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SG INAUGURATION Momentum trio, Senate take oath at Rutledge
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With Wednesday’s swearing-in ceremony, USC’s 109th student senate is now in session.
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As the USC community says goodbye to its c u r rent ad m i n ist rat ion under Michael Parks, it is receiving a batch of fresh new faces in the world of student politics. A f ter t he St udent G o v e r n m e nt e le c t io n s i n Febr u a r y, t he new administrat ion of f icially took of f ice w it h a n i naug u rat ion c e r e m o n y We d n e s d a y at 4 p.m. Follow ing t he inauguration, Ross Lordo is student body president, Da n i G ood reau is v ice p r e s id e nt a n d M e r r it t Francis is treasurer. These individuals were working together on the Moment u m c a mpa ig n during their election wins
back in February, meaning t he ent i re exec ut ive branch will be cohesive and working towards the same goals. The Momentum c a mpa ig n , a t ic ket put toget her by t he current administration, strives to build new traditions here at USC such as Cockstock, while also conserving old traditions such as Spurs and Struts. They also plan to implement a new system of digital CarolinaCards on top of the physical cards students already have and st udent-access charging stations in sports facilities such as the football and basketball stadium. Lastly, they plan to immediately begin advocating for the con st r uc t ion of a new, state-of-t he-art st udent
union. Along with the executive branch, the new members of the 50-seat student body senate have been sworn in as well. This will be USC’s 109th student body senate. Follow ing t he inauguration, the c u r rent senate went to t heir cha mbers, ma ny of t hem for t he f irst t ime, a nd bega n vot ing on conf i r mat ions a nd delegates. T he s e ne w me m b e r s of t he senate are goi ng i n hopi ng to m a ke t he campus better. “One of the things I look forward to accomplishing is t hat ever y g roup and every organization have a seat at the table and their voice s a re hea rd,” sa id N ic k Ho ok s , w ho w a s
appointed t he chairman of the multicultural affairs committee following the election. One new member wants to make some changes to already existing systems. “I wou ld like to push more initiatives for loyalty points for fi ne arts events,” said Levi Walker, a newly elec ted senator for t he school of music. A ma i n foc u s for t he year is funding. “I hope to review some of the budgets that are going to be proposed this year, and help the school execute responsible fiscal policy,” sa id Nicholas Pol la k , a newly elected senator for the Darla Moore School of Business and a member of SEESWEARINGINPAGE4
MyCarolina panel talks PTSD, recovery Grace McKenna
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The My Carolina A lumni A ssociat ion tack led a dif f icult issue facing our m ilitar y and a l l s u f ferer s of t r au m a Wed nesday, host i ng it s P T SD: Sh at t er i n g t he Perc ept ion p a nel. T he panel included both male and female veterans living w it h P T SD, or Po s t Traumatic Stress Disorder, a nd a i me d t o p r o mot e awareness of its impact. The veterans took t ime to talk about t heir personal experiences with P T SD, some out l i n i ng their individual traumas, a nd s o m e c ho o s i n g t o fo c u s on ad vo c ac y a nd e d u c at io n . O ne of t he vets, Dan Nevins, chose to integrate his story into his profession after he was
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Gathered veterans addressed the affects of post-traumatic stress disorder Wednesday. i nju red i n I raq. Today, Nevins is a motivational speaker who helps other
veterans like himself heal f rom t heir physical and emotional wounds.
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New York Times econom ics colu m n ist Dav id Leon ha rdt del ivered t h is yea r’s Ba ldw i n Business and Financial Journalism lecture, “The Great Stagnation: How It Created President Trump,” Tuesday at 7 p.m. “This year, because of President Trump and that being the big thing that everyone’s talking about, it made a lot of sense to focus on that,” said Andrea Tanner, the director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Leonhardt focused his lecture on the American idea of progress and the portion of Americans, roughly a third of the population, whose families have not experienced it i n recent gener at ion s. W hen analyzing this group of people it becomes clear that the rate of progress in living standards in America have slowed dramatically. While the economy has become larger, families’ wealth has become smaller due to increased economic inequality. The lecture addressed how the frustrations of Americans with these factors partially led to Trump’s surprising victory in the presidential election and how a combination of solutions could possibly change America’s situation. K e l l e y A n n e K e n n e d y, a fourth-year economics student, attended the lecture after seeing it announced in the Honors College weekly newsletter. “I’m worried about the future and interested in what’s going to happen in this administration, and so I wanted to hear from someone who is more knowledgeable than me,” Kennedy said. “I thought it was a ver y nice sy mpat het ic portrait of people who have supported Trump and made for an audience that they were expecting to not have a lot of Trump supporters. I think that it was a good gesture at unit y,” Kennedy said. Leonhardt enjoys sharing his knowledge of business journalism with students and was willing to share advice on entering the field of journalism. He stressed t he increased importance on expertise in a world where knowledge is easily accessible to the public through the internet. “W hatever it is you basically want to have covered it enough and researched it enough and studied it enough that you know stuff that your readers don’t,” Leonhardt said. He said that this focus combined with practical skills is the key to remaining marketable regardless of how business models may change. He said the most important advice was given to him by Mark Morris, t he former managing editor at Business Week Magazine. “There’s nothing more important than doing work that is public; it’s not just for your teachers, it’s not just for your friends, it’s public in some way,” he said. The annual lecture series is a part of the Baldwin Business and Financial Journalism Endowment, which is given by Kennet h W. Baldwin Jr. a 1949 graduate of the USC School of Journalism and Mass Communications in 1949 who went on to have a successful career at Landmark Communications in SEELEONHARDTPAGE4
