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Shots rang out in Columbia’s Five Points entertainment district shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday morning following the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day festival. Three men were shot, making the Greene and Harden Streets incident the second shooting in one of Columbia’s popular entertainment districts in six months. Nine people were shot in the Vista in September. All three of the victims were males in their early 20s, none of them from Columbia. Two victims, one a 20-year-old from Winnsboro and the other 22-year-old stationed at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter and one a 22, were not identified by name. The third victim was identified as 23-year-old Howard Boone Jr. from Raleigh, North Carolina
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SG candidate diversity echoes USC, US history Larissa Johnson @LALARISSAJ
W hen Li ndsay R ichardson was campaigning for student body president in 2014, a fraternity brother came up to her after a presentation. “He was just like, ‘Yeah, I hope you know I really like your ideas, but I won’t be voting for you because you’re a woman,’” Richardson said. She won, and became the second female African-American to serve in the highest student leadership position at USC. After Richardson left office and went to USC’s law school, three white men were elected.
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With three African-American and three female candidates out of 11, the 2018 Student Government elections saw the most diverse pool in years. As a result, April 3 will see an AfricanAmerican president and female vice president sworn into office. But the diversity this year was unusual. Only 20 percent of students who have filed in the past decade to run for executive positions in St udent Government are women. That’s much lower than campus as a whole, where women make up 53 percent of students. And while 14 percent of candidates over t he last 10 yea rs have been A frican-A merican, slightly higher than the percentage of campus, only 6.7 percent of elected executives were African-American. “Universities are storehouses of ideas. And how can you have the best ideas if
all ideas aren’t included?” chief diversity officer John Dozier said. Candidates themselves don’t typically think about race or gender as a defining characteristic of the campaign. Yet for students across campus, simply seeing representation of people who look like them and understand their perspectives means a lot. “For women, for African Americans, for people of color, to see someone in that high office, it’s just a reminder that they too can belong here, that they too can make a difference here, and that they too can be leaders,” Richardson said. R icha rdson’s proudest accomplishment as president was starting Cocky’s Closet, a program for students who can’t afford formal business attire. She was motivated by students she knew that would benefit from the program. “The pathway that was paved for me to win was paved by a lot of people that came before me,” Richardson said. A history of firsts “Skeptics have long said it would be a snowy day in Carolina spring before we had a Black Student Body president,” read The Gamecock on March 26, 1971. “The skeptics were right, only the order of events was wrong.” Har r y Walker was elected i n a landslide vote eight years after campus desegregated in 1963. A Student Government outsider known for his knowledge and poise, Walker became the first non-white leader since SG formed in 1908. Dozier con nected what happened on U S C ’s c a m p u s t o the broader national cl i mate — A f r ica nA mericans have only been protected from discrimination since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Another group protected under the landmark act was women. A nd two years after Walker, the first ever female student body president was elected — Rita McKinney. “At the time I ran, I really didn’t think much about [being the first],” she said. “It just kind of didn’t really factor into
why I decided to run.” While she wasn’t the first female candidate, she was the first to win the presidency, drawing attention from local media. But like Walker, she preferred to focus on campaign points instead of her historical significance. T he f i r st women stepped onto USC’s c a m p u s i n 18 95, t he e a rl ie st of a ny institution in South Carol i na. But none were elected to t he highest student office for the first 66 years of SG history. “I n t he A merican South, gender norms are a l it t le more patriarchal,” women Harry Walker a nd gender st ud ie s Student body president 1971 p r of e s s or D r u c i l l a Barker said. According to Barker, differences in women’s historical role in the home similar stereotypes or societal pressures. The LGBT community, present on are responsible for the stronger gender distinctions, especially when intersecting campus since its creation yet hard to track historically, has seen representation with race. “For an African- in the highest office twice in recent American woman to years. Zach Scott, elected in 2004, was be seen as a leader likely the first openly gay student body of men, that’s a real president. And the growing Hispanic and Latino st retc h for some population on campus, which has risen people,” she said. It took almost 30 to 4 percent, has yet to see an executive years after the first