The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, April 03, 1978, Page Page 7, Image 7
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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
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"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
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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."
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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!"
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