Week of September 13, 2013 by SC State Student Media

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The Marching 101 Adds a Female Touch

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ew members of the Marching 101 took the field alongside seasoned members as they performed in their signature style in front fans but fans were treated to something other than eye catching choreography and foot-stomping music; a female drum major. Lydia Brooks, a junior Business Management major, has been a part of the Marching 101 for three years. Born on a military base in Fairfax, VA, started her band career in the sixth grade. In 2009, the South Carolina State Bulldogs faced the University of South Carolina Gamecocks. This game marked a change in Brooks’ path as she was able sit in with USC’s band and witnesses the Marching 101 in action. “I got to look at it firsthand it just happened that game they played South Carolina State and I was just in total awe and I really did love the band from that point on,” said Brooks. Brooks has a well rounded arsenal of musical instruments including the alto saxophone, her primary instrument, as well as tenor and soprano saxophone

respectively. She has also begun to learn to play the acoustic guitar. And she sings. “I like to play my saxophone but since I consider my voice as an instrument as I well I like to sing. It’s probably my favorite,” said Brooks. Brooks is not the first ever female drum major for the Marching 101; there have been three prior to her. She has not had the opportunity to meet any of them yet. “You don’t normally see female drum majors. You normally see male drum majors in all kinds of band and all types of bands,” said Brooks, “a female drum major; you just don’t see it every day.” Although Brooks admits there are few female drum majors, she feels she is at advantage. In fact, she feels she’s at an advantage because even being a drum major proves her ability to go above and beyond to be on the same level as her male counterparts despite the added pressure she feels being a female. As she reflected over influences in her life

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SC State Falls to Stetson 1-0 in Women’s Soccer SC State will remain home on Tuesday, Sept. 10, when they host Emmanuel College at 7 p.m. at the Oliver C. Dawson Stadium

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rangeburg, S.C.--The SC State women’s soccer team dropped its third straight match, falling to Stetson, 1-0, in an early afternoon matchup at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium. The game was a defensive battle until late in the second half, when Stetson (2-2-1) got the game winning goal from Makeshia Lucien who headed in a corner kick by Amber Grose at the 83:47 mark. For the game, the Hatters outshot SC State (3-4-0) 16-8 including 8-3 in corner kicks. In a previous match on Sept. 6 the Lady Bulldogs dropped its second straight contest, falling to VMI, 2-1. With the loss, the Lady Bulldogs fell to 3-3 on the season. Both team’s defense was solid throughout the second half of the contest. With just under nine minutes remaining VMI’s Sidney Bligh headed in a long cross from Erica Putney, to score which proved to be the game winning goal. Neither team would score down the stretch, giving the Keydets the 2-1 victory. For the contest, VMI outshot SC State 17-9 including the 5-0 corner kick advantage.

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does not belong to me. It belongs to every proud Bulldog that has stepped foot in Bulldog Country and it belongs to all the future Bulldogs. This paper is our legacy and it is up to us make it great or accept responsibility if it fails. I will work hard to make sure that it does not fail but I will need your help. I want to extend an invitation to each and every one of you to be a part of the legacy of this proud paper which will be celebrating its centennial year in 2014. I invite you to join us in continuing the legacy by responding to articles or even becoming a valued member of the staff. Newspapers are rough drafts of history. They are filled with the first telling of all the historical events that will later be refined and politically correctly written about in history textbooks for our children and grandchildren to study in school. I am inviting you to write the first draft of history. Dana Brooks, Editor-in-Chief

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NSF Awards SC State University With $399,940 Grant

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he National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $399,940 to SC State University and OrangeburgCalhoun Technical College to develop a partnership that will enhance the physics programs at each institution. The three year award will provide funds to develop shared resources and new coursework materials at both institutions. While physics is a relatively small field of study it plays an important role in all science and engineering fields with applications that range from the energy industry to the space program and the health professions. Physics majors are in demand with excellent prospects for employment. “This project will bring together the two physics areas which have complementary strengths,” said Dr. Donald Walter, principal investigator at SC State. “We will develop new materials that both schools can include in the classroom.” A number of shared activities will be supported by the grant. Students from both schools will tour industrial sites

and graduate programs at universities around the state of South Carolina. Each year a team of students will work with faculty to launch a weather balloon with a research payload that will rise to a height of 20 miles above Orangeburg to collect meteorological data and measure the ozone content in the atmosphere. Faculty members will modify existing laboratory exercises to include alternative energy applications as well as incorporate the latest teaching methods that have been shown to improve student performance in physics courses. “Faculty from the two institutions will work together on revisions to their respective physics programs and on the introduction of topics related to alternative energy into various courses,” stated Dr. James Payne, co-principal investigator at OC Tech. South Carolina State University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

