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Influenza virus hits USC students hard Meghan Crum @THEGAMECOCK
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Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Bass was sworn in as Student Body Vice President on Wednesday, Feb. 7.
VP Dani Goodreau resigns, Joseph Bass sworn in Larissa Johnson and T. Michael Boddie @LALARISSAJ AND @THEHUMANBODDIE
St udent Body Vice President Dani Goodreau submitted a letter of resignation to Student Body President Ross Lordo on Wednesday evening around 7 p.m., immediately after the weekly student senate meeting. “While my job is done, the fight is not. True democracy lies within the hands of the people,” Goodreau wrote in a statement. “For this I ask of you all: continue. Continue to stand loud against the attacks on our campus, our scholars and the beliefs that define us as Carolinians. Continue to lift each other up and stand strong in unity.” Goodreau is serving as finance director for public relations firm
Starboard Communications and working for a political campaign. Because the position is not officially confirmed, she cannot release details about the campaign. G ood reau wa s elec ted on a t icket alongside Lordo during last year’s election, focusing on veterans’ services and mental health throughout the campaign. During Goodreau’s tenure as vice president, she saw more than 70 pieces of legislation passed in the senate. She was a strong representative for diversity and the non-traditional student, according to Lordo. “We thank Dani for her service to the student body and wish her well in all of her future endeavors,” Lordo said in a statement. Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Bass was immediately sworn
in as student body vice president. “I am eager to get started working in the Office of the Vice President,” Bass wrote in a statement. “Although only two months remain in the term, I am sure that there is a lot of work that can be done for the student body.” Bass is a third-year mechanical engineering student who has served in the student senate for two years. Lordo said that he is excited to welcome him to executive office. “We have the utmost confidence that he will be a staunch advocate for students and and will successfully fulfill the duties of the office for the remainder of the term,” Lordo said. There w ill be a vote nex t Wednesday on a replacement for the president pro tempore of the senate.
While South Carolina just topped 100 f lu deaths and the CDC is proclaiming the worst flu season in a decade, the University of South Carolina has seen only a quarter of the flu cases it had at this point last year. For students, though, it seems like everyone on campus is sick. “My whole floor actually all went through some version of sickness last week,” said Rachel Yanders, first-year international business student and Capstone resident. “We all shared bleach … and cleaned everything.” At this time in 2017, USC Student Health Services had diagnosed about 370 students with the flu. Now, they’re just reaching 80. “It’s not as bad” as last year, said Van Haygood, the director for Clinical and Ancillary Services at USC. As typical with the flu, victims nationwide are mainly children and those over 65. The community nature of a college campus facilitates the spread of the virus, but young adults are also naturally more resistant and healthy. “This is a kind of a community within a community,” Haygood said. “In the dormitories everybody tends to pass stuff back and forth, everybody that goes into and out of Russell House uses the same door push ... if you can’t use soap and water, carry hand sanitizer.” This year, there’s been an 11 percent increase from last year in students getting the flu shot. It is still available for free for students at the Center of Health and Well-Being. “I just reordered the flu vaccine ... and we’ve been ordering it about once a twice or week every week since we started,” Haygood said. SEEFLUPAGE2
Law School highlights political corruption in SC Larissa Johnson @LALARISSAJ
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Corporate leaders spoke on a panel at the Darla Moore School of Business about diversity as a core business strategy on Feb. 7.
Executives talk diversity, inclusion Juliana Morehouse @THEGAMECOCK
A panel of speakers gathered at t he Darla Moore School of Business to discuss what it means to create environments of diversity and inclusion in the workplace and how to go about doing so. Deborah Hazard, t he Clinical Assistant Professor at the Darla Moore School of Business, served as mediator for the event. She saw this as a great opportunity to engage in meaningful conversation about important topics. “I think one of our nation’s great strengths is the variety we posses in terms of the shared talent and creativity and culture of vision,” Hazzard said. Ed Martinez, the keynote speaker and president of the U PS Foundat ion, opened a discussion about what diversity should mean to employers and companies. “Diversity is not a replacement for talent” Martinez said. “We expect smart.” Ma r t i nez has ex per ience work i ng w it h employee engagement, corporate relations a n d g l o b a l p h i l a nt h r o p i c outreach.
