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TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014
VOL. 114, NO. 32 • SINCE 1908
USC fined $25k by SEC after fans storm court Penalty third handed down by conference since ban instituted Thad Moore
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USC will have to pay the Southeastern Conference a $25,000 fi ne because fans stormed the court after the men’s basketball team beat then-No. 17 Kentucky over the weekend. The SEC requires that universities keep their fans off the court — or field — during and after games. USC hasn’t broken that rule since January 2010, when the Gamecocks beat then-No. 1 Kentucky. “This policy is designed to ensure a safe environment for everyone who participates and attends our athletic event s,” SEC com m issioner M ike Sl ive sa id i n a statement. “The healt h and safet y of our st udentathletes, coaches, officials and fans are the top priority.” Enough time has passed since then to reduce the SEC’s fi ne, but if the university breaks the rule in the next three years, it will face a $50,000 fi ne. Saturday marked the third time USC has been penalized since the rule was implemented in 2004. Hundreds of fans ran onto the court of the Colonial Life Arena on Saturday after the 72-67 upset victory. It was the first time the team had beaten a ranked opponent since 2011. Even USC President Harris Pastides got in on the action, running onto the court himself, he told a group of prospective students Sunday night. “Once I realized I was paying [the fi ne] anyway, I ran down,” Pastides said. “I enjoyed every dollar.” DG
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USC students stormed the court on Saturday for the third time since the SEC fine was implemented in 2004. If the university breaks the rule again in the next three years, it will face a $50,000 fine.
Olcott remembers, explores ‘year of the woman’ International Women’s Year celebrated worlwide in 1975 Khadijah Dennis
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Garnet & Black’s Winter 2013 Style Video, created by Alex Grosse, won a Silver Addy Award in Cinematography.
University, Leadmon win first Best in Show Addy Infographic on hooking up wins top prizes Natalie Pita
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USC won 14 awards at t he A merican Advertising Awards compet it ion on Feb. 22. The event was part of the American Advertising Federation’s annual competition, the largest of its type in the world. More t ha n 50 awards were presented to advertising students and professionals in the Midlands in order to recognize exceptional work. For the first time, USC won a St udent Best of Show Addy
Award for Lauren Leadmon’s infographic in Garnet & Black Magazine ent it led “The Low Dow n on Hook i ng Up i n College.” Leadmon, who graduated in May with a degree in marketing, was unaware that USC had even submitted the graphic until she received an email informing her that she had won. “I was very surprised, actually, and ver y honored, of course,” Leadmon said. “I’m excited to see what it will do [at the next level].” E dg a r Sa nt a na, c reat ive d i r e c t o r of St u d e nt Me d i a , descr ibed t he i nfog raph ic as “eye-catching” and describing a topic that “demanded interest.”
“It’s a great piece of art and it really stood out,” Santana said. “It had all the elements judges look for.” In order to create the awardwinning design, Leadmon found statistics and research for the i n f o g r ap h ic t h at s he f o u nd interesting and relevant to the student body, and then sketched out the plan for the piece. “I really enjoy doing infographics and that k ind of design,” Leadmon said. L e a d mo n i s now wo rk i n g for Sunshine Sachs as well as cont inu ing desig n work on a small scale. ADDYS • 3
Adventure Time impresses again with experimental SEE PAGE 5 storytelling and creative gumption
Jocely n Olcott’s part icipat ion in t he International Women’s Year Conference in 1975 explored the many questions women sought to answer. “They told me it was the year of the woman,” Olcott said, “So I asked them, what woman?” I n t e r n a t i o n a l Wo m e n’s Ye a r w a s celebrated by women all over the world who traveled from their home countries to Mexico, where the conference and activism activities were held. Women were ready to speak on the issues that objectified their race, beauty and power that seemed to be misunderstood by the world for so long. “How high do you put the bar to declare something as a historical event?” Olcott said. “The International Women’s Year was created as such as the media marked the conference as an event, or a happening.” The 1970s, as Olcott said, marked an explosion as it became the pivotal moment f o r w o m e n’s f e m i n i s m a n d a c t i v i s t movements. It was also a time when African Americans were battling their own issues of race, so Olcott compared the monumental c i v i l r i g ht s m o v e m e nt a s b e i n g t h e equivalent of the International Women’s Year. “ T he I nt e r n at io n a l Wo me n’s Ye a r exemplified the friction or grip of what one encounters,” Olcott said. Women at the conference spoke openly about the issues faced at home, like the lack of clean drinking water and food, as well as the opportunities to change that. Confl icts of oppression and representation arose in addition to global policies. “The only image we’re given is that we cannot unite ourselves,” Olcott said of Bett y Friedan’s quote. “These calls for unity brought about the questions of who could represent who.” T he idea of women’s em a nc ipat ion brought con sider at ion to 1975 ab out the range of experiences, differences of WOMEN • 2