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South Carolina had an 11-win season for the first time in history, so The Daily Gamecock wanted to do something special. This commemorative poster ran as the cover on the first issue of 2012.
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who to CHOOSE Students weigh in on the South Carolina Republican primary
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elcome to The Daily Gamecock’s 2012 South Carolina Republican primary election tab! With this special section, we tell the stories of a handful of students at USC who have dedicated themselves to the campaigns of the candidates they hope to see win the GOP’s nomination and eventually replace President Barack Obama in the White House. Each makes an argument for why his or her candidate is best suited for the nomination and the tasks of reviving a still-struggling economy, creating jobs and reducing the national deficit. Each has taken on a different role in his or her candidate’s campaign. Each comes from a different background and area. But they all agree on one thing: The stakes are high in this election, and they want to see their candidate move on in the race with a Palmetto State win in his pocket — a win that has, in every GOP primary election since 1980, decided the party’s eventual nominee. Mel Gaddy, a third-year, political science student who lived in Boston while Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts, attests to Romney’s credentials and ability to boost the economy. Gaddy spends hours every day volunteering for USC for Romney and Romney’s South Carolina campaign. Former Student Body Vice President Katie Thompson serves as the national co-chairman and South Carolina director of Students for Newt, an organization supporting former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Thompson addresses concerns about Gingrich’s values and why she thinks he can keep America moving forward. Various members of Youth for Ron Paul at USC explain why they stand behind the libertarian candidate and, regardless of whether Paul wins the nomination, will continue to support his policies. Travis Dillard, a firstyear political science student says he “converted” to Paul’s campaign when he realized all of the mainstream candidates were basically the same. Caroline Santorum, a first-year psychology student, believes her uncle, Rick Santorum, embodies Christian and family values and has been an unwavering conservative throughout his career. She recounts memories of her uncle and refl ects on the experience of seeing her family in the limelight. We’ve also included a Primary 411 to give you, the Carolina Community, a guide to where, when and how to cast your ballets on Saturday. Check out our editorial board’s endorsement on the Viewpoints page of the paper, but no matter who you vote for, we encourage you to go out, exercise your rights as citizens and make your voices heard.
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The USC men’s basketball team will look to bounce back from three straight SEC losses at Auburn.
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himself, is hard to place at either end of the political spectrum. Paul’s supporters at USC range from long-time conservatives to former socialists, many of whom say they are exasperated with the easily compromised policies of major-party representatives. Among them is first-year political science student Travis Dillard , who was a self-proclaimed Democrat and President Barack Obama supporter until three weeks ago, when he says he “converted” to Youth for Paul. “I had a change of heart when I realized that all the candidates were the same,” Dillard said. “From Obama to Romney, there’s really no difference between their policies.” Dillard is one of the many firsttime voters around the nation who have been attracted to the small government principles touted by Paul — among them an anti-war foreign policy, the legalization of marijuana and the repeal of the National Defense Authorization Act. “Those socially liberal and economically conservative principles draw all types of people, but college students especially are gravitating toward him,” Grant said. While Grant and other
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individual exas Rep. Ron Paul may not have taken an aggressive approach to campaigning in South Carolina, but he has still captured a loyal following among collegeage voters who are fed up with flip-flop arguments. Third-year criminal justice student Harley Grant is one such follower. Grant admits to having been “that kid” in his high school government classes, with a political interest sparked from watching “The Colbert Report” and a fascinated conviction to the self-proclaimed constitutionalist’s old-school Jeffersonian fidelity to limited government. “I just caught on to the political bug and wanted to spread the message,” Grant said. That’s what just what Grant has been doing since his first venture on behalf of the Ron Paul campaign in 2007, leaving political Slim Jims on the hoods of parked cars. Nowadays, he’s been spreading the message and garnering support for Paul’s second run for the White House as the president of Youth for Ron Paul at USC , the only campus group to support a single candidate. Since becoming official in November, the organization has garnered more than 340 members on Facebook, many of whom will be voting for the first time in 2012. T h e b o d y o f R o n P a u l ’s supporters, like the candidate
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outh Carolina’s Republican primary is always a hotly contested affair — and Saturday’s is sure to be no exception. Here’s how you can make sure your voice will count in this year’s contest. South Carolina’s primary is open , meaning that any voter registered in the state is eligible to vote, regardless of party affiliation. Voters are required to present identification in order to vote. Valid identification includes: your voter registration card, driver’s license or other Department of Motor Vehicles–issued ID card. However, if you are planning to take your
registration card, registered by mail and didn’t include ID with your application, take note: you will also be required to present your license, DMV-issued ID or “a copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck or other government document that shows your name and address in the county [you’re voting in],” according to the state Election Commission. You’re also required to vote at your assigned precinct, which will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but any voters in line when polls close at 7 p.m. will still be allowed to vote. The accompanying maps show the location of
polling stations for four precincts near USC’s campus and off-campus apartments, but they are not an exhaustive guide. You can locate your polling place on the Election Commission website at bit.ly/SCVoting. If you’re hoping to vote absentee by mail, you may be out of luck — the deadline to return ballots was Jan. 17. The deadline to vote absentee in person, though, is Friday at 5 p.m. — Compiled by Thad Moore, Assistant News Editor
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— Alex Wright supporters will dutifully demonstrate on Paul’s behalf Saturday, they insist that they are part of a larger movement among the next generation of voters that goes beyond the support of a single candidate and even beyond the 2012 election; following the primary election, the group will continue working to support Paul’s staunch policies under a different
name, possibly “students for liberty.” “It’s a movement for liberty and individual rights, and for a return to the economic principles in the Constitution,” third-year fi nance student Alex Wright said.
