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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
VOL. 110, NO. 61 ● SINCE 1908
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
University receives national award for diversity
USC, Louisiana State only
SEC schools recognized
Caroline Baity
[email protected]
South Carolina may still f ly the
C on feder at e f l ag i n f ront of it s
Statehouse, but its flagship university
has been named one of the top schools
in the nation for fostering diversity and
tolerance on campus.
INSIGHT into Diversity magazine
gave USC one of its 47 annual Higher
Educat ion Excellence in Diversit y
( H E E D) a w a r d s t h at r e c o g n i z e
exemplary initiatives for all aspects of
diversity. It’s well-earned, according
to Bobby Gist, executive assistant to
President Pastides for the Office for
Equal Opportunity Programs.
“It is quite an honor to get this award,”
Gist said. “We work very hard and do
a lot of training of staff and students to
make sure everyone feels included and
equal. Not only does this award help
us gain national recognition, but it also
vindicates what we already know, which
is that we are one of the most tolerant
and supportive schools in the country.”
Alongside LSU, USC is one of the two
recipients in the SEC and the only one
in South Carolina. Though the South
is infamous for racism and intolerance,
USC has been a leader in changing that
reputation, according to assistant director
of Equal Opportunity Programs Carl
Wells. He doesn’t directly contribute
deep-set racism to the lack of other
schools in the SEC being recognized. He
believes that schools may be having issues
— such as Ole Miss, whose students
rioted after the re-election of President
Barack Obama — but are addressing
them.
“I think that you have some good
schools in the SEC and they’re working
towards fixing some of their diversity
issues,” Wells said. “USC has long been
a very accepting institution. We didn’t
have the problems when colleges were
integrated in the South like they did at
Alabama and Georgia and Mississippi.”
Today, approximately 17 percent of
students within the USC system are
A frican-A merican, 3.5 percent are
Hispanic and 2.4 percent are Asian or
Pacific Islander, making USC the most
diverse school in the state and one of
the most diverse in the Southeast. The
university also has a diverse group of
faculty and staff members, with a higher
percentage of female and black faculty
members than most schools in the
Southeast . The University of Georgia
is the closest rival in regard to diverse
faculty members, but Gist said UGA
has been “under the knife” to grow its
numbers of minority professors.
While race and gender may be the
“8,000-pound elephant in the room,”
they are not the only focus of Equal
Opportunity Programs or the diversity
task force.
USC was the first in the state to create
a sexual orientation policy preventing the
discrimination of students and faculty
based on sexual preferences. Clemson
and College of Charleston soon followed
suit by creating their own policies .
South Carolina is also the only school
in the SEC to have a full-time LBGT
coordinator on staff to support lesbian,
bisexual, gay and transgender students.
Z ac Ba ker, pre sident of USC ’s
Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian Student Alliance,
said the university’s creation of the fulltime coordinator position showed its
commitment to its minorities.
“ We ’ r e s o r t o f t h e s t u d e n t
representatives, the social arm — but
it’s not just a student organization,” the
fourth-year visual communications said.
“This is a place the university can give
DIVERSITY ● 2
Courtesy of Community Service Programs
Community Service Programs will bring more than 500
stockings to the Salvation Army this holiday season.
Students stuff stockings for
underprivileged children
Community Service Programs brings
holiday cheer to families, soldiers
Paula Novacki
[email protected]
USC Army ROTC expanding its ranks
With 200-percent enrollment increase,
program is among nation’s fastest growing
Sarah Ellis
[email protected]
USC’s Army ROTC program has grown more than
threefold in enrollment in recent years and now ranks
as the third-fastest growing program in the nation.
Enrollment across all USC-affiliated campuses has
risen from 73 student cadets in the 2005-06 school year
to 231 in the current year, including 120 cadets at USC,
according to battalion commander and military science
department chair Lt. Col. John D. Wright.
Benedict College, Morris College, Francis Marion
University and Coastal Carolina University are all
affiliate programs of USC Army ROTC.
Wright attributes the more than 200 percent increase
in overall program enrollment in the past seven years
to a strategy of “quality recruiting quality,” with leaders
within the program recruiting and training future
leaders.
“We have great cadets that are proven leaders on
campus and in the community,” Wright said. And when
recruits see that leadership, he said, they “are drawn to
be part of a high-functioning organization that is filled
with individuals that want to serve a higher calling.”
That draw is key to incoming cadets, who, as
graduating seniors who complete the program, are
commissioned as Army 2nd lieutenants. The program
ranks eighth nationally in increase of commissioning
officers in the past five years, Wright said.
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The USC Army ROTC program ranks eighth in the nation in
increase of commissioning officers in the past five years.
More than 500 stockings filled with school
supplies, games and various toys have been collected
for Carolina Cares’ annual Stocking Stuffers drive,
and there is still a chance to contribute before the
holiday season.
