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Goalpost enthusiasts
to escape prosecution
■ USC crime
reports filed
for insurance
by Charles Prashaw
The Gamecock
No one who participated in
tearing down the goalposts following
Gamecock football victories against
New Mexico State and University of
Georgia will be prosecuted by the
University, USC officials said Tues
day.
m Rumors of the university’s press
' ing chaxges against numerous students
who took part in tearing down four
goalposts at Williams-Brice Stadi
um started circulating soon after the
goalposts came down.
But USC officials said Tuesday
that the university, after careful con
sideration, wouldn’t press charges
against students in relation to the goal
post incidents. The officials said they
wouldn’t press charges against any
student who has a piece of the bright
yellow posts.
“Any rumors of us trying to press
chaiges against students for tearing
down the goalposts are just that —
rumors,” USC Director of Law En
forcement Ernie Ellis said.
One story claimed the universi
ty was looking to press “malicious in
^ jury to private property” charges
® against students who took part in tear
ing down the goalpost.
“I don’t know who started these
rumors, but they are false.” Ellis said.
However, the Athletics Depart
ment did fill out an official crime re
port with USCPD Tuesday morning
that university spokesman Jason Sny
der said was intended for “insurance
reasons.”
The value of the damage done
to the football field during the first
two games, including labor costs as
sociated with repairing the field, is
I- ——
estimated at about $10,000.
In the crime report, Atliletics em
ployee Jim Petrus told police “on two
consecutive weekends... during two
consecutive football games, USC’s
football field received damage to the
goalposts, shrubbery and panels on
the side of the stadium’s north-end
zone.”
The crime report said the suspects
were accused of “non-criminal mis
chief,” a crime under South Caroli
na law that would carry a minimum
of a six months in jail.
‘ The report said students ignored
repeated announcements to stay off
the field after the game ended, and
that police were outnumbered and
would have caused a serious situation
if they tried to stop students from get
ting on the field.
No specific suspects were named
in the report, and the case was con
sidered closed by the USC adminis
tration.
Senior Assistant Athletics Direc
tor John Moore said he wasn’t aware
of the crime report being filed, but
said he was pretty sure it had to do
with an insurance matter. Moore said,
as of now, neither he nor Athletics
Director Mike McGee could say any
thing further about the crime report
or the insurance matter.
Snyder said students most likely
won’t try to tear down the goalposts
again, because the number of students
wanting to tear down the goalposts
won’t be as large as it was after the
first two games. But he said it would
be up to the Athletics Department
whether police will guard the goal
posts as they did at the end of the East
ern Michigan game.
“I think it’s clear, in everyone’s
opinion, that you can’t tear down the
goalposts every time we win,” Sny
der said.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotniail.com.
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Printing seminar to be held in Maxcy
by Landon Jones
The Gamecock
Years ago, books were manually printed without
the benefit of computers. Students will get the
chance to relive that experience Thursday by attend
ing an hour-long seminar to learn about a cast-iron print
ing press.
The seminar will be at 7 p.m. Thursday at Maxcy
College, room 123.
Some would say today’s printing techniques are
easier and more efficient, but Scott Gwara of USC’s
English department would beg to differ.
“Computers just spit out printed pages. The
printing press is about art and history. Everything about
it is intellectual,” Gwara said.
Gwara has brought his hobby to the USC Honors
College. Over the summer, he bought a printing press.
Inks, lead letters and other press printing necessities
came with it.
“It cost about $ 1,300,” Gwara said. “We got it off
of eBay from someone in Cincinnati, Ohio.” The price
covered the shipping cost.
It may sound like a lot of money, but the pur
chase was quite a deal, Gwara said. The small darkroom
in Maxcy College has a chest full of lead type letters,
the shelves are stocked with inks and paper, and the
room seems to be consumed by the press itself. The
press was designed in 1860 and manufactured in 1890.
The design was used for more than 30 years, and
the presses themselves were used until the 1950s and
the 1960s, Gwara said. The press is a cross between a
dentist chair and a spinning wheel, with ink disks, rollers
and metal plates churning out individual pages.
Gwara said it might be easier to click a button, but
an essence is lost by using computers.
When people prints their own work by hand,
they feels a sense of permanence, Gwara said.
