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4 USC students pose in Playboy Student record not found for one of the ‘Girls of the SEC ’ BY REBECCA WHITEHEAD TIIE GAMECOCK Four USC students are featured in Playboy’s October issue, but some question the validity of one girl’s status as a USC student. The “Girls of the SEC’’ photo col lection pictures four USC students, listed in the magazine with their majors: Heidi Ondo, fashion mer chandising, Stacey Richardson, ex ercise science; Jennifer Hess, psy chology; and Julie Brock, theater. The Exercise Science Department, however, has no record of Richard son. Exercise Science Administrative Specialist Latoya Frazier said Richardson has no student folder, most likely indicating Richardson isn’t a student in that school. “Her record would still be here unless she transferred majors in the last week,” Frazier said Fri day. “I don’t think that’s possible.” Another staff member checked graduate student records at the School of Public Health, which in cludes the exercise science de partment, and found no record of Richardson. The registrar’s office also had no record of Richardson, accord ing to information in Playboy. “She probably changed her name for the publication,” Play boy spokeswoman Karen Borgstrom said. “We do allow that.” Borgstrom said Playboy re quires a valid identification card that shows age and a current col lege identification card for the col lege pictorials. Another Playboy spokesman, Jody Grimaldi, said published in formation can be as limited as the models prefer. “Sometimes the girls don’t say [their majors],” he said. “They don’t want a lot of info known.” Fourth-year student Hess con firmed her given information and said she doesn’t think Richardson is a full-time student. Ondo, a third year student, also confirmed her printed information and said she doesn’t know about Richardson’s information. This is the fourth time Playboy has featured the girls of the SEC. The first time was in 1977. Grimaldi said the college issues sell the fastest. “It’s a favorite of Playboy readers,” he said. Potential models were inter viewed last April and called back for photo shoots. Hess said “quite a few girls” were interviewed. “I went for curiosity to begin with,” Hess said. “They continued to call me for two days.” Hess said she was reluctant at first to pose because she was wor^ ried about the responses of others, especially her mother. “If I didn’t do it for something like that, I might have wished I did,” she said. Hess said she told Playboy “up front” she wouldn’t do full-frontal nudity. She appeared with Richardson and Ondo in a picture at Lake Murray. Brock is pictured by herself in the magazine. Ondo didn’t want to comment on the picture. “I’m kind of wor ried about the ramifications,” she said. Ondo would not say how much she was paid. Brock could not be reached for comment. Four USC students posed for the October issue of Playboy, which hit stands Monday. V 83,000 FANS AND BEYOND A record crowd cheered on the Gamecock football team at Saturday’s game against Boise State, photo by aaron hark CROWD CONTROL k F BY CHRIS FOY THE (iAMECOCK When students entered Williams-Brice stadium Saturday night to see South Caroli na play Boise State, they walked into a stu dent section overflowing with fans. Students could barely move to get in or out of the stands. Walls of screaming fans made a task as simple as going to the concession stand a hour-long trip. “It was the point where people were shov ing and pushing,” junior psychology major Danielle Butler said. “My friend even got pushed on the field at one point. But where it was annoying, at the same time it gave you a rush. It kind of added to the excitement.” Sophomore business major Robynne Davis agreed. “It was good that there were a lot of people there, it was very atmospheric. The walk ways were very crowded, so it was difficult to watch the game because people were con stantly bumping into you,” Davis said. The stadium can hold 80,250 people, but a record opening-day crowd of 83,019 showed up at Saturday’s game. The ticket office normally sells 11,500 stu dent tickets. For this game, it sold an extra 400 tickets for standing room only. Many students with standing-room tickets instead sat in the . student section, overcrowding the stands and forcing other students to stand in the aisles and walkways next to the field. Although some students appreciated the wild atmosphere, the packed stadium was a fire hazard. “Whatever the capacity is for any stadi um, they shouldn’t sell more tickets than that,” Battalion Chief Herman Boney said. Boney said fire marshals typically make sure all exits remain clear at all times; even if an emergency arose in the overflowing sta dium, the marshals were prepared to clear the fans out of the stadium. 