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PTSDPAGE1 experiences were dif ferent, t hey shared a similar message, coming back again and again to the idea that just because something traumatic happens doesn’t mean that event has to consu me you r l ife. They also touched on how they’ve kept trauma from overtaking them, with ever y t h ing f rom stor y telling to therapy to yoga. Dr. Aubrey Sejuit, a veteran and USC alumnus, moderated the panel. Sejuit is a licensed therapist and hopes discussing PTSD will help dispel the stigma surrounding it as a mental illness. “A lot of the times we see in the
LEONHARDTPAGE1 Virginia. The endowment is meant to support and further the instruction of business journalism at USC. It funds the lecture series, as well as a new scholarship fund for students in business and fi nancial journalism and a summer workshop for high school
media that PTSD is associated with someone who’s going to snap and really just become violent. That’s wh at we see when we t h i n k of PTSD, and that’s not exactly what it is. I’m hoping that this panel is going to really speak to there’s other issues people are dealing with,” Dr. Sejuit said. The panel also included student veterans’ voices like that of Candace Terr y, a U.S. Nav y Veteran and president of the Student Veterans Association. Terry wants to utilize the panel to help normalize PTSD and the public’s perception of it. “We’re showing how people with PTSD live on a daily basis. We go out and we do the same things that students. Tanner explained an expanded use of the endowment. “We hope to have cou rses and some type of program in the school surrounding business journalism, and the business of journalism and business communication,” she said.
everyone else does. A nd although we have maybe a stronger sense of anxiety and stress and what not, it’s just not any different,” Terry said. The National Institute of Mental Health describes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as “a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.” Many risk factors cont r ibute to t he de velopment of PTSD, such as living through trauma or seeing other people get hurt, events that disproportionately impact veterans. Experiencing t rauma and subsequently suffering from PTSD is not a rare occurence. According to the National Center for PTSD and SWEARINGINPAGE1 the fi nance committee. Overall, they hope to improve student life. “My goa l t h is yea r is rea l ly mak ing sure t he senate focuses more on the students themselves
the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about 7 out of 100 people will have PTSD at some point in t heir lives. The nu mber is even h igher w it h i n t he m il it a r y: out of every 100 veterans who served i n O perat ion I raqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom, 11-20 have PTSD in a given year. While PTSD can be life-altering, it doesn’t have to cont rol one’s future, a point many of the panelists stressed. “It absolutely gets easier with time, the more time and distance there is from the traumatic event the easier it is to go on, you know, go through the day to day processes,” Terry said. “I live a very normal life.” and making the campus a better place, as opposed to focusing on codes and constitution rewrite[s],” said Casey Hamlin, a newly elected senator for t he School of A r t s and Science, as well as a member of the safet y and transportation committee.
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Songversation at Tapp’s Art Center Caitlin Burnham
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If you walk into Tapp’s Art Center on a Tuesday night, you might f ind a collect ion of people buy ing drinks and mingling before heading to the back theater for t he main event. They a r e a l l g at h e r e d f o r Songversation, a mashup of a concert and a Q&A, where a performer plays music and answers quest ions f rom t he audience. “The performer has a chance to talk to you about ‘this is where my music comes from, this is my inspiration,’” said Al Black, the founder of this event. “And, so, it is a song-versation.” Ta p p ’ s b r i n g s i n dif ferent ar t ist s f rom the Columbia area every month to take part in Songversation. Not only does this give performers in the city the opportunity to play in f ront of an attentive audience, but it
also allows the attendees to experience different genres and perspectives on songwriting. Self-proclaimed psychedelic-folk artist Quark Lepton was one of the performers on March 14. H is a lter- ego (or main ego) is high school English teacher Steve Nuzum, a USC graduate. He decided on t he eccentric stage name after reading a physics article about the two subatomic particles. “It was just a way to have a persona to pretend like someone made this music a nd get honest feedback about it,” he said. Lepton took the stage and engaged the audience right away through witty, self-deprecating banter and explanations of his music. Throughout the night, he picked up a guitar, a banjo and an Omnichord to accompany his lyrics — staying true to his promise of trippy folk music. He took the time to answer questions
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from the audience, giving advice on writer’s block and talking about books he has read, short stories he has written and other musicians as his main inspiration. “It’s k ind of intimidating, actually. I’ve never tried to explain the songwriting process or anything like that,” L e p t o n s a id , “ b ut it sounded like fun.”
