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CAROLINA © BRIEF Archaeology summit to discuss Topper site Nearly 1,000 archaeologists and other scientists who study Clovis culture and the earliest evidence of man in North America will be featured at USC’s “Clovis in the Southeast” Conference starting Wednesday. The conference, held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, will include interviews with scientists about their latest findings, including Topper, the pre-Clovis site in Allendale County excavated by USC professor and archeologist Albert Goodyear. Some archaeologists have debated the results of Goodyears radiocarbon dating of charcoal found with stone tools at Topper. Two Pulitzer winners to attend conference Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee will. be one of three notable writers featured at the Fall Festival of Authors on Wednesday. The three-day festival will hold sessions at 6 p.m. in the law school auditorium. Poet Charles Wright, also a Pulitzer Prize winner, and writer Francine Prose, whose novel, “Blue Angel," was a finalist for the National Book Award, will also be featured. USC poet and English professor Fred Dings is coordinator of this years festival. THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Ron Davis Faculty tuba recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Steven Michael Dragun senior saxophone recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 TUESDAY Johnathan Mears voice recitab 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Jameson Bucci guitar recitab 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 USC Left Bank Jazz Combo: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 016 WEDNESDAY Essena Setaro graduate violin recitab 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Fall Festival of Authors featuring Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee: 6 p.m. law school auditorium Stephanie Titus piano recitab 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 THURSDAY Foreign Language Poetry Declamation Contest: 8-2 p.m. Russell House lobby Fall Festival of Authors featuring Pulitzer Prize winning poet Charles Wright: 6 p.m. law school auditorium Palmetto Pans Concert: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 FRIDAY Fall Festival of Authors featuring MFA poetry and fiction readings: 3 p.m. Gervais and Vine, 620 Gervais St. Campbell Law School informational lunch: noon Russell House 322 OIN I HE WEB © wwW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM Ready online five days a week. Gravy. Weather Forecast TUDAV I THU. I FRI. High 69 High 61 High 61 low 91 Low 96 low 51 May the horse be with you Katie Kirkland/THK OAME<JOCK A Gamecock equestrian team member rides in a competition with Georgia on Friday. USC lost the competition, 1202-1184.75. POLICE REPORT THURSDAY, OCT. 20 Assistance rendered, 8:20 a.m. Bull Street Garage construction site A drill bit that fell from the top floor of the garage struck a 19-year-old man, embedding it 4-5 inches in the man’s left shoulder. EMS and First Responders were contacted, and EMS transported the man to Palmetto Health Richland. Accidental damage, 10 p.m. Moore dormitory, 600 Sumter St. The front brick wall was damaged by a vehicle involved in a traffic accident. Estimated valtle: $500. Reporting officer: J.M. Harrelson Assistance rendered, 7:20p. m. Koger Center, 1051 Greene St. The Koger Centers staff dispatched reporting officer D. Davis, First Responders and EMS in response to a person passed out in the lobby. The medical teams determined the victim needed to be evaluated further, and the victim was transported to Palmetto Health Richland. FRIDAY, OCT. 21 Reckless driving; Possession of an altered identification card, 4:02 a.m. Blossom and Park streets Reporting officer J.M. Harrelson stopped a green Chevy Tahoe he observed turn left on Park Street at high speed and strike several curbs in the Greek Village parking lot. Preston Priester, 20, was driving the vehicle and was found to be in possession of an altered ID. He was arrested and taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Hurricane Wilma speeds toward Florida ‘like a rocket’ Dauid Royse THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY WEST, Fla. — Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward storm-weary Florida on Sunday and grew stronger, threatening residents with 110-mph winds, tornadoes and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state’s southwest coast. After crawling slowly through the Caribbean for several days, Wilma pulled away from Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 2 storm and, forecasters said, began picking up speed “like a rocket” as it headed toward the U.S. mainland. The storm was expected to make landfall around dawn Monday. The southern half of the state was under a hurricane warning, and an estimated 160,000 residents were told to evacuate, although many in the low-lying Keys island chain decided to stay. “I cannot emphasize enough to the folks that live [ have you EVER F£Lf K£AAO*$£ AFT£R I Rob O'Neal/ The Associated Press Artist Tony Gregory and his wife Christine sign their latest piece of impromptu art on the hurricane shutters at the Art Attack gallery on Sunday in Key West, Fla. in the Florida Keys: A hurricane is coming,” Gov. Jeb Bush said. “Perhaps people are saying, ‘I’m going to hunker down.’ They shouldn’t do that. They should evacuate, and there’s very little time left to do so.” At 8 p.m., Wilma’s winds were just 1 mph shy of Category 3 status. As the storm crossed the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said they saw no evidence of wind shear that they hoped would reduce the hurricane’s intensity before it makes landfall in southwest Florida. Wilma had battered the Mexican coastline with howling winds and torrential rains before moving back out to sea. At least three people were .killed in Mexico, followi)!^ the deaths of 13 in lamaiGa and Haiti. Forecasters expected flooding from a storm surge of up to 17 feet on Florida’s southwest coast and 8 feet in the Keys. Tornadoes were possible in some areas through Monday. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, predicted Wilma would dramatically pick up speed as it approached Florida. “It’s really going to take off like a rocket,” he said. “It’s going to start moving like 20 mph.” Because the storm was expected to move so swiftly across Florida, residents of Atlantic coast cities such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale were likely to face hurricane force winds nearly as strong as those on the Gulf: Coast, forecasters said. V _Wilma_would_mark Florida’s eighth hurricane since August 2004 and the fourth evacuation of the Keys this year. Fewer than 10 percent of the Keys’ 78,000 residents evacuated, Monroe County Sheriff Richard Roth said. “I’m disappointed, but I understand it,” Roth said. “They’re tired of leaving because of the limited damage they sustained during the last three hurricanes.” By Sunday evening, . tornado warnings were already posted for parts of southwest Florida, and the hurricane’s outer bands began lashing coastal areas in Wilma’s path. A waterspout was spotted off Key West. It was markedly different than conditions Sunday morning in the Keys, when sunshine beckoned boaters onto the water and many residents went about their normal routines. “We were born and raised with storms, so we never leave,” Ann Ferguson said from her front porch in Key West. “What happens, happens. If you believe in the Lord, you don’t have no fear.” Some 100 Key West parishioners attended Mass at a Catholic church where a grotto built in the 1920s is said to provide protection from dangerous storms. Ray Price took his usual stroll down Duval Street to ciieck State Ordinance changes rules for gathering CHARLESTON — Charleston has adopted a new ordinance governing when groups need to -have permits for parades and protests. The change came after a federal lawsuit was filed by abortion protestors who^ complained that small groups™ were required to get permits. The ordinance requires permits only for parades consisting of at least 50 people. The ordinance has exceptions from permit requirements for funerals, student and governmental functions. Abortion protestors Timothy Cox and Cathy Rider sued Charleston and Travelers Rest in 2001 after each city said they needed to obtain a parade permit for demonstrations involving^ about 15 people. ^ Nation Journalist’s practices under investigation NEW YORK — The New York Times’ ombudsman said the newspaper should review reporter Judith Miller’s journalism practices to address “clear issues of trust and credibility” in her role in the CIA leak investigation. Times’ Public Editor Byron^ Calame wrote in a Sunday^ column that the Times and Miller’s Oct. 16 accounts of the reporting that landed Miller in jail for refusing to testily to a grand jury “suggested that the journalistic practices of Ms. Miller and Times’ editors were more flawed than I feared.” Miller, 57, went to jail for 85 days rather than testifying to a grand jury investigating the leaking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame’s identity. She was released Sept. 29 and agreed to testify after her source, Vice President Cheney’s^ chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter”™ Libby, released her from a promise of confidentiality. Miller’s attorney, Robert Bennett, said on Sunday that the newspaper is trying to deflect criticism of its own coverage of the leak investigation by targeting the Miller. World Conservative mayor wins Polish presidency WARSAW, Poland — Warsaw’s conservative Mayor Lech Kaczynski won Poland’s presidential runoff vote Sunday,^ partial results showed, sealing the^ rise of a party headed by his twin brother that pledges to uphold Roman Catholic values and strong welfare state protections. With 91 percent of votes counted, Kaczynski led pro market legislator Donald Tusk from the Civic Platform party, 54.5 percent to 45.5 percent. Kaczynski, a former child actor, claimed victory and signaled that he was ready to reach out to Tusk’s party after the hard-fought election. Kaczynski overtook Tusk by convincing older and poorer^ voters that he would protect the” social safety protections that have eroded somewhat in the 16 years since the collapse of communism. Kaczynski would become half of an extraordinary power team at the head of Polish politics — his twin, Jaroslaw, heads their Law and Justice party, which won parliamentary election Sept. 25. The brothers, both former activists in the Solidarity Trade Union movement, won fame as child star* in a hit film, “Two