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Carolina News •March 6. Driving Under die Influence. Bluff Road and Rosewood Drive. The responding of ficer observed a suspect vehicle travel ing north through the Williams-Brice Sta dium parking lot with the trunk open. The subject then turned left and failed to signal heading west on Geoige Rogers Boulevard. The subject then turned right on Bluff Road heading north. The offi cer observed the subject drifting back and forth across the fog line. The officer ini tiated a traffic stop and approached the suspect vehicle. Upon reaching the dri ver’s door the officer noticed a strong odor of alcohol coming from the suspect vehicle. The officer asked the subject to exit the vehicle. As the subject exit ed the vehicle, he was unsteady on his feet. The officer then administered var ious field sobriety tests. The subject per formed poorly and refused some of the tests. The subject then became loud and uncooperative. The subject was placed under arrest for driving under the influ ence and transported to the Richland County Department of Corrections. •March 3. Disorderly Conduct Simple Possession of Marijuana. Unlawful use of Driver’s license. Possession of Fake Identifica tion. While at the incident location on separate calls the responding officers no ticed the subjects striking a vehicle with their hands and setting off the vehicle’s alarm. The subjects were also being loud and boisterous and using profane lan guage. The responding officers approached the subjects and smelled a strong odor of alcohol on both subjects. The second sub ject attempted to leave the scene upon being questioned and the officers then placed the subjects under arrest for dis orderly conduct. A search incident to ar rest revealed both subjects to be in pos session of false identifications. The second subject was charged with being in pos session of false identification. The first subject was charged with unlawful use of a driver’s license. The subject also had a bag containing a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana in his posses sion. The subject was charged with simple possession of marijuana. The ev idence was placed into a locker and the subjects were transported to the Rich land County Department of Corrections. Festival from page A1 story collections, “The Whtch” and “In the Loyal Mountains,” and his novel Where the Sea Used to Be, have earned him critical acclaim by notable literary figures such as Jim Harrison, George Plimpton and Fred Chappell. His other books, The Book ofYaak and Fiber, are impassioned pleas to save his communi ty of Yaak Valley from the exploitation of industry. USC’s Writers’ Festival is sponsored by the English De partment, Thomas Cooper Society and Thomas Cooper Library, the College of Liberal Arts and the Office of the Provost. For more information about the festival, contact festival co ordinator Keen Butterworth at 777-2216 or at AKButler@gwm.sc.edu, or call the English Department at 777 4203. Slander from page A1 Ewert, an attorney for the California News paper Publishers Association. A Web master’s responsibility should be propor tionate to his or her degree of involvement on the site, he said. “It’s plausible to hold a Webmaster responsible,” he said. The overwhelming support Congress has shown for the Internet’s freedom may be why Curzon-Brown’s case is in legal limbo. His first legal team dropped him in January and he’s busy searching for an other lawyer. “I’m so depressed,” he said after giv ing a recent writing lecture. “I can bare ly stand going to class.” The far-reaching lawsuit, filed late last year, names Webmaster Ryan Lathouw eis as a key defendant, as well as 25 “John i Does,” who wrote the anonymous opin ions and are arguably the most responsi ble for any libel, but hard to track down. The suit also names the college and its student government body for hav ing linked their sites to — and implicitly endorsed — teacherreview.com. “This is the first libel-by-linking law suit that I know of in the country,” said Roger Myers, the attorney representing the Associated Students body. “And it would have a dramatic impact on one’s ability to link one site to another. It would basically prevent people from surfing on the Net or using search engines. People would err on the side of caution and not link to anything anymore.” Lathouwers, 27, of San Francisco, said he couldn’t care less about being sued. “I haven’t done anything wrong,” said the former City College student who now works as a software engineer for a com pany in Sausalito. “I’m just a conduit for opinion.” His only goal when he put up the Wfeb site in 1997 was to help spread informa tion to students and help his classmates avoid sitting through dull lectures. That goal has been accomplished, he said. The American Civil Liberties Union, which is defending the Webmaster, said Curzon-Brown should lighten up. Being called mentally ill by a unknown student is just a matter of opinion and an expres sion of free speech, the ACLU argues. And it’s imperative, ACLU lawyers say, these students — and all Internet users —be able to speak their minds. “This is a very important case,” said Ann Brick of the ACLU in San Francis co, which is co-representing the site’s Webmaster. “Sites like this are the quin tessential forum for expression of opin ion...The First Amendment protects com ments that are both unkind and flattering.” News Analysis Establishments, attacks defeat Bradley, McCain Tuesday: a sunny day in West Orange, New Jersey. Not far from the home of his