Carolina Cares is a subdivision of Carolina
Service Council and has been around for almost 50
years, according to Gina Tierney, director of the
organization and second-year nursing student.
The Stocking Stuffers drive, pairing up with
Columbia’s chapter of the Salvation Army, will
benefit the low-income children of the Midlands.
“You just take a stocking, fi ll it up with five or
six gifts for a kid and return it back to us,” Tierney
said.
The drive will conclude Friday, Nov. 30 , and
after the stockings are collected, they will be
distributed on the South Carolina Fairgrounds
about a week before Christmas.
“Children and their families will have a chance
to come pick up some gifts,” Tierney said. “Every
year we try to increase our numbers.”
For 2011, Carolina Cares was able to collect
about 600 stockings for the Salvation Army, and
are hoping to collect more for this holiday season.
Stockings can be picked up in the Campus Life
Center located in the Russell House, Suite 227. The
age categories range from infancy to 12 years old.
“You don’t even need to go out and buy gifts for
the children, said Sadie Molinet, graduate assistant
of the USC Community Service Programs. “We
will even accept a cash donation.”
Carolina Cares also hosted a Thanksgiving
dinner for underprivileged families at the Columbia
Nurturing Center and collecting cards through
their annual Holiday Mail for Heroes drive.
“I assigned different campus organizations to
different families to cook food,” Tierney said. “We
served about 30 people on Thanksgiving.”
Over 1,600 letters have been collected for
Holiday Mail for Heroes so far, according to
Tierney. Campus organizations are welcome to
pick up a pack of up to 200 cards for members to
fill out and then return to Community Service
Programs. The letters will be sent to the American
STOCKINGS ● 2
Sweet cupcakes
Climate concerns
Men’s basketball
The Florence-based
bakery and coffee
shop opens its second location in Village
at Sandhill.
Viewpoints Editor
Alice Chang says the
U.S. needs to lead in
environmental issues
by joining the Kyoto
Protocol.
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The Gamecocks won
the Hoops for Hope
Classic in Mexico
over the Thanksgiving
break.
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DIVERSITY ● Continued from 1
resources for in-the-closet freshmen.”
He said a faculty member told him
at BGLSA’s National Coming Out Day
celebration on Greene Street last month
that the event had drawn ridicule on
campus as recently as 10 years ago.
“This year, not only did we feel safe,
but people were walking by and giving
a thumbs up, saying things like, ‘My
uncle’s gay,’” Baker said.
USC has been at the forefront of
these social issues, Baker said, especially
in the South. But he said that progress
needs to be furthered to make sure the
university is safe and inclusive to all
students.
“We’ve had decent strides,” he said.
“BGLSA participated in homecoming
for the first time this year. But we need
to make sure everyone is represented
and that everyone feels safe at the
university. If you don’t feel safe in
your dorm or don’t feel safe at your
university, what are we doing?”
One improvement BGLSA will
focus on next semester is transgender
awareness. The group has started
talking to Student Government with
hopes of making gender nonspecific
bathrooms and housing available to
students in the future.
“I think USC has done a good job of
making us feel safe, but definitely has a
ways to go,” Baker said.
Acceptance and tolerance have
become products of programs such
as Safe Ally, University 101 and the
general college experience, Wells said.
He attributes USC’s success to an
early start in respecting others and
hopes that the university can continue
to lead the state toward equality and
understanding.
“It’s a funny thing that happens on
college campuses,” Wells said. “By
virtue of things like the Carolina
Creed and students being encouraged
to become critical thinkers, there tends
to be more openness to diversity. If we
continue to become a growing influence
in Sout h Carolina, we can shape
Columbia and the state. The school
doesn’t necessarily mirror the state but
the state does mirror the school.”
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“It’s a lot easier to fill out a card
than a stocking, which is why we are
expecting a much higher turnout for
this drive,” Tierney said.
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college career. In addition
to their regular academic
loads, cadets must take an
additional military science
c l a s s e a c h s e m e s t e r,
participate in a leadership
lab once a week , conduct
at least one weekend-long
field training exercise per
semester and conduct
organized physical
training three days a week
from 6 to 7 a.m.
B a l a n c i n g
responsibi l it ies a nd
m a n ag i ng t hei r t i me
and priorities can be a
challenge for some cadets,
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“W hether it’s signing letters for
heroes or adopting a family, every little
bit helps,” Tierney said.
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ease their transition into
eventual leadership roles,
Hinton said.
“You definitely get a lot
of discipline and a sense of
responsibility. Everything
you do in the military is
based around discipline,”
Hinton said.
Wright said that in his
experience, it is the busiest
st udents who perform
best. He said the reward
of the discipline of the
A rmy ROTC program
has benefits not only at
the university, but during
their service later on.
