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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
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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.
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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