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strong finish at Sojam. Other
members said the real
competition would lie in a
cappella groups other than
Clemson.
“We’re not too nervous about
competing with Tigeroar,
because it’s doubtless that they’ll
probably place higher,” Kim said.
“A group called Sweet Signatures
is going to be more of a challenge
because they are at the same
caliber as us.”
Sweet Signatures is a female a
cappella group from Elon
University in North Carolina.
Aside from competitions,
Cocktails is working on enriching
their f contemporary-style
repertoire for performances on
their home turf.
“We do a Madonna medley,
we sing some songs by Eve 6, but
we’re now trying to incorporate a
more choral sound to our style,”
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Nikki Nauss, left, and Teresa Beach
enjoy the down time between Cocktail
shows at Wal-Mart.
Wong said.
The group plans to release a CD in
the Spring of 2006.
Cocktails was formed in the fall of
2002 by now-treasurer Laura Fisher
after she saw USC already had an all
male a cappella group, Higher
Harmony. Cocktails has performed
several concerts since and has been asked
to sing at several functions on campus.
This is the first year the student-run
group has competed in a cappella
competitions.
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Sunday streets, the closed shops and the
leaves blowing down Assembly Street
toward a deserted football stadium littered
with trash.
The Monday morning headlines in
The Gamecock for once did not relate
the loss of the game in glaring back and
white for the students to see. Something
else had happened that weekend,
something, it seemed, that was far more
important.
“I didn’t think it would make the
front page so I was stoked when it did,”
Springer said.
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over and take advantage of the
opportunity.”
The health center administers shots
from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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After seeing the headlines, the
students who had lifted the ball two
nights before began to understand its
impact.
The administration had no clue to
how the ball was even attached to the
monument.
“To me,” Springer said, “the wit of
the prank has to outweigh the harm.”
He said they were planning on
keeping the ball around their apartment
for a week or two then returning it to its
rightful place atop the monument.
“I’d heard students talking about it ?
in class, there were even students who
claimed to be personally offended by the
thing,” he said. “There was one kid who
said whoever did it had insulted the
Monday through Thursday, and will not be
open for Thanksgiving or the Friday after.
The vaccine, Hill said, is open to faculty
members who are employed by USC and
have donated to the USC family fund.
“The normal price for staff is $15, and
if they donate then they can come over
and get a shot free of charge,” Hill said.
Lexington officer
dies in Iraq ambush
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A South Carolina Highway
Patrolman who was on leave and
working in Iraq to help train police
forces there has been killed in an
ambush, a family friend says.
Douglas Thomas, 47, died
Wednesday after he was hit by a
piece of shrapnel during an explosion
near the convoy he was traveling in,
said Highway Patrol Cpl. Kelley
Hughes, a friend who had worked
with Thomas for 12 years.
Thomas, of Lexington, was a 17
year veteran of the patrol. He had
asked for a leave of absence in June
to work for DynCorp International
Inc., a State Department contractor
helping train the Iraqi National
Police Force.
Hughes said he remembered
Thomas as a generous man.
In his leave request, Thomas
said he has “enjoyed my 17 years
on the patrol but would like to
serve in the military police in Iraq
for the next year,” Hughes read in
the statement.
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she said. “No student has ever
complained to us that that is the case.”
Zeigler said the newest mailboxes
cost $15 each when USC bought
6,000 to install in the Russell House
basement. She said that buying one or
two individual boxes would likely cost
a “considerable amount.”
Washington said she doubted
replacing boxes would significandy
improve security.
“It would help if they didn’t put
the combinations on the inside,” she
said.
The basement has about 8,000
boxes
“We understand the importance of
mail and the security of mail,” Zeigler
said.
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ntegrity of the school. It was a practical
oke, we re in college, the kids here really
leed to lighten up.”
Springer said the reason he and his
fiends took the ball to show that USC
audents should live up the expectations of
:ollege.
“Every other school I visited before here
tad pranks that had gone down in history,
fhey tell you about them on the college
ours. It seems like the more elite schools
lave the better pranks. It becomes part of
heir tradition, you know?”
With the newspaper headlines and
heir fellow students’ voices fresh in
heir minds, the students who took the
irass ball down returned it to the
nonument the following Wednesday.
But they did not turn themselves in.
“I actually didn’t take part in
returning the ball,” Springer says.
“Because I didn’t believe in it. I had no
intention of keeping it from the start, it
wasn’t a theft it was a prank.”
In the end, too many people had
known the identities of the pranksters,
and after a failed attempt by a few girls
from Maxcy to put a pumpkin in the
place of the ball, the pressure was on
them to give themselves up. They did.
In the end he was ordered to do 15
hours of community service, cleaning
Williams-Brice Stadium. Springer said he
certainly has learned his lesson.
“But don’t think I’m finished yet,”
he said. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
After relatively mild and short
seasons in recent years, Hill said,
afficials at the center are hoping for a
mild season this year, but they are
planning for the worst.
“We just got advice that it is coming,
I just don’t feel confident betting on
speculation of when,” Hill said. “With
this year, I will believe it when I see it.”
Hill said he doesn’t want the expected
shipment to lead students to think that
the health center really has 800 shots,
because the shots might not come in.
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struck by a 1990 four-door Nissan as she
attempted to cross the street at a crosswalk
“I couldn’t figure out why everyone
was over to one side of the snack bar in
the Coliseum looking out the window,
until I actually looked out myself and
saw the scene,” Whit Ashley, a second
year public relations student, said.
The victim was transported to
Richland Memorial Hospital with
minor injuries. Columbia police have
not released the victim’s name or the
name of the driver. The driver, also a
female, was charged with driving too
fast for conditions.
Traffic stopped along that section of the
street for about an hour and a half as police
questioned bystanders and an ambulance
carried the victim to the hospital.
“Students could stay safer while
crossing the street just by being a little
more cautious,” USC Police Chief
Ernie Ellis said. “I notice in my travels
around campus that many students
use cell phones or are engaged in heavy
conversation while crossing the street.
People could benefit gready just from
paying more attention to theii
surroundings. Just because you legally
have the right of way doesn’t mean it
will always be yielded to you.”
Ellis said that drivers, particularly
in the downtown area, can decrease
their likelihood of hitting a pedestrian
by observing speed limits and driving
defensively.
“You really need to be on the
lookout for people who are jaywalking
and otherwise crossing the street
improperly,” Ellis said. “With all these
cars parallel parked along the side of the
road, people can appear to just jump
out from in between them sometimes,
giving the driver little warning.”
Ashley said he sees people “flying
down that road all the time.”
“It’s really unfortunate that somebody
was injured as the result of another’s
negligence. I think this situation shows us
that everyone could benefit from having
more patience —more patience in
waiting to cross the street as well as more
patience in getting to one’s destination so
as not to be dangerously exceeding the
speed limit,” he said.
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