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Gamecocks take field for spring game 36,412 come out to Williams-Brice to take in football team’s annual offseason festivities Danny Garrison

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Throughout spring practice, redshirt freshman Connor Mitch and redshirt sophomore Perry Orth have battled for the right to back up starter Dylan Thompson this fall.

With the spring football season culminating in Saturday’s annual Garnet & Black spring game, the two got one last chance to state their cases before camp starts in August. But after the game, head coach Steve Spurrier said he was not closer to picking a No. 2 quarterback.

“We’ll let them go through the summer before we make up any decisions,” Spurrier said. “Then again, we might not make a decision until it’s time for somebody to go in besides Dylan.”

And while much has been made of the backup quarterback controversy this spring, Spurrier said there is no exact science to the decision.

“Sometimes the guy that’s standing closest to me might get to go in,” he said.

After trading the advantage back and forth for that past few months, Mitch looked to be the favorite to win the second-string job entering the spring game. He completed seven of his 10 attempts for 108 yards on the day.

Although he’s still a freshman, this was Mitch’s second spring season after earning his early high school graduation and joining the team in the spring of 2013. And even though he turned in a strong performance Saturday, Mitch doesn’t want to jump to any conclusions about his role in the fall.

“I’m not going to make the decision — who’s the backup — but I made some good reads,” he said. “I came off of some too quickly, but overall a good day.”

During the halftime awards ceremony in which Spurrier handed out the annual awards for efforts during spring practices, Mitch was recognized as the most improved offensive freshman of the spring.

Orth, the winner of the offensive “Big Play” award for the spring, turned in a solid day of his own from under center.

He threw for 86 yards on six completions and tacked on a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter.

Though many eyes were on the signal callers Saturday, most of the scoring came on the ground in a contest that saw the Black team take down the Garnet team 28-10.

South Carolina’s stable of running backs was in top form during the spring game, totaling 113 yards and three scores as a group. Redshirt freshman David Williams led the way with 35 yards and two touchdowns on the day, with redshirt junior Brandon Wilds contributing 12 yards and score of Olivia Barthel and Jeffrey Davis / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Connor Mitch (top) and Perry Orth (bottom) remain in contention for the second-string quarterback job in the fall.

Armed man threatens pedestrian near campus A g roup of me n , o ne w it h a gun, attempted to rob a man walking on Pickens Street at 1 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

The man was approached by three black men in a white sedan on t he 70 0 blo c k of P ic ken s Street — near the Women’s Quad — early Sunday morning. The man was walk ing alone on the sidewalk when the car pulled up next to him. One man in the car repeatedly asked for cigarettes before exiting the car and taking out a gun. The victim ran away as soon as he saw the weapon; he was not hurt and nothing was stolen.

T he USC Div i sion of Law Enforcement and Safety released a crime alert about the incident around 10:30 a.m. Sunday. The Colu mbia Pol ice Depar t ment could not confirm whether the victim was a USC student.

The suspect with the gun was wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, according to descriptions provided to police. One of the car’s passengers was wearing a white jacket and an “N Y hat.”

There was no further description of the second passenger.

A nyone with further information about the incident is encou raged to cont ac t t he Columbia Police Depart ment, t he USC Div ision of Law Enforcement and Safet y or CR I M ESTOPPERS at 1-888-CRIME-SC. — Amanda Coyne, Print Managing Editor DG

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Indie Grits serves Slow Food

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Indie Grits’ event, Slow Food, brought local chefs and ‘foodies’ together this Sunday afternoon for an eco-friendly potluck.

Event promotes local food, sustainable farming Arthur Braswell

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Many local chefs, amateur cook s and “foodies” gathered together on Sunday for the Slow Food portion of t he ongoing I ndie Grit s Film Festival. The attendees convened for three hours and shared a bevy of local, sustainable dishes.

Slow Food is a friendly competition and taste market of hors d’oeuvres that is simultaneously eco-conscious and appetizing. The afternoon served as a slice of foodie culture.

Some individuals brought in homecooked dishes for a potluck so that they could equally partake and contribute

to the Slow Food experience.