BROOKS continued from page 1 Brooks spoke candidly about a former member of the Marching 101; Devon Ferguson. Brooks recalled Ferguson’s dedication to the Marching 101 despite a cancer diagnosis. In fact she was so dedicated Brooks recalled how she

would still participate in practice to the point that “they would have to pull her off the field.” “That type of determination, that type of drive, I admire. Devon Ferguson is my biggest influence,” said Brooks.

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raig Burgess has been appointed to the position of general counsel of SC State University. In this position, Burgess is responsible for all legal matters impacting the university including, but not limited to, drafting and reviewing legal documents; rendering legal advice and opinions; ensuring compliance with university policies and federal and state legislation; overseeing litigation; coordinating the response to subpoenas and other requests for information; and providing assistance in the formulation and implementation of institutional strategies to prevent legal problems. Burgess is a skilled litigator and trial attorney with more than 20 years of experience handling complex legal matters as a private attorney and corporate counsel. Burgess first 11 years as a lawyer were in Charleston, S.C., where he rose through the ranks as an associate to become a partner at Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, defending corporate clients in the areas of product liability, premises liability,

and general personal injury claims. Burgess left the firm in 2003 after accepting a position to work in Atlanta, Ga. as senior litigation counsel for BellSouth Corporation and later for AT&T after a merger between the two tele communicat ions companies. After leaving AT&T in 2007, Burgess spent 18 months traveling extensively abroad, eventually returning to private practice in Charleston in 2009 to work as special counsel with the law firm of Barnwell, Whaley, Patterson & Helms, specializing in the representation of universities, school districts, and municipalities. Burgess is married to Rev. Adriane McGee, associate pastor at Bethany United Methodist Church in Summerville, S.C. They have a son, Craig Zachary. A graduate of The Citadel, Burgess was a four-year letterman of the varsity basketball team, voted captain during his senior year, and named to the Southern Conference Second Team AllConference and All-Tournament squads.

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• LOCAL & WORLD NEWS • Friday, September 13, 2013 Syria Says It Accepts Russian Weapons Proposal

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Murrells Inlet, SC (AP) -- A South Carolina high school has been evacuated for the day after someone burned several American flags outside the front entrance before classes started. Officials at St. James High School in Murrells Inlet found the burned flags around 6:20 a.m. Monday and called Horry County Police. When investigators reviewed surveillance video, they say they saw the suspect do other suspicious things and decided to keep students and teachers outside. A photo released by police shows a man with flags dressed in all black, including black rimmed goggles. The students and teachers were eventually taken to St. James Middle School. Students aren’t being allowed back on campus as police continue to check the high school. So far, authorities say nothing else suspicious has been found.

ARIS (AP) -- Syria has accepted a proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for dismantling, the Syrian foreign minister said Tuesday, as France proposed a U.N. resolution that would enforce the plan militarily if the government failed to follow through. The moves are part of flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting Western military action. Speaking in Moscow, Walid al-Moallem said his government quickly agreed to the plan to “thwart U.S. aggression” - an allusion to possible U.S.-led strikes in retaliation for a deadly Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack near Damascus that Western powers blame on the Syrian regime. Syrian President Bashar Assad has denied the claim. Russia, Syria’s most powerful ally, is now working with Damascus to prepare a detailed plan of action that will be presented soon, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. Russia will then be ready to finalize the plan with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Al-Moallem’s brief statement sounded more definitive than his remarks a day earlier, when he said Damascus welcomed Russia’s initiative. He did not provide any details about how Syria might comply. Western officials have expressed caution about possible stalling tactics or efforts to wriggle out of international pressure by Assad’s regime in Syria, where more than 100,000 people have died in more than two years of civil war. Al-Moallem’s response came after France said it would put forward the resolution in the U.N. Security Council aimed at forcing Syria to ultimately dismantle its chemical weapons program. France, like Russia, a permanent member of the 15-nation council, will start the resolution process Tuesday under a part of the U.N. charter that is militarily enforceable, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said at a quickly arranged news conference in Paris. The proposal would also condemn the chemical weapons attack. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Assad could resolve the crisis by ceding control of his chemical arsenal to the international community. Lavrov

