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USC officials granted forgiveness to more than 1,200 students who missed Thursday’s season opener without canceling their tickets, reversing earlier statements that promised to revoke student tickets for any student who missed one game without canceling their tickets online.

“Students received a ‘freebie’ for the Southern Mississippi game — no students are ineligible due to no-shows at that game,” said director of Student Services Anna Edwards. “The no-show policy will automatically go into effect after the UGA game.”

The reversal came the same day data for Georgia tickets were released. A record-breaking 13,170 students — almost 2,000 more than ever before — requested tickets for Saturday’s nationally-televised matchup. Only 9,400 tickets were allotted, which means almost 4,000

students who requested tickets were turned away.

The 1,212 students who missed the game were allowed to request tickets for the Georgia game after all, said student ticketing coordinator Patrick Donovan. In an interview Monday, Jeremy L ong, t he St udent G over n ment Secretary of Athletics, said those students wouldn’t be afforded that privilege unless they were granted an appeal from the Student Ticketing Office.

But miss Saturday’s game against Georgia without canceling your ticket, and you’re out of luck, Donovan said. The stricter policy, which says privileges are revoked after missing one game without cancellation, will be in place for good Saturday, Donovan said.

1,212 NUMBER OF SKIPPERS THURSDAY 13,170 TICKETS REQUESTED FOR UGA GAME 8,188 TICKETS SCANNED DURING THURSDAY’S SEASON OPENER

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Committee updates core requirements for 2012 For first time in 20 years, University’s general education curriculum likely to change Cassie Stanton

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Text messaging causes trouble for pedestrian safety

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alking across Pendleton Street is pretty harmless. A couple of cars, a ton of other pedestrians and maybe even a bicycle.

Well what happens when you throw a cell phone in to the mix?

Sending a text message and crossing a busy intersection at the same time is a new distraction to add to the list of things confl icting with pedestrian safety.

“Text messaging while crossing the street is dangerous,” said police Captain Eric Grabski of the University of South Carolina Division of Law Enforcement and Safety. “We’ve received many phone calls throughout the semester from administration concerned for their students’ safety.”

Students concentrate so much on a single text that often times they forget about what they are doing. Second-year business student LeAnna Smith can testify to how dangerous this can truly be.

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At the end of your college career you will have completed the requirements for general education, or the core of knowledge, skill and academic experience required for all Carolina graduates, according to the University.

However, starting in 2012, general education will have a new name and new criteria.

This “core” of knowledge and mandatory degree requirements are in the process of being assessed and redefined as the Carolina Core.

“General education is very important but at the moment doesn’t have an identit y,” said Michael Matthews, faculty co-chair of the Carolina Core Curriculum Committee.“We hope that all students and facult y and advisers will come to a better understanding and appreciation for the Carolina Core.”

University officials said the general education requirements for the University of South Carolina have not been revised in over 20 years.

“We’d like all our neighbors to be able to think well in all areas even if it’s not their major,” Matthews said.

The specific courses a student will need to take in order to fulfill the Carolina Core have not yet been determined. However, the revised requirements include seven core components or areas of study for a liberal arts education. There are also nine learning outcomes a student is expected to achieve within these core components.

“We’re trying to focus not just on courses a student takes but the skills and knowledge [the student] takes out,” Matthews said.

A specific difference between the proposed Carolina Core requirements and current general education standards is a stronger focus on communication. One of the core areas, called “Effective, Engaged and Persuasive Communication,” emphasizes a student’s ability to communicate clearly.

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‘Skitzophrenia’ up for national award SGTV to learn in October whether program is best comedy show in nation Josh Dawsey NEWS EDITOR

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Think it’d be funny to watch a satirical parody of a fraternity’s beach weekend?

What about a 30-second skit named “Demarcus and Chang” that satirically engages the audience?

Thousands have watched both, and for the second year in a row, “Skitzophrenia,” the cult hit show on SGTV, has been nominated for best college comedy show by College Broadcasters Incorporated. The top shows were announced Friday and a winner will be announced in late October.

“Hopefully we won’t get too spooked,” said fourth-year business student Fabio Frey of the show.

The show is influenced by Dave Chappelle and other comedians, said fourth-year media arts student Joey Thompson. According to Thompson, there’s always a desire to find fresh, new ideas for “Skitzophrenia.”

“Our production value and our writing is superior to the average college comedy you’re going to get,” Thompson said. “We have a big writing staff and a lot of good people.”

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CHARLESTON — With Labor Day past, the race for South Carolina governor heated up quickly Tuesday as the campaigns of Republican Nik k i Haley and Democrat Vincent Sheheen traded jabs on immigration and deepening the Charleston port.

Haley, a state representative, unveiled her first TV ad of the general election while Sheheen, a state senator, lined up the endorsement of a statewide teachers’ group.

Sheheen, f lanked by former state Commerce Secretary Bob Royall and other business leaders, held a news conference on a Charleston pier asking where Haley stands on getting federal money to dredge Charleston Harbor.

Later, the Haley campaign released a statement asking if Sheheen stands behind Republican state Attorney General Henry McMaster’s fi ling a court brief last week supporting A rizona’s strict new immigration law.

