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VOL. 104, NO. 32

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

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South Carolina quarterback Stephen Garcia is sacked in the fourth quarter of USC’s 35-27 loss to Auburn Saturday.

USC falls to Auburn South Carolina suffers its first loss of the season to the Tigers Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium.

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FUMBLED AWAY

Fourth quarter turnovers ruin Gamecocks’ chances at victory Chris Cox

SPORTS EDITOR

AUBURN, Ala. — Things were finally beginning to fall into place for South Carolina.

A u b u r n ’s f o u r t h - a n d - g o a l touchdown had been negated by a false st ar t. K icker Wes By r u m promptly followed with a missed 23yard field goal.

Late in the fourth quarter, South Carolina was clinging to a six-point

lead on the road against a nationallyranked SEC squad.

Then everything changed.

Q ua r terback Stephen G a rcia fumbled on USC’s first play after the botched field goal before the Tigers took the lead for good on a go-ahead touchdown on a 7-yard catch by Philip Lutzenkirchen.

It was the first of four fourthquarter turnovers for Garcia and the Gamecocks, who dropped their first game of the season 35-27 on the Plains of Auburn.

“We had our chances to win the game and we should’ve won,” Garcia said. “Turnovers in the second half

just killed us.”

With No. 12 South Carolina (3-1, 1-1 SEC) trailing by a point on its next drive, Garcia put the ball on the ground once again near midfield, allowing No. 17 Auburn (4-0, 2-0 SEC) to push its lead to eight on a touchdown pass by Cameron Newton.

That prompted Garcia’s exit, as coach Steve Spurrier opted to go with true freshman Connor Shaw, who threw interceptions on each of USC’s final two drives.

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Organization aims to fight poverty, prevent disease worldwide Down the Rabbit Hole Sara Hartley

Photo courtesy of Brandon Green

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Claiming job security i n t h e sciences is no reason to ignore the fine arts in both Alice college and Chang e v e r y d a y First-year international life. business student

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Many may be familiar with the ONE campaign , co-founded by U2’s lead singer Bono, and its mission to fight extreme poverty and preventable disease in Africa and around the world.

Now, thanks to the efforts of Brandon Green, there is a way to get involved in this campaign at USC. T he fou r t h-yea r c u lt u ra l anthropolog y st udent has been working to start a student branch, named the ONE Carolina Chapter, What: First and the group became official last meeting week. The first meeting will be held When: this Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the French Tuesday House.

7 p.m.

“We raise awareness about the issues and then get new members Where: ... and go to leaders of Congress French or around the world,” Green said.

House “Right now I’m trying to get the word out and get people involved.”

The group hosted a tailgate before the home game against Furman on Sept. 18 and at the end of the game, the group held up a sign in the student section that said “ONE.” “I ended up being with a lot of social work students, which was cool because they were very interested in what we’re doing,” he said.

Want to join?

USC students involved with the ONE campaign held a tailgate before the USC-Furman game to attract new members.

Green said 24 new members signed up at the tailgate, in addition to the 134 he recruited at the student organization fair.

“What I have discovered is that USC is very open and receptive to ONE,” he said. “I have a handful of people that are very involved.”

The main objectives of the campaign, Green said, are to advocate for legislation to combat world poverty and disease and to hold elected leaders accountable.

Students can participate by writing a letter or calling their senators and congressmen.

One of the campaign’s current initiatives is to support the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, which were decided upon at a summit last week and include eight goals toward ending poverty and improving standards of living around the world.

A particular goal of ONE is to have no children born with HIV by 2015. With the medicine now available to prevent women from transferring HIV to their children, Green thinks this goal is attainable.

Green has had some background in social work since he was young, he said.

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Alpha Lambda Delta named best in nation USC’s Alpha Lambda Delta honor society was named best in the United States du ring a Friday ceremony inside the Russell House Theater.

It’s the fifth time the organization has received the Torch Award, which can only be received every four years.

The presentat ion was made by National Executive Director Glenda Ear wood, USC President Harris

Pastides and other faculty and staff members.

A LD is the largest organization on c a mpu s a nd is com m it ted to communit y ser v ice and academic success.

— Compiled by News Editor Josh Dawsey

Last spring, a group of st udents came together and started a club with t he u lt i mate goa l of bringing to light the daily struggles facing African citizens and supporting the charities that aid them in their everyday lives.

R e c e n t l y, S A F A R I (St u d e nt s A d v o c at i n g f o r A f r i c a’s R e g i o n a l Improvement) executives realized the organization was not being as effective a s t he y had or ig i na l ly hoped and concluded it was time to end the club.

SAFARI started out as a group of students who knew of issues in specific areas of Africa and wanted to help those citizens in need.

At it s peak last year, S A FA R I h a d a r o u n d 30 act ive members, compared to only 10 to 15 members by the end of t he spr i ng semester and beginning of the fall semester.

SAFARI worked closely with Invisible Children in 2009. It held a screening of the Invisible Children documentar y “The Rescue” and held a battle of the bands in front of the State House to raise funds and awareness for t he I nv isible Ch ild ren campaign.

L a s t s p r i n g , SA FA R I cont i nued it s hu ma n it a r ia n ef for t s by supporting the organization Free People Free People. It facilitated a clothing, food and sports e q u ip m e nt c o l l e c t i o n drive over the semester.

At the end of the semester, club members packed a large van full of supplies and took it to a Liberian refugee in Charlotte who, w it h Free People Free People, is going to send the supplies to the Zeepeh community in Liberia.