1 Holtz endows $25,000 to Cooper library BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK USC football coach Lou Holtz, along with his wife, Beth, an nounced Tuesday their gift of $25,000 to USC to establish an en dowment at the Thomas Cooper Library. The Lou and Beth Holtz Li brary Endowment for Under graduate Resources will be used for the purchase of books, jour nals and audiovisual materials, as well as to enhance Web-based p resources. “You don’t give money and tell people how to use it,” Holtz said. “You give them the money and let them decide where it is needed most. This gift wasn’t made with the endowment in mind. We made a gift to the university and decided that the library was the best place to put it.” The announcement, made Tues day morning in front of the li brary, was called “an exciting day” for the university by USC President John Palms. “This generous gift from Lou and Beth Holtz goes right to the heart of the university, our li brary,” said Palms. “From the mo ment Lou Holtz arrived at USC, he has been dedicated to athletic and academic achievement. This gift is an excellent example of how athletic and academic partner ships work to (help the) entire campus community.” Holtz has made numerous con tributions to the university before, and plans to do so in the future, but without all of the “hoopla.” “I’ve given before, but there has never been any of this hoopla,” said Holtz. “It was said that if we made an endowment out of this gift, that others might join. I can’t make a major difference in the li brary by myself, but with help we can make a difference.” The endowment will enhance what is already a nationally rec ognized research library. The Thomas Cooper library ranks 31st out of 3,000 research li braries in North America and 47th among all libraries for over all quality, according to Palms. Holtz joins Penn State football ♦ HOLTZ, SEE PAGE 3 USC’S PAST SEPTEMBER 7,1971: The University’s African-American Studies Program officially began, becoming popular with students of all races. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Thunderstorms, Thunderstorms, 88/70 88/70 INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE A look at video < Get carried away game soundtracks by football coverage Soundtracks provide A look at USC’s 32-13 win over alternative to mainstream Boise State. ♦ PAGE 10 music ♦ PAGE 7 ONLINE POLL Di d you feel there was a crowd problem at Saturday’s football game? Vote at w w w. da ily gamecock .com. Results are published on Fridays. ■■■■■■■■■■■■Mi Crime leaves USC worrying about image BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK When University Ambassador Jonathan Winn gives campus tours to prospective students and their parents, he expects to answer questions about acade mic programs and cafeteria food — not a shooting in Five Points. “It creates a very uncomfort able situation, especially in the recruitment of the students,” Winn said. “Especially for me, being a representative of the university to those students, whatever view I take, for them, is the view that the university takes.” Violent crime, though rare on USC’s campus, makes the ad missions department tense, es pecially in light of the national media attention the university has been receiving. “Lou Holtz has a wonderful following that has created a great following in the national press,” said Denise Wellman, Visitor Center director. “We’ve had great athletic success, and the media attention has provid ed the window of opportunity for students to look at our academic programs.” Students seem to be taking that opportunity. Wellman esti mates that, between individual and group tours, the Visitor Cen ter serves between 20,000 and 50,000 students a year. Along with this new attention comes new questions about cam “Of course, safety is always an issue that parents ask (about). For a lot of them, it’s their first time sending a child away.” KORRY INGLEMAN PRESIDENT, UNIVERSITY AMBASSADORS pus safety. “It gets asked at least once a day,” Wellman said. “Of course, safety is always an issue that parents ask (about),” University Ambassadors President Korry Ingleman said. “For a lot of them, it’s their first time sending a child away.” But when the questions come, the ambassadors are ready. “They do training in every thing,” Wellman said. “They participate in two major train ing sessions a year, and then we do have a professional de velopment workshop once a month that they participate in as well.” Last year, ambassadors met with university police about how to “respond to questions that parents ask,” Wellman said. “The first thing we do is to make sure we know what is in The State and The Gamecock, be cause those families are going to pick up The Gamecock and we are going to be ready to respond," Wellman said. “We need to know ♦ SAFETY, SEE PAGE 4 John Palms and USC football player John Stamper watch as Lou and Beth Holtz announce their gift to Thomas Cooper Library, photo by Stephanie gibbs