“The biggest
compliment that we can
receive here is when one
of ou r for mer c adet s
returns and tells us that
the training that they
received here at USC
placed t hem ahead of
their peers in the Army,”
Wright said. “I’m proud
to say that we hear that
quite often.”
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‘Dream Act’
passing represents
important step
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USC’s diversity award
step in right direction
South Carolina isn’t quite known for
diversity. It’s part of the Deep South, a
region that, historically, has struggled with
progress, sometimes even fighting tooth
and nail against it.
But now, despite that history, we have
somet h i ng to
USC
“But we haven’t celebrate.
i s o n e o f 47
reached the
col leges a nd
u n iversit ies
finish line ...
i n
t h e
Segregation
n at io n b e i n g
honored for a
and bigotry are
com m it ment
not just a relic
to diversity and
of our past.
inclusivity.
It’s for good
Keeping that in
reason, too. We
mind is crucial to were the second
changing it.”
u n i ver s it y i n
South Carolina
to desegregate . USC has a variet y of
clubs focused on many different groups
of people, and not just on the basis of
race — we have the Best Buddies and
BGLSA organizat ions which support
other minorities like disabled and gay
students . At the university level, USC
has i mplemented pol ic ies t hat have
helped boost minority enrollment and
recruitment, celebrated the achievements
of various heritages and committed itself to
making the university a more tolerant and
welcoming place for all.
But we haven’t reached t he f i n ish
line. One need look no further than our
staunchly segregated Greek system, and
even more, the Confederate f lag still
waving on the Statehouse grounds, to see
we have a long way to go. Segregation
and bigotry are not just a relic of our
past. Keeping that in mind is crucial to
changing it.
We’re excited about the award. It’s a
sign that our university, and we hope by
extension, our state itself, is slowly but
surely becoming a place in which all are
welcome.
World needs leader for environment
Nation should advocate
against climate change
Forget the fiscal cliff for a moment,
because it’s time to focus on another
cliff that’s even more dangerous and
less easily fi xed: the climate change
cliff.
Start ing Monday, around 200
countries will be meeting for the
2012 United Nations
Climate Talk s . The
talk s t his year are
urgent, as the first term
of the Kyoto Protocol
is set to expire.
Established by the
member cou nt r ies
Alice
of the United
Chang
Nat ion Fr a me work
Third-year
Convention on Climate
international
business student
Change (U NFCCC)
in 1997 and put into
action in 2005, the protocol commits
countries who have signed the treaty
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by 5 percent of what they emitted
in 1990 by the end of year 2012. For
the most part, the Kyoto Protocol
has achieved its goal and is one of
the only treaties that has actually
succeeded. However, unless country
officials agree to renew it for a second
term, greenhouse gas emissions will
be uncurbed for the next decade.
The U.S. has said it will not be a
part of the Kyoto Protocol due to the
fact that the treaty holds developing
cou nt r ie s to sl ight ly d if ferent
standards, standards that should
change along with their economic
development. As a huge emitter of
carbon gas, the now-industrializing
China, the U.S. argues, should be
held to more stringent standards
than it has been in the past, and
until it is, the U.S. will have no part
in the treaty. W hile new climate
treaties are being drafted to address
the changing situations of countries
like China that have industrialized
significantly in the past few years,
these treaties are not forecasted to
be completed until 2015, and will not
take effect until five years after that.
W hile it’s understandable that
the U.S. is upset about a treaty that
doesn’t hold China accountable for
pollution in the same way, it needs
to keep in mind that rejecting the
only treaty that has worked to curb
emissions just because it has different
standards for Ch ina doesn’t do
anything to help the environment,
which should be our priority in such
matters. It’s true that China has
changed a lot since 1997, but the
U.S. still far outstrips China in terms
of development. As a global leader,
it’s our job to set an example and
take responsibility for controlling
ou r g reen house gas em issions,
regardless of what other countries
do. Until the new and improved
treaty is implemented in 2020, the
U.S. should be doing everything
we can for the time being. And if
that means submitting ourselves
to slightly stricter regulations than
China for another five years for the
sake of improving the environment,
so be it.
If we truly are the powerful and
capable world leaders like we think
we are, then we need to recognize
that we also have more responsibility.
Rather than having another sibling
spat with China, we should instead
rise to the challenge and do our part
in protecting the environment.
In today’s modern economy,
education makes a difference. It
could help decide whether or not
you’ll have a child out of wedlock
or get married, and it can be
t he d if ference i n hu nd red s
of thousands
of dollars i n a
person’s sa la r y,
according to
an analysis by
C h i l d Tr e n d s ,
a Wa s h i n g t o n
research g roup.
Aaron
I t ’s f o r t h e s e
McDuffie
reasons,and more,
First-year
that I cried tears
political science
of joy when I
student
found out that my
home state of Maryland was the
fi rst in the nation to ratify part
of what has been collectively
known as the “Dream Acts.”
