Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ BLIZZARD Continued from page 1 the island had been cut off completely. Without heat and electricity, emergency officials brought residents to a shelter at the high school and the island hospital. “People are coping,” he said. “We’ve had a lot people asking if the shelter had access to the football game” Sunday night between the New England Patriots and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Because the wind blowing off the ocean coincided with a full moon and high tide, coastal communities were warned of flooding. “There’s a lot of self-evacuations going on. People simply got out of Dodge,” said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. National Guard troops helped evacuate part of Scituate, 20 miles south of Boston, but morning high tide receded without significant flooding, he said. As state and city officials urged residents to stay off the roads, many people tried to take the storm in stride. Bill Bush, 32, waded through drifts across the deserted Boston Common to pick up some things at his office for a trip Monday, then headed home for the AFC Championship game between the Patriots and the Steelers. “1 figured it’s early and it’s nice to get out to see the snow before everyone dirtied it up,” he said. “There’s nowhere to go, so I’ll just grab some friends to come over to watch the game.” Monday classes were called off for many Massachusetts schools, and Romney asked nonessential state workers in the eastern part of the state not to come to work. The announcement meant the trial of defrocked priest Paul Shanley, one of the highest-profile figures to go to trial in the Catholic church sex abuse scandal, would not begin in Middlesex Superior Court as scheduled Monday. For others, towering snowdrifts and whiteotit conditions wiped out travel plans. Boston’s Logan International Airport closed early Sunday because snowplow crews couldn’t keep up with the blinding snow. Logan’s shutdown meant Shawn Simmons, 28, of Nashua, N.J., was stuck at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on his return from a vacation in South America. For others, the storm brought ideal conditions for skiing, snowboarding and sledding. “Once everyone shovels out, we’re going to have a great day, a record breaker,” said Rod Taylor, owner of Woodbury Ski Area in Woodbury, Conn. “People see the snow and they get excited.” ■ MOCK TRIAL Continued from page 1 Most students hear about the team through taking the mock-trial class SCCC390Y during the fall semester, said team member Amanda Seals, a first-year international studies student. “I heard about the class through freshman registration at the Honors College,” Seals said. Knaak said the class was one of the only ways students find out about the team. “It’s always a problem getting students aware if they haven’t taken the class or didn’t take mock trial in high school,” she said. Seals said that she and other team members had participated in either mock trial or debate teams in high school. Seals said that in high school, she “liked the competitiveness.” “That’s why I wanted to participate on the college team at USC,” she said. Although the team has experienced difficulty in the past raising money for out-of-state tournaments, this year’s budget has been well-funded. “We got more money this year than the year before, both from Student Government and the Honors College,” Knaak said. “Hopefully we’ll win this weekend, and we’ll go to nationals again this year,” McQuillin said. Comments on this story ? E-mail gamecocknews@gnmi.sc. edu ■ WEATHER Continued from page 1 tourism management student, said her family is telling her how cold it is, but she doesn’t mind because she isn’t there. She added that she doesn’t hate Cincinnati’s cold weather. “You get used to it,” Edwards said. “And you are prepared for the cold weather when you live up there.” Edwards said the weather played a minor role in her selection of a college and that, besides USC, she looked at schools in Michigan and Ohio. The biggest difference she noticed with the latest cold snap has not been with pedestrians, but with drivers. “I have noticed that parking and traffic are worse and that might be that people are wanting to be out of the cold,” Edwards said. '“But maybe that is because it is early in the semester and people aren’t cutting class yet.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknrd;s®gvm.sc. edu PETER PEREIRA/THE STANDARD-TIMES Janice Selley, a Med Lab Tech at St. Lukes hospital in New Bedford, Mass., is forced to brave the blizzard after working 2.5 shifts waiting for relief, only to find out that her SUV was snowed in. ■ LEAK Continued from page 1 roommates’ belongings, but that her professor might let her make it up. “I told her when I walked in, ‘Sorry I’m late. Sewage just exploded in my closet.’” Pauley said she was impressed by USC’s quick response to the leak, but disappointed by the form it took. “It was very quick, which I was very impressed with. They had someone mopping it up right away,” she said. “But they’re not even cleaning the carpets out there. They’re just drying them. It’s disgusting.” Noorani said she was also disappointed by the response. “They were mopping at the floor for a long time, because basically they had one lady with one mop, and the whole area was covered in water,” she said. Noorani said the smell was worst when she first came in. “It smelled so bad I wanted to throw up. It was horrible,” she said. “You * don’t want to clean it up, because you don’t want to touch the sewage water, but you have to.” Friday was not the first time life in • Maxcy’s basement made residents nauseous. “The last time this happened the hallway smelled so bad that, like, for a month I could not breathe out there,” Noorani said. First-year hospitality, retail and sport management student Eric Rogers, a first-floor Maxcy resident, said the pipe that runs above his ceiling had twice sprung a leak since he moved in last fall. “I was willing to forget it the first time a pipe burst in my room,but then the second time they just painted over it and said they fixed it,” he said. “I got kinda mad.” He blamed the dorm for the persistent leaks. “Do I have a solution?” he said, “Is that what you wanted to ask? Burn this mother down.” Luna said any student whose property had been damaged by the leaks should contact University Housing and suggested that students might temporarily borrow laptops to replace damaged computers. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockneivs@gwm.sc. edu ■ ELECTIONS Continued from page 1 candidates must meet hour requirements. The president must have earned at least 60 hours, the vice president 45 and the treasurer 30 at the time of inauguration. The president and vice president must have earned 30 of their hours at this campus, and the treasurer must have earned 15 here. The election is not exclusive to those already involved in SG, and Rainey said every year at least one non SG candidate runs for executive office. Scon said prior SG involvement helps new candidates effect change because they’re already familiar with the system. But he added that members of the student body have the advantage of being outside SG and are possibly more in-touch with other students. 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