Due to political issues in Africa, the items have not been sent overseas yet, but they expect the items to be sent to Liberia in the near future. Both organizations wanted to ensure that the supplies ended up i n t he r ight hands in Liberia.

The original structure of t he club was not conducive to producing all of the ambitious results m e m b e r s w a nt e d a n d SA FARI executives said that allowing interested st udents to start a new club f rom t he g rou nd up would be easier and more ef fect ive t han refashioning the current club.

Even though they have de c ide d t o s hut dow n SAFARI, club executives k now t he problem s i n Africa are not going away anytime soon. “ T he i s s ue s a re not going away,” explained former SAFARI president C h r is McLaugh l i n . “ I absolutely bel ieve t hat people on campus have a desi re to help out , SAFARI ● 2

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adv isor for t he ON E Carolina Chapter. Green attended a workshop for the ONE campaign and subsequent ly beca me t he o r g a n i z at io n’s c on g re s s ion a l d i s t r ic t leader for districts two and six in South Carolina. “I came up with some ideas a nd rea l ly felt strongly that I wanted to start a chapter here on campus,� he said.

oriented stuff,� Green said. “I have that in my blood, I guess.�

A f ter l iv i ng i n West A f rica, Florida and Belgium before moving to Columbia, S.C., Green said he was first exposed to t he ON E ca mpa ig n when he was younger but became reacquainted with the initiative last semester.

Green became interested in advocacy last semester while taking a class with Susan Parlier, a professor Comments on this story? in USC’s college of social E- m a i l g a m e c o c k n e w s @ work and now the faculty sc.edu

Photo courtesy of Brandon Green

ONE Carolina is a chapter of the international nonprofit organization, the ONE campaign, co-founded by Bono of U2 to spread awareness of global poverty and disease.

whether that’s starting a new club or just helping out outside of the student organization realm.�

McLaugh l i n u rged interested students to get in contact w it h people who k now about t he st r uggles of A f r ica, as they can give an accurate insight about the issues facing the continent and what one can do to help.

With knowledge of the problem, one can t hen look for hu ma n it a r ia n organizations like Free People Free People that

are already work ing in Africa and need support from as many individuals as possible in the United States. “Be well informed of t he problem before considering solut ions,�

McLaugh l i n adv ised. “ Hop ef u l ly [f ut u re st udents who want to help out] w i l l be more k nowledgeable, resourceful and effective than we were.�

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SC eliminates programs for blind in budget cuts Since he was 9 years old, Parnell Diggs has gotten much of his news f rom a Sout h Carolina radio reading program for the blind.

Now, 32 years later, that option is disappearing.

The state Commission for the Blind is eliminating the service at the end of this month as part of its plan to reduce expenses and absorb budget cuts.

For Diggs, the loss will be critical. “I need to know what’s going on in the world, and I can’t get everything I need by t urning on morning news shows on television or even listening to that five-minute news blurb on the radio,� said Diggs, an attorney who practices law in Myrtle Beach.

Although there are other services that read the news for people w it h v is u a l impairments, not all of them are available in South Carolina.

And while technology, such as screen readers, c a n g i ve bl i nd p e ople more options for hearing information drawn from t he I nter net , it ca n be difficult for older people to use. “There real ly is no s u b s t i t u t e f o r w h a t ’s being lost,� said St uart Holland, vice president of Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network.

Some, however, say the new developments make the old radio programs for the blind less necessary. “What was a pioneering program in the late 1960s when these radio reading services got started is now kind of, in my opinion, a

back water compared to some of t he telephoneba sed opt ions t hat a re available for us now,� said Bryan Bashin, CEO of San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind. “Radio reading services ... t he y ’re 4 0 -yea r- old technology and there are much, much better options today for people who want to learn about the world.�

Newsline, for example, i s a n aut o m at e d ne w s reading service offered by the National Federation of t he Bl i nd. The user presses through a menu on a telephone keypad. Three South Carolina newspapers — The State of Columbia, The Sun News of Myrtle Beach and the Post and Courier of Charleston — are among the publications available on the service. “You don’t have to be passive and just wait for some story to come along that you’re interested in,� sa id Bash i n of t he Sa n Fr a nc i s co L ight hou se. “ You c a n c ho o se wh at magazine you want or what newspaper you want.�

H o w e v e r, N e w s l i n e is not available in South Carolina.

Some statewide organization would have to pay about $36,000 a year to bring it to residents. South C a r ol i n a C o m m i s s io n for the Blind chief James K i rb y s a id h i s a g e nc y doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

Some programs similar to South Carolina’s radio reading service are thriving in other states because they deliver their content across multiple formats, experts say.

South Carolina is not the first state to drop its radio reading program.

The Lighthouse dropped its radio reading service s e v e r a l y e a r s a g o a nd Bashin says he hasn’t heard any complaints.

K irby sa id he t h i n k s there is a need for the radio reading service in South Carolina; he just doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

The agenc y w ill save about $120,000 by cutting the program and its three employees — about a quarter of t he cuts t he commission had to make for this year’s budget.

K irby said he doesn’t k now how many people ac t u a l ly t u ne i nto t he 24 -hou r prog r a m m i ng broadcast on an educational radio channel t h at i s a v a i l a b le o n l y on specialized receivers.

Mor e t h a n 5,0 0 0 of those receivers have been distributed over the years.

