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‘Cocks’ merchandise under fire
Athletics says it
meant to regulate
only products at
Williams-Brice
BY ADAM BEAM
THE GAMECOCK
The company that handles all
of USC’s product licensing says
the university has banned the
word “Cocks” from all merchan
dise except hats, a situation the
USC athletics department is call
ing a misunderstanding.
Jennifer Koshlap, a represen
tative for SEC schools with the
Collegiate Licensing Company,
said she was contacted by USC in
May and told that the university
would no longer approve any de
signs with the word “Cocks,” opt
ing for the full name “Gamecocks”
instead.
On May 8,2003, Koshlap sent an
e-mail to companies licensed to
make USC products saying that
“effective immediately,” the uni
versity would no longer approve
designs with the word “Cocks” on
it. The e-mail also said that the
companies must deplete their cur
rent inventory of “Cocks” mer
chandise and that any previous ap
provals of “Cocks” merchandise
were now disapproved.
Sports Information Director
Kerry Tharp said the issue was a
miscommunication between the
athletics department and the li
censing company. Tharp said the
intent was to have only the word
“Gamecocks” on merchandise
sold at Williams-Brice Stadium,
where the athletics department
has control over what is sold.
“But as far as outside outlets
that were properly licensed, we
have not, as I said, prohibited or
communicated any type of re
strictions,” he said. “It seems to
me that we may have done an in
adequate job of communicating
that, and we may need to get that
corrected.”
But local vendors have been de
nied requests for more “Cocks”
merchandise. Carolyn Williams,
owner of Gamecock Spirit Shop
on Main Street, has been selling
Gamecock merchandise for 30
years. She said she placed an or
der for more “Cocks” merchan
dise back in May, but was told by
her suppliers that they were no
longer allowed to print them. She
said “Cocks” shorts and T-shirts
were big sellers, along with a plas
tic stadium cup they have carried
for years that reads, “Big Cock
fan.”
“I have people that ask for that
every day,” she said.
Jeff Seidel is the owner of
AdMagnets.com, a company that
makes slap koozies with “Go
Cocks” written on them as well as
a variety of other Gamecock mer
chandise. He said he has had to go
back and have new screens, or
stencils, cut for all of his items. He
said it costs about $50 to change a
screen.
“That’s my No. 1 seller,” said
Seidel, who graduated from USC
in 1977 with a journalism degree.
Koshlap said that when a com
pany wants to produce a USC
product, it must first submit its
designs to the licensing company.
The company then sends all the
designs to Ken Corbett, special
♦COCKS, SEE PAGE 2
PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK
Kyle Lundgren, an attorney from St. Paul, Minn., looks through
T-shirts at the University Bookstore. He says that outside South
Carolina, the word “Cocks” is often misunderstood.
New law
school
says it
won’t
rival USC
BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA
THK GAMECOCK
Although a USC law school fac
ulty member just left to work at
the Charleston School of Law, the
newly formed Lowcountry insti
tution will not try to compete with
Carolina, a Charleston law school
official said Thursday.
USC law school Admissions
Director John Benfield resigned
Tuesday to take a job in Charleston.
USC Law School interim Dean
Frank Mood said Benfield was the
only USC Law School staff mem
ber to resign so far.
But according to one USC law
school professor, who didn’t waht
to be identified, other faculty
members are considering taking
jobs in Charleston as well.
Richard Gershon, dean of the
Charleston School of Law, said the
school has received several appli
cations from USC faculty.
Gershon said the school’s location
and its private status have at
tracted faculty members from
around the country.
“You never want to lose good
people,” Mood said. He added,
however, that there is no shortage
of potential replacement faculty
members in South Carolina.
“I think there are a number of
people out there from whom we
can draw.” he said.
Mood took over as interim dean
of the USC law school last sum
mer. A search committee has been
searching for a full-time Law
School dean since 2001.
“We don’t see ourselves compet
ing directly with USC,” said
Gershon, who currently acts as
dean of Texas Wesleyan law school.
As a private institution, the
♦ LAW SCHOOL, SEE PAGE 2
■ Two years later, the nation continues to mourn the victims
of the terrorist attacks that changed lives around the world
BY LARRY MCSHANE
THK ASSOCIATED RRK.SS
NEW YORK - Two by two they
stepped forward at ground zero
Thursday, the sons and daughters,
nieces and nephews, grandsons and
granddaughters of the Sept. 11 victims,
mournfully reciting the 2,792 names
KD of the World Trade Center dead.
I “My mother and my hero,” 13-year
old Brian Terzian said after reading
nrS the name of his mother, Stephanie
McKenna. “We love you. ”
Lie®* For a second straight year, the na
tion paused on a bright September
morning to recall the day when hi
jacked jetliners slammed into the
■ World Trade Center, the Pentagon and
a field in Pennsylvania, killing more
than 3,000 people in the worst terrorist
attack in U.S. history.