The candidates are vying to replace Republican Gov. Mark Sanford who cannot seek re-election because of term limits.

In Charleston, Sheheen said other East Coast ports like Savannah, Norfolk and New York already have federal budget earmarks for port deepening projects and Charleston is in danger of falling further behind competitively.

The ports mean an estimated $45 billion to the state economy.

“It is important for the next governor to take a stand on this issue,” Sheheen said, adding he asked Haley several weeks ago about her position and has heard nothing.

He said he supports t he state cong ressional delegat ion’s work to get money for t he harbor deepening and added, “I wish my opponent on the governor’s campaign was joining me.”

“Ensuring the long term strength of our port system will be one of Nikki’s top priorities,” responded campaign spokesman Rob Godfrey. “Our focus is on getting funding for the port, not on which bureaucratic pot of money it comes from.”

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The government turned up the pressure Tuesday on the head of a small Florida church who plans to burn copies of the Quran on Sept.

11, warning him that doing so could endanger U.S. troops and Americans everywhere.

But the Rev. Terry Jones insisted he would go ahead with his plans, despite criticism from the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, the White House and the State Department, as well as a host of religious leaders.

Jones, who is known for posting signs proclaiming that Islam is the devil’s religion, says the U.S. Constitution gives him the right to publicly set fire to the book that Muslims consider the word of God. Gen. David Petraeus warned Tuesday in an e-mail to The Associated Press that “images of the burning of a Quran would undoubtedly be used by extremists in Afghanistan — and around the world — to inflame public opinion and incite violence.” It was a rare example of a military commander taking a position on a domestic political matter.

Jones responded that he is also concerned but is “wondering, ‘When do we stop?’” He refused to cancel the protest set for Saturday at his Dove World Outreach Center, a church that espouses an anti-Islam philosophy.

“How much do we back down? How many times do we back down?” Jones told the AP. “Instead of us backing down, maybe it’s to time to stand up. Maybe it’s time to send a message to radical Islam that we will not tolerate their behavior.”

Still, Jones said he will pray about his decision.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the administration hoped Americans would stand up and condemn the church’s plan.

“We think that these are provocative acts,” Crowley said. “We would like to see more Americans stand up and say that this is inconsistent with our American values; in fact, these actions themselves are un-American.”

Meeting Tuesday with religious leaders to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and mosques around the U.S., Attorney General Eric Holder called the planned burning both idiotic and dangerous, according to a Justice Department official. The official requested anonymity because the meeting was private.

U N ITED NATIONS — The United Nat ions reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.

U.N. Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Atul Khare told the U.N. Security Council at least 267 more rapes occurred in another area of the country’s east, in addition to 242 rapes earlier reported in and around Luvungi, a village of about 2,200 people located about 20 miles (30 kilometers) from a U.N. peacekeepers’ camp.

“While the primary responsibility for protection of civilians lies with the state, its national army and police force,” said Khare, “clearly, we have also failed.

Our actions were not adequate, resulting in acceptable brutalization of the population of the villages in the area.

We must do better.”

The area peacekeeping force, called MONUSCO, on Sept. 1 launched an operation using 750 troops to back efforts by Congolese security forces to arrest the perpetrators of the attacks, said Khare. At least 27 rebels armed with automatic rifles have surrendered and at least four more have been arrested, he said.

Meanwhile, Khare said, peacekeepers will undertake more night patrols, and perform more random checks on communities. The U.N. is also looking into ways of providing peacekeepers with mobile phones by installing a high frequency radio in Luvungi, he said.

Rape as a weapon of war has become shockingly commonplace in eastern Congo, where the government army and U.N. peacekeepers have failed to defeat the few thousands rebels responsible for a protracted conflict fueled by vast mineral reserves. Luvungi is a farming center on the main road between Goma, the eastern provincial capital, and the major mining town of Walikale.

Khare told reporters after the council session that around 15,000 rapes are reported in Congo each year.

Ambassador Susan Rice, the U.S. representative to the United Nations, called Tuesday’s briefi ng “very frank, comprehensive and illuminating” and said she looked forward to more sessions examining ways to prevent future mass rapes in Congo.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in recent days sent Khare to Congo to investigate why U.N. peacekeepers didn’t learn about at least 242 mass rapes in the Luvungi area from July 30 to Aug. 4 until Aug. 12, when it was informed by the International Medical Corps which was treating many of the victims.

The additional sexual attacks, in an area called Uvira and other regions of North and South Kivu, came to light during Khare’s trip. He told council members he learned of 74 cases of sexual violence, including against 21 minors — all girls between the ages of 7 and 15 — and six men, in a village called Miki, in South Kivu. All the women in another village, Kiluma, may have been systematically raped, he said.

The Daily Gamecock ● WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2010 TEXTING ● Continued from 1 “I almost got hit by a truck last year c ro s si ng t he st reet by the business building. I was just so involved in a text conversation that I wasn’t paying attention to anything else. A car was making a right hand turn and literally almost hit me. It was a defi nite wake up call.”

Although most students admit to doing it, seeing someone typing away on h is or her i Phone a nd dart ing t hrough traff ic can be really frustrating.

