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CAROLINA G BRIEF USC Upstate to build Greenville campus USC Upstate announced Tuesday plans to build a free standing Greenville campus on land to be donated by Greenville Technical College. The 13-acre site is valued at $1.5 million. The university expects to break ground on the first of three buildings in December. “This is indeed an incredible day for the University of South Carolina Upstate," said John C. Stockwell, chancellor of USC Upstate. “This generous donation of land will allow the university to achieve substantial growth in the Greenville area and will make earning a four year degree much more accessible to Greenville residents. USC Upstate will now establish its true academic* presence in'Greenville." University organizing fall break Katrina trip USC and the Salvation Army are accepting applications at 8:30 a.m. today for students who want to go to the Mississippi Gulf Coast during fall break to help with hurricane relief efforts. USC will accept 106 students on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is $40. The Salvation Army will provide meals and lodging at their headquarters in Biloxi, Miss. For an application, visit www.sa.sc.edu/ocsp or the Russell House University Union. THIS WEEK O USC TODAY Chicken Finger Wednesday: Grand Market Place (clothing required, please) THURSDAY USC Symphony Orchestra with Mark O’Connor: 7:30 p.m. Koger Center; adults $20, USC faculty/staff/seniors $18, USC students $8 SATURDAY USC rugby vs. College of Charleston: 1:30 p.m. Blatt P.E. field, free ON THE WEB © www.dailygamecock.com Read online five days a week. Jeepers. Weather Forecast TODAY THU. PHI. SAT. SUO. High 92 High 92 High 95 High 99 High 90 Loui 10. Low 68 Low 68 Low 68 Low 61 Want fries with that? ' EUst Bearers IfWY. UAHEGOCJC Morgan Spurlock, creator and star of the film “Super Size Me” talks to students Tuesday night in the Russell House Ballroom. POLICE REPORT MONDAY, SEPT. 19 Larceny of bicycle Bates residence hall, 1423 Whaley St. The victim said someone removed a blue mountain bike secured with a cable lock from the north-side bike rack. Estimated value: $55. Reporting officer: L. Welch Larceny of bicycle Maxcy Dorm, 1332 Pendleton St. The victim said someone removed his 21-speed, sliver-and-yellow Trek bike from the location along with a chain lock. Estimated value: $375. Reporting officer: T. Brewster-Gooding Larceny of camera Preston College, 1323 Greene St. The victim said someone removed her black Canon 35-millimeter camera from the senior common room. Estimated value: $550. Reporting officer: Norant Distribution, distribution within 1/2 mile proximity, conspiracy Snowden residence hail, 600 Main St. Reporting officer L. Welch was dispatched in response to a complaint of possible drug activity. Complainant Morgan O’Donnell gave a description that matched subject No. 1, Timothy Clement, and upon contact, the subject began to quickly move away. Welch approached the subject, but the subject would not remove his hands from his pockets after repeated requests to do so. The subject was placed in investigative detention, and a Terry frisk was performed. Welch round a small bag or marijuana and removed it from the subject’s person. The subject was arrested. A search revealed a bag filled with several small, empty bags normally used in the distribution of marijuana, a small folding knife and $120. The complainant said he was approached by the subject and asked if he would like to buy marijuana. The complainant refused and notified USCPD. By aistriDuting illegal drugs, tne subject conspired to violate S.C. narcotics laws. Harassing phone calls l.ieber College, 902 Sumter St. The victim said the subject, her ex husband, had been calling her several times but that no threats were made. She said she asked the subject to discontinue calling, but he continued to call her. Two tons of Georgia boiled peanuts to go to troops in Iraq Daniel Yee THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FOREST PARK, Ga. — Soldiers in war often yearn for the comforts of home not found on the battlefield — a new pair of socks, a package of homemade cookies. Soon, members of Georgias 48th Infantry Brigade will be receiving something they can’t find anywhere else: boiled peanuts from their home state. Two tons of the peanuts — about 5,000 store-ready, 12.5 ounce packages labeled “The Country Caviar” and “Georgia Fresh Green Peanuts” — were loaded into four Iraq-bound shipping containers on Tuesday. It’s expected to take a week for Atlanta-based shipping giant UPS Inc. to deliver the shipment of Hardy Farms peanuts to the brigade’s 4,300 soldiers. “There’s enough peanuts for every one of them to get a pouch,” said Rex Bullock, the Pitts, Ga., farmer who helped “Operation Boiled Peanuts” get off the ground. “Peanuts are a big crop for Georgia. This is something you’d eat if you grew up in the South.” The project started when one of Bullock’s former employees, Spc. Clark Rountree, made a simple homesick request in late July — he yearned for boiled peanuts