“One area of keen interest to us is really identifying people that bring diversity of thought to the company,” Martinez said. Sa r a h Ba st ia n work s for Eastman Chemical Company and leads the Catalysts Eastman Resource Group Career Development and Retention team. During her first year with the company, she saw a need to increase diverse participation in t he work place. She now guides the Eastman Diversity Committee, with a focus on increasing women’s involvement. “It never feels like you have to hire candidate X because they’re diverse; I’ve never felt t hat pressure,” Bastian said. “I have felt that we need to make sure our candidate pool is diverse.” M ichael Ellis ma nages GEICO’s Emerging Leaders Program. He has served in many capacities with GEICO, often acting as a mentor. “It’s about people and it’s about process; and people always always always come first,” Ellis said. Speakers were in agreement that diversity and inclusion in the corporate world most often involves defi ning what integral attributes each person can offer.
The most common word heard in the USC School of Law on Tuesday night was “no-brainer.” But no matter how much t hey ag reed on reducing corr upt ion, t he four legislators and two lobbyists on a panel discussing money in Palmetto State politics were pessimistic about the likelihood for legislat ive change in the remaining four months of this legislative session. Panelists Rep. Gilda CobbHunter (D-Orangeburg), Rep. Gary Clary ( R-P ic k e n s), S e n . M i k e Fanning (D-Fairfield) and Sen. W i l l ia m Ti m mon s (R-Greenville) were there to discuss nine bills that they’ve introduced, accompanied by Lynn Teague of the League of Women Voters Sout h Carolina and John Crangle of t he S .C . P rog re s sive Network. Marcu rius By rd, t he president of the School of Law’s American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, co-hosted the event with the Progressive Network. “This was a great opportunity for us to work with them in the community and with the legislators,” the third-year law student said. A mo n g t he d i s c u s s e d bills — which range from redef i n i ng “lobby ist” to forcing criminal politicians to pay t he costs of t heir replacements — few have a chance of reaching Gov. Henr y Mc Master’s desk , let alone escaping the death sentence of being sent to a subcommittee. According to moderator Bret t Bursey of t he S.C.
Prog ressive Net work , though, this is the best time for change — in the midst of a scandal over the October indictment of powerful GOP player Richard Quinn. “Right now no one trusts t he G ener a l A s sembly,” Fanning said. “The people deserve to have faith in us.” B e y o n d t h e f i v e -y e a r Quinn investigation that’s ex pa nded to i nclude si x lawmakers, South Carolina state government is routinely ra n ked among t he worst states for integrity. It received an F from the Center for Public Integrit y in 2012, moving up to a D- in 2015 when gerrymandering was removed from consideration. Gerr y mandering is essentially encouraged in Sout h Ca rol i na bec au se the redistricting process is determined by the legislators themselves, which over the years has led to a district map where 77 percent of legislators faced no major opposition in the general election. Clary introduced a bill to create a citizens committee to redraw the map, but said it’s unlikely to pass this session. Even on t he panel, t he system
to choose t he committee members quickly became an issue. In response to a question about political bias on the committee, Timmons said, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” Tim mons, who campaigned in 2016 on the idea that state government is broken, discussed three pieces of leg islat ion he’s proposed — two of which he openly admitted were non- st a r ter s. T he t h i rd would require all campaign contributions to be put into a specific type of bank account w it h t he ear ned interest going to the State Ethics Commission. It’s earned 17 co-sponsors, enough to get out of subcommittee and onto the Senate floor. The measure would earn about $100,000 for the commission, or 12 percent of its current appropriation. Cobb-Hunter and Fanning wou ld go a step f u r t her a nd g ive a c ut of e ver y campaign donation to the Ethics Commission. As their partner bills in the House SEEPANELPAGE2
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PANELPAGE1 and Senate stand, that cut is set at five percent, which would raise more than $500,000 annually. This bill, though, is much less likely to pass than Timmons’, because it also FLUPAGE1 It takes anywhere from 10 days to two weeks for the vaccination to go into effect, but it will lessen the severity of the flu for the recipients of the shot. While there have been
includes public funding for attorney general candidates. T he bi-p a r t i s a n p a nel d id accomplish some actual progress; Cobb-Hunter said she’d incorporate Timmons’ suggestion for judicial
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Vest said that the inspiration for their film came from a joke that he made in fall while working on a different film. “Me and ... Ethan Ravens were playing cops that entered at the end of the film,” Vest said. “We were just walking around the set asking people to politely put their hands up.” Everyone on that set seemed to love it, so Vest decided to turn it into a full script.
