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When filmmaker Jeff Akers spent ayear exploring homelessness aroundthe South for his new film, he foundone thing particularly striking aboutGreenville’s homeless community.

“Homeless people in Greenvillewere a whole lot nicer than homeless people” in otherplaces, said Akers.

Akers said he was cursed at, even spat on by somehomeless folks he tried to talk to in other cities.

“But the homeless in Greenville would talk to you.Even though I was giving the other ones food, or I’dsay, ‘I’d like to talk to you. I’m a film director, I havesome lunch for you.’ They’d take the lunch and prettymuch (tell me to) kiss off,” said Akers, who also is aminister.

Akers’ documentary, “Homeless in the South,”which also focuses on homeless populations in NorthCarolina, Alabama and Georgia, will be screened at thePeace Center on June 29.

Greenville’s transformation into a popular destina-tion for tourists and businesses has been remarkable,

but the positive press has overshadowed the city’sstruggles with poverty and homelessness, said Akers,an Ohio native who moved to the Upstate 16 years ago.

When he first began filming, Akers didn’t realizethe depth of Greenville’s homeless situation.

In one particular area, “they had about 40 peoplethere. It was like going back in time. I could not believeit. This is Greenville; it’s beautiful. You just don’t see it.And I was thinking to myself two things. One, there’sgot to be more I can do than just give them a sandwich.And two, making the transition from Ohio to South Car-olina, and having some medical issues and restrictions,not sure about the plight of my own circumstances,this could be me. Then I started researching and realiz-

Homeless ‘nicer’ in Greenville,

filmmaker says

PROVIDEDJeff Akers’ film “Homeless in the South“ will be screened at the Peace Center June 29.

‘Homeless in the South’ to be screened at Peace Center June 29DONNA ISBELL WALKERDIWALKER@GREENVILLENEWS.COM

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It’s been six months since Valeska Minkowski setout to start Greenville’s first shrimp farm, and now,the shrimp are ready. It took a little longer than ex-pected (Minkowski anticipated they’d be ready in 3-4months versus 5-6) and it’s been a learning process,but overall, the Urban Seas Aquaculture shrimp aredelicious, sustainable and most importantly, fresh.

“I think the main thing you’ll be able to tell is thefreshness,” Minkowski said during a visit to her farmback in April. “And you can tell a difference. We guar-antee it’s fresh the day of when you buy it, it’s neverfrozen. It’s practically alive when you will purchase it.”

Perhaps one of the biggest surprises since startingher business was just how much interest the idea oflocal shrimp would generate. After growing her firstbatch, Minkowski realized she just doesn’t haveenough.

LAUREN PETRACCA/STAFFValeska Minkowski, owner of Urban Seas Aquaculture,feeds shrimp at her farm on April 5.

Scampi anyone?Shrimp farmhas first harvest

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Greenville County residents: Your taxes are goingup.

And you’re getting some brand new schools.Greenville County Schools trustees unanimously

approved a 4.6 mill tax increase Tuesday night to builda new high school and new elementary school, amongother projects.

Greenville residents packed the school board roomTuesday night, but not to talk about the tax increase.Most were there to urge trustees not to change thename of Wade Hampton High School.

Recently, a group of students and adults havewaged a campaign to drop the name of Wade Hamp-ton, saying that it’s inappropriate for a modern, high-achieving school to honor a 19th century Confederategeneral and slaveholder.

Tax increaseThe millage increase vote came after extensive

discussion in which a few trustees registered con-cern. Trustee Roger Meek asked others on the boardto offer persuasive arguments.

Board chairwoman Crystal Ball O’Connor said shehad four words for Meek:

“Fountain Inn High School.”The new $67.2 million high school, near downtown

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THIBODAUX, La. - Jake Bentley hasbig plans for the University of South Car-olina’s 2017 football season.

“I think we are capable of anything,”Bentley told The State while serving as acounselor at the Manning Passing Acad-emy. “Our goals are to beat the (SEC)East and win the state; that’s what it is ev-ery year, that’s what it’s always going tobe, and I think we are definitely capableof that.”

