A s m a l l t e c h nolog y compa ny i s u s i ng t he U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h Carolina’s Innovista campus to develop virtual test beds for electronic transportation vehicles, bringing some life to USC’s oft-criticized research project.

S y s E DA , a s t a r t u p through USC’s Business Incubator, received a $2.4 mil l ion grant f rom the Office of Naval Research t o d e v e lo p t he h i g h-technology, cutting-edge products for the Navy.

T he t e s t b e d s were created by USC students under the supervision of USC electrical engineering professor Roger Dougal and were licensed by the USC Research Foundation.

“I’m guessing we’ve had 50 students involved in the software development over the years,” Dougal said.

I t ’ s q u i n t e s s e n t i a l Innovista, Director Don Herriot said.

Te c h nolog y for t he project was developed by USC students under the guidance of Dougal. The company’s employees are products of the University a n d i t s C E O , K e l l y Truesdale, is a product of the Moore School of Business.

“USC research is the fountainhead of Innovista,” Herriot said. “These are high-technology jobs, South Carolina entrepreneurship and this aligns perfectly with Innovista.”

Herriot called the project a “single” for Innovista, which has been oft-criticzed by Gov. Mark Sanford and others as a f loundering failure for the University. It s st ruggles were ver y publ ic as it s leadership changed after reports from The Free Times and other media outlets surfaced in 2009, revealing the project’s pr ivate developer K ale Roscoe to be a criminal, convicted of tax evasion and scamming previous contract holders.

But now the project is getting a “reset button,” so to speak, Herriot said.

“One of the strategic thrusts of Innovista will be starting up companies like SysEDA,” Herriot said. “There’s hopefully a long list of companies that will come out of USC research.”

More than 1,200 students are now ineligible for student tickets this season after no-showing Thursday night’s season-opener without cancelling their claimed tickets online.

9,400 tickets were distributed to students leading up to Thursday’s game. Only 8,188 were scanned at the gates of Williams-Brice

Stadium. Also, a large number of students were getting their tickets scanned and leaving upon having scanned in, said Patrick Donovan, USC’s coordinator for student tickets.

The trend meant large patches of the student section were empty during the ESPN-televised USC win. With almost 2,000 students outside the gates without t ickets due to the high demand, it was disappointing to see a section nowhere near capacity, said Jeremy Long, Student Government’s Secretary of Athletics.

However, students who didn’t get tickets last week, will have a much higher chance of getting

tickets for the Georgia game and for other contests in the future.

“You think about how many students wanted to go to the game and couldn’t, and you’re sad for them,” Long said. “Football is a big sport around here, and you only get seven games a year. We could have had a capacity student section, but we didn’t.”

It was a disappointing opening night for the stricter student ticketing policy. In the past, student ticketing privileges were lost for the

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Restaurant , bar and live-music hot spot Tin Roof is opening their new loc at ion i n T he Vista today, offering a laid-back lunchtime and late-night hang out and an outlet of opportunities for Columbia’s local artists.

Tin Roof Columbia, s i t t i n g r i g h t o f f o f A s sembly on Senate , will be the fifth of “The Roof” family, joining the Nashville, Knoxville, Cool Springs and Lexington locations to present a new kind of venue to local and

touring musicians. “We hope to provide a

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For college students, studying has become a lost pastime. According to a study released by two economics professors, Philip Babcock at the University of California Santa Barbara and Mindy Marks at the University of California Riverside, college students studied an average of 24 hours a week in 1961 compared to just 14 in recent years.

This change was seen across the board.

“It’s not just limited to bad schools,” Babcock told the Boston Globe. “We’re seeing it at liberal arts colleges, doctoral r e s e a r c h c o l l e g e s , masters colleges. Every dif ferent type, every different size. It’s just across the spectrum. It’s very robust. This is just a huge change in every category.” The question then becomes: Why?“Students are smarter,” said Don Fowler, who is entering his 47th year as a political science professor at the University of South Carolina . “Students are materially better, and they write better and I just almost never run across an exam where a student doesn’t attempt it. And I know the SAT scores have risen over the years. You’re just getting a better quality of student.”Second-year English and pre-law student McKinley Haskin blames technology.“Advances in technology cause decreased study time. The fact that human beings are becoming more and more dependent on other people and resources — we’re pretty much getting more and more lazy,” Haskin said.

The theory makes sense, except Babcock and Marks found that the biggest decrease in study

time was between 1961 and 1981 — a time before computers. Study hours per week dropped from 24 to only 16 during that time frame. Haskin still fi nds the time to study and said that she does school-related work for 20 hours a week.“When I have reading, I highlight and make notes as I go along and reread sections that are less clear to me,” Haskin said. “Studying for tests, I make note cards and keep going through them until I know each backwards and forwards. For essays, as long as I don’t have writer’s block, I make some notes on how I want to organize my essay and try to get it all written in one sitting, the day that I get the assignment.” Haskin is part of the minority, however. Second-year engineering student Cole Thornton said that he studies for eight to 10 hours per week and second-year business student Eric Bouchard only hits the books for six hours a week.“I never really studied in high school, and was never taught any study skills,” Thornton said.Walter Edgar, who has been a member of the history department at USC since 1972 , thinks students are often not prepared enough for college.“Students cannot write,” Edgar said. “We are inheriting what we get. Kids are very bright, they score, they’re very curious, but they have not from fi fth or sixth grade on [been] made to write vigorously. They don’t really know how to research. Making a certain score on the SAT verbal doesn’t mean that you can write a sentence or a paragraph.”

But what seems to contradict this is that across the nation, college students are earning better and better grades.According to www.gradeinf lation.com, the average GPA of all American colleges and universities during the 1991-1992 school year was 2.93, compared to an average of 3.11 in 2006-

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MYRTLE BEACH — Offi cials along the Grand Strand say business this summer has been solid after a couple of tough years at South Carolina’s most popular vacat ion destination.

