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idea when I saw an Elvis Presley
show at the Carolina Coliseum,
and I just thought it would be
great for Carolina. I thought: If
it’s gootl enough for Elvis, then
it’s good enough for the
Gamecocks.”
This is the 20th year that “Also
Sprach Zarathustra, Opus 30” or
“2001” has provided the sound
track for the entrance of USC’s
football heroes onto the playing
field, but the piece’s ability to in
vigorate the crowd never grows
old.
“I get chills every time,” said
longtime Gamecock fan Bill
Hipp, who has been attending
Carolina football games for about
40 years.
Originally written in 1896 by
Richard Strauss, the piece is
loosely based on Friedrich
Nietzsche’s book “Thus Spake
Zarathustra,” which describes
man as a potential superman.
It was not until 1983, almost a
century later, that the
Gamecocks claimed their stake
in the musical masterpiece for
the team’s entrance. Until then,
the band simply played the fight
song as the players ran onto the
field.
“It was more like it just hap
pened,” said Hipp.
Initially, the band played the
piece, but because the crowd
couldn’t hear it well enough, a
recording was later used so the
music could be heard over the
loudspeakers.
' “When they (the band) first
played ‘2001,’ only the people
close to where the team was com
ing out and close to where the
band played could hear it, and
the rest of the stadium was not
the same page,” Hipp said.
Once the piece was played
over the stadium’s sound System,
though, the tradition cemented
itself as part of the game day ex
perience. Fans cite the stirring
quality of the piece as the key to
its success and endurance.
“I live for it - it’s almost better
than the football game,” said
Gamecock fan Melinda Gipe of
Charleston, S.C., about the piece.
Gipe’s daughter, Lindsay, is a
second-year nursing student at
USC. She said the family has
been attending Carolina football
games for as long as she can re
member.
“The song just brings so much
energy,” said Kerry Tharp,
sports information director of
USC’s athletics department. “It’s
got the crescendos, and the crowd
just goes crazy.”
Other college football teams
also have distinctive traditions
about how their players come out
onto the field. Clemson players,
for example, have been charging
down “The Hill,” their stadium’s
seat-less student section, to reach
the field since 1942.
The Georgia Bulldogs partici
pate in the “Dog Walk” before
each game, in which the players
and the band march from UGA’s
Tate Student Center to its foot
ball stadium, in between an aisle
of cheering fans the entire way.
Tennessee head coach Doug
Dickey started a tradition for the
Vols in 1964 when his team en
tered the field through an enor
mous “T” formed by the univer
sity’s marching band.
Despite the customs of their
competitors, the Gamecocks re
gard their “2001” entrance as in
comparable.
“The song identifies us now,”
Hipp said. “We have to have our
song be unique - everything has
to be unique. There are hundreds
of tigers and bulldogs, but we’re
the only gamecocks.”
Nobody appreciates the ex
citement of the tradition more
than the players themselves, who
run onto the field each week to
“2001” through a cloud of smoke
and an aisle of cheerleaders to get
pumped before play begins.
“It feels great. It’s an experi
ence that everyone should have
- running out in front of 80,000
people and you know they’re
cheering for you,” said football
player and third-year hotel,
restaurant and tourism manage
ment student Lance Laury.
Suggs agrees: “Kids just want
to run out to it - it’s bigger than
life.”
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mood at Saturday’s game was
“more peaceful than matches at
home.”He said he found it in
teresting that people were shak
ing their car keys to make noise.
Picard said he thought the
game had a “much more relaxed
atmosphere” than sports events
in Europe.
All three, however, seemed
taken aback by the innuendo re
lated to the Gamecocks.
Picard said: “I couldn’t wear a
shirt at home that says ‘Cocks,’
‘Go Cocks’ or ‘Can’t beat our
cocks.’ I would get made fun of.”
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These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department
Compiled by Alexis Stratton.
Each number on
the map stands
fora crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
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NIGHT CRIMES
(6p.m.-6a.m.)«
■ Violent
# Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
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© Nonviolent
Wednesday, Aug. 20
O LARCENY OF MONEY, BATES
HOUSE, 1423 WHALEY ST. The
victim said someone stole his
black leather wallet from his
room. Estimated value: $90.
Reporting officer: T. Means.
Thursday, Sept. 4
® AUTO BREAK-IN, ATTEMPTED
LARCENY OF RADIO, 700 PARK
ST., LOT 1 The complainant
said someone broke out the rear
passenger’s-side window of the
victim’s vehicle, entered the
vehicle and attempted to
remove the car radio. The
complainant also said she saw
two unknown people looking
into the victim’s vehicle on the
passenger’s side. Nothing of
value is missing at this time.