He means this year. The Gamecocks

are coming off 6-7 season and probablywon’t be picked to finish at the top oftheir division in any preseason predic-tions, but the Gamecocks' 6-foot-4 sopho-more starting quarterback isn’t shyingaway from talking about ending up in At-lanta in December for the SEC Champi-onship Game.

“That should be the goal for everySEC team,” Bentley said. “It’s not just us.I feel like everywhere around the coun-try that should be their goal, to play intheir conference championship game.”

As Bentley returns to South Carolinaafter four days at Nicholls State Univer-

sity, where he worked alongside 42 othercollege quarterbacks helping tutor high-school-age offensive players, he will re-turn to the team’s summer program andplayer-run practices.

“The day-by-day goal is just to get bet-ter,” he said. “Game by game is what wehave to focus on and just get better. Aslong as we continue to outwork every-body and just continue to be the best thatwe can be, I think we’ve got a chance.”

Bentley is one reason for optimism.The invitation to the Manning Passing

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Bentley: USC ‘capable of anything’JOSH KENDALLTHE STATE

TRACY GLANTZ/THE STATESouth Carolina quarterback Jake Bentleyanswers questions at a recent media day. See BENTLEY, Page 3C

Tiffany Mack Fitzgerald wasthe model Corporate Amer-ica employee. A sharpthinker. A hard worker. Ateam player.

Yet, to her colleagues,she was simply another anonymous as-sociate.

“I got there early. I stayed late. I didwhat was required of me, so there wasno need for them to know my name,”Fitzgerald said. “I was just the ‘blackgirl in marketing.’”

Fitzgerald’s knowledge and produc-tivity did not grant her access to themost important meetings, becausethey were not conducted at the office.

They were held on a golf course.“I had to figure out a way to make a

better connection at work, so I knew Ihad to learn how to play,” Fitzgeraldsaid. “It was uncomfortable. It was in-timidating. I didn’t know the rules. ButI did it anyway.”

Fitzgerald gradually grasped thegame and earned her spot at those 18-hole meetings. After a few rounds, hercolleagues learned her name and in-cluded it on major projects.

Fitzgerald realized many profes-sional women encounter the same ob-stacles and intimidation on the corpo-rate course. In 2013, she founded BlackGirls Golf to facilitate instruction andfoster camaraderie.

“It was a need to have a communityof women who made golf more com-fortable,” she said.

The organization is based in Atlantabut has attracted more than 3,000members in 33 states, Canada, Botswa-na and Ghana. On Monday, Black GirlsGolf opened its first junior golf event, aweek-long camp organized in conjunc-

tion with the Clemson University Pro-fessional Golf Association golf man-agement (PGM) program.

Fitzgerald and PGM program direc-tor Rick Lucas welcomed 10 youngwomen from Georgia, Florida, NorthCarolina, Mississippi, Maryland andTexas to the Cliffs at Keowee Springs.They will sharpen their skills throughinstructional sessions and explore po-tential careers in the golf industry.

They also will establish a communi-ty fastened more by a shared interest

than a shared skin tone. “I don’t usually know a lot of Afri-

can-American girls that play golf,” saidKennedi Whitener, a rising high schooljunior from Fayetteville, North Caroli-na. “At my first golf camp, I was theonly girl and the only black girl, butprograms like this will help a lot to getmore people to learn about golf.”

“It’s revolutionary,” said Rus King-man, co-chair of the ONE Clemson Cab-inet for Advancement, which raisedfunds to cover camp costs for all 10 par-ticipants.

“Those of us who love golf, we’rehopeful we’ll be successful in attract-ing some of these young ladies to enter

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PHOTOS BY JOSH MORGAN/STAFFKelpie Jackson, 15, of Miami, Fla., practices at the Keowee Springs Golf Club driving range on Monday.

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Clemson, The Cliffs partner with Black Girls Golf for eventMANIE ROBINSONSPORTS COLUMNIST

Khaliah Gilbert, 15, of Tampa, Fla., laughs with Clemson's Rick Lucas as he gives her tips.

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Based on early returns, Clemson andOhio State football fans will be paying abit more than the majority of their col-lege football brethren to watch theirteam play this fall.

