Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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"Che 0am cco ck REPORT € JQ ** 'compiled by Kristin von Karowsky and Charles Prashaw I Tuesday, September 5 Burglary; petit larceny, 5100 Farrow Road - Lincoln Ceme tery. Complainant, Larry Wight of Farrow Road, stated an un known subject(s) removed a piece of the storage shed by un known means. Subject(s) removed a lawn mower, twc weedeaters and a leaf blower. Regional supervisor was noti fied. Subject(s) exited the same way as they entered. Estimated total value: $750. Reporting officer: RJ. Nelson. Monday, September 4 Grand larceny - motor vehicle, 180 Greystone Blvd. - Galeana. The complainant, John Reitenga, a Galeana employee whc works at the incident location, advises that the vehicle was stolen from the parking lot of the business. Complainant ad vises he did not find any broken glass where the vehicle hac been parked, and that he still has possession of the vehicle's keys. Estimated value: $13,000. Reporting officer J.S. Williams. Malicious injury to private property; 500 Sumter Street, South Quad, 3:00 p.m. Brian Bourke, told police that unknown sub jects) damaged the door on a vending machine by pulling it off. It is unknown at this time if anything was taken from the vending machine. Owner of the machine was notified and estimated damage to the machine is $200. Diving under suspension, failure to surrender suspended li cense; comer of Assembly and Rosewood 5:05 p.m. Report ing officer observed 24-year-old Emmett Pickens driving er ratically after making a stop and checking with DMV records. It was discovered that Pickens’ license was suspended. Pick ens told police that it wasn’t and he had paperwork to prove it. After not surrendering his license, the officer wrote him two tickets. Sunday, September 3 Auto breaking, 2203 Greene Street. A subject or subjects made entry into the vehicle of victim, William J. Bennett, 21, via a previously broken window. The contents of the vehicle's glove box was placed in the passenger seat. The victim has not found anything missing. The vehicle was not processed for evidence due to weather conditions and contamination of the scene. Reporting officer: R.D. Cook. Weapons on school property, simple possession of marijua na, disorderly conduct; 1423 Whaley Street, Bates House 4:27 a.m. An officer while on routine patrol observed a black male laying in the driver’s seat of a 2000 Toyota van with the pas senger door open. The officer also noticed movement in the back of the van. After calling for backup, the reporting offi cer approached the van. Three other black males were lying down in the back of the van. After asking all four men to get out of the car and after a pat down, officers discovered mari juana on the third subject, a pistol on the first subject, and had to call the EMS to responding to the vomiting of subject tliree. Disorderly conduct; 601 Sumter Street, Moore Dorm lobby 12:30 a.m. Officer responded to ciill made by a Sizemore se curity guard who detained a resident in the lobby until the po lice arrived. The guard told police that the resident was "un steady on his feet, loud, boisterous and belligerent.” When police arrived they notice that the resident Glenn Larkins, 19, had a strong smell of alcohol on him afterwards the police placed him under arrest. Illegal use of telephone; 1520 Devine Street, Patterson Hall 9:00 p.m. A female resident of Patterson Hall called police after receiving what she said were several unwanted calls by Jake Monts, 26. The resident had several .answering machine messages from Monts and said that he has called numerous times since she meet him at Saturday’s football game. Later that night, police went to Monts’ resident and told him to stop. Saturday, September 2 Shoplifting under $ 1000,5910 Gamers Ferry Road - Food Li on. Complainant, Jennifer Blakely, reports she observed the suspect - described as a white male, 18-21 years old - place approximately eight cartons of cigarettes into a shopping bas ket. He then exited the store without paying. Estimated val ue: $250. Reporting officer: R. Sumpter. Disorderly conduct; 1000 George Rogers Boulevard, USC Sta dium approximately 11:00 p.m. Officer observed Glenn Wil son slouched over and unresponsive in section 32 of the sta dium. After waking Wdson up and noticing the smelling of alcohol on his breath, his slurred speech and his unsteadiness while walking, the officer arrested him. Disorderly conduct; 1000 George Rogers Boulevard. USC Sta dium, approximately 11:00 p.m. Officer noticed Jeffery Cheek, aged 32, run onto the football field before the end of the game after he wouldn’t get off the field. Officers said that he was very belligerent and had very strong smell of alcohol on his breath. Officers escorted him out of the stadium and arrested hinfc 0 Disorderly conduct; 1000 Geoige Rogers Boulevard, USC Sta dium approximately 11:00 p.m. Reporting officer, while po sitioned at the northwest corner of the football field, with about 36 seconds to go in the game, the officer observed Mare G Mehagan, 19 year-old, climb onto the north end zone goal post in an attempt to tear it down. The officer made repeat ed request for Mehagan to get off the goal post butffie refused At that point, several officers forced him off the goalpost and jumped on top of him to gain control of the subject. It was also later discovered that he had been drinking early. Friday, September 1 Malicious injury to personal property under $ 1000,1703 Tay lor Street, Townsliip Auditorium. Complainant, Garlotta Stack house, stated that an unknown subject(s) used unknown means ^ to break left rear tail-light assembly of vehicle. Estimated dam age to auto: $75. Reporting officer: M.E. Crooks. Weapon on school property, 2600 Barhamville Road, W.A. Perry Middle School. Complainant reported that a juvenile was in possession of a weapon (B.B. Gun) while on school property. Weapon was tagged. Reporting officer: J. Sloan. SG circulating petition to extend drop date by Brandon Larabee The Gamecock Student Government kicks off a mas sive petition drive today in an attempt to gather the signatures of 10,000 students who support extending the drop date. The petition drive is intended to show Uiat students support SG’s proposal to ex tend the drop date beyond the current pe riod, which was five days this semester. The drop date is the last day students can drop a class without getting a “W.” “This is a petition to gain support from the students,” SG President Jotaka Eaddy said. SG will be on Greene Street from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and Thursday, ac cording to SG Academic Affairs Director Heather Homick. SG also plans on taking the petitions to student organizations. Interested stu dents will be given petitions to gather sig natures, and an online petition might be started, Eaddy said. She said SG hopes to have the 10,000 signatures in about a month. Eaddy said 60 signatures had been gath ered after about two hours Tuesday after noon. According to Homick, the drop date needs to be extended to give students more time to decide if the class is too much or if the professor’s teaching style is not right for the student. “We feel that students need a little bit more time to...experience the course for a couple class periods” in order to get a better idea of how well they might do, Homick said. Homick said she knew several stu dents whose class meetings ended or be gan just as die drop period ended at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 30. “They didn’t even get a chance,” Hor nick said. “They automatically got a ‘ W’ because they never got a chance to drop [during] the free drop period.” Homick said SG decided to attempt to move only the drop date because fac ulty members were hesitant to move the add date, concerned that students would fall behind if they entered a class too late. Eiddy said SG had conducted research for die proposal. “The homework has been done on this,” she said. SG’s “homework” includes looking at the drop dates of seven AAU universi ties, which had an average drop period of 14.5 days, according to Eaddy. SG also plans on looking at the drop dates of ten “peer institutions,” colleges and universities USC compares itself to. The new list of peer institutions in clude the University of Virginia, Uni versity of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, University of New Mexico, University of Missouri, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and the University of Iowa. With the right research and student backing, Homick said, the proposal has a good chance. “I think we have a very good chance”of getting it approved, she said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. i 0 -1 I-“ Ti I .▼ ' — Why is TIAA-CREF the #1 choice nationwide? The TIAA-CREF Advantage. Year in and year out, employees at education and research institutions have turned to TIAA-CREF. 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