officer. Today’s struggles and successes African-A merican Since Walker and McKinney, SG has man, Walker, for t he st udent body seen 12 African-American and 9 female to elect an African- student body presidents, or 40 percent of American woman as the 47 presidents since 1971. Appointed St udent Government president — Jotaka positions see a lot of diversity. Under Eaddy in 2000. “There are a lot Student Body President Ross Lordo, of stereotypes about how black women more than half of officers are female and lead: that we’re typically aggressive, that 14 percent aren’t white. When choosing we’re angry, and that’s not true at all,” the Freshman Council, SG leaders Richardson said. “We’re often kind of create a group that represents campus as put into a box that we can never be soft equally as possible. The senate, which is elected by college, or compassionate, that we’re always kind of like the superwoman, but the angry also has been fairly representative over superwoman.” SEEDIVERSITYPAGE2 Other campus communities face
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the past decade. Yet the highest positions of president, vice president, treasurer and now speaker of the student senate have been predominantly white and male over the most recent decade — 83 percent white and 73 percent male. Lordo said that he’s done his best to represent all parts of campus. “It is important to be there, not just saying words or talking or tweeting or posting things,” he said. “To me, I found that I could be the best student body president by going to events — by going to the [Association of African American Students] cookout, or going to Birdcage, by immersing myself in different aspects of my community that I previously had no interactions with.” The current officers are all white men, after Dani Goodreau stepped down in February from the vice presidency. All the officers the two years before were also all men. As a result, undergraduate students had only seen one female and one African-American executive officer, neither of whom were president. Kathryn Stoudemire serves as Ross’s chief of staff and ran for ’18-’19 student body president. When Ross chose her to serve as chief of staff after she led the Momentum campaign, Stoudemire said that she was surprised to encounter men who still weren’t accustomed to women in positions of power. One particular moment, when a man interviewing for a cabinet position that would report to her assumed she was a secretary instead of his potential boss, stuck in her mind. “I thought that was not really a thing anymore,” she said. Women have higher GPAs than men at USC, win more university awards and serve as the leaders of more behind-the-scenes organizations according to Jerry Brewer, associate vice president for development and Student Life facilities. Yet they tend not to aim for the highest positions in Student Government. “There’s been a transition of getting females into the organization, but I guess it’s the next step of having them be able to be in the offices just the same,” Lordo said. The problem of female representation at the top isn’t unique to USC. In the SEC this year, five of the 14 schools have a woman at the student helm, although one was promoted
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from vice president. According to 2014 article from Inside Higher Ed, about a third of top-tier colleges have female student body presidents. Universities like Princeton have created committees to study the issue, while others have used training programs like Elect Her that lead workshops for female students considering running for Student Government. USC hasn’t had any continuous effort to encourage women to run, although there have been a few sporadic efforts throughout the years. At USC and in elections across the country, though, women show up to vote in larger numbers than men. In the past two SG elections, about twice as many women as men voted. Barker said that women on campus are more likely to vote because “things that affect everybody often affect women a lot more.” She used the example of campus safety — everyone worries about it, but female students tend to be more aware of the dangers of walking around intoxicated or alone. Barriers to entry There are a lot of reasons that could prevent students from filing to run for executive office, from fear of failure to not having the money. Serious executive candidates spend anywhere from $1,000 to $2,000 on campaigns. The Daily Gamecock asked all 11 of this year’s candidates how much they spent. Three candidates declined to provide a number. The others ranged from $120 to above $2,000, with higher spending not necessarily correlated to getting the win. In total at least $15,000 total was spent, on everything from banners and pizza to professional photographers. For students paying for school or relying on limited family support, finding the funds to run can be difficult. In the past, USC has tried different systems such as limiting spending to $1,000 and requiring candidates to hand in receipts. Other universities still enforce a limit. Clemson University caps spending at $500 per ticket, with another $500 of donated materials allowed. Other schools, such as Ohio State University, have caps as high as $4,000. According to Stoudemire, though, a lot of schools do see candidates spending more than permitted. SEE THE FULL STORY AT dailygamecock.com Assistant news editor Meghan Crum contributed to this article.
