

— Taylor Swift

Austin Price / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Ed Sheeran opened for Taylor Swift and performed his hits “Drunk” and “The A Team.”

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St. Baldrick’s hosts fundraiser at Jillian’s Columbia residents shave heads for cancer research Caitlyn McGuire

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Volunteers were showing some skin Saturday. Don’t worry; everyone kept their clothes on.

More than 300 participants shaved their heads for the St. Baldrick’s Fou ndat ion, ra isi ng money a nd awa rene s s for c a ncer re sea rc h.

Shavees, family members, supporters and those who volunteered to shave others gathered at Jillian’s restaurant on Gervais.

The foundation’s Columbia event coordinator, Krystle Eckrote, said t his was Columbia’s sevent h and largest event . The event exceeding t he i n it ia l f u nd r a i s i ng goa l of $50,000 and set a new record for Columbia with more than $65,000.

Participants were buzzing with energy and creativity — some with Mohawk s, color f u l ha i rdos a nd matching T-shirts.

“Team Pop-tart” stood out in the crowd with brightly colored Afros and shirts that said “With heads like this who needs hair.” This was the team’s sixth year shaving their heads for the event, in honor of a family member nicknamed “Pop-tart” who had neuroblastoma, a common form of cancer, for ten years and has been cancer-free since February.

It wasn’t just men who shaved their heads for the cause. More than 50 women chopped their locks, which always comes as a shock, Eckrote said.

Third-year anthropology student

Rachel Boone shaved off her long hair and raised more than $1,000.

Boone, who work s at Pa l met to Health Baptist, said she did it in honor of cancer patients she sees at the hospital and her grandfather, who also had cancer.

“I want to let t hem k now t hey have people standing beside them,” Boone said. “I’m trying to show that others can do it, too.”

Volunteer Courtney Nord worked with radio station Rock 93.5 shaving

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heads. She said she believes it is important for men and women to take action for the foundation.

“This creates necessary awareness, especially for females, that it’s not something that scary,” Nord said.

A large array of people joined the head-shaving action, including kids, teens and a large group of Columbia police officers.

T he r e w a s c o n s t a nt s u p p o r t t h r ou g hout t he a f t er no o n lo n g event. Spectators cheered, cried and applauded ever y participant.

I n s p i r at io n a l s i g n s we r e hu n g throughout the room with messages like, “It’s just hair,” “Be brave and shave” and “bald is beautiful.”

The event included face painting, an eagle mascot, a colored hair spray station and a silent auction.

Part icipant s st ressed t he importance of showing solidarit y with cancer patients. “[My cousin] had no choice in the matter,” said volunteer shavee Ken Walters. “We have a choice, but we

Photos by Caitlyn McGuire / The Daily Gamecock

Third-year anthropology student Rachel Boone was one of more than 50 women who shaved their heads at the fundraiser. need to show our support.”

Eckrote said she thinks Columbia is beginning to embrace the event, and she hopes this event is just one of many more to come.

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Good girls go bad in ‘Spring Breakers’ Gomez, Hudgens star in provocative film about dark side of weeklong vacation Tyler Simpson

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Director: Harmony Korine Starring: Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine Rating: R for strong sexual content, nudity, language, drug use and violence Normally, spring break films are just a starting point for comedies and romance, sometimes both at the same time. They’re the type of fi lms that thrive on the guy-meets-girl storyline (just look at the atrocious “From Justin to Kelly”). They also always seem to emphasize the “fun” factor in the situation.

However, “Spring Breakers” centers on the most hedonistic moment for college students, as many have, but in a different and unexpected fashion.

Director Harmoney Korine begins the fi lm in a manner that’s expected: beach shots with sunsets and scenes of a 24/7 party lifestyle. But once the story actually develops, the fi lm goes down a much darker road, revealing itself as a serious fi lm with a serious message. Faith (Gomez), Candy (Hudgens), Brit (Benson) and Cotty (Rachel Korine) want to spend the whole week together in Florida for spring break but don’t have enough money. Faith is the good girl of the group, but the other three are so rotten to the core that it’s frightening.

They have no understanding of consequences, and they rob a restaurant with water guns and a sledgehammer to fund their spring break trip.

