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Going Bowing
■ USC has virtually assured itself of
a bowl bid. But how many
tickets will be available?
by Brock Vergakis
The Gamecock
After beating
Arkansas
27-7 on
Saturday, the £
speculation is|
finally over:
USC is bowl
eligible.
With the
SEC having
seven secured
spots in bowls this^
year, Carolina’s six
wins all but guarantee that
the team will spend the holi
days playing its first bowl
game since 1995.
For those dedicated stu
dents who don’t want to settle for
watching the Oamecocks bowl game on
television, the athletics department has
begun thinking about how many seats
they’ll request from bowl officials, and
how many of those seats they’ll dole out
to students.
Associate Athletics Director of Tick
et Operations Chris Massaro said the ath
letics department can’t make any defini
tive plans on student ticket distribution
until Carolina is offered a bowl bid.
“It depends on the size of the allot
ment,’’ Massaro said. “For the Clemson
game, students get 1,200 tickets. ...That’s
about 10 percent of our allotment. For
the Peach Bowl, it’ll probably be a simi
lar percentage. If we get 15,000 seats,
1,500 will go to students.”
The Peach Bowl, in Atlanta, is less
than a 4-hour drive from Columbia and,
as such, has the potential to draw more
students than other venues. If USC heads
to the Peach Bowl, the athletics depart
ment will consider having a lottery simi
lar to the one held for the Clemson game
every year, Massaro said.
But if the Gamecocks were to play
in, say, the Music City Bowl in
Nashville, Massaro said any student who
wanted to go would likely be able to get
a ticket.
The last time USC played in a bowl
game was the Caiquest Bowl in Miami.
No ticket limits were put in place, as
Tickets see page 2
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YWCA sponsors Week Without Violence I
by Eugene Rodillo
The Gamecock
The YWCA is playing host to the
sixth annual Week Without Violence this
week, a program designed to help alle
viate the problem of domestic violence.
YWCA Women’s Resource Coor
'dinator Nicole Holland said drawing at
tention to the problem was important
to bring to light nonviolent alterna
tives in the area of conflict resolution.
“I think it’s important if you want
to make a difference within your com
munity, which is where I think a lot of
nonviolent alternatives or changes need
to start or stem from,” Holland said. “I
think that activism within the commu
nity is very important. It’s aimed at the
entire community, and the entire com
munity can participate.”
According to Holland, this year’s
Week Without Violence will be the
laigest in the Midlands to date because
there are now more people employed
by the YWCA.
Holland said this program began as
a way to fix the problems that were hin
dering the YWCA’s mission, which in
clude empowering women, violence pre
vention and eliminating racism.
The week started with the Friends
of Sistercare March and Rally on Oct. 14,
beginning in Finlay Park and ending at
‘It’s aimed at the entire community, and
the entire community can participate.’
Nicole Holland
Women’s Resource Coordinator, YWCA
the Statehouse.
“I think the march and rally are im
portant in terms of raising community
awareness about domestic violence,”
Barton said.
Various speakers spoke about do
mestic violence-related issues, includ
ing Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott,
Comptroller General Jim Lander and
Rebecca Collier, director of the Com
mission on Women.
A highlight of the event was the “Sur
vivors Speak,” where survivors of do
YWCA SEE PAGE 2
Journalism School Dean ship
Three finalists
to visit campus
in coming weeks
■ One of the finalists
will be on campus
Thursday and Friday
by Charles Prashaw
The Gamecock
The three candidates for dean of the College of
Journalism and Mass Communication will tour the
university in the next three weeks, starting with William
Norton on Thursday.
Each candidate will have two days of meetings,
tours and question-and-answer sessions when they ar
rive at USC, said Associate Provost of Undergradu
ate Affairs Don Greiner.
The candidates are Norton, dean of the journal
ism program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
Edward Pease, professor and head of the department
of communications at Utah State University, and Ronald
Loewen, vice president for strategic development at
Liberty Corporation and Cosmos Broadcasting of
Greenville.
Norton’s visit to USC will run through Friday.
Pease will visit Oct. 26-27, and Loewen will visit Nov.
3-4. An hour-long session has been set aside for in
terested students to talk to each of the candidates on
those days, starting at 8 a.m.
After every candidate has visited, the search com
mittee in charge of finding candidates will suggest to
Dean see page 2
The finalists
■ Ronald Loewen
President,
Liberty
Insurance
Group,
former VP
Of WIS-TV
V
■ William Norton
Dean, •
University of
Nebraska
school of
journalism
■ Edward Pease
Head,
Utah State
University
department
of communi
cations
Michael Ronqulllo The Gamecock
Virgil Conrad and Julie Paradis were two of the many community
leaders who met at Bethel AME Church In Columbia to encourage
participation In the fight against hunger.
Agencies encourage
fight against hunger
by Valerie Matchette
The Gamecock
In observance of S.C. Hunger Aware
ness Week, area agencies held a commu
nity conference Tuesday to encourage par
ticipation in the fight against hunger.
The conference, which was held from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Bethel AME Church in
Columbia, focused on what initiatives are
being taken by anti-hunger groups across
the state, as well as what is being done to
educate the public on hunger issues.
Many South Carolina community-ser
vice organizations participated in the fo
rum, including the S.C. Christian Action
Council, S.C. Committee Against Hunger,
S.C. Food Bank Association and Inlerfaith
Community Services.
According to Denise Holland, the ex
ecutive director of Harvest Hope Food
Bank, informing the public about com
munity service is one of the most impor
tant aspects of feeding the hungry.
“It’s actually very important because
to fight hunger requires everyone’s col
lective effort,” she said.
“The fight for hunger requires a lot of
education as to why we do still have hunger
in such an affluent society, what we can do
about it, how to be an advocate for people
who are experiencing hunger and how to
help them in a dignified, caring manner dial
truly addresses those families.”
Holland also said part of the success of
South Carolina’s community service groups
is because of their efficient organization.
“It is an entire infrastructure within die
nonprofit community from a food bank to
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“We can be knowledgeable
with other men’s knowledge,
but we cannot be wise with
other men's wisdom.”
— Montaigne
WEDNESDAY
• SG senate, 5 p.m.,
RH Theater
•SAGE, 8 p.m., RH 302
• Ambassadors, 9 p.m.,
Visitor Center
• Student Legislature,
8:30 p.m., GAM B 152
Thursday
• NAACP, 6 p.m.,
RH 205
•ODK, 6 p.m., RH 315
•SALA, 7:30 p.m., RH
305
• Muslim Students Asso
ciation, 7 p.m., RH 305