Gwara is working liard to sltare liisjoy of press print
ing with others.
Gwara first printed a baseball card in Cooperstown,
N.Y. when he was a child. It wasn’t until years later
that he had his second brush with printing.
“I was a senior in college,” Gwara said. “There was
ajriend who showed me an old printing press in the
English department basement. I would go down
there, usually at midnight, to print things.”
Now, Gwara uses the press to print flyers for the
Thursday seminar and makes his own greeting cards.
“I hope people will print tilings like greeting cards
and poetry .They could make a profit and enjoy
themselves,”. Gwara saic^
Michael Allen will serve as the printing devil, the
person who helps students with printing and cleanup.
Gwara said anyone who would try using the press
would feel differently about the real sense of art, his
tory and nostalgia of the printing press.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com.
Dean
from page 1
ington said. “[He has] a strong knowl
edge in new media.”
However, Loewen has never been
in charge of a university department
before. His two competitors have.
Norton is dean of Nebraska’s jour
nalism school and is one of the most
respected educators in the country.
He is president of the National Asso
ciation for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communications and is a
board member of the Freedom Forum.
“He’s highly regarded,” Farrar said.
“He brings a lot to the table.”
Farrar said when USC announced
it had begun its search for a new dean,
it received a great number of e-mails
saying if Norton were available, they
should consider him.
While at Nebraska, Norton has
worked to improve the college’s tech
nology. There were still typewriters
at the school when he took over the
job in 1990; now, there are more than
160 computers.
University of Nebraska journalism
senior Sarah Baker said Norton makes
himself available to undergraduate stu
dents.
“He has some student contact,”
Baker said. “All the students are very
familiar with him. The college isn’t
very large, and chances are he’d rec
ognize a good majority of us.”
According to Baker, who is edi
tor-in-chief of Nebraska’s campus
newspaper, The Daily Nebraskan, the
Nebraska faculty emphasizes student
internships.
“We get a lot of encouragement
and shoot really high [for internships],”
Baker said. The Washington Post,
Chicago Tribune, Gannett Co. and
large Arkansas and Nebraska papers
regularly appear on campus to recruit
journalism students.
Nebraska has a strong reputation
in advertising. It was ranked No. 15
nationally by U.S. News and World
Report in 1996, the most recent year
the magazine ranked journalism pro
grams. The same year, USC was tied
for No. 13 with the University of Col
orado.
The new dean will be responsible
for helping thrust the journalism school
into the national spotlight, where it
has fierce competition in the region
among journalism programs. Accord
ing to the same issue of U.S. News and
World Report, two of South Caroli
na’s neighbors, the University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill and the Uni
versity of Georgia have the No. 7 and
No. 5 overall programs as seen by aca
demicians.
Among other programs in the
Southeast, the University of Tennessee
is ranked No. 8 and the University of
Florida is ranked No. 2. The Univer
sity of Florida produced the laigest
amount of graduates in public rela
tions in'the country this past year.
The final candidate for the post
is Pease, who is on sabbatical from his
job as head of the journalism depart
ment at Utah State. Pease and his wife,
with whom he co-taught a class with
this past year, are in California doing
research.
A former reporter, Pease worked
for newspapers, magazines and the As
sociated Press in Massachusetts, Min
nesota and Arkansas and has served as
a juror for the 1999 Pulitzer Prizes.
Pease, like Norton, has worked for the
Freedom Forum.
Utah State journalism senior Vicky
Campbell said Pease taught a Media
Smarts class, which took a look at
ethics, advertising, stereotypes and
public views in prejudiced society.
Pease is directing a two-year national
study for the Ford Foundation and the
Poynter Institute of MediaStudies ex
amining issues of diversity in news
papers and television.
Described as a friendly person,
Campbell said even while Pease on
sabbatical, he has continued a word
of-the-day e-mail, which more than
1,000 people subscribe to for a daily
dose of vocabulary words and inter
esting facts about the English language.
According to Farrar, Provost Jer
ry Odom has said he hopes to have the
new dean in place by January. Then
Farrar will be able to retire, write some
more books and travel. “I’m looking
forward to it,” Farrar said.
As of press time, Norton was in
Washington, D.C. Loewen was not
available for comment.
The university desk am be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com.
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