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After lowest score
possible, GMP gets
perfect mark Tuesday
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ceiling tiles and vents, and dirty
floor tiles.
“At no point was there any
danger of food becoming
contaminated,” he said.
Both Zeigler and Scheffres
attributed the disrepair to
disorganization at the start of the
school year.
“This is the time of year where
we have the greatest demand for
our facilities,” Zeigler said.
“There is a several-week
adjustment period at the start of
the semester where we need to
hire an adequate number of staff,
make sure everything meets
DHEC requirements, among other
things. The things we were
marked off for weren’t
emergencies.”
“With a large facility like the
GMP, which serves 5,000 people a
day, there are a lot of chances for
little problems to go by. It’s
absolutely easy to lose points in an
inspection,” Scheffres said.
Second-year public relations
student Kyle Bohman said he was
aware of the C rating the day it was
given.
“1 had to go in the back of the
GMP to get ice for the organization
fair in August,” he said. “It was
really cluttered.”
Bohman declined to give details
about the GMP’s condition.
However, he was confident in the
GMP’s ability to improve the
rating.
“Sodexho is the largest food
distributor in the world,” Bohman
said. “I doubt they would let their
‘showroom’ for our campus have
continual problems.”
Sodexho is contracted for food
service to all of the university’s
dining halls.
After the initial inspection,
Scheffres said a follow-up
' inspection was requested
immediately.
“We spent the night of the first
inspection fixing everything we
could find — replacing floor tiles,
ceiling tiles, stopping the leak in the
dish machine, cleaning vents,” he
said.
Other dining facilities in the
Russell House have consistently
higher scores, Scheffres said.
Catering Services was recently rated
a 93, Einstein’s Bagel Company a
93 and Pandini’s a 99.
Third-year business student
Lindsey Adair was employed at
Pandini’s in spring 2003.
“Even though the GMP changed
its appearance, I think the food at
the GMP did not change at all,” she
said. “As for Pandini’s, 1 think the
99 score shows that they have made
more improvements since they
opened. That happens to a lot of
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Chicken on the grille at tne Grand Market Place Thursday night.
The GMP, USC’s largest on-campus dining facility, received a C
rating earlier this month. The rating is now back to an A.
new businesses.”
No representatives for DHEC
or the Richland County
Department of Health were
available to comment on the
inspections.
DHEC temporarily suspends the
food service license of a facility
scoring below 70, which forces the
facility to close until a follow-up
inspection finds improved levels of
sanitation.
After inspection, a scorecard is
placed by DHEC in visible area
inside of the facility. The GMP’s
scorecard is located on the wall
next to the leftmost cashier.
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Audrette
Morris helps
Damian Ward
after his
vehicle
overturned in
Birmingham,
Ala., as
Hurricane Ivan
hit the city.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
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harm’s way.”
Hurricane Ivan caused evacuation
requests in Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana. Two
million people fled the states.
Officials found it impossible to
evacuate the 100,00 people without
transportation stranded in New
Orleans, La., which is below sea level.
Cutter said she thought Hurricane
Frances was handled well, and as soon
as people are back to “normalcy,” the
team will begin its survey.
The hazardous research team
usually does not start surveying
people until about six weeks after
the disaster. The team surveys a
random sample of people whose zip
codes are in the evacuating area.
“The main thing we want to
answer is the. ‘why’ question,”
Cutter said. This question is
answered by finding out who stayed
and left, where they went, what
prompted them to leave, how long
it took to get there and the route,
also how many cars were taken.
“You learn something new every
time there is an evacuation because
every time is different,” she said.
“There is no such thing as a perfect
evacuation.”
The HRL team focuses mainly on
the South Carolina coast, especially
the Myrtle Beach area, where most
of the hurricanes are headed, Cutter
said. While Hurricane Charlie came
close to hitting the coast, Hurricane
Floyd ravaged the coast in
September 1999.