Things get especially interesting when the girls are forced to appear before the court (in their bikinis, no less), but are bailed out by gangster drug dealer Alien ( James Franco). His money, dr ugs and criminal lifest yle quick ly make a favorable impression on all the girls, except for Faith, and the fi lm heads to a much darker place.

“Spring Breakers” isn’t a light, breezy fi lm for those expecting to be titillated by scantily-clad girls partying. Though titillation is the hook, the material is dark, with Korine favoring artistic integrity over mainstream fare.

Kor i ne’s key st yl ist ic element i n “Spr i ng

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Ashley Benson (left) and Vanessa Hudgens (right) star as college students who rob a restaurant to pay for a spring break trip to Florida, then get bailed out of jail by Alien, a drug dealer played by James Franco (center).

Breakers” is his penchant for repetition. Many of the lines are spoken more than once, and some are repeated up to six times. It might seem like Korine is repeating stuff unnecessarily, but it all comes together when Faith talks about how seeing and experiencing the same things on a daily basis is boring and depressing.

The movie actually works better when no lines are being said at all. Korine’s neon-bright imagery syncs well with the meticulous electronic music composed in part by Skrillex. Some scenes seem to nod at Britney Spears as a patron of sexualized teenyboppers, but t hey feel more inept t han anything.

Much of the publicity surrounding “Breakers” involves the casting of former teenage icons Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson.

They’ve reached the point in their careers where they want to broaden their horizons, and what better way to do so than to star in a fi lm where they spend much of their time bikini-clad and promiscuous? While all the promiscuity and bad decision-making does keep the movie interesting, it does nothing to keep the characters interesting.

Gomez’s Faith, believe it or not, is actually the most well-rounded character and has the closest

thing to a backstory. She’s a devout Christian who’s fiercely loyal to her grandmother but becomes torn between her prayer circles and her desire to party hard with the girls she has known since childhood.

Not surprisingly though, her character doesn’t stretch as far as the other girls. We never see her curse or take her clothing off, and she departs before things get incredibly out-of-control. She’s a good Christian girl who has a moment of rebellion, but stops when things go beyond her comfort zone.

Hudgens and Benson, on the other hand, swear like truckers, engage in all sorts of drinking and explicit activities and even have a peek-a-boo threeway with Franco in a pool.

And Franco’s preformance, as weird as it is, is a standout. Still, it’s hard to be mesmerized by the sight of Alien bouncing up and down on his bed among his money, guns and drugs while yelling, “Look at my stuff.” It’s equally as horrifying as it is hilarious.

“Spring Breakers” doesn’t glorify spring break in any way, but it does challenge us to consider that weeklong annual ritual a little longer. It’s dark, funny and provocative.

DG

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SWIFT ● Continued from 7 walked along the side of t he f loor seats. It only took a m i nute for t he crowd to realize it was Swift’s mom, Andrea. She made a few appearances i n t he sec t ion, t a k i ng pictures with die-hards in homemade outfits.

Swift’s first song was “St ate of Grace.” T he starlet wore a white lace top, r uby red sequined shoes and black hot pants that in no way met the finger-tip rule. She cont i nued w it h “Holy G r ou nd” t he n “ R e d ,” after she explained t he inspirat ion behind her music.

“I have a lot of feelings, actually,” Swift said.

Swift donned a letter

jacket, a black-and-white st r iped top a nd red sk inny jeans for a high school-themed “22.” She sat atop the shoulders of a few of her dancers and circled one side of t he floor seats on her way to a stage closer to the back of the arena.

Sw i f t , s i t t i n g o n a single red stool, switched to a 12-string guitar, the kind of guitar she learned on, she said. A standard guitar has six strings, and “6 t imes 2 equa ls 12,” Swift said.

She sang “Sparks Fly,” one of a few non-”Red” songs she sa ng du r i ng the night. “Mean,” “Love Story” and “You Belong With Me” also made the list.

A f t er Sw i f t m ade it

back to t he mainstage, t h i ngs got heav y. The stage was stripped down, wit h a warm red piano sit t i ng at t he top of a fl ight of stairs. Swift wore a black , lace-accented gown and spoke about the song-writing process.

“The ultimate goal is to say how you feel and to say it exactly how you feel it,” she said.

She went on to t a l k about t he d if f ic u lt , complicated experiences in life.