“I feel like people that tex t message and cross intersections at the same t i me don’t c a re ab out their own safety,” thirdyea r h istor y st udent Jason Williamson said, “Especially after the new law that the government i s t r y i n g t o p a s s t h at deals with texting while driving. You would think people wouldn’t text in such a risky way.”

According to the Highway Safety Association’s website, 30 st ates a nd t he Dist r ict of Colu mbia c u r rent ly e n f o r c e a l aw a g a i n s t t e x t i n g a nd d r i v i n g.

A lt hough it made it t hrough legislat ion t o t he U. S . Ho u s e of Representatives last year, this law has not yet been passed in South Carolina.

Since texting is growing more popular than calling, it is no wonder that this has become such a problem.

“The f irst t hing I do when I wake up i n t he morning is check my text messages,” Smith said. “I would say text messaging is pret t y i mpor t a nt to most students on campus, too.”

Text messaging isn’t the only distraction students face, however. Reading or studying for an upcoming test, other phone calls and even t he complicat ions of just bei ng a col lege student can cause one to

forget to pay attention to his or her surroundings.

The Law Enforcement a nd Sa fet y O f f ic e h a s many ideas on how pedestrians can become safer wh ile crossing t he s t r e e t . W he ne v e r c rossi ng, a lway s pay at tent ion to t he t raf f ic flow and the light.

“Light s cha nge so q u i c k l y. Yo u h a v e t o remain alert to make sure they don’t unexpectedly s w itch wh i le you a re c r o s s i n g t h e s t r e e t ,” Grabski said.

Blind spots are a huge issue, too. Be caut ious when dart ing across traffic near large bushes or buildings and think about how the driver might not necessarily be able to see you before you cross.

I mprovement s have been made t his year to crosswalks to make them safer for pedest ria ns.

Main Street by the new band hall and the area in f ront of Capstone bot h have crosswalks with clear signage in the road. These signs say it is against the law to drive through while students are crossing.

Captain Grabsk i st ill u rges st udent s to t a ke responsibilit y for t heir own safety.

“Just because a driver is supposed to stop does not mean he or she will follow this rule.”

Being alert while crossing t he st reet not only prevents car accidents but also prevents ot her t ypes of campus crimes as well.

“There is less o p p o r t u n it y f o r t he f t a nd pu rse snatch i ng when you pay attention while crossing the road,” Grabski said.

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“If you attended t he Sout hern M iss game and you miss t he Georgia game, y o u’r e o u t o f t h e s y s t e m ,” D o n o v a n s a i d .

USC Associate Vice President for Student Life Jerry Brewer said a game is always needed to iron out wrinkles and acclimate students to new policies.

Brewer also said students without tickets — but with Carolina Cards — were allowed in the gates after officials realized the section wasn’t near capacity.

Some were upset when told t hose st udent s wouldn’t receive the promised punishment. Ken Anderson, a fifth-year business student, said he hasn’t missed a home game in the student section during his years at USC. He didn’t get a ticket this week.

“It would just be irritating to pay $55 as a student when those 1,200 who skipped could get a ticket,” he said.

“Whatever we learn to do we should be able to communicate about it,” Matthews said.

A second major change is the focus on the fifth core area “Information Literacy.” The goal for the student in this area is to gather and analyze information using technology.

“Information Literacy is more than just being able to Google something,” Matthews said.

The Carolina Core will be a new approach to General Education for the University. The new criteria will hopefully facilitate students in completing their education.

“General Education will no longer be a list of courses to check off and take,” Matthews said. “But General Education, or a core of education, is a goal we are all going to achieve.”

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GROUND ZERO OPENING SET FOR 2011

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Ground zero is pictured looking south from the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 7. The building on the right is One World Trade Center, still under construction. A memorial to open by the 10th anniversary of 2001 attacks.

NEW YORK — Officials hoisted a 70-foot piece of World Trade Center steel at ground zero Tuesday and vowed to open the Sept. 11 memorial by next year, although they acknowledged that the ongoing construction at the site would limit where and how the public could visit.

The memorial, with reflecting, waterfall-filled pools set above the footprints of the fallen towers, its wall of victims’ names, its trees and green spaces, is expected to open by the 10th anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

Officials have said it would be open to the general public after that.

But the public will only be able to enter the memorial from the western edge of ground zero, while fenced boundaries that surround the site on three other sides of the 8-acre plaza will still be there, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday.

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USC unfairly forgives 1,200 ticket wasters Our bad, Daily Gamecock readers. We told you yesterday t hat t he 1,200 st udents who sk ipped Thursday’s game without cancelling their tickets while 1,800 ticketless students had to watch from home would be punished. We, echoing what the University told us, told you that they would be barred from games the rest of the season. We were wrong.

USC decided to forgive all 1,200 and declared the first game a trial run. But next time, oh boy, next time they say they’re serious.

“USC, remember USC , remember what happened to the boy who what happened to cried wolf? He got eaten.

Thursday wasn’t a trial run.

If it really was, USC the boy who cried would’ve have declared wolf? He got eaten.” t h e p o l i c y a f a i l u r e b ec au se ju st a s m a ny students failed to use their tickets as last season. But the policy is still in place, and now it is supposed to take effect after Saturday’s game against Georgia. It’s more likely that USC relented after daddies with deep pockets complained.

