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USC might offer file-sharing
By KEVIN FELLNER
THE GAMECOCK
USC officials are considering
adding a music file-sharing service
to its campus Internet access and
could make a decision on it
before the end of the semester.
Student Life is trying to test
the demand for the service among
on-campus students to determine
if it is worth the investment and
the extra fee students would have
to pay.
“We’re exploring it, and we’d
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like to hear from students if this is
something that they are willing to
pay for and would like the
university to provide for them,”
Student Life Director Jerry
Brewer said.
Chief Information Officer Bill
Hogue said he favors the Real
Networks system in use at the
University of California —
Berkeley and the University of
Minnesota because it would
require few technology
infrastructure updates in the
♦ Please see SHARING, page 3
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use is
considering
adding an
online music
service to
the campus
network,
such as
Apple’s
iTunes
music store,
shown here.
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FOOTBALL TICKETS
Some students bypass line
FILE PHOTO/THE GAMECOCK
Students wait in line for football tickets in this 2003 file photo. This year, student tickets ran out on the fourth day of distribution for
the Georgia game, leaving many students without tickets. Law and Medical students have reserved tickets and don't wait in line.
■ Medical, law
students have
reserved tickets
By TAYLOR SMITH
THE GAMECOCK
While many were upset to see
the Gamecocks’ loss against
Georgia last Saturday, some were
even more upset not to see it.
Scores of students weren’t able
to get into Saturday’s game
because there weren’t enough
tickets. Generally, USC distributes
11,000 tickets to USC students for
home football games. But 775 of
those tickets are reserved for Law
and Medical school students who
don’t have to wait in line at the
Russell House. Students in these
schools scanned their Carolina
Cards at the beginning of the year
and had a ticket reserved for every
home game. If the students don’t
pick up their ticket by Thursday
before the game, the ticket is sent
back to the ticket office.
“It does make me mad,” first
year chemical engineering student
Sarah Holton said. “Because the
headline in Tuesday’s (The) State
newspaper was saying how people
were trying to forge tickets to get
in.”
For highly popular games such
as the Georgia game, the amount
of tickets the Law school receives
comes under extra scrutiny for the
amount of tickets that might not
be picked up by law students and
essentially “wasted.”
“If the tickets aren’t picked up,
then I take them back to the ticket
office,” Heiting said. “I can
understand what (undergraduates)
are feeling, but we just don’t give
tickets away.”
The oversight of ticket
operations falls to Massaro, who
says his office works closely with
Student Government at the
beginning of the year to “tweak”
any problems. The SG Athletics
Committee is investigating the
situation.
“The Athletics Committee is
working out a way for students to
get tickets online,” Floyd said.
“Right now they are just looking
into it, but it could help solve
some of these problems.”
Floyd said if the service were
available, then it could be
available as soon as spring, but
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would probably not be available
until fall of next school year.
The patience of undergraduates
may be tested until next fall, but
Massaro said this might not be as
controversial as anticipated.
“This is not an undergraduate
versus graduate thing,” Massaro
said. “Other than what we have
heard this week, the process seems
pretty equitable.”
Tickets are distributed from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second floor
of the Russell House, starting on
the Monday the week before a
home game.
Chris Massaro, senior associate
athletic director for ticket
distribution, said student tickets
didn’t run out until the fourth day
♦ Please see TICKETS, page 3
GMP gets
low score,
rebounds
Tuesday
By JUSTIN CHAPURA
THE GAMECOCK
The Grand Market Place
received a perfect DHEC inspection
score Tuesday after an assessment
earlier in the month surprised
management with the lowest score
possible on the scale.
This week’s routine inspection
yielded a numerical score of 100 out
of 100 possible points for the
JENNI DILLARD/THE GAMECOCK
A worker in the Grand Market
Place serves food Thursday
after the rating returned to an A.
cafeteria, Dining Services General
Manager Michael Scheffres said,
from the 70 points that the GMP
received on an unannounced
inspection Sept. 3 that Business
Services Director Helen Zeigler said
was both “concerning and
disappointing.” The dining hall
scored an 88, the lowest score
holding an “A” ranking, on a
follow-up inspection Sept. 4.
According to the Department of
Health and Environmental Control,
a facility scoring between 88 and
100 points qualifies as an A.
Between 78 and 87 points is
considered a B, and between 70 and
77 is a C.
Scheffres said the reason for the
poor rating had nothing to do with
the GMP’s handling of . its food
products. Instead, he said, it was
because of maintenance issues in the
back of the dining hall.
“The low score was due to a
multitude of issues,” Scheffres said.
“We have spent a lot of money on
the front of the house, but there
were several pieces of facility
equipment that needed
maintenance, which gave us a bad
rating.”
According to Scheffres, among
the items in disrepair were a leaky
mop sink and dishwasher, broken
♦ Please see GMP, page 3
SG selects
Freshman
Council
members
By JACOB DAVIS
THE GAMECOCK
Student Government formally
selected Freshman Council members
Wednesday night, approving 36
students out of nearly 200 who applied.
Senators chose the students based on
an application as well as on their
accomplishments, innovativeness,
enthusiasm and personality, SG officials
said.
SG senators and executive cabinet
members, as well as former Freshman
Council members, made the selections.
“I think my interview really went
well, and that definitely helped me get
selected. I’m excited to get started
planning events with the rest of the
council,” said Megan Bustamonte, a
♦ Please see SG, page 3
Hurricane Ivan devastates Alabama
with 130 mph winds, kills 22 people
ANDREW WEST/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A quarter-mile section of Interstate 10 went missing in
Pensacola, Fla. after Hurricane Ivan hit shores.
By PAULINE ARRILLAGA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PENSACOLA, Fla. —
Hurricane Ivan drilled the Gulf
Coast on Thursday with 130
mph winds that inflicted far less
damage than feared everywhere
except Florida’s Panhandle,
where residents were left with
surge-ravaged beachfronts,
flooded streets and homes ripped
apart by deadly tornadoes.
The storm was blamed for at
least 22 U.S. deaths, most of
them in Florida.
Ivan quickly deteriorated to a
tropical storm after coming
ashore. But forecasters warned
it was not done yet: It
♦ Please see IVAN, aage 3
Research team studies
evacuation patterns
By LaDONNA BEEKER
THE GAMECOCK
With Ivan, now a tropical storm,
bearing down on the Gulf Coast,
researchers like USC’s Susan Cutter
are making it their business to study
the means and the reasons behind
how people are evacuating to safety.
Hurricanes that hit the Gulf and
Atlantic coasts this month have
sent many evacuating their homes.
Evacuation routes for some people
fleeing Hurricane Ivan caused.
traffic jams, said Cutter, director of
USC’s Hazards Research Lab, a
team of 22 that surveys people
affected by disasters. Cutter has
researched hazardous disasters for
more than 25 years.
Cutter said the lane reversals
caused by Ivan in Alabama and
Louisiana were made too late.
“You have to start the
evacuations early enough,” she said.
The time allowed for evacuation
depends on the development of the
area, the population and the storm’s
movement.
Evacuation can take 36 to 48
hours in some places, Cutter said.
“The storm track could change
in those days, so it is time to
mobilize and get people out of
♦ Please see PATTERNS, page 3