amid the parched sand and 130-degree temperatures of Iraq. © ZEUS Internet Marketing Specialist Zeus Industrial Products, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of fluoropolymer tubing for use in the medical device, aerospace, electronics, analytical, semiconductor, and environmental industries. We are seeking qualified candidates for the position of Internet Marketing Specialist. The Internet Marketing Specialist will primarily assist the Internet Marketing Manager with analyzing and determining ROI for Zeus Marketing programs. The Specialist will also be responsible for managing, designing, and developing the Zeus Web site and internal Intranet. The Internet Specialist will (on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis) gather data, compile results, and report on ROI to the management team. The Specialist will create, edit, and optimize graphics for the Web, and develop/edit HTML/ASP pages. The Specialist will design, publish, and analyze results from customer surveys. He/She will edit and publish the monthly Zeus e-mail newsletter in HTML and PDF formats. The Web Specialist will also assist as needed with the trade show preparations, direct mail campaigns, and other Marketing programs. Zeus Industrial Products, Inc., is an energetic, exciting, growing company offering competitive compensation, benefits package. Please visit our web site at www.zeusinc.com. Please send your resume and salary requirements to: Zeus Industrial Products, Inc., P.O. Box 2167, Orangeburg, SC, 29116. Attention: HR, or use or e-mail address: marketing@zeusinc.com. Our fax is 803-536-5550. No phone calls please! EOE/M/F/D/V * TEST PREP COURSES ON CAMPUS —WBBM get Preppsd! classes begli/v jfj| October 1 avuA Noverm.ber 2 9S • Courses designed by former GRE, and GMAT question writer • 24 hours of classroom instruction • Classes presented in PowerPoint for clear, well organized lectures • Official GRE and GMAT sample items used in class • All courses taught by qualified instructors with previous classroom teaching experience • Fee includes all up-to-date materials, including computer adaptive PowerPrep software • Courses held dn Saturdays and weeknights easuj online registration http://ced.sc.edu • 803-777-9444 State SLED awarded grant to check DNA samples The State Law Enforcement Division will get $1.1 million to deal with a backlog in DNA samples from old cases where arrests haven’t been made. The U.S. Justice Department awarded a $511,584 grant to hire eight scientists to make sure backlogs don’t happen in the future, SLED Chief Robert Stewart said. Previous grants helped the agency get through current cases that had been stacking up. Police agencies are sending DNA samples from cold cases without a suspect hoping to get a match, Stewart said. Nation Cell phone ban urged for teenage drivers New drivers have enough things to worry about without, adding cell phones and other wireless devices to the mix, federal safety regulators say. They want all states to make it illegal for teenagers and other novice drivers to jabber on phones. The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday voted to add to its annual list of “Most Wanted Safety Recommendations to States” a ban on novice drivers using any wireless communication devices. “Learning how to drive while distracted is definitely a recipe for disaster," said the board’s ( chairman, Mark Rosenker. World Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter dies at 96 Concentration camp guards stood with their rifles ready, awaiting the order to fire at Simon Wiesenthal and other prisoners standing on the edge of a pit where their bodies would topple. The future Nazi hunter waited to die. And waited. Hours later, after many of the condemned slumped in exhaustion, the camp commandant delivered a reprieve: Soviet troops were coming and the prisoners would be taken away. “We thought we were going mad," Wiesenthal later wrote. “Perhaps we feared (or hoped) we were mad already. " Wiesenthal, who died Tuesday in his sleep at his Vienna home at age 96, was driven by his memories of the Holocaust to fight for justice for its victims, dedicating himself to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to being a voice for the 6 million Jews who perished. Chileans look to help Andean mining town SEWELL, Chile — This old mining town high in the Andes has no streets. It has stairs. Its houses and shops spread across two mountain slopes at an elevation of 7,250 feet, too steep for vehicles. Seen from a distance, the town looks like a pyramid of steps flanked by buildings painted in vivid hues of green, yellow, red and blue, i* Chileans are striving to restore a town that played a historic role in the birth of the copper industry, the country’s main export. The government, which declared the town a national monument in 1998, hopes to persuade UNESCO to add it to the U.N. agency’s list of World Heritage sites. Sewell was founded a century ago as home for hundreds of miners working shafts at nearby El Teniente, the world’s largest underground copper mine.