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Pastides says USC plane use justifi ed

Pr ior to t he med ia coverage concerning Gov. Mark Sanford’s scandal in late June there was little buzz surrounding USC’s planes. As a matter of fact, it seems as though a limited percent of the student population was even aware of the access that University officials, faculty and the athletic department had to private aircraft.

“I had absolutely no idea that our school had acce s s to pla nes , I ’m surprised, and where is the funding coming from,” said fourth year exercise science student, Sangeeta Vijayagopalan.

In early September, Sa n ford’s s t a f f a sked the state’s three major research universities to provide copies of f light r e cord s show i ng t he usage of the planes: The Medical Universit y of South Carolina, Clemson University and the USC. W hile USC President Pastides Harris Pastides and staff had no indication that such request would be made, the University h a s a l w a y s a n d w i l l continue to be prepared to comply with request for information. In concession to a r t ic les w r it ten in newspapers t here has been little inquiry about the usage of the plane to which USC has access.

“O t her t h a n b e i ng asked to provide plane records, we have not. We have always considered the plane a way to serve our eight un iversit ies around the state with high efficiency. Of course, we have no problem with appropr iate scrut iny,” said University President Harris Pastides.

USC does not own any aircraft, but has access to two planes, one for general Universit y use and the other primarily designated to athletic use. The USC Development Fou ndat ion ow ns t he plane that is designated for University use and leases it by the air hour to the University. Essentially, access is only granted to University administrators a nd f ac u l t y t h at a re conduct ing Universit y bus ines s or re sea rch. F l ight ad m it t a nce i s limited because pay can’t be accepted from anyone other than the University because the school is not licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration as a charter service.

A s a r e s u l t i n t he downfall of the economy, usage of the plane has decreased immensely. The drop saves the University money but causes t he

U S C D e v e l o p m e n t Foundation to spend more of its own money to cover fi xed costs such as repairs, maintenance, insurance and hanger rents. USC has cut costs on air travel because the University does not direct ly own the plane, MUSC and C l e m s o n o w n t h e i r planes and are obligated to fulfi ll the maintenance requirements.

“For example, the FAA and others regulate the ma intenance done on the plane and require the maintenance to only be done by certifi ed aviation mechanics. We recently had to have the engines taken apart and serviced,” s a i d R u s s M e e k i n s , Di rec tor of t he USC Educational Foundation a nd C h ie f F i n a nc i a l O f f i c e r o f t h e U S C Foundations. “To do this, the engines were removed in Greenville and shipped to Dallas. The cost of the maintenance was about $80,000.”

None of these costs had to be paid by taxpayer funds or tuition money f rom the Universit y ’s coffers because the USC DF takes that risk because of its ownership.

Many concerns have been posed regard ing the usage of air travel for destinations that are in state but USC remains aware and diligent about only using the plane when it is absolutely necessary.

“ I t i s n o t a l w a y s imperat ive to use t he p l a n e , a n d i n m a n y instances I do travel by car. As the leader of eight u n iver s it ie s , I at tend e v e n t s o n d i f f e r e n t campuses, and sometimes driving means spending the better part of the day on the road,” Pastides said. “If I can be more effi cient by reducing travel time through f lying, getting work done on a fl ight and then gett ing back in a timely way to fulfi ll other obligations, I may use the plane, particularly if other Universit y col leag ues are travel ing with me. Bottom line, we always balance time and costs.”

The a irplane a l lows university offi cials to “buy t ime” when operat ing with such a compressed schedule,

“Since Sept. 11, 2001, t h is has become even more apparent because of sec u r it y de lay s i n commercial a ir t ravel. Sometimes cost effi ciency i s rea l ized,” Meek ins said. When we f ly four or f ive researchers to Wash ing ton, D.C . to seek grants from federal agencies, we get them up there and back in one day. Since we charge by the hour and not the passenger, the University saves money.”

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The plane used by USC offi cials sits on a runway.