Tourism researchers a t C o a s t a l C a ro l i n a University found hotel occupancy is up eight percent this summer and attractions like Broadway at the Beach reported a s t eady i nc rea se i n customers, according to a story Monday by The Sun News of Myrtle Beach.

The increase in tourists should lead to h igher hotel rates and jump start other parts of the economy around Myrtle Beach. Construction on new hotels could begin again in a couple of years, sa id Taylor Damonte, d i rec tor of t he Clay Brittain Jr. Center for Resort Tourism at Coastal Carolina University.

“The big picture is that we are now in the beginning stages of the new bus i ne s s c yc le ,” D a m o n t e t o l d t h e newspaper.

Credit for the increase in tourists goes to several dif ferent factors, sa id Brad Dean, president and chief execut ive of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.

T he a i r por t added direct flights to Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Chicago, while tourism off icials increased advert ising, including trying to lure v isitors leery of going to the Gulf of Mexico because of the oil spill. T he ad s empha s i z ed My r t l e B e ac h a s a n

affordable destination for people on a tight budget, Dean said.

“The last 18 months have been some of the most challenging times for our local industry,” Dean told the newspaper. “ W e ’ v e s e e n t h e turnaround, and we’ve been faring much better than other destinations. 2010 has turned out to be a good year, which we’ve desperately needed.”

The key for the Grand Strand for next summer will be gett ing people who came to the area for the first time to return. The area will continue to promote its attractions like the new boardwalk that opened this year near downtown Myrtle Beach, Dean said.

“The at t itude down there is like 180 degrees d i f f e r e nt . T he y a r e sprucing up businesses, investing capital in their b u s i ne s s e s . T he y ’r e thinking about change for next year,” said Ripley’s Attractions Myrtle Beach General Manager Peter M ac I nt y re , who h a s several attraction in the area.

There are mixed signs to whet her t he good summer will lead to a good fall. The fi rst half of September appears to be going well, but Damonte’s survey of the tourism industry indicates weaker occupancy in the last half of September.

But Damonte points out that period often sees late bookings from people who decide to travel at the last minute.

NEW YORK — Universities are buying up chunks of land at bargain prices, sometimes without a clear idea how they’ll be used.

Some are taking advantage of good sales during a sluggish economy, while others, like Columbia University, are continuing a practice they’ve done for decades, buying even if the price isn’t discounted.

The University of Dayton last year acquired the 115-acre world headquarters of technology company NCR Corp. for the fire sale price of $18 million after buying 50 acres from the company for three times the per-acre price in 2005. And the University of Delaware last year bought a 272-acre former Chrysler auto plant for $24 million.

The schools are banking on future growth to make their purchases good investments. In the interim, many are leasing the properties they’re not using until they need them.

It’s good that colleges are looking

years or even decades ahead, but investing in real estate can be risky, academic research analyst Jane Wellman said.

“People who just lost their shirts in the last real estate crash know the risk of real estate as an investment portfolio,” Wellman said. Colleges “are banking that now is the low point in real estate, and it may not be.”

For yea r s , Colu mbia bought land wherever it could, amassing more than 17 acres on Manhattan’s Upper West Side between 2002 and 2009. Construction has begun on a multibillion-dollar expansion that would build new housing, laboratories, open space and tree-lined sidewalks.

University President Lee Bollinger said it won’t be fi nished for at least 30 years. And while some of the space has been dedicated to specifi c departments, Bollinger said he’s intentionally not deciding how the rest of the buildings will be used.

Dan Fasulo, a managing director for

real estate research fi rm Real Capital Analytics, says many colleges are jumping at new opportunities to buy land cheaply since the economic slump.

Some schools say the economic downturn drove prices so low that it was cheaper to buy land with existing buildings now than it would be to construct new ones later.

University of Dayton President Daniel Curran thought he got “the deal of a lifetime” fi ve years ago, when the Ohio university bought 50 acres from NCR Corp. for $25 million. Then he got a better offer: the company’s expansive world headquarters property — complete with a moat and a mini golf course — for $18 million.

The former Chrysler Group LLC plant the University of Delaware bought won’t be completely built out for 50 years, said Executive Vice President Scott Douglass. Since nearly a quarter of it has no specific plans, it may be used for scientific testing, Douglass said.

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico — Mexican authorities urged people to move to shelters while offi cials in Texas distributed sandbags and warned of flash floods as Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened and headed toward the northwestern Gulf coast on Monday.

Hermine “will briefl y be over Mexico, and then we’re expecting it to produce very heavy rainfall over south Texas,” said Eric Blake, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center. “We’re expecting widespread rainfall totals of 4 to 8 inches with isolated amounts of a foot possible. Especially in the hilly and mountainous terrain that could cause life-threatening fl ash fl ooding.”

The storm’s winds strengthened to about 60 mph, and by Monday afternoon it was located about 100 miles south-southeast of Brownsville, Texas. Tropical storm force winds extended out up to 105 miles from the storm’s center.

While it is likely to hit just south of Matamoros — across the border from Brownsville — at tropical storm force, it has the potential to build into minimal hurricane strength, Blake said.

A hurricane watch was issued for the area from Rio San Fernando, Mexico, northward to Baffi n Bay in Texas.

The cattle-ranching region is one the most dangerous in Mexico’s turf war between two drug cartels. It is the same area 72 migrants were killed two weeks ago in what it

believed to be Mexico’s worst drug gang massacre to date.Mexican emergency offi cials urged people living in low-

lying coastal areas to move to shelters, but there were no immediate evacuation plans.

“We urge the general population to be on alert for possible f loods and mudslides,” said Salvador Trevino, director of civil defense of Tamaulipas state, where Matamoros is located.

On the Texas coast, emergency offi cials readied pumping equipment and distributed sandbags in Cameron County, said John Cavazos, the county’s emergency management coordinator. He said they are also suggesting that people in recreational vehicles in county parks along the coast should move.

The officials are worried about flooding because the ground is already saturated from earlier rains. Some areas could get up to 12 inches of rain, he said.