“T hese people a re just loca l individuals who are foodies and want to cook,” said LeAnn Burkholter, a fi rst-time Slow Food volunteer and self-proclaimed foodie. “I’m an avid home cook but I come here for the atmosphere.”

That atmosphere was heightened by the skilled local chefs, many being from the Vista and Main Street. Chef Gordon Langston of Bourbon, a new restaurant set to open on Main Street, spoke on the constraints of having at least one local, sustainable ingredient.

“It is a positive thing. We have the ability to change presentations and cha nge i ng red ient s f requent ly,” Langston said. “While we have a set menu, I like to incorporate things we can change.”

The use of these ingredients has

developed the tastes of both the chefs and the consumers there.

“It certainly has increased my palette.

The freshness is there,” Langston said.

“I’m happy that so many people are here to support it.”

Beth McNamara, a second-year public relations student, played a large part in getting the word out about the event.

“I’ve been lea r n i ng about t he sustainable local chefs communit y and their green practices,” McNamara said. “For example, Baan Sawan Thai Bistro waters their plants with bar ice meltwater.”

These green practices capture the e s sence of t he env i ron ment a l ly f riendly v ibe of Slow Food. The other large aspect of the festival is to emphasize locality.

Slow Food Columbia has seemed to SLOW FOOD • 5

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Strippers sue SC clubs over minimum wage Strippers saying they weren’t paid according to federal standards are suing several strip clubs in South Carolina, according to The Associated Press.

The group of strippers filed a lawsuit earlier this year that accused Columbia and Greenville clubs of violating the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The group consists of three Midlands women, who are suing the operators of Heart Breakers Gentlemen’s Club and Platinum Plus in Columbia and Greenville, respectively.

Club operators denied the allegations, saying the dancers were paid fairly as independent contractors.

The operators filed a counterclaim last month, in which they sought the strippers’ dance fees in addition to their regular wages.

Other states around the countr y are seeing similar cases; a federal New York City judge ruled in September that exotic dancers are entitled to at least a minimum wage.

— Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

Medicaid looks to social media to gauge interest

Watson wins second Masters Tournament

Medicaid in South Carolina is paying Clemson University’s Social Analytics Institute $50,000 to keep tabs on Facebook, Twitter, bloggers and other social media, according to The Associated Press.

The state Department of Health and Human Services will use the information to help with customer service, The Post and Courier reported.

Each day, the Social Analytics Institute searches for terms related to the new federal health care law and state’s Medicaid program. The results of the searches are reported to agency officials on daily, weekly and monthly basis.

According to Medicaid officials, the information is helpful fi nding people who have struggled with t heir healt h coverage and gauge opinions on Medicaid.

South Carolina Medicaid is choosing whether to sign another year-long contract with the institute.

— Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

Bubba Watson cinched his second Masters Tournament title Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Wat son took over t he f i na l rou nd of t he tournament with three birdies and a three-shot win.

Masters rookie Jordan Spieth started Sunday off as co-leader with Watson and shot even par for the rest of the day. Spieth tied at five under par with Jonas Blixt.

Miguel Angel Jimenez finished the tournament in fourth place.

More than 450 USC st udents, mainly from t he College of Hospitalit y, Retail and Sport Management, worked the Masters Tournament in 2013, and hundreds more returned this year to sell merchandise, prepare food and supervise other employees.

— Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor

The blotter comes from police reports released by the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety and doesn’t include crimes reported by city or county law enforcement.

APRIL 4 TO APRIL 11 9 Larceny (all offenses) 4 Drug/narcotics violation 4 Trespass 4 Alcohol/ Liquor law violation 3 Drunkenness 3 Fake ID 2 Traffic/ DUI 1 Disorderly conduct 1 Fraud 1 All other offenses

— An officer went to Columbia Hall in response to a woman passed out near the dumpsters.

W hen the off icer arrived, the woman was conscious and trying to get into a white SUV, which she said was not hers, since her car is red. The woman did not answer when the officer asked her if she had been drinking and said she did not have her license. The woman told the officer she was 17, and the officer decided she needed to be taken to the hospital. She was cited for minor in possession of beer under 21.

— A n of f icer dr iv i ng on Blossom Street saw a man walking unsteadily and holding himself up on a nearby fence for support. The officer got out of his car and asked the man to come talk to him, to

which the man began to slowly jog in the opposite direction. After chasing him on foot, the officer caught up with the man by the Blossom Street parking garage.