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South Carolina’s early place in the Republican presidential race posed the opportunity to feature passionate, involved students in a memorable special tabloid. The tab included a map polling place info and profiles of the four candidates from a supporter’s point of view. The cover, opposite, is a pullout poster. The whole thing, 8 pages in total, was fully produced in 8 hours. I drove directly from my American citizenship oath ceremony to work on this tab—what a way to celebrate democracy.
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Creative directing Garnet & Black’s Spring 2012 style editorial was incredibly fun. From original concept development, to model scouting, to clothes pulls, to outfit styling, to shoot sequence, to final layout, I was directly involved. Androgyny and color blocking were an obvious thematic choice for the spread, coinciding with both seasonal trends and southern men’s love for pastel dress shirts.
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crushing the giant By consuelo Dominuguez
Pop art takes its last stand.
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America’s Favorite Addiction Millions drink it daily. Now coffee rises to be America’s best addiction. By Roy Rodgers You find it on every street corner, in many people’s hands every morning on the subway. It’s a dark addiction, one that drives much of America’s workplaces. Coffee. Coffee accounts for a lot of sales world-wide. Tons of thousands of people work for the coffee industry, all over the world. African coffees are said to be some of the very best, many of which have really crazy local names. There are a lot of issues involving coffee. You find it on every
street corner, in many people’s hands every morning on the subway. It’s a dark addiction, one that drives much of America’s workplaces. Coffee. Coffee accounts for a lot of sales world-wide. Tons of thousands of people work for the coffee industry, all over the world. Roy Rodgers is a wannabe cowboy and a contributing writer to the New York Daily News.
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crushing the giant Careless consumption is no longer “in,” and neither is the materialistic culture pop art embraces. Now art’s golden child has to justify it’s place in the art world.
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For my first layout ever, New York Times Magazine was an obvious mock-up selection, with sleek lines and colorful illustrations. Crafting a cover portrait, ads, multiple sections and a central spread, was definitely a learning experience.
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Cover for the popular, ad-packed parents weekend tab. Our editor-in-chief ordered a complete redesign four hours before deadline, but luckily USC has a gorgeous campus.
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Neither the editor-in-chief nor the news editor knew of the extra page in the news section, which left us with no content. This illustrated football poster for Friday’s edition filled the page! The concept and design were left entirely in my hands. This involved last minute calls to the printers and ad team, because originally the page was greyscale and covered in ads. The cutout mask attemped entertain our readers and engage them in a tactile manner. The editor-in-chief felt the illustration to be too playful for a newspaper, but it received positive feedback from both students and staff. Although newsprint is not the best material for a cutout, I stand 100% behind my design.
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section heading redesign The Daily Gamecock’s clunky section headings were a bit much, so we switched to cleaner, more modern section headings in line with the rest of the paper. The old headers drew attention away from page content, while these understated redesigns show necessary info without yelling.
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Following US Postal Service guidelines, this stamp collection celebrates American individualism through its ultimate symbol: the car. While recalling the rugged, go-get’em spirit of old war Jeeps, the set is also a suble reminder of the price paid for freedom.