Th is event g ives both the audience and the performer a unique experience. The audience gets a behind-the-scenes glance into how music is made while the performer gets feedback on songs and can even ask questions of the audience, as Lepton sometimes did. It allows for a conversation, when in most other cases, there isn’t one.
“It’s like a symbiotic e x p e r ie n c e t h at ’s happen i ng i n t here,” exec ut ive d i rec tor of Tapp’s Caitlin Bright said, “... bringing a little bit of humanity back to the listening experience, the musical experience.” Tapp’s hold s Song versat ion on t he second Tuesday of every month and tickets cost $5 to $20.
Column: We need more R-rated comic book films Darby Hallman
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From the opening five minutes of “Logan,” it was already clear that this wasn’t going to be your normal super hero movie. “Logan,” like last year’s “Deadpool,” was rated R and used that rating to its full potential. The film pulled no punches, showing gruesome violence and telling a story far more dark and mature than the traditional happy and light-hearted Marvel movies we have come to associate with superhero films. But what makes both “Logan” and “Deadpool” special is the fact that neither feels like their R ratings were forced. “Logan” used visceral violence and dark storytelling to perfectly paint the picture of how troubled Logan’s life is and how unforgiving the world is in this universe — both of which make the film’s biggest moments hit that much harder. “Deadpool” uses it’s R rating in a very different but still valid way that allowed Ryan Reynolds to bring Deadpool to life in a way that does justice to the source material. A PG13 version of these movies could never exist because the identity and story-telling in these films are intrinsically tied to their R ratings, and I think this is the way more superhero films need to go. Now, I’m not saying that every or even most superhero movies need to shoot for a darker and more mature tone because I don’t think it fits for every character. What I am saying, however, is that people are going grow tired of superhero films in their current state, and all of the discussions I’ve heard or had with friends were about how different and refreshing “Logan” and “Deadpool” are — and I believe these are very telling words. Further than that, it’s no secret that a huge portion of the people who watch superhero movies are adults. Someone who was born when the original “X-Men”
movie released would turn 17 this year. I grew up on superhero movies, which means I have a special connection to these characters, but that also means that I have seen these characters portrayed many different times and the predictability of the stories is beginning to bore me. And this is where I think giving filmmakers an R rating that lets them take the gloves off and go all-out without restrictions could make for fresh experiences in a genre that feels stale. I believe this genre is increasingly in need of new ideas, and these type of ideas can come if you let a director make the movie they want to make. “Logan” director James Mangold touched on this in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “For me, getting the studio to agree to rated R is also when the movie stops being about the four boxes,” Mangold said. “The movie stops being a vehicle for moving merchandise. No one’s watching the film through the prism of a 9-year-old or a 12-year-old and hoping to be able to sit through this six-minute scene between Charles Xavier and Hugh Jackman.” This is exactly it. It makes sense that it would be hard to innovate much when you have to shoot to make a movie that both adults and children will enjoy and that will be easily marketable. So when the movie is rated R, you have a much clearer audience and this allows you to make the perfect movie for them, rather than something that needs to be accepted by the masses. While I won’t lie and say that watching the Wolverine stab some guy in the face with his claws isn’t fun, this is the real reason I want to see the R rating used more. When it comes down to it, filmmaking is a business, and what will decide if R-rated comic book movies like “Logan” will continue to be made is how the market responds. So far it’s looking good, as the movie scored $85.3 million in its opening weekend and box office mojo has its domestic total at $160 million at the time
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I’m writing this. With the success of both “Deadpool” and “Logan,” I think it’s very likely that we will see this R rating experiment continue, and I hope it can be the saving grace for comic book films. Or at least until we get tired of that and look forward toward the next innovation because we all have horrible attention spans.
Column: Jimmy Fallon needs to get more political Brad Dountz @TDG_ARTS
Ji m my Fa l lon’s ascension to host of “The Tonight Show” in 2014 has been a bl ister i ng success so far. By the time he took over Jay Leno’s old post, he already had plent y of con f idence thanks to hosting “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” for nearly five years. Even when he had to deal with a horrific finger injury or wit h rumors of his “boozing,” Fallon has taken his late night gig in stride and tries to have as much fun as he possibly can. It’s almost like he is trying to reignite the same kind of fun he had a s a c a st memb er on “Saturday Night Live,” just this time it’s for a new audience. The outrageous stunts and games that Fa l lon play s w it h h is guests have consistently been some of the biggest v iral sensat ions on YouTube for years.