Writing a script
“Writing the script was pretty simple and easy,” Vest said. “The hardest part of writing the script was after I finished it. Due to the 5-minute limit ... many of the jokes and lines that I wrote and loved had to be removed for eligibility.” He hopes that a longer version, including some of the parts he had to cut, could be made in the future.
Assembling the cast and crew
In total, there are 20 members in the cast and crew of “Good Cop, Good Cop,” including a director of photography, cameraman, script supervisor, composer and even a caterer. The crew invited actors to closed auditions, and several of those who were chosen are also involved in productions on campus such as, “The Crucible.” For many of the cast and crew, this is their first time working in these positions. Ravens said the value of working with the cast and crew is gaining experience. “The part of the club that is important to me is learning … making dope stuff comes second to learning,” he said.
Choosing locations
For “Good Cop, Good Cop,” producer Sally Wardlaw chose three main locations. The first location was Horizon Parking Garage, another was Sally’s sister’s house and the last location was Sally’s cousin’s house. The homes are just a few blocks from each other, so it wasn’t difficult for the filming to move from one location to another.
Shooting the film
After all of this planning and preparation, the team has a week to shoot and edit the film.
Behind the screen: Campus Movie Fest showcases student short films Ethan Lam / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
“Good Cop, Good Cop,” directed by a first-year student, offers a fresh take on the classic buddy-cop comedy.
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While the majority of full-length feature movies on the big screen take months to complete, a group of determined USC students are taking on the challenge to complete a short film within a week. The 17th annual Campus Movie Fest is the world’s largest student film festival, and this is their eighth year t raveling to USC. W hat originally began as an experimental idea led by four students at Emory University in 2001 has expanded to more t ha n 30 u n iversit ies nationwide. E a c h y e a r, C M F p r o v id e s st udent s w it h professiona l equipment to make any short film for free, as long as it is five minutes or less and shot within the week. By the end of the week, the Top 16 fi lms from each school are shown at a red carpet premiere on their respective campuses. The Top 4 films from each school are invited to compete nationally in Atlanta, Georgia, at TERMINUS. From TERMINUS, some filmmakers and their crews are eligible to apply to showcase their films at the Cannes International Film Festival or even have their films available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Hailey Abernat hy, a former participant, placed into the Top 16 at Old Dominion University in 2016 and now works as a co-op for CMF,
where she is able to mentor aspiring filmmakers. “We just want to give students the experience with this equipment and the chance to tell their story,” Abernathy said. Although CMF is a competition, the event is not exclusive to film studies students. Staff members stress that everyone is encouraged to create, even if their creation is presented in a nontraditional format. According to promotions manager Danielle Cook, they’ve seen it all. “ We g e t p e o p le … e at i n g lunch, we get people dancing, we get people shutting off lights and calling it electricity,” Cook said. Both Cook and Abernathy agree that the most popular genres are comedy, horror and documentary. This year, CMF was hoping for a huge turnout from USC students, and over 200 st udents already signed up on t he day of t heir launch. Among those participating is a team of 20 students who have been developing their buddy-cop comedy since fall. Devin Vest, a first-year media arts student, is directing his first feature short film, “Good Cop, Good Cop.” While he came up with the concept of the film himself, Vest credits its success to the collaboration of his cast and crew, fellow members of the only short film club on campus, SGTV’s “1080c.” “It’s so much more appealing to
work on a set and be able to work with other people who want to see my film succeed,” Vest said. “Like a well-oiled machine, watching all these different parts (lights, sound, acting, directing) come together and produce a successful final product is one of the most rewarding experiences.” Fou r t h-year econom ics and finance student Ethan Ravens is the film’s executive producer and describes “Good Cop, Good Cop” as “a comedy about t wo cops who are so overly kind and good that it inhibits their ability to be competent police officers.” During filming, I got a chance to visit the cast and crew on set where they took me step-by-step through the hectic process of shooting a short f ilm in a week , wh ile navigating through bad weather at the same time. 5. Shooting the film After all of this planning and preparation, the team has a week to shoot and edit the film. “Bot h days we f il med were extremely cold,” Vest said. He said he ended up getting the flu from shooting in the bad weather, but when I visited them at the garage Sunday, everyone on set seemed to be in good spirits despite the cold and rain. In addition to the weather, Wardlaw said other major challenges were scheduling and making sure everyone shows up on time.