Kristen Frala

Fourth-year nursing student and president of the Student Nurses Association Kristen Frala’s passions are nursing and helping others.

Certain attributes make her unique as a Gamecock.

Frala said that she was a Student Nurses Association member her sophomore year and ran for executive board her junior year. Last year, she ran for a state position at the South Carolina Student Nurses Association Convention and was elected to a board position. She is now the president of the Student Nurses Association.

Being president is time consuming for Frala, but rewarding.

“I have a National Student Association mid-year conference I’m going to in Arizona this week,” Frala said. “I’m really excited to meet all the people and get to know people across the U.S. and students just like us. “

Frala said the goal of the Student Nursing Association is to be active in the community, organize blood drives and try their best to recruit younger crowds.

“They’ll be having opportunities where they’re bringing in Girl Scouts and showing them the simulation labs, getting them interested in nursing early on,” Frala said. “I’m sure the kids will love that.”

Frala said she has been active in Newman club and the campus Catholic organization as well.

“This past spring break, a group of us went down to Jamaica in Kingston,” Frala said. “We went on a mission trip there. We worked with kids who have been abandoned by their parents because they either had HIV or they had some kind of disability and they were put off by their parents.”

Frala said the Mustard Seed community takes in kids and raises them that are HIV positive and physically and mentally disabled.

“We went and helped that community out,” Frala said. “It was for the entire week. It was absolutely amazing. I loved it.”

Frala said the most memorable moments are the baseball games on campus and the traditional dorm dance parties that she had

with her friends since her freshman year. Gloria Fowler, professor and director of

Student Affairs for the College of Nursing has known Frala since she was a freshman.

The advisor for the Student Nurses Association, Fowler said she’s been active in the Student Nurses Association ever since she was a freshman . She said Frala always followed through on her goals,

“She’s become more professional in her dealings in the organization and her peers,” Fowler said. “She’s developed her ability to speak in public, her networking abilities are some of the things that she’s improved on from the time she was a freshman to now.”

Frala said she initially thought about nursing from her aunt Nancy Toman-Morrison.

“She’s been a nurse for 20 years,” Frala said. “She works in the neonatal intensive care unit.” “ Frala said she is working toward being in the intensive care unit with adults. She said she has wanted be a nurse ever since she was 13 years old.

“I like being able to help people and be there for others,” Frala said. “There are so many different paths in nursing. It has always been something I wanted to do.”

Frala said she is passionate about being a nurse and she plans on working within the next year.

“I thought about nursing because of my aunt. She took me on her fl oor and ever since then I’ve always wanted to be in nursing,” Frala said.

Frala said she has had amazing support from her professors.

“It’s amazing the way they are there for their students,” Frala said.

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Kristen Frala dances with a skeleton.

A source inside Student Government told The Daily Gamecock Monday night that current Student Body Vice President Alex Stroman and Freshman Council Advisor Taylor Cain are working to put together campaign staffs to run for Student Body President and Student Body Vice President on a joint ticket this spring.

The source asked to be anonymous because he or she will likely be involved with a campaign.

Stroman, a third-year political science student ,and Cain, a third-year history student , would neither confi rm nor deny the report. Candidates can’t offi cially declare for offi ce until late January at the beginning of the election season.

Many in SG said they were surprised at the news.

SG Treasurer Ebbie Yazdani said he’d heard the rumors around the office, but he didn’t know whether or not they were true. Yazdani also said he wouldn’t confi rm

or deny whether or not he’d be seeking an executive offi ce.

“R ight now, it ’s t ime to get th ings accomplished for students,” Yazdani said. “At election time, people will start holding other people accountable.”

Matt Ungar, who made an unsuccessful run for SG Vice President last year, ruled out any run for an executive position.

“Last year, we made a promise to each other that we wouldn’t be running for another executive office,” Ungar said. “It surprises me that she can’t confi rm or deny the reports because I can deny.”

