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The University of South Carolina Monday, October31, 2005 VoL 99, No. 35 • Since 1908 Knoxville knockdown For first time, USC enters | Neyland Stadium, exits with 16-15 upset victory Jonathan Hillyard SPORTS EDITOR KNOXVILLE, Term. — “I’ve finally got a new line. God is smiling on the Gamecocks.” With that comment, USC coach Steve Spurrier on Saturday summed up an historic night in Carolina football history. For the first time ever, the Gamecocks defeated Tennessee on the Vols’ home field in Knoxville. “This was big for football program . and for the University of South 'Carolina,” Spurrier said. “Fiopefully we can gain some confidence and we can build on it.” With a 49-yard field goal by Josh Brown with 2:45 to play, Gamecock fans everywhere celebrated a 16-15 win, while the team sprinted across the field to celebrate with its traveling followers. Brown cleared the crossbar on the kick by what seemed like mere inches and made a career-long field goal, one of the most memorable in recent USC history. “Just like hitting a golf shot, when you get that solid contact, you know | it’s going through,” Brown said. “It’s just a dream come true.” The win broke a 12-game drought in which the Volunteers got the better of the Gamecocks. But those were the Spurrier-less Gamecocks. The victory marked the 10th for Spurrier against Tennessee. It also improves his mark against Volunteer coach Phillip Fulmer to 8-2. The win was the first for USC’s seniors against “the big three” of the SEC East. The bunch had already endured three losses to Georgia by less than a touchdown, two to Tennessee UICTORV • 10 Photos by Katit KirbbtnJ/ \ HE (1AM ECOCK Top: Defenders Ko Simpson and Dakota Walker, center, celebrate during USC's first ever win in Knoxville. Left: Redshirt freshman Sidney Rice hauls in one of eight catches Saturday in Neyland Stadium. Rice finished with 112 yards receiving and 2 touchdowns. Center: Freshman Mike Davis rushed for 66 yards, his second best total this season. Right: Blake Mitchell talks with coach Steve Spurrier following the victory over Tennessee. Dungeons & Drag Queens Justin Lhapura/ nW, GAMECOCK Drag queen Crystal Meth performs in front of USC alumnus Jared Glover at PT’s Cabaret in Five Points on Sunday night in celebration of Halloween. INSIDE Viewpoints Jacob Davis points out Democrats’ futile efforts to hurt the Bush administration; Tim McMaflUS thanks Moe Thompson for redefining the college prank. 4 The Mix Plum-ber 1 Nintendo celebrates the 20th anniversary of its original gaming console, made famous by “Super Mario Bros. ” 5 t * Sports Soccer knocks off C-USA’s best USC locks up the No. 2 seed in their first ever Conference USA tournament next week. 9 v •# USC alumnus working hard in Iraq Army major helped write country’s new constitution Jess Davis early childhood education student, STAFF writer wonders every day if her dad is safe. Maj. Wise has been a A family of Gamecocks is living commissioned officer in the U.S. through a year of uncertainty as a husband, father and new grandfather works in Baghdad, Iraq. Maj. Rick Wise, an Irmo resident and USC Army for 23 years since joining the ROTC program at USC in 1983 while getting his masters in education. He was an executive officer here with the alumnus, volunteered for a year-long deployment to Iraq, where he has been working since May to rebuild the country and write history by helping develop Iraq’s new constitution. His daughter Ashley, a third-year ROTC program from 2001 until his departure for Iraq. Overseas, his office is in the former presidential palace in Baghdad, where he works 15-hour days, seven days a week. (DISC* 2 Special to Tli E GAMECOCK Maj. Rick Wise, a USC alumnus and Irmo resident, volunteered a year in Iraq with the U.S. Army. Bird flu remains campus health issue Health center official recommends students get proper shots Ryan James FOR THE GAMECOCK With the abundance of natural disasters in the last couple years — the Asian tsunami, more than eight hurricanes on U.S. coastlines and recent earthquake in Pakistan — it seems another catastrophic threat might be on the horizon, and this one might affect college students. It is called H5N1, or more www. dailygamecock. com commonly, Avian bird flu, and it has health officials around the world looking for an antidote to help prevent an outbreak among humans. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the virus primarily affects livestock and has been discovered in poultry in at least eight Asian and two European countries. Only a handful of human deaths from the virus have been reported in Asia and Europe. Almost half of all reported human infections have resulted in death, according to the CDC. What is troubling to some officials about this particular viral strain is the lack of an effective vaccine to treat it and its exceptional i ¥ lethality. The Avian bird flu is the same strain that killed 500,000 people in the United States and 50 million people worldwide in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The virus has been limited mostly to livestock, but some scientists worry it could mutate into a variation that would infect humans and be communicable from human to human. Flu infections typically afflict the very old, the very young and the weak. This strain, however, would affect the young and healthy as much as anyone else. Because the virus does not FLU • 2 •a