A dad in sect ion 105 offered his support to the love-struck 23-year-old: “You’re right, Taylor.”

H is elementar y-aged son quickly quipped back: “Shut up, Dad.” Her speech was a s e t- up f or t he mo s t

emot ional ballad on Swift’s “Red.” She said it was one where she just recounted her experience, from beginning to end — presumably with her ex-love Jake Gyllenhaal.

It a l l w r app e d b ac k a rou nd t o t he c i rc u s: Swift as the ringmaster, w it h t he ot her act s s w i rl i ng a nd t w i rl i ng around her. She walked t o t he e nd of a lo n g, tightrope-style stage and scanned over the top of the grand pit.

She stretched her hand over t he f u r t hest ra il, with a commanding, but still bewildered, smile.

The confetti fell and the crowd roared on.

DG

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Ed Sheeran (right) opened for Taylor Swift (left) on the pop/country starlet’s “Red” tour, which stopped in Columbia Saturday.

Seth Meyers coming to Koger Center Carolina Productions to host ‘Weekend Update’ star Mary Cathryn Armstrong

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Colu mbia, a re you ready to be updated?

Carol i na Product ions w ill host comed ia n Set h Meyers Thu rsday night, promising an evening full of political humor, celebrit y mocking and all the current events fit to poke fun at.

The comic, whose Saturday Night Live career has spanned more than 12 years, first garnered critical acclaim for his dual roles as a subtly hilarious improv actor and head writer for many of the late-night show’s most popular political satires. In fact, Meyers is credited with spearheading many of the wildly notorious “Sarah Palin” sketch scripts featuring SNL alumna Ti na Fey. He is also wel l-k now n for his celebrit y impersonations of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” host Ty Pen n ing ton a nd bad-boy actor Sean Penn as well as a number of Meyers-made characters like Nerod of the “Appalachian Emergency Room” sketch series.

Currently, Meyers writes and stars as the solo host of SNL’s long-running “Weekend Update” segment, featuring a nu mber of rec u r r i ng i nter v iew characters and commentary on the world’s most newsworthy issues. No matter the topic, Meyers supplies a heav y dose of his personal wit and distinguishing quirk that have made him a fan favorite for over a decade.

Meyers will be performing at the Koger Center at 8 p.m. Thursday.

Tickets are free to USC st udents, faculty and staff. They can be picked up at the Russell House Information desk.

DG

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Aries

T he c o m p e t it io n i s f ierce, but you ca n h a nd le it . You’l l feel bet ter as feelings and logic align. Travel is now an emotional experience.

Don’t touc h you r savings.

Taurus

Explore new boundaries i n places where you d id n’t t h i n k t o lo o k before. Take t he t ime to get your ideas across.

W hat you’re lear n ing clashes w it h you r old routine. Find quiet.

Gemini

I t ’s a b i g m i s t a k e t o t h i n k y o u ’r e t h e s m a r t e s t . T h at ’s i r r e l e v a n t , a n y w a y.

There’s still work to be done. Dedication is part of the solution. Horses may be part of t he picture. Get out of the clouds and ride.

Cancer

T h e r e ’s l e s s t h a n you t hought , but t he opportunities for more are wide open. Ignore a rude remark or anything that distracts from your commitments. There’s plenty of work to do.

Leo

St ay out side of t he cont roversy; you have bigger and better things to worr y about. If you really think it will make a difference, wait a while.

Anticipate criticism.

Virgo

Listen. W hat you learn today helps you in the long run. Put your conf idence and power beh i nd a g reat cause.

Don’t throw your money around, though — not even for love. Give your heart instead.

Libra

Sagittarius

St a nd up for what is right, even in the face of d i s ag reement . But watch out so you don’t come off as obnoxious.

Your dedication may be st ronger t h a n word s.

Mold your message, edit and put it into action.

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Ride out the storm and c a l m a not her ’s fea r s.

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Aquarius

Listen to a roommate caref u lly a nd w it hout l o s i n g y o u r t e m p e r.

T h e r e ’s g o l d t o b e fou nd in t hose words.

Being silent can be fi ne.

Respond later. Imagine your home f illed w it h harmony.

Wo r k o u t y o u r dif ferences so t hat you can move for ward w i t h e a s e . Yo u c a n r e a l l y h a nd le it . It ’s worth taking the time.

