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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
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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,
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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
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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