presidential campaign, former ( Democratic Sen. Bill Bradley with draws from the race. One hour liner. also a sunny day in Sedona, Arizona With a gorgeous backdrop of red desert and mountains, Republican Sen. John McCain announces that he is “suspending” his presidential campaign. In effect, he’s withdrawing. Similar results from dissimilar cam paigns. But both Bradley and McCain were forced out of the race by a simple concept: political mathematics. For McCain, it was figuring out that he didn’t have a prayer against Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Bush had more than 600 delegates heading into a stretch that included this week’s “Southern Tuesday” primaries, which would more than like ly give him more than 300 additional convention votes. Just over 1,000 are needed for the GOP nomination. For Bradley, it was the feet that Vice President A1 Gore had won every single Democratic contest held thus far—in cluding a stunning (but hardly unex pected) sweep of all the “Super Tues day” states. A Bradley win would have been on par with manna from heaven. Bradley’s withdrawal from the race was expected—stories about aides drafting his farewell speech were circu lating before voters headed to the polls Tbesday. McCain was expected to have staying power, but lost too many crucial contests Tbesday. He needed to sweep the Northeast (he lost Maine), take a ma jority of the delegates in New York (he fell far short) and beat Bush in the non binding “beauty contest” between all the presidential contenders (he came in third, behind Gore and Bush). Political strategists will draw two lessons from the abrupt iialt to both pres idential primary races: a candidate who gets establishment support early and hammers his or her opponent lias the id vantage in the race for the nomination. Bradley acknowledged the enormous task of beating the establishment in his withdrawal speech. He noted that he and McCain had both run into “entrenched power” within their parties. McCain’s loss had to do with the or ganizational power of the establishment Bush rounded up the endorsements of almost every GOP governor and sena tor early in the campaign. That gave him ready-made state organizations with a proven ability to win elections—an ad vantage compounded by the fact that a majority of states have Republican gov ernors (including delegate-heavy New York, with its infamously arcane ballot rules). In the Democratic side, the estab lishment advantage was one of numbers. Gore’s endorsements gave him automatic “superdelegates" at the Democratic con vention. Before the first votes were cast. Gore already had more than 500 of the 2,000 delegates needed to win the nom ination. But negative campaigning also hurt Bradley and McCain. Gore began to ques tion Bradley s proposals after the former senator took the lead in New Hampshire and New York. He called Bradley’s $65 billion health care proposal and plan for national gun registration “too bold.” Gore thrashed Bradley in Iowa while taking the lead in New Hampshire. That sent Bradley limping into New Hamp shire, where lie went on the attack against Gore. Bradley closed the gap and lest the election by just four points, 5248. But McCain’s 18-point victory over Bush stole all Bradley’s thunder —- and all the media attention. It also brought a non-stop Bush bar rage against McCain in South Carolina. Bush hammered the senator by repeat: ing the charge that McCain “says one thing and does another” daily, usually with a different charge every day. -:; The McCain camp struck back, charging Bush with distorting McCain’-s record and saying the Texas governor “twists the truth like Bill Clinton.” It backfired on the candidate who had been all smiles and all reform in New Hamp shire. McCain lost his footing and his message, and never quite recovered. He also attacked the wrong people at the wrong time. McCain’s attack on Rat Robertson and Jerry fhlweH was com pared to Pres. Clinton’s 1992 “Sister Souljah” speech, in which Clinton dis tanced himself from the more extreme elements of his party. However, McGon made his speech when he needed to win over conservatives. Instead, he alienat ed them. From there on out, press coverage focused on McCain’s attacks. His mes sage barely found its way to the public, and the “reform conservatism” that turned him into a national contender was drowned out in a barrage of stories about his latest assault. And while McCain’s anti-establishment rhetoric often comes across as populous zeal in person, the newspaper accounts made him appear angry- y Now, America heads to the second phase of Campaign 2000, the longest general election in recent memory. Bush and Gore will no doubt employ the same tactics against each other that they used in the general elections. Bush was already saying Gore “says one thing and does another” in the same news con ference in which he reacted to McCain’s announcement. Apparently, with nei ther candidate holding an organization al advantage, winning the general elec tion will come down to the second element of Bush and Gore’s primary vic tories: Who can hit the hardest. T I Brandon Larrabee is a sophomore journalism major and writes about campaign 2000. He can be readier by e-mail at: laughin98@hot mail.com I /o selected merchandise and novelty items Sweatshirts • t-shirts • cups The Official Bookstore 1400 Greene Street • Russell House Where your purchase benefits both you and the scholarship programs of the University of South Carolina 777-4160 While we're cleaning, check out , our daily specials and in store sale table.