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As junior Caryn Gates looks on, senior Sydna Beasley gives freshman Jessica Bums a hug after Bums learned she had been accept
ed into Delta Delta Delta sorority on Sunday. Almost 500 students received bids from sororities during Bid Day on the Horseshoe.
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boronty recruitment ends witn bid Day
The Horseshoe erupted with laughter, lean, singing
;tnd lots of hugs on Sunday when sorority recruit
ment finally ended.
For about 500 USC women who chose to go through
recruitment, the exhausting process formerly known as
“rush” came to a close on Bid Day when it was revealed
which sorority each of the girls would be joining. While
the recruitment process officially began this past Sunday,
Iff some sororities began preparing for it the day idler rush
ended hist year.
Emily Flemming, Delta Gamma recruitment chair
woman, said her sorority went on retreat for four days,
having workshops for up to eight hours at a time to pre
pare for all the incoming potential new members. “We
iiave recruitment workshops, and we bring in national
consultants to help come up with the types of questions
we need to ask to see if the girls meet our membership
requirements,” Flemming said.
Asking the right questions is one of the most difficult
tasks sororities face. Sororities have one week to decide
which of the nearly 500 girls who chose to go through re
Greek see page 2
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Members of Alpha Delta Pi point skyward just before freshmen ran across
the Horseshoe during Sunday's Bid Day festivities.
Story by Brock Vergakis $ Photographs by Sean Rayford
Journalism professor gets national award
by Aubrey Fitzloff
The Gamecock
The journalism department added
one more award to its list when Profes
sor Henry Price was given the Freedom
Forum Award for Teacher of the Year
earlier this month.
Price is not the only teacher in the
journalism department to win a nation
^iward. Earlier this year, the American
™.'ertising Federation named Professor
Jerome Jewler the Outstanding Adver
tising Teacher of the Year.
Jewler retired at the end of the spring
semester, and Price said he’ll be retir
ing in the next few years, as well.
Though one of the journalism school’s
best professors has already retired and
Price is leaving soon, he spoke highly
of his colleagues.
“There have always been marvelous
journalism professors here,” Price said.
“There were marvelous professors be
fore I got here. There will be mar
velous professors after I leave.”
“The marvelous thing about teach
ers like that is that they have this won
derful legacy that makes all their students
more professional,” said Ronald Farrar,
interim dean of the journalism school.
“As you begin to approach the end
of your teacliing career, it's nice to have
something like this happen because it's
an affirmation of what you have spent
your life doing,” Price said.
Interim Dean Ronald Farrar nomi
nated Price, who has taught journalism
at USC for 31 years, for the Freedom Fo
rum Award.
“I was very pleased and honored that
he nominated me,” Price said.
Farrar involved Professor Patricia
McNeely in the nomination process; she
contacted Price’s former students to write
letters of recommendation.
“1 think that he’s the finest copy edit
ing teacher in the country,” Farrar said
of Price. “I think students can leam more
from him than they can anywhere else.”
The award honors outstanding leaching
Price seepages
“I try to teach my students that the title 'jour
nalist' doesn't come to people simply because
they are employed by a newspaper or televi
sion station. It has to be earned through the
quality and influence of their work."
Henry Price
Freedom Forum award recipient
Night shuttles
return to USC
after lO years
■ USC has begun operating two
15-passenger vans on campus in
hopes to improve safety for students
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by Charles Prashaw
Thu Gamecock
The Department of Parking Services
has brought back a program it scrapped
more than a decade ago: an evening shut
tle service.
USC offered the service in the late
! 980s, but stopped because of a low num
ber of riders. Now, the university has
brought back the service in hopes that
its popularity will overshadow the past.
Since last Thursday, Parking Services
has been operating two 15-passenger vans
around campus from 7 pan. to 12:30 a.m.
Bright strobe lights on the back of the ve
hides are used to signal students.
The evening shuttle service circles
the campus with stops at the Coliseum,
the Russell House, BA/Capstone area,
Maxcy, Byrnes Center, the Towers,
Swearingen Engineering building, the
Roost, Bates area and the Blall P.E. Cen
ter. P,irking Services has posted signs with
a moon and stars indicating evening shut
tle stops around campus.
For now, there are no plans to expand
the service to Five Points or the Vista
areas of Columbia.
“We don’t even want to get into that.
There are plenty of transportation means
Shuttle see page 2
Amy Goulding The Gamecock
The pool at the Blatt P.E. Center was closed for renovations Aug. 21.
USC pool closed
for renovations
■ The swimming pool at the Blatt P.E.
center is expected to re-open on Sept. 15
by Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
Don’t jump in the pool. It's empty.
Swimmers at USC will have to find
another body of chlorinated water for at
least the next week and a half while the
pool at the Blatt P. E. Center undergoes
renovation, university administrators said
Friday.
While the anticipated date for re
opening the pool is Sept. 15, Director of
Campus Recreation Herbert Gimp said it
could be open as soon as Sept. 7.
“From what I've been told, this [open
ing Sept. 15] is a worst-case scenario,”
Gimp said. Tlie pool has been closed since
Aug. 21.
Camp said the filter room will be ren
ovated and virtually all of the pool's work
ing parts will be replaced, including more
than 90 percent of the pool's pipes. The
pool's single pump will be replaced with
two smaller ones.
The filter room controls the chemi
cals being fed into the pool. Objects
sucli as hair are also filtered out of the wa
ter in the filter room, Assistant Director
of Campus Recreation Ron Byers said.
Electrical work will also be done and
the pool's “float balls” will be replaced,
Byers said. The float balls help monitor
and keep constant the level of the water
in the pool.
“Essentially, everything that’s under
that pool and that filter room is going to
be replaced,” Byers said.
Camp said die renovation was prompt
ed by three mechanical breakdowns over
the past year. Those breakdowns caused
the pool to be closed.
Renovating the filter room was the
best solution, Byers said. The filler
room has not been renovated since the
pool was finished in the early 1970s, he
said.
“We need to address this situation and
this is how we're doing it,” Byers s;iid.
According to Gimp, those parts of die
pool being replaced have lasted “well be
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• Omega Phi Alpha,
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