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www.dailygamecock.com _MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2002 Since 1908 PHOTO BY JASON CLARK/KRT CAMPUS Storm clouds fill the sky at Wllliams-Brfce Stadium on Saturday, when lightning # forced a 52-minute delay in the game between Georgia and USC. This time, blame it on the rain rnuiv/Di inMvioLmn/ me umivi . Will Thompson of Georgia pulls down Andrew Pinnock. Pinnock rushed for 27 yards Saturday. After beating Georgia two * years in a row, the Gamecocks were unable to bring the streak to three and lost the game with a final score of 13-7. Two (JSC programs garner top rankings JESSICA CLANTON TIim.'AMKCOCK The U.S. News and World Report’s College Guide, which comes out today, has ranked USC’s university 101 and un dergraduate international busi ness programs No. 1 in the |country. The business program’s ranking helped raise the entire business school to 43rd in the nation - six spots up from last year’s ranking of 49th. The school hopes this new ranking will attract it even more atten tion. 11 has been proven that par ents and students use the U.S. News and World Report in their deliberation on college choices,” said Joel a. Smith, dean of the Moore School of Business. “We “This high ranking will reinforce a feeling of pride, but it will not make us sit back and relax. In fact, we are now planning a university 201 class for second semester. So we are planning ahead and growing.” DAN BERMAN UNIVERSITY 101 DIRECTOR hope that this will help bring our school more visibility, more ap plicants and continue to improve our quality.” The school attributes much of ♦ RANKINGS, SEE PAGE 2 Index Comics_ 7 Crossword 7 Classifieds 10 Horoscopes 7 Letters to the Editor 4 Online Poll 4 Weather High 89 Low 69 tomorrow High 86 Low 67 Inside ♦ THE MIX Comic book creator Mike Mignola gives his "Hellboy" a sophisticated edge. Page 5 ♦ THE MIX Hard-hitting, sarcastic punk-rock band Dillinger Four will come to New Brookland Tavern. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS Football team loses close game to Georgia in bid for upset. Page 8 ♦ SPORTS Men’s soccer defeats Washington to clinch Gamecock Classic title. Page 8 One smoke might be enough to start habit Nicotine more addictive than was thought, study shows BY BLAKE CLANCY THE GAMECOCK It’s a message students have been hearing for years, but this month, it was hammered home once again. A study re leased in the September issue of the Tobacco Control journal further suggested that the nico tine found in cigarettes is more addictive than was previously expected. The study followed 679 Massachusetts 7th-graders, ages 12 to 13, for three school years through confidential in terviews. The results suggest ed that people can become ad dicted no matter how often they smoke. In essence, it is possible for someone to lose the ability to walk away from a cigarette after just one smoke. Nicotine, a potent habit forming ingredient found in most brands of cigarettes, is widely blamed for hooking po tential smokers. According to the World Health Organization, nicotine is more addictive than cocaine or heroine. Once addicted to cigarettes, a person is more likely to fall victim to sever al potentially deadly side ef fects, which include lung can cer, heart disease and high blood pressure. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 5,992 South Carolinians died as a result of cigarette smoking in 1999 alone. Ninety percent of these started in their teens. Such a widespread problem has not left USC untouched. According to Marcous Gardner, program director of health and wellness programs at Thomson Student Health Center, at least 30 percent of USC students are smokers, and the roots for such habits run deep. “Many students start smok ing in high school and don’t re alize that it’s really hard to quit,” he said. And smoking habits seem to become harder to kick once students hit college. “Students who smoke oc casionally at the beginning of their freshman year usually start smoking more regular ly toward the end of their first yepr due to stress and other factors,” Gardner said. “Many students think cigarettes will be a stress re lease, but nicotine is actual ly a stimulant.” The numerous troubles at tributed to cigarettes do not always fall on deaf ears. A sec ond-year hotel, restaurant, and tourism management stu dent who wished to remain anonymous admitted to smok ing for six years. Now, how ever, she is trying to kick the habit. ♦ SMOKING, SEE PAGE 2 Rape spurs concerns for safety Residents of the Roost, near site of assault, cite too little security BY WENDY JEFFCOAT THE GAMECOCK An Aug. 30 kidnapping and sexual assault near a USC dor mitory has left some students who call the Roost home ques tioning their safety. “There’s no security here. Zero,” said Teranni Randolph, a first-year criminal justice stu dent from Elgin and a resident of the dorm. “There are no lights down here; it’s kind of scary walking back by yourself. We need more security.” Randolph’s roommate, Laura Lipinski, a first-year interna tional studies student from Lexington, said security has got ten a little better since the inci dent. “We try to walk in groups, es pecially at night,” she said. It’s been a little more than two weeks since a USC student was grabbed as she tried to enter the Roost in the middle of the night. A man then forced the 18-year old female under the bleachers at Sarge Frye Field and “There’S 110 raped her. The security Gamecock . - does not usu- fc,c,u* ally reveal There are no names of sexu- |jghtS dOWn al assault vie- . 0 ... tims • here; it’s According kind of scary to Ernest walking Ellis, director . . . of law enforce- “<ICK Dy ment and safe- yourself. We ty at usc, cas- -need more es such as .. ,, this, in which SeCUIlty. the victim TERANNI does not know RANDOLPH the rapist, first-year criminal hannpn rarelv JUSTICE student and nappen rareiy. resident of the roost “We may have one ev ery year, every two years,” Ellis said. “Date rapes ... are the more common.” ♦ ROOST, SEE PAGE 2 For professor, a final song Students and faculty came together to honor life of USC Opera director BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA THE GAMECOCK Former USC Opera director Talmage Fauntleroy was honored Friday at a memorial celebration at the Clarion Townhouse in Columbia. Fauntleroy, who died unex pectedly over the summer, was artistic and general director of Studio Lirico, a summer opera apprentice program he started in Italy, and an associate music professor at USC. The event was held in a decorated ballroom and featured an assortment of hors d’oeuvres and champagne in celebration of Maestro Fauntleroy’s accomplished ca reer. The celebration brought to gether Fauntleroy’s family, friends and former students for an evening of music and reflection on his life and work. The physical beauty of the ballroom was designed to sug gest the eminence of Fauntleroy’s career. Woven flower garlands were arranged around individually chilled bot tles of champagne, which served as centerpieces on the candlelit tables. White table cloths and tuxedoed waiters lent a formal air to the event, while three violins and a grand piano played against the deli cate clatter of crystal and silver flatware. Poet Amittai Aviram read trib utes from Fauntleroy’s friend and mentor David Farar, who said the maestro “met challenges with honor and respect,” and that “his character was one of strength and forthrightness.” Aviram read a letter from the councilmen of the Italian city of Anghiari, where Fauntleroy worked. The letter called Fauntleroy’s work “diligent and intelligent, and productive of nu merous high quality perfor mances.” Aviram also recited poems written to commemorate the late opera director. Music professor Laury Christie described Fauntleroy as “a friend ♦ FAUNTLEROY, SEE PAGE 3 GREEK GROUNDBREAKING PHOTO BY ROBERT GRUEN/THE GAMECOCK Representatives of USC sororities break ground at the Greek Village, which will add 10 houses. See Briefly, Page 3.