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Ian Dillinger Dillinger’s Deli 356 East Bay Street Columbia, SC 29205 Phone: (803) 575-1234 Website: www.dillingersdeli.com
This MSNBC logotype redesign came from intensive exploration of ten television station logotypes, including HBO, AMC, TNT and CNN. Target audience and programming research begun the process, followed by rough sketching. After critique, different typefaces were matched to the original sketches. The final logo, in blue, is a Franklin Gothic modification with slanted terminals and taller ascenders, chosen for variating stroke thickness and overall boldness. MSNBC is a news network, so interrupted letterforms and slanted vertical lines invoke the quick pace of the newsroom. Below, right, is a black knock-out version of the same logo, aligned right in a black box as if moving forward. This reflects the station’s motto, “lean forward.” Below, left, are two rejected logo variations. Though both are fun, they feel more like an entertainment network than a news station logo.
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THE ALIENS ARE COMING:
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had always imagined the U.S. as a land of opportunity, freedom and Disney World, and when I arrived here in 2000, these things proved largely true. Moving to Georgetown, S.C., from a city of more than seven million people was shocking but allowed perspective. People were friendly and talked slowly, new neighbors greeted with cookies and invited to church. America to me was a small South Carolina town full of nice, hard-working people in a leisurely landscape. I learned all about the debate between North and South. Life was different up North, they told me; people move too fast. New Yorkers, they were the worst. And the West, well, that was a whole separate entity, divided into the Midwest, Southwest, and—let’s be honest—California Civil War themes still popped up in everyday conversations and history lessons, and I realized that perhaps the United States were not so united after all. It’s to be expected that the people of such a large country would feel stronger ties to their own piece of land than a whole nation, specially when different areas spoke, acted and ate so differently. America, I found, is a nation of individuals from every corner standing under a giant umbrella.
As a foreigner in a strange land, I witnessed America change on Sept. 11. These tensions and squabbles disappeared that morning as we gathered before our televisions, mouths gaping in horror and shock. America was violated; the comfortable bubble of the 1990s permanently shattered and our social consciousness changed forever. This was our Pearl Harbor, our JFK assassination. I understood none of this that day. I didn’t know what the World Trade Center was, and it didn’t help that my middle school chose to keep the event hidden. When I got home that afternoon, every newscaster spoke quickly through a furrowed brow. My mom tried to explain the events to no avail; I would not truly grasp the situation until years later while visiting ground zero. Little did I know how these events would affect my life as a legal alien. Foreigners were now threats, Anthrax could arrive by mail, and even tiny Georgetown feared a bombing. Xenophobia took over, and I kept my mouth shut. We discussed the impending war in social studies, and
18 Column and skyline design, published Sept. 12, 2012 in The Daily Gamecock, commemorating the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attack.
many of my sixth-grade classmates voiced strong sentiments for retribution. The Patriot Act kept me in the country for four years. From age 13 to 17, I didn’t see my dad, aunts, cousins or grandparents. My visa was no longer enough to vouch for me, and when I was eventually allowed to leave again, my shoes were taken off and my things extensively rummaged through. I felt trapped in a nation that didn’t want me. This was not the America I had met in 2000. She had become protective— always vigilant and prepared for war. But not really. It took time for me to understand the gap between America’s government and her people. I realized that the wonderful people I’d met when I first arrived were still wonderful, the South still sleepy slow. People now are more cynical, more alert. Xenophobia waned, though it still lingers. In a nation of immigrants, this is dangerous. Why let them win by allowing hatred to poison us? Ten years have passed. It’s now time to sow peace.
wordsof wisdom “Focused, ferocious, fierce.”
During the early 80s, hip hop was an underground genre supported by bootlegged mixtapes. Under the management of his big brother Russell, Run DMC brought hip hop out of the underground. Run shared the stage with other big hitters like LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys, but proclaimed himself as the star. “I was very competitive.” Grabbing mike stands and throwing them around, Run was being a bit of a diva. Everybody wanted a piece. Rolling Stone flew the band out to Los Angeles for an interview. Though atop the Billboard charts, Run says he was actually at the bottom. “I was trampling everything around me to get to the top.” He demanded the presidential suite, among many other things, and while he bathed in the hotel’s jacuzzi tub, eating french toast and smoking weed, everything changed. Syrup and ashes fell into the water while reporters, girls and drug dealers knocked at the door, and Run had a revelation: “I was extremely swagged out and B-boyed out, trying to get everything at once. And then I came to this realization—I was empty.”
“Many of you have a vision, but there’s so many haters out there. Don’t let the haters talk you out of what’s yours, because there’s never been you before.”