“Anyone living in ... an area that’s known to fl ood, they need to take some precautions,” Cavazos said.

Frank Torres, emergency management coordinator for Willacy County, said offi cials are preparing sandbags and making sure people know a storm is coming.

“It just popped up out of nowhere,” he said. “We’re anticipating some fl ooding. The good thing is it’s going to blow through here very quickly.”

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2007. SEC schools saw some of the greatest changes. Between 1990 and 2006 the average GPA at the University of Georgia went up by almost half a point — the most in the country among public schools.

“It has to do with standards, or lack of standards. Grading is not what it used to be,” Edgar said. “If

I graded an essay now like I did 35 years ago, out of 90 students I might have 10 make the grades they’re making now.”

Testing changes have been made as well.

“If you had taken my class in 1975, South Carolina history, 50-minute class, an hour test would have included 10 identifications

and two essays,” Edgar said. “Students today are given one essay to write, and knowing what the essay was going to be, out of 90 students I would say 20 percent of them had diffi culty completing an essay in an hour and fifteen minutes.”

Fowler, on the other hand, said that his class has hardly changed

at all over the course of almost 50 years.

“If you assume that students 30 years ago and students today all study two hours a day, the grade infl ation could be explained by the fact that they’re better students now,” Fowler said. “But if you assume that even if they’re smarter and they study less, you shouldn’t

necessarily assume that they should get better grades. Maybe they just argue with the professors better than they used to.”

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restaurant dur ing the day and a bar that carries through the night, Tin Roof offers an alternative to what has already been done in Columbia.

“ We a re a ba r a nd restaurant first, and the live music is what takes place instead of having a jukebox or a DJ,” Franklin sa id. “It ’s a d i f ferent concept than the White Mule or New Brookland Tavern, but we’re thinking it will add another place for musicians to play in town.”

W i t h a w e b o f connect ions and other locations, including a spot on Nashville’s famed music row , Tin Roof Columbia is looking to lend a hand to local musicians.

“We’ll bring in some people from Nashvil le and Atlanta, as well as the other cities we’re already in and vice-versa,” said Franklin. “We’ll get some of these Columbia people a chance to get on the road and play some of the other Tin Roofs.”

T here w i l l b e l i ve acoust ic, local music during the week, with full bands playing on the weekends. Open-mic and writers’ nights, as well as CD release parties, touring acts and outdoor mini-festivals and shows will keep the city involved, adding to the “local music joint’s” vision.

“The main v ibe we look for goes with our saying, ‘Relax, you’re at the Roof,’” Franklin said. “It’s fun, leave your t roubles at the door, everyone is someone here and it really is just a place to have a really good time with all your friends.”

Although the venue

is 21-and-up for the late-night live performances, it i s 18-and-up wh i le the kitchen is still open. Franklin, and Tin Roof fou nder Ja son Sheer, also plan to have all-ages shows, especial ly with bigger, outdoor events. “The Roof” is meant to be a food, bar and music hub where everyone can go out together.

“It’s a place where the bus i nes sma n m i ngle s with the college kid who mingles with the guy from the music industry,” said Franklin. “It’s really an eclectic mix, where it all just sort of melds together.”

A t T i n R o o f , t h e food is definitely not an afterthought, with the full-service restaurant, open at 11 a.m. daily for lunch, offering favorites l ike Tin Roof ’s family recipe salsa, made fresh every day, Avocado Pavo sandwich and the simple, but de l ic iou s g r i l led chicken quesadilla.

“You get big servings, with fresh food, in a casual env ironment. You get your money’s worth at the Roof,” said Franklin.

With an outdoor patio, and patio seating, as well as booths and bar seating, it is as comfortable as a restaurant, but also has space to stand, dance a nd w at c h t he b a nd play at night. Prices are “compet it ive,” w it h a particularly fair value for drinks.

“If you buy a Jack and Coke, you’re not getting a Coke,” said Franklin. “We give people a fair deal. We’re known for the heavy pour.”

Tin Roof Columbia, incorporating every aspect of a night out on the town with food, a bar and music, is likely to become a new Vista favorite.

“ Ever yone need s a place where they feel at home and feel special and feel like their business is valued,” said Franklin. “We give people a place where they can relax and blow off steam for a little bit, and hear some great music, with some great food and great service along the way.”

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TANAH KARO, Indonesia — An Indonesian volcano shot black ash three miles into the air early today — its most powerful eruption since springing back to life after four centuries of dormancy.

The force of Mou nt Sinabung’s explosion could be felt fi ve miles away.

“This one was real ly terrif y ing,” said A nissa Siregar, 30, as she and her two sleepy children arrived by truck at an emergency shelter nea r t he base , add ing t hat t he whole mountain shook violently for at least three minutes. “ It ju s t keeps get t i ng worse.”

The volcano in North Sumatra province erupted last week for the fi rst time since 1600, catching many scientists off guard. With more t ha n 129 ac t i ve volcanoes to watch, local

vulcanologists had failed to monitor it for rising magma, slight uplifts in land and other signs of seismic activity.

There are fears t hat cur rent ac t iv it y cou ld foreshadow a much more destructive explosion in the next few weeks or months, though it is possible, too, that the mountain will go back to sleep after letting off steam.

More than 30,000 people living along the volcano’s fert ile slopes have been re lo c ated to c r a mp ed refugee camps, mosques and churches in nearby villages.

But some — like Siregar, the mother who fled with he r c h i ld r e n — h a v e insisted on returning to the danger zone to check on their homes and their dust covered crops.

The government sent trucks to the mountain before the eruption to help carry them back to safety.

S u r o no , w ho he a d s the nation’s volcano alert center, said intensity at the mountain is clearly increasing.

There were more than 80 volcanic earthquakes in the 24-hour lead up to the blast, compared to 50 on Friday, when ash and debris shot nearly two miles into the air.

T he e r up t ion e a r l y t o d a y o c c u r r e d j u s t a f ter m idn ight dur ing a torrent ia l downpour. Witnesses said volcanic ash and mud oozed down the mountain’s slopes, fl ooding into abandoned homes.