According to the team’s survey of
data for Hurricane Floyd, 59
percent of people surveyed
evacuated the disaster zone. Most
people reported that it took seven
hours or more to reach outlying
areas, including Atlanta, Columbia
and Greenville. With no alternate
routes, time was delayed for many
people leaving the area.
Twenty-five percent of people
used more than one vehicle during
the evacuation, adding to the
congestion problem. Also, some
people did not use a map to plan
their evacuation route.
The HRL team’s data ia given to
the state emergency management
agency to let them know what the
difficulties were and to suggest
possible solutions to problems.'
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first-year computer information
systems student appointed to the
council.
Throughout the year, Freshman
Council members will focus on
projects that can better serve first
year students.
First-year business student Sean
McDevitt said he had been
considering several projects he
would like to propose.
“I was thinking about something
that could help unite the class,
especially since so many kids are
from out of state. Maybe cleaning
up an unused area on campus and
setting up some picnic tables and
volleyball nets, and then kind of
designating it as a freshman area.
That way, freshman could have a
place to come hang out with other
freshman,” he said.
Sean said he had several traits he
thought might have helped him
stand out from the rest of the
applicants, including a stint in
Ireland while in high school as an
exchange student and a member of
the Junior Statesmen of America, a
debating organization.
“So maybe that caught their eye
and made them want to interview
me,” he said.
First-year journalism student
Hilary Dyer said she thought her
experience with interviews in
pageant circles helped her with her
council interview.
“I’m pretty confident in that
setting. I don’t really get nervous, so
that might have given me an
advantage,” said Dyer. She also has
ideas to present when Freshman
Council meets for the first time.
“Projects to get us familiar with
Columbia, like community service,
are a good idea. I also think maybe
another event, like First Night, could
help to unite the class. We should be
united because we are going to be
here the next four years, and we are
the future of Carolina,” she said.
Freshman Council is basically
autonomous and can set its own
agenda. In the past, Freshman
Councils have engaged in everything
from campus beautification projects
to painting murals.
Students’ position on Freshman
Council also allows council members
to observe and learn from various
student leaders and administrators
from different departments at USC.
“Historically we’ve seen that
many of the student leaders on
campus have gotten their first taste
of involvement through Freshman
Council,” Scott said.
The Freshman Council also has
the opportunity to speak before the
Senate if they have an issue they feel
they want to bring up. When they
meet, the council will divide into
committees, each with its own
chairperson who is accountable to
the council, just like any other
organization. Half way through the
year, if the council is not satisfied
with the chairperson’s performance,
he or she can be held accountable
and replaced by the group.
“Since freshman come in after the
voting, Freshman Council is really a
way for freshmen to have their
voices heard,” Scott said.
Historically, once it has formed
committees, the council will send
out e-mails, seeking mentoring help
from various aspects of campus life.
“Be it someone in Greek life or
someone in the Cabinet, they look
for people who are willing to take a
freshman under their wing and teach
them the system, show them the
ropes,” Scott said.
The council will be meeting at the
Russell House on Tuesday for a
welcome reception. This will be
their regular meeting time and
location for’ the remainder of the
semester.
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threatened up to 15 inches of rain
and flooding across the South,
already soggy after Hurricanes
Charley and Frances over the past
month.
And more danger could be on the
horizon: Tropical Storm Jeanne is
tearing through the Caribbean on a
path that could take it into Florida
early next week as a hurricane.
More than 2 million residents
along a 300-mile stretch of the Gulf
Coast cleared out as Ivan, a former
165-mph monster that killed 70
people in the Caribbean, closed in
on an unsteady path.
Ivan came ashore near Gulf
Shores Beach, Ala., around 3 a.m.,
but it was the Panhandle _ squarely
in the northeast quadrailt of the
storm, where the winds are most
violent _ that took the brunt.
Ivan spun off at least a dozen
tornadoes in Florida, while creating
a storm surge of 10 to 16 feet,
topped by large battering waves. A
portion of a bridge on Interstate 10,
the major east-west highway
through the Panhandle, was washed
away.