Cain said she never “made any promises to Ungar.” Cain told The Daily Gamecock last spring she wouldn’t seek any executive offi ce in the spring.

“I will never run for anything again,” Cain said last February. “This was my one shot, and this is it for me.”

Last year, Stroman and Cain waged a campaign for SG Vice President. After the run-off election where Stroman won by 12 votes, the two called each other “best friends” in the senate.

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Taylor Cain and Alex Stroman hug last February after Stroman’s vice presidential run.

Source: Cain, Stroman to run

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Friends plan joint ticket; SG surprised by news

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Southern musical icon Corey Smith entertains a crowd Friday evening at Club 1800 on Blanding Street.

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The Coast Guard is cleaning some beaches on the South Carolina coast after tar balls were spotted on the shore.

The Coast Guard says it is continuing an oil spill assessment and is working with contracted crews to clean the Charleston area beaches.

An oil spill was reported in Charleston Harbor on Oct. 20. The Coast Guard says it hasn’t heard reports of the oil causing problems for fi sh or wildlife.

Authorities say they have not determine the source of the oil but have several samples to test.

BOSTON, MASS. — A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won’t be reunited with his American husband in the U.S., the husband said Monday.

Tim Coco said Attorney General Eric Holder did not act on a Friday deadline in the case of Genesio “Junior” Oliveira, effectively denying the 30-year-old Brazilian man’s request for asylum in the U.S. on humanitarian grounds.

“We needed the Attorney General to make a decision on whether Junior could come home,” said Coco, 48, of Haverhill. “He didn’t take this request seriously.”

KABUL — A U.S. military helicopter crashed Monday while returning from the scene of a fi refi ght with suspected Taliban drug traffickers in western Afghanistan, killing 10 Americans including three DEA agents in a not-so-noticed war within a war.

Four more troops were killed when two helicopters collided over southern Afghanistan.

U.S. military officials insisted neither crash was believed a result of hostile fi re.

The second crash took place when two U.S. Marine helicopters collided in flight before sunrise over the southern province of Helmand, killing four American troops and wounding two more, Marine spokesman Maj. Bill Pelletier said.

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I’ve finally found it — the most powerful and most addicting drug in the entire world. I came across said drug just last week, and I simply cannot shake it.

For instance, last night around 10 p.m. I decided to take a quick hit before going to bed. You know, just enough to help me go to sleep.

Before I knew it six hours had passed, and I was curled up in the fetal position taking hit after hit of this potent substance.

As fourth-year history student Rakan Draz put it, “I don’t see what the big deal is, I mean, sure it’s addicting but it’s both legal and free!” That’s right — legal and free. Can you believe it?

After much deliberation, I have decided to tell the student body how to get their hands on this stuff. The euphoric effect of what I’m about to share with

you comes at an incredible price, though, as I have already said. I’m not even sure it is ethical to tell you about this, because you are almost guaranteed to get hooked. But since we are all grown adults, I’ll leave it to you to be a responsible user.

Again, I warn you — this is the most addicting thing that you will ever encounter. I have lost hours of sleep, skipped meals and shunned some of my closest f r iends for Stumble.

For those of you who are not already famil iar with what I’m talking about, you are actually lucky. Stumble, short for StumbleUpon.com, is a community-based Web site that allows users to aimlessly and randomly surf the web.

After initially starting your stumble, a button will appear on the top left corner of your web browser. When you click it you will be taken to some random point on the World Wide Web.

One second, you’re watching a YouTube clip of

the world’s fastest painter, then, after a click, you’re reading the recipe for Perfect Brownies. Another click and you’re playing a fl ash game where you’re attempting to eradicate the world of oversized tapeworms.

Seems harmless enough, right? Yeah, I thought the same thing — just another Web site that can help me kill a few minutes between classes. Little did I know that Stumble has a way of taking hold of its users and not letting go.