violent crime. According to police, Jones was arguing with another person and then fired shots into the crowd of people in the area. A photo of Jones had been released previously by CPD as a person of interest. After seeing the surveillance photos of themselves in news reports, Jones and three other men involved in the altercation turned themselves in to police. The other three men will not be
charged. The shooting occurred just as bars in the area were closing and after thousands of people had spent the day in the streets celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. Police urge people who may have more information about the incident to call Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC. — Compiled by T. Michael Boddie, news editor
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W hen I was a k id, I wanted to be an author. I also wanted to be a veterinarian for a little while, and there was a “Spy K ids” phase too. But I always came back to writing. It was my one constant passion at a time when my hobbies changed with the weather. My name — or some eccentric pen name, for which I had many options — would appear on hardcover books, and talk shows would want to interview me because of my novel’s wild success and I’d be an icon by the age of 25. I’m 21 now, and I’ve written a few poems and a couple short stories,
mostly for classes. For my senior thesis, I’m writing a collection of fantasy short stories, but so far, my main hope is to get it done on time and have it be halfway decent. That’s pretty much how I feel about everything creative I write these days. Publication is a distant hope; wild success is a pipe dream. So, am I passionate about writing? Does being truly passionate about something require endless excitement about it? If t hat’s t he case, am I ac t u a l ly t r u ly pa s sion ate ab out anything? Passion is sort of like love — the kind of passion and love I mean when I say that I love writing. When it comes
to something like writing or cooking or dancing or anything we work into our lifestyles, passion is the enactment of love. Real, lasting love requires a certain amount of intention and work, and the same is even more true for passion. You cannot just proclaim to love something; you have to do things. But that doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy. That’s where we get imposter syndrome — the feeling that you are faking your way through your relationships, career or whatever else. Constant action and enthusiasm is, in my experience at least, exhausting and unsustainable. It’s impossible to be actively passionate about something all the time, no matter how powerful
your love is. I love writing; I’m passionate about it. I take small, deliberate steps to become a better, more creative and expressive writer. But there are plenty of days that I don’t write at all, which sometimes makes me feel like a failure or a fake. We can’t always trust the things that our minds tell us about ourselves, especially when it comes to what is good and what is good enough in a society that so encourages comparison and competition. Passion is one of the best things we can learn to implement in our lives, but we have to accept that it isn’t easy. We have to forgive ourselves for our imperfect passion.
USC student prepares to premiere short film Taylor Washington @TDG_ARTS
Before he became a filmmaker, Ethan Hanson was a visual artist. H a n son , a fou r t h-yea r me d i a a r t s s t ude nt , w a s born and raised in the Isle of Palms, South Carolina. W h i le i n m idd le school, he attended the School of t he A rts unt il he realized that “the classical training approach wasn’t really for m e .” It w a s n’t u nt i l h i s transition into high school that he started to consider anot her out let to ex press himself. A lthough his interest in mov ies began as a hobby, a c a reer i n f i l m b e c a me more of a possibilit y and he decided to pu rsue h is dream at USC. Still, despite s wappi ng a pa i ntbr u sh for a camera, 21-year-old Ha nson bel ieves t hat h is previous work as an artist has prepared him for his current venture as a director. “I think my background as a visual artist has had a large effect on the approach I have towards fi lmmaking,” Hanson said. “I love stylized w o r k . We s A n d e r s o n , Q uent i n Ta r a nt i no, t he
Coen Brothers. They all use color f u l, u n ique imager y t o t el l p ower f u l s t or ie s , and I really appreciate that attention to detail.” Next mont h, Hanson is excited to share this vision and take the next step in his career by showcasi ng h is original short f ilm at t he Indie Grits Festival. Held every year since 2006, the Indie Grits Festival is hosted by the Nickelodeon Theatre and aims to bring exposure to local f ilm makers. The festival is both a competition and celebration of everything the Southeast contributes to a growing arts scene. H a n s o n’s e nt r y, t it le d
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“The Checkout Li ne,” was w r it ten i n half a n hou r a nd was i nspired by his “desire to make something visually stimulating and energet ic.” He said his fi lm focuses on Thomas, a shy teenager who falls in love-at-fi rst-sight with confident Amelia, and the “pretty twisted results” of their relationship. “A t it ’s he a r t , ‘ T he Checkout Line’ is a story about t he absu rdit y of teen romance, and t he way it ca n en ha nce, or disr upt, you r life with immediate effect,” Hanson said. Although this is his first time taking on a project of this scale, Hanson’s approach to the film has been anything but amateur. After polishing his script, Hanson and his crew jumped into casting, de s ig n i n g c o s t u me s a nd bu ilding set s. I n keeping with their detailed filming style, he and his crew even went so far as to create color palettes for each of the fi lm’s characters. “Columbia’s art scene is growing exponentially, but the fi lmmaking community st ill needs a lot of work,”
