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STATE DHEC board wants review for racetrack. COLUMBIA (AP) - South Carolina environmental officials need to review whether devel opers should be allowed to build a racetrack near the Francis Beidler Forest, the state’s environmental board ruled Thursday. Whether to allow developers to build a racetrack has been ar gued in court for years, and the board’s unanimous decision asks a judge to order Department of Health and Environmental Control staff to review locating the track just a few miles from the forest. DHEC had previously award ed storm-water permits needed to build the track, but a nearby resident challenged those per mits. That sent the case to court. Thursday’s vote means the board wants staffers to review the project again to determine if storm-water runoff would hurt the surrounding environ ment. Original plans called for the racetrack to be built just four or five miles downstream from the boardwalk that runs through the heart of Francis Beidler Forest in Four Hole Swamp. NATION Woman arrested in copycat robbery LATHROP, MO, (AP) -A wom an robbed a bank Thursday by saying she was "wired” around her neck in an apparent copycat version of a robbery last month that left a pizza delivery man dead. Police arrested a 49-year-old woman and said she did not have a bomb. "It looks as though the whole thing was a hoax,” FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. The heist bore similarities to an Aug. 28 bank robbery in Erie, Pa., that continues to puzzle au thorities. Brian Douglas Wells was captured with a bomb locked around his neck and told police he had been forced to rob the bank. He was killed when the bomb exploded minutes later. Lanza said Thursday’s rob bery of a Lathrop bank was com mitted by a woman wearing a device around her neck, dark glasses and an earpiece that ap peared to be attached to a mi crophone in front of her mouth. The woman demanded mon _ ey and said she did not have much time, Lanza said. "She didn’t say it was a bomb, but she alluded to the fact that she was wired and pointed to the device around her neck,” he said. WORLD EU unwilling to cut farm subsidies CANCUN, MEXICO (AP) - The European Union showed little willingness Thursday to elimi nate its subsidies for farm ex ports, despite the claims of a growing coalition of poor coun tries that the payments, con demn millions of farmers to poverty and suffering. The issue could stall crucial negotiations among the 146 members of the World Trade Organization, which on Thursday approved the mem bership of two new countries: Nepal and Cambodia. India is a leading member of the so-called Group of 21 devel oping countries, who are de manding an end to export subsi dies and major cuts in other forms of subsidies for farmers in rich nations. Though the coalition .shakily links India, which maintains high tariffs to keep out foreign competition, and Brazil, a ma jor exporter that wants to see tariffs cut, so far the 21 coun tries have maintained their uni ty. Their anger is directed par ticularly against the European Union, which has refused to ac cept the complete elimination of export subsidies. Integration CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 i . v but he was almost overcome with emotion as he spoke. “It was sweet poison in some ways,” he said. “There was a lot of trauma, but sometimes in trauma and adversity, there comes a feel ing of accomplishment and achievement.” Solomon, former Commissioner of the South Carolina Department of Social Services, said the first thing that came to his mind as he stepped out of his car to cameras and spectators was a prayer: “Lord, let me do well on this exam, because, if I don’t, the whole world will know.” - He talked about the cruel pres sure exerted not only on himself, but on his wife and family. “I think it may have been hard er on her than it was on me,” he said. Solomon still applied, though, partially because he wanted to set a positive example for the students he was teaching at the time. “I wanted to be a part of what was going on,” he said. “I thought that if I did this, I would encour age them.” We must maintain a diverse faculty and administration, he said, “and we must maintain a di verse student body, if USC is to re main a nationally acclaimed uni versity.” Leevy Johnson, the first four year graduate of the USC School of Law, said he was never moti vated to be a trailblazer. “I was motivated to attend law school not because I wanted to be a lawyer,” he said. “I wanted to en hance my talents as a film direc tor and a businessman.” Johnson remembered showing up at the university for his en trance exam. “I recall that when I got to Petigru, I looked in the back seat, and my mom had packed me some chocolate chip cookies and about six Dr Peppers because she didn’t want me eating with any white ‘chilluns,’ and I didn’t want to eat with them, either.” Treadwell, a senior social sci entist at the Morehouse School of Medicine, was not only one of the first three black students, but also the first black female student at USC. The case in which she sued USC for admission was a positive factor in the admission of more black students after her. She said the day the first three black students entered USC was a calm and peaceful one. “Did they use the ‘N’ word?” she asked. “Yeah. The ‘B’ word? Sure. Did they bang on the door? Of course. But did I give them the satisfaction? No.” “If there’s a memory I would like to take away this evening,” Treadwell said, “I would like it to be that there were more good peo ple than not.