According to StubHub — an onlineclearinghouse for sports, concerts andother entertainment tickets — fourgames involving Ohio State rank amongthe eight most expensive based on theadvertised price for the cheapest avail-able ticket.

Clemson had no game tickets rank-ing among the top 10 highest priced, buthad four games in the top 20, topped bythe Sept. 9 Auburn at Clemson game,which ranked 11th at $200 for the low-est-priced ticket.

That game was followed by Clemsonat South Carolina on Nov. 25, whichranked 13th at $171, and Clemson’s Nov.11 home game against Florida State andthe Tigers’ Sept. 30 trip to VirginiaTech, which tied for 15th at $160 perticket. Clemson’s game at N.C. State onNov. 4 finished just outside the Top 20 at$139.

Ticket prices aren't expected to be amajor hindrance for Clemson fans,whose team is coming off a 14-1 seasonand the program's first national cham-pionship in 35 years. Clemson fans ledthe Atlantic Coast Conference andranked among the Top 15 nationallywith an average home attendance of80,970 last season.

Ohio State was the only team withfive games that ranked among the Top20 for ticket prices while Clemson wasnext with four, followed by FloridaState and Alabama with three each.

The most expensive ticket at the mo-ment is the $478 admission price beingadvertised for the Georgia at NotreDame game in South Bend, Indiana, onSept. 9. The season-opening clash be-tween Alabama and Florida State in At-lanta on Sept. 2 is next at $402 for thelowest-priced ticket.

The complete list:1 Georgia at Notre Dame, Sept. 9

($478)2 Alabama vs. Florida State in Atlanta,

Sept. 2 ($402)3 Oklahoma at Ohio State, Sept. 9

($349)4 Penn State at Ohio State, Oct. 28

($282)5 USC at Notre Dame, Oct. 21 ($250)6 Alabama at Auburn, Nov. 25 ($222)7 Michigan State at Ohio State, Nov. 11

($219)8 Ohio State at Michigan, Nov. 25

($218)8 Oklahoma vs. Texas in Dallas, Oct.

14 ($218)10 LSU at Alabama, Nov. 4 ($210)11 Auburn at Clemson, Sept. 9 ($200)12 Michigan State at Michigan, Oct. 7

($199)13 Clemson at South Carolina, Nov. 25

($171)14 Michigan at Wisconsin, Nov. 18

($169)15 Florida State at Clemson, Nov. 11

($160)15 Clemson at Virginia Tech, Sept. 30

($160)17 Miami at Florida State, Sept. 16

($159)17 Pittsburgh at Penn State, Sept. 9

($159)19 Georgia vs. Florida in Jacksonville,

Oct. 28 ($155)20 Maryland at Ohio State, Oct. 7

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Academy was an indication of the highregard he is held in and will increase hisprofile this season. It also served as avaluable learning week for him.

“Part of being a good quarterback isunderstanding how to be a quarterback,and there are no better teachers thanPeyton and Eli and Archie and to talk tothem about the daily work routine, inseason, out of season, and to be able tosee that example is invaluable,” SouthCarolina coach Will Muschamp said.

Bentley has two main points of em-phasis for improvement this summer,he said. The first is a better understand-

ing and implementation of the team’sblocking schemes.

“It’s just developing our protections,trying to do all I can do to keep meupright,” he said. “Obviously I trust theoffensive line to do it, but there are cer-tain things that it is not their assignedjob, and I can fix it and help them out.”

The second aspect has to do withleadership, especially when thingsaren’t going well.

“In the Florida game especially, Ikind of felt it. We were kind of strug-gling on offense, and I felt like I satthere a little bit,” he said. “I could havebeen more vocal, more positive.”

He’s already working on being morepositive by having lofty goals for thisseason.

BentleyContinued from Page 1C

the golf industry at some point in theirlives,” Kingman said. “It’s such a greatgame, but more diversity in golf is sore-ly needed.”

In 2015, the World Golf Foundationreported that, although minorities com-prise 37.9 percent of the American pop-ulation, they comprise merely 13.5 per-cent of amateur golfers.

The foundation examined a cross-section of golf management, equipmentand manufacturing companies and de-termined that 80 percent of the golfworkforce were Caucasian men. Afri-can-Americans comprised 1.4 percent.African-American women accountedfor 0.26 percent.