The officer smelled alcohol on the man’s breath and found a fake Ohio driver’s license in the man’s pocket. The man was arrested and cited for minor in possession of beer and possession of a fake ID. — While driving through the parking lot at Columbia Hall, an officer saw a man passed out in the back of a truck with the door open and another man standing nearby.

The officer went over to the car and asked the man how much he had to drink, to which the man said “too much” and told t he officer he was 19. Another officer smelled marijuana, Febreeze air

f reshener a nd Febreeze odor eliminator in the car. The officers took notice of marijuana that was in the vehicle, and after searching the car, found a purple grinder, a multi-colored glass smoking pipe and an open bottle of whiskey. The man standing nearby the truck was cited for minor in possession of liquor and marijuana.

— Compiled by Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor Br ief s don’t i nclude e ver y incident from the last week, and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Information could change as investigations continue.

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The garden next to the Osborne Administration building was dedicated Friday morning to the three students who integrated USC in 1963.

The Desegregation Commemorative Garden has three sculpted juniper topiaries, flower beds, brick paths and a granite monument engraved with an original poem by university poet Nikky Finney.

“Much like the variety of plants in this beautiful garden, our strength comes from our diversity,” University President Harris Pastides said. “This garden serves as a permanent reminder of the tremendous progress we have

made since that historic day in 1963, and provides us a special place that will grow and flourish as the university continues to move forward on this journey.”

Henrie Treadwell and James L. Solomon, two of the three students who integrated the school, also attended the dedication ceremony. Treadwell and Solomon retraced Osborne’s steps last Sept. 11, which began the yearlong commemoration of the 50th anniversary of USC’s desegregation.

— Compiled by Hannah Jeffrey, News Editor DG

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New housing developments spur new business ISSUE Downtown Columbia is prepping for an influx of student residents.

OUR STANCE A good sign for the city and it’s businesses in the short term and the long term.

“Location, location, location” is one economic mantra that doesn’t seem to be losing its potency any time soon — especially if you’re you ng, a st udent a nd looking for somewhere to live in downtown Columbia.

A housing boom is resounding in Columbia, and business is responding accordingly. With the prospect of that population tripling in the next three years, outside interests are scrambling for increasingly expensive space as local businesses attempt to adapt.

New outcroppings like t he massive, 850-bed Hub building is tripling the Main Street area’s school yea r popu lat ion w it h an inf lux of more than 2,000 students. Businesses of all sorts

are becom ing increasingly centered on yout h tastes and youth price-ranges to anticipate this shift in general customer taste. National retails stores like Urban Outfitters are already in tune to this market and will fi nd no trouble in inserting itself into the upcoming bonanza.

Anything that is good for Main Street is good with us. It has f lourished as a result of recent revitalization efforts, and this boom is going to g ive it t he chance it needs (and deserves).

A n increase in population and the opening of new stores should give the street a more crowded,

“By creating an environment that is more conducive to long-term economic stability, the city is one step closer to creating a larger, more active community.”

communal atmosphere.

I f you l ive i n a n a rea you enjoy, you are more likely to part icipate and cont ribute to your community. This process of putting down roots will, in turn, induce students to think a b o u t s t a y i n g i n t h e c i t y, instead of looking elsewhere for opportunity.

This bodes well for the cit y in the long-term, too. For some students, living in the state, let alone t he cit y, is far from an appealing prospect. By creating an env ironment t hat is more conducive to long-term economic stability, the city is one step closer to creating a larger, more active community.

As for the university, these new housing developments will funnel more students towards the city, closer to the seat of government and center of business. A larger student presence in these areas is a nice development.

This housing boom embodies what we like to see most from the city: More beds and growing economic prosperity.

Unions essential part of college life Right to collective bargaining necessary The head l i nes a re about Northwestern Universit y and unionized college sports, but the stor yline is universal and highlights an opportunity for us all.

Forget the fretting pundits who conjure up endless what ifs.

The truth is, the football players at Northwestern understand the power of collective action and the meaning of a fair deal. We’d all be better off understanding the same.