Diggs said there’s more to consider than the size of the audience. “It’s not only a matter of usage, it’s a matter of fairness,� he said. “Access to pr i nted mater ia ls is v it a l ly i mpor t a nt for sighted people and blind people.�

Rogers Nelson, 56, of Columbia has been legally blind for more t han 20 years and is now totally bl i nd. H is w ife a lso is legally blind and they listen to the radio programming from 6 a.m. to noon. “I catch the obituaries and the sports,� Nelson said. “I get my local news on it every day. ... I would really miss it if they take it off the air.�

Nelson said he works out along with a half-hour exercise program broadcast on the service every day and gets information on potential jobs for the blind.

That, Diggs said, is just one of the many services p r o v id e d b y t he lo c a l programming that cannot be matched by others.

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Critics say abortion pills should not be administered by doctor via teleconference, but activists say the service is important to many living away from doctors in rural areas.

Critics debate abortion pill by teleconference NEW YORK — Ten years ago, after long and bitter debate, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of the abortion pill by American women.

It is hailed as safe and effective, but new turmoil may lie ahead as the pill’s proponents consider using telemedicine to make it more available.

Already, a pioneering telemedicine program in Iowa has provided the pill to about 1,900 women — with a doctor able to consult with a faraway patient in a video teleconference, then unlock a container by remote control to release the pill. To the alarm of anti-abortion activists, abortion providers in other states are pondering whether similar programs would enable them to serve more women, especially in rural areas. “There are many affiliates that are carefully considering this option, within the confines of their state laws,� said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for medical affairs of the Planned Parenthood Federation of A merica, the nation’s leading abortion provider.

Initially known as RU-486, the pill was introduced in France in 1988, and antiabortion activists fought doggedly over 12 years to keep it out of the U.S. The FDA finally gave its OK on Sept. 28, 2000, and nearly 1.4 million American women have used the pill since then.

Affording women more privacy than a surgical abortion, the pill marketed as Mifeprex now accounts for about onequarter of U.S. abortions performed in the first nine weeks of pregnancy and about 15 percent of all U.S. abortions. In 2008, about 184,000 American women used the pill — up from 55,000 in 2001 even though the overall number of U.S. abortions wasn’t rising.

T he pi l l’s ma nu fac t u rer, Da nco Laboratories, says it is effective about 95 percent of the time, with surgical procedures needed in most of the other cases to end the pregnancy or stop heavy bleeding. According to Danco, since approval in 2000 there have been eight deaths from sepsis, a bloodstream infection, among women taking the pill — a death rate of roughly 1 in 168,000 that’s far lower that the rate of women dying in childbirth.

Dr. David Grimes, a North Carolina obstetrician/gynecologist who formerly headed the abortion surveillance branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the pill’s impact has been overwhelmingly positive. “I just don’t see any downsides,� he said. “For those women who don’t like the invasiveness of surgery, it gives them a very important option.�

He noted the option enables a woman to undergo an abortion in the privacy of her home after getting the pill from her doctor, avoiding the need for surgery at an abortion clinic that might be targeted by protesters.

Some of the pill’s opponents “said this would make it too easy for women,�

Grimes said. “That implies that the procedure should be punitive. I don’t buy that.�

The procedure, which works during the first nine weeks of pregnancy, involves swallowing Mifeprex, known chemically as mifepristone. The pill causes an embryo to detach from the uterine wall, and a second pill, misoprostol, is used two days later to cause contractions and push the embryo out of the uterus.

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Humanitarian efforts show students care Due to recent unruly fan behavior at football games, USC students should feel remorseful and get involved in a charity organization to make up for their mistakes. Luckily, there are new organizations to get involved with on campus, so students don’t have to look far.

Th is semester, USC w il l i nt roduce a branch of the ONE campaign on campus.

ONE, an organization co-founded by Bono of U2, is dedicated “The addition ... to spreading A IDS is encouraging a w a r e n e s s a n d prevention as well as for those who say fighting poverty.

The addition of the students are selfish.” ONE organization, as well as the recent emergence of a student chapter of the United Way, is encouraging for those people who say that students are selfish and inconsiderate of others.

Obviously, if the move to bring the ONE group and the United Way on campus was pushed by students, there was a demand from students to help USC reach out to others.

Despite the few who represent us poorly, there are many Gamecocks who care for the greater good of the world and community.

After all, not all students live solely to shout expletives at Georgia or Auburn fans.

GUEST COLUMN

Auburn hospitality sets standards Gamecock fans can show team pride without being rude, disrespectful Welcome to Auburn.

Seriously. Welcome to Auburn.

Ever yone sa id it — wh i le g iv i ng directions, offering food, serving free drinks and speaking to all.

They shook hands. They thanked you for visiting.

And some even apologized just in case someone else was mean to you. It almost felt like there was a planned hospitality committee in this gorgeous, quaint town on the Plains. We all were in awe— the only rude fans we saw were wearing garnet and black.

Jordan-Hare Stadium was an incredible experience due to a raucous crowd, a fantastic gameday environment and a gorgeous eagle that swooped over the stadium and sat on the sideline. The crowd chanted the entire game, but there were no rude catcalls toward USC or untoward motions to the fans, at least from our vantage points.

This small town was the best of the best. Before the game, friends told us all the campus was like Clemson. Not true.

This place was pristine with class. It had character. And the people had character.

They even recycled.

Contrast that with nine days ago during the USC-Furman game. Our students screamed obscenities at a measly out-ofconference opponent. There were boos

when the other team took the field. We were rude to Furman. Yes — Furman.

A nd t h at ’s not e ven con sider i ng Georgia. We all saw horrible exchanges during that game, from our students cursing out older fans to belligerent drunks throwing up in the student section to security guards escorting our students out by the multitudes.