Post pone pa r t ie s a nd committee meetings. It’s not a good time to shop.

Read emails and respond to phone messages to avoid a misunderstanding. Make new f r iends on socia l media, but don’t believe everything you see. Stay cautious in the digital world.

St at e y o u r p o s it io n fi rmly, and be willing to be flexible, up to a point.

An objective perspective helps. Enough talk ing about it; now’s the time to get act ive. Boost morale with music and good food.

Scorpio

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Holbrook takes responsibility for offensive struggles Razorback pitching holds South Carolina hitters to 8 runs Paulina Berkovich

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Baseball drops 3 straight home games to Arkansas Austin Price / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Sophomore Evan Beal took his first loss of the season Friday night after giving up eight runs in 3.2 innings of work.

USC has 4 losses in 6 conference contests Kyle Heck

KHECK@DAILYGAMECOCK.COM

Throughout t he f irst t hird of the season, South Carolina coach Chad Holbrook said good pitching and defense were the keys to USC’s early success.

In t hree games against A rk a n sa s over t he weekend , there was a shortage of both. As a result, the Gamecocks were swept at home for the fi rst time since 1999. This weekend was also just the fifth time that USC has been swept at home since joining the SEC in 1992.

With Sunday’s 5-3, 11-inning loss , the Gamecocks (18-6, 2-4 SEC) are of f to t heir second consec ut ive slow conference start. Last year, the team lost five of its first six league games to begin the season.

“It was a frustrating weekend f o r u s ,” H o l b r o o k s a i d . “(Arkansas) came into Carolina Stadium and swept us, and that is no easy task.”

The Gamecocks were blown out 15-3 on Friday night and fell 4-2 on Saturday. They committed four errors in the three-game series after only registering 16 in the fi rst 21 games of the season.

Sophomore shor t stop Joey Pa n k a ke h ad t h ree of t ho se errors, and two of them came in the seventh inning of Saturday’s game on attempted throws to fi rst base, leading to two runs for the Razorbacks.

Pankake has eight of USC’s 20 errors on t he season , and Holbrook said the t wo errant throws Saturday are a cause for worry.

“W hen your shortstop isn’t making plays, that’s a concern,” Holbrook said. “Shortstops at Sout h Carolina have to make both of those plays. We just have to try and keep his confidence up. He is a gif ted player, but his errors were magnified today because they led to two runs, and ultimately we lost by two.”

Pankake took responsibilit y for the errors and said it was his job to come through for the pitcher.

“Those were tough plays and this is baseball and people make mistakes,” Pankake said. “(Nolan) Belcher is pitching and he’s getting ground balls and we have to make plays behind him.”

Arkansas was able to dominate offensively for most of the series, especially Friday night when it scored nine runs in the fourth inning.

Sophomore Evan Beal took his first loss of the year in the series opener, allow ing eight earned runs and four walks in 3.2 innings pitched . Holbrook said after the game that he hopes Beal will use the bad outing as a learning experience for the rest of the season.

“He’s just got to learn t hat when some things go wrong in an inning, he’s got to learn to work himself out of it,” Holbrook said.

The Gamecocks had

opportunities to get a win in the series, particularly on Sunday.

A fter USC took a 1-0 lead in t he f irst inning t hank s to an RBI single by fi rst baseman LB Dantzler, the Razorbacks scored once in the second and twice in the fourth to take a 3-1 lead.

USC tied it up in the bottom of the seventh when designated hitter Erik Payne knocked a twoout RBI single into right field and sophomore outfielder Tanner English drew a walk with the bases loaded to tie the game at three.

However, senior third baseman Chase Vergason f l ied out to center w it h t he bases loaded t o e nd t he i n n i n g, a nd t he Gamecocks were unable to take the lead.

USC also had the bases loaded w it h t wo out s i n t he eight h , but Payne grounded out to end t he inning . I n t he top of t he eleventh, Arkansas’ Matt Vinson connected on a two-out, bases loaded, two-run single that was just out of the reach of Pankake’s glove to give the Razorbacks a lead they would not give up.

USC was able to win 17 of its final 23 SEC games , including 12 in a row at one point during the season. Dantzler expressed confidence in his team’s ability to rebound from the losses.