Insurance experts put the storm’s
damage at anywhere from $3 billion
to $10 billion. Hurricanes Charley
and Frances had combined
estimated insured damages between
about $11 billion and $13 billion
after striking Florida in the last
month.
The death toll included 14 in
Florida, two in Mississippi and two
in Georgia. In Louisiana, four
evacuees died after being taken from
their storm-threatened homes to
safer parts of the state.
Many of the millions of Gulf Coast
residents who spent a frightening
night in shelters and boarded-up
homes emerged to find Ivan was not
the catastrophe many feared.
New Orleans, especially
vulnerable to storms because much
of it lies below sea level, got only
some blustery winds, a mere two
tenths of an inch of rain and only
some downed tree limbs.
Mobile, Ala., a port city of 200,000
that had been in the bull’s-eye of the
storm, got a break by an llth-hour
shift to the east. ■
President Bush plans to visit
Alabama and Florida to survey the
damage on Sunday, the White
House said.
Hundreds of thousands of people
were without power, including 90
percent of Gulf Power Co.’s
customers in Florida.
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campus network.
If officials decide to proceed, the
university would consider all the
options on the market from the
popular Sony Napster to Apple
iTunes, which boasts more than 1
million songs.
Both services are priced at 99
cents a song. He said Student Life
and USC Housing need to
collaborate with his office on the
project but that officials could
decide in three to four months.
USC would facilitate an option
between vendors and the student
users, while collecting a semester fee
expected to be about $25 or possibly
more if premium services are
included.
USC would have to monitor the
network’s capacity but wouldn’t be
responsible for maintaining a music
library or considerable support,
Hogue said.
“We would probably need to buy
extra capacity from our vendors,”
he said.
College campuses are catching on
to a trend of providing music file
sharing mainly because court
decisions in recent years have
reduced the number of legal options
for file sharing, which now requires
a subscription fee on all services.
“If it’s something where we could
do legal instead of illegal things with
these services, then this is something
the university would be interested
in,” Brewer said.
Network managers at universities
and corporations are known for
disallowing access to file sharing
sites for the concern of flooding
capacity. However, some legal and
illegal sites still escape detection.
“I could still go to Bearshare or
Limewire and just get it for free,”
secohd-year electronic journalism
student Alexis Jones said.
However, she said she would be
inclined to try a system supervised
by USC for its safety features. “I
would trust it more from the
university for it being free from
viruses,” she said.
Brewer said he hasn’t met with
any potential vendors but that their
representatives have promoted
services among administration
officials in the past.
“There are some who have been
on campus before,” he said.
“Basically they’re like sales calls. We
haven’t been in .negotiations with
any of them.”
Officials said the next step is to
get feedback on the idea from
students, most likely starting with
discussions with Student
Government.
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of distribution. “So they had ample
time to get tickets,” he said.
If students don’t scan their card
at the beginning of the semester,
they can scan it at any time during
the season.
“The table (of tickets) is set out
and students just mark through
their names and take their tickets,”
second-year law student Adam
Bach said.
The law school has received
block tickets for the past five years
according to Joanne Heiting, the
student services coordinator for the
USC Law Center. It took the school
about three years to obtain it.
Undergraduates got their tickets
the same way until the program was
changed because it was “ineffective,”
Student Senate athletics chairman
Chris Floyd said.
“Groups would get block tickets
and hope to sit together, but it just
didn’t work, so we ended the
program,” he said.
Massaro said the purpose of the
program was to allow law and
medical school students who might
have problems getting tickets in
775 of the 11,000 allotted
student football tickets are
reserved for USC Law and
med school students who
don’t have to wait in line.
the distribution line to still be able
to attend sporting events.
“We also try to take students
with special needs like student
teachers and students from the
office of disabilities,” Massaro said.
“So it is a broad group of people.”
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