Not every site that you are directed to is interesting — some information is boring and absolutely pointless — but I think that keeps you obsessed. You continually stumble through random knowledge hoping to find that one perfect Web site — the Mecca of the Internet. It’s just like a crackhead that is on a constant pursuit for that fi rst high. It just does not exist.

So there you have it — Stumble, an incredible drug, but with devastating addiction potential. Use it, have fun, but please — above all else — be responsible.

I own a T-shirt with a picture of a Chinese Communist propaganda poster on it. It is from the Mao era and shows three smiling soldiers with the phrase

“Towards a br ight and glorious workers future” emblazoned underneath them.

But, of course, I am not a Communist. Not even close. So is it strange that I own a T-shirt that declares I am something I’m not?

I n t o d a y ’ s c a m p u s culture, not at all. Because t he T- sh i r t i s s i mply intended to be ironic. In

other words, it means precisely the opposite of what it appears to mean.

This hardly requires an explanation. Ironic T-shirts are ubiquitous on college campuses.

In fact, irony of this kind permeates the entire culture of our generation. But since the years when I bought that Communist shirt — and thought it was the funniest thing in the world — I’ve started to have reservations about irony. Is there too much of it?

It’s definitely everywhere. T-shirts that say “_____ is my homeboy” worn by people who otherwise would never say “homeboy.” Biblical figures made into toys. The adoration of washed-up

celebrities like Chuck Norris. Anything sold at Urban Outfi tters.

Stuff like this can be really funny, but it’s the cultural equivalent of fossil fuels. Is it sustainable?

We laugh at the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and now even the 1990s. Will we soon be laughing at the 2000s? Then what? Will we laugh at last year, last month?

At some point we’ll have no choice but to wear ironic T-shirts making fun of ironic T-shirts. Then our culture will have burned out completely.

At that point we’ll be faced with the dark side of our obsession with irony. The whole joke has been to laugh at those things that were once taken seriously.

But in our insatiable appetite we’ve stopped laughing just at bad things. We laugh at the very idea of taking something seriously.

Mel Brooks has said that by making fun of Hitler in “The Producers” he was robbing him of his posthumous power. There was a moral motive behind that humor.

But now we rob indiscriminately. Both the good and the bad are equally targeted.

Any passion, any belief, any political or religious idea. Any culture, any art, any way of living.

When we’ve made fun of everything what will be left? Will we have any culture at all? And will we be too afraid of our children and grandchildren’s mockery to start again?

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Our favorite fall celebration, the candy-fi lled Halloween, is almost here – but you wouldn’t know it looking around the decoration-deprived ghost town of Columbia.

Where are the carved pumpkins and stringy fake spider cobwebs adoring front porches, the tantamount candy supplies and the army of costumes ranging from the nightmare-inducing to the cute and cuddly and all the politicians and faux celebrity masks in between?

Where is the black and orange mania that is supposed to have kids begging their parents to go trick-or-treating hours,

even days, before the sunset on Oct. 31?

If it weren’t for our calendars, we wouldn’t know this holiday was around the corner.

Folks, it’s t ime to put up the decorations and give in to the childlike commercial bliss that only rolls around once a year, relieving us for at least one night of our suits and ties, skirts and heels and allowing us

to have a little bit of nonsensical fun.The reason behind this absence of October creepiness?

There may be several reasons, but one constant seems to penetrate each holiday these days in one way or another – people are always offended in one way or another, and it has exponentially affected our holidays, one mistletoe, dyed egg and candy corn at a time.

Nestled deeply in the heart of South Carolina, several people have religious beliefs that are less than giving to the old concept of Hallow’s Eve. The thing is, Halloween is a commercial holiday for kids to dress up and people to let loose — it’s not about devil worship and locking up our homes against evil spirits hiding behind plastic bags fi lled of mini Snickers.

In northern parts of the country, religious holidays are downplayed to simple “Season’s Greetings” and the like. Down here, it’s reversed. While we cherish our green-and red-clad Columbia come December, we’d like the same spirit allotted to October festivities.