If “Good Cop, Good Cop” makes the Top 16, it will premiere this Thursday night in the Russell House ballroom. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the Top 16 picks will begin at 7:30 p.m.
Review: ‘The Crucible’ is dark, timely Mattie Hibbs It’s almost unbelievable how appl icable A r t hu r Miller’s “The Crucible” is to America today. And it’s almost comical that a screenplay w r it ten more t ha n f if t y years ago was intentionally chosen as USC’s first main stage production of 2018 on the basis that it reflects the state of our current society, according to director Robert Richmond. But these things are neither entirely unbelievable nor entirely comical, because I think that Richmond is right. USC’s presentation of “The Crucible” — a story which uses the phenomenon of the Salem Witch Trials to parallel societal issues regarding accusations and public deceit — pulls the plot into the 21st cent ur y, but leaves many historical elements intact; it is, in its essence, a show
that reveals to us the cyclical, dangerous patterns of history. “The Crucible” centers on a community wrought with paranoia as people are accused of pract icing w itchcraf t. With no proof, every person’s accusation is taken as truth, and the accused are left with a choice: confess and live, or refuse to confess and be hanged. Richmond’s adaptation is characterized by organized chaos. The circular space of Longst reet Theat re is c onduc i ve t o c on f u s ion — albeit product ive, pu r posef u l conf usion; it allows for actors to emerge on balconies seemingly out of nowhere, to fill the walls with indiscernible whispers and to make unprecedented app e a r a nc e s a mo n g t he audience. Richmond and the cast refuse to let us be casual observers; we are surrounded
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by this inescapable, panic-inducing hysteria playing out all around us. T hough “ T he C r uc ible” is not a musical by any means, the product ion’s deliberate music selection was incorporated with expert strategy. It was just enough to make the audience uneasy and timed to either set the tone for the opening of a scene, or to seal in the emotions left hanging at the end of one. D u r i ng s uc h scene s , t ho se feelings are pushed into the air forcibly, roughly, by the actors. The characters they play — while not exactly likable — are compelling. I was struck by the strength of the key players, and further, the physical manifestat ion of t his strength by the actors. Women fought back verbally, argued their points and used their wits to make decisions. It’s especially apparent in Abigail Williams (Kimberly Braun), who is among the first of those accused of witchcraft and also the first to point fingers. Williams is soft when she wants to be but
intense and profusely unwavering in her decisions when she needs to be. This intensit y was common among the cast. The actors put their entire bodies into their roles. They shook and spat and convulsed and crashed to the stage in sudden fits of fury or exhaustion. It was not easy to take in, but it kept us watching regardless. I was especially impressed with the portrayal of Mary Warren by Kimberly Gaughan, who carried herself gently but spoke bluntly and in an unconventional manner that set her apart from the other women. She is perhaps the only character worth rooting for, which is a necessity in such a dense show. Perhaps the eeriest element is the common ground the audience can find with the characters and with the story. Finger-pointing and blame and trial after trial after trial. It is not simply a work of entertainment. USC’s production of “The Crucible” — the lights, the music, the stage — is a chaotic reflection of human propensity to accuse and to let fear rule loyalties and decisions.
