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www.dailygamecock.com _MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2004 Since 1908 Broken water main disturbs Greek Village life BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL THE GAMECOCK The Alpha Delta Pi sorority house was left without water for most of the day Friday after a con strution worker digging with a backhoe broke the water main in the Greek Village. As of 3:30 p.m. Friday, a crew of about five men was unsuccessful in fixing the leak that originated around 9:30 a.m., spraying water from the ground like a fountain. Water was restored by 6:30 p.m. Friday. Initial attempts to fix the pipe were unsuccessful. Workers thought the pipe was secured, but when the water was turned back on in the afternoon the pipe con tinued to leak. House Director for the ADP sorority, Michelle Clovis, said members were unable to flush toi lets or use any water-related amenities. With no water, the 34 ADP members who live in the house were anxious because their Black Tie formal was scheduled that night. The water was partially re stored for a brief period around 3:15 p.m. When Clovis heard at 3:30 p.m. that workers would have to turn the water off again—this time for three more hours — she negotiat ed with the crew to leave the wa ter on until the members could shower. “Just give me 30 minutes; my girls will be done in 30 minutes,” Clovis said. One of the crew members, Josh Smith, said the break in the pipe on Gadsden Street was not serious but in order for it to be fixed, the water to the sorority house had to be turned off. Earlier in the day, while work ers worked on the pipe in a hole nearly 8 feet deep, the sisters of ADP had to improvise on their typical morning routine. “When I got up this morning to brush my teeth, I had to use a wa ter bottle instead of the sink,” said Katie Terrell, third-year nursing student and ADP sorority house resident. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu PHOTO BY HOLLY BOUNDS/THE GAMECOCK After a water main broke, the Alpha Delta PI house was left without water Friday. ^Candidate boasts senate experience, touts involvement BY JOCELYN MEYER THE (JAMECOCK Vice presidential candidate ^^rian Wayne has new ideas for “I see a need for change, and I feel that I am the person to create change,” Wayne said. Wayne has always been inter ested in government, but the op portunity to work for the Dick Gephardt presidential campaign piqued his interest even more. “After the campaign, I wanted to take action and become in volved,” Wayne said. Wayne, a third-year finance and entrepreneur student wants to give the accountability back to sr; “The Student Government needs to be more for the students,” he said. Wayne has been a student sen ^^or, a member of the Residence Hall Association, the financial chairman and the SG liaison for the NAACP and an RA for two years. He also serves on the park ing appellate court and the hon orary degree committee. He be gan working for student govern ment in high school as a student representative. Wayne has ideas for SG, such as having the library open 24 hours a day five days a week, hav ing a student attend the Board of Trustees meetings and having a trophy for the Clemson-Carolina “The Student Government needs to be more for the students.” BRIAN WAYNE SG VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE game. Wayne said his SG experience is a winning factor in his cam paign. “I am the only candidate running that has served on the student senate,” he said. After earning his bachelor’s, Wayne plans to attend law school. Comments on this story?E mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu Sestions A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CANDIDATES What Is In your CD player right now? Nas “lllmatic” What's the last book you read? "Makes Me Want to Holler” by Nathan McCall What’s your favorite place to eat in Columbia? Zaxby’s Who Is your hero? His uncle. “He has fully recovered from an aneurysm and now runs his own business. That is good inspiration,” What's the best class you’ve taken at USC? MGMT473 PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK VP candidate Brian Wayne, left, talks with students Rosco Goodwin and Bene Fleming about his campaign. •V Rockin’ Greene Street P mmm ■ ■ — > 'ilili ii i——in mi ii mtm —. . -1 PHOTO BY DAVID STAGG/THE GAMECOCK The Doc Summers Band entertains a Greene Street crowd in celebration of the Garnet & Black’s 10-year anniversary. Students had a chance to hear live music, eat free popcorn and pick up copies of the publication. Name error produces imaginary candidate BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL THE GAMECOCK When the SG election filing deadline had passed, it looked like there were four candidates running for vice president. But, as elections commissioner Rachel Keisler said, there was a slight problem. “Mark Campbell doesn’t actu ally exist,” Keisler said about a listed vice presidential candidate in next week’s election. Keisler discovered Thursday evening that Campbell, one of four names in the running for vice president, turned out to be a typo of a real candidate, Mark Campbell McLawhom. Keisler said she suspects that whoever was putting the candi dates’ names into the SG com puters had been distracted and accidentally confused McLawhom’s middle name as a last name. From that moment on there was a “Mark Campbell” compet ing for vice president. “I went on the online directo ry just to make sure no one else had that name,” said the existing Mark running for vice president, Mark McLawhorn, a third-year political science and economics student. “I knew it had to be a mistake.” McLawhorn said he checked the validity of Mark Campbell right after he read a Jan. 30 news story in The Gamecock listing the names of the SG candidates. The candidates running for vice president were filed and reg istered nearly two weeks before SG discovered the discrepancy on Feb. 12. Keisler, a fourth-year market ing and management student, said candidates fill out an appli cation packet that a desk assis tant in the SG office files, and the data is put into the computer at a later date. Keisler said she was unsure whether the false name first appeared in the paperwork or in the data entry. Now, with the race for vice president falling from four con testants to three, candidates Yvonne Miller, Brian Wayne and Mark McLawhorn have 25 per cent less competition. '■‘I’m still going to keep the same strategy and try to stay op timistic,” McLawhorn said. Voting is Feb. 23 and Feb. 24 at www.vip.sc.edu. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu USC testing sites rank in top 40 percent nationally BY JESSICA FOSTER THE GAMECOCK USC’s MCAT and LSAT test ing site has been ranked in the top 40 percent, according to a na tionwide survey. The second annual Kaplan Test Prep survey ranks USC 119th of 307 sites for the Law School Admission Test and 74th of 187 sites for the Medical College Admission Test. This is down from last year, when USC ranked 35th out of 261 for the LS AT and 69th out of 192 for the MCAT. Survey respondents rated test taking sites based on proctors; quiet and comfort; overall expe rience and desk space. Kaplan Test Prep compiled the ratings database where students self-report how their performance was affected. The “Test Site Rater” is based on LSAT ratings by more than 5,000 Kaplan students at 261 test sites and MCAT ratings by 2,124 Kaplan students at 187 test sites. The results show that test-taking experiences vary by site. “We’ve learned throughout the years that site choice, a factor many test-takers don’t seriously consider, can have a huge impact on performance,” said Justin Serrano, general manager of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, in a news release. “Most people choose their test location based only on conve nience; however, this study shows just how drastically sites can vary. Before students sign up, they should carefully research their options to find the best lo cation available and be pre pared.” Scott Kaplan, assistant direc tor of orientation and testing at USC, said USC’s good rating can be attributed to a well-trained staff. “I think the entire staff takes pride in what they do,” Kaplan said. He said the staff tries to reduce noise and other environmental factors in an effort to make the experience as comfortable as pos sible. ♦ TESTS, SEE PAGE 5 ^ ♦UNDERFIRE NYC firefighters’ morality under scrutiny. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 4 ♦ OUT OF THIS WORLD t Scientists detect a galaxy that I is believed to be the farthest I known object from Earth. FOR MORE SEE PAGE 5 ♦ SEX SELLS Graham Whnt’c Irrcirlo Culbertson explains why VVIIaLo.il lolUC there's no need to pay for football players to have sex. ♦ FALLEN ‘ANGEL’: Popular FOR MORE SEE PAGE 6 television series gets the ax ♦ BYTHETAILCIemson's after five seasons.. 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