This is the one time of the year it’s acceptable for a little bit of orange around town, so take advantage — but make sure it’s not that evil Tiger shade that makes our skin crawl.

No tricks, no treats: Where is all the spirit?

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Officiating mistakes affect game results,

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BURNING DOWN THE HOUSEIrony leading culture to ruin

Today’s humor built on ridiculing, satirizing serious issues, steadily losing

sense of what is important

BryanWendlandFirst-year broadcastjournalismstudent

It’s not about

evil spirits hiding

in plastic bags

fi lled with mini

Snickers.RichardWoodFourth-year historystudent

Dan SolleyFourth-yearpre-lawstudent

Randomly skimming Internet pages leads to hours of aimless,

uncontrollable surfi ng, wasted time

I’m tired of people telling me offi ciating has little effect on the outcome of college football games.

T h e a r g u m e n t g o e s something like this: Sure the official made a bad call, but your quarterback threw an interception. Or your defense gave up a big play, or your offensive line just couldn’t block the other team’s defense or some other excuse.

This is all well and good when talking about a little

call like a false start or a blown holding call. But when a referee o r a r e p l a y official misses s o m e t h i n g obv iou s , t he g a me a l most always changes, and recently the SEC has found out ju s t how

much officiating can change a game.

In an early season showdown between LSU and Georgia, the Bulldogs went ahead by one point on an amazing A.J. Green catch with 1:09 left in the game. The off icials called an excessive celebration penalty on him, which backed up Georgia’s k ickoff team and gave the Tigers great field positioning. LSU took advantage of the call and went just 38 yards for the winning touchdown.

Later that week the SEC publicly said the of f icials shouldn’t have called that penalty and later suspended the entire officiating crew after they made another bad call late in Florida’s victory over Arkansas in week six.

I t w a s t he f i r s t t i me in h istor y t hat t he SEC suspended an entire offi ciating crew, and after watching so many SEC games in recent h i s tor y, I c a n’t b e l ie ve more officials haven’t been suspended.

Gamecock fans remember last year’s LSU game where Stephen Garcia was tackled by an official on his way to the end zone. Carolina ended up losing that game by seven points. But did any thing happen to that official? Of course not. In fact he was back offi ciating a Carolina game a few weeks later.

It has become apparent that officials in college football are having a huge effect on t he outcome of footba l l games, and there’s little we can do about it. Until genetic engineers can create a perfect set of referees, college football fans everywhere will be stuck wondering whether or not their team would have won the game if that bonehead offi cial didn’t blow that obvious call.

PAGE 5TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2009

In the spirit of Halloween mischief, the Trailer Park is taking a break from detailing the previews for upcoming releases. Instead, we’re turning our attention to the Internet phenomenon of re-cutting movie trailers.

Much like a musical mash-up, a re-cut

trailer rests on the idea that two things that seem completely different can in fact perfectly co-exist. Springing up mostly on YouTube and ebaumsworld.com, re-cut movie trailers presume an unlikely relationship between a fi lm and a genre.

For example, have you ever wondered what Disney’s “Mary Poppins” would look like as a horror? According to one of the most popular re-cut horror trailers, the two have a surprising number of things in common.

Stringing together all of Mary Poppins’s magical moments over an intense horror track creates a disturbing and hilarious effect. With simple and smart edit ing,

Poppins is now a demon and the film is a gothic horror.

This user-generated content offers up startling examples of creativity, with the best ones displaying a nuanced knowledge of how genres like to market themselves and how certain juxtapositions can create different effects.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is a re-imagining of director Stanley Kubrick’s famous haunted hotel fi lm “The Shining” as a family drama. This trailer takes one of the core confl icts of Kubrick’s fi lm,the disintegration of the family – and reverses it.