The Dream Acts are basically
pieces of legislation that intend
to help young undocumented
i m m ig r a nt s re c ei ve h igher
education . Maryland’s version
of t he Drea m Act — wh ich
was approved by voters t his
past election — grants in-state
tuition rates to undocumented
immigrants, provided they’ve
met certain conditions such as
having attended public school
f or at le a s t t h r e e y e a r s or
registered for the draft.
W hile t his may seem
alarming to some, it shouldn’t
be. This act was designed to
help children who were brought
to the United States by their
parents at a young age. They
a r e n’t c r i m i n a l s , a nd t he y
shouldn’t be liable for t heir
parents’ actions. By providing
this tuition benefit, Maryland
has established itself as a state
that respects all of it’s residents
rights, even those who weren’t
lucky enough to be born here..
Every child deserves to have a
quality education, especially a
higher education if they wish .
Hopef u l ly ot her st ates w i l l
follow suit.
Interest groups shouldn’t determine drinking age
If federal government removed pressure,
states could make needed adjustment
In the debate over the legal drinking age in our
countr y, people either feel that the age should
remain 21 years old or be lowered back to 18 — as
it had been until the 1980s. While my opinion is
somewhat biased, since I am a 20-year-old college
student, many people who are far less affected than
myself by this matter agree that the drinking age
should be lowered.
It is not my goal to persuade you in eit her
direction, but to inform you of the limitations
surrounding the decision-making process. The
decision to lower the drinking age is not determined
by t he federal gover n ment, but by t he state .
However, the federal government continues to
pressure states into maintaining the current status of
the law by withholding federal funds. For example,
with the help of the nonprofit organization MADD,
or Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the law that
established the drinking age as 21 specifies that
any state who motions to lower the drinking age
will lose 10 percent of their highway funding. This
basically translates to the government withholding
millions of dollars on the whim of an interest group.
Beyond the fact that young adults
are being denied this right when being
expected to bear many of the other
responsibilities of adulthood, the fact
that this one organization has such a
profound impact on our nation sidesteps
the balances of power we have in place.
Kathryn
By supporting this organization, the
Duggan
federal government ignores the rights
Third-year
of states. States should be able to pass a
journalism
law lowering the drinking age without
student
fear that they’ll suffer such extreme
ramifications.
In addition, while M A DD views the current
drinking age as effective in decreasing alcoholrelated fatalities, there’s actually no true way to
prove a direct correlation between the two. Since
the 1980s, we’ve seen a rapid revolution in the car
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Combined, these new developments of technology
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Not allowing young adults to consume alcohol
in an effort to reduce drunk driving has yielded
no proven results and is discriminatory as well. In
the grand scheme of things, our age group is only
a small portion of the people committing such
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Surprisingly, driving while under the influence
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“Yours is the first face that I saw,
I think I was blind before I met you.”
— Bright Eyes
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
‘Keep calm and have a cupcake’
Florence-based bakery brings
homemade treats to second
location in Village at Sandhill
Chloe Gould
[email protected]
L
ight shines through the sleek glass windows
— illuminating a “Keep Calm and Have A
Cupcake” stencil — onto unfinished wooden
tables and speckled marble countertops.
Mason jar chandeliers twinkle above displays of red
velvet cupcakes and rows of macaroons, which all sit
ready-to-order in grand cupboards along the back wall.
Owner Kyja Lee covers a bright Tiffany turquoise
top with a brown embroidered apron, as she sprays
down the cupcakery’s tables and takes phone orders
from customers, or, as she calls them, “friends.”
Sweet, a family-owned cupcake shop from Florence,
opened its second location in Columbia’s Village at
Sandhill Nov. 16. Lee, her daughter Kelsey Wood, and
Kelsey’s husband Greg opened the store’s first stop a
year ago in Florence and after its success, expanded to
Columbia.
The cupcake cafe, nestled at the corner of the
Towncentre’s roundabout, is cozy and the staff is sweet,
just as the name promises. Customers sit along the
long marble counters on high-top chairs overlooking
the espresso machine and rows of
baked cakes — it’s like sitting
at your kitchen counter,
watching Mom
whip up a cup of
hot chocolate or
serve a single
afternoon
treat.
“I wanted
it to feel
very homey
— it’s ver y
comfortable,
w i t h
a
European
flair,” Lee said.
“ I t ’s a w h o l e
experience when you
come in.”
Plush arm chairs sit side by
side with a small table lamp under Sweet’s logo, a
circle of multi-colored, vintage hand mixers. The
old-fashioned beaters pay homage to Lee’s grandma,
Nonie, who taught her how to bake.
Christmas music circles through the small, but
open, space and a human-size nutcracker, topped with
a bright blue bow, is the fi rst sign of holiday decor.
There’s more to come, Lee assured.
“I tell everyone to treat the customers like they’re
walking into your living room,” Lee said.
