The Daily Gamecock 9/19/18

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dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

VOL. 111, NO. 06 l SINCE 1908

Law faculty member’s legacy lives on Meghan Crum @megcrum24

SHREYAS SABOO // THE GAMECOCK While Tropical Storm Florence did not have the impact USC prepared for, the campus was closed for four days to prepare and ensure safety.

FLORENCE DISRUPTS FALL SEMESTER Hannah Dear @HannahCDear

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or the fourth year in a row, tropical weather has led to days of cancelled classes that will once again shake up the fall semester for students and faculty and staff. Classes were cancelled for four days and resumed u nex pec ted ly on Monday af ter t he u n iversit y uncanceled Monday classes due to a decision by Richland County government. “With improving weather conditions and forecasts, the University of South Carolina Columbia campus will resume normal operations and all classes will be held on Monday, Sept. 17,” a university statement said. Florence was at times forecast to bring tropical

stor m-force w inds to Colu mbia. However, t he impacts in the Columbia area were less than originally expected despite extensive damage in other parts of South Carolina and North Carolina. As such, Richland County opened its offices a day earlier than expected, and USC follows Richland County government closures because it is a state agency. The decision was announced Saturday evening, and some students like third-year advertising student Sarah Waldrop weren’t shy about their opinions of the earlier return. “I was pretty upset about that actually,” she said. “The teachers have already arranged their schedules planning on that day being gone. And then, so many professors canceled classes as it was that I don’t see why the university hosted classes anyways.”

The USC School of Law’s first female faculty member’s legacy lives on despite her recent passing. Sarah Leverette, the third female to graduate from USC’s law school in 1943, passed away of natural causes at the age of 98 on Aug. 29. When she graduated, there was not much room for a woman to practice law, but that never deterred her. She worked tirelessly throughout her life to pave the way for women in her field, something School of Law Dean Robert Wilcox says will keep her memory alive throughout the program. “Closed doors did not shut out Sarah’s incredible spirit,” Wilcox said. “For 75 years, her vision, determination, and unwillingness to accept inequit y made South Carolina a better state for all.” Leverette led the School of Law’s library for 25 years, and she was a professor for much of that time. She taught a legal writing class that every student was required to take, and she had a huge impact on legal writing in the state of South Carolina. She helped establish the League of Women’s Voter s i n Sout h Carolina to fight for women’s right to serve on a jury, and with her peers, was able to change the law to give women more of a say in the government in 1967. “ S a r a h ’s c o m m i t m e n t t o bettering the lives of her fellow South Carolinians is a legacy in which I will continually stand in awe,” said Travis Tester, the associate director for development a nd a lu m n i relat ions for t he Universit y of Sout h Carolina School of Law, in an email.

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Band suffers in September heat

Hannah Dear @HannahCDear

Questions are being raised about the health and well-being of band members per for m ing in almost t riple-dig it temperatures during early season games after a member of the Carolina Band required medical attention following Gamecock football’s opening game. A member of the Carolina Band confirmed to The Daily Gamecock that they were transported by EMS and treated for effects from heat after the Carolina Coastal football game on Sept. 1. Cormac Cannon, associate director of bands and director of athletic bands, acknowledged that an incident happened during the first game of the season. “I can’t comment on the medical treatment of a specific student, but I can tell you that the student was treated and released and went about the rest of their weekend with no ill effects and was back in school and back in rehearsal on Tuesday,” he said. The temperature reached a high of 96 degrees that day, seven degrees above the normal average for Columbia in early September. In preparation for extreme temperatures, Cannon, along with the athletic trainers make sure that the students are hydrating as much as possible.

st udents did not suf fer from heat exhaustion or anything more extreme. “Usually before we do pregame we’re sitting in the stands for a full hour before we even go down to march pregame. And that’s time when we’re sitting in the sun in our uniforms. We’re not doing anything, but it’s sun exposure,” the band member said. “Now they’re using that time for us to leave our instruments in the stands and then go down under the stadium to be in the shade for a while, so that reduces time your skin is in the sun, and then reduces potential heat exhaustion.” ZACH MCKINLEY // THE GAMECOCK W h ile i n t he st a nds, t he 365 members of the Carolina Band are Students in the Carolina Band took a break during the game to rehydrate and cool off. wearing wool uniforms. According Still, some band members say heat so that they could rehydrate in the shade to a band member, the jackets have five issues are hard to avoid. Two members instead of returning to the stands. layers of material, and the pants have of the Carolina Band agreed to speak to Cannon said the band takes extra three layers. Cannon encourages students The Daily Gamecock on the condition precautions during extreme weather to un-clip the top of the jackets to allow of anonymity out of fear of ostracization. conditions. for a slight breeze through the jackets. The Daily Gamecock k nows t heir “The other things that we do when However, the band member said some do identities. it gets very hot is we try to avoid extra not find this measure very helpful. “The band makes sure we’re really exertion where possible,” Cannon said. “Our jackets zip up all the way to our well hydrated. It’s just like sitting out in “So for instance last Saturday was very necks and they clip,” they said. “So in the sun for a very, very long time is kind hot so in the stands in the second half we some sense, having some freedom around of problematic,” one band member said. took the opportunity during a few of the your neck I guess is helpful, but for the “And that’s not the administration’s fault timeouts to have the students sit rather most part it did borderline nothing ... I or anything. That was just the nature of than standing and doing choreography think just continuing to wear the fabric living in South Carolina and being in a and exerting themselves that way and on my body was a lot.” marching band in August or September.” playing. So when possible we give them SEE BAND According to a university statement, a break.” students were given a break following Other breaks and adjustments were PAGE 3 the halftime show during the second half added to the schedule to ensure that


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