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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.
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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.
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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?
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PHOTO BY MORGAN FORD/THE GAMECOCK
VP candidate Brian Wayne, left, talks with students Rosco
Goodwin and Bene Fleming about his campaign.
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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.
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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
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♦ 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.. FOR
student newspaper loses MORE SEE PAGE 8
editor after he is discovered ♦ ARR MATEY Baseball team
plagiarizing other work. FOR defeats CSU in three-game
MORE SEE PAGE 6 series. FOR MORE SEE PAGE
♦ BREAKING AWAY Students 10
plan to leave their school and ♦ SUNK Men’s basketball
studies behind over spring defeats Vanderbilt 82-75 on
break. FOR MORE SEE PAGE Saturday. FOR MORE SEE
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Classifieds 12
Horoscopes 9
Letters to the Editor 6
Online Poll 6
Police Report2
Entertainment News2
USC Calendar 2
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