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Cocks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 projects director for USC’s Business and Finance Division. Corbett then checks the designs to make sure everything is used properly. Koshlap said 475 companies are licensed to make USC products, which is average for a Division I-A school. Corbett said financial reper i i cussions were not a factor in the decision, but that the hats were al lowed to keep the logo because they were such big sellers. “I think they felt like the hat was something they could be com fortable with it being on versus be ing on T-shirts or other clothing,” Corbett said. John Cowels, an attorney from Kansas City, Mo., is in Columbia taking classes at the National Advocacy Center. He was shopping at the University Bookstore Thursday night, looking for T-shirts for his three daughters that didn’t have “Gamecocks” printed on them. “Even that, back in Kansas City, can be misunderstood,” he said. First-year computer science student Mark Phillip was upset with the decision. “If they are taking Cocks’ away, are they going to remove Cocky and call us the ‘Games’?” he said. 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Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent O Nonviolent Saturday, Sept. 6 ® LARCENY OF CELL PHONE, WILLIAMS-BRICE STADIUM, ROW 2, SEAT 25 (OFF MAP). Complainant stated that while in the stadium, someone removed her cell phone from the area where she was sitting. Estimated value: $350. Reporting officer: J.N. Tailon. Monday, Sept. 8 0 LARCENY OF BOOKS, CAPSTONE METERED LOT, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim stated that his unsecured vehicle was parked in the above location when someone entered the vehicle and removed his black Eastpack book bag. The backpack contained n_ti_1 ■ i_i___J_ UU CC UUgiiOil WilU political science book. Total estimated value: $285. Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke Q MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, CAPSTONE METER LOT, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim said someone ripped off the driver’s side rearview mirror of the victim’s vehicle and also scratched the side of the vehicle on the driver’s side from one end of the vehicle to the other. Estimated damage: $400. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. Tuesday, Sept. 9 0 MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, SNOWDEN DORM ROOM 508, 600 MAIN ST. Someone disassembled the doorknob at the above location. Estimated damage: $25. Reporting officer: C.L. Davis. O MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, BAND HALL PARKING LOT, 511 MAIN ST. Someone broke out the driver’s-side front window of the complainant’s vehicle. The complainant said no items were removed from the vehicle. Estimated damage: $200. Reporting officer: E.A. Adkins. Wednesday, Sept. 10 ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF PISTOL, B-9 LOT, 1501 SENATE o i. nit? viu Liiii aaiu auiiit?uiit? removed a black high-point automatic pistol while his vehicle was unsecured. The top was off and windows were down. Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer: Luisa Morales. Thursday, Sept. 11 O SIMPLE POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA, ALTERED DRIVER’S LICENSE, MCBRIDE B ROOM 209,1311 BLOSSOM ST. Reporting officers DeHaai and Means responded to a drug complaint at the above location. Upon arrival, there was an odor of marijuana coming from the room. After consent to search by subjects Ryan Schenk and William Howser, Howser gave the officers a prescription bottle that contained a green leaf-like substance. After further search, a glass pipe, cigarette papers, and a 12 oz. can of Bud Light beer were found. When both subjects gave officer DeHaai their IDs, Schenk admitted to altering his birth date on his South Carolina Driver’s License from 1984 to 1981. All evidence was placed in a locker. Schenk was placed under arrest and transported to headquarters. Both subj ects were referred to ^ student discipline and A Housing was notified. ” Reporting officers: N. DeHaai, T. Means. ® RECKLESS DRIVING, FAILURE TO STOP FOR BLUE LIGHTS, HEYWARD AND MARION STREETS. Reporting officer E.L. Pereira saw a vehicle stop at an intersection and stay there for about a minute while no traffic was in sight. The vemcie tnen crossea over Heyward Street and stopped on the side of the road. Pereira saw the car had no tag light, and he pulled behind it and began a lawful ' traffic stop. When the driver of the car saw Pereira behind him, he drove away, and ^ Pereira followed close behind ^ him. The driver didn’t stop for Pereira’s blue lights, and Pereira called the car’s tag number into dispatch to find out if the car was stolen. The driver ran several stoplights and drove recklessly. The Cayce and Columbia Police Departments and the Richland County Sheriffs Department assisted Pereira. For the safety of all involved, the chase was terminated by Sgt. 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