Reporting officer: J.M.
Simmons.
AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF
® CDS, 915 GREGG ST. The
victim said someone broke out
the passenger’s-side window of
the victim’s vehicle and removed
a blue- and black-colored CD case
with 30 CDs. Estimated value:
$300. Reporting officer: J.B.
Coaxum
Friday, Sept. 5 4
TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE,
O PRESTON RESIDENCE HALL,
1323 GREENE ST. Johnnie
Warder was observed walking
inside Preston residence hall.
Five minutes earlier, he was
seen sleeping on a landscape
fixture in front of Wardlaw
College. He was placed under
arrest for trespassing. Warder
had been given a trespass notice
in the past. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin.
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years after the founding of USC’s
NanoCenter in June 2001, which
has already begun to establish the
university as a leader in the ex
ploration of this young science.
The research team, headed by
Philosophy Department Chair
man Davis Beard, comprises of 18
faculty members from 10 depart
ments in the colleges of Liberal
Arts, Science and Math, Mass
Communications and Information
Studies, Engineering and
Information Technology, and the
schools of Law and Medicine.
The team will be focusing on
four areas of study:
♦ The philosophy of the science
to understand how something so
minuscule can be seen and manip
ulated into reliable technologies;
♦ How the nanoscale can and
should be visually depicted and
simulated in everything from mi
croscopy to science fiction, the
arts and literature.
♦ The concepts and ethics of
risks and how to address public
concerns about possible risks.
♦ How nanoscience should be
conveyed to journalists and the
public at large.
A report by the National
Nanotechnology Initiative said
the impact of nanotechnology on
society could be as significant as
the impact of microelectronics,
medical imaging, computer-aided
engineering and man-made poly
mers combined.
Catherine Murphy of the
Chemistry Department, USC’s
nanocenter and the nanotechnol
ogy research team, said public per
ception of the science ranges from
one extreme to the other.
While some people believe that
nanoscience can cure the prob
lems of the world, others believe
that it will ultimately lead to de
struction. Government and reg
ulatory agencies are faced with
the responsibility of setting stan
dards, handling safety issues,
and dealing with consumers to
differentiate between fiction and
reality.
The four-year grant is one of the
largest ever awarded by the
National Science Foundation to
explore the consequences of an
emerging science. Grant projects
will involve students, faculty and
the public through monthly pub
lic seminars, summer workshops,
public conferences, a South
Carolina Honors College course
on the implications of nanotecb^
nology and a textbook on under
standing nanotechnology.
Walter Piegorsch, a member of
the nanotechnology research
team from the statistics depart
ment, said grant money will also
be used to fund undergraduate
and graduate research. He also
said the grant may encourage fu
ture funding.
Harris Pastides, dean of USC’s
Arnold School of Public Health
and interim vice president for re
search, said in a news release that
the grant would enable USC to in
crease the knowledge and under
standing of this emerging science
while at the same time attracting
recognition to USC.
“Formerly, ‘small is
was a truism,” Pasti
“Today, the specter that
devices and technologies unseen
with the human eye can change
our lives is creating excitement
but also potential concern.”
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authorization, and Bush said
Secretary of State Colin Powell
would seek a Security Council res
olution to authorize deployment
of new forces.
Referring to France, Germany
and Russia, Bush said that “not all
of our friends agreed with our de
cision (to) ... remove Saddam
Hussein from power. Yet we can
not let past differences interfere
with present duties.”
Pressed by Democrats and
Republicans alike for a price tag
for Iraq, Bush said he would ask
Congress for $87 billion for the
next fiscal year. Of that amount,
he said, $66 billion would be ear
marked for military and intelli
gence operations in Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere.
While the United States has
shouldered the burden of the ef
fort in Iraq, Bush said other na
tions will be asked to help.
He said Powell would meet with
representatives of many countries
later this month to seek contribu
tions for rebuilding Afghanistan.
Next month, Powell will hold a
similar funding conference for
Iraq.
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the Middle East all will benefit
from the success of freedom in
those two countries, and they
should contribute to that success*
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Bush said that Iraq was under
siege from former loyalists of
Saddam Hussein and foreign ter
rorists who have come to Iraq to
pursue their war against the
United States.
“We cannot be certain to what
extent these groups work togeth
er,” the president said. “We do
know they have a common goal:
reclaiming Iraq for tyranny.”
Public support for Bush’s policy
has slipped since the war but has
leveled off in the mid 50s, polls
show.
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The lack of electricity didn’t
stop Karamchandani and her
friends from listening to the foot
ball game, though.
“I couldn’t watch the game, so
we had to listen to the radio,” she
said. “We had a shower radio, so
we all sat around and listened to
the shower radio.”
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