Now, 4,000 students have been denied tickets to the Georgia game. A record was set for ticket requests and also for ticket rejections. If the 1,200 were barred as USC had promised, the number of students without tickets would be lower.

This backtracking on the part of USC is infuriating.

How are we to believe any of its future threats? The University should’ve stuck to its guns, because now its guns look like pea shooters.

A lt h o u g h Te r r y Jo n e s a n d h i s congregat ion have a const it ut ional right to burn the Quran on 9/11, their actions will cause more harm than good.

I support anyone who shows that they’re not afraid of radical Islam, even if they do something drastic such as draw the Prophet Muhammad (as the Pastafarians did) or burn Islam’s holy text. But a Christian congregation burning Qurans on 9/11 sends the message that America’s War on Terror is a holy war between Christianity and Islam. That is simply false, and though they have the right to do this, they ought not to.

Ryan Quinn Third-year print journalism student This is absolutely atrocious. While the First Amendment gives them the right to peacefully burn these books, I hope the congregation realizes it is simply lowering itself to the same level as the radical Islamist terrorists it claims to be fighting. This is the same kind of hate that radicals have been showing toward Ch r ist ia n it y a nd A mer ica, and by having this event, Terry Jones shows he is no better than the Islamic radicals who denounce America. It is also incredibly insensitive and offensive to the thousands of peaceful Muslims.

Michelle Fantone Fourth-year political science and sociology student Should it be done? My question is why this is even a question? Yes, we’re all upset about 9/11 and most of us would rather not be best pals with the radical Muslims, but doing something so blatantly offensive to a religion as a whole is absolutely uncalled for. Plus, even the slightest possibility that this event stirring up danger for troops is more than enough reason to not go through with it. There are hundreds of A merican lives being put on the line here. Planning this despite the admonitions of Petraeus and despite

US not envisioned as Christian country

the fact that Afghans are now burning U.S. flags in response is, at this point, no longer a heroic act of any sort — it’s just plain selfish.

Alice Chang First-year international business student When I look at a man like Terry Jones, the only thing that comes to mind is an unprecedented repudiation of the Homo sapien’s innate ability to reason. Anyone who goes to a Quran-burning is no higher in intellect than a child throwing a temper tantrum.

To summarize, in many Christian branches, believers hold to be true the “fact” that only humans go to heaven and the reason other animals do not is because they do not have the intellect we possess or the ability to distinguish “good” from “evil” and “right” from “ w r o n g.” S o w h e n a n at io n w i d e movement to burn another religion’s holy script is advocated by a man who believes he is going to heaven for his “good faith,” I once again question Christianit y, seeing as the last time I checked, a lamb or ox or even an ass is much more peaceful than this ignoramus.

Emily Shipp Third-year English student What those idiots fail to realize is that Islam didn’t attack the World Trade Center — a group of radical Islamic terrorists did. The holy book of that religion should be left out of it, just like the Bible should be left out of any terrorism committed by radical Christian terrorists. There are so many peaceful Muslims who are now angry, and the response in the Middle East will undoubtedly only cause more harm to our troops. The Quran-burning protests are merely a breeding ground for hypocrisy, stupidity and racism.

Sydney Patterson First-year print journalism student

US needs nationalized college entrance exam SAT adds to costly college application process, inaccurately judges intelligence There’s only one large obstacle sitting in between high school and college for most students nowadays. It takes the form of a large, money-sucking, “non-profit” association that spawns four-hour-long tests that we are all more than familiar with and have confronted at least one, if not many more times in the past. Ah, yes. All hail College Board, king of all higher education.

Since its unfortunate creation in 1900, the College Board has weaseled its way into many connections with colleges and universities, and its powerful SAT has slowly risen in status to become the one and only portal to entering college. Well, there’s also the ACT, but even that is slowly blending into the oblivion of history.

Undeniably, the SAT is great in that it provides our nation with something that most ot her developed cou nt ries have: a standardized test that will gauge a student’s performance and college readiness. Germany has the Abitur, a test that covers science, math, linguistics and humanities over a course of a few days. France has le baccalauréat, and

South Korea also has its infamously stressful nine-hour exam.

But can the SAT and ACT compare to tests like these? Unlike the SAT and ACT, which can be taken as many times as the tester can afford and are offered many times each year, tests such as the Abitur or le bac are only offered once a year, thus the test material is the same for all students testing in that year.

I n t he c a se of t he SAT and ACT, the material varies from month to month. Also, bec au se ex ist i ng nat iona l exams cover a wider range of subjects than just reading, w r it i ng a nd mat hemat ic s, Alice Chang the education quality in the First-year respective countries also tends international to be more leveled out across business student the nation in more subjects.

These exams are tailored to a more uniform standard, unlike in the United States where education quality and standards can differ drastically from state to state.

And we must not forget about the price.

While nationalized examinations are of no monetary cost to the students, the SAT is quite a pricey endeavor. As if forking over $50 a pop isn’t enough, many upper-tier

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institutions now also require two or three subject tests, which is around another $40 to $50 tacked onto the price tag. Now multiply that by the number of times you take the test, add on the price of college applications, and you’ve got a large hole burnt into your wallet before you even enter college.

