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* Carjackings CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Zach Bracchitta said the incidents wouldn’t change his behavior around campus. “I remain aware of my sur roundings,” he said. “But, you know, it doesn’t keep me in at night.” He said he wasn’t bothered by the lapse between {he carjacking attempts and the crime alert. “They probably wanted to de cide if it was actually indicative of a pattern or not,” he said. “It’s just two incidents not that far •part. It’s not necessarily a pat ;m.” Grabski said men and women should be equally cautious. “Whether you’re a girl or a guy you need to fol low the same safety rules. To say one was more safe than the other would be very mislead ing. I think prob ably these folks are indiscriminate with gender,” he said. Skot Garrick, public informa tion officer for the Columbia Police Department, said students should remember to lock their doors, stay alert while driving and stay out of isolated areas at night.added a few more basic safety considerations. Garrick said this sort of inci dent is unusual in Columbia. ‘‘We might have three in one week and then none in the next six weeks.” Grabski said stu dents should be espe cially careful parking at night. “We’re concerned about anywhere a vehicle is parked, any of the parking lots, garages. It’s just good general safe ty information,” he said. “If there’s somebody just hang ing around, looking suspicious, call us.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews'a.£wm. sc. edu Two campus carjackings in two weeks have promted the USCPD to issue a safety alert. Words CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 guage. Where and when words are oral ly created is hard to trace, but OED says that “outsourcing” was first printed in the early 1980s and ap peared a few more times through out the decade. Since then, it has caught on and is now used in poli tics and business. But in the early days of a word’s publication, reporters and writers have to weigh the hope of an un derstood meaning against the pos •ible backlash of printing a word ot listed in the dictionary. “Some words aren’t in the dic tionary yet, but they are so com mon in usage that almost anyone could understand it,” said Tonnya Kennedy, managing editor of The State newspaper. A word’s publication doesn’t al ways lead to a dictionary entry, even if it does pop up in main stream articles. “Metrosexual,” which was coined by a British journalist in 1994 to describe young men who pamper them selves, is widely absent from dic tionaries. But it’s regularly used in many publications. ■ The printing of non-dictionary words because of an audience’s fa miliarity with them is one of the main reasons the English language evolves through the dictionary’s seemingly paradoxical process: A word must be published to be in the dictionary, but a word must be in the dictionary to be published. The actual word “catch-22,” the result of the paradoxical rule in Joseph Heller’s novel “Catch-22,” represents another way new words are born. Most of the remaining word cre ations lie with everyday people. One example is “hip-hop,” which origi nated with black and Hispanic youths in New York City in the ear ly 1980s and is now used frequently. “People make words up,” Kennedy said, “and they typical ly evoke an emotion or sound that others identify with. ” From that identification, there’s no telling whether a word will sink or swim in the publishing world. But if it is printed a few times, odds are it will find an alphabetical ad dress in the dictionary. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu Housing CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 English student, will be living in West Quad next year. Although she had the option of honors housing, she decided to try the Quads so she could live with her friends. “I wasn’t interested at first be cause it was kind of out of they way,” she said. Godsey added that she was curious about an en vironmentally friendly residence hall. She soon found out that some reported requirements, like those regarding penalizing en ergy consumption, were un founded. But Godsey said Joe Fortune from the Housing office set the record straight in an e-mail, telling soon-to-be West Quad res idents that they would be re warded for less energy consump tion and not reprimanded for high consumption. USC President Andrew Sorensen has already asked the Housing office to come up with a proposal for new housing. Luna said Housing officials are con sidering updated suite-style halls like Capstone and Columbia Hall for first- and sec ond-year students, since West Quad meets upperclassmen de mands. USC’s Master Plan calls for the demolishment of the Towers, but Luna said the date will depend on future enroll ment. The office of Admissions has projected that next year’s freshmen class will be made up of about 3,350 students. 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