“The more that we get minorities intothe game and show that this is a gamefor everyone, then we’ll be able to growthe game as a whole,” said MackenzieMack, one of only five African-Ameri-can members of the LPGA.

Mack served as an instructor for theBlack Girls Golf camp. She was encour-aged by the partnership with Clemsonand The Cliffs. It reveals that minoritygolfers are not the only ones concernedabout golf’s lack of diversity.

“People are starting to realize, ‘Heywhy don’t we have more (diversity) andwhat can we do?’” Mack said. “It’s start-ing to grow, but it’s going to take every-body, just to show the kids that it actu-ally is possible. I’m proof of that.”

According to Kingman, the partner-ship aligns with Clemson’s university-wide initiative for diversity and inclu-sion. Fitzgerald and Lucas found athree-way benefit. They can enhancetheir organizations, and most impor-tantly, they can enrich the lives of somedeserving young women.

“This is something that we’ve reallybeen wanting to do,” Lucas said. “Ourgoal is to increase our enrollment par-ticularly in diversity inclusiveness, andthe long-term benefit is obviously wewant to get some diversity in golf. Thebenefit to all the ladies out here, they getthe opportunity to be in the golf busi-ness or the opportunity to come to Clem-son University and to develop a careerin golf.”

Clemson and The Cliffs are sched-uled to host another Black Girls Golfcamp in July. Fitzgerald hopes this ini-tiative will foster an environment thatprevents any young woman from everfeeling like just another anonymous as-sociate.

The “black girl in marketing” canmake a name for herself.

“We’ve been able to take a pilot groupof girls and help them get better at golf,become more well-rounded and under-stand how many opportunities are avail-able for girls, particularly girls of color,who understand golf,” Fitzgerald said.“Hopefully, by the end of the week,they’ll understand that really focusingin a particular area will make you thatmuch better. And when they leave,they’ll be able to compete with theirpeers on a higher level.”

JOSH MORGAN/STAFFKennedi Whitener, 16, of Fayetteville, N.C., packs her clubs on the back of a cart before goinggolfing during a Black Girls Golf event at the Keowee Springs Golf Club on Monday, June 26,2017.

GolfContinued from Page 1C

SOCHI, Russia - After years of spec-ulation about alleged corruption, FIFAfinally ended the mystery Tuesday ofwhat is contained in an investigation re-port of bidding for the World Cups of2018 and 2022.

FIFA published investigator Mi-chael Garcia’s 430-page dossier exam-ining how Russia and Qatar — longsuspected of wrongdoing by FIFAcritics despite repeated denials —won the hosting rights and how sevenrival candidates tried and failed tobeat them.

No major acts of corruption wereproven by Garcia’s team though somebidders tested rules of conduct to thelimit, according to the investigationscompleted in 2014 and kept confiden-tial since.

Garcia’s report was once expectedto be explosive and became a holygrail for FIFA critics who thought theWorld Cup votes could be re-run.

Many believed bid leaders in Russiaand Qatar must have engaged in wrong-doing to earn the votes of a FIFA exec-utive committee lineup in 2010 that hassince been widely discredited.

“A number of executive committeemembers sought to obtain personal fa-vors or benefits that would enhancetheir stature within their home coun-tries or confederations,” Garciawrote.

FIFA released the dossier less than

24 hours after Germa-ny’s biggest-selling dai-ly Bild began reportingextracts of the report.

“For the sake oftransparency, FIFAwelcomes the news thatthis report has now beenfinally published,”world football’s govern-

ing body said in a statement.Garcia’s team found “no evidence”

Russia’s bid team or Vladimir Putin,then prime minister, unduly influ-enced FIFA voters.

Putin hosted six of the 22 votingmembers of the FIFA executive com-mittee in the weeks before the Decem-ber 2010 vote.

In helping the United States bideventually beaten by Qatar, then-President Barack Obama hosted a to-tal of three FIFA voters at the WhiteHouse in two separate visits.