Sweet’s staple cupcakes aree simple: vanilla
(“The White House”), chocolate
late (“Night
and Day”), combinations of the two
and “Paint the Town Red Velvet
elvet.”
There’s then a bake schedulee of
specialties like Wake Me Up
Before you G o - G o , on lyy
a v a i l ab le Mo nd a y s . It ’s
delicious — brown sugar
cake and caramel filling
topped with fresh whipped
cream and caramel
d r i z z l e . I t w a s L e e ’s
recommendation, and it
was, simply, sweet.
All of the cupcakes are
baked fresh, in-house each
day and have found the perfect
f lavor between professional
al
and homemade comfort. Lee
ee
Re-sweet (v.):
to show favor
or thanks in
the form of
cupcakes.
Chl
oe G
loved to bake, and before
launching Sweet, started
bak ing for-order on
a smaller scale. But
when she decided to
open her own store,
t he former interior
designer hired Johnson
& Wales pastr y chef
B r a n d o n Ta y l o r t o
take her talent s to t he
commercial level.
“I brought him in so I wouldn’t
have to use my little measuring cups — I could move it
up to the gallon-size,” Lee said.
Each cupcake flavor is a combined effort between
Lee, Taylor and Kelsey. A lot of times, Kelsey will have
an idea and Taylor will bring it to life, Lee said. The
mother of the Sweet family gushed about a cranberry
mousse cupcake, the most recent creation from the
chefs at the Florence location — just for the holidays.
The ingredients create a certain flair, built with
European butter, Belgian chocolate, Madagascar
bourbon vanilla and homemade sweet sauces. The
caramel is made by the four Columbia Sweet chefs,
and if a cupcake has raspberry filling (like the PB&J),
the raspberries have been cooked down that day. It’s an
expensive mix, but each cupcake is just $3, or $33 for
a dozen.
It’s not just about the cupcakes either. There’s coffee,
too. A full coffee bar sits at the front of the shop,
steaming cups of spiced chai and, a Sweet favorite,
the frozen hot chocolate. The Columbia store’s coffee
setup is much larger than Florence’s, and to fi ll the
menu with the best drinks, Lee brought in the owner
of Lula’s Coffee Co. in Florence to train the Sweet
staff.
And, brace yourself for this last bit. Sweet serves
up buckshots for, you guessed it, a dollar. What is a
buckshot, you ask? A single shot of cupcake icing.
The Sweet team has also dreamt up a new style
of marketing: sweeting. To re-sweet, by the store’s
definition, is “to show favor or thanks in the form
of cupcakes.” Lee will box up a half-dozen of the
fresh-baked cakes — in the signature brown box and
turquoise bow — and deliver them to a local business
or elementary school.
The cycle continues from there, like paying it
forward. She has regulars who order boxes to be resweeted and delivered to a friend or family member.
“I want that brown box to be known like the Tiffany
blue box,” Lee said.
The cupcakery’s
cupcakery other big pull
list of NODs, or
is the daily lis
names of the day. Each
day, the staff will pick
three first names of
Facebook fans and
Fac
anyone who has
an
that name gets
th
a free cupcake.
“
I
n
Florence one
day, we had
a line to the
door. We said,
‘If your name
is Sherry, raise
y o u r h a n d .’
Twelve Sherrys
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SWEET ● 6
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raised their hands!” Lee said.
The hospitality, and the cupcake sweetness,
seeps through every inch of the bakery. The staff
is doting, and every order turns into a greater
conversation on family and future careers. On a
Monday afternoon, a woman came into Sweet on
her husband’s recommendation. He had been there
earlier that afternoon and she just had to pick up a
Snickers cupcake.
“Cupcakes bring people together. It’s not just
about the cupcakes, it’s about the relationships,”
Lee said.
The year-to-present journey of Sweet is a swift
one, with the idea and intricacies of the brand falling
perfectly into place as a brown-and-turquoisepackaged success. The Columbia locale hasn’t been
open two weeks, but it already has regulars, Lee
said. And although the imported ingredients and
brown sugar cake batters sound scrumptious on
paper, Lee said to understand Sweet, you have to
sample:
“Tasting is believing.”
To place custom cupcake, cake, macaroon or cheesecake
orders, visit sweetacupcakecompany.com or call (803)
728-0657. Sweet is at 480-6 Promenade Place in
Village at Sandhill.
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Coldplay records live in Paris
London rockers release
album from 15-song
set at Stade De France
Chloe Gould
[email protected]
The audience wildly
roars as the drawn-out
hum of strings leads into
the piano. A slow clap
grows faster and faster.
T hen , t here’s C h r i s.
Martin, that is.
His vocals are deep and
haunting, as the crowd’s
whistles break through
their own soft singing.