Indonesia is a seismically charged region because of its location on the so-called “Ring of Fire” — a series of fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere t h r o u g h J a p a n a n d Southeast Asia.

It has recorded some of the largest eruptions in history.

The 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora buried the inhabitants of Sumbawa Island under searing ash, gas and rock, k illing an estimated 88,000 people.

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season for those who failed to cancel ticket reservations online for more than two games. This year, it’s one miss — without cancellation — and you’re done for the season.

But the number that missed was as high as ever. Leaders say they’ll stick to the policy and hope things change over time.

“We have to stand firm to it,” Long said. “Students who don’t abide by the new policy won’t care if we don’t stand firm. It is what it is and it was made known. When you have ESPN talking about our student section being a top-fi ve student section in the nation and you can’t fi ll it for the fi rst game, that’s sad and you have to question whether it’s really true.”

For the 1,200 who didn’t make the game, all is not lost. Those students can appeal the revocation until Friday at the

student ticketing office in the Russell House. In the past, officials have given leniency to those who make the effort to appeal, Long said.

Also, Long wants to remind students that they can cancel tickets up to kickoff. While you’ll lose one loyalty point, it’s still better than losing privileges for the rest of the season, he said.

Long said the University expects to see a high demand this week for the rivalry showdown against Georgia.

“It’s Georgia, they’re a ranked team, it’s a SEC game, it’s a huge home game, and this is going to be a great game,” he said. “People talk about Carolina fans being the best in the world. Well, we need to prove it.”

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During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman became famous for his march across South Carolina and for playing a key role in the defeat of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Today, there is work to be done to preserve the battle sites of this famous march and ensure that the history is not forgotten.

S t e v e n S m i t h , a n a r c h a e o l o g i s t i n t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h Carolina’s College of Arts and Sciences , is taking on this chal lenge and wil l soon begin researching battlefi elds and camps across the state.

“We will be developing a historic context [and will] go to sites and make sure they are correct,” said Smith, associate director of applied research in the college’s S.C. Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA). “Then we will provide a status report as to what that location looks like at this time.”

The fi rst year of this two-year project will be funded by a $64,200 grant from the American Battlefield Protection Program , which is part of the National Park Service (NPS). The grant was one of 25 awarded by the NPS to preserve battlefi elds and related sites across the country.

Fo r t h i s p a r t i c u l a r projec t , Smit h w i l l be identifying and providing status reports of the battle sites and camps associated w it h Sherman’s march through South Carolina. The general, Smith said, captured Atlanta in 1865 and marched across Georgia and South Carolina before reaching Gen. Robert E. Lee in North Carolina.

S m i t h e x p e c t s t o document about 60 sites throughout the project but said that no excavation work will be done. Rather, t he goa l i s to compi le information to help identify and preserve the historic sites.

In addition to looking at camps and battlefields, Smith will research two “Yankee” POW camps that existed in Columbia’s city limits.

“The exact locations of

those are not known,” Smith said. “We will try to do some research on that.”

Once in format ion i s compiled about these camps and battlefi elds, Smith said other organizations may be able to use this information to create a historic trail in South Carolina.

To identify these sites, Smith sa id he w i l l use historic documents and let ter s a long w it h t he information known about the landscapes today.

“Most of the work at this level is information gathering,” he said.

Smith has been doing archaeological research for 30 years and has spent the past 18 years specializing in military sites in South Carolina and the Southeast. He now ove r s e e s t he Military Sites Program for SCIAA.

“ I e n j o y m i l i t a r y history and like to put the history together with the archaeology,” he said. “I like to go to a site and know this is where something happened.”

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A: There is no shortage of opinion on what makes the best cure for ahangover. Depending on who you ask, you may hear things as variedas having a big, greasy breakfast, eating menudo, or even taking anotherdrink. But the low down on hangovers is this: try all the “cures” you like,but the only proven way to avoid them is to prevent them in the first place.It hardly sounds exotic, but drinking plenty of water while you drink andlimiting the number of drinks you have are the only surefire remedies.Because alcohol is a diuretic – a type of drug that increases the rate of urination – drinking leads to dehydration. The more you drink, the more you will experience dehydration’s ill effects the next day, such as headache, dry mouth and fatigue. In fact, drinking alcohol in combi-nation with caffeine (e.g rum and Coke) may even lead to more severe hangovers since caffeine has a similar dehydrating effect. In addition to water, sports drinks – which have the added benefit of glucose (sugar) and electrolytes (salts and other minerals) – can also help. Try having water, a sports drink or another nonalcoholic beverage for every standard drink of alcohol that you consume.And what about those hangover-cure pills you may have heard about? Most of them instruct you to wash down their products with generous amounts of water. So chances are, if you didn’t experience a hangover after taking these, it was probably the water and not the pills that made the difference. One thing you will want to avoid after a night of drinking is acetaminophen (such as Tylenol), since the combination of alcohol and acetaminophen can cause serious liver damage. Other options to ease your discomfort such as aspirin or ibuprofen may seem like a good idea, but these products can lead to stomach irritation when your stomach is already in a delicate state due to alcohol (also an irritant).

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Hey, 1,800 students who couldn’t get tickets to Thursday’s game: 1,200 of your fellow Gamecocks decided to waste the tickets you were denied by not attending. But, on the bright side, your chances for getting into the Georgia game this Saturday have greatly increased. Due to the new one-strike policy, none one of those 1,200 will be attending.

Yes, those 1,200 can still appeal to the student ticketing offi ce until Friday to be eligible for games the rest of the semester, and Student Government Secretary

of Athletics Jeremy Long did state that offi cials will be lenient. But, even if the appeals of many are granted, despite whether they deserve it or not, it won’t be in time to receive a ticket for this Saturday.

