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POLICE REPORT Each numbered symbol on the map represents a single crime that corresponds with the numbered descriptions in the list below it. DAY CRIMES ( □ Violent crimes ■ ^ NIGHT CRIMES (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) < ——-——-:-— > (6p.m.-6a.m.) • O Nonviolent cnmes • J □ o CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS Tuesday, Aug. 28 ® ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 1415 GREENE ST. A female student said someone has been harassing her by calling her residence repeatedly. She was issued a 3AM pamphlet and instructed about its use. Reporting officer: C. Taylor: Friday, Aug. 31 ® LARCENY OF PURSE, 1500 GREENE ST. Amelia C. Phillips said someone stole her unattended black purse. The purse contained an American Express credit card, a Visa credit card and a Virginia driver’s license. Total estimated value: $5. Reporting officer: M.R. Glass. Sunday, Sept. 2 ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 400 SUMTER ST. Neal R. Goodbar said someone damaged both locks on his vehicle with an unknown object. Estimated damage: $100. Reporting officer: J.L. Taylor Jr. Monday, Sept. 3 ® AUTO BREAK-IN, 400 SUMTER ST. Curtis D. Norwood said someone stole his black and gray Pioneer CD player by breaking out a window in his car. Estimated value: $300. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. Tuesday, Sept. 4 ® LARCENY OF BIKE, 712 MAIN ST. Stephen J. McGee said someone stole his Elite chrome mountain bike. The bike was attached to the rack with a cable lock and was engraved with McGee’s name. Estimated value: $400. Reporting officer: C.N. Ettenger. ® INDECENT EXPOSURE, INTERSECTION OF BULL AND SENATE ST. Zoe S. Voulgarelis and Gilbert J. Kerwin said an unknown white male exposed himself twice as they drove by. Reporting officer: M.L. Gooding. Wednesday, Sept. 5 O LARCENY OF BOOK, 1322 GREENE ST. Ronald John-Fin said someone stole his psychology book at the Thomas Cooper Library. Estimated Security Most guards alert, company says CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “The residents who see this when it happens should report it imme diately to either their R.A. or the police department,” said Ernie El lis, law enforcement director. “We will either replace the guard or make sure that they are alert enough to do their job.” Ellis serves on a committee that draws up the specifics in USC’s contract with Sizemore.”It’s an in formal committee of law enforce ment, Housing, Coliseum and a couple of other departments that are primary users of these securi ty officers,” he said. Whenever a guard is caught, the incident is usually reported in writing and sent to Sizemore. “We communicate the problems and expect them to have them re value: $45. Reporting officer: N.U. Beza. (?) LARCENY OF BIKE, 600 MAIN ST. Dennis A. Gaines said someone removed his green Rocky Mountain bike and Kryptonite chain lock from the bike rack. Total estimated value: $1,575. Reporting officer: G.S. Whitlock. o HOUSING VIOLATION, 918 BARNWELL ST. Matt Floyd said Paul J. Edwards entered Columbia Hall with contraband items in violation of USC Housing policies. Evans was evicted by Associate Director of Housing Andy Fink. 6EA .22 caliber bullets were confiscated and placed into evidence after being located in.plain view of residents. The matter was turned aver to Housing for disposition. Reporting officers: Sgt. M.R. Glass and N.U. Beza. Thursday, Sept. 6 (io) AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY, 1200 CATAWBA ST. Sean J. Krawiecki said someone removed the back window of his vehicle and stole a red bag. Items inside the bag included: a lock, keys to the lock, white shoes, personal hygiene items, various books and various clothing. Total estimated value: $261. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. @ FIRE, 500 SUMTER ST. Reporting officer Leonard Forte responded to a fire alarm at South Quad. The fire was in a garbage bag, but was extinguished by Jennifer Mowen and Gabriella Kirby. Friday, Sept. 7 @ MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 615 SUMTER ST. Reporting officer J.F. Aspedon responded to Room 303 Laborde after the R. A. heard glass breaking and called the police. Aspedon found Justin Seay to be highly intoxicated. Seay’s roommate said Seay got mad, threw his watch and broke the glass sliding door. Seay couldn’t remember what happened because he said he was “too drunk.” Aspedon called EMS and First Responder out of concern for Seay’s well-being. EMS transported Seay to Baptist Hospital for further evaluation. Housing staff is handling student discipline. Estimated damage to door: $900. solved,” Fink said. Inattentive guards are rare, ac cording to Sizemore, and dealt with quickly. “First of all, it just takes one incident or one bad offi cer to really make the program look bad,” he said. “We try to han dle that quickly. Once we receive [an incident report], within 24 hours, we will do our own inves tigation. Nine out of 10 times, it is legit, and from there, we remove the officer.” While it considers guards sleep ing on the job a problem, Sizemore says he’s satisfied overall with the services of his employees. “I’ve worked the college myself, and ... the majority of the officers really have the interest of the col lege at heart,” Preston Sizemore said. “But it’s that one officer that sleeps or has the headset on, it makes the other officers look bad. There is a high commitment by those people, and the good major ity tof them do a good job.” Darla Moore delivers speech at Women’s Life&Style Expo Moore urges women to keep sense of humor BY GINNY THORNTON THE GAMECOCK USC alumna Darla