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V iral v ideos are a n upward trend in late night, having become the sports highlights of comedy. Watching t he biggest bright spots from a whole hour’s worth of material is just more convenient for most people nowadays. As a host overall, Jimmy Fallon is probably the best at this sort of thing. Jimmy Kimmel and James
Corden may cash in on t hei r “Mea n Tweet s” and “Carpool Karaoke” segments respectively, but only Fallon can forge both a “Saved By The Bell” and a “Kenan and Kel” reunion. But recently, a oncest r uggling Stephen Colber t over at “The Late Show” has finally started to find his rhythm
and has gained viewers in the process. This can probably be attributed t o t he e v e r - g r ow i n g presence that the current political landscape has over America’s collected consciousness. It seems like whatever happens in Washington, D.C., on a daily basis becomes branded as some k ind of crisis and people are
feeling the fatigue. Hosts like Samantha Bee and John Oliver focus more on politics because that is t he main source of their comedy. Colbert is in that same category, but he also hosts “The Late Show”, a comedy hallmark in its own right. This makes Colbert more of a threat, with his brain and reputation becoming powerful weapons. The biggest politicallym i nded moment of Jimmy Fallon’s tenure on “The Tonight Show” wa s when he r u st led Donald Tr ump’s hair. That moment may have gotten millions of views on YouTube, but Fallon faced harsh criticism for not ask ing t he f ut ure president hard enough questions. If Trump was on Colbert instead, the whole night would have presumably gone in a different direction. Fallon’s lack of political material has been h is biggest weakness. The
st ra nger-t ha n-f ic t ion rea l it y of what has happened w it h t he most recent presidential election and its aftermath has been a goldmine for most comedians working today, but Fallon st ill feels most comfortable h a m m i n g it up w it h Quest love. It appears this myriad of political and social dread shows no sig ns of slow i ng dow n a nd it won’t be long before Fallon falls behind in the process. He’ll have a job for the foreseeable future, but how comedically relevant he is w ill be people’s last i ng i mpression of him. It wouldn’t be fair to him or anyone else if he potentially missed a chance to come up with some out rageous bit s and jokes t hat helped skewer those sitting at the head of the table. Come on Jimmy, watch some CSPAN and see what all the fuss is about. You’ll be glad you did!
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As part of Sounding Board, a series where The Daily Gamecock’s opinion section sends out a columnist on campus to talk to USC students about their views on hot-button issues, opinion editor Dan Nelson and managing editor Linden Atelsek interviewed 10 students to fi nd out how they feel about alcohol use and abuse on campus and in the student body at large. USC leads the SEC in high-risk drinking behaviors, which are on the rise at USC. More than 22 percent of freshmen reported on an AlcoholEdu survey that they had engaged in behavior defined as “binge drinking” three or more times in the previous two weeks. In the six months between August 2016 and January 2017, 187 students were hospitalized for alcohol-related reasons.
The 10 students interviewed were a second-year finance student who wished to remain anonymous, second-year finance student Ben Lavigne, second-year sport and entertainment management student MaryPaige McLaurin, fourth-year public relations student Michael Wieland, first-year chemical engineering student Aseel Al Rawahi, third-year psychology student Sung Kim, first-year marketing and economics student Madeline Owens, first-year merchandising student McKenzie Yard, second-year journalism student Jordyn Seibles, and fourth-year political science and business student Dominique Douglas. Their views and the questions they were asked have been presented below edited for length.
Do you believe that alcohol use is a problem makes college students drink more or drink look at an ID and see if it’s fake or not. I mean, sometimes some of these IDs aren’t the bestless responsibly than other people? at USC? made, anyhow, so I mean, just try harder to fi nd ANONYMOUS: I mean, yeah. There’s defi nitely a lot of alcohol use at our age, with Five Points. I know a lot of people drink heavily. Sometimes people mix it with other stuff, like Xanax, so yeah. MARY-PAIGE: Yeah, I’d say it’s a problem, I think, especially with Five Points and people with fake IDs and stuff, and students who don’t know what they’re getting into and going to the peer pressure side of it, defi nitely. MICHAEL: I’d say it’s a problem. I’m an RM on campus, and so I see a lot of freshmen going out, and I’m having to call the ambulance for people when they get too drunk. It’s defi nitely toned down this semester, a lot more than last semester, but last semester there was a very big increase in hospitalizations and whatnot, so I’d say it’s a problem. ASEEL: Actually, I don’t drink alcohol. My religion doesn’t allow me to. I think I have nothing to say about this because I never drink alcohol. SUNG: Yeah. Defi nitely. Living in a dorm for an entire year, listening to drunk guys say “whoo!,” having property damage all over the halls because they’re drunk as f***. MADELINE: Yeah. I would say yeah. I mean, every person I’ve been friends with, come in contact with — all they want to do is drink all the time. And I think that’s an issue, if you can’t do normal things, soberly. JORDYN: No. I don’t. I haven’t heard about any recent drunk activities or bad things happening because people were drunk.