Well, good riddance. Your kind, along with the

many regrettably still-eligible students who scanned and scrammed, embarrassed our university on national television. Anyone watching the ESPN opener saw many empty seats in the student section. Outsiders who didn’t know 1,800 students wanted to attend must have thought USC had no love for its team. ESPN, which recently ranked our student section in the top fi ve, will probably reconsider opening the season with us again.

The University needs to be resolute in their new policy and not grant appeals to students with bogus excuses. To those students who got too drunk to make it to the game: Do the right thing by not appealing.

Looking at the numbers, the amount of students who wasted tickets was as high as ever. Were they not aware of such a highly publicized change in the ticket policy? Did they not read their e-mail or the many stories in The Daily Gamecock?

Perhaps they were preoccupied with their hangovers.

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Flawed student ticketing system rewards luck, requires changes

On Thursday night, approximately 9,400 students packed Williams-Brice Stadium for the football game against Southern Mississippi. One thousand seven hundred seventy-six students requested tickets on TicketReturn but did not receive a ticket. Under the current loyalt y point system TicketReturn utilizes to distribute tickets, those same 1,776 students will be more far less likely to receive tickets to this week’s football game against Georgia than those who were fortunate enough to receive tickets to the opening game.

The ultimate purpose of the loyalty points system was to make the process of ticket distribution fair by rewarding students who attend many or all of the games. Unfortunately, when so many students do not receive tickets, the system hurts chances of those ticketless students to receive tickets to future football games.

For the sake of argument, let’s consider a freshman’s loyalt y points, since a predominant number of students who didn’t receive tickets were freshmen. Two freshmen request t ickets to the Gamecock s’ open ing game versus Southern Mississippi. One receives and claims a ticket in the lottery; the other doesn’t receive a ticket. The student who received a ticket goes to the game and enters the stadium before 6:30 p.m. This student receives three loyalty points for attending the game, raising his or her loyalty points to six. Meanwhile, the student who didn’t receive a ticket in the lottery still only has three loyalty points, half those of the student who received a ticket.

The two students do not differ in class standing. They are both avid Gamecock fans and both want tickets to the Georgia game. Unfortunately, the student who got tickets for the Southern Mississippi game will be twice as likely to get a ticket to the Georgia game as the student who didn’t receive a Southern Mississippi ticket. This probability does not fairly reflect either student’s loyalty to Gamecock athletics, but rather refl ects the working of a fl awed system. To iron out these fl aws I suggest a different system of distributing loyalty points.

Students would still start the year with a certain number of points ref lecting their seniority. The current system where freshmen have 3 points, sophomores 4 points, juniors and graduate students

6 points and seniors 8 points is a good starting point.

Then, additional loyalty points should be awarded in two ways. A student should receive two points for requesting a ticket to a football game. If that student receives a ticket but does not claim it, they would not receive the two points. However, if a student does not receive a ticket they would be awarded the loyalty points anyway. For entering the game in an early and timely fashion, a student would get one additional loyalty point. This would solve the issue of the current system hurting students that just get unlucky in the ticket lottery.

Lastly, in the period of time after the claim period when students can take unclaimed tickets, students should have access not only to unclaimed tickets in the student section but also tickets that were not purchased throughout the stadium. It is a shame that 1,776 students were not able to attend the Southern Mississippi game when there were easily that many open seats in the upper deck. While those seats are not as good as those in the student section, having a seat in the upper deck beats having no seat at all.

This system would serve the true intention of the loyalty points: to reward students who want to attend most or all of the games. It will allow more students to attend games and will make the selection for student section seats more equitable. The fl aws in the current system reward students more for luck than for loyalty and leave devoted Gamecock fans at home when they could be in the stadium supporting their team.

John Clegg, First-year biomedical engineering student

Injustice abroad shows justice of US systemRecent cases in Nicaragua, Italy highlight differences, unfairness in foreign courts

Criticism of the justice system is another one of the many debates circling politics in America. People are dissatisfied with many things from the lengthy appeals process, to sentencing discrepancies, to the quality of the prisons in America. But if there is one thing that will make you appreciate the system we have created here, it is watching “Locked Up Abroad” or “E! Investigates: Locked Up Overseas.” Both television shows are fi lled with stories of Americans who, some rightly and others wrongly, are arrested and imprisoned in countries that do not grant the same rights to their prisoners.

“E! Investigates” tells the story of American Eric Volz who was framed and wrongly convicted of murdering his local girlfriend in Nicaragua . Ten eyewitnesses, along with electronic records, place him two hours away from his girlfriend at the time of the murder. A case that would have been opened and closed in the United States turned into nearly a

yearlong terrifying ordeal for Volz after the Nicaraguan judge chose to rule out the blatant evidence purely because of anti-American bias in the region. After serving nearly a year in a disgusting, violent prison, an appeals court judge overturned Volz’s conviction and he was able to return back to the United States.

It is not only third-world c o u n t r i e s t h a t h a v e u s appreciat ing the A mer ican courts. The Amanda Knox trial in Italy shows how even a highly developed country doesn’t allow all of the freedoms we enjoy. Not only was Knox convicted of murder, she also faces a slander charge for stating that police beat her. Apparently, whether or not the police hit her isn’t in question. In Italy it is against

the law to speak against the police, leaving Knox, who already faces 26 years in jail for murder, on trial again, this time for slander. In America, she would simply be executing her First Amendment rights and nobody would be concerned. Luckily for Knox, Italian prisons

will be much nicer than the ones that Volz had to face, but it still does not take away from the scariness of not being able to exercise the same rights we are afforded here without question.

Discovering the pure truth is almost always impossible, and because of that, no judicial system is perfect or completely fair. We can always keep working to make our system better. Some people claim the United States grants too many rights and luxuries to our criminals. However, these rights are not meant to enable criminals but to help protect those who are potentially innocent. Even when someone is guilty, the system allows him to state his case to the fullest extent without the fear of repercussion. And when someone is convicted, at least American prisons afford inmates their human rights, unlike many countries that leave inmates to languish in squalid conditions. We are a country where people are innocent until proven guilty — where human rights are highly regarded, even to those who break out laws — and we must truly appreciate that.

