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MSWCt Women’sbasketball 1\/T AV\ QT 7 February 4,2002 ♦ Vol. 95,No. 56 back on track with Florida win IVlUliLlClj University of South Carolina ♦ www.dailygamecock.com Candidates Filing Candidates who had filed for office as of Friday: MtEStBENT David Bomemann Brook Bristow Kaleta Brown Jim McFadden Ankit Patel_ VKEPMStKMT Katie Dreiling Shereef El-lbiary Nathan White IftEAStMBt Terrance Beeks Becky Floyd Brant Tosi SENATE College of Engineering Salman Ali Sara Arvidson Nathaniel Mark Ryan Petty College of HRTM Maridith Ramsey College of Journalism and Mass Communications Trinessa Gibson Tabitha Lewis Jen McCarthy Sarah McLaulin Debbie Parker GregSzmurlo College of Liberal Arts Allison Albert Anita Autry Carson Bacon Sarah Bayko Cecelia Booker Kelly Bowen Lara Bratcher Kevin Brazell Michael Brown Matt Butler Jeffrey Gresham Adam Hark Maxwell Highsmith Jason Jefferies George Raad Zachery Scott J.D. Shipman Justin Simmons Elliott Wiles Ginny Wright Moore School of Business Nick Bettin Shaundra Cunningham Chris Foy Thashundrav Robertson Ryan Stuckey Elizabeth Wade Daniel Wheeler Damian Wingate School of Nursing Lindsay Walker School of Pharmacy William Cordova Billy Grooms Jr. School of Public Health Jessica Smith College of Science and Mathematics Amy Buchanan-Feinberg Alecia Burgess Ken Byrd Reshma Changappa Marie Connelly Tricia Daniels Tom Griffin Michael Hickman Dan Homer Jared Joyce-Schleimer Sonia Karamchandani Michael Yehl | E-mail might violate SG ban Message asks groups to let candidate speak at meetings BY BRANDON LARRABEE THE GAMECOCK The Student Governmen Elections Commission seems un likely to act on an e-mail sent t< several student organizations b; the campaign manager for presi dential candidate Sen. David Bornemann. In copies of the e-mail ob tained by The Gamecock, Bornemann's campaign manag er, Chrissy Stauffer, asked the organizations to let Bornemann speak at their meetings. The e-mail might violate a rule that bans campaigning be : fore the mandatory candidates' meeting, which will be held to i day at 5 p.m. While the copies obtained were sent to service organiza tions and sports clubs, it's not clear how many groups received the e-mail or whether it was sent to the clubs individually or through a university or SG list serv. "I know election time is a dreaded period of handouts and long speeches; but David is a different kind of candi date," Stauffer wrote in the five-sentence e-mail. "He has ♦ ELECTIONS, SEE PAGE 3 Looking for Campaign Violations Students can report suspicious activity to the SG office on the first floor of the Russell House. Some of the possible violations: XISending direct mail to student mailboxes. ® Accosting, hawking or shouting at students during person-to person campaigning. X Posting more than one poster on a bulletin board. X Placing campaign materials on dorm room doors without the occupant’s consent. X Distributing anything other than paper, stickers and buttons on the day of elections. * • . A RED, WHITE AND BLUE NIGHT IN NEW ORLEANS — PHOTO BY PATRICK SCHNEIDER/KRT CAMPUS New England cornerback Otis Smith celebrates an Interception and a touchdown by teammate Ty Law during the second quarter of the game. Field goal lifts Patriots to miracle victory BY DAVE GOLDBERG • THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS - The New England Patriots picked the per fect Super Bowl for one of the biggest upsets ever. Adam Vinatieri’s 48-yard field goal as time expired capped a thrilling final two minutes Sunday and gave the Patriots a 20 17 win over the St. Louis Rams for their first Super Bowl victory on a day of red, white and blue. The winning kick came after the Patriots had lost a 17-3 lead in the final 10 minutes. But MVP Tom Brady drove them downfield 53 yards after St. Louis had tied it on a 26-yard pass from Kurt Warner to Ricky Proehl with 1:30 left. The key play was a 23-yard pass from Brady to Troy Brown to the St. Louis 36. Three plays lat er came the kick by Vinatieri, who had made two