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Raise cigarette taxes to save lives, money
Linden Atelsek THE DAILY GAMECOCK
Sims’ atrocities warrant renaming residence hall If you live or lived in Wo m e n ’s Quad, you may have called Sims Col lege home. If not, you may have Linden been there on Atelsek Fourth-year business wit h psychology t he St udent student S u c c e s s C e n t e r ’s satellite office, or perhaps the Central Campus Housing Of f ice. Maybe, l i ke me, you’ve never been inside the building at all. Regardless of your association or lack thereof with the place, you should know the history of its name, and why it should be named something else. James Marion Sims, a USC alumnus of the class of 1832, is best known as “the father of moder n g y necolog y.” I f y o u’ v e e v e r h a d t h e misfortune of experiencing a gynecologist’s appointment that involved a speculum, you have been int imately familiar with Sims’ work. He also performed such feat s as c u r i ng t he ve sico -vag i na l f ist u la, a condition usually resulting from traumatic births that caused urine leakage from t he vag i n a a nd op en i ng the first hospital dedicated to women’s healt hcare in New York City. Presumably because of this, the central building of Women’s Quad is named after him and statues of him exist in New York City. W hat t h is somewhat rosy recounting of history often leaves out is that his discoveries largely rest on the backs of the enslaved women whose bod ies he used as fodder for h is experiments. Sims’ solution to the problem of where to find warm bodies to cut into was to make arrangements with slave owners who traded u n l i m it ed ac c e s s to t he
bodies of their slaves whose vesico-vaginal fistulas made them less “useful” for the hope that he could cure them of their inconvenient medical problem. A lt hough Sims himself cla i med t hat t he women wa nted t he ex per i ment s badly, his is the only word we h ave on t he m at t er. There’s a vanishingly remote possibility he might be telling the truth, but if you examine it with any sort of critical thinking, there is very little c h a nc e t h at t he wome n would have been allowed to say no. Their “consent” is a polite fiction hiding a brutal truth. I doubt anyone would volunteer happily to be subjected to dozens of successive surgeries, which had hideous complications like blood poisoning, and were per for med w it hout anest hesia, because Sims believed that black people didn’t experience pain like white people. We have no other accounts of t he e x p e r i m e nt s b ut Sims’ own. By and large, t he enslaved women t hat he rep eated ly mut i lated go nameless, voiceless and u n remembered — on ly three, his first success stories, were noteworthy enough for him to mention by name. His thirtieth surgical violation of Anarcha fi xed her fistula, a nd he used t wo more women, Lucy and Betsey, to ensure that he hadn’t merely s t u mble d i nt o a c h a nc e success. This horrific part of his histor y and the scientif ic legac y t hat f requent ly overshadows it is celebrated on campus by Sims College. Confederate stat ues repre s ent a cont rover s y i n t he Sout h. Despite over whel m i ng h istor ica l evidence found in Confederate state constitutions that secession was motivated by slaver y, many insist that Confederates
are still worth venerating as defenders of states’ rights. Howe ver dubiou s t h i s log ic is when appl ied to Confederate soldiers, apply i ng it to Si ms is absolutely ridiculous. His me d ic a l d i s c over ie s a r e inextricably linked to the atrocities he committed on enslaved women; there’s no veneer of civility and honor t h at we c a n r e a s o n ab l y pull over his experiments to pretend they should be glorified. Likew ise, t he fact t hat his discoveries are a part of medical history can’t justify our elevating his name. As proof, I hold up t he fact t hat we have somehow avoided erecting statues to and naming buildings after G obbels a nd Mengele, even though their human experiments on prisoners i n c onc e nt r at ion c a mp s resulted in some useable data about how to keep people from freezing to death and provided the basis for some further research. Obv iously, episodes i n science like t hese should not be forgotten. Writing t hem out of t he h istor y books erases the suffering that enslaved women went t h rough to ma ke a USC a lu m nu s t he “ f at he r of g y necolog y.” But we also can’t pretend that it’s okay to have students living in halls named for someone whose most noteworthy work came at the expense of countless enslaved women’s bodies, blood and pain. It’s especially hideous that his building is the central feature of Women’s Quad. It lends credence to the idea of his work uplifting women, when i n rea l it y it wa s founded in the oppression of black women. If we want to write this part of history large on a part of Women’s Quad, we should honor Anarcha’s resilience, not Sims’ legacy.