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H a n s o n s a id . “ We we r e lucky enough to find loads of talented people that were interested in t he project, and all it really took to get them on board was a positive attitude and the abilit y to a r t ic u late ou r creat ive vision.” More t ha n a ny t h i ng, H a n son hop e s t hat a f ter viewing him fi lm, his peers at USC will leave inspired and “realize what they can do with the resources at hand.” Ju st shy of g raduat ion,
Hanson st ill plans to continue searching for new projects, but he’s keeping his options open for the future. “Career trajectories are so strange in the fi lm industry. One day, you’re a PA on a realit y T V show, and t he next, you’re sitting in Ridley Scott’s office pitching him your script,” Hanson said. “If I play my cards right, 10 years f rom now I’ll be working in a writer’s room or sitting on a set with a script that I wrote in my hand.”
This week in Arts & Culture The Nickelodeon Theatre “Thoroughbreds,” showing March 14 - 22 “The Shape of Water,” showing March 15 - 22 “A Fantastic Woman,” showing March 16 - 22 “Saturday Church,” showing March 20 “Get Out,” showing March 21 “Persona,” showing March 25 “Silver Screen Studies,” screening March 25 Columbia City Ballet “Cleopatra,” showing March 24
Music Farm Columbia Banff Mountain Film Festival, March 20 - 21 New Brookland Tavern Bull Moose Party/Trippin on Bricks/Paisley Marie, playing March 22 at 8 p.m. Bathe/Withered/HAAL/Power Remains, playing March 24 at 8 p.m. Embracer/Holy Fire/Josh Grimsley/Tanner Frick, playing March 25 at 7:30 p.m. UofSC School of Music
Jazz Faculty Concert, performance on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Southern Exposure New Music - Yarn/Wire: Re/actions, performance on March 23 at 7:30 p.m. Freeman Sundays @ 3 Concert, performance on March 25 at 3 p.m. Russell House Theatre “Murder on the Orient Express,” showing March 23 - 25 at 6 p.m. “Justice League,” showing March 23 - 25 at 9 p.m.
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University should update DACA tuition policy Johnathon Fuerte First-year advertising student
Earlier this month the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program was set to expire. As with many of Trump’s directives, the courts intervened. For now, DACA recipients must continue to live in limbo. Earlier this month USC began send i ng out it’s last wave of decisions letters. As March comes to a draw, #UofSCYes posts will wind down. By now ever yone who applied here should know the
answer. Students of all sorts apply from all sorts of places, those garnet banners around campus are always bragging about that. However, there is one group of students who don’t tend to apply — DACA recipients. And one group of students who can’t even apply — illegal immigrants. South Carolina is one of only two states in the nation that completely bars unlawful students from attending public colleges. As DACA students have “lawful presence” they can apply to schools like USC. However, they are still prohibited from receiving in-state tuition. Not only that, but they’re also ineligible for federal student aid from the FASFA but still have to sign up for selective service regardless. For most students, in order to qualify for in-state tuition, they need only live in South Carolina for one year. DACA students, who very well may have lived in South Carolina their entire lives, are forced to pay out-of state tuition no matter what. Which at USC is more than double that of in-state tuition. A long with that, students who are U.S. citizens but whose parents aren’t have additional hoops to jump through. If you’re a dependent,
meaning you provide less than half of your own income, your residency is based on that of your parents. Which is problematic if you’ve lived with your family in South Carolina your entire life but cannot legally prove that. Meaning these students have to trudge through an appeals process. In-state tuition is a huge factor in where students decide to attend college. I personally know several DACA recipients who elected not to even apply to state schools in the South. Not many families are equipped to pay $45,000 a year for higher education. Instead, they opted to apply to private schools which could offer the aid they needed. South Carolina is one of six states in the U.S. that prohibit DACA students from receiving in-state tuition at public universities. There is no federal law mandating this. It is entirely up to the states to choose how they handle dreamers, and South Carolina has chosen spite. Other states treat DACA recipients like regular U.S. citizens. DACA recipients deserve in-state tuition, and South Carolina and the university need to catch up to the rest of the nation. Our very own Lindsey Graham’s proposed DREA M Act includes propositions to ensure deserving students can claim residency for the only home they’ve ever known. Deporting nearly 700,000 people is not remotely feasible. Those resources might as well be used to jail everyone who jaywalks. If we want students brought here as children illegally and raised in America their whole lives to assimilate and contribute, we need to allow them access to higher education. As it stands, the state’s current policy is a huge barrier that turns away prospective students.
