Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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_ _Carolina News_ Law students gain temporary immunity by Bill McDonald College Press Exchange Like Socrates, USC’s School of Law professors like to teach not by lecturing, but by peppering their students with thorny questions. So when the school’s 700 students had the opportunity Friday to obtain “tem porary immunity” from their professors’ intimidating questions and laser-beam stares, they jumped at it. The result: $140 in cash and a 15,808 pound pyramid of canned meats and veg etables and two tons of rice all set for delivery on Friday to the Harvest Hope Food Bank. “This is an absolutely amazing dona tion,” said Pam Robinson, the school’s pro bono program director, who launched the annual “Canned Immunity” Food Drive five years ago. In 1995, she had persuaded the pro fessors to grant their students “limited im munity from questioning” if the stu dents brought in canned food. A few professors refused, she said. But most complied “if only to grant a day of immunity.” John Freeman, who teaches corpo rate law, said he told his students “to bring in either money or canned food.” But he would only smile when asked how much immunity he was granting. Jack Turner-Vaught, a first-year law student, was loaded down Friday with 60 cans of beans. “I just feel like the food is going to people who need it a lot more than I do,” he said. Brian Gambrell, a third-year law stu dent from Honea Path, said his contracts professor last year “made the mistake of saying we wouldn’t have to answer ques tions for the rest of the semester.” “So we all went out and bought box es and boxes of macaroni and cheese,” he said. “We cleaned out every grocery store in town. Columbia had a macaroni-and cheese shortage for one whole week.” Michelle Tabarrok, a third-year law student, said each member of professor Ann Furr’s gender, race and sexuality class agreed to donate a 50-pound bag of rice. One member of the class matched the class’s donation “anonymously,” the Co lumbia native said. The annual food drive has raised tons of food for the Harvest Hope Food Bank over the past five years, Robinson said. “The students really get into the spir it of things. We’re all part of the com munity here, and we’ve got to help those less fortunate,” Robinson said. Dianne Hillyer, the food bank’s di rector of development, said Friday’s do nation was the largest it has ever received from a college or university. “I just hope the students’ enthusiasm is contagious and spreads to other cam puses,” she said. “The food will assist us tremendously in feeding the hungry throughout our 18-county service area.” News Analysis Bradley's run ends, Republicans move on by Brandon Larrabee Associate News Editor The Democratic race ended Tuesday night. Former Sen. Bill Bradley, DJ9 J., was plastered in a last-ditch effor to gain momentum as Democrats in Washington state firmly told him: “Thanks, but no thanks.” Vice President A1 Gore thrashed the insurgent Bradley with almost three-fourths of the vote, an un expectedly large margin and one likely to end Bradley’s already weak primary bid. Washington's non-binding Democratic primary (no delegates were awarded to either candidate) was Bradley's last desperate attempt to win somewhere—anywhere — before taking on Gore on “Super Tuesday,” when more than a dozen states, including delegate-heavy New York and California, head to the polls. Bradley now seems headed for a loss in most, if not all of those states. His chances, once so lull of hope, are now almost nil. Bradley had led in New Hampshire. He lost. He had led in New York. Not anymore. Bradley should have gotten more attention after his close loss in-New Hampshire. But GOP hopeful and Arizona Sen. John McCain's surprising 19-point vic tory' focused all attention on the Republican race. Bradley was the casualty. Now, Gore can run basically unhindered to the De mocratic nomination. His aura of inevitability having returned, he can spend unlimited time bashing McCain and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the likely GOP nom inee. Bush himself should be so lucky. The Texas gov ernor, once seen as the inevitable nominee, still faces a stiff challenge from McCain. And Tuesday’s results seem to have done little to diffuse that challenge. But they signaled trouble for the Arizona senator. Bush did win all three GOP contests by large margins. But he still feces battles in New York, Con necticut and other states where the GOP is more mod erate. Bush was expected to win Virginia, where the es tablishment is powerful and contempt for McCain runs strong, at least among Republicans. McCain's decision to take a stab at Virginia was misguided, even if it wasn't as foolish as Bush's attempt to make Arizona competitive. Themaverick senator was down in Virginia before the race even began: His proposed $ 1.10-a-pack tax on cigarettes made him immensely unpopular in the south ern part of the suite, where tobacco is a viuul part of the economy. ButMcCain’s surprise attack Monday on promi nent Bush supporters might have hurt him, as well. According to a Voter News Service poll, Bush won Christian conservatives, who accounted for 20 percent of the voters Tuesday, by an 8-to-l maigin. The over whelming victory among the religious right was un doubtedly because McCain blasted'Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell as “agents of intolerance” Monday, com paring them to Louis Farrakhan and the Rev. A1 Sharp ton. “The voters of Vuginia rejected tire politics of pitting one religion against another,” The Associated Press quoted Bush as saying. "We are expanding our base without destroying our foundations.” But Bush seemed to be doing very Mule expanding. Where Democrats and independents have turned out, they have voted overwhelmingly for McCain. Where bedrock Republicans have turned out to stop a “De mocratic invasion,” Bush has won. And polls show the Arizona senator much more popular than Bush among voters of all stripes—except those in the GOP. The three contests set the stage for next week, when GOP voters in 13 states head to the polls. How well McCain does among Republicans in those contests, many of them closed to Democrats and independents, could determine whether lie can fight Bush until the convention. Feb. 27 • Simple posses sion of marijua na, Bull and Crestwood streets. While on routine patrol, the responding offi cers saw the sus pect vehicle fail to stop at the intersection of orinn 9 n H Crestwood streets. The respond ing officers initiated a traffic stop on the suspect vehicle at the inci dent location. An S.C. DMV check of the subject revealed that he didn’t have an S.C. driver’s license. The subject was arrested and charged with having no S.C. driver’s license and failure to stop. A search of the subject revealed two plastic bags contain ing a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana. The subject was also charged with simple possession of marijuana. The vehicle was towed to the city garage, and a court date was set. Feb. 26 • Simple possession of marijua na. The responding officers observed the suspect vehicle trav eling without proper tail lights. The responding officers initiated a traffic stop. Upon approaching the vehicle, one of the officers noticed a strong smell of marijua na. The first subject left the vehi cle, and upon consented search, a bag with a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana was removed from the subject’s left front jacket pocket. The first sub ject was arrested for simple pos session of marijuana, and a court date was set. The vehicle was towed to the city garage and the subject u/3Q tn the Richland County Department of Corrections. The evidence was entered into a storage locker. Feb. 25 • Simple assault, petit larceny, auto breaking, Capstone. Victim said that while making a delivery to Capstone, he was verbally threatened by subjects. The vic tim also said that when he returned to his vehicle, he found that his prescription sunglasses, valued at $300, were missing. One lens of the glasses was found near the Capstone entrance. A victim impact form was given to the victim, who filled out a state ment. The lens was entered into evidence. The investigation con tinues. Feb. 22 • Found contraband, LaBorde. While serving a search warrant, responding officers found a bag containing 5.5 grams of a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana in the air conditioning unit of the room. The bag was placed into an evidence locker. Everybody Scores! m m REGISTER WITH MYBYTES.COM AND SCORE BIG! 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