You see, one player standing alone against inst it ut ions as powerf ul as Northwestern or the NCA A faces some prett y tough odds. But when a majority of players come together, that’s a game changer. That’s how collective bargaining lifts up whole groups of people — from indiv idual workplaces to t he community at large.

Students and universities in general could do with more than a little lifting up.

That’s why it’s so disappointing to hear university representatives echo the kinds of comments we hear from anti-worker politicians and CEOs, who cajole and bully worker s w it h l ie s a nd sc a re tactics. We deal with this kind of stuff every day.

A mer ica has been play i ng college football for more than a 100 years and we’ve cheered for our school teams every season.

But college football is no longer just an extracurricular activity or a booster for alum ni. It’s big business. The truth is, the NCA A makes a lot of money from college sports, and so do u n iversit ies. Bot h also exert control over pretty much every

aspect of the student-athletes’ lives and the pressure on players to produce is at an all-time high.

But that’s just it — no one has sat down to seriously address the impact of this new regime on the players. And that’s why the Northwestern players stopped waiting for someone else to come up with a solution and have stood up for themselves, collectively.

T he NC A A is a f i na nc ia l p o w e r h o u s e w it h a s s e t s o f more t ha n half a t r ill ion dollars. The universities, too, are major institutions. They’re not pushovers. No one has to worry about their interests. No corporat ion or inst it ut ion of that size will change easily or overnight — and the effects won’t be isolated to Northwestern or football players.

Think of the era, not long ago, when universities outsourced official apparel to the developing world where textile companies f or c e d work e r s t o l ab or i n dangerous conditions for rockbottom wages.

Students organized themselves and founded United Students Against Sweatshops, which has built a powerf ul presence on more than 150 campuses over the past two decades and won groundbreaking campaigns for fair labor practices for the men and women who make college gear.

Last week, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa highlighted the big problem of student debt, which has topped $1 trillion, and he pointed out the increasingly stratified world of higher education, where a lowperforming, high-income high school student has an 80 percent cha nce of goi ng to col lege, compared to a high-performing, low-income student with only

a 20 percent chance of going college.

T h a t ’s w r o n g. A m e r i c a’s p o s t- s e c o n d a r y e d u c a t i o n system should be a defender of meritocracy, not the opposite.

That’s why earl ier t h is year students and organizations like t he A F L - C IO lau nched t he Higher Ed Not Debt campaign to tackle the crippling and evergrowing issue of student loan debt in America.

A nd the growing movement d o e s n’t s t o p t h e r e . W h e n adjunct professors at Duquesne Universit y were being denied f a i r b e nef it s a nd p ay, t he y organized in collective action.

When food service workers at Pomona College were bei ng treated poorly, they organized in collective action.

The atrocities of sweatshops.

Grow i ng st udent debt. Low pay for adju nc t profe s sor s .

Mistreatment of food ser vice workers. These issues needed rebalancing in the modern era.

Certainly, most people recognize the need for a similar rebalancing when it comes to the NCA A. W ho bet ter to prov ide t hat balance than the student-athletes themselves?

What’s happening in college sports is another movement of people u nderstanding what’s p o s sible t h rough col lec t ive action. And it’s being led by the people who know it best, who live it and work it every day. These are the kinds of movements that give us all hope and that help to lift us all.

— L i z S h u l e r, A F L - C I O Secretary-Treasurer

Ukraine a 21st century European powderkeg Troop deployment makes confrontation likely After recently pulling an all-nighter, I was reading the front page of the New York Times yesterday when, without warning, I was aware of the distinct smell of gunpowder in the air.

I licked my thumb and held it up in the breeze, testing the wind’s direction, to make sure that, yes, that smell was coming from the east. I looked back down at the article I was reading: “Ukraine Forces and Pro-Russian Militants Battle Over Local Police Station.”

So that was it. The Ukrainian powder keg was about to go off, and its implication for the world was heralded by the smell of gunpowder. All of it made logical sense.

A day later, and much less sleep-deprived, that experience still makes some kind of sense. The new Ukrainian government, literally backed into a corner, has finally decided to send its military force to secure its eastern provinces.