We hear a lot about the importance of work/life balance for maintaining health and happiness. And it makes a lot of intuitive sense; making sure that you pair structured work time with an adequate amount of personal time to relax and recover can help you minimize your stress and maximize your productivity. The challenge is finding the line between the two. Jared In the world of 9-to-5 jobs, achieving this is Bailey straightforward: When you clock in, it’s work Second-year time, and when you clock out, it’s personal time. English and In a university setting, it’s more complicated to political science student separate the two. When does school time end and personal time begin? Spring break has been over for fewer than 24 hours, and I already have assignments due. To meet these deadlines, I had to take homework and study guides on vacation, which, needless to say, kind of killed the vibe. Can that really be considered a “break?” I don’t think so. It is my contention that the university needs to make a more clear distinction between school time and personal time by encouraging a balanced lifestyle and not allowing any due dates to be placed the week after spring break. It is no secret that college students are stressed. This is especially evident the week before spring break; students stay up till all hours of the night drinking ungodly amounts of coffee and cramming for midterms — the general despair is plain for all to see. While this level of stress is manageable in the short term, this sort of behavior is unsustainable. These students are running on empty and will eventually have to crash, which is why it is crucial that students be allowed time to disconnect and unwind. Instead, because of the deadlines immediately following spring break, they usually have to think about that novel they have to read, the test they have to study for or the paper they have to write. This undermines students’ abilities to recharge and come back to school refreshed and ready to learn. Furthermore, loading up spring breaks with assignments makes it difficult for students who choose to work from catching up on course material and school related errands. Personally, I had to spend much of the break fixing paperwork errors in my FAFSA application and figuring out my internship schedule for the summer; piling assignments on top of that made the whole process far more exhausting than it had any right to be. It is in the university’s best interest to carve out time for students to get these things done —especially for things like scholarship and financial aid applications that directly affect the school’s bottom line — so why doesn’t it? But having time off is not just medically and practically important, it’s emotionally important too. Many students return home for the break; those students should be able to be fully present when they spend time with their friends and families without feeling like they are shirking their responsibilities. School should not invade every aspect of a student’s life and detract from the things that are most important. If it does, then something is fundamentally wrong. Mixing work and personal time is bad for students and the university shouldn’t facilitate it. Having assignments directly after a break puts unnecessary stress on students and makes the break itself pointless. I’m not advocating that the University coddle its students, I’m just saying that a week off should be a week off. Let students rest and regain their energy — they’re going to need it.