South Carolina h a s o ne of t he lowest cigarette taxes in the U.S. At 57 cents a pack, cigarettes are e x t r aord i n a r i ly cheap and there Dan is little economic Nelson re a s on to qu it . Third-year public W hile t his may health student be good for convenience store owners and the tobacco i nd u s t r y, it d o e s l it t le t o encourage healt hy behav ior among the nearly 20 percent of S out h C a rol i n ia n s st i l l smoking. South Carolina would stand to gain significantly in health outcomes at little economic c o s t b y e mb r ac i n g h ig he r cigarette taxes. Excise taxes on cigarettes have proven to be an effective strategy to lower smoking rates in both the U.S. and abroad. T he idea i s si mple , i f you want someone to stop buying somet h i ng m a ke t he pr ice higher than they are willing to pay. Of course, t he logic behind this gets a bit skewed when considering something as complex as addiction. However, over the long term, cigarette taxes have acted as incentive to quit for current smokers and barrier to entry for younger people considering buying their fi rst pack. T he e c onom ic i nc ent i ve cannot be overstated. In high cigarette tax states like New Yo r k , M a s s a c h u s e t t s a n d California, cigarette smoking is at an all time low. Even lower, in fact, than the U.S. average. Long-term drops in cigarette use actually have some ver y positive benefits. Every year, “smoking-related illness in the United States costs more than $300 billion,” according to the CDC. Divided equally among the states (not controlling for smoking population per state), this costs South Carolina nearly $6 billion every year. Lowering t h is nu mber is par t icu larly i mp or t when you con sider that smokers are more likely t han not to be on Medicaid or u n i nsu red, mea n i ng t he costs of smok ing are largely fall on already overstretched government coffers. Some argue, however, that c i g a r e t t e t a x e s s h o u l d n’t be ex pa nded as t hey wou ld mostly impact lower income A mericans. Ot hers go even further and suggest that a tax hike would hurt the economy. Frankly, many of these fears are totally unfounded or ignore existing data. It i s t r u e i n s o m e w a y s t hat cigaret te t a xes ca n be
considered regressive, that is, having a significant negative impact on lower income groups. However, this is only the direct cost of the tax, not the overall benefits of it. For one, this tax being regressive assumes that cigarette consumption remains linear after the introduction of the tax, an idea that is patently fa lse. Ever y “10% i ncrease in price has been est imated to reduce overa l l ciga ret te consumption by 3–5%.” S e c o n d l y, t h i s a s s u m e s t he purpose of t he tax is to increase revenue significantly a nd su st a i nably over t i me, something that isn’t the real pur pose of such a ta x. The purpose of a cigarette tax is to decrease consumption for the public and individual good — decreasing public medical and productivity costs and boosting individual health outcomes. With that in mind, viewing a cigarette tax increase as a regressive tax increase ignores the fact that it is to serve as incentive to quit rather than a steady stream of revenue. As for the supposed economic downturn we’d apparently see from a hike in the cigarette tax, these fears simply have no basis in reality. The tobacco industry, for example, has been seeing massive growth in recent years, largely as a result of passing the rising costs of cigarettes off to customers, less competition, over s ea s m a rket s a nd ne w ventures, like e-cigarettes. The overall increase in cigarette taxes seems to have had little impact, in the long run, on the profits of these multinational conglomerates. Fa r mers t hemselves have faced su r pr isi ngly l it t le e c o nom ic i mp ac t , a s c r op prices have hovered near $2 per pound since the 2000s. This is despite increasing regulations and decreased consumption. Clearly, a modest cigaret te t a x i ncrease i n a st ate l i ke Sout h Carolina would have minimal, if any, impact on the tobacco industry, much less the economy as a whole. South Carolina has an almost nat u r a l aver sion to h igher ta xes, despite t he fact t hey only have a “tenuous” link to economic performance. Even the fight over the desperately needed increase in the gas tax was fraught with arguments over t he potent ial negat ive impact of increasing gas prices. However, much like the fight over a gas tax increase, the fight over a cigarette tax increase is a desperately needed one. The health of the state is important, both in lives and money to be saved. We would be foolish to pass this opportunity up.
