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Wednesday Volume LXX No. 12 University of South Carolina, Columbia , SC.Sept. ctA, 1980 ^iiHon+ charqed with rape By Leroy Williams Staff Writer Columbia Police arrested a 29-year-old USC student in connection with two rapes that occurred at a Shandon area apartment in August and September. Columbia Police investigator Sandy Thompson said Charles Patrick Leopold of K-8 Garden Manor Apartments 'This kind of rape is hard to defend against, but a lot of girls are careless. A lot of girls go out get drunk and don't care who they get rides with. Some are too trusting.' ? Sandy Thompson, Columbia Police investigator A ?ui i n? ?i ??i ? * - e ? ? uii nsiuauu nuciu was cuciigeu wiui une cuum ui uurgtary, two counts of criminal sexual conduct in the first degree and two counts of indecent exposure. LEOPOLD WAS arrested Thursday for indecent exposure after being picked up at Maplewood and Burney drives in the Shandonarea. Municipal Judge Ann Furr Monday ordered Leopold's bone set at $100,000, Thompson said. Leopold is being held at the Columbia City Jail. tjoin rape victims were usr students. Thompson said th< rape victims picked Leopold u'om a line-up while he wai being held on the indecent exposure charges. Jesse Jackson m mmZJ WM M V Hi The Rev. Jesse Jackson answers questions in campaigning for President Carter's re-election. (Phi rfl ':...:r-J^-f-^-.lj ' T? >^v^. Mllifa Sg'-^:^ r^-r, ^ ;, ; .Wk^ag^^j^ -4'|I TTj/s street on Edisto Avenue was the site o^^o_t being charged for the rapes and other incidents in i j THE FIRST ASSAULT occurred on Aug. 15, Thompson ' said. A man entered the apartment through a window and raped the woman inside. Soon after the attack, the woman moved out of the apartment. On Sept. 7, the same man returned to the apartment and ' raoed the new tenant when shp ramp tn tho Hnnp empty the garbage, Thompson said. 1 "This kind of rape is hard to defend against, but a lot of * girls are careless," Thompson said. "A lot of girls go out, get drunk and don't care who they get rides with. Some are too J trusting." 5 Thompson said Leopold is under investigation in connection with another rape and other indecent exposure in campaigns for < ; ti- By Leroy Williams Staff Writer The Rev. Jesse Jackson said in Columbia Tuesday that Jimmv Carter's in | tegrity and experience warrant his re-election. Speaking on the State House steps, Jackson, a civil rights activist, attacked |: independent candidate John Anderson and Republican candidate Ronald Reagan. ^ 'The Anderson campai? _? It. . aeceir. no is nor an in Hk but by convenience.' \ "The Anderson campaign I jf"* \ is full of deception and igi 4s/ \ deceit," Jackson said. "He is ' / * no* an independent by i Mk m \ conviction, but by con9 Jackson called Reagan's *: .. ;i, view of the world "too i w x . w narrow. and that is dangerous." The Greenville is not his fault that priv i Carter is not perfect. at using racist' 'code words like ^I *aw anc* orc*er arK* fusing" in t" hiscamDaicnsoeeches. state of race relations under P^ "There has been more racial , * ? _ . .. 1 ministration than at anv wumo.a / uesaay. He is timeyn our 'naVion's history," ito by John Parnott) he said. ?l|pS|flfe|^4 r'--c JE^pNw> y :^:rf-\[J^ ^~'-'r"f~'^jP^ =1^-J?' o?>~ ^ ^ ^ '^": .. ''': ... . :>: : * ^ac." v ; . apes^n August ara/^September. A (JSC student is 'he Shandon area. (Photo by Kim Newman) cidents, all of which occurred in the same area. THOMPSON SAID police don't know whether Leopold has a criminal record. Thompson said anyone who witnesses an indecent exposure should call the police. "We can't do anything until someone reports it to us," Thompson said. "Since this came out, we have had people call and tell us that this has happened to them." The "Wednesday's section of today's edition deals with the problem of rape. See page 8 for an in-depth look at the myths, the precautions and what to do if it happens to you. Carter-Mondale Jackson defended the College Tuesday afternoon president's economic before traveling to Florence, record "It's not his fault Orangeburg and Denmark. that the economy is bad." he said. "It is not his fault that private industry collapsed. Mr. Carter is not perfect, fSjStx ?-T-? i - ^ and the American voters are My. I OCl3y not perfect.'' ? '; Jackson said he did not jg?& i |Q(?* come to South Carolina just ^ because recent polls showed Reagan was ahead in the RH film: Gunga Diiv starring Cary in is full of deception and Douglas dependent by conviction, Fairbanks Jr., is a silly adventure storip soldiers. fanatic - ? . -? -y w ' ' "*"**'T* *~W>\ state. "The Carter campaign Thugees, and a is serious about winning native &%af#jP* bOV^ eVjeACKSONheSrA. , F I) Wl,? W8ntS *? ?t JACK SO INI C A Lt< 1/ %*_ lrf| * >7 . President Carter's with- "Urglar^ a-MOWS at drawal from Sunday s 7 atld9:30p*m?|^ presidential debate "a '* FUl?*\aildi IeC-1 tactical move." He said the by Herb Graff president would have been qf? debating two Republicans. 11 * ** Jackson said he will be KUSS6II HOUS6 Ballroom:! "Bloopthat the economy is had. It fT8' ^Ut-Takes, and ate industry collapsed. Mr. ^ Bits on id the American voters are Ir ,IITI' I Weather B working closely with the Today: Mostly NAACP in "Operation Big Cloudy with a Vote," a voter registration chance of four-town trip through South I Carolina in support of the [ThursdOV .* Cloudy Carter-Mondale ticket. He I hfgfa fyt f/tffl f-irVP" was scheduled to speak before a rally at Benedict