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University of South Carolina CD I HAY QPPTPM RPP 00 0000 Vol.96,No.l7 www.dailygamecock.com rixIDrW, OLl I CIVIDLIA Z.U, ^UUZ Sincel908 -■ - ■ .. . -■ - ■■ ■ ... , . 1 - .ili. j ■ a 27 IDs confiscated at game ^ Administration penalizes for lending cards to nonstudents BY HOLLY BOUNDS THE GAMECOCK “That doesn’t look like you.” That's what 27 people heard as they tried to enter the Georgia game last Saturday with a fake student ID card. Thirty-three were collected at the New Mexico State game and more than 50 each at last year’s Clemson and Florida games. Nonstudents have tried many ways to squeeze through the tick et takers at USC football games, but according to John Ogle, tick et-taker supervisor, that attempt is risky. “We scrutinize every ID”, he said. Ogle added that some aren’t hard to miss. “We turned away about six people at Saturday’s Georgia game wearing shirts plastered with a big G but claiming to be USC students,” he said. After hearing the penalties of getting caught, one might want to think twice about trying to en ter under false pretenses. Students are not only turned away from the game,but their IDs are sent to the Office of Student Judicial Programs. Students whose cards were dishonestly used must report to the Student Judicial Board to retrieve their ID. Students cannot use a meal plan, get into other campus events or do anything else that re quires a student ID until theirs has been picked up. According to Ogle, ID Services have records of the confiscation and will not make a new card or activate an old one. Curt Derrick, ticket manager, gives advice to those who loan their IDs to friends: “You Should treat your ID like you treat a credit card,” he said. “If you don’t, it will burn you.” Some USC alumni even try to get into games with their old IDs. Nick Johnson, a third-year ad ministrative information man agement student, admits that he has given away his student ticket to an alumni friend as a favor be ♦ TICKETS, SEE PAGE 3 0 Florin Jichi, left, a mechanical engineer from Westlnghouse, discusses job opportunities with Deepa Shroff, right, a fourth-year student graduating in December with a computer ♦ science degree. PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK Kimberlee Kossover, a graduate International business student, shakes hands with Brian Beagan, a representative of Office Depot, at the Career Fair in the Coliseum Thursday afternoon. Finding a job might be a little easier dt bunti UMnmui i THE OAMEQQCK The search for jobs after graduation is slowly getting better, according to a USC research economist. Donald Schunk said businesses are returning to healthy levels of efficiency — meaning they will soon look to new employees to expand production. Schunk said that, by graduation, students will see more interest from em ployers. “We’re very close to the point where we ought to see more sustained hiring ac -■* * » Schunk said. South Carolina started losing jobs in the middle of2000, but “just within the last few months, there have been signs that it is turning around,” Schunk said. The turnaround comes just in time for USC students in search of a career. On Thursday, the Career Center sponsored the 28th annual Career Fair Blitz, at which students can hand out re sumes to interested compa nies. More than 100 compa nies came to this year’s fair. “I just want a secure job,” said Jonathan Valone, a third-year electrical engi neering student. When more people apply for jobs, Schunk said, busi nesses get more of a selec tion. During hard times) many graduates simply choose to go to graduate school. This is a good idea, he said, because “three years from now, someone coming out with an MA is looking at a better market.” Aiuwxn Aueuaua, wno came back to school for a graduate degree in busi ness, said: “I was laid off from Global Crossing — one of the tech casualties.” The market’s “pretty dry in my field,” he said. Abellada has handed his resume to between 50 and 100 employ ers since he lost his job. Students similarly pressed for work strolled through the corridors of the Carolina Coliseum during Thursday’s Blitz. Companies from BMW to Microsoft to Zeus Industrial attracted nearly 2,000 student job seek ers decked out in ties and with re sumes. Students took advan tage of the career fair because of the economic recession. Students at USC often look to the Career Center to help them with their future. The Center itself shows students