Many eastern cities, most notably, Donetsk and Slovyansk, have been taken over by pro-Russian militant groups and, possibly, actual Russian agent provocateurs.

T he con f ront at ion bet ween these men and Ukrainian forces are expected some time Monday, as outlined by Ukraine’s interim president. Tens of thousands of R u s s i a n t r o o p s a r e w a it i n g, patiently, on the border. Even the tiniest hint of gunfire bet ween Ben Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian Crawford agitators would give the Russian First-year English and government an excuse to barrel Russian student in to the conflict, in the name of “protecting citizenry.”

Match, meet powder keg.

If this doesn’t remind you of a middle-school lecture on World War I, it should. For the sake of the math majors (in all likelihood already bored at this point), I’ll put it like this: regional instability + ethnic hatred + international alliances + Russia expansionist meddling = bad things happening in Eastern and central Europe. That last addend is of special importance: If the 20th century has taught us anything, it’s that when Russia feels like it can expand, it will.

Ukraine’s overarching political and economic dependency on the Soviet Union translated into a mere economic dependency on the newlycreated Russian Federation. It had been under Putin’s thumb since his rise to power, until an unwelcome western-inspired uprising swiftly took them out of it. Putin isn’t a man who likes to see his property (or what he believes to be his property) taken away.

So what now? Here we have Ru s sia: A “tandemocracy,” intent to keep its supposed propert y away from the EU and willing to concoct all sorts of lies and incitements to bolster its influence. They have manpower and the will to use it.

Does NATO have the similar, yet opposite conviction to keep the sovereignty of a U.N. member state intact? Although not a member of NATO, Ukraine’s new government, with its openness to western ideas, is worth looking at for tentative signs of democracy. Not to give it that chance is to abandon all hope of democracy for the average Ukrainian.

In any case, we’ll soon see what comes next.

(What’s that smell in the air?)

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Puppets get raunchy Jeremy Marshall Harkness / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

The Spork in Hand Puppet Slam is an experimental, no-kids-allowed puppet show that was a featured event at the Indie Grits Film Festival Sunday evening.

Indie Grits brings adult humor, puppeteer representation Belvin Olasov

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Puppets are well known from “The Muppets” and “Sesame Street” as goofy characters that entertain the masses and teach our children how to count.

However, take a turn off Sesame Street and talented puppeteers are cutting lose and telling mature, experimental and downright raunchy stories with their craft.

These adventurous puppeteers showed up at the Spork in Hand Puppet Slam this past weekend at the Nickelodeon Theater as part of the Indie Grits Festival. Over the course of the show, Rumpelstiltskin complained about Gov. Nikki Haley and his unjust imprisonment, a host of number characters skewered the No Child Left Behind initiative and a cake monster gave birth.

It was a crazy show, and according to puppeteer Beau Brown, that’s par for the course.

“There’s no such thing as an average Puppet Slam,” he said.

Brown oversees the Atlanta Puppet Slam, “The Puckin Fuppet Show,” and produces the National Puppet Slam. He also emerged on stage wearing only a diaper after struggling through the mouth of a puppet, a testament to the freedom of the format.

“When you don’t have to tell stories with humans in them, it really frees you up to tell whatever story you want,” he said. “Y’know, I can come out of another character, like be birthed out of them, and then technically play two characters in the same show ... so it sort of frees you to do things you couldn’t do with just actors on the stage.”

Puppeteers Gregg Van Laningham and Qate Bean teamed up for a relationship play featuring Laningham as A rt the Robot and Bean as his girlfriend. Laningham got into puppeteering as a creative outlet at engineering graduate school and Bean started to work in puppetry as a natural development of her acting preferences, and their Art shows work as a fusion of these perspectives.

“He’s all sciencey and I’m all actory and so it’s wonderful when we get to combine what we do,” Bean said.

The performance was real and true to life despite one half of the relationship being a puppet, something

Jeremy Marshall Harkness / THE DAILY GAMECOCK

Puppeteers from all over the Southeast performed their raunchy, hilarious act at The Nickelodeon. the pair thinks is important.

“Our joke is it’s cheaper than therapy,” Laningham said. “It’s sort of a combination of relationship aspects that have come up in our respective relationships and being able to take some stuff and thoughts and feelings I have and sort of repurpose them and express them in a different way helps to give me a different perspective ... I use humor as a defense mechanism, so it all comes together pretty organically.”