Moore was a keynote speaker at The State’s Women’s Life&Style Expo at the Coliseum on Saturday. Moore, the namesake of USC’s School of Business, gave a speech entitled “How to Get a Business School Named After You!” Moore is the only woman in America who has had a major university name its business school after her, as well as the first woman to be profiled on the cover of Fortune magazine. Moore, the president of Rainwa ter Inc., gave $25 million to the USC business program. Moore began her 9 a.m. speech by dispelling the rumor that she is planning to run for Sen. Strom Thurmond’s seat in 2002. “Some very good friends have given me advice about this,” she said. “One of them told me, ‘Dar la, you can’t run for Senate. You say things that upset people.’” Moore told many stories about her life and career, giving advice to the predominately female au dience about how to become suc cessful professionally and per sonally. “Don’t underestimate your li abilities, like being Southern and a woman,” Moore said. “They can become assets.” Being a Southern woman with a rural background made Moore unusual among her coworkers at her first job after business school, with Chemical Bank in New York City. “They couldn’t believe I still had friends who I went to kinder garten with,” she said. “But that’s how it is here, and it has been a great advantage for me.” Moore recounted a time when she was working with a group in a New York lawyer’s office at 2:30 a.m. “I looked around and asked everyone if they saw anything unusual,” she said. “I pointed out that we were all women. The men had made a mess, and we were there cleaning it up.” Moore encouraged the audi ence to keep a sense of humor during stressful times. “Don’t take things personally,” she said. “A magazine once named me ‘At tila the Honey,’ but I didn’t get up “Don’t underestimate your liabilities, like being Southern and a woman. They can become assets.” DARLA MOORE USC ALUMNA set. I just wrote a column myself called ‘Babes in Boyland.’” “I thought she had some valu able insight about how women can succeed in the business world,” said Ryan Stilling, a fourth-year business student at USC. “I liked that she said she’s successful because she’s willing to make decisions, even with in complete information.” Moore suggested that women should find mentors to advise them about important decisions. “My decisions to get an MBA, to find my niche in business in stead of being a generalist—they were influenced by mentors,” she said. Moore closed by encouraging the audience to share in her be lief of “enlightened capitalism,” which means using money to im prove the world. “It’s our only chance of im mortality,” she said. Moore was a featured speaker on the main stage of the expo, as were Erin Brockovich and Phyl lis Jackson. Brockovich is an inspirational speaker who became known for her investigation of alleged health problems caused by the substance chromium 6 in drink ing water around Hinckley, Calif. Phyllis Jackson is a former news anchor for WIS-TV and is the ed itor of Imam magazine. Other events included a semi nar on health and heart disease prevention facilitated by WIS TV’s Dawn Mercer, a seminar about women and investing giv en by financial planner John Tripp, a fashion show sponsored by Columbia Mall, and a seminar on communication and presenta tion skills given by Ritarae Els berry, a communications expert. More than 100 specialty booths and interactive events were fea tured throughout the Coliseum. USG BRIEFS University Day to be held on Tuesday USC will celebrate University Day on Tuesday as an anniversary of Sept. 11,1963, when the first African American students were admitted to the university. Dr. Henrie Monteith Treadwell will speak at 1 p.m. on the Horseshoe about future challenges for higher education in South Carolina. Treadwell was one of the three African American students who integrated USC in 1963. She is a national leader in developing new strategies for higher education and is program coordinator for the Kellogg Foundation. A panel of South Carolina college and university presidents will also speak on the coming decade in higher education at 2 p.m. at Longstreet Theater. A panel of business and government leaders will follow with their views. There will also be an Interfaith Celebration at 6 p.m. on Davis Field as part of University Day. “University Day presents us with a unique opportunity to explore and celebrate our past and future,” Thome Compton, Bicentennial Executive Committee chair, wrote in a letter about the celebration. Chancellor inaugurated at USC-Aiken Today marks the 40th anniversary of USC-Aiken as a campus, and a new chancellor will be inaugurated. Dr. Thomas Hallman will be inaugurated as USCA’s third chancellor in an Installation Ceremony at 2 p.m, and the campus will celebrate its anniversary week with several events. Each day of the week has a theme with related activities. Tuesday will be Social Sciences and Humanities Day, with “A Gathering of Writers” and a faculty and friends concert. Wednesday will be Sciences Day, featuring planetarium shows and observatory viewings. Thursday marks “A Day for the Professions,” which showcases speakers on health-related topics, an international exhibit and a special public session of the South Carolina Court of Appeals. All events are free and open to the public. USC call box locations now found online The 2001-2001 edition of the USC Campus and Call Box map is online at www.sc.edu/ bulletin/Call_Boxes/. The map will not be printed this year and can only be accessed through the Web. It can also be found through the Division of Student and Alumni Services’ Web page. USC, Palmetto Health to study lymphedema USC