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Fans celebrate Tieerburn
by Gina Caruso
The Gamecock
Loyal USC fans gathered at the State
Fairgrounds for Tigerbum on Thursday
night to show support for their Game
cocks for this Saturday’s battle against
Clemson.
The festivities were highlighted by
the burning of a tiger and also included
performances by the USC cheerleaders
and band and special appearances by
players and assistant football coaches.
_ The evening, made possible by Car
™ olina Productions, the Alumni Associ
ation and the Carl Smith Law Firm,
kicked off with the Carolina spirit
song while cheerleaders danced and fire
works lit up the sky. A live host from
WARQ 93.5 started the event by intro
ducing a member of Sigma Nu who is
participating in this year’s “Game Ball
Run.”
According to Mark Goddard of Sig
ma Nu, brothers of the chapters from
USC and Clemson will run the game ball
from the fairgrounds to the stadium in
Clemson to raise money for the Multi
ple Sclerosis Society, which provides re
search and programs for sufferers of the
fatal disease.
Cheerleaders and Cocky then pro
ceeded to distribute miniature footballs
to the fans in attendance. Each football
was marked with a number. The host
called out two numbers, and the two
winners received either a gift certificate
to the Russell House bookstore or a cell
phone compliments of Sprint PCS.
Assistant coaches Charlie Strong and
Skip Holtz made appearances, assuring
the fans they were prepared for the con
test against Clemson.
“You are as ready as we are,” Strong
said. “We’ll make sure our defense is
better this weekend.”
According to Holtz, the team is look
ing forward to the challenge of playing
arch-rival Clemson. While playing at
home is an honor, he said the players are
excited about the away game because
they know USC fans will also be there
to support the Gamecocks.
Right tackle Melvin Page extend
ed his thanks to all the fans.
“This is the biggest game all year,
and we’re going to kick butt Satur
day,” he said.
Cleveland Pinkney also thanked the
fans for their support.
“I know we’ve let you down the last
couple weeks, but we’re going to try and
pull this one out,” he said.
The focus then turned to the tiger.
Created in partnership by Carolina Pro
ductions, Omega Phi Alpha and Kappa
Alpha Theta, the tiger was doused in
lighter fluid and then ignited by mem
bers of Carolina Productions and Cocky.
As the tiger went up in flames^ the
fans and Cocky danced to the fight song.
The festivities completed as fireworks
filled the sky.
The event capped off “Spirit Week’v
at USC, which also included a Blood
Drive that continues through Friday and
the grand re-opening of the Gamecock
Bi-Lo on Devine Street.
The university desk can be reached at
ganwcockudesk@hotmall.com.
SG representatives meet student body
by Brandon Larrabee
The Gamecock
With balloons, cotton candy and the almost obligato
ry golf carts. Student Government took to Greene Street
on Wednesday to get out their message in the second an
nual “Meet Your Student Government Day.”
Student senators sat at the tables of their respective
colleges, ready to answer student questions about SG. At
noon, executive officers gave their “State of the Univer
g sity” addresses.
* SG President Jotaka Eaddy licked off a list of accom
plishments and goals that she and her Cabinet have for the
remainder of her term, which runs out in January.
She highlighted some of the elements of her “Contract
with Carolina,” including the creation of a “Sixth Man
Club” section for university basketball games and the pe
tition to extend the drop date, which has garnered more
than 5,000 student signatures.
“Student Government brought that issue to you," Ead
dy said.
Eaddy said other goals for SG include holding a series
of town hall meetings, creating a student activity hotline,
helping with the university's business incubator project
and holding a statewide diversity summit at the universi
ty. SG also wants to hold a forum involving SG presidents
from across the state.
Eaddy encouraged students to hold their elected offi
cials to “a higher mark."
“You voted for them, they’re responsible to you,” Ead
dy said.
* And she told students that all of them had a role in SG.
“Every student at the University of South Carolina is
a member of Student Government,” Eaddy said.
After her speech, Eaddy said the day was a day where
“Student Government actually comes out of the office.”
“It’s an opportunity for students to hear what Stu
dent Government is doing,” she said.
That interaction, in addition to supporting SG, was why
she attended the event, Eaddy said.
“My main objective was to meet students,” she said.
Eaddy said SG’s most important goal, based on the
response from students, was their effort to extend the drop
date.
“It’s something that the students felt that we should be
doing,” Eaddy said.
Vice President Corey Ford gave Eaddy credit for al
most fulfilling her contract.
“There’s more to do, of course,” Ford said.
He listed three things he wanted student Senate, of
which he is president, to accomplish: raising funds for re
cycling, researching academic forgiveness at other schools
and working with the Multicultural Committee to do re
search on the ratio of minority faculty to minority students.
Ford said the purpose of the day was to “at least have
the opportunity for students to come up and talk to their
representatives.”
“I wanted them to know that they had access to me,”
he said.
Ford said the day was a success.