Now, Jack Nicholson isn’t becoming insane, he’s becoming a better father. One of the most renowned re-cut trailers, this trailer understands how to overplay a sappy family film and twists many terrifying moments out of “The Shining” into something tender, creating a truly humorous effect.

Considering a simple search yields nearly 500 results in YouTube’s database, it would be almost foolish to try and rank the best ones. The best manage to make their play on genre emerge from somewhere within the original fi lm, playfully using editing to their advantage.

A re-cut version of “The Notebook” turns Ryan Gosling’s star-crossed lover into an obsessive and terrifying stalker, all by playing on the his relentless romantic

pursuit.Making “Seinfeld” into a horror movie is

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Musical composit ions f r o m B a c h , H a n d e l , Purcell and Vivaldi played by fou r Spr i ng Va l ley Orchestra players created the atmosphere for the “Peace and War: A Poet’s Journey Through Israel” on Sunday.

The weekend workshop’s fi rst event took place Friday afternoon, a great start to the “Telling Our Stories: A Memor y to Memoirs Haiku” workshop, which captivated and intrigued the Columbia community over the weekend with its enthralling haiku poetry.

Rick Black, a professional journalist and haiku poet, explained the structure of a haiku poem as a brief poem of three lines that usually that has a reference to nature, focuses on a specifi c moment and takes place in the present tense.

Black started the event S u n d a y , t r a n s l a t i n g Hebrew to English to recite his poetry. Then he went on to refl ections about life as a reporter in Jerusalem and on his decision to write haiku poetry.

Black spoke about the isolated image, which is the l ight, shadow and a person’s face. Black said haiku helped him f ind a balance, a way to deal with t he v iolent scenes and images that he saw and experienced in Israel.

“I worked as a journalist i n I s r a e l f o r t h r e e years, start ing with the A s soc iated Pre s s , ju s t brief ly, and then joining the New York Times in the Jerusalem bureau, where I stayed for three years,” Black sa id . “T hat was from December 1988 to December 1991, the start of the f irst Palest in ian intifada and the fi rst Gulf War.”

B l a c k s a i d t h a t throughout h is t ime in Israel he was searching for a way to depict the contradictory images of peace and war and t he w a y i n w h ic h t he y ’r e intertwined in daily life, but he was unable to do that through his reporting for the press.

“A n d t h e n w h e n I got back to the States, I rediscovered haiku and began writ ing them and

realized that I had finally found a form in which to convey all of my emotions about what I had seen and reported on in Israel in these tiny poems,” Black said. “When I returned to Israel on a visit to show my wife the country, that’s when I began writing all of these haiku about it. I will often contrast images of peace and war in one poem, for instance:

beyond the barbed wirep u r p l e b o u g a i n v i l l e a

fl owering wildlyor1 9 1 8 c e m e t e r y

an olive tree’s new branchesshoot towards the sky

ort w o o l d v e t e r a n s

revisit the batt legroundarm in arm

and many others. In my mind, the land was as much a part of the story — the way in which it continues to fl ourish or be destroyed — as the reportage about da i ly events that I was

writing for the paper.”M a rk Lay ma n , USC

A r t s I n s t i t u t e p u b l i c informat ion spec ia l ist , said that as a long-t ime journalist himself, what i ntere s ted h i m i s how he uses haiku to capture scenes, the same way a photographer or a reporter w o u ld , b u t i n a v e r y economical way.

“There are no wasted words, nothing to crop,” Layman said.

Kwa me S .N. Dawes , L o u i s e F r y S c u d d e r

Professor of English, said he met Black several years ago when he lived here in Columbia.

“ Po e t r y b r ou g ht u s together and continues to be important to both of us,” Dawes said.

D a w e s s a i d B l a c k u n d e r s t a n d s t h e importance of observation, t he va lue of c a re f u l ly managed adornment and above all, the poet’s trust in the “moment” of a poem.

“He has learned to allow that ‘moment’ to tell its

own story. Therefore, his mastery is in observation. Here I mean the capacity to see the poetic moment in the world around him.”

