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Since 1908
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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.
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. Will Thompson of Georgia pulls down Andrew Pinnock. Pinnock rushed for 27 yards Saturday. After beating Georgia two
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Two (JSC programs
garner top rankings
JESSICA CLANTON
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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
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have one ev
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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.