There’s a pause, a quick
1-2-3 from Martin, and
t hen t he ba nd ju mp s
in with the beginning
o f “ Ye l l o w,” o n e o f
Coldplay’s most-defi ning
anthems.
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Chris Martin (right), the Coldplay front man, infuses piano into the band’s powerful ballads.
for you, live.
Coldplay has grown
to an English indie rock
p owerhou s e , s h i n i n g
bright under big stage
lights for 16 years . The
band’s music is emotional
and charged, and hangs
on lyrics that draw out
front man Martin’s vocals
in the best ways. A nd
now, with the act’s second
live album, “Coldplay
— Live 2012,” you can
take a seat at the Stade
De France Sept. 2, 2012
for the London rockers’
charmed, bad-boy set.
T he Pa r i sia n show
turned full-length album
captures the band a year
into a tour for their fifth
album, “Mylo Xyloto.” It
was released in October
2011, and the live album’s
set breathes new life into
the year-old singles and
thrills the show-goers,
and t hose listen ing
at ho me , w it h a f e w
well-placed classics like
“Yellow,” “Clocks” and
“Fix You.”
L i v e v o c a l s a r e n’t
easy — they’re the true
measure of any artist.
And, an artist that can
sing live ca n’t always
translate that to a sold-out
crowd. Martin can.
His personality pushes
t h rough song brea k s,
with the posh rock star
t h row i ng one-l i ners
like, “It’s going to be a
f**king good one, boys,”
and “Make some f**king
Parisian noise!” There’s
a lot of that starred word
through the album’s 15
tracks.
“Princess of China,”
off 2011’s “Mylo Xyloto,”
is recorded in its original
version with R ihanna.
The pop princess has
only per for med t he
song live with Coldplay
three times, once at the
Paralympic Games, once
at t he 2012 Grammys
and once at t he Paris
show. Martin throws in a,
“Merci beaucoup, Ri Ri.”
It’s cute.
C o l d p l a y ’s b a n n e r
ballad, “Fix You,” from
20 05’s “ X&Y,” is t he
group’s heart-wrecking
slow jam. On t he live
a l b u m , it s t a r t s o u t
disappointing. Martin
stretches to hit his falsetto
and lacks the emotion the
song is known for. But,
he recovers. As the song
comes to a close, t he
audience sings through
the chorus, and Martin
overlays the final, “And I
will try to fix you.” There
are chills.
T h e a l b u m’s f i n a l
performance is “Every
Teardrop is a Waterfall,”
from the fifth album. It
makes the perfect package
— a finishing number that
rolls together the electric
g u it a r a nd echoi ng
choruses Coldplay has
trademarked.
Martin exits the stage,
and the album, with one
short note: “Thank you
for ever y t hing you’ve
given us. Goodbye.”
It’s 15 tracks, all live, of
Coldplay’s history. And,
it’s just $6.99 on iTunes.
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THE SCENE
HOROSCOPES
Aries
D o n’t s t o p y e t ...
you’re so close! Keep
playing the game, and
beat the odds. Watch
your language, but say
exactly what you think.
Gather strength from
love.
Taurus
Love grows stronger in
spite of restrictions. Be
thoughtf ul of others.
A n unstable financial
situation could lead to
a financial revelation.
Make sure you get your
two-cents’ worth.
Gemini
Consider anot her
location. Stand back to
let your mate express
her/himself. Finances
are tight. And two plus
two is still four. Don’t
despair, there’s always
tomorrow.
Cancer
Your friends are there
to help you dig for the
treasure. Don’t fight,
or sweat, over the small
stuff. Listen to an older
person. Fol low you r
schedule.
Leo
The road to g reat
communication is paved
with good intentions.
Play by the rules and
prosper, but don’t spend
what you haven’t got.
Rely on your community
for what you need.
Virgo
You’re tou gher t h a n
you look. Be willing to
play with others. The
more you le a r n , t he
better you’ll understand
the strateg y. Meditate
on it . M a ke a not her
improvement at home.
Libra
Yo u r d i s c ip l i ne a nd
sense of balance come
in handy now and are
a d m i r e d . D o n’t s e l l
you rself shor t . Keep
checking the quality. A
female joins you.
Scorpio
You’re breaking the glass
ceiling, or at least pushing
it open. Concentrate on
the moment at hand, even
if t he prog ress seems
slow. The depth of love
given to you is revealed.
Team members come to
agreement.
@
7
Sagittarius
Listen first, carefully,
before jumping to
conclusions, and avoid
u n ne c e s s a r y u p s e t s .
Fol low t he schedu le,
prioritizing the projects
t hat you love. Don’t
forget to chop wood and
carry water.
Capricorn
Love is still in the air.
Ta ke a deep bre at h ,
and let it all soak in.
Ack nowledge another
person’s wisdom. Don’t
let t he circumstances
distract you from your
plan or your promises.
