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Charisma, By MARY ANNE KARAUSKY Gamecock Staff Writer No one seems to understand how Seamus O'Boyle, a hitherto unknown captured the presidency of the USC student government. Some speculate the victory is attributable to O'Bovle's heinn a white male. Others say the win is because of tremendous support/ given O'Boyle by his dorm, Preston-Woodrow. Both may be right, but both have missed the most obvious reason: O'Boyle himself. He cannot walk more than six feet across campus without being stopped by someone. He is always pleasant, waving, chatting, goofing around. He walks into Thomas Cooper Library and strolls past the private study desks on the ground floor. Hands immediately shoot up WAvincr rerntfniHnn "SEAMUS!" O'Boyle is a broadcast journalism major, Woodrow hall advisor and ROTC member. The door to his room is spattered with magic-marker notes written tongue-in-cheek by several of his closer friends. "Seamus, I want to party," and "Seamus, I only like you now that you're famous." Now that O'Boyle is in a position of acquiring instant friendships, his best friends have Joked about Seamus being taken advantage of. "I guess they're watching out for me," he said. "I went to Western III ?iiiL>i?uiJS? XT I Jft VlAth ^ Dim mii i ini i 11 THE VIDEO TftPE COn OF THE RUSSELL HOU UNIVERSITY UNION PRESENTS: UHNCHM VYH mARTHn r j I Ff^p 1,1 II INTHI russeS house 3 1HHIMI? IIIIII.M??MLI.1JJU diligent su] &ireHi?Tvffif7M?^rr''*f?^^ S' :'' . Steer last week with two other guys and I had a T-shirt and shorts on. As we walked past these two girls, one of my friends started laughing ; and he asked me if I heard what ' they said. As I passed them, one nudged the other and said, "There's Seamus our new president ? nice shorts." ill FREE I ||1| DELIVERY I 254-8800 | ee Delivery f Best Pizza in South Carolina... * Serving Columbia for J more than 25 years! GENO'S a 12 Rosewood Drive 771.AI47 nr A FREE Ad?your first beverage with a ?-in order ? Beer or Soft Drinks "IfTllTTEE SE i omcoiro < ni i ibi\iv.n th GRRHflm 3pril 3 to ril 7 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | E 2nd FLOOR LOBBY jporters per F ^ a&iil ||ii1 "'fi ^[li1 flR&9H BKBSj ^ipl jl O* BOYLE IS the son of James O'Boyle, a patent attorney^ in Washington, D.C. and his mother, New?from C Powerplay? M n We? but use Cc on Bull St | in the U% Canncc I C? 3 p.m. ? wered O'Bo nicknamed "Cheeks" for reasons obvious to anyone who has seen her smile. He is the oldest child of six , followed by Patrick, a sophomore mm u ? f tti muouHNi university in Virginia; Kathy, k freshman at Carolina; Sean, who will attend Carolina next year; Timmy, a high-school freshman and Colleen, a sixth-grader. Seamus came to USC because it was "cheap and warm and had a good journalism school." O'Boyle is funny, caring, unpretentious. He had many campaign workers willing to assert themselves beyond their normal range of behavior for him. They handed flyers to disinterested students, knocked on dormitory doors, stopped people on the street and kept their candidate calm. That is why he caught the spirit of the thousands of previously uninvolved students on campus and gave them a message: "I'm pretty much like you. I'm giving this a try, so give me a break and get out to vote." raig's ^ np 9714n?vi Dund Serving CZfS/M G.rowERPLAY^ Mode! T680 Local/distance *12 watts perch ll|p Locking fast-fo Automatic ejec |IB unit "" AFC for dritt-tr< nay he hard to J we5re convenie i tnvemenc \reet across fromSoi liversity Terrace Ap 1 Soups Bevera< Id Cuts Pepperi Eggs Planter Milk Candie* Breads Dannoi 10 p.m. 7 days yle AND VOTE they did for a nonGreek candidate. O'Boyle officially decided to run for SG president during Christmas vacation, although he had con sidered the idea for a full year. "My parents were excited about it and Kathy and her friends were more psyched about it than I was," he said. "They said I should give it a try, but my parents especially didn't get overly concerned with it because there was always a chance that I'd lose the run-off." He didn't. He won. The dark horse trotted in, exhausted from work, tension, lost study. "This thing almost killed me. One$hot is fine, but as a career, I just don't know. Besides, when I graduate the Navy gets me for four years and it's anchors aweigh." i n the Towers Lounge as the final votes were announced, Seamus was engulfed in a crowd of campaign workers and wellwishers. He was jubilant, laughing, "We won, we won!" ne Street 771-7340 Columbia for 23 years 'We Listen? We Service' lively Priced Authorized Service iCASSETTE EXCLUSIVELY FROM CRAIG. 'mono switch annel rwardand rewind t whenever power is removed from *e FM repeptioo %nd nt. e Store ith Tower artments jes idoe FarmCookies J $ Snacks ? i Yogurt a week