USC has an unusually high number of alcohol-related hospitalizations. What, if anything, should the school be doing to lower that number? ANONYMOUS: I know they did a lot with the fraternity lots, and beer and wine versus alcohol. I don’t know how much they can really combat it, though. I feel like it’s going to happen, especially at a big 30,000-person school. MICHAEL: There defi nitely needs to be more emphasis on other alternatives than going out. Defi nitely, if there was more information, more events happening more regularly, especially towards the beginning of the year, then it would show that there are more opportunities. I feel like freshmen know that there’s other things to do, but because they’re not advertised as much, they don’t feel like they have to or want to go. ASEEL: You know that survey? For alcohol education? I think the university did a great job on that, so I don’t see any way they can do more than that. MCKENZIE: I think the school should do things, but I don’t know if they’d be effective. I know they did that thing at the beginning of the year where fraternities and sororities where they had to be approved and stuff, and I guess that reduced the hospitalization, but it didn’t really help. Girls and guys are going to do whatever they want despite what the school does, so I don’t think the school can really do anything.
Why is alcohol use such a big issue on college campuses, in your opinion? What
ANONYMOUS: It defi nitely has a lot to do with the age — people being independent for the fi rst time. Maybe not necessarily having the full responsibility of results. Also, I think it has a lot to do with stereotypes, you know, “crazy college student” stuff. MICHAEL: I think kids who started drinking in high school, at high school parties and whatnot — now that they’re here, there’s just so much more opportunity to drink and get drunk and go out with their friends and go out with different people. It’s so much more readily available. So I think just because the opportunity is there in a greater way than they’ve ever experienced before, they just want to go out and experience it. ASEEL: I think especially students have more pressure than anyone. Their grades, and I think every student here doesn’t have his family around him, so maybe pressure and depression. Stress. MCKENZIE: For me, I think it’s the whole idea of college. The college mentality. Here, I feel like one of the fi rst things I heard about when I was thinking about coming here was “oh, the downtown area is so fun, the bars are great!” That’s all you hear, for the most part. So that’s what I think. JORDYN: It’s probably because there’s an age limit, like a restriction on it. They may feel stressed out, and they cope with that stress by drinking alcohol. Or they just are being irresponsible and don’t know, like, what alcohol can really do. Which is dumb, because the whole AlcoholEdu thing explains it a lot.
Do you think bars in Columbia bear any responsibility for our high-risk drinking behaviors and hospitalization rate? If so, what should they change? If not, who or what is responsible? ANONYMOUS: For sure, obviously. You’re supposed to be 21 to get into a bar. You know, it’s not super hard with fake IDs here. It would make a difference — a lot less underage kids would be going to bars, and I’m sure 21-year-olds that have had more drinking experience are less prone to be going to the hospitals. MICHAEL: You can’t really blame the bars for doing their business. Like, their line of work is to serve alcohol to people, and since they’re on a college campus, most of their customer base is college students, so I don’t think they can really be blamed for the increase in hospitalizations that we have. Just make people more aware of what’s on campus and what other opportunities there are ... I would say it’s defi nitely still on the student. They’re required to take AlcoholEdu before they even come onto campus, and even if they don’t pay attention to it, they should at least know the risks. No one but the student knows what their limits are, and so if the student wants to test their limits, test their boundaries, that’s on them. SUNG: Defi nitely, yes, defi nitely. Stop allowing so many girls in. When I say that, though, It’s just that like, I fi nd it so amazing, that for a guy to get into a bar when he has a fake ID, he might not have a chance. But if a girl has a fake ID, the bouncer’s like, “Okay, go in.” He doesn’t really care. More girls in the bar, whoop-dee-doo. That’s one issue. And also, two, if they can actually, I feel like bouncers could try harder to
them. MADELINE: I think it’s more the kid’s responsibility. Like, the bar will serve them, but I feel like a good amount of the time bartenders are like, “this person needs to go home or whatever, they’re too drunk,” or whatever, so if you’re hospitalized, or if you get too drunk, or you get sick, it’s your fault. It’s not the bar. You chose to do that. MCKENZIE: I mean, everyone goes downtown, and you see these kids’ IDs — I mean, honestly, I feel like the bouncers laugh and are like, “It’s fi ne,” and that’s how they make money, so how else are they going to go. DOMINIQUE: Yeah, just because I know they’re not checking IDs. They have to make sure the ID is the person in front of them, obviously.