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Aquarius
For nearly four weeks,
your ideas move forward
r a p i d l y. A n o t h e r
prov ides t he r ight
contacts. Be patient and
understanding toward
their ideas, it’s not worth
the fight.
Pisces
Ig nore r u mors. Love
empowers you and opens
up new opport unit ies
a mo n g t he r e i g n i n g
confusion. Keep yourself
to high standards. Voice
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ACROSS
1 Award sewn on a
sash
6 Froth in a mug
10 Frat party empties
14 Assumed name
15 Italian wine site
16 Hacker’s cry of
success
17 Comfortable
indoor setting
20 Adjust for pitch
21 Globetrotting
reporter Nellie
22 Struggle
23 Links “Heads
up!”
25 Out of __:
discordant
26 “Wait, I’m not
done ...”
33 Prepare for winter
takeoff
34 Divisions of
history
35 Actress Vardalos
36 Serenade
accompaniment
37 “Need __?”: “Hop
in!”
39 Pablo Neruda
works
40 Drive up the wall,
so to speak
41 Rental car option
42 Flavor enhancer
43 Corporate
oversight group
47 Sotto __: softly
48 “Ah! Say no
more”
49 Spiritualist
Deepak
52 Agt.’s cut
53 Forest females
57 Guesthouse
where one would
enjoy the starts of
the three longest
answers
60 Persian Gulf
prince
61 “House” actor
Epps
62 Must, informally
63 Ice Follies venue
64 Virtual people, in
a popular game
series
65 William Jennings
__, three-time
presidential
candidate
DOWN
1 10-year-old
Simpson
2 2000s Giants
manager Felipe
3 Pop diva Celine
4 Competitive
demeanor
5 Approx. figure
6 “Get thee to a
nunnery” speaker
7 Catch a glimpse
of
8 Broke bread
9 Epithet never
actually used by
Cagney
10 Lowbrow trinkets
11 Aussie hatchlings
12 Young lady
13 Dagger of yore
18 Iberian river
19 Family tree
members
24 __-eyed jack
25 Medieval tenant
farmer
26 Wing it,
speechwise
27 Surgical opening?
28 “Iron Mike” of
football
29 Crook’s caper
30 Non-studio flick
31 Family tree
member
32 Neon and xenon,
Solutions from 11/26/12
for two
37 Guacamole
makings
38 Biographical span
39 Selected
41 Sew sequins on,
say
42 Chicago-to-Miami
dir.
44 KOA facility
45 Kitchen cutters
46 Netmen’s org.
49 Trucker’s “good
buddy”
50 Half: Pref.
51 Norse god of
war
52 Bristol baby
buggy
54 Like some highfiber
cereal
55 Señora’s “this”
56 Jazzman Getz
58 ASCAP
counterpart
59 Cold War spy
org.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
8
USC has winning weekend on hardwood
Olivia Barthel / THE DAILY GAMECOCK
File Photo
Lakeem Jackson (30) had 10 points and 15 rebounds against Arkansas-Little Rock.
Sophomore Aleighsa Welch was named the Most Outstanding Player of the Reef Division.
Men’s basketball wins Hoops
for Hope Classic in Mexico
Gamecocks claim Reef Division
at Virgin Islands Paradise Jam
LaShay Page named
tournament’s Most
Outstanding Player
Kyle Heck
[email protected]
Th rough t he f irst si x
games of the season, a trend
h a s de velop e d f or S out h
Carolina.
The G amecock s have
made a habit of playing close
g a me s , a l r e ad y g oi n g t o
overtime twice this season
and winning both.
Over Thanksgiving break,
S out h C a r ol i n a wo n t he
Ho op s f or Hop e C l a s s ic
C h a mpion sh ip i n P uer to
Vallarta, Mexico in similar
fashion.
It took overt ime for t he
Gamecocks to pull off a 7467 win over Missouri State
Saturday, and USC held off
Arkansas-Little Rock, 74-62,
Sunday night to take the title
and improve to 5-1 on the
season.
In the championship game,
USC held a com ma nd i ng
39-22 lead over UA LR at
halftime and had a 55-28 lead
with ten minutes to go in the
game.
The Trojans went on a 3419 run to tighten things up
toward the end.
The game against Missouri
St ate saw t he ret u r n of
freshman Michael Carrera ,
who missed three games with
a concussion.
T h e Ve n e z u e l a n a t i v e
made h is presence k now n
as he nailed his fi rst 3-point
at tempt of t he sea son a s
regulation time expired to
send the game into overtime.
Carrera finished with 18
poi nt s a nd f ive rebou nds
while senior guard LaShay
Page, who was named
t h e t o u r n a m e n t ’s M o s t
Outstanding Player, led the
team with 22 points and six
rebounds in the victory.
In the title game, it was
ju n ior g uard Brenton
W illiams leading USC
with 17 points while senior
forward Lakeem Jackson had
10 points and a career-high
15 rebounds.