Michelle FantoneFourth-year political science and sociology student

Everyone started class Thursday, Aug. 19, but plenty of people st ill don’t have the books they need to participate and do assignments. If you’ve bought anything f r o m t h e R u s s e l l House bookstore, you may have noticed the bag s t hat s ay “Bu y your textbooks online: whywaitforbooks.com.” T h i s s log a n m a ke s absolutely no sense

given that s t ude nt s do more w a i t i n g a f t e r order i ng b o o k s t h r o u g h the online s e r v i c e t h a n a n y o n e ever could

by going to any of the nu merou s t ex tbook stores in Columbia.

I thought, naively, that ordering through the school had to be t he ea s ie s t , f a s t e s t option. But boy was I wrong. I have watched jealously as my friends picked up a package with their books from the mailroom and heard of plenty of classmates g o i n g t o A d d a m ’s o r S o u t h C a r o l i n a Bookstore and being done with their textbook shopping in a day.

Me a nwh i le , a f t e r g o i n g t h r ou g h t he process of ordering, I had to wait days, weeks even, for a n e-ma i l saying my books were in or that they were back ordered. W hen they f inal ly came in and I went to Russell House, I had to wait in one line to get the bookstore employee to call my order numbers to the people working the stock room and then wait in another l ine unt il they found the books. If perhaps you had more than one book you needed to pick up, you could bet on at least another hour for each one.

T h e s y s t e m i s completely ridiculous. S o m e t h i n g h a s t o be done to organize and make the whole book ordering process much more eff icient. Customer service may be dying, but if someone is spending as much as students are for one book, the bookstore needs to do something b e f o r e e v e r y o n e takes t heir business somewhere else.

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“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“The American” is a film that can be appreciated easily, but is diffi cult to enjoy. It is defi nitely a fi lm with many strengths, and finding aspects to laud takes little effort. Sadly, the fl aws of “The American” are of equal if not greater proportion to the strengths. Director Anton Corbijn methodically weaves a thriller that at times is gripping and undeniably engrossing. However, some may feel that the fi lm drags and creates a bore by using fl at characters.

The fi lm follows Jack (George Clooney), a grizzled and hardened assassin who has just narrowly escaped an attempt on his life, and in the process murdered his lady friend. At the urging of his superior, Jack decides to lay low in a miniscule town in the mountains of Italy.

As time progresses, Jack lets his guard down and becomes too friendly with local prostitute Ingrid (Irina Bjorklund), while simultaneously completing his last job. Jack chooses to ignore the old adage states, “Never mix business with pleasure,” and begins to experience the repercussions of his actions as things start to unravel.

“The American” is a gorgeously shot fi lm. It is set in the most beautiful areas, and each shot is framed in a location that would make any tourist salivate. Corbijn does an excellent job showing Clooney’s emot ions through close-ups on his troubled and weary face.

However, while the fi lm may fl oat along visually, it seriously lacks in other areas. The dialogue is sparse and when Corbijn decides to use it, it really is inconsequential. Most of the plot action comes from literal action on screen, and not from spoken word. This works exceptionally well at times and does provide some excellent scenes that cause the heart to pump, but “The American” is no “Bourne” installment, so these types of scenes occur too few times in the fi lm.

The fi lm is only 103 minutes long but it does feel much longer. With many scenes showing Clooney pondering or reacting to a situation, the less-patient viewer might become cantankerous with the meticulous pace.

Aside f rom the v isuals, Corbijn’s best achievement in “The American” is a creation of the sense of isolation that Clooney’s character has. It’s reminiscent of the classic “Jeremiah Johnson.” While in doing this Corbijn may have added to the fi lm’s drudgery, he did a make a palatable

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The AmericanNOW IN THEATERS Discovery hostage situation opens

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Gorgeous ‘American’ falls fl atClooney’s latest packs plenty of atmosphere,

potential, but too ponderous to thrill

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Last Wednesday, a gunman held multiple employees hostage at the Discovery Channel building in Maryland for fi ve hours before being shot by police.

Trade paper The Hollywood Reporter, reporting on the story, said the gunman was James Jay Lee, a one-time employee of the network who had turned his energy to a manifesto his website, savetheplanetprotest.com. The site, labeled simply as “My Demands,” fi nds Lee demanding Discovery and its affi liates (which include TLC) “have daily television programs at prime time slots ... where solutions to save the planet would be done in the same way as the Industrial Revolution was done, by people building on each other’s inventive ideas.”

The site goes on to chastise Discovery Health and TLC for “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions,” and demands that, “Civilization must be exposed for the fi lth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed.” Ultimately, Lee suggests, “the planet does not need humans.”

These are strong words, and were unfortunately followed by even stronger actions. Like all these seemingly isolated incidents (the attack at the Holocaust museum and the Virginia Tech shooting incidents come immediately to mind), the Internet became an unheard microphone for fanatical viewpoints that developed into attempts at violence.

While The Hollywood Reporter noted none of the employees were injured, Lee’s actions shouldn’t just be brushed aside as irrational and isolated. And no, this doesn’t simply have to do with how the Internet gives every disturbed citizen a soapbox.

This has to do, strangely enough, with how people watch television. As bizarre as Lee’s manifesto is, he does make a point: how can we, as spectators, possibly hope to understand intense political, social and environmental changes in our world at the same time we’re asked to watch “19 Kids and Counting”?

Yes, Discovery and its affi liates are only a slim percentage of the programming on television, and it’s just as easy for someone to watch “Say Yes to the Dress” as it is to watch any number of MSNBC’s or Fox News’ content.

But what is the point of this niche programming? What does it give to the spectator? Can Discovery point to “Kate Plus 8” as valuable, especially after the exploitative way it covered that family’s breakdown?