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responded by promising to push Syria to place the weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly, to avert U.S. strikes. China too expressed support for the plan. President Barack Obama said Monday that the Russian proposal could be “potentially a significant breakthrough,” but he remained skeptical that Syria would follow through and is pressing ahead with efforts to persuade Congress to authorize a military strike. Obama said the idea actually had been broached in his 20-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week on the sidelines of an economic summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. Obama said he directed Kerry to have more conversations with the Russians and “run this to ground.” Fabius said the French resolution would demand that Syria bring fully to light its chemical weapons program, place it under international control and scrap it - and a violation of that commitment would carry “very serious consequences.” The resolution would also seek to bring to justice the perpetrators of the attack that killed hundreds, he said. France expected a “nearly immediate” commitment from Syria, Fabius said. Russia had information about the chemical weapons stockpile, and expressed hope that this time a tough resolution on Syria would not be blocked. Russia and China have repeatedly impeded Western efforts to pressure Assad through the U.N. body. In Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said of the Russian proposal: “As long as it eases the tension and helps maintain Syrian and regional peace and stability, and helps politically settle the issue, the global community should consider it positively.” The chief of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, also expressed support for the proposal, telling reporters that it has been always in favor of a “political resolution.” The league has blamed the government for the attack, but says it doesn’t support military action without U.N. consent. France is eager to seize on Russia’s “overture,” Fabius said, while expressing caution that French authorities “don’t want

to fall into a trap” that could allow Assad’s regime to skirt accountability. “We do not want this to be used as a diversion,” Fabius said. “It is by accepting these precise conditions that we will judge the credibility of the intentions expressed yesterday.” Earlier, on Europe-1 radio, Fabius trumpeted Western pressure for leading to a “turnaround” in Russia’s position: “At first the Russians denied there was a chemical weapons stockpile in Syria. Then, they denied a chemical attack. So, they have changed - very good!” he said. “Why did the Russians change? I think there are two main reasons,” Fabius added. “One is that our firmness is paying off, and secondly, they’ve realized the proof of chemical weapons is increasingly overwhelming.” France and the United States have been the two Western powers that have most vocally called for military action against Assad’s regime over the chemical weapons attack, insisting that international accords against the use of chemical weapons needed to be enforced. Fabius said that finding and destroying “more than 1,000 tons of chemical weapons” would be difficult and would require international verification amid the tough backdrop of Syria’s civil war. He reiterated France’s stance that Assad must leave power: “We can’t imagine that someone who was responsible for 110,000 dead, it is said, can stay in power forever.”

AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks to the media in Moscow, Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. Syria’s foreign minister said his country welcomes Russia’s proposal for it to place its chemical weapons under international control and then dismantle them quickly to avert U.S. strikes.

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No. 4 Clemson Knocks Off SC State 52-13

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Sept. 13 Volleyball at the Citadel 2 PM Women’s Soccer v. Univ. of Tenn.Chattnooga in Boiling Springs, NC 4 PM Men & Women’s Cross Country at Coastal Carolina Invitational Sept. 14 Volleyball v. Radford Univ. in Charleston 10 AM Volleyball v. Charleston Southern in Charleston 3PM Football v. Alabama A&M 6 PM Sept. 15 Women’s Soccer v. USC Upstate in Boiling Springs, NC 1 PM Sept. 17 Volleyball v. Wofford 6 PM Women’s Soccer v. UNC Asheville 7 PM

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NFL Scores Patriots 23 Bills 21