America has one of the higher legal drinking ages in the Western world, at 21. Should we change it? BEN: I think the higher drinking age makes people want to drink at a younger age, because people want what they can’t have. But I wouldn’t advocate changing the law to 18 or something, because if you’re allowing high school seniors access to legal alcohol, the number of issues I can see arising — just, everything, because they’re going to buy, and the DUIs, and drunk driving accidents are going to skyrocket, because high schoolers are already getting in a lot of accidents, and if you allow them to purchase alcohol for themselves and go and drink whenever they want, I’m sure that people will just — die. MICHAEL: I think defi nitely, that it’s so much older than other places around the world plays a part in it ... And when I was talking about it with my parents, when they grew up, when they were 18 they could buy beer. The drinking age increased with them, they were pretty much always able to buy alcohol once they turned 18, and my mom actually put it in a kind of funny, but like a decent way: When you’re 18 you can sign up for the draft, to go and fight for your country, but you can’t buy yourself a beer. It seems like it doesn’t really even out, where I can fight and die for my country but I can’t just buy a beer at a bar somewhere. I’m not saying it should be lowered, I’m just saying it’s interesting what kind of decisions the U.S. government allows people to make at 18 versus what you’re not allowed to do. ASEEL: If you change from 21, if you increase it? They would fi nd a way to drink alcohol. They will make fake IDs, or let their friends buy them, so I think it’s not a solution to increase the age. JORDYN: I think it should be changed, only because countries on the other hemisphere, the eastern hemisphere, their drinking ages are like 15, 16, and they don’t have as much of a problem. I feel like they don’t have as much of a problem only because once you are drinking, once you’re 21, you won’t feel the need to do it as much. DOMINIQUE: I don’t think so. Not at the rate we’re going.
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Gamecocks enter tourney without star center Coates Bobby Balboni
@ROB_BALBONI1
South Carolina women’s basketball will be without one of its twin towers for its NCAA Tournament run. An ankle injury will sideline All-SEC center Alaina Coates and close the books on her decorated collegiate career. Coates will finish as the No. 2 career rebounder in program history. Paired with two-time SEC Player of the Year A’ja Wilson, Coates’ presence at the low post has given the Gamecocks one of the most dom i n a nt f rontcou r t s i n the nation for the last three seasons. Coates played a tot a l of fou r m i nutes du r i ng t he SEC Tou r nament for File photo: Kamila Melko/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK Sout h Carolina, w it h t he Coates recorded the third-highest field goal percentage nationally. G a m e c o c k s f r e q u e n t l y FROMMARQUETTE13 Marquette. The Gamecocks’ best bet is to slow the game down and limit Marquette’s oppor t u n it ie s to put up points. The best offense is a good defense; luckily South Carolina has the latter and Marquet te ra n k s 24 4t h in points allowed. Play through Thornwell: There is a reason Sindarius Thornwell was awarded SEC
rel y i n g on a fou r -g u a rd rotation in her absence. The senior first sustained her injury against Missouri on Feb. 19. The Gamecocks will host their round-of-64 matchup against UNC Asheville on Friday at 5 p.m. in Colonial Life Arena. South Carolina e a r n e d a No . 1 s e e d i n it s reg ion for t he fou r t h consecutive season. U NC A s he v i l le e nt er s tournament play having won its last six games and recently ea r ned a n autom at ic bid after winning the Big South Tournament. No. 8 seed Arizona State and No. 9 seed M ichigan St ate w ill also play t heir opening weekend games in Columbia. Should it advance, South Carolina will play the
player of the year. He does it all. South Carolina should rely on their star player to help guide them to a tournament victory. Matchup to watch Sout h Ca rol i na defense vs. Marquet te of fense: This should be a good one. A stif ling defense from the Gamecocks looks to hold an explosive Marquette offense in check. Marquet te boasts t he
winner of that matchup. The Gamecocks are slotted as the top seed in the Stockton regional. Last season they were assigned to Sioux Falls Regional and were upset by Syracuse in the Sweet 16. “I’m very disappointed,” said Sout h Carolina head coach Dawn Staley. “We’re always the team — three out of the last four years that we’ve been No. 1 seeds having to f ly across two and three times zones.” The Gamecocks advanced out of their region to make the Final Four as recently as 2015 when they fell 66-65 to Notre Dame. The Stockton portion of the bracket includes Oregon State, Miami, Florida State and Missouri, all teams that finished ranked in the AP poll.
h ighe s t 3-p oi nt sho ot i ng percent age i n t he nat ion. Howard shot 54.9 percent f rom beyond t he a rc, t he s e c o nd - b e s t m a r k i n t he cou nt r y. T he G a mecock s have been the fifth-best team at stopping the 3-pointer. For t he f irst t ime i n 13 long years, the Gamecocks are going dancing. A win will give them the opportunity to play No. 2 seed Duke or No. 15 Troy on Sunday.
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long time. Four years now. And, so, I’m sure the guys are feeling it a little bit. AD: Fill in the blanks. Marquette will win this game if _______. And South Carolina will win this game if ______. JG: Marquette will win this game if they shoot well. They didn’t against Seton Hall, and that’s the main reason why they lost. If they hit their threes, they win. If they don’t, they lose. It’s just a very live-by-the-three, die-by-
lineup, so that defi nitely could come up. Especially because they’re on a bigger stage than they’ve been on in a long time. There’s a bit of pressure, though I feel like a lot of people are — they feel like they are playing with house money at this point. But this is an established program, it’s a winning program, that hasn’t been here in a
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the-three atmosphere at Marquette. I think South Carolina wins if, you could say Marquette doesn’t shoot well, or South Carolina is able to dominate Marquette in the paint. Especially when it comes to South Carolina on offense, because despite the fact that Marquette shoots really well from three, we are just playing the probability game. It’s sometimes really difficult for them to outscore teams
from the three when the other team is getting really high-percentage looks in the paint. That’s something that come up a handful of times this season. Seton Hall, the way that game went down most recently, I thought even if [Marquette] had a normal three-point shooting game it would have been really tough to make up for all the easy buckets they gave up.