field goals in the snow to give New England a playoff win over Oakland. The Patriots were 5-11 last year and started this season at 0-2, los ing starting quarterback Drew Bledsoe in the process. Brady, a fourth-stringer as a rookie a year ago, took over and led them to the AFC East title with an 11-5 record. But few ex pected them to beat the Rams, who at 14-2 had the league’s best record and best offense and were trying to win their second Super Bowl in two years. The Patriots had twice lost in the Super Bowl, both times in New Orleans. And it was the first championship as a head coach for Bill Belichick. New England won on a day filled with patriotic themes inside the Superdome and high securi ty outside. There was plenty of drama, too, especially at the end. No Super Bowl has ever gone to overtime, though this game seemed headed that way when the Rams rallied in the fourth quarter. Warner’s 2-yard sneak with 9:31 left — his first rushing TD this season — pulled St. Louis within 17-10. After holding the Patriots, the Rams got the ball back at their own 45 and needed only 21 seconds to tie it. Favored by 14 points, the Rams were billed as the “Greatest Show on Turf.” But if they expected to breeze, they discovered early that the Patriots wouldn’t let them. The Patriots showed their tenacity early, giving up yards grudgingly and moving from their own 3 to near midfield after being pinned deep on their first possession. New England stiffened on St. Louis’ second possession, limit ♦ SUPER BOWL, SEE PAGE 3 A LEGACY ENDURES USC celebrates Black History Month with play, lectures, music BY LOGAN BARLOW THE l.'AMKCOCK Friday marked the beginning of Black History Month, and USC has planned plenty of events to commemorate the occasion. The Multicultural Student Affairs Office, with help from the Association of African-American Students, Brothers of Nubian Descent and Carolina Productions, has planned a month's worth of ac tivities around this year's theme: "African-American Traditions... Continuing the Legacy." Ttye activities kicked off Saturday with the Student Leadership Conference. The event's theme was "Citizenship for the 21st Century," and Lorraine Johnson-Coleman was the keynote speaker. Johnson-Coleman is the au thor of "Just Plain Folks: Original Tales of Living, Loving and Learning," a collection of essays and short stories that focuses on * BSurf Yourself www.sa.sc.edu/omsa/BlackHistoryMonth.html African-American folk culture. She is also a regular commenta tor on National Public Radio's Morning Edition. Here's a sapple of upcoming events: ♦ Hasani Pettiford, author of "Wealth Builders: An Economic Program for African-American Youth,” will speak in the Russell House Theater at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 11. Pettiford is a distinguished professional speak er known for his presentations on achieving financial stability. Pettiford founded Wealth Builders of Young Black America, an organization de signed to help youth learn to con trol their finances. The event is free. ♦ Comedian Lavell Crawford ♦ BLACK HISTORY, SEE PAGE 3 Study shows campus drug arrests rising BY ADAM BEAM THE GAMECOCK In a study released last month by the U.S. Education Department, drug arrests on college campuses increased 10.2 percent in 2000, ac cording to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Liquor arrests were up as well, increasing 4.2 percent after post ing only a 0.4 increase in 1999. The study was based on infor mation from 6,269 educational or ganizations, both nonprofit and for-profit. ♦ FOR AN IN-DEPTH REPORT ON CRIME AT USC, READ WEDNESDAY’S GAMECOCK According to The Chronicle, 16 murders were committed on college campuses in 2000, com pared with 11 in 1999. The Chronicle found, however, that four of those weren’t really mur ders. The survey also included fig ures from off-campus crimes, as well as crimes committed on ♦ DRUG ARRESTS, SEE PAGE 3 TODAY'S WEATHER: Mostly sunny. Becoming windy during the afternoon. High 57, Low 25. TOMORROW'S WEATHER: Partly sunny. High 53, Low 33.