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The next two days favor travel and exploration. Push your boundaries and frontiers, and try new idea s , c u lt u re s , f lavors and points of view.
Plan some fun for the next few days. Physical action gets results. Raise the level of your game with practice. Save time for romance.
Ta ke act ion to g row shared financial a c c o u nt s t o d a y a n d t o m o r r o w. M a k e i n v e s t me nt s , s e t u p automatic deductions or revise budgets. Discover unexpected savings.
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Get twice as far with the help of a partner. Find efficiencies by sharing the load. You can profit now from a dreamer’s vision. Collaborate.
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Your talents are getting popular. Reduce stress by scheduling carefully and guarding time for exercise, healthy meals and rest. Postpone nonessential tasks.
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Get your message out, and it travels f urther than expected. Passions a r e s t i r r e d up ; s t a y respectful. Keep digging and find a valuable clue.
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The next two days could get especially profitable. Actions taken now can have long-term benefit. Push to gain more authority and income.
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Us e you r p ower a nd confidence to advance a personal dream. Move quickly and go farther. Find valuable efficiencies and shortcuts.
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If you push too hard, you can burn out; slow dow n a nd recharge bat ter ie s. St rateg iz e a nd pl a n f or s i mple solutions. Envision and dream.
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Pull together as a team. To g e t h e r y o u c a n advance f urt her t han expected. Many hands make light work; invite your crew to participate.
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Crazy dreams seem p o s s ible . Fol low a professional ambit ion w it h de c i s i ve ac t ion t o r e ac h ne w le vel s . Strategize, and then move the pieces into place.
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Thursday, February 8, 2018
National Signing Day
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Meet the 2018 football class DT Rick Sandidge, WR Josh Vann, OT Dylan Wonnum, CB Jaycee Horn, OG Jovaughn Gwyn, QB Dakereon Joyner, DT Kingsley Enagbare, LB Rosendo Louis, Jr. OT Maxwell Iyama, OL Hank Manos, RB Deshaun Fenwick, RB Lavonte Valentine, DB Israel Mukuamu, LB Ernest Jones, OL Wyatt Campbell, WR Darius Rush, DB R.J. Roderick, DB Jonathan Gipson, WR Tyquan Johnson, DL Jabari Ellis, DL Jesus Gibbs, DL Tyreek Johnson Claudia Chakamian @C_CHAKAMIAN
For college football fans, the first Wednesday of February is one of the most exciting days of the year. It’s the day high school athletes officially sign their letters of intent for the college they have committed to. The new early signing period, which happened in December, gave student-athletes the chance to sign and enroll early. Many student-athletes chose to go through the early signing period, with more than 80 percent of the 2018 class signing early. Because of this, head coach Will Muschamp and the South Carolina football program signed just two players, adding to the 20 they got in December. But the two they got on Wednesday are both four-stars and highly looked at recruits, which Muschamp believes will be an addition to the class. Early Wednesday morning the Gamecocks signed offensive lineman Dylan Wonnum from Tucker,
Georgia. Wonnum helped lead Tucker High School to the Class AAAAAA state Final Four this past season and finished with a 12-2 record. He earned first-team all state selection and first-team All-USA Georgia football team. During his senior season, he recorded 24 blocks and led an offensive line that produced 258.7 yards per game and 7.9 yards per carry. “Ver y athletic, great balance, body control,” Muschamp said of Wonnum Wednesday. “A guy that, from a protection standpoint, can set the edge, can play left or right tackle, a guy that we’re really excited about.” Wonnum’s older brother D.J. just wrapped up his second season with the Gamecocks as a defensive lineman, but Dylan Wonnum made it clear that he didn’t let that influence his decision. The Gamecocks’ other signee was defensive lineman Rick Sandidge from Concord, North Carolina. The 6-5 cornerback had 83 tackles and seven sacks with his fi nal year at Concord High School. Sandidge picked