So what’s wrong with nationalizing our college entrance exam? True, it may become slightly more stressful to test into college, you may not be able to take the test 20 times to get your best score and it may be a little more effort on the part of the government.

But all ot her educat ionally competent count ries have done it already. A nd if a nationalized exam can save citizens money, potentially level out education standards for A merica and provide a more fair and encompassing method of testing, then it would be well worth tweaking the system a little and breaking out of College Board’s iron grip.

Somet h i ng as i mpor t a nt as a col lege entrance exam should not rest in the hands of some private organization. Changing the system all depends on whether we have the guts to handle it.

On the steps of the Li ncol n Memor ial, Glenn Beck led his ridiculous but alarm ing “March on Washington,” where he preached that America needed to ret u r n to t he pr i nc iples of it s fou nd i ng f at her s. I f Beck was referring to the secular principles that we were founded on, I wou ld ag ree with him. But instead, he is propagating the my t hical not ion t hat we began as a Christian nation.

I don’t think I need to reiterate that some of our most important founding fathers, such as Thomas Jef ferson and Benjamin Franklin, were dei st s a nd not C h r i s t i a n s . Ev e n i f that was not the case, it d o e s n o t c h a n g e the argument that we should remain secular.

We shou ld not have religion in government or gover n ment in religion.

As James Madison s a i d , “Rulers w ho w i s h to subvert the public liberty Meredith may have Price Fourth-year fou nd a n English student established c l e r g y convenient auxiliaries.”

Throughout history, religion has been used to suppress and e x ploit p eople. T he immediate images that come to mind are the conquistadors in Latin America, the Inquisition in Spain and Italy, the burning and massacre of Protestants by the aptly named “Bloody” Mary i n E ngl a nd a nd t he burning of Catholics

by Q ueen El izabet h immediately afterward.

These events were not ch ronolog ically far from the lives of our founding fathers and perhaps not far from their minds either.

T he y r e c og n i z e d , a nd we are i ndebted to t hei r foresight , t h at g o v e r n m e nt i s a necessar y ev il t hat is easily corrupted by rel ig ion. T he cl iché “power corr upts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is extremely pertinent in the case of religion in government.

What is more powerful t han hav ing G od on your side?

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Music ‘From the Heart’

Katelyn Vereen

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rom the Heart is continuing their Band of Brothers Tour at New Brookland Tavern tonight with other bands We Came As Romans and Confide. I sat down with this metalcore group from Myrtle Beach on their practice room floor. Cody Neal, their current drummer, was unable to make the interview.

Nick Allen: Guitar and vocals Greg Christovich: Lead vocals Robert Laplante: Drums Jimmy Tillman: Guitar

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To start off with, how did From the Heart come together?

Allen: “From the Heart’s been around for eight or nine months now. I went on tour with The Venetia Fair and Phone Calls From Home. When it was over, I wanted to start my own band. I had a singer, Darrel, but needed a drummer. I posted [a] Craigslist ad for a bassist and drummer and found a drummer from Georgetown and Cody for bass. Darrel and I wrote material and waited for two months for Cody to move to Myrtle. Two weeks after that, our drummer quit.”

Laplante: “And he hit me up on MySpace.”

Allen: “Bob is a total metalhead, and our old vocalist said that he wouldn’t work out, which is a little ironic. As for Greg, he was our merch guy. I was talking on the phone to him while I was at El Cerro’s. He said, ‘Yeah! Too bad you guys don’t need a singer.’

[I responded] ‘Haha, it’s strange that you say that ... How serious are you?’ The funny thing is that From the Heart was supposed to tour with Jimmy’s band from Orlando and Greg’s from Tallahassee, yet we actually just took them both.”

Christovich: “I was living with my band at the time. They were sucking at everything and canceled all but one of the shows for the tour. I hated it, went to the shows anyway, and did guest vocals. It pissed my old band off so much. I started packing, said I was breaking the lease and just got into the van and left. I didn’t say I was going to play for FTH.” Allen: “Then, Jimmy was Cody’s best friend and joined not long ago.”

Christovich: “It was kind of weird plucking people from different states.”

Laplante: “We’d all be sitting around playing cards in our underwear saying, ‘God, it’s so hot.’”

Allen: “No. The worst time was in Alabama. Alabama’s the worst state ever. We drove from Atlanta.”

Laplante: “Well it was 5 o’clock in the morning, and Nick was like ... ‘I wanna go! I wanna go right now.’ So we get halfway there and I wake up in this ... parking lot. I was like, ‘Oh my god, it’s so ... hot.’ We’re about to go into this mall, and it just monsoons.”

Allen: “It was Birmingham’s ‘The Galleria.’”

Christovich: “After we wandered around, we decided it would be a good idea to go back to the van — wrong.”

Allen: “We ran to the van.”

Christovich: “Through the monsoon. A hundred degrees.”

Allen: “We got there and oh, it’s raining inside the van.”

Christovich: “Sleeping in it was horrible. Everything was soaking wet and smelled awful.”

What should the audience expect at your show?

Christovich: “We have a lot of fun live. I enjoy good workouts and nothing compares to a live set, especially at venues like New Brookland where the crowd is always into it.”