Sure, other schools are rude. LSU and Georgia are among the worst. But as some of us have noticed, we’re getting a reputation for being among the worst, too. Do we want that? Football is fierce and intense. But we believe our student body should desire to be above t he fray — above the substandard, juvenile conduct of others. What does that say about us? Are we holding to our ideals?

This is not to say we should care less.

Let’s care more. But let’s show some class, some respect and some South Carolina hospitality. Let’s not scream obscenities or racial slurs at the other team.

It’s sometimes said football is a lot like life. If so, we’re leaving a lot to be desired.

T ha n k you, Aubu r n. You set t he standard for what SEC football should be.

If we have to lose, we’ll lose there every time. From what we saw, you gave us the best of the South and the best college football has to offer. Let’s do the same for Alabama in two weeks.

Josh Dawsey, News Editor Ellen Meder, Managing Editor Kara Apel, Editor-in-Chief

Arts worth pursuing despite discouragement Foc us on sc iences, job sec u r it y not grounds for discarding creativity A tragedy of our century is that the arts, which were at one point in time revered as subjects of haute couture for well-educated member s of a h igh so c ia l st at u s , a re, oftentimes, grossly downplayed in today’s society. Amid scientific discoveries, growing technologies and new businesses, the arts have slowly been shunted more and more to the sidelines.

Many art enthusiasts, when expressing their desires to pursue their dance, music or visual art passions, are often met with, “Well, that’s nice, honey, but why don’t you do something that will get you a real job?” and are thus convinced to suppress their thriving right-side brains in order to lodge themselves uncomfortably into the world of practicality and job security.

The worst part is that the more the arts and art ists have been slowly pushed to obscure corners, the more out of sight and out of touch we have become to them. And

the less in touch we are with the arts, the more easily people are becoming convinced they are, indeed, useless things to invest time in and not to be taken seriously. That, of course, simply is not true.

I often hear people grumble u n happi ly about hav i ng to “waste” their hours on a fine arts credit, and it makes me sad that what has molded cultures and civilizations throughout the ages are now deemed by some as a waste of t ime. If Alice everyone had decided to follow Chang First-year the scientific movement from business student t he 14t h to 16t h cent uries, we wou ld n’t h ave h a l f t he number of paintings hanging in the Louvre as we do today. Granted, this was during the Renaissance, but it shouldn’t take a renaissance to appreciate art.

I’m not saying it’s the best idea — or the worst idea — to drop everything, become a vagabond artist and struggle heroically to live out your passions. But we also can’t

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“NA SC A R” or, more popular, the name of the brands “Aeropostale” or “ Tap out .” M ay b e I d o n’t u n d e r s t a n d because I shop out of the bargain bin at J.C. Penney, so forgive me if I’m wrong, but I don’t t h i n k bei ng bra nded with your favorite soda’s name makes the shirt any more comfortable, durable or cool. W hy does originality have to be bought now? Can’t you just have a shirt with prett y colors or even some half-baked, witty comment?

It seems that more and more people are looking for a name brand more than quality nowadays.

Tif fa ny & Co., for instance, is known for it s exqu isite jewel r y and, more importantly, that little blue box. A gold heart pendant and chain from Tiffany & Co. will set you back almost $2,000. You’re not paying for the chain and pendant, nor t he s up erb gold qu a l it y, nor excellent customer service or anything like that. Most of that $2,000 was spent on that little blue box . Just saying it was from Tiffany & Co. is supposed to make it worth the money.

So congrat ulations, companies everywhere.

You have managed to fool people into buying from you — not because of you r cheap pr ice, qualit y, free mints at the register or a warm smile — but instead for the status buyers think they will receive.

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let ourselves become suppressed artists or, even worse, total philistines for the sake of duty. Take China, for example — a country full of people very educated in the math and sciences but not so much in the arts because it’s simply not needed for the workforce, hence why China is now a country that is, generally speaking, stellar in production but sub-par in innovation.

Moreover, a r t a nd prac t ica l it y don’t necessarily have to be antonyms. There are applications for artists, from graphic desig ners to architects to dance st udio owners, and it may well be time for both the artists and their concerned parents to realize the vastness of the field of opportunities.

A nd t hose of you who scof f at art ists should keep in mind that they are involved in just about everything you do, from your favorite music to the clothes you wear. So take some time once in a while to paint a picture, watch a music performance or see a foreign fi lm and savor the idea that you’re helping to keep alive something we can’t do without.

“Calvin and Hobbes” expressed product placement best when Calvin declared, “I wish my shirt had a logo or a product on it. A good shirt turns the wearer into a walking corporate billboard!

It says to the world, ‘My ident it y is so w r app ed up i n wh at I buy t hat I paid t he company to advertise its products!’”

Like everything that hyperactive kid said, it’s true. I can’t seem to walk down t he s t r e e t without seeing someone Casey Long w i t h a First-year s h i r t computer br a nd i ng science student “Pepsi” or

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“I’m using my art to comment on what I see. You don’t have to agree with it.”

— John Mellencamp

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Local band The Mobros keeps it in the family with brothers Kelly and Patrick Morris comprising two-thirds of the group. Their sound draws on elements of blues, funk and Latin soul.

Mobros mix genres to great effect Three-piece band from Camden, SC, combines blues, funk and Latin soul for unique sound Chloe Gould

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The Mobros, a “three-man brother band” from Camden, S.C., have brought their never-before-heard mix of blues, funk and Latin soul to the Columbia stage after headlining at the White Mule Thursday.