Bean feels that there is an advantage to using puppets, rather than a human actor.

“The great thing about Art is that even though it’s an absurd idea for a relationship, he is what he is, and the reason why these scenes would just be ... it’s almost harder for people to buy it if it were two human actors,” Bean said. “It’s so much easier for people to relate when there’s someone that’s almost completely inhuman.”

Puppeteer Brandi Hoofnagle performed a show that directly criticized No Child Left Behind, and she sees the format as well suited to tackling serious issues, as with her show on Alzheimers, among other subjects.

“I feel like puppets allow you to have a conversation

where sometimes ... it turns into an argument, but puppets bridge that gap of uncomfortable topics,” Hoofnagle said. “Anytime I do the show I always have educators come up and talk to me and tell me their stories.”

Though the choice of puppets may seem odd to some, the medium allows for some bold new forms of storytelling.

“It’s a chance to experiment with an idea that might not be able to support a longer form of a show, kind of in the same way that a short story could be a little bit more experimental than a novel,” Laningham said.

“It’s like cartoons in real life — you can kind of get away with whatever you want, you can make it happen — but with a direct connection to the audience that you can’t have in animation,” Brown explained.

Both human and nonhuman, cartoonish yet oddly realistic, puppets have a special effect that other mediums can’t quite match, as proved by the experimental insanity of the Puppet Slam.

DG

Hip-Hop day brings fun for all Indie Grits event for local musicians attracts families from across SC Molly Wyatt

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Main Street was bumping to the Hip-Hop st yles of local artists for Hip-Hop Family Day on Saturday afternoon. The festival, sponsored by Non-Stop HipHop Live, partnered with the Indie Grits Film Festival to create the “Love, Peace and Hip-Hop” themed event.

This free festival united members of the Columbia communit y through their love of Hip-Hop music and culture. Fans were packed against the stage on t he corner of Main and Blanding st reets to hear seven different artists perform original sets as well as performances from break dancers and b-boys.

“Hip-Hop is about engaging a communit y as a whole and bringing together as many type of people as possible,” said Indie Grits Co-Director Seth Gadsden.

Guests overflowed the 1700 block; setting up chairs to watch the performances, dancing along to the music and wandering through the wide array of booths.

Food vendors lined the block offering everything from cotton candy and f unnel cakes to Louisiana gumbo or Jamaican cuisine. Eight barbers were also on

site offering custom old-school hairstyles for all ages. In addition, One Columbia sponsored a live graffiti wall, a giant art wall where families could learn to spray paint their names by Izms of Art, the leading graffiti artists in South Carolina.

“We came to see the concerts, but I like that there are other things to keep us busy,” said Rashanda Burris, who traveled from Orangeburg with her four children to attend the festival.

Non-Stop Hip-Hop Live strives to highlight the vibrant hip-hop community in Columbia and around South Carolina. The organization has been in operation since 1998, but only recently partnered with the Indie Grits Film Festival.

“It’s part of the festival, but Hip-Hop Family Day isn’t about Indie Grits or fi lms- it’s about highlighting Hip-Hop culture in every possible way,” Gadsden said.

The fest ival certainly united all ages, as young children shimmied alongside elderly members of the community. Diverse cultures united as one through their passion of hip-hop, the festival lived the theme of “Love, Peace and Hip-Hop.”

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SLOW FOOD• Cont. from 1 have positive dividends on the local scene. Milo Klos, a chef at Charleston Cooks, served a dish with some local peach preserves from Rita’s Kitchen.

“We are trying to support our smaller farms in the state and this is just one more natural extension of that,” Klos said. “Columbia has more and more to offer every day. A lot more restaurants are opening up that are making these big pushes on farm-to-table super fresh foods.”

M a k i ng t h at c on ne c t ion to Columbia is extending to Gamecock st udent s a s wel l. Fou r t h-yea r political science student Mic Davis attended the Slow Food event for his Politics of Local Food class.

“I’m here volunteering for my class, talk ing w it h sustainable farms,” Davis said. “I now have a totally different view of consumption in everything we intake. Why not come out here and support your local farm?”

