University of South Carolina Libraries
THF MTY Wednesday, Oct. 5,2005 " B ■ 1 f B B ^L. Page 11 Hello, my . name is: Mark Manley, first-year electrical engineering student Josh Cole FOR THE GAMECOCK WHY DID YOU CHOOSE CAROLINA? “I like the way the grass smells.” WHAT DO YOU PUT ON A TURKEY SANDWICH? “Nothing. Turkey is divine.” WHO IS GOING TO WIN THE SUPER BOWL THIS YEAR? “Washington Redskins.” WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH A MILLION DOLLARS? “Revamp Maxcy and buy a marble statue of Ramine Mirdamadi.” WHO STOLE THE COOKIES FROM THE COOKIE JAR? “I’m not at liberty to say.” COKE OR PEPSI? “Coke.” WHAT DO YOU DO ON FRIDAY NIGHTS? “A healthy dose of partying.” WHY DID YOU CHOOSE YOUR MAJOR? “Sounded pretty cool. I found out it’s not.” WHAT PICK UP LINE DO YOU USE? “Hi, my name’s Mark. I’m a freshman.” WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH BY BEING IN THE GAMECOCK? “I’d like a lot of hot girls to Facebook me.” 4Boot camp9 ups workouts Tough fitness programs attract those searching for exercise jump-start Owen Fowler KRTCAMPUS myrtle beach — “Hut-Hup-three-four!” Guy Osborne calls out cadence, and the women push themselves through yet another set of arm exercises — flies with dumbbells, presses with a body bar, curls with dumbbells. It’s not even daylight, not even 6 a.m., and the three women already are soaked with sweat. Before they head out for a mile run around a lake, they stop at a bench where they do a set of dips, using their upper arms to lift and lower their bodies. For a Friday session, the group of four or five women meet Osborne at a high school football stadium so they can incorporate eight to 10 runs up the stadium steps into their routine. Welcome to boot camp, a program Osborne leads to jump-start a person’s fitness level. “It’s designed to get a person ready to go out on their own / on some type of physical fitness regiment,” Osborne said. “The most important thing is that they build self confidence. They get to be proud of who they are.” During the past five years, Osborne, a Pawleys Island police chief, has led seven boot camps, he estimates. His eighth recently began with a group of about 15 in the Litchfield Beach/Pawleys Island area. He begins each boot camp by doing a physical-fitness assessment of each participant. In addition to weighing them and taking body measurements, Osborne has them perform sit-ups and push-ups and times how long it takes them to do a certain amount of laps on a track. “The goal of most people initially is to lose some weight,” he said. “They come in a little overweight, so I try to stress running and aerobics.” Osborne went to the Cooper Institute in Dallas to be boot cnmp • 13 i. Screenshot courtesy of IW1LM AM WILES “Final Fantasy XI” is a role-playing game popular with college students. Players can work together online to achieve certain goals. Internet-based role-playing games allow players to cooperate without seeing each other face to face Brmdy (Tlcflair VIEWPOINTS EDITOR Fantasy role-playing games have increased in popularity and sophistication since first hitting stores, and they show no signs of slowing down. The world of online role playing has benefited from advances in technology, starting with games such as “Diablo” and the original “Final Fantasy” and evolving into games such as “World of Warcraft” and “Final Fantasy XI.” The most recent and popular fantasy role-playing games are played online either on PCs or newer game systems such as the PlayStation 2. Many games will also be available for game systems not on the market yet, such as Xbox 360, slated for a November release. Online fantasy RPGs have a worldwide market, with many games originating in Japan and spreading to the United States and beyond. Europe has also gotten in on the RPG wave with players in Russia, France and England. Square Enix, which develops the “Final Fantasy” series, is based in Japan. Blizzard Entertainment, which developed “Diablo” and “World ofWarcraft,” is one of the few U.S.-based companies to develop a successful RPG on a worldwide market. Online RPGs have several servers with thousands of players on each. Each server has an infinite number of groups, called guilds or linkshells, in which players can communicate with other specific players they know or are familiar with. RPGs contain virtually infinite places to explore, missions to accomplish and items to obtain. Joshua Dolinger, a 2003 USC graduate and “World ofWarcraft” player, said infinite possibilities are what draw players to the game. “What attracts people is that it’s not static. There will always be new things to do,” Dolinger said. “You have so much to do, you basically get engrossed in the environment.” Another reason Dolinger prefers to play “World of Warcraft” is that its servers are based in the U.S. He says one of the shortcomings of “Final Gflmes • is Onl/ne. *|Er*iTi/no|<2^ AGGRO — short for aggressive, the behavior by which a mob automatically attacks players without provocation BOT — an external program designed to automate portions of the game ' ; jk BUFF — to temporarily improve a character’s statistics CAMP — to wait near a place a mob spawns in order ro kill it DOT — "damage over time,” any spell or ability which causes a target to sustain smaller amounts of damage at even intervals for'a short period of time FARM — to kill large numbers of mobs with relative easewitnfittle reward for each individual kill, but moderate net gain GUILD/UNKSHELL — an association of players possessingfeown method of organizatiorrand communication HP — health/hit points MP — magic/mana points MMORPG — massively multiplayer online role-playingeame ' MOB — any non-playing character who cm be attacked and killed NOOB — someone new to the game or unfamiliar ro MMORPGs POWERLEVEL — a higher-level player who aids lower-level players for the purpose of gaining levels more quickly; the act of doing so TANK — a character suited specifically for taking blows XP — experience points, a numerical score that represents what a playing character has accomplished in the game i ■ www. daily game cock, com