The band, who truly impresses with their original beats and new spin on classics, has recently made a semimove to the city. Vocalist Kelly Morris, a first-year music performance student, started classes this semester and bassist Patrick Boos is a Columbia native. Drummer and backing vocalist Patrick Morris, Kelly’s younger brother, is a junior at Cardinal Newman High School in Columbia.

With the trio’s uniting factor lying in their Island roots — all three are half-Trinidadian — they offer a sound unlike any other that manages to bring together the most polarizing rhythms and beats to make something great. Their originals stay relevant and true to their lives, centering on romance and falling in love, but master a distinct signature sound and style way beyond their years.

“We are a soul music-type band with Latin roots. We incorporate different styles of music because we grew up listening to many different genres,” Kelly Morris said.

The Mobros dazzled a small audience of all ages Thursday at the White Mule, giving shout-outs to Kelly’s hall mates

from his dormitory and winning over new fans with a variety of musical tastes with a set that offered both high-energy electric guitar-backed tunes as well as more chilled-out acoustic guitar jams.

With musical influences like Ray Charles, Otis Redding and the Black Keys, listeners will not be disappointed by the band and their striking similarity to each of their varied inspiring artists, fulfilling what one can only imagine is a captivating mix of the aforementioned greats in their early years.

“I’m not into a lot of new artists, but I can definitely dig John Legend and the Roots,” Kelly Morris said.

When Kelly Morris took the stage Thursday, new fans could not begin to anticipate the sheer power and soul behind his 19-year-old voice. Jaws noticeably dropped, with friends and family still taken aback by the wave of musical energy. Although the Mobros have played their fair share of shows in Columbia over the past two years, including a few on the White Mule stage, whole new groups of followers are just discovering their genius.

“I always enjoy playing for my peers and whoever else,” Kelly Morris said. “One of the reasons why I like singing and playing my own music for people is a lot times I feel as if nobody is listening when I speak, but when I sing I feel like everybody wants to listen and everybody understands.”

Their song “Mississippi Woman,” a favorite from the night that is pending a name change to “Red Hot Woman,” really showcases the range of Kelly Morris’s voice, with lyrics, “I want a red hot, fresh from the oven, my favorite

recipe,” adding a little spice to the track.

“I do write my own music, lyrics and all. I think most of the inspiration comes from black coffee,” Kelly Morris said.

The Mobros, who originally started out as a two-man deal with brothers Kelly and Patrick, have become somewhat of a community act with the addition of Boos and keyboardist Rico Tyler coming out to play for Thursday’s show.

“All of us have played together one way or another over the course of a year,” Kelly Morris said. “My brother and I usually head over to Hard Knox Grill down Blossom to jam with Rico Tyler every Wednesday night.”

Patrick Morris, who absolutely stuns with his drumming skills, is also bringing in a bit of the Columbia community: He’s taken lessons from Columbia f unk rock band Villanova’s drummer Jeremy “Finesse” Robertson.

The Mobros’ talent is undeniable and completely unique to the typical college music scene. Although it can be a struggle to balance school and their hopefully rising music career, the Morris brothers and Boos have hit the right track.

They will be performing at the Blues Festival in Camden on Oct. 9, Uncle Tito’s in Murrell’s Inlet on Oct. 22 and Lucky’s in Five Points on Oct. 28. Listen to their music and stay updated at www.myspace.com/themobros.

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NBC’s ‘The Event’ propels into mystery ‘Lost’ comparisons aside, eventful pilot shows hope for complex thriller Jimmy Gilmore THE MIX EDITOR

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Creator: Nick Wauters Starring: Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood, Laura Innes Air Time: Mondays at 9 p.m.

Network television has all but abandoned creating the kind of shows that demand rather than politely ask viewers return week after week.

With Hulu freeing television spectators of time slots and grids, it seems logical that networks would be willing to risk more on shows that viewers can enjoy as their schedules allow as opposed to when the time slot dictates. Even after the massive cult following “Lost” elicited for ABC and “24” produced for Fox, these networks still show hesitation to break away from formulaic comedies and dramas.

From the outset of its pilot episode, NBC’s “The Event” feels like the long-lost cousin of “Lost.” Maybe it’s the multiple characters, the heavy use of flashbacks, the central use of a plane or the fact that something inexplicably weird happens in the last two minutes, but there’s no question that this is NBC’s gambit to fi ll the hole the series finale of “Lost” has produced in the network lineup. And win that audience demographic in the process.

But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

“The Event” offers plenty of intrigue, confusion and character development to pique any mystery junkie’s interest. It is, in a word, eventful.

Jason Ritter (son of television icon John Ritter) stars as Sean Walker, who enters “The Event” sweating bullets and pulling a pistol on an airplane. Almost immediately, the sequence cuts abruptly back in time to Jason and his girlfriend Leila (Sarah Roemer) readying themselves for an island cruise. Intense shifts in tone? Check.

For the length of its hour-long premiere, the program plops down several subtle — and several not-so-subtle — hints at plot elements still to come. The show has eight episodes to prove itself before NBC makes the decision whether to axe it or pick it up for a full season, but it’s clear creator Nick Wauters has a much broader mythology in mind that could span several seasons easily.

While the pilot’s chief concern is why Sean Walker is on a plane with a gun, it still makes plenty of room to intersperse several cryptic political conversations between President Elias Martinez (a stoic Blair Underwood) and Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes), who’s about to go public with some kind of shady information about some kind of secret facility somewhere in the Arctic. Or something like that.

While “The Event” leaves plenty of space to ponder about its potential implications and what direction it may or may not take, creator Nick Wauters needs to be aware of the dangerous waters he’s treading.

