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‘Last week I had a city,
• and now I don’t’
Disaster strikes close
to home for students,
Louisiana natives
Jess Dauis
FOR THE GAMECOCK
Waking up to find your home
destroyed, your city underwater
and your family and friends
scattered across the country sounds like
• something out of a nightmare. For USC
students from New Orleans, it has become a
tragic reality.
Sarah Dendy, a second-year chemistry
student, is a life-long New Orleans resident, but
she doesn’t know if she still has a home after
Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the city.
Her parents evacuated Saturday with her
older brother and their two greyhounds, and
have been staying in Houston with family
friends, but Dendy doesn’t know if their house
is flooded, if her friends are safe or if she will
ever get to go back to the city she loves.
Sarah Workman, a second-year entertainment
and sports management student, lives in a
suburb of New Orleans called Metairie; a brief
five-minute drive from the city, it lies on the
other side of the levee that broke and flooded
uic city.
Her house is still standing and her family is
safe, but she said she feels like she’s lost her
home.
“I’m really upset because last week I had a city
and now I don’t because it’s underwater,”
Workman said. “I was born and raised there; it’s
the only city I’ve ever known. Everything I
know is there — it’s a metropolis, but it’s
homey. All these great restaurants, clubs and
bars, everything is gone.”
Dendy watches CNN every time she’s near a
television, and checks the news online any time
she is around a computer. She even checks news
from her cell phone while she’s in class.
Workman avoids the news completely.
“I refuse to watch the news because I know
I’ll start crying,” she said.
niGHTmORC • 3
Business school professor conducts
1-day experiment in classroom
to aid hurricane victims
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Stephen Fastenau {
NEWS EDITOR
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,
subsequent media coverage of the disaster has
allowed the nation to see the tragedy at nearly a
first-hand level. Stacy Wood, a professor in the
Moore School of Business, recognizing the
magnitude of the situation, found a unique way
to raise money for victims using her consumer
behavior class Wednesday.
Wood had been teaching the class of nearly
40 students about the concepts of perception
and signaling (consumers’ ideas of product or
service quality based on certain cues). She
decided to combine service with teaching by
having the students test the theory in a class
project.
Before class, Wood sent an e-mail to her
students asking them to wear walking shoes to
class Wednesday, and to bring Mardi Gras beads
if they had them.
Turning her class into groups or nine teams ot
four people apiece, Wood gave each team a piece
of posterboard, a marker and a bucket. Their
instructions: Raise as much money as possible
through theories learned in class, with proceeds
going to the American Red Cross for the
hurricane relief effort.
Through what they learned in class to
enhance a potential donors “impulse to give,”
students roamed the downtown area armed with
their own unique strategy and meager supplies.
The results astounded Wood, as the students
raised more than $ 1,650, not including pledges.
“I was really amazed. When I first put the
assignment together, it was spur of the
moment,” Wood said.
Wood assumed each group would be lucky to
pusil in $50, given thfcy only had an hoUr to
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Refugees of Hurricane Katrina roam Interstate 10 Thursday in search of a place to go days after
the Category 4 storm flooded New Orleans. Mayor Ray Nagin called for a ‘desperate SOS.’
Mitchell leads USC
to close-call victory
Spurrier era begins in front
of capacity crowd, national audience
Alex Riley
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Fans chanted “Game-cocks” back and forth across the
stadium. The pregame video of Gamecock greats lit
| up the Jumbotron screen. The sound of “2001” began to
filter over the airways. And it couldn’t get here fast enough.
After almost 10 months of hype and eagerness, the Steve
Spurrier era at USC kicked off with an overflow capacity
crowd of 82,753 filling the seats for one the most
anticipated games in Williams-Brice history. But the era
didn’t begin with the bang many thought it would. Instead,
it started with more of a thud, as USC handed UCF its 16th
straight loss with a 24-15 win.
Before the band could even get back into its seat, the cock
‘n’ fire offense began to work its magic, as Blake Mitchell hit
Noah Whiteside for a 49-yard touchdown with less than
three minutes taken off the clock on a drive that lasted five
plays.
“I was just thinking that if that safety comes up then I’ve
got to get it,” Whiteside said.
Freshman Mike Davis got to show off his moves early, as
on the following drive Davis took a screen pass 64 yards to
set up the Gamecocks in the red zone. That drive finished
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Chaos descends
as looters ravage
flooded city
The Associated Press
. NEW ORLEANS — Fights and fires broke out,
corpses lay out in the open, and rescue
helicopters and law enforcement officers were
shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended
into anarchy Thursday. “This is a desperate
SOS,” the mayor said.
Anger mounted across the ruined city, with
thousands of storm victims increasingly hungry,
desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take
them out.
we are out here like pure animals. We dont
have help,” the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside
the New Orleans Convention Center, where
corpses lay in the open and he and other evacuees
complained that they were dropped off and given
nothing — no food, no water, no medicine.
The plea from Mayor Ray Nagin came even
as National Guardsmen poured in to help
restore order and put a stop to the looting,
carjackings and gunfire that have gripped New
Orleans in the days since Hurricane Katrina
plunged much of the city under water.
About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken
shelter at the convention center to await buses
were growing angry and restless in what appeared
to be a potentially explosive situation. In hopes of
defusing it, the mayor gave them permission to
march across a bridge to the city’s unflooded west
bank for whatever relief they can find.
In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary
BEBLfllll • 2
Students feel pinch at pump
as gasoline line interference
causes U.S. prices to skyrocket
Kristen Highly
FOR THE GAMECOCK
Hurricane Katrina has caused a major
disruption in fuel production, interfering with
gasoline lines and leaving many in the
Columbia area stranded for the Labor Day
weekend.
In Katrinas aftermath, the U.S.’s oil
production was down by almost 10 percent,
which caused gas prices to jump anywhere from
a nickel in the Northern U.S. to 80 cents a
gallon in the Southeast. Experts say no long
term shortages are expected, but for the present,
prices are rising quickly. Smaller, privately
owned stations are drying up and closing down.
“It’s important for everyone to remain calm
and patient, and to conserve gas while we
continue to work toward determining how to
best address this situation,” said Governor Mark
Sanford in a news release.
For many students on campus, the gas
situation means rethinking Labor Day travel
plans and work commutes, as well as taking
advantage of campus transportation instead of
their own cars.
GAS #3
Campus groups, USC officials
to organize relief efforts; SG
participates in WIS telethon
From staff reports
As nightmarish reports continue to stream
out of the areas hit hardest by Hurricane
Katrina, student and university leaders are
making tentative plans to organize relief efforts
on campus.
To raise money for victims, Student
Government and other student groups will
partner with the Carolina Chapter of the
American Red Cross for a telethon Friday
evening on WIS.
“I think we need to do everything we can to
help our fellow Americans,” said SG Treasurer
Tommy PrestAn, a third-year political science *
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