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BEHIND ENEMY LINES
with Marquette sports editor Jack Goods
Courtesy of Austin Anderson
Abe Danaher
@ABEDANAHER
As South Carolina’s matchup Friday against Marquette in the first round of the NCA A Tournament rapidly approaches, editor Abe Danaher sat down with the Marquette Wire’s sports editor Jack Goods to talk about the upcoming matchup and get a Golden Eagle’s view on how the game will go. AD: What was the overwhelming feeling around campus in the lead-up to the selection show? Did most people feel like Marquette was going to be in? JG: Yeah, I think that the people t hat really follow it closely were pretty confident. I had to talk a few friends down about it, because it’s been a really rough couple of years for Marquette’s program, and it’s kinda hard for people to emotionally buy in — it’s been — they’ve seen so many disappointments. So everyone was just a little bit skeptical, and despite the fact that Marquette’s got some really solid top-50 wins in the RPI, and honestly, when you beat Villanova you’re going to get some recognition. But sweeping Creighton, sweeping Xavier, Georgia ended up being a really nice win, so did
Vanderbilt, there were enough resumebuilding wins to feel confident, but there were still enough losses to keep you sweating down the stretch. I mean, after beating Villanova, they come back and they lose to St. John’s on the road, they got swept by Providence, they got upped in the first round of the Big East by Seton Hall, so that left people a little bit nervous, especially because they were hovering around that 10, 11 seed. I felt pretty confident. I felt like they were pretty much a lock to be in. The real question for me was whether or not they were going to go to Dayton or not. AD: Now we talked about how South Carolina has kind of a poor offense, strong defense and Marquette has strong offense, weak defense. Where do you see the advantages for either team laying, and do you see this being a high-scoring affair? JG: Yea h, I mea n, I t h i n k t here definitely could be [a high-scoring affair], because Marquette’s got just so many scorers and if they’re shooting well it’s always a high scoring game, because the defense isn’t gonna stop anybody and t hey sur vive around scoring teams. It comes down to the
guards for Marquette, usually, how well do they play. Markus Howard, a point guard primarily, has been outstanding as a freshman this year. If it wasn’t such a great freshman class in the Big East, in a normal year he probably would have won Freshman of the year. He shoots like 50 percent from three-point range. And Andrew Rowsey, who has played point guard a little bit, now they’re playing them together, he’s another player that’s an outstanding three-point shooter. You have to watch out for his pump fake on his three, because he catches — at least once a game — he catches [teams] on that. Those two and Katin Reinhardt, and Hauser, they’ve got almost their entire team besides the center can shoot threes. So, that poses a really tough threat for any team. But this team, they consistently have trouble on defense, and they’ve had issues with the pick-and-roll from the start. They tried zone, they tried man, and nothing really works for a consistent amount of time. They really st r uggled recent ly against Seton Hall. Just the matchup with Angel Delgado, they faced a team that has strong rebounding, and it’s
really tough for Marquette to pull that out. They just don’t have the size to compete with that, even though they have a pretty strong center. AD: With Greenville being so close to Columbia, how do you see the close proximity for the Gamecocks affecting this game? JG: You know, I was a little concerned s e e i n g t h a t f r o m M a r q u e t t e ’s perspective, just because Marquette isn’t a great road team. Pretty much all of their big wins minus the Creighton and Xavier [wins] on the road were home. They’ve struggled against teams that many think they should beat. Seton Hall on the road is one they fell apart at the end in when they had a clear path to victory and then in the last two minutes it just kind of all went to — all blew up. Providence on the road, St. John’s on the road, they’ve had some really disastrous outings when they’re not in the Bradley center. So honestly it’s not a true home game for South Carolina, but I do think that does play a factor, especially because Marquette’s pretty young, and they’ve got two freshmen in their starting SEEQ&APAGE12
Gamecocks look to slow Marquette’s dynamic scoring Matt Marzulla
@MATTMARZULLA4
In its return to March M ad ne s s for t he f i r st time since 2004, No. 7 seed Sout h Carol i na d rew a rou nd- of- 6 4 matchup with No. 10 seed Marquette. The Gamecocks enter as one of the tournament’s coldest teams, going 3-6 over their previous nine games with a one-anddone show i ng ag a i n st A laba ma i n t he SEC Tournament. Marquette has made nine tournament appearances since 2003, including a r u n to t he Elite Eight as recent ly 2013, but this is its first w it h head coach Steve Wojc iec how sk i at t he helm. Breakdow n of t he Marquette Golden Eagles Key wins: Creighton, Vanderbilt, Xav ier and Villanova. W hat to expect: Of fense is going to be p r e s e nt . T he G old e n Eagles post 82.5 points p e r g a me o n a le t h a l offensive arsenal. Guard Markus Howard leads the way for Marquette with