Dawes said Black’s poems are touching, revealing and often taken risks.

“They are also things of beauty, well-shaped, and graceful,” Dawes said.

Poet Rick Black sets up workshop in ColumbiaWriter, journalist

speaks on haiku, life over weekend event

Sierra KellyTHE DAILY GAMECOCK

Courtesy of Rick BlackHaiku poet and former Israeli journalist Rick Black spoke as part of “Telling Our Stories: A Memory to Memoirs Haiku.”

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Gamecocks blanked in Baton Rouge

Carolina soccer earns road tie at Florida International

Scott WaggonerTHE DAILY GAMECOCK

Women’s soccer shut out for first time in 2009 on road

against Louisiana State

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Women’s team shines in doubles, singles matches

Ryan VelasquezTHE DAILY GAMECOCK

Men’s squad gets draw after loss to Wake Forest

After losing a tough match to No. 3 Wake Forest on Tuesday, the South Carolina men’s soccer team bounced back this weekend with a 0-0 draw on the road against Florida International. With t he t ie , t he Gamecocks improve their record to 7-5-3 on the season and 2-1-2 in the conference.“The effort was outstanding at FIU, and I was really pleased with that. Our guys played very hard,” USC coach Mark Berson said. Despite being plagued by injuries and illness, the Gamecocks came out hard in the fi rst half, putting up six shots and earning one corner kick. Although they didn’t score, they were able to rely on the steady play of keeper Jimmy Maurer and the rest of the defense. Maurer made two saves and Carolina went in at the half with a scoreless tie. As the game shifted to the second half, the Golden Panthers t urned up the heat on offense, managing five shots and putting the pressure on the Gamecock defense. The pivotal play, however, came with just under 10 minutes left. FIU’s Wes Thompson fi red a shot from the top of the box, which defl ected off the crowd

of players in front of the goal and bounced to teammate Sebastian Frings. With an open look, Frings took a shot, but Maurer dove in to make the save, preserving the draw for the Gamecocks.“To be honest, that was one of the best saves you’ll ever see in collegiate soccer,” Berson said. With three games to play, Carolina will look to its veteran roster to stay in the playoff picture.“This is largely a junior and senior-oriented team, and that shows in these games,” Berson said. “We’ve been in a number of close games this year, and last year we were in a lot of those same games, and this year we’ve done a better job of fi nding a way to win.”

Continued success from Maurer will be important. In 15 games, the junior has a 1.08 goals against average, a .761 save percentage, and fi ve shutouts. With FIU behind it, Carolina looks ahead to its fi nal three games, the fi rst against conference leader UAB.“Our match with UAB is a great opportunity for us to try to pick up some points against a team that’s ahead of us in the league,” Berson said. “They’re an excellent team that’s playing very well right now. The game’s on the road, so that will certainly be a big challenge for us.”

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In a clash of SEC division leaders, the No. 10 USC women’s soccer team was shut out for the first time this season, falling 1-0 to No. 14 LSU after having to play the 2nd half with 10 players. The loss drops Carolina (15-2-1, 7-2-1) to a second-place tie with LSU (11-4-3, 7-2-1) in the SEC behind Florida, who now leads the conference by one point with 23.

USC was plagued by a slow start after a defensive mishap allowed the Tigers to score a goal in the opening minute when LSU midfi elder Melissa Clarke found the corner of the net. Clarke’s goal was the fastest one scored on Carolina in over three seasons, and it put USC behind for only the second time this year.

“We didn’t come out as well as we should have,” USC coach Shelley Smith said.

Carolina nearly evened the score in the 10th minute on a free kick by Kim Miller, whose shot was blocked by a diving LSU

goalkeeper Mo Isom. The Tigers had a chance to extend their lead before the half when another LSU midfi elder, Courtney Alexander, placed one in the upper right-hand corner, which forced Gamecock goalie Mollie Patton to make a tough save.