While Lee pointed to the ideology of Discovery as detrimental to the environment, devoting itself to glorifying the eccentricities of humanity instead of the necessity of salvaging the planet, he was only a few pieces of logic away from understanding the bigger

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feeling for the audience to experience. It is clear that Corbijn is a European

director, and most likely “The American” will be better received overseas. Aside from American star Clooney being cast in the lead, the fi lm has a very European feel and can draw many comparisons to the excellent “In Bruges.” It is defi nitely not on par with director Martin McDonagh’s masterpiece, but still is respectable in some areas.

If the film had a tighter script, and

Corbijn focused less on Clooney ’s emotional seclusion and more on an arresting plot, the fi lm could have possibly been mentioned with the best of the year. Unfortunately, Corbijn decided not to do any of that and instead the audience is left with a film that has incredible potential and shows flashes of brilliance, yet does not live up to the grand expectations that it often hints at.

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problem.I n ou r t e le v i s io n wor ld o f ove r -

stimulation, of a desire to fi ll every possible bit of specialty programming, we begin to accept shows about the morbidly obese, the vertically challenged and teenagers with babies as quality, as something to make time for, even if we can reconcile it as a guilty pleasure.

In the Hollywood Reporter’s coverage of the event, they quoted a Discovery representative who said the network wants to make “great TV again.” Yet, the network wil l probably not cancel “19 K ids and Counting” or give less of a spotlight to people with peculiar lifestyles, especially with network president and CEO Mark Hollinger calling TLC “one of the strongest television networks in the United States.”

Make no mistake, what happened last Wednesday in the Discovery Building was

horrifi c. It was irrational and spurred by a man who lacked the ability to peacefully exist with his political opinion.

But that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t make us think about what kind of spectators we are, about where we’re getting our entertainment and what kind of ideology it’s asking us to swallow. Every program and every viewer has a separate ideology, and it’s up to us — the viewers, the demographics — to be critical media consumers.

O ut of t h i s t r aged y shou ld come discussion, about what telev ision can and should be, and how executives and spectators alike can enact change through the medium, even as we secretly swallow “Kate Plus 8” with a bowl of ice cream. That’s Entertainment.

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Thekla Reuten (left) and George Clooney star in “The American,” the new thriller from director Anton Corbijn, which grossed $16.4 million over Labor Day weekend.

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LEO Take romance home with you if possible. Defi nitely don’t leave it on the desk at work. Pick up fl owers on the way home. Good news comes from far away.

V I R G O Y o u r partner surprises you by throwing more money in t he pot . Then you both need to spend time balancing the checkbook. Spend on basics.

LIBR A Life f lows smoothly where family and household are concerned. You also get lots of work done — if you maintain emotional perspective.

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AQUA R IUS A business problem requires active listening and logical skills. Keep conversations private for confi dence and to respect people’s feelings.

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FORT JACKSON – Beatrice Biwott won the race, but her team lost the meet.

Clemson won the 2010 Gamecock Invitational on Friday, but Biwott’s fi eld-leading time was good enough for USC to take third behind Coastal Carolina, fi nishing just fi ve points away from its archrivals and fi rst place.

Biwott, a junior, was in the lead pack from the beginning and took the lead at the 1.5-mile mark. She never relinquished her hold on fi rst from there, fi nishing in 17:58.70, eight seconds ahead of second place.

“I was very happy with her. That was a great race,” USC coach Stan Rosenthal said. “She was patient and didn’t jump into the lead right away.”

Biwott said she was eager for this tournament to come, and has high aspirations for the season.

“It’s a good start for both my team and me,” Biwott said. “It’s my goal this year to be top ten in the SEC.”

Rosenthal said that Biwott ran the type of race he was looking for. If she does so consistently she may crack the

top ten conference runners. “She’s going to have to be patient

because there’s going to be people as good or better than her so she’s going to have to sit there in the pack and wait until the end to give herself a chance, like she did today,” Rosenthal said. “She can give herself a chance for All-Conference and to make it to the NCAAs as an individual.”

Biwott’s performance not included, Rosenthal said he was “very disappointed” in the results of the team.

“We had a couple girls get really excited and they were actually leading Beatrice at the beginning of the race, and they really paid for that in the end,” Rosenthal said. “That was not good. Hopefully they learned a valuable lesson.”

Freshman Liz Locke was the next South Carolina runner to finish after Biwott. Locke came in ninth at 18:28.72, a personal best for her. Despite the record, Rosenthal still believes she could have done better.

“They certainly race like freshmen. They went out way too hard and way too fast,” Rosenthal said. “We can’t afford to be impatient. But for freshmen, it’s all about learning how to control themselves a little bit.”

Junior Nicole Rheinlander fi nished 11th, also setting a personal record.

“Nicole ran a very good race,” Rosenthal said. “She was smart and didn’t go out too hard.”

The USC men’s soccer team shut out Clemson 2-0 on Friday in front of a record crowd at Stone Stadium.

Both the Tigers and Gamecocks came into Friday’s season-opening contest at the “Graveyard” looking not only to gain their fi rst win of the year, but to gain statewide bragging rights. USC accomplished both tasks in front of a venue-record 6,157 fans and a national television audience on the Fox Soccer Channel Collegiate Match of the Week.

“Obviously its a great rivalry, you can look at all the scores, you can look at it a lot of years, and to win four years in a row is a great accomplishment. To shut them out four years in a row is an even more outstanding accomplishment,” USC coach Mark Berson said. “I am very proud of our seniors and the whole team.”

USC (1-0) came out fi ring to open the match, taking seven shots in the first half, compared to just one by Clemson (0-1). The opening 45 minutes were very physical, with both teams tallying nine fouls apiece, a start befi tting the oft-heated Palmetto State rivalry. At the break, the match remained where it began, at nil-nil.

“Coach [Berson] told us at [halftime] to stay up on them and don’t give them any breathing room,” senior Blake Brettschneider said. “That’s exactly what we tried to do the entire second half.”