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In the trenches

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Defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward’s unit primarily developed fundamentals and technique in Saturday’s spring game because of the low-contact nature of the contest.

Defensive line looks to adjust to new 3-4 scheme David Roberts

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Although South Carolina is more than four months away from its seasonopening clash against Texas A&M, there are still several question marks surrounding the Gamecocks’ defensive unit. Questions about senior Brison Williams’ position and how the 3-4 scheme will play into the defense that were hoped to have been answered at the conclusion of the Garnet & Black Spring Game will be left to play out during the fall camp.

A 10-play, 70-yard drive started the game off for South Carolina’s black team led by an efficient Dylan T hompson ef for t. T he nex t t wo offensive possessions also ended in points for each of the Gamecocks’ respective offensive teams.

But because of the limitations placed on the defense — which has become

part of the nature of the spring game — defensive coordinator Lorenzo Ward is not concerned about the simplicity with which the offense was able to score.

“I u nderstand what it’s about,” Ward said of the spring game. “You really want to see a guy play some base technique and fundamentals, but that’s not what we do on defense; we’re a zone-blitz movement team. I think sometimes [players] might get a little frustrated, but I understand what the game is about. We want to make sure the offense is happy when they leave here, so we like to see points on the board.”

I n accorda nce to spr i ng g a me protocol, the Gamecocks’ defense did not blitz nor were they allowed to hit Thompson, who donned a black jersey for the occasion. The offense mainly saw four down linemen rush the passer every play with the defense waiting until fall to unleash exotic play designs.

Head coach Steve Spurrier addressed the performance of the defense while acknowledging the difference between

spring football and fall football.

“They weren’t all pumped up today,” Spurrier said. “As we know, football is a game [in which] you’ve gotta have some emotion. Our defense didn’t have much emotion today, as you can tell. But, again, it was just sort of a practice game.

We’ll get a little more fired up when our opponents come into Williams-Brice than we were today.”

One feature of the new-look South Carolina defense w ill be t he 3- 4 formation, which works favorably with the team’s current players. Because the Gamecocks have an abundance of linebackers, but no big, physical players on the line like they have in the past — think Jadeveon Clowney and Devin Taylor — the 3-4 makes sense.

With terrors like defensive tackles J.T. Surratt, Gerald Dixon Jr. and now Abu Lamin on the defensive line, South Carolina has the big bodies it needs up front to employ the 3-4 defense.

Ward has hinted that the team will not abandon the 4-2-5 defense, which was a staple of their defense through

South Carolina’s three 11-win seasons, but instead, the defense will likely incorporate 3-4 looks with the 4-2-5 package it already runs.

“I feel like we concentrated on the 4-2-5 and looked at the 3-4,” Ward said.

“We really like what we did out of the 3-4, so I think it will be a major part of our scheme next season.”

Wa rd a lso ment ioned t hat t he defensive backs that South Carolina signed this year will get a shot to come in and start at cornerback. Williams will likely stay at safety if Ward and the defense find what they’re looking for in one of the incoming freshmen.

No matter the scheme South Carolina will ultimately run next season, Spurrier expressed little desire to evaluate his defense as a whole in April. “ W ho k no w s?” S p u r r ie r s a id responding to a question comparing this year’s defense to those of the past.

“Who knows until we play?”

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Sloppy play dictated what turned out to be a battle for first place in the SEC East in Sunday’s matchup game between the No. 4 South Carolina baseball team and No. 13 Florida.

The Gators (23-13, 9-6 SEC) overcame a late deficit and five errors to beat the Gamecocks 6-5, giving Florida two wins out of the three games played at Carolina Stadium over the weekend.

“I thought we had it in the bag today, but just couldn’t hang on to it,” junior first baseman Kyle Martin said.

Freshman right-hander Wil Crowe pitched effectively, but received the loss to move to 6-2 on the year. He went 7.1 innings, allowing five runs with only two of them earned on 10 hits to go along with a walk and four strikeouts.