In New York, 200 children led the
mourning, showing extraordinary
poise as they read the enormous list
of victims for 21/2 hours. Church bells
tolled at the moment hijacked Flight
93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa. A mo
ment of silence was observed at the
Pentagon for the 184 victims there.
And President Bush stood in silence
on the White House lawn
“We remember the heroic deeds,”
Bush said. “We remember the com
passion, the decency of our fellow cit
izens on that terrible day. We pray for
the husbands and wives, the moms
and dads, and the sons and daughters
and loved ones.”
The relatives at ground zero ap
peared in various sad permutations:
Police Sgt. Michael Curtin was repre
sented by his three daughters,
Jennifer, 17, Erica, 15, and Heather,
13. Kristen Canillas, 12, stood alongr
side 8-year-old Christopher Cardinali;
both had lost a grandparent.
“I love you and I miss you,”
Kristen said after reciting the name
of her grandfather, Anthony
Luparello.
The children - the youngest was 7 -
offered poignant messages to. their lost
loves ones, their emotions laid bare
before a crowd that held aloft pictures
of the victims, dabbed tears from their
eyes, and laid flowers in temporary re
flecting pools representing the towers.
' ♦ REMEMBRANCE, SEE PAGE 3
Faculty,
students
celebrate
diversity
BY JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursday, USC students and fac
ulty convened in the Capstone •
conference room to celebrate the
40th anniversary of the universi
ty’s desegregation, an event or
ganized by the African American
Studies Department.
“I think it was a wonderful
event,” said Cleveland Sellers, di
rector of USC’s African American
Studies Department. “I thought
we were able to get the kind of
thank you that these people de
serve. The university said thank
you.”
Sellers summarized the event
as a “celebration of the courage
of three young people” as well as
any other “unsung heroes.”
mstory proiessor uan carter
spoke about the historical context
of the integration.
“I remember there was a head
line in The Gamecock,” he said.
‘“Mother of Negress sees no vio
lence.’ Now that’s a word last
seen in Webster’s dictionary in
1923, and USC students were us
ing it in 1963.”
He talked about the trials that
thp new black students were
forced to endure as they attended
the university.
“If you were standing there 40
years ago,” he said, “they’d be try
ing to kill you. Now, they’re
standing and applauding.”
Robert Anderson, James
Solomon and Henrie Montieth
Treadwell were the first three
blacks to enroll at USC since
Reconstruction.
Anderson, a retired social
worker, said the invitation to
speak at the celebration brought
“a flood of emotion, memories
both sweet and terrible.”
He was present only by phone,
♦ INTEGRATION, SEE PAGE 2
Index
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Classifieds 10
Horoscopes \
Letters to the Editor 4
Online Poll 4
Police Report 2
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In This Issue
♦ NEWS USC students honor
the victims of the Sept. 11
attacks. Page 3
♦ VIEWPOINTS Kristen Gilmore
says USC’s new smoking policy
is groundless. Page 4
♦ THE MIX Curl up with a good
1 book. The Mix celebrates
! September’s focus on literacy.
Page 5
♦ SPORTS As the USC football
team heads to Georgia,
! columnists from both schools
square off. Page 8
USC takes action to prevent future blackouts
BY IRA KLEIN
THE (JAHECOCK
USC officials said they are
working to improve the univer
sity’s energy system to ensure
that power outages, like the one
that hit south campus Saturday,
will not happen again.
Jim Demarest of USC Facility
Services said Saturday’s outage
was caused by the failure of an
old, faulty 8,320-volt primary-feed
line. Demarest said they are not
sure exactly what caused the
wire to fail, but he said that two
reasons are most likely — either
the insulation around the wire
cracked, allowing moisture to
seep in, or a mold that is known
to grow within the insulation
jacket that surrounds the wire
caused it to short out.
USC’s power grid consists of
seven main circuits that bring
power around campus from three
main distribution points. Each
one of these circuits is an under
ground conduit about five to six
inches in diameter that contains
three wires like the one that
failed Saturday. Each wire is
about two inches in diameter.
Demarest said too many of
these wires are too old — some
are more than 30 years old.
Fortunately, Facility Services
has identified several areas on
campus where old distribution
cables, as well as old switches,
need to be replaced. Accordingly,
Demarest said his department
will be making a presentation to
the university to ask for permis
sion and the necessary resources
to replace these wires and switch
es.
In addition, Facility Services
has worked with several of the
primary circuits so that if there
is a problem with the power on
one end of campus, they can pro
vide electricity from the other
end, thus preventing another
blackout. Demarest said they’ve
also been watching and regulat
ing their power loads much more
closely to prevent any trouble.
Despite recent budget cuts in
many sectors of the university
and the state as a whole, Facility
Services received a $2.5 million
appropriation this year, which
will help a great deal in perform
ing some of the maintenance that
is necessary on the power grid.
♦ POWER, SEE PAGE 3