Fight back against Russia with trade deals Russia, as most politicians, analysts and even some at the W hite House will tell you, is a “bad actor” on the international stage. From continued involvement in the Ukraine, to the murder of political dissidents in the U.K. and meddling in the U.S. election, Russia has made it abundantly clear that it Dan Nelson stands in opposition to the international Third-year public community and has no interest in peace health student and stability. M o r e r e c e n t l y , t h e Tr u m p administration has imposed new sanctions against the Russian Federation in response to its meddling in the 2016 election, but also for hacking parts of the U.S. energy grid. These sanctions, while welcome in the fight against Russian geopolitical aggression, do not go far enough and can be viewed simply as a supplemental addition to the previous sanctions imposed over Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty. Despite the massive impact that previous sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union have had on the Russian economy, Russia is slowly recovering from its recession and the economic forecast, while not overly optimistic, is still much better than when sanctions were introduced in 2014. Overall, these new sanctions, just like the last round, will likely have little overall impact on Russia’s long-term ambitions of re-establishing its sphere of influence by destabilizing western powers. To really impact Russia, to curb its aggression, more targeted measures are needed; though, this might prove difficult as our current commander-in-chief appears to have little appetite for holding Russia’s feet to the flame. Sanctions, however, are not the only, or even the best, way to make Russia bleed. Perhaps there is a way for both Trump and the international community to win out against Russia. With this in mind, we first need to take a look at the Russian economy, particularly its exports. As of 2016, exports make up some 25.7 percent of Russia’s GDP. For comparison, exports only account for 11.9 percent of the U.S.’s GDP. Hydrocarbon exports (oil, natural gas and coal) represent a significant part of
this number, with 46.4 percent of all Russian exports trade deal could facilitate this, giving both the EU and falling into this category. The importance of this the U.S. leverage over the Russians. Essentially, the number cannot be overstated as the 2014 recession in better the terms for the trade, the worse the outcome Russia was caused, in large part, by falling oil prices. for Russia. By factoring this into the agreements, Furthermore, “over 50% of the federal revenues fall Russia could be forced to back off of some of its more to the share of oil and gas revenues,” with much of egregious breaches of peace to maintain its influence this coming from the Russian companies Rosneft and within the European market and its recession recovery. For the EU, such a deal could be beneficial by helping state-owned Gazprom. Given all of this, if we want to hit Russia where it hurts, we need to go after their secure energy supplies from foreign disruption and hydrocarbon exports and there’s no better way to do manipulation. There are other benefits as well. U.S. this than through the U.S. pushing Russia out of the oil, for example, is simply a better product than Russian oil, particularly as Russia has shifted to selling its best European energy market. This is not an easy task, however. Over 55 percent oil to China, rather than the EU. Another benefit, of all Russian exports go to Europe. European such a deal would help reassure EU-U.S. ties in an dependency on Russian hydrocarbon imports is increasing fragile and fractured international system. significant, with Russia supplying 39.5 percent and 30.9 Our president has done few favors in maintaining this percent of EU natural gas and petroleum, respectfully. extraordinarily vital partnership and this type of deal Increased U.S. involvement in the European energy could go a long way in restoring relations with the market could be significant as it would not only shore world’s second largest economy (by GDP). All in all, a U.S. push for preferential trade deals up Europe’s energy security and protect it from Russian manipulation, it could devastate Russian profits to the on oil and natural gas with the EU could only benefit of the U.S. and U.S. companies. Similar plans stand to benefit both. Both parties would receive have already been suggested and put into action, but economic benefits and new, palatable leverage over greater emphasis is needed. The U.S. will be a “net an increasingly belligerent Russia. Russia must pay, energy exporter by 2022,” and we must capitalize on quite literally, for its role in destabilizing the world this advantage by making inroads into the European – unbridled aggression must have consequences. market now instead of later on. W hile the president, who fashions himself a LETTER TO THE EDITOR REQUIREMENTS deal-maker, has made clear his disdain for trade deals, even those that benefit Letters to the editor must not not be published