The G amecock s also
suf fered t heir f irst loss of
t he season t h is past week
when they lost to Elon for
the second straight year on
Wednesday.
USC com m it ted 22
turnovers in the 65-53 loss
and 46 total in the two games
in Mexico.
L a s t we ek , he ad c o ac h
Frank Martin said his team
w a s pl a y i n g w it h “ f o ol’s
gold” so far this season and it
showed against the Phoenix.
“T he g a me has a lot of
things that you can control
and it’s got one thing that
you don’t control, and that’s
the ball going in the basket,”
Martin told reporters after
the 88-76 win over Rider last
Monday. “Right now, we are
depending on the ball going
in the basket to win and we
are not controlling the things
that we can control. That’s
got to change.”
Martin said that the loss
was expected with the way
his team had been playing.
“We don’t defend and we
don’t stick to the principles of
our defensive philosophies,”
Mar t i n told repor ters.
“Offensively (against Rider)
we didn’t stick to it, but we
won so everyone thinks that
it is nice and dandy.
“That’s t he g reat t h i ng
about l ife is t hat you get
what you deserve,” Martin
continued. “And then when
you get what you deser ve,
how are you going to
respond? A re you going to
change, accept and grow or
are you going to run away
from the truth? Let’s see how
we handle this.”
USC will face its toughest
test of the season so far on
Thursday night when they
t r avel to Ne w York C it y
to take on St. John’s in the
SEC/Big East challenge.
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Welch tallies 2
double-doubles for
women’s basketball
Paulina Berkovich
[email protected]
W it h t he le ade r s h ip of
sophomore forward Aleighsa
Welch , the Gamecocks now
have a seven-game win streak
to start their season.
T he women’s ba sketba l l
team capped a successful run
at the Virgin Islands Paradise
Ja m b y def e at i n g D e Pau l
55- 4 6 Sat u rday af ter noon ,
w i n n i n g t h e t it l e i n t h e
tournament’s Reef Division .
We l c h w a s n a m e d M o s t
Outstanding Player for her
performance , which included
two double-doubles in USC’s
fi rst two games.
The sophomore added
nine points and 10 rebounds
to the Gamecocks’ win over
DePaul. A fter her weekend
per for ma nce, Welch leads
the team in rebounds and is
second in scoring.
The key to all t hree
South Carolina wins in the
tournament was its defensive
dominance. The Blue Demons
shot b elow 30 p ercent on
Saturday.
“ I t h o u g ht o u r p l a y e r s
st uck to t he game plan for
4 0 m i nu t e s ,” S t a le y t o ld
reporters. “It wasn’t exactly
pretty, but I like what we did
on the defensive end. Our goal
was to cut the head off with
Brittany Hrynko. We did that,
and I think it trickled down to
the rest of their team.”
H r y nko, a sophomore
guard, is tied for the DePaul
team lead with an average of
14 points per game , but she
tallied just four in 38 minutes
of play against the Gamecocks.
Free throws continued to be
a problem for South Carolina,
as the team made only 13 of 29
free throw attempts . USC is
shooting 52 percent from the
line this season.
But t he G amecock s outrebounded DePaul 47-31, led
by 12 rebounds from senior
forward Ashley Bruner.
“That’s one thing that we
had special emphasis on all
sea son long,” St a le y sa id.
“N ight in and night out, I
think we out-rebounded our
opponents by a prett y good
number.”
USC opened the tournament
on Thanksgiving Day against
Ha mpton, w i n n i ng 45-34 .
Both teams got off to a slow
start offensively, and South
Carolina had just 19 points at
halftime.
But t he G amecock s held
H a mpt o n t o le s s t h a n 20
percent shooting on the night
and collected 57 rebounds in
the win . Welch led the team
i n scor i ng w it h 16 poi nt s,
including 12 in t he second
half.
Sout h Ca rol i na ea r ned
a sp ot i n t he tou r n a ment
f inals wit h a 65- 46 victor y
over Florida Gulf Coast on
Friday. The Gamecocks had
a six-point lead at halftime
but scored si x consec ut ive
points to start the second half,
bu ilding a lead t hey never
relinquished.
A lt hough Welch led t he
team throughout the weekend,
USC’s freshmen also stepped
up wit h key performances.
G u a r d s T i f f a n y M it c he l l
and Khadijah Sessions added
si x poi nt s apiece i n t he
tournament’s fi nal game.
Mitchell, who has started
all seven of South Carolina’s
games this season, is averaging
j u s t u n d e r 10 p o i nt s p e r
contest.
“It was a total team effort
from where we started in the
tournament, playing against
Hampton until now,” Staley
said. “We look like a totally
different basketball team.
“You see our team growing
up. Our freshmen will be put
in a position where they’re
learning and get t ing some
great experience. Hopefully it
prepares us to continue to get
better.”
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