Being a hip hop superstar and an aspiring minister leaves you in a tough position. Neither Russell or Snoop Dog understood what Run wanted to do, but he stayed focused despite the laughter, saying “Delay does not mean denial.” He was ordained a pentecostal minister by his spiritual mentor E. Bernard Jordan, for which Jordan was generously thanked in the form of a Rolls Royce Phantom. Rev. Run’s new ministry grew immensely in 2005 with the debut of Run’s House on MTV and has gotten even larger since he began his Words of Wisdom twitter , which boasts over three million followers. His ministry is all about mercy, not condemnation, “I’m not the preacher that says, ‘You’re in trouble, leave them hoes alone!’ I’ll never come down on someone. You can smell from the tweets that I’m not judgemental.”
“Outwork everyone that is around. It’s always the dilligent person that impresses the universe to release its blessing.”
This success was by no means overnight. Rev. Run stresses the importance of persistence and hard work for anyone trying to make it in the world, pushing the youth in the audience to go to their chosen field and knock until a door opens. Teachers and mentors are more than willing to help those just starting out, but it’s up to the youth to listen and learn, “if you’re not open, you’re got gonna make it in life.” Run shared a parable on the importance of openness. He originally hated the “fugly” Phat Farm classics, but Russell wanted his endorsement. He finally opened up to the idea, after agreeing on half the profits, and good thing, because “they made [him] so many millions of dollars it was crazy.” Read our one-on-one interview and the rest of this article online at
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“I knew I could have things, but I didn’t wanna let them have me.”
The syrupy incident would forever change Run’s life. After finding the largest pictorial bible he could, he turned to God and “began rejecting success.” Run became an usher at a local church, where he would still get recognized, but felt a powerful calling to spread God’s word.
When RUN DMC’s Rev Run came to campus, Garnet & Black asked me to conduct a one-on-one interview and compose a photo blog package. This excerpt shows only a small portion of the inspiring, wacky things the rev said that night.
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Rock and roll multiple exposure portrait, no photoshop. Long exposure and several flashes create this effect.
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This collection of print advertisements catalogue a small portion of my study-abroad experience. Morrisons offered affordable and fresh foodstuffs, and these Steve Madden boots took me across Europe comfortably, even on the rocky Scottish coast.
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Capturing the lush flora of Glasgow, Scotland drove me to create an environmental awareness poster. The text is screened to emphasize photograph’s the rich texture and saturated color.
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Leeds Vintage Fashion Fair, held in the famous Leeds Corn Exchange, perfectly combined my love for fashion and design. The building’s beautiful Victorian architecture provides some excellent leading lines for this self-directed poster.
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The original Guinness factory opened in 1759 after Arthur Guinness began a 9,000 year lease for £45 per year. Good deal—they’ve been going strong ever since.
An elderly gentleman enjoys 360° views of the Dublin skyline while drinking a complimentary pint in the GRAVITY Bar, located on the storehouse’s top floor.
“Crafting the Perfect Pint” stands out among the tour’s interactive sessions. Visitors are trained to craft a pint and earn an official certificate of excellence.
The storehouse holds the world’s biggest pint glass, which cuts through the building’s seven floors. The glass would hold 14.3 million pints of Guinness.
Self-guided tours allow visitors to pick up beer facts and Guinness history as they wind through the factory’s beautifully restored brewing machinery.
Etched windows on the sixth floor recall the motto, “Lovely Day for a Guinness” as visitors tour galleries of the brand’s successful advertising efforts.
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Photojournalism class pushed me to mix photography, reporting and audio-recording. 23-year-old Anna is a student and proud mother of 5-year-old Adeline. This photo essay, orginally in video format, is the story of a teenage mother, in her own words.
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Nobody is ready to be a parent. Learning to be a parent, no matter how much you prepare, no matter how many books you read or how much advice you get from family, you really don’t know anything until you figure it out on your own. I think the neatest thing is that we’re gonna grow up together. She’s really my best friend. She knows everything about me and I know everything about her.
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mini résumé Garnet & Black Magazine
Creative Director, Style Editor, blogger Conceptualized and directed Garnet & Black’s four yearly publications, coordinating production between editorial and art positions with particular emphasis on conceptualization of style shoots, from model and location scouting to store pulls and styling. Photographed and interviewed for the Caught on Campus segment, and contributed student-tailored style blogs.
The Daily Gamecock
Design Director, staff designer 2009-present
Art directed The Gamecock’s first redesign in seven years, establishing a cohesive brand identity for the publication. Led an award winning design team for a nationally-ranked collegiate newspaper in daily production of news, mix, sports, and special sections, as well as participated in editorial brainstorming critiques.
Paulina Belen
Freelance graphic designer 2010-present
Created a personal brand and promoted it to secure assignments from various groups. Work includes brochures, case reports, page layouts, advertising and logo identity development.
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