USC took heed to its coach’s call in the second period of play. Carolina’s offense came to life early in the second half, as Brettschneider streaked down the fi eld after receiving a pinpoint pass from Mark Wiltse to score the first goal of the match a mere 40 seconds into the period, putting the goal in past CU goalkeeper Cody Mizzel. It was the senior’s second career match-winning goal against the Tigers, as

Brettschneider had the match-winner in double-overtime at Clemson in 2007.

The Gamecocks added another score later as senior defenseman Will Traynor scored in the 66th minute off of a Carolina corner kick. USC held its lead from there, as Clemson was unable to muster any kind of offense down the stretch. USC goalkeeper Jimmy Maurer did not face a single shot on goal the entire night.

On the night, USC outshot Clemson 11-5 and came out ahead in fouls 19-14. Clemson had three yellow cards to USC’s two. USC’s four straight wins over CU is the second-longest streak of Carolina dominance in the series. The current senior class completed a four-year sweep of the Tigers.

“There’s not a much better win then beating Clemson in the opening game of the season,” Brettschneider said.

ROCK HILL – The pain of losing to a rival is a tough pill to swallow. Losing to a rival in a shutout that drops one’s record to 0-4 is even worse.

The Gamecocks fought evenly with Clemson all evening long, but the Tigers were able to take the Gamecocks out in three sets, 24-26, 22-25, 19-25 at the Carolina Challenge at Winthrop Coliseum on Friday. Later losses to Winthrop and the College of Charleston on Saturday leave the Gamecocks with a 0-6 start to the year.

USC lost to Clemson for the first time since 2005, and USC coach Ben Somera said that was partly because Carolina couldn’t establish a pace offensively

“Overall, I thought we couldn’t fi nd any rhythm offensively, and that really put us back on our heels,” Somera said. “We had to try and get everything done defensively.”

In a back and forth f irst set, the Gamecocks (0-6) and Tigers (6-0) traded rallies, and the set was tied 10-10 and 11-11, before Clemson stretched it out to a 16-13 lead. Carolina rallied to tie it at 18, and with Taylor Bruns serving, Carolina took a 19-18 lead. The lead was short lived, as Clemson took fi ve of the next six points to take a 23-20 advantage, eventually winning the set 26-24.

“It felt like it just kept us with a level of anxiousness that we never really got over,” Somera said. “We did not rebound well from losing that game. Neither team played very well, and Clemson probably felt pretty good about getting that game. At some point you have to let that go and play better and try and get your side going in the right direction.”

Hannah Lawing had seven digs to lead Carolina in the opening set, increasing her team-leading dig total with 24 on the evening. The 24 represents the

5th-highest total in a three-set match in Carolina history.

Carol ina’s h it t ing aga inst t he Tigers contributed to the loss, as the Gamecocks hit for only a .079 percentage. That was exacerbated in the final set, when the Gamecocks’ percentage was an even .000.

Clemson opened up numerous leads in the second set, with Carolina errors being a main concern. The Gamecocks committed seven errors in the set. Down 23-18, USC was able to close it to 24-22, but Clemson eventually prevailed 25-22.

Clemson came out strong in the third set, taking a 16-9 lead, and was able to hold on to take the match 3-0 by beating Carolina 25-19 in the third.

Somera said that despite some of the impressive personal numbers the Gamecocks put up, the action on the court was not what he would have liked to have seen.

“Statistically I guess there are some positives,” Somera said. “But the way we played and interacted was not positive. And that’s the hard part about this.”

Coming off a week-long hiatus, the South Carolina women’s soccer team once again showed its ability to play well at the Graveyard.

Playing the third of a six-match home stand in front of a crowd of 1,656 at Stone Stadium, the No. 19 Gamecocks managed to come away with a point in a physical 1-1 draw with Arizona State.

“I think we all felt a little bit disappointed,” USC coach Shelley Smith said . “I thought we had the run of play towards the end, but we just didn’t fi nd the goal we needed. We’re glad about the way we matched them and were able to put ourselves in position to where we looked like we were going to win. I was proud of the effort.”

The beginning of the match was a battle of the defenses, with no shots for either team until junior midfi elder Kira Campbell sent one wide left in the 17th minute.

Three minutes later, however, junior forward Maria Petroni put the Gamecocks (3-1-1) on the board with her fi rst goal of the

season. Fielding a cross from sophomore midfi elder Christine Watts, Petroni sent a header into the right corner of the net. Both Watts and junior forward Kayla Grimsley were credited with an assist.

“Christine had a great ball in and I ended up getting across the last defender and getting a head on it,” Petroni said. “With my height, I try to work on my heading a lot so it was good to fi nally get one in.” The Sun Devils (3-0-1) didn’t go away, however. Off a corner kick in the 37th minute, sophomore Taylor McCarter fi red a shot from 20 yards out past the gloves of senior goalkeeper Mollie Patton , tying the match.

The offensive bombardment continued in the second half, with Arizona State notching eight shots in the fi rst 15 minutes. Patton held strong, however, making five saves during that span and keeping USC’s hopes alive.

“I said to Mollie afterwards that she put us in a position to try to win the game. She really had some key saves, and that’s what you’re asking of every goalkeeper,” Smith said. “Those were good forwards, strong shooters. If she doesn’t come up with those saves, it would’ve been a loss.”

Rallying behind Patton’s performance, the Gamecocks managed to regain the

momentum, firing seven shots over the next 30 minutes. Despite some close calls, including a pair of deflected shots by sophomore forward Rae Wilson and junior midfi elder Lolly Holland , the score remained tied after 90 minutes, sending the match into extra time.

Carolina again came close in the two 10-minute overtime periods, with its closest scoring chance coming on a header by junior defender Ellen Fahey that missed high, but neither team managed to break the 1-1 tie.

Fahey, who was mak ing her f i r st appearance since injuring her knee against Northeastern, played all 110 minutes of the

match. “You’re talking about a player that’s

started for us for two years and played every minute since she was a freshman,” Smith said. “That kind of leadership that she brings to the fi eld, her ability to win balls in the air, she’s vocal, she steps well, she organizes. Those are key things that we ask of our center backs and she’s someone that has been through that already.”

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