The creators of “Lost” have been chastised and praised by their fans for a fi nale that answered far too few questions for comfort, leaving vast holes in the program’s endless pool of theories.

Leading viewers on for too long will only serve to shut them out. If Wauters is making a plea for the next big sci-fi mystery epic, as the pilot’s conclusion

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Jason Ritter (left) and Sarah Roemer star in the pilot episode of NBC’s “The Event.” makes somewhat obvious, he needs to figure out an appropriate way to give and take with his viewers, to make them trust that he’ll unveil key components in a timely manner.

Regardless, “The Event” has been set up as one of the season’s major breakout contenders and could help give NBC an edge in drama it’s sorely lacked. Its editing and momentum is handled sensibly, and the writing and directing feel smart without trying to be too audacious. Additionally, the acting is solid all around, with Ritter gradually showing shades of intensit y throughout the episode.

It’s a television show that’s testing its waters without being too afraid to stick a few limbs in outright. While comparisons to “Lost” will undoubtedly remain until the series finds its own voice, and while the pilot of “The Event” may have lacked the same kind of certifiable uniqueness that immediately catapulted “Lost” into the popular culture conversation, it has the legs to grow and expand into its own complex, brain-rattling phenomenon.

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CBS resurrects ‘Five-0’ for younger generation Successful remake of classic show blends intriguing characters, settings Hunter Banks

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“Book ’em, Da n no.” Th is icon ic quote has returned to grace television screens across America with CBS’s reimagining of the classic show “Hawaii Five-O.” CBS has done a fantastic job with “Hawaii Five-0” (note the zero versus the “oh”) unlike NBC’s recent re-imagination of another classic series, “Knight Rider.”

What doomed “Knight Rider” was its continuation of the storyline from its 1982 forefather. This created a 22-year gap between 1986, when the original series ended, and the beginning of the new series in 2008.

Twent y-t wo years of no plot and A mer ic a i s e x p e c t e d t o j u s t pic k it up after such a long gap? No. We as A mericans wanted to k now what happened bet ween t he t wo ser ies.

“K night R ider” f illed us in up to a point, but the damage was done before the show even started.

This is where “Hawaii Five- 0” is different. This is why “Five-0” will succeed. It does not pick on the same storyline after a long gap. “Five-0” is the same story with the same characters, just set in the 21st century. This means the audience will not have to guess what happened between the two series.

Though there are differences between t he new and t he old, t he producers of “Five-0” tried to retain some key components of their predecessor. One such component is Alex O’Loughlin’s St e ve Mc G a r re t t d i s c over i n g h i s father’s 1974 Mercury Marquis. Jack Lord’s original McGarrett drove an identical model during “Five-O.” The producers intend for O’Loughlin’s McGarrett to restore the ’74 Marquis throughout the series.

The main characters remain mostly the same. Detective Steve McGarrett,

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Sctt Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Alex O’Loughlin and Grace Park star in “Hawaii Five-0.”

Detective Danny “Danno” Williams (Scott Caan) and Detective Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae K im) are all the same. The exception is Detective Kona “Kono” Kalakaua, played by a female (Grace Park) instead of a male.

The reason “Five-0” will succeed is not that it is a remake of a classic, but rather that it is a well-developed and well-written show. Even if the original had not been produced, this show would be still be a success. “Five-0” has the three keys to any successful narrative: a who, a what and a where, and they work incredibly well together. 7 T he who is t he most i mpor t a nt part in a television series. Thankfully, the protagonists here are interesting and effective. McGarrett’s father is murdered in the opening sequence, while Williams is a divorcee who moved to Hawaii to be close to his daughter.

Aside from simply being cookie-cutter good g uy s, t hey ca r r y compel l i ng internal confl icts.

Bot h men ex perience dif f icult ies dealing with their situations. McGarrett takes a job with the task force to hunt down the man who killed his father and his associates, while Williams has trouble dealing with his shortcomings compared to his daughter’s stepfather.

And of course, Hawaii itself gives the show an immediate sense of place while adding complexity to the main plots in the episodes. As Chin Ho says in the pilot, “The bad guys know all the good guys” on an island as small as Hawaii.

Th is combi nat ion creates a n interesting, enjoyable program that has more t han enough behind it to make “Hawaii Five-0” a real potential success.

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Jeffery shines in loss to Auburn Wide receiver nears 200 yards, adds two touchdowns against Tigers James Kratch

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AUBURN, Ala. — Alshon Jeffery had a perfect night against Auburn on Saturday.

Well, almost perfect.

Towering over the Tiger defensive backs, Jeffery torched Auburn for 192 yards and two touchdowns on eight receptions. But the one reception he didn’t make was one that ended up looming large.

“I just got to make that play,” Jeffery said.

“Next time I got to make that play.”

With under a minute left to play, USC quarterback Connor Shaw threw a jump ball fade pass to Jeffery in the end zone.

Jeffery leaped and was hit in midair. The Calhoun County product got his hands on the ball but couldn’t hold on. AU defensive back Demond Washington picked it off on the deflection, sealing the Tigers’ 35-27 win.

It was a sour end to what was a career night for Jeffery. The sophomore entered the game already having a very good season, with an SEC-leading 19 catches and two 100-yard receiving games, but he had yet to reach the end zone. That changed on Saturday.

NOTEBOOK ● Continued from 10 to win it,” Garcia said. “We still got to move forward, get ready for A labama in two weeks. We’re just going to take it one game at a time.”

At t he same t ime, Garcia said the loss has to be taken in perspective for what it is.

“A loss is a loss, and t h at ’s a l l t h at r e a l l y mat ters,” G arcia sa id. “ We’re 3-1. We had a chance to be 4-0.”