“I would say yes, on the simple fact that we were out
there,” he said. “But I was very displeased in the turnout
from the members of Student Government.”
He said turnout from students was “adequate.”
Other SG members also showed up to interact with
students.
“How are the students going to know we’re here if we
don’t show our faces?” said Manasi Sinha, working the cot
ton candy machine at SG’s refreshment table.
SG capped off the day with a meeting of the student
Senate and a reception with several deans from the uni
versity.
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gamecockudesk@hotmaU.com.
Travis Lynn The Gamecock
Student Government President Jotaka Eaddy addresses stu
dents at “Meet Your Student Government Day.”
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Workplace
has new
ergonomic
standards
byKristin von
Karowsky
The Gamecock
The Occupational Safety and Health
Administration issued a new ergonom
ics standard Nov. 13 that will grant
new protections to 102 million indus
trial employees.
According to the U.S. Department
of Labor’s OSHA web site, ergonomics
is the science of fitting the job to the
worker. The new safety standard will af
fect workers in industrial jobs ranging
from assembly lines to computer termi
nals.
OSH A’s government standards could
significantly reduce the severity and num
ber of work-related musculoskeletal dis
orders (MSDs) caused by exposure to
risk factors in the workplace. Some of
the risk factors for developing workplace
MSDs are repetition of tasks, awkward
postures and force, vibration and con
tact stress. However, according to OS
HA, the standard does not include in
juries caused by trips, slips, falls, vehicle
accidents or similar accidents.
According to OSHA’s web site, MS
Ds occur when there is a disparity be
tween the physical capacity of workers
and the physical demands of their jobs.
About 1.8 million U.S. workers each year
report work-related MSDs, such as carpal
tunnel syndrome, back injuries and
tendentious. About 6,000 of these MS
Ds are serious enough to result in work
ers being forced to take lime off from
work to recover. OSHA believes the so
lution to this problem rests with er
gonomics—lilting the job to the work
er—rather than vice versa.
All general industry employees are
covered by the standard, but the stan
dard doesn’t apply to employers covered
by OSHA's maritime, construction and
agricultural standards. It also does not
apply to employer-operated railroads.
OSHA asserts that the new standard will
prevent 4.6 million MSDs in the first 10
years, and will save an average of $9.1
billion annually. In terms of cost, em
ployers will pay $4.5 billion annually.
The average cost for fixing an individual
work station averages about $250 per
employee per year, according to OSHA’s
web site.
Elizabeth Steedly, who has been a
USC administrative assistant for 15 years,
Injuries see page 2
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The Gamecock
The “Search for Six,” an attempt to
select six individuals who best portray
the Carolinian Creed to speak at USC
for the Bicentennial Celebration, has
come down to an online poll that ends
today.
The process to pick ‘The Six” start
ed in October with student and faculty
mixed committees being set up to run
through possible candidates. Those com
mittees picked between 10 and 15 peo
ple for each of the six categories.
After narrowing down the list of
possible candidates, the different search
committees researched biographical in
formation about the candidates and wrote
a paper on each, giving reasons why they
believed each candidate portrays the
Carolinian Creed.
When the search is over, one indi
vidual will be ultimately be selected
from these six categories—alumni, pol
itics, religion, entertainment, education
and business—to speak at USC.
For now, there is a list of 10 to 15
candidates in each category, and students
can vote today online to determine who
will represent each category. Students
can vote in the “Search for Six” at
vip.sc.edu by logging in and clicking on
the “Personal” tab.
The six speakers will address USC
throughout the bicentennial year. Un
der the original plan, the six were all go
ing to speak at the kickoff to the bicen
tennial year Jan. 10. But due to time
constraints and the availability of most
of the speakers, it was decided to alter
the plan.
Some of the speakers, Director of
the Search for Six Carmela Carr said,
may be a little hard to get, including the
Dalai Lama, Madeleine Albright, Bill
Gates, Carlos Santana, Steven Spielbeig,
Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods and Kofi
Annan. But the search committee will
try to get every candidate students se
lect in the online voting.
“We probably won’t get all six,” Can
said. “But we will try.”
Although all six won’t be speaking
at the kickoff, Carr urged students to
come and take part in the event. Ac
cording to Carr, the administration de
cided to open dorms two days earlier to
allow more students to attend the kick
off.
“This a really great opportunity for
students and faculty to work together
for a common purpose,” Carr said of the
search process.
Megan DeLoreto, a student on the
Alumni category search committee,
echoed those feelings. She said it was
great experience working with a mix of
students and faculty.
“It is nice to see what kind of peo
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Friday
Spirit Week
• Carolina/Clemson Blood
Drive, RH Ballroom
• Volleyball, SEC Tourna
ment
• Native American
Festival
Saturday
• Football at Clemson,
3:30 p.m.
• Great American Smoke
Out
• Native American
Festival
• Volleyball, SEC
Tournament