has teamed up with Palmetto Health for a pilot study using hyperbaric oxygen to treat lymphedema, a condition associated with breast cancer in women. The study, funded by donations from the S.C. Comprehensive Breast Center, is the first of its kind in the United States. Hyperbaric oxygen is being studied for possible usage to treat the swelling of arms and legs that accompanies breast cancer treatment in one-third of women who have had surgery and radiation treatment for breast cancer. The women in the study will receive 20 hyperbaric oxygen treatments over four weeks. Researchers include Dr. Jane Teas and Dr. Joan Cunningham of the School of Public Health and the S.C. Cancer Center, a partnership between USC and Palmetto Health; Dr. Lindsie Cone, medical director of hyperbaric medicine at Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital; and Dr. William Butler, director of clinical research at the S.C. Cancer Center. Teas said the pilot study will lay the groundwork for future research in treating breast-cancer patients with lymphedema. For information about the study, call 434-1600. As nation’s health improves, rural Americans suffer Americans in small towns smoke more, lose more teeth BY ANJETTA MCQUEEN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Smalltown Americans tend to smoke more, lose more teeth as they age and die sooner than suburban and many big-city residents, a gov ernment snapshot of the coun try’s health shows. Overall, Americans are healthier today than they were 25 years ago, and an annual re port released Monday by the Cen ters for Disease Control and Pre vention offers some reasons: longer life expectancy, better in fant survival, fewer smokers, less hypertension and lower choles-' terol levels. The news is not all good, say researchers. People who live in rural areas are not getting as much preventive care and med ical treatment as other Ameri cans. Long distances and the high rate of poverty among rural resi dents are two factors that make it tough to attract medical ser vices. “Even if they’ve got insur ance, the biggest worry is: Do they have access to health care?” said Mary Wakefield, a rural health policy expert at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. That means heart attack vic tims could wait half an hour for the nearest ambulance, and small hospitals consider closing because they cannot hire enough nurses, said Wakefield, a mem ber of panel that advises the gov ernment on rural health policy. The report this year offers a different look at the nation’s health: by community size. Americans in big cities are more likely to die violently and go untreated for substance abuse. Like those in rural areas, urban dwellers are less likely than sub urban residents to have health insurance. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said “geography alone does not determine health status.” But, he said, the report helps policy-mak ers “understand where the most rural and urban communities can target public health efforts to close the gaps.” Urban areas are considered large cities with more than 1 mil lion people; suburbs are larger towns on the fringes of the coun ties that have the largest cities. The most rural areas are defined as counties without cities, and most are largely unincorporated areas with fewer thta 10,000 peo ple. The government used a range of the most recent health statistics available. Suburban residents, by more than a dozen measures, are the healthiest Americans. In some cases, even when income is accounted for, the suburbs are the healthiest places to live. For instance: ♦ 10.6 percent of the wealthi est residents in rural areas and 10 percent of urban residents lacked health insurance in 1997 and 1998, compared with about 6.6 percent of suburban resi dents. ♦ 37.6 percent of rural resi dents over 65 had edentulism, a total loss of all their teeth, in 1997 and 1998, compared with about 25.7 percent in the suburbs and 26.8 percent in cities. ♦ 18.9 percent of youngsters age 12 to 17 in the most rural ar eas were regular smokers in 1999,1 compared with U percent in ur ban areas and 15.9 percent in the suburbs. Rural adults also smoked at higher rates than ur ban or suburban ariults. ♦ 46.5 of men and women in the most rural areas did not ex ercise, play sports or pursue ac tive hobbies in 1997 and 1998, compared with 40.9 percent of ur ban residents and 31.1 percent of their suburban residents who were not fitness-minded. The youth death rate from all causes was higher in rural areas from 1996 to 1998, as was the adult death rate in that same time period. Hospitals and clinics have aj hard time attracting and keeping staff, said Mark Zellmer, who di rects a University of Wisconsin Lacrosse program aimed at train ing physician assistants for rural areas. “We’ve tended to hold out urban practice as the ideal,” said Zellmer, who’s from Eldorado, Iowa, a town of 100. “I think we can do a lot more to build the credibility of rural practice.” Experts did not find the lack of exercise and healthy habits any more surprising than the lack of insurance or the dearth of dentists. In rural areas, health clubs, bike trails and other sources of recreations are often too fan away, as are anti-smoking and diet programs. “We think about this bucolic setting, but it doesn’t necessarily lend itself to a lot of physical ac tivity. The distance can preclude that,” Wakefield said. Work, too, has changed. “My grandfather farmed with hand tools and lived to be 90, eating a high-fat diet. My un cle generally farmed with trac tors and didn’t make it to 70, and he probably had a better diet,” ZelliHer said. t We’ve got USC covered, 5 days a week www.dailygamecock.com r )