until the writer the U.S., trade deals on e x c e e d 3 0 0 w o rd s . S t u d e n t s implements necessary changes or oil and natural gas sales must include their full name, major provides reputable sources for any into the EU from the U.S. and year. Faculty and staff must facts in question. Letters are edited could prove particularly include their full name, position and for clarity, style and grammar. beneficial to both. For department. Community members Email submissions to the U.S., it would be a must include their full name and opinion@dailygamecock.com strategic advantage. While a p p l i c a b l e j o b t i t l e . Ve r i f i a b l e or mail them to letting normal free market statements of fact must include at The Daily Gamecock influences run their course least one source; if we cannot verify 1400 Greene Street may benefit the U.S. in a statement of fact, your letter will Columbia, SC 29225 the long run, pressure on Russia is needed now. A
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Gamecocks drop first SEC series to Florida Claudia Chakamian @C_CHAKAMIAN
SEC play brings a lot of intensity, rivalry and great competition to the baseball season. South Carolina fans saw all of these in this weekend’s series against Florida — despite the Gamecocks dropping the series 2-1. The No. 2 Gators t hrew ever y t h ing t hey had at t he Gamecock s, but Sout h Carolina battled back throughout the entire weekend. Even though they couldn’t come away with the series win, head coach Mark Kingston saw a lot of positives and improvements from his team over the weekend. “Our job is to go toe-to-toe with anybody and we did that,” Kingston said. “We came up one run short today from winning the series, so it doesn’t mean we haven’t gotten stronger, doesn’t mean we’re not lea r n i ng more about ou r tea m, doesn’t mean we’re not making more progress that will help us down the road. We did lose today and it’s very disappointing, but we are getting better, we are getting closer and we’re getting stronger as a team.” Friday’s game featured all of the emot ion and intensit y one could expect from a conference opener. Kingston was ejected in the fourth inning after arguing balls and strikes with the umpire, then Carlos Cortes was ejected an inning later after striking out and slamming his bat on the ground. The game featured one of the top pitching matchups in the country with Adam Hill and Brady Singer on the mound. The Gators made Hill work, earning three runs off of him on three hits over 4.2 innings.
The Gamecocks, on the other hand, had a hard time getting past Singer, scoring just one run on t wo hits of f of h i m. Flor ida scored in t he n int h inning and that would seal the 7-3 win and hand South Carolina its fi rst SEC loss. S a t u r d a y ’s g a m e was a much needed bounce-back game for the Gamecocks, and they did so in a huge way. South Carolina scored a seasonh i g h 15 r u n s o n a season-h igh 16 h it s in the 15-7 win. Cody Mor r is got t h i ng s started and pitched a clean 5.1 innings on Jayson Jeffers / THE DAILY GAMECOCK the way to his fourth w i n of t he s e a s o n . With the final game of the series, Noah Campbell reached seven games in his current hit streak. The middle to bottom of the lineup provided most of the with them today, 3-2 ballgame and a good starting place for conference spark, as the four, five, six and seven the winning run was an unearned play. “That’s something to be proud run so we played just as well as they hitters had 10 RBIs on the night. A f ter t he of fen sive ex plosion did. That’s a good team and we of,” Olson said. “We played hard all the night before, the Gamecocks played just as well as they did all three games and I think we really struggled to bring home baserunners weekend so to me that’s something ... grew as a team this weekend and on Sunday. South Carolina left 10 we’ll build on and w ill help our I think taking that into the rest of men on during the game and could confidence, but it also means we lost the season is going to be really good only push two runs across. Despite the series, so it means there’s more for us.” South Carolina (13-7, 1-2 SEC) losing by one, Kingston wasn’t too work to be done.” Jacob Olson went 0-for-4 in the will now travel a little bit, starting at disappointed to suffer the loss and said his players really fought all series opener but was a big part in the Citadel on Tuesday before going the remaining games, hitting a home to Georgia next weekend for a threeweekend. “ T h at ’s t he b e st tea m i n t he run in both Saturday and Sunday’s game series against the Bulldogs. country according to some polls, and games. He now leads the team with The Gamecocks have played away we went toe-to-toe with them for 27 six home runs and is hitting .229 from Founders Park just twice so innings,” Kingston said. “We had 15 on the year. He echoed Kingston, far, with once at Clemson and once runs yesterday against some really saying that getting the big win on at Fluor Field in Greenville, losing good pitching, we went toe-to-toe Saturday and battling all weekend is both times.