New early signing period gives 2018 class jump start Shelby Beckler @SBECKLER13
This year’s National Signing Day was much calmer than it has been in years past due to the newly installed early signing period. From Dec. 20 through 22, players got the opportunity to sign to their schools and get a head start on practice and academics. The new period forced everyone to adjust. Despite trying to balance the new signing period and the bowl practice schedule, head coach Will Muschamp managed to come to terms with the new system. “It was f i ne w it h me, I don’t have any issues with it,” Muschamp said. Muschamp acknowledged that he did not anticipate the 20 student-athletes signing in December. There were also 13 players that signed mid-year, which made it interest ing. Wit h t he open ness of t he early signing period, South
Carolina’s program is now able to see what they really have to work with going into the spring pre-season, and Muschamp recognizes t he benef its of signing early. “I am not opposed to t he early sig ning period,” Muschamp said. “It helped us get ahead on 19’s and 20’s in January. You are able to see more of those guys, you’re further ahead on those classes than we have ever been before at this time.” This process has given the class of 2018 a secure platform t o b r i n g t h e i r p o t e nt i a l opportunities to the table. Muschamp mentioned that they are only missing nine scholarship players for spring practices, which is a huge plus. Even though there have only been three days of practice, the signees have already used it to their full advantage. The key focus currently for t he G amecock s is t he development of each player
up first-team All-USA North Carolina football team honors and was named to the North Carolina Preps All-Class and 3A All-State teams. He was ranked the second-best defensive tackle in the country and thirdbest player in North Carolina, according to Rivals. “A very powerful man inside, can obviously anchor but he has wiggle enough to slide out and play in,” Muschamp said about Sandidge. “But an athletic, big man that can run, that can push the pocket, can win in the pass rush.” Muschamp was overall pleased with this year’s class, but knows that recruiting is just the beginning and it will take time for these players to develop and see what they’re completely made of. “It’s an exciting day,” Muschamp said. “We got better today, and I’ll say the same thing every year, we’ll know about this class in two or three years ... The last two signing classes have produced a bunch of good football players for us and enable us to continue to make some progress in our program.”
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7 as they are in the preparation and growing stage. Muschamp is beyond pleased with the 13 early signees progress that they have made since they have stepped foot on campus. Q u a r t erb ac k D a k er e on Joyner has stood out not only on the field, but in the “effort and mental toughness” that he has given to South Carolina over the past week. W it h t h is early sig n i ng period, the mental preparation has been no different for each player. They have still been faced with the same struggles, workouts and new experiences. “This is a ver y dif f icult process for these guys right
1 Where are the recruits from? now doing their early morning runs and some things that they have never done before,” Muschamp said. Muscha mp emphasizes that each player still has huge growth to make, but only with time and dedication will those things flourish. “ You got t a cont i nue to e vol ve ,” Mu s c h a mp s a id. “You gotta to add big people, strong people to your roster to be able to control the line of scrimmage, to have the ability to run the ball when you need to stop the run.” The new two players that joined the Gamecock program on Wednesday have been given
2 limitless opportunities to prove themselves from the start. With that mindset, Muschamp believes fully that these two signees will be able to help the program next year compete at a whole new level. “There is very positive buzz about our program right now, but we’ve got to continue to press it forward and that’s the bottom line,” Muschamp said. “I like the mentality of just the three days that I have been with our football team. The last three mornings have been very good. I have seen a lot of buy-in and commitment. I have been pleased with what we have done so far.”
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