13.2 point s per game. They have scored over 90 points in two of the last three games they’ve played. Why they can b e at S out h C a r ol i n a : Marquette has an offense that can outlast Carolina’s s t r on g def e n s e . T he y move the ball incredibly w e l l , a v e r a g i n g 16 . 5 assists per game. This can create problems for South Carolina as its of fense may not be able to keep pace. Marquette has already pulled off an unbelievable upset, knocking off No. 1 ranked Villanova at home earlier in the year. The Golden Eagles defi nitely h a v e up s e t p ot e nt i a l . Playing a South Carolina team struggling to fi nd its rhythm on offense may have Marquette’s mouth watering. They’ll look to unequivocally outscore the Gamecocks, who only average 72.1 points per game. What the Gamecocks need to do to win Rebounds: Marquette enters the game ranked 292nd i n t he cou nt r y in rebounds, averaging 33 . 3 a g a m e . S o u t h
Ca rol i n a r a n k s 142nd nationally, but could take advantage of Marquette’s f law a nd ex pose t hem on t he of fensive glass with rebounding guard Si nd a r iu s T hor nwel l . Look for sophomore for ward Chris Silva to have a big game on the boards on both sides of the ball. Defense: There is no question about it: South Carolina’s strongest point is its defense. They allow 6 4.5 poi nt s per ga me, 28 t h i n t h e c o u nt r y. Sout h Ca rol i na needs to play stif ling defense against a Marquette tea m averag i ng 82.5 poi nt s per g a me. T he Gamecocks need to be able to limit Marquette’s opportunities if they want to keep up w it h t hei r high-powered offense. S c o r e s o m e p o i nt s : No surprise here. South C a rol i n a’s k r y pton ite down the stretch has been i nconsistent shoot i ng. Their inefficient play on the offensive side of the ball leaves questions as to how the Gamecocks will be able to keep pace with SEEMARQUETTEPAGE12
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NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT 1
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Mount St. Mary’s 8 Wisconsin
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Gonzaga Northwestern
Bobby Balboni
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@ROB_BALBONI1
T he W i ldc at s enter the tournament having defeated a pair of top ten opponents to win the Pac12 title. Gaurd Allonzo Trier is a dynamic scorer a nd is play i ng w it h a c h ip o n h i s s ho u ld e r af ter bei ng suspended
Notre Dame Notre Dame West Virginia Maryland
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Jayson Tatum has healed from a right ankle sprain he acquired in October, and is heating up at the right time. The versatile swingman averaged 22 points and 7.5 rebounds on 55.9 percent field goal shoot i ng i n t he ACC Tournament.
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for 19 games. Freshman center Lauri Markkanen is a likely lot ter y pick and has a sweet stroke f rom b e yond t he a rc , shooting 43.2 percent on 3-pointers. There may not be a greater tandem of complimentary talents in the tournament.
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Final Four: Michigan Adam Orfinger @AORFINGER
Put simply, down the finishing stretch of the s e a s on , M ic h ig a n h a s found a way to win. As winners of 10 of their last 12 games, including wins in their last five games and a four game tear through the Big Ten Tournament t hat ended w it h t hem ho i s t i n g t he Bi g Te n trophy, t his Wolverine tea m is a rg uably t he hot test team in t he nation. With Louisville as a ver y quest ionable two-seed who comes into
t he t ou r n a me nt a f t e r losing three of their last f ive g a me s , i nc lud i ng a def lating loss to Duke i n t hei r f i r st g a me i n t he ACC Tournament, Michigan does not have as hard a second round game as one may expect. They would then possibly face an Oregon team without Chris Bouchard, and a Kansas team reeling from a loss to TCU in their conference tournament. Look for this hot Michigan team to make a run to the Final Four in a field of momentum-less top seeds.
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Final Four: UCLA Abe Dahner
@ABEDANAHER
Nort h Carolina may be t he most complete team in the region, but N C A A To u r n a m e n t games often come down to guard play, and UCLA will have the advantage in the backcourt. With projec ted lot ter y pick and assist machine Lonzo Ball playing with several sharpshooters and
a dominant big man in TJ Leaf, the Bruins are an offensive juggernaut. UCL A shoot s over 4 0 p er c e nt f r om b e yo nd the arc, and the Bruins have proven themselves against top teams, topping Kentucky and Arizona on the road and Oregon at home during the regular season. With six players averaging double-figures, UCLA shoot be able to shoot its way to Glendale.
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