Allen: “It’s like a double-edged sword. The more the crowd is into us, the more we feed

How was the recording process?

Allen: “Our songs were very low-budget recording.”

Tillman: “For us, it was only $1,200 for an entire week.”

Allen: “We recorded seven songs. We did music in two days and then the vocals in two.

I wrote the lyrics for three new songs while Greg was at a funeral and we went straight into the studio the morning he came back.”

Christovich: “Yeah. I went to my grandma’s funeral and I learned them in the car on the way to Raleigh to the studio. I took a nap, went in and Nick said, ‘Do it, or I’m going to do it for you.’”

Tillman: “Plus, that was your first time screaming ever.”

Christovich: “The recordings we have are the first times I screamed on a track. It made me nervous as hell. I was standing there and Nick said, ‘Bro, I’m serious. Do it, or I’m gonna.’ I was doing bad, man.”

Allen: “I pulled out a bottle of rum and was like, ‘Dude, do you want this?’”

Christovich: “It was ... good rum.”

Allen: “We also haven’t gotten into the auto-tune and synthesizing.”

Christovich: “Psshh ... trendy kids. If you can’t do it live, don’t do it in the studio. There was nothing that you could tell me that would make me think that was okay.”

Allen: “We don’t have any auto-tuning ... If we sing out of tune, that’s how it was.

Everyone in the band can sing.”

off of their energy and they feed off of ours. Even if they just stare at us and do nothing, we just ... have a good time. We offer a lot to the hardcore kids, metalheads and even pop-punk girls.”

Are you guys expecting a large turnout for this show?

Allen: “It’s projected to sell out.”

Christovich: “The last show we played at New Brookland was packed as hell. No signed bands played, and the majority came to see us, which was cool because we didn’t know we had many fans up in Columbia at the time. Nick walked by me and said, ‘Go look at the tally list.’”

Allen: “We actually want to claim Columbia as our hometown. We have such a better shot at having a better music scene there than in Myrtle Beach. The Basement , the only venue you can dance at, closed down. You can’t even do a windmill at Drink! (another local music venue) without being thrown out. Almost all of our fans were kicked out last time we played there.”

Christovich: “That show was sick. I held out both mics and people were screaming into them. Bob’s sister was almost on top of the crowd, holding the mic in her hands just screaming into it. Nick started kicking stuff and I saw a mic stand fly by me, and all I could think was, ‘Yeeaahh!’”

Where do you think From the Heart will go in the future?

Allen: “I told them from the beginning that this would be fast paced.”

Christovich: “I’ve done more in this band in two weeks than I had in years of other

What was it like touring in a van?

Allen: “Well in our older, older ... older van. The day we left for tour, all the circuits went out in the van. We also had a flat tire on the way to Greensboro.”

Christovich: “Unbelievable.”

Allen: “All of them. No GPS, no chargers, no air, nothing.”

Christovich: “We’re talking about pulling out of the driveway and it shorts out. We were saying, ‘Oh, it will come back on. Psshh.’ But it didn’t.”

Allen: “Never did. We made it to 11 shows, though. All you could smell was gas.”

Christovich: “The floor would get hot and, oh God, it was terrible.”

bands. I mean, I’ve been in the band since May and we’re playing with We Came As Romans. We’ve been through two vans, two tours, two drum sets. We have a CD out now and massive road cases ... All we need now is a trailer.”

Allen: “I can honestly see us playing Vans Warped Tour within the next three years.

That is, if the world doesn’t end in 2012. I hope that we will have more so of a loyal fan base rather than big time fame.”

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Comics draw on Internet availability, variety Online communities provide artists with home for expression Katie Crocker

THE DAILY GAMECOCK

There is nothing more fantastically campy than vintage comics. American comic company Marvel may dominate the superhero world, and CLAMP may rule anime and manga in Japan, but the Internet is still a free domain for writers and artists alike. In the age of the Internet, there is more variety than what is offered on the mainstream market for entertainment.

Online comics are a dime a dozen with communities like OnlineComics.net or comichovel.com which host every kind of genre known to mankind. The styles are drastically different, from penciled-in lines to full-blown color, from stick figures to characters so real they look like photographs.

There are, of course, comics with drawing and style that are rudimentary at best, but publishing online lets even the crudest of artists explore their potential talent in the name of being an artist. Online comics are able to combine traditional methods of storytelling with more expressive art. The Internet again provides that ultimate outlet, for no matter how badly the artist wants to share his or her work with the world, he or she often finds roadblocks in print. The trouble with it all, though, is trying to find the right kind of comic, or rather the ones that have a certain shine to them.

There is a small niche community of fantastic semiprofessional and professional online comic book writers that are

like a whiff of Febreze in a locker room. Their work stands above the rest for several reasons. The artwork is mostly exceptional, the characters are interesting and the storylines are compelling.

Certain comics aspire to certain things, such as reallifecomics. com by Greg Dean, which could be considered an illustrated blog. The characters are cute and happy, and the plot is nothing more than small twists to a daily life’s events. The artwork is simple, going from basic coloring to black and white.

“Lackadaisy,” by Tracy J. Butler and found at lackadaisycats. com, is somewhat done in the same monotone colors but with vivid detail in each of her furry characters. The comic pulls from the history of the roaring 1920s in New York City, but is caught somewhere between a drama and a comedy.

