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University of South Carolina MHMHAV QCmT'MRED 00 0HHQ Vol.97,No.22 www.dailygamecock.com IVIL/INL/MT, OLr I CIV!DlLia ZZ, ZUUO Sincel908 Clemson game lottery might change w Student Government considers amending ticket system to benefit upperclassmen, fans BY LAURA MOSS TIIKIiAMKCOCK Student Government is looking to re place the lottery system for Carolina Clemson football game tickets with a new distribution method that would favor up perclassmen or avid football fans. A university policy adopted in 1995 gives SG the authority to set up and con trol the student distribution system for the Carolina-Clemson game. Katie Dreiling, SG president, wants to change the system to make it more effi cient and beneficial to USC students. “A new system would either give pref erence to seniors, or it would be designed to reward those students who really want to go,” Dreiling said. One method SG is considering would benefit upperclassmen by assigning each class a day to pick up their tickets. Seniors would be given the first day, followed by juniors, sophomores and freshmen. On the final day, any remain ing tickets would be available to all classes. “There may be some freshmen and sophomores who aren’t going to think this is very fair, but I think it’s a good idea because when we’re upperclassmen, the privilege is go ing to be there for us,” said second-year liberal arts student Ashley Kolaya. The other method SG has suggested would in volve keeping record of how many tickets a student has obtained during the season. The more games a student attended, the high er their chances would be of getting a tihket to the Clejnson game. _ “The way the system works now, stu dents are entered into the lottery who may not even go to the game, and some stu dents just want to sell their ticket, which isn’t fair to those who really want to go,” Dreiling said. Third-year media arts student Jennifer Bird disagrees with this idea. “If students know that this is the way to get a ticket to the Clemson game, you’re going to have a lot of students getting tick ets to other games that they won’t even attend,” she said. “This might make it even harder to get tickets to games which aren’t as popular as Clemson.” Dreiling said SG is seriously consider ing the tracking method, but that the ear liest the system could be implemented is ♦TICKETS, SEE PAGE 4 “This might make it even harder to get tickets to games which aren’t as popular as Clemson.” JENNIFER BIRD THIRD-YEAR MEDIA ARTS STUDENT SG lobbying for * GPS system on shuttle service Students could use Internet, cell phones to check bus route for delays BY ALEXIS BASS THE GAMECOCK NextBus Information Systems, a company based out of Emeryville, Cal., is working with the USC transportation system to incorporate a global positioning system into shuttle buses. The mission of this program is to create buses that assist students rather than hinder them. Students with Palm Pilots, p&csonal com puters or cell phones would be able to view bus arrival times at their convenience. The program would allow rid ers to check bus arrivals online as well as on tracking monitors pro vided at bus stops. Also, those who might be unfamiliar with the cam r pus’ layout would be able to access information about their bus route, direction and bus stop they would need for a specific destination. Shelly Dickerson, third-year advertising student, has been rid ing the USC's shuttle for two years. “It would be beneficial to maybe move the stops faster,” Dickerson said. Dickerson said she gets to the bus stop an hour early just to be on time. This is the problem that many students run into, and Derrick Huggins, director of Parking Services, says it is un avoidable. The buses don’t run on a con fined schedule because the routes are so compact. Huggins said any thing from “traffic lights to train tracks can throw the bus off of schedule now.” GPS in the buses would track those delays and relay the infor mation to the bus stop monitors and the Web. Another benefit of this user- , friendly bus system could be solv ing the parking issue many face on campus. Student Government leaders have recognized this and called the NextBus program a step in the right direction. SG President Katie Dreiling said she hopes that students will see that SG is actively trying to remedy parking problems. With this program, students can be come more dependent on the bus system and less on cars. SG plans to donate a substantial amount of money to provide tracking moni-. tors in academic buildings. SG is already trying to fund a newspaper readership program put on by USA Today. Dreiling said that program would cost about $12,000 a semester. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail. com PHOTO BY FORREST CLONTS/THE GAMECOCK Students wait for the shuttle on Greene Street. SG wants to add a global positioning system to decrease waiting times. A -V, ^-1, USC student juggles class schedule, modeling career BY CAITLIN COKER T1IK GAMECOCK Ryan Douglas Brown is a sought-after fashion model five days of the week and a USC stu dent on Tuesdays and Thursdays. A third-year political science student, Brown attends photo shoots and struts the catwalk while catching up on his school work between jobs. “It gets crazy, but I’m not too far behind in classes right now,” Brown said. Brown first became interested in modeling more than a year ago. A friend of his family per formed in an internationally aired commercial and received a considerable amount of money for it. Witnessing this success, Brown’s mother encouraged him to consider modeling. The first step for Brown was to go to a photographer in North Carolina and get a basic head shot — a close-up in black and white. “I had no idea what to do; it was all new to me,” Brown said. “I just threw out some pictures and didn’t know what was going to happen.” After Brown sent his pictures to agencies and talent represen tatives, Betty Lane of Betty Lane Models and Talent in Orangeburg invited him to attend the Modeling Association of America International Inc. convention in New York. The convention was a competition for aspiring enter tainers and a chance for new talent to be seen by agen cies and scouts. “We have agents from all over the world,” Lane said. “And they all come (to the convention) looking for that new person to make fa mous.” As a parent agent. Lane served as an adviser to Brown, directing him in his career. “She was going to teach me and guide me to what I could do in the competi tions at the con vention. I hooked up with her and started training with her for a couple of months,” Brown said. Thp convpn tion holds three main competi tions — television, runway and photography — as well as voice ♦ MODEL, SEE PAGE 2 “I just threw out some pictures and didn’t know what was going to happen.” RYAN DOUGLAS BROWN THIRD-YEAR POLITICAL SCIENCE STUDENT 5-day hurricane forecast worries business owners THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Forecasters were able to track Hurricane Isabel from its start as a tropical wave deep in the Atlantic Ocean on its trek through the Caribbean, into North Carolina and eventually Canada before the storm fizzled in the cold northern air. Along the way, they made pre dictions about where the storm would be five days later. Although Isabel forecasters showed remarkable accuracy — preliminary estimates show the storm made landfall about 200 miles from its original 5-day esti mate — some along the coast wor ry that long-term prognosticating can unnecessarily frighten away tourists. “In this case, the five-day track didn’t hurt us,” said Gary Loftus of Coastal Carolina University’s Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism. “But the con cerns are still there. I still think a -- ' . five-day window is too broad and unnecessary.” Traditionally forecasters have used a three-day model to help of ficials determine when to evacu ate an area. This season, that has changed to a five-day forecast. Emergency planners say the extra days are helpful, and the forecast ers say the predictions were right on mark. “The mod el performed in excellent fashion,” said Frank Lepore of the National Hurricane Center. “It’s serving tne function for which it was designed.” The long-term projections also offer a consistent forecast, said Tom Matheson, the warning co ordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, N.C. “It takes it out of the hands of private meteorol ogists,” he said. Despite the accurate Isabel predictions, the five-day forecast, which has an average margin of ♦ ISABEL, SEE PAGE 2 rnuiu ^uun i coi r\n i u«iviruo Chris Scarborough, 23, checks out the remains of a truck flipped by the waves along N.C. 12 in Kitty Hawk, N.C., Thursday afternoon. Index Comics and Crossword 9 Classifieds ~ 12 Horoscopes 9 Letters to the Editor g £ Online Poll 0 Police Report 4 Weather”™™ TODAY TUESDAY High 82 High 83 Low 67 Low 57 In This Issue ♦ NEWS New impotency drug Levitra takes on Viagra with its “racy” advertisements. Page 2 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Chris Coyle says that vegetarianism is the healthiest way to eat. Page 6 ♦ THE MIX Stay ahead of the curve - everything you need to know about spring fashion. Page 7 ♦ SPORTS Demitris Summers ran all over the Blazers on Saturday as the Gamecocks won 42-10 at home. Page 10