Gamecocks slide dow n polls: Wit h t he loss, USC d ropped i n both major national polls.

The Gamecocks dropped seven spots in both the AP Writers’ and Coaches’ polls, to No. 19 and No. 22, respectively.

First to 30 w i ns: Once Auburn scored its la st touc hdow n, USC had lost the game for all i ntent s a nd pu r pose s.

Why? Because the Tigers are almost perfect when

“He had a great game,” coach Steve Spurrier said. “Alshon’s a big-time receiver.”

Jeffery’s first scoring grab came in the first quarter, a 30-yard reception from Stephen Garcia that allowed the Gamecocks to immediately respond to Auburn’s quick 7-0 lead on quarterback Cam Newton’s 54-yard scoring run. The second, also from Garcia, came just over midway through the second quarter from six yards out, giving USC a 20-7 lead.

“He played phenomenally. He caught prett y much anything that came that was thrown at him,” Garcia said. “But he normally does, so we expect that from him now.”

Jeffery’s biggest play of the night came right after Auburn reclaimed a 21-20 lead in the third quarter, when Garcia hit the sophomore streaking downfield for a 69yard gain to the Auburn 6-yard line, as no AU defenders showed any capability of handling him.

“That’s how I feel all the time,” Jeffery said when asked if he felt unstoppable on the night. “We’ve just got to make plays.”

The one play USC didn’t make — and Jeffery didn’t make — ended up standing out, though.

“You find No. 1, and you think he’s going to come down with it,” Shaw said. “It just doesn’t always happen like that.”

scoring 30 or more points in history. Heading into Saturday, AU had won its last 57 games in which it had scored 30-plus points and held a 227-4 all-time record in such contests.

NFL scouts and bowls: Repre s ent at i ve s f rom the Buffalo Bills, Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers, St. Lou is R ams a nd Houston Texans were in attendance at Saturday’s game, as well as reps from the Capital One and Gator Bowls.

Injur y repor t: USC safety DeVonte Holloman s u f fered a conc u s sion and did not return. If the Gamecocks played this Saturday, he’d likely be out. But with two weeks to go before Carolina’s next game, Holloman could return.

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KRATCH ● Continued from 10 “I expect it,” Garcia sa id. “I’ve ex pected it since he came in the s pr i n g. T h at ’s w h at ’s going to happen.”

It’s hard not to agree with Garcia. Of course this was to be expected.

Spurrier has never been able to resist the allure of a competent second q u a r t e r b ac k s t a nd i n g on his sideline when the starter begins to falter.

Garcia began to falter, a nd Spu r r ier ya n ked him. It was inev itable.

The circumstances just w e r e n ’t a n t i c i p a t e d .

But, it happened like it happened. “ We’ l l g e t C o n n o r more look s i n t here,” Spurrier said. “He threw some good balls tonight.

We’ll see how it goes.”

More looks, yes.

But no t a f u l l- b low n competition. We will see how it goes, but if you

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Wide receiver Alshon Jeffery hauls in a 69-yard reception in Saturday’s loss to Auburn.

“I just ran my route and saw the ball,” Jeffery said. “I tried to make a play.”

The loss hit Jeffery and his teammates hard.

“It’s all for naught,” Jeffery said of his performance. “I don’t gain nothing out of it because we lost.”

Despite the disappointment, Jeffery said he and the rest of the Gamecocks remain undaunted in their quest to achieve their

expect to see Shaw trot out in two weeks for the f irst play of t he ga me ag a i nst t he defend i ng nat iona l cha mpions, don’t count on it. Garcia st ill is t he starter and USC ’s b e s t opt ion at quarterback.

Need proof ? Look at what would’ve been the subject of this column but got k nocked dow n 637 words by t wo f umbles: 14 -of-20 for 230 yards and three touchdowns.

That’s what Garcia did in his fi rst three quarters of play.

No more needs to be said.

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goal — a chance to play for the SEC title.

“It’s going to be real tough [dealing with the loss], but we look forward to still finishing our goal, like coach Spurrier said.

We’re still going to finish our goal and go to Atlanta,” Jeffery said. “If we play them again, it’s going to be another fight.”

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STANDINGS East 1. Florida 2-0 (4-0) 2. USC 1-1 (3-1) 2. Vanderbilt 1-1 (1-2) 4. Kentucky 0-1 (3-1) 4. Tennessee 0-1 (2-2) 6. Georgia 0-3 (1-3)

West 1. Auburn 2-0 (4-0) 1. LSU 2-0 (4-0) 3. Alabama 1-0 (4-0) 4. Arkansas 1-1 (3-1) 5. Mississippi State 1-2 (2-2) 6. Ole Miss 0-1 (2-2)

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From left to right: Patrick DiMarco, Alshon Jeffery, Stephen Garcia and Marcus Lattimore look to the sideline for the play Saturday against Auburn.

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fourth quarter proved to be the nail in the coffin for the Gamecocks, as Carolina’s defense was unable to stop the Tigers’ vaunted ground attack.

Newton rushed for 176 yards a nd t h ree touc hdow n s wh i le freshman tailback Michael Dyer added another 100. In all, the Tigers rushed for 334 yards on 57 carries.

“We weren’t stopping them, so they kept running,” defensive end Cliff Matthews said. “They played better than we did today. They executed a lot of stuff. We blew a few assignments, and we weren’t where we were supposed to be.”

It was a stark contrast from South Carolina’s first three games, whose defense was giving up less than 60 yards per game on the ground.