the way to interested South Carolina employers, helping to find jobs after grad uation. On the sixth floor of the B.A. Building, it offers ca reer counseling, job place ment, help with resumes and tips on applying to graduate school. “One of our big chal lenges is helping students help themselves,” said Heather Rayes, program manager of the Career Center. “We try to educate the students starting in their first year in University 101.” Because of the fair, “a lot of students are coming in to have their resume checked,” she said. Kenneth Howayeck, a 2002 USC graduate with an ♦ CAREER FAIR, SEE PAGE 2 The Career Fair Blitz brought more than 100 companies to USC to speak with students. Index Comics_ 7 Crossword_7 Classifieds_ 10 Horoscopes7 Letters to the Editor 4 Online Poll 4 Weather High 85 Low 68 TOMORROW High 84 Low 70 ♦ ON THE WEB Read state, nation and world briefs. www.dallygamecock.com Inside ♦ THE MIX Columbia’s theater district prepares for a full, exciting fall season. Pages ♦ VIEWPOINTS This November, South Carolina must show that black politicians can break the “glass ceiling.’’ Page 4 ♦ THE MIX Touring is a draining task for Fall Out performers Sparta and Cave In. rage t> ♦ SPORTS Corey Jenkins and the rest of the Gamecock prepare to tak< on Temple. Page 8 HHHHHHI Tennis courts on campus down to 3 BY WENDY JEFFCOAT THE OAMECOCK Students and faculty wanting to play tennis on campus might have to start reserving courts or waiting longer than usual for an available one. That’s because USC has closed nine of the 12 tennis courts at Wheat and Pickens streets to make way for a new Child Development Center. “If you look around campus, there’s not a lot of land avail able” for such ventures, said Herbert Camp, director of Campus Recreation. The deci sion was made earlier this year to use the lot next to the Blatt P.E. Center, where the courts are located. With only three available courts, a reservation system might have to be enforced, espe cially when the demand for courts increases in the spring. But that is “pretty consis tent with what other tennis courts do,” Camp said. “In the past, we haven’t really publi ♦ TENNIS COURTS, SEE PAGES PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK At Blatt P.E. Center, the nets were taken off the tennis courts, nine of which will be replaced by a children’s center. University 201 class to begin in spring BY KEVIN FELLNER THE GAMECOCK The nation’s top-ranked uni- - versity experience course is get ting a supplement. USC’s University 101 program, which U.S. News and World Report ranked the best of its kind nationally earlier this week, will be adding a class called University 201, to be offered next spring semester. The class’s objective is to make research a part of the mission of undergraduates and the entire university community, not just professors. Students will carry out that mission by answering ques tions they set for themselves, us ing campus resources such as li braries and the Internet. The new class, called funda mentals of inquiry, is the result of a grant given to the South Carolina Honors College, in part nership with the University 101 program, from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The class will make its debut with ♦ UNIV 201, SEE PAGE 3 SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK Charlie Crews, a member of the Gamecock Club for 61 years, will be the first person to sit in the Carolina Center when the arena opens. ‘Noblest’ fan will be first in arena BY JESSICA CLANTON THE GAMECOCK The USC Carolina Center will open its doors for the first time this November, and longtime Gamecock club member Charlie I Crews will be the first one in line. Crews, 85, was recently asked by the USC Athletics Department to accept the honor of being the first fan to sit in the new arena. “I was apprehensive about be ing asked to be the first to sit in the new arena, but Mike McGee and Chris Massaro asked me to do it and that was hard to refuse,” said Crews, a retired Columbia doctor and 61-year member of the Gamecock Club. The first game will be Sunday, Nov. 24, against East Tennessee State University. “We chose Dr. Crews as the first person to sit in the new arena be cause he has always been a big USC fan,” said Chris Massaro, senior as sistant athletics director and ticket operator. "In fact, we refer to him as the noblest Gamecock of all be cause of his tremendous support and longevity in the USC basket ball program.” ♦ CREWS, SEE PAGE 3