USC softball team wins war in Oxford Ethan Lomas @ETHANLOMAS15
The South Carolina softball team took on the Ole Miss Rebels this weekend in Mississippi, taking the three-game series with two wins. The Gamecocks earned a strong win in the first game to get the series off to a start. The Gamecocks secured a successful 7-3 win over Ole Miss, having three hitters with two runs batted in. Alyssa VanDerveer shined with a perfect 4-4 day at the plate, which included a double alone with 2 RBIs. Another star in Friday’s game was Cayla Drotar, who controlled the game from the mound by pitching all seven innings and allowing only one earned run. Saturday’s game was equally dominant for the Gamecocks, with South Carolina coming out on top 5-2. Dixie Raley pitched a complete game, limiting the Rebels offense to three hits and two runs (only one earned). Kenzi Maguire and Kamryn Watts also had strong performances. They provided almost all of the offense for the Gamecocks, collectively contributing four of the five runs scored in Saturday’s game. After Ole Miss scored two runs in the fourth inning, the Gamecocks found themselves down for the first time in the game. Without even blinking, South Carolina turned around and scored three runs in the top of the fifth and then two more in the seventh. “My favorite thing about this team is our fight,” head coach Beverly Smith said following Saturday’s comeback. “Ole Miss went up on us and we answered right back. Our ability to answer back today was great.” After scoring a combined 12 runs against the Rebels in the first two games, the Gamecocks bats went stone cold Sunday afternoon. Ole Miss pitcher Ava Ti l l m a n n pitched a complete game, only giving up three hits along the way. Only two G amecock s were able to reach against Tillmann, Jana Johns was 2-2 on the day and Alyssa VanDerveer fi nished the day 1-3. Gamecocks pitchers Cayla Drotar and Kelsey Oh were equally dominate only allowing six hits and no runs. The lone run of the game came on a double steal in the second inning. However, neither team could seem to find a rhythm offensively. As a unit, Gamecocks pitchers Drotar, Oh, and Raley allowed as many hits as they did strikeouts (14). Moving forward, the Gamecocks should be able to lean on them if the offense continues to be up and down. The Gamecocks won the overall series on Saturday, which was also their second win over a ranked opponent this season. South Carolina is now 24-4 overall and 2-1 in SEC play. No t o n l y d i d t h e t e a m e a r n a ser ie s w i n , but Sm it h i s t he second-winningest coach in South Carolina history after moving up to 251-182 this weekend. Sout h Ca rol i na w i l l face Duke in a midweek matchup on Tue sd ay i n C olu mbia in hopes of continuing its winning record. Sara Yang / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
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Swimming and Diving teams break records at NCAA Championship Shelby Beckler @SBECKLER13
T he Sout h Ca rol i n a men a nd women’s swimming and diving teams made a name for themselves in the CSCA A National Invitational last weekend. A first place victory was awarded to freshman Allen Ross in the men’s 50 yard freestyle fi nishing in 20.36. Allen was awarded this recognition on Thursday from the College of Sw i m m i ng a nd Div i ng Coache s A ssociat ion of A merica Nat ional Invitation. Head coach McG ee Moody ack nowledged Ross’ performance and expressed that he had a “strong fi rst day” winning the men’s 50 free. Not only did Ross make a notable appeara nce at t he Un ited St ates Naval Academy, but Justin Rose also secured the ninth place spot in the men’s 50 yard freestyle. In addition, Rose fi nished the men’s B fi nal in the 50 free with a time of 20.66. However, it wasn’t just the men’s team that set records. Sophomore Christina Lappin was able to earn a podium spot during the fi rst day of the CSCA A National Invitational by finishing second in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 22.63. “ We h a d a s t r o n g f i r s t d a y,
highlighted by a new school record in the 50 free by Christina Lappin,” Moody said. The Gamecocks showed the same level of skill going in to the more recent NCA A Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. This was South Carolina’s fifth All-American performance as Albury Higgs earned 15th place in the 200yard breaststroke. “This was t he best NC A A Championships performance I have been a part of since I’ve been the head coach here,” Moody said. “We finished in a tie for 20th, our first top-20 fi nish since 2004, and had five All-America performances. I’m very pleased with how well we performed throughout the week.” The Gamecocks did not come up short in the championship, earning a tie for 20th place for overall team standing. In addition, South Carolina sealed its performance by bringing back the record of the first top-20 finish at the NCA A Championship since 2004. Even t hough t he women made t heir f inal mark on t he year, t he men’s team has one more shot to prove themselves when they travel to Minneapolis this week in hopes to earn new titles and break records.