“They basically out-executed us,” said linebacker Shaq Wilson, who tallied two fumble recoveries. “It was just simple staff. We should have stayed with our keys and made plays. They made plays in big-time situations. We had to tackle well and stay in the right position and tackle well.”

It was a tough pill to swallow for Spurrier and USC, who lost for just the third time in 37 tries after entering the fourth quarter with the lead.

“It was there to be won,” Spurrier said, “but we weren’t good enough to do it tonight.”

make them,” Spurrier said. “Can’t play giveaway. That was about the size of it.”

Shaw’s second interception came in Auburn’s end zone as the ball bounced off the hands of receiver Alshon Jeffery and into the mitts of Demond Washington with less than a minute remaining.

“You find No. 1, and you think he’s going to come down with it,” Shaw said. “It just doesn’t always happen like that.”

Added Spurrier: “That last one, Alshon actually got his hands on it.

They sort of bumped him off there, but we had to hang one up in the end zone for him. Maybe could’ve thrown it a little sooner, the safety got over and helped out.”

It was a disappointing fi nish for USC, who had slung the ball around Jordan-Hare Stadium with ease through the first three quarters.

Garcia finished Saturday night with 235 yards — a season high — on 15-21 passing with three touchdow ns . T he ya rds ca me largely from Jeffery, who finished with a whopping 192 yards and two touchdowns, including the go-ahead score in the third quarter to put the Gamecocks up by six.

“Alshon had a heck of a game,” Spurrier said. “It was there to be won, but we weren’t good enough to do it tonight.”

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South Carolina sophomore wide receiver Alshon Jeffery heads to the huddle during the first quarter of Saturday’s 35-27 loss to Auburn.

AUBURN, Ala. — Shaq Wilson is back, and he made his presence known right off the bat.

The junior linebacker returned from a hamstring injur y and saw his f irst playing time of the 2010 sea son, st a r t i ng at t he we a k s ide p o s it io n a nd recording seven tackles and two fumble recoveries.

“It felt great. It was fun to be out there and just making plays and just going out there and having fun with friends and stuff,” Wilson said. “But it’s a sour feeling when you lose.”

Wilson credited the type of hust le assistant head coach for defense El l is Joh nson st resses as t he reason for the two Auburn turnovers he recovered.

“Just being around the ball, hustling, going full speed like coach Johnson says to,” Wilson said. “Good things happen when you go full speed.”

Despite Wilson’s solid outing, Johnson said he feels Wilson is not quite back to 100 percent yet.

“He is not in football condition. I think he played very average. I’ll have to look at the film and see.

When he got there, he made some good plays. But there were a couple of times I saw where he couldn’t really close and make a play,” Johnson said. “Obviously, with the inactivity he’s had, he’s not in top shape. He needs to drop a few pounds and get into top condition.”

Exam in ing t he loss: USC’s loss was a setback in its quest to win the first SEC East title in school history.

But quarterback Stephen Garcia said the team will not lose its current week-byweek mentality.

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Kratch: No quarterback controversy for Spurrier, Gamecocks Despite fourth quarter benching, Garcia still Carolina’s best option AUBURN, Ala. — South Carolina leaves here with its fi rst loss of the season. It doesn’t leave here with a quarterback competition.

Stephen Garcia did put t he ball t wice on t he Jordan-Hare Stadium turf at extremely inopportune times for the Gamecocks. Connor Shaw did replace Garcia for the final two drives — a decision coach Steve Spurrier said was due to the fact Garcia had been shaken up, but also due to the fact he had coughed the ball up.

Cont rar y to popular opinion, though, those two p a r t ic u l a r s do not e q u a l a quarterback controversy.

G arcia had a n ight mar ish fourth quarter, getting his bell r u ng a nd com m it t i ng t wo turnovers. So rough of a go, in fact, it compelled Spurrier to call on a true freshman to take his fi rst SEC snap in a one-possession game.

But it doesn’t mean Shaw is now the starter or he’s now in some high-stakes practice

battle to become the starter. His appearance was nothing more than a call to the bullpen after the ace got roughed up.

“We had some good plays here and there. I thought we had a good play on the quarterback draw that Stephen fumbled. The line sort of let a guy go, and then he bounced in there and then, I don’t know,” Spurrier said. “The last play he fumbled, he just wouldn’t throw it. Got him out of the pocket and just wouldn’t throw it.”

The fi rst fumble got Shaw warming up as a precaution because of the big hit Garcia took.

“They told me to warm up,” Shaw said.

“It was nothing more than that. I James was ready, and I prepared myself.”

Kratch Third-year The USC medical staff cleared Garcia English student to go back out, though, where he was subsequent ly sacked a nd forced to fumble after falling into his hesitant ways again.

“The 3rd-and-8 play — he just wouldn’t throw it.

He didn’t throw it,” Spurrier said. “That’s all I can say.”

And all Spurrier felt he could do was turn to the kid next to him, right arm ready to roll, to see if he would throw it, which he did. Shaw threw two interceptions to end both drives he led, but he otherwise showed remarkable poise and maturity for a kid mere months removed from high school — so much so, Spurrier said he will give the kid a look over this extended

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Stephen Garcia fumbles in Saturday’s game against Auburn. two-week break before No. 1 Alabama comes to town.

“Connor’s going to get a look,” Spurrier said.

“Connor’s got to get a look. He played pretty well.”

That being said, t here’s a difference bet ween getting a look and getting an open competition; something many seem to fail to comprehend. Shaw is going to get a look, but then again, he’s been getting a look ever since he showed up on campus in Columbia.

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