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Falcons 17 Saints 23

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LEMSON, SC—Senior Tyler McDonald recorded his second straight 100-yard game receiving with four catches for 138 yards and two touchdowns, but it wasn’t enough as fourth-ranked Clemson defeated SC State, 52-13, on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. South Carolina State drops to 0-2 on the season, while the Tigers improved to 2-0 for a fourth straight season, also a school’s first. “I was really disappointed that we turned the ball over and gave them a chance to score a few times,” said SC State head coach Buddy Pough. “”We didn’t do a good job blocking up front.” Clemson jumped out to an early 17-0 lead off a 32-yard field goal by senior Chandler Catanzaro (6-3,200) at the 11:20 mark in the first quarter. Senior quarterback Tajh Boyd (6-1,225) put the Tigers ahead 10-0 on a 1-yard punch with 3:37 remaining. The Tiger’s defense showed its big-play ability with a pair of interception returns for touchdowns—53 yards by junior defensive back Martin Jenkins (5-9, 185) and 35-yards by senior corner back Darius Robinson (5-10, 175)—for the first time in program history. Boyd then connected on a 3-yard toss to junior Charone Peake (6-2, 205) to put the Tigers ahead, 31-7 with 5:16 remaining before the half. South Carolina State finally broke its scoreless streak at Clemson with senior quarterback Richard Cue’s 63-yard

scoring toss to McDonald. McDonald also added a 51-yard TD pass from redshirt sophomore quarterback TeDarrius Wiley. Clemson put the game out of reach on a pair of touchdown passes of 17-yards and 26-yards to freshman Gerome Hopper (6-0, 180) from junior backup quarterback Cole Stoudt (6-4, 210) late in the contest. Pough stated, “Clemson is as good as we’ve played. But we have a long way to go to get better. The key is battling back to get to .500.” McDonald, at the start of his final season, needed only 28 catches to become the school’s All-Time Receiving Leader— he has eight so far with 242 yards and three touchdowns in two games. “It was exciting to have a good game personally, but I would rather have come away with a win or that we had played a more competitive game,” said McDonald. “I don’t really focus on the record we are just trying to work hard and get better and make a run for the MEAC (Mid-Eastern Athletic) Championship.” Senior defensive back Kimario McFadden spearheaded the defense with a career-high 15 tackles (11 solo) and 1 TFL, while linebacker Joe Thomas finished with 10 in the loss. South Carolina State will return to action on Saturday (Sept. 14) when they host SWAC foe Alabama A&M in a pivotal non-conference matchup at Oliver C. Dawson Stadium.

SC State Women’s Volleyball Goes 0-2 on Day Two of the Hampton Inn/C of C Invitational

harleston, S.C. (Sept. 6-7)—The SC State women’s volleyball team went 0-2 on day two of the Hampton Inn/College of Charleston Invitational. With the loss, the Lady Bulldogs drop to 0-6 on the season. In their first match of the day, SC State fell to host College of Charleston, 0-3, (13-25, 13-25, 15-25). Desire Waller had eight kills and Erica Pritchett put down five kills in the match. Freshman Victoria Ferguson picked up a game-high 12 digs while sophomore Melanie Williams put up 14 set assists in the loss.

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Maddie Hills recorded a game-high 11 kills to lead College of Charleston, who improved to 6-0. Lexi Rhein had 21 assists with seven digs and Catey Warren also picked up seven digs for the Cougars. Despite falling 0-3 in the second match of the day, SC State displayed a lot of hustle and tenacity throughout. There were a total of 12 ties and six lead changes over the three sets, as the Lady Bulldogs fell to Coastal Carolina, 16-25, 16-25, and 22-25, in their final match of the tournament. Senior Alyse Lewis, who earned all-tournament honors, had five kills with four blocks and a hitting

percentage of .571 in the match. Senior Desire Waller had 10 kills and sophomore setter Melanie Williams had 19 set assists for SC State. Kindra Bailey led all attackers with a game-high 14 kills to lead Coastal Carolina, who improved to 2-4 on the season. SC State will have five days to regroup before returning to Charleston, S.C., to participate in The Citadel Invitational next weekend, Friday-Saturday, Sept. 13-14. The Lady Bulldogs will have their 2013 home-opener, next Tuesday, Sept. 17, when they host Wofford College in a non-conference match.