The Gamecocks came out strong in the second half, as they were able to apply pressure on the Tigers and get some more scoring opportunities. In the first five

minutes of the half, sophomore forward Kayla Grimsley had t wo breakaway chances that she was unable to convert, and senior defender Blakely Mattern almost scored on a give-and-go with Grimsley minutes later.

The turning point in the game came in the 58th minute on a controversial call, when USC sophomore defender Ellen Fahey was given a red card for tripping.

The foul occurred as Fahey inadvertently tripped an LSU attacker when she was getting up from the ground after she had headed the ball to the goalkeeper.

“It played a big role,” Smith said of the call. “It makes it tougher to get the offense going, and it creates extra work on everybody.”

Although the team had to play the rest of the game with 10 players, it was Carolina’s defense that kept it in the game.

“Defensively we were really good,” Smith said. “Our defense played with a lot of heart and intensity.”

Carolina had one fi nal scoring chance in the 70th minute when senior forward Lindsay Small got her head on a corner from senior defender Samantha Diaz-Matosas. The ball squeaked pass Isom only to be stopped by an LSU defender by inches, which secured the win for the Tigers.

The Gamecocks finish the season in Gainesville against the No. 12 Florida Gators this Friday night in a game that will determine the SEC Eastern division title. Kickoff for the game is slated for 6 p.m. at James G. Pressley Stadium.

Chris Keohane / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Sophomore forward Kayla Grimsley (4) was one of many Gamecocks to have scoring chances Sunday afternoon in USC’s 1-0 loss to LSU.

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The USC men’s soccer team is still very much in the thick of the Conference USA race.

Tennis makes waves at regional tourney

Two Gamecocks, senior A na Mar ija Zubor i and f r e s h m a n M a d e l e i n e Saari-Bystrom, competed a t t h e W i l s o n / I T A Carolina Regional Tennis Championships this past weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C.

T he duo reached t he doubles quarterf inals by f i r s t beat i ng Giova n na Portioli and Sandra Herrera of Winthrop, 8-4, af ter receiving a bye in the first round. In the third round, Zubori and Saari-Bystrom defeated Lucy Dougherty and Valerie Baer of UNC-Greensboro 8-4.

Their run ended in the quarterf inals to Amanda Granson and Ellah Nze of Duke, 6-8. The Gamecocks had been seeded seventh overall in the doubles draw, and entered the tournament 2-0 as a doubles team this fall.

In singles play, Saar i-Bystrom lost in her f irst-round contest against N.C.

State’s Sandhya Nagaraj 4-6, 7-5, 1-6. Saari-Bystrom had entered the matchup having won her last three matches. The freshman was able to f inish the day on a good note, though, defeating Gina Suarez-Malaguti of North Carolina by a score of 6-1, 1-6, 7-5.

Zubor i , on t he ot her hand, was able to win four matches in the tournament. Zubori, who came into the tournament ranked No. 29 in the nat ion, started off with an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Jessica Cook of East Carolina. She then reached the third round with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Jelena Durisic of North Carolina. There, Zubor i d ispatched N.C. State’s Berkeley Brock with a 7-5, 6-1 win, and reached the tournament semifinals by beating Wake Forest’s Mart ina Pavelac in three sets, 6-3, 6-7, 6-3.

Zubori’s day came to an end in the semifi nals, as she lost to Reka Zsilinka of Duke, 3-6, 4-6. Zubori improved her individual record this fall to 12-3. Coming into the tournament, Zubori had two wins over players ranked in the Top-50 nationally.

Due to her performance, Zubori hopes to receive a bid to the ITA National I nt e r c o l leg i a t e I ndo or Championsh ips . Zubor i would have to get an at-large bid for the tournament , which will take place in New Haven, Conn. starting Nov. 5.

Other than that, the next women’s tennis competition for the Gamecocks won’t happen until Jan. 20, when the team takes on Furman at home.

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