Other online comics deal with whole fictional worlds and struggles, such as “The Meek” by Der-Shing Helmer, found at meekcomic.com. “The Meek” is like a fantasy novel, only with less convoluted words and a heaping of well-done art. It is an example of a more complex comic that tells several different stories at once within its own world.

Or consider the comic “Hanna Is Not A Boy’s Name,”

by Tessa Stone and found at hanna.aftertorque.com, which showcases a cast of supernatural characters, but also a style that is wholly original.

The online comic is not something to be trifled with and has certainly taken on a life of its own. The Internet has created a space for communities to share the experience of reading with the creator. These comics offer almost unparalleled access to archives as well, meaning fans can recycle through their favorites at a whim.

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Regardless of one’s taste in genre, content or style, the culture of online comics offer plenty of choices for readers to explore alternative modes of comics writing.

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USC preps for UGA

SEC POWER RANKINGS: WEEK 1

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Spurrier urges Garcia to run differently, Gamecocks crack AP, Coaches Top 25 polls Steve Spurrier doesn’t mind Stephen Garcia running when he needs to. He does mind him using his body like a battering ram.

“We tell him not to lead with his head, and I wish he would sort of duck a little bit and not lead with his head.

He’s trying to get his shoulders more into it. Obviously Stephen, he needs to run occasionally,” Spurrier said.

“Not a lot, but if you’re going to run the spread-type offense, your quarterback’s going to need to keep it every now and then.”

Spurrier said that the coaching staff has been encouraging Garcia to be more cautious when he runs.

“We encourage him to run every now and then, but we encourage him to try and find a little hole in there to fall forward. In fact, on his second touchdown the other night, we said ‘Stephen, it was first down. All you need to do is get it back to the 1-yard line,’ and he actually reached it across the goal line to score,” Spurrier said. “They could’ve knocked it out of his hands. That wouldn’t have been very smart on first down. We’re telling him to protect himself a little bit better as he runs.”

Special teams need to step up: The USC special teams were not so special against Georgia last season. To knock off the Bulldogs this year, that will have to change.

“The one thing that concerns us this week is our special team play,” Spurrier said. “Georgia basically won their bowl game against Texas A&M with a whole bunch of returns. They actually were one of the teams that got one on us last year. So we’ve got to cover kicks, punts, kickoffs. Our special team play has got to be very good this week. We need to make sure it’s pretty good.”

In its 41-37 loss to UGA in Athens last fall , the Gamecocks had two crucial meltdowns in the third phase of the game.

UGA blocked what would have been a game-tying, point-after attempt after Eric Norwood’s interception return for a touchdown — a play that forced USC to

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Quarterback Stephen Garcia rushes for a touchdown in the third quarter of Carolina’s win over Southern Miss. go for a touchdown to win rather than a field goal to tie on the last drive of the game. The Dawgs also became the first of several teams to expose the USC return game, galloping for several big gains, including Brandon Boykin’s 100-yard return for a score, the longest play in the history of Sanford Stadium.

“Our last game we covered kickoffs very well, didn’t cover the punts too well — so-so. [Southern Miss] averaged about 15 yards a return,” Spurrier said.

“Georgia does play well on special teams. They make some big plays. We’ve got to be on our toes there.”

Culliver and King still up in air: Spurrier said that USC does not know for sure if safety Chris Culliver and offensive lineman Jarriel King will be cleared by the NCAA to play against Georgia.

“We just prepare as if [Culliver] may play. We think he’s going to play, but we don’t know for sure,” Spurrier said. “In fact, we don’t know if Jarriel King is going to play for sure either.”

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Coach Steve Spurrier talks to players in the huddle during the fourth quarter of South Carolina’s win over USM.

NCAA scandals draw attention to coaches Program leaders should face more accountability Throughout my 18 years of existence, my parents have made sure to keep tabs on my behavior.

I had to u ndergo va r ious interrogations, call to check in if I was ever out late and keep them updated on my schoolwork. It got to the point where they were so involved in my life that they were responsible for its outcome, which made sense to me since they were the authority figures.

So when I hear about constant NC A A v iol at ion s on col lege campuses across the country, I wonder how coaches, the authority figures in this case, are not held to a higher accountability.

NC A A v iolat ions have been headlining t he news more frequently as the North Carolina and Alabama football programs, among others, have recently gone under fire following the severe punishment of the University of Southern California Trojans with regards to illegal monetary benefits received by Reggie Bush and his family.

But despite increasing violations, coaches seem to be getting off scotfree more and more, which just seems counterproductive to me.

For ex a mple, Pete Ca r rol l , former head coach of the Trojans, just happened to quit his coaching

position at Southern Cal for a spot with the Seattle Seahawks right before the Trojans got hammered with sanctions so severe it’s enough to stunt the program for years to come.

Basketball coach John Calipari has escaped heat at both UMass and Memphis. It seems he coincidentally decides to make a career move at precisely the same time that the athletic prog ram he was involved with suffers t he consequence s of v iolat ions t hat occurred under his helm.