“By no means is this the end of our season,” Dantzler said. “We obviously didn’t want to come here and get swept, that is kind of the worst case scenario. But we will bounce back.”

DG

The Gamecocks knew they would have a tall order facing the Razorbacks’ pitching staff in their second conference series of the season.

After Sunday’s 5-3 loss, coach Chad Holbrook took responsibility for USC’s offensive struggles throughout the weekend. South Carolina scored just eight runs in three consecutive losses to Arkansas.

“It’s no easy task to hit a baseball, especially aga i nst t he qual it y ar ms we’ve faced t h is weekend,” Holbrook said. “Our guys are trying.

As frustrated as I am at them, I know they’re trying. But maybe I can do a better job coaching them and getting them into the right spot.”

The Razorbacks’ pitchers overwhelmed USC hitters throughout the weekend. After Friday’s 15-3 loss, Holbook said he wasn’t terribly upset with the Gamecocks’ approach because Arkansas pitcher Barrett Astin is “as good as it gets.”

South Carolina fell behind 9-0 in that contest, taking away the possibility of manufacturing runs through stolen bases and bunts, as the Gamecocks usually do. They fi nished the seriesopener with six hits.

But Arkansas’ Ryne Stanek pitched a complete game against USC on Saturday, holding the Gamecocks to three hits in a 4-2 loss. Stanek was a power pitcher who threw as fast as 98 mph.

After the game, Holbrook said the Gamecocks did not have many quality at-bats despite getting deep into counts. He described Stanek as a top10 fi rst-round draft pick who “is going to be a millionaire in a few short months” and was just better than the Gamecock hitters.

“The velocity sneaks up on you, but we knew what we were going to get when we found out he was starting,” said sophomore shortstop Joey Pankake.

In Sunday’s series fi nale, with the game tied at three, Pankake led off both the eighth and the tenth innings with a single, and senior fi rst baseman LB Dantzler followed with a sacrifice bunt . Dantzler, who leads the Gamecocks in batting average, said he was not surprised to be asked to bunt.

Holbrook said he would have let the senior hit against a right-handed pitcher but added that he has struggled against left-handers this season.

Dantzler said the Gamecocks would have to adjust to Arkansas’ pitching quality because “that’s what you see in this league.” Dantzler said. He added that playing conditions were not ideal throughout the weekend but that the Gamecocks could not use the cold as an excuse.

Holbrook said his entire lineup needs to use the field better and be tougher with two strikes. “ We h ave t o m a k e a f e w c h a n g e s a nd adjust ment s a nd cha nge ou r m i ndset a nd mentality a little bit and see if we can get some positive momentum going,” Holbrook said.

“There’s a lot of good pitchers in front of us, and a lot of good teams, but we’re not doing enough.”

Schrock plays through illness: Holbrook said after Saturday’s game that second baseman Max Schrock played on “pure guts” after losing 10 pounds in 24 hours due to illness. The freshman had not eaten a meal in 36 hours prior to the game.

“I tip my cap to that kid for even trying to play today,” Holbrook said.

Schrock was hitless in nine at-bats in the fi nal two games of the series, hitting .260 in the fi rst 21 games he played this season.

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Gamecocks advance to Round of 32 USC’s women’s basketball team advanced to the NCA A Tournament’s R o u n d o f 32 w it h a d o m i n at i n g 74 -52 w i n over South Dakota State in Boulder, Colo. Saturday afternoon.

T he G a me c o c k s w i l l be back in action tonight w hen t he y t a k e on t he Jayhawks at 9:30 p.m. The game will be televised on ESPN2. A win would earn South Carolina its second consecutive berth to the Sweet 16.

USC jumped out to an 18-point halftime lead in

Saturday’s game, shooting more t ha n 60 percent in t he f irst half. Sen ior forward Ashley Bruner led the team with 12 points in the fi rst half, fi nishing with 15 points and 11 rebounds.

Senior guard Ieasia Walker added 15 points. “ T he y w i l led u s to a win today,” coach Dawn Staley told reporters after the game. “They weren’t going to be denied, and I think everybody else just followed their lead.”

— Compiled by Paulina Berkovich, Sports Editor

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Sophomore shortstop Joey Pankake had two hits in Sunday afternoon’s 11-inning 5-3 loss to Arkansas.