With a 4-2 lead in the top of the eighth inning, Crowe was looking strong until he allowed three-consecutive singles to load the bases. Freshman Taylor Widener then came in to pitch from the designated hitter spot. He faced Florida freshman Peter Alonso, who hit a hard ground ball towards the middle that bounced off shortstop Marcus Mooney’s glove, allowing two runs to score and tie the game.

Despite Mooney’s error, head coach Chad Holbrook said his confidence in the sophomore isn’t shaken.

“If there’s a person I want the ball hit to in that situation, it’s Marcus,” Holbrook said after the game. “It was just a tricky hop and a hard field and a hot day, it just didn’t go in his glove.”

After Alonso, Florida’s Zack Powers roped an RBI-double off the wall and freshman Buddy Reed followed with an RBI single to left field to make it a 6-4 Florida lead.

Freshman Jordan Gore made it a onerun deficit for the Gamecocks when he

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Freshman Wil Crowe picked up just his second loss of the season in Sunday’s loss to Florida. homered in the bottom half of the inning, but South Carolina could not manage any further offense to win.

T he G a mecock s (28 -7, 8 -7 SEC ) capitalized early on a couple of errors by Alonso, who ended up totaling three for the game. Still, it was not enough, as South Carolina left 12 men on base in Sunday’s game, which made it 33 left on base for the series.

S a t u r d a y ’s g a m e h e l d s i m i l a r circumstances for the Gamecocks in their 4-3 loss that went 13 innings. South Carolina had a 3-0 lead going into the eighth inning. Junior reliever Cody Mincey had a second-consecutive rough outing after coming in to relieve sophomore starter Jack Wynkoop — who threw seven innings — allowing one earned run on five hits, one walk and three strikeouts.

Freshman A.J. Puk doubled off of Mincey to cut the Gamecocks’ lead to 3-1 and sophomore Richie Martin soon followed with an RBI single.

Junior closer Joel Seddon blew his first save of the season for the Gamecocks after allowing an RBI sacrifice fly in the ninth frame to tie the game at 3. Seddon pitched an unusual five innings and earned the loss after another Gator sacrifice fly in the top of the 13th inning.

The Gamecocks won Friday’s matchup 4-1 behind seven innings from junior lefty Jordan Montgomery — now 5-2 on the year — in which he allowed one run on seven hits with eight strikeouts and just one walk. Seddon earned his ninth save of the season and at the time was in the midst of a 19-inning streak without giving up a run.

South Carolina is going through a rough spell of injuries with junior Connor Bright hy per-extending his elbow in Saturday’s game, which sidelined him Sunday. Sophomore second baseman Max Schrock missed the entirety of the Florida series with a high fever and junior Joey Pankake left Sunday’s game with a strained hamstring after charging in hard on an infield single.

Holbrook said the Gamecocks will have to prepare to play without Schrock and Pankake just in case and mentioned players like Gore and junior Patrick Harrington may be seeing more time with how they’ve been performing. But, Holbrook did not blame injuries for the loss.

“Obviously, it’s a disappointing loss, a disappointing series loss,” Holbrook said.

“We had a chance to win all three games and really just couldn’t hold a lead there as far as today’s game.”

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A f t er re c ei v i ng s ome m i nor Heisma n chat ter in a 2013 breakout season, junior running back Mike Davis is the clear leader of the Gamecock backfield. He received a conservative two carries and went 13 yards Saturday.

“Mike’s ready to have a big year, and Brandon Wilds is ready. Shon (Carson) should be back and David Williams had some nice runs,” Spurrier said.

Redshirt junior tailback Sho n C a r s o n m ad e h i s impact primarily through the air before injuring his shoulder in the game, taking a screen pass for 37 yards in the first quarter. Carson’s was the only injury sustained on the day.

At its core, t he spring game is for the fans, giving them a much-needed football fix during the doldrums of the offseason. And nobody knows how to keep the fans entertained like Spurrier.

His crowning achievement for t he G ar net & Black spring game was the person he sent on the field for the annual “celebrit y off the sidel i ne s” play, a s head women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley hauled in a 30yard touchdown pass from Dylan Thompson in t he second quarter.

“The best play of t he spring game had to be the catch by wide receiver Dawn Staley,” Spurrier said. “She was in t he endzone, she knew to hit the ground with it. So it was an excellent catch. That was probably the highlight play.”

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