Most of those who took part in the2010 vote have since been banned forunethical conduct, indicted on corrup-tion charges by the U.S. Departmentof Justice, or remain under scrutinyby Swiss federal prosecutors whohave 25 ongoing investigations involv-ing more than 170 bank transactionssuspected as money laundering.

Garcia’s document was the basisfor the wider Swiss investigation afterFIFA handed it over in November2014.

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FIFA publishes report on2018-2022 World Cup biddingGRAHAM DUNBAR AND ROB HARRISASSOCIATED PRESS

MichaelGarcia

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Courtagreed Tuesday to take up New Jersey’sbid to allow sports betting at its casinosand racetracks, a case that could leadother states to seek a share of the lucra-tive market.

The justices will review a lowercourt ruling against the state, which ishoping to capture some of the estimated$150 billion that is illegally wagered onsports each year.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie andsupporters in the state Legislature havetried for years to legalize sports gam-bling to bolster the state’s casino andhorse racing industries. The casino in-dustry, after a period of job losses andclosings, has lately been doing better.

Christie said Tuesday in Trenton atan unrelated event that he was encour-aged by the court’s decision to take thecase up.

“We’re not declaring victory but atleast we’re in the game and that’s wherewe want to be,” Christie said.

New Jersey state Sen. Raymond Les-niak, a Democrat who has led the state’seffort to legalize sports gambling, said awin for the state would give an addition-al boost to casinos.

“Atlantic City is going to be packedwhen we win this case,” said Lesniak,who first introduced legislation to over-turn the ban in 2009. “Sports betting willlead to people staying for several days,not just playing a few hours and goinghome. During football season, theNCAA tournament, the World Cup, peo-ple will be flocking to Atlantic City tobet on them.”

The case will be argued in the fall.Daniel Wallach, an attorney in Fort Lau-derdale, Florida, and an expert in sportslaw, said the case could lead to a nation-wide repeal of the federal sports bettingban.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsstruck down the New Jersey law lastyear, ruling that the law violated the fed-eral Professional and Amateur SportsProtection Act of 1992 that forbids state-authorized sports gambling.

“This is the day that New Jersey hasbeen waiting for for years,” said Wal-lach, who has been closely followingNew Jersey’s legal efforts to overturnthe ban.

The court jumped into the case evenafter the Trump administration urged

the justices not to get involved, puttingthe governor and the president he cam-paigned for on opposite sides of the is-sue. President Donald Trump also onceowned the Trump Taj Mahal casino inAtlantic City. It closed last October un-der the ownership of fellow billionaireCarl Icahn, who sold it in March to HardRock International. The company plansto reopen the casino under its own brandnext year.

Speaking on a sports radio show thismonth, Christie criticized the federalgovernment for restricting sports bet-ting while simultaneously allowingstates to legalize recreational marijua-na even though it’s illegal under federallaw.

The case has lasted nearly as long asChristie has been in office. New Jerseyvoters passed a non-binding referen-dum to allow sports betting in 2011.

The four major pro sports leaguesand the NCAA sued the state in 2012, af-ter Christie signed a sports betting law.

Legal sports gambling is allowed inNevada and three other states that al-ready had approved some form of wa-gering before the federal law went intoeffect. Nevada is the only state to allowsingle-game wagering.

Congress gave New Jersey a one-time opportunity to become the fifthstate before the ban was enacted, butthe state failed to pass a sports bettinglaw in the required time window.

Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, WestVirginia and Wisconsin had joined NewJersey’s effort to have the case heard bythe Supreme Court.

This month, the American GamingAssociation announced the creation of acoalition involving organizations of at-torneys general and police, policymak-ers and others to advocate for the repealof the ban that the industry says hasfueled the illegal sports betting market.

The groups cited research thatshowed legalizing sports betting in theU.S. could support more than 150,000jobs.

“The Professional and AmateurSports Protection Act of 1992 has failedto protect sports and fans,” the groupsaid in a statement after the court’s ac-tion Tuesday. “PASPA, which is ap-proaching its 25th anniversary, is fuel-ing an unregulated $150 billion illegalgambling market that continues to de-prive states of vital public funding forservices such as law enforcement andinfrastructure.

Justices to review bid for legal sports bettingMARK SHERMANASSOCIATED PRESS

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