Isabelle So how is it Khurshudyan f a i r t h at c o ac he s First-year print journalism student a re consistent ly able to avoid t he consequences of violations that happened under their watch, while athletic programs are suffering intense punishment?

As the system stands now, coaches tend to turn a blind eye to the actions of their players, especially when it concerns receiving illegal benefits. And why wouldn’t they ig nore t he f ac t t hat t he st a r running back is suddenly driving a new Mercedes? Why would they intentionally bring trouble to their team?

This past weekend, the nation witnessed the effect that NCA A violations can have on a team as North Carolina fell to LSU 3024. Did I mention that UNC was

playing without 13 players due to NCA A violations, including the entire secondary on defense and three of the four starting defensive linemen? You have to wonder what the outcome would have been had the coaching staff just paid a little closer attention. Could they have stopped a significant portion of their team from taking a suspected agent-funded trip to Miami?

But what if coaches had a higher stake in it? Would they suddenly be more attentive to the actions of their players?

Personally, I’d rather see one player go down than the entire football team get banned from participating in the postseason as wel l as t he loss of c r uc ia l scholarships, like in the case of Southern Cal. Imagine if Carroll had earnestly reported the behavior of Bush. Would we be talking about how Southern Cal is a contender this year instead of how they’ll be absent from significance for years to come?

Players are like children, and the coach is the parent. With this issue hitting so close to home recently, t he NC A A needs to dev ise a system in which the parents are held responsible for the scandalous activity of their children. Maybe then they’ll actually start keeping tabs on them like my parents looked out for me.

A f ter all, nobody wants one rotten apple spoiling the whole bunch.

1. ALABAMA (1-0)

2. FLORIDA (1-0)

The reig n ing nat ional champions did what they were supposed to do over the weekend, dismantling San Jose State on their home turf. But as impressive as the ground game was, the Tide desperately need reigning Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram back in the lineup if they want to make another title push.

Bad snaps and a largely inept of fense aside, t he Gators are still one of the top teams in t he leag ue until someone supplants them, particularly in the E a ster n Div i sion. T he G ators have a not her tuneup game this weekend against USF before they travel to Knoxville in two weeks.

3. ARKANSAS (1-0)

4. AUBURN (1-0)

Quarterback Ryan M a l l e t t ’s p u s h f o r t h e Heisma n Trophy beg a n in style Saturday in a win over Tennessee Tech, as he threw for over 300 yards a nd t h r e e s c ore s . Even more encouraging for the Razorbacks, though, was the solid play by the defense, which gave up just a field goal.

Quarterback Cam New ton may not be i n Florida blue and orange a ny more, but t he st at s cer t a i n ly s ugge sted he still played for the Gators.

The junior college transfer tallied 177 yards on the g r o u n d a n d 18 6 m o r e t h r ou g h t he a i r w h i le throwing for three scores and running for two more.

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Say what you will about the Dawgs starting a true f re sh m a n u nder center, but Aaron Murray looked good against the School for t he Blind, or LouisianaLafayet te, whatever you w a nt t o c a l l t h e m . He totaled 202 yards — with 42 of them coming on the ground — in addition to four total touchdowns.

The Gamecocks’ offense certainly surprised some people on Thu rsday, as quarterback Stephen Garcia helped g u ide USC to a huge opening-game win over Southern Miss. He’ll have to continue to play error-free football if the Gamecocks hope to knock off Georgia Saturday.

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LSU

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T he Tig er s c er t a i n l y tallied a big win over a Top 25 team over the weekend, but it ended up being much closer than anyone expected.

A fter accumulating a 20 -point half t ime advantage, the Tigers gave up 14 second-half points over a depleted UNC squad before hanging on for the victory at the last second.

A n e a rl y 13 -p oi nt advantage over Louisville helped push the Wildcats past their hated rival on Sat urday in coach Joker Phillips’ first game at the helm of UK football. The of fense was ever y t h i ng it was expected to be, as Randall Cobb and Derrick Locke combined to rush for 184 yards and three scores.

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The Vols won big over Te n ne s s e e - M a r t i n , but that was to be expected in the opener for both teams.

Ju n ior t a i lb ac k Tau r e n Poole will need to continue to build off his strong start (17 carries for 110 yards and two touchdowns) if the Vols want to get to a bowl game under first-year coach Derek Dooley.

The Bulldogs’ offense looked solid under former Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen, but MSU has a long way to go before it can start climbing up in the Power Rank ings. The Bulldogs might have found a future star in quarterback Tyler Russell, who passed for 256 yards and four scores.

11.VANDERBILT 12. OLE MISS

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The Commodores fought valiantly under new head c o ac h Robbie C a ld wel l but came up short against Northwestern on Saturday.

The offense was better than most expected, as Vandy rushed for nearly 200 yards while embattled quarterback La r r y Sm it h pa s sed for another 240.

It doesn’t matter what k ind of team the Rebels are expected to field this season. When you lose to an FCS team at home after having a three touchdown lead, you’re going to wind up at t he bottom of t he SE C Power R a n k i n g s .

Houston Nutt needs to help his team regroup and fast.

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Help Wanted Child Care IRMO DAY CARE PT position available 2-6:30 working with 4 & 5 y.o.M-F Daycare experience required. Call 781-5439.

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