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Monday, October 2
• Grand Larceny of laptop, Earth
work Science Building room 705.
Jessica Simpson, 26, stated to police
that an unknown person(s) took her
unsecured laptop computer. The
laptop, a Dell Inspiron 5000 sens,
had an estimated value of $3,500.
Reporting officer was R.C. Shirer.
• Larceny of CDs and CD player,
Gambrell Hall. Kelly Lynch, 21,
stated to police (hat she left her book
bag on the counter in the restroom
while she used the bathroom. Lynch
said she went out into the hall for
several minutes and looked for the
bookbag and then went back to the
restroom and found it. About $260
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er were missing from the bookbag.
The CD player was described as grey
and black with a Matchbox 20 stick
er on it. Reporting officer was C.J.
Garo
• Malicious injury to real proper
ty, McBride Quad. An unnamed,
USC Housing employee, reported
to police that an unknown person(s)
vandalized the third floor north stair
well door to McBride Quad by spray
painting profane language. Estimated
value of the damaged done is $ 100
and the reporting officer was G.S.
Whitlock.
Saturday, September 29
• Malicious injury to real proper
ty, Booker T. Washington room 205
C. The small building which is
owned by the College of Liberal
Arts had several of its windows bro
ken out by an unknown person(s)
throwing rocks at the building.
Estimated value of damage is $100
and the reporting officer was C.
McKnight.
• Larceny of parking meters, 1700
College St. USGemployee, Cleve
land Marsh, stated to police that
an unknown person(s) removed one
green parking meter. The meter was
later found out to be #734 and have
an estimated value of $475. Re
porting officer was D.W. Friels.
Monday, October 2
• Vehicle Fire/Abandoned Vehicle.
5500 Block Randall Ave. The com
plainant, W.C. Jones, stated that list
ed vehicle was found on fire,
rightful owner could not be found.
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sponded by putting the fire out and
unhooking the electrical system of
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• Trespassing/ Drunkenness. 1416
Park St. The complainant, T.M. Mc
Cloghry, observed the suspect, Hen
ry Cheesboro, asleep in a clearly
marked "no trespassing" area at
the incident location. The suspect
said he was aware of the no tres
passing notice and had a strong odor
of an alcoholic beverage about his
breath and body. The subject was
unsteady on his feet and continual
ly used profanity towards the
complainant. Subject was arrested
and taken to jail.
• Attempted Burlary/Strong Arm
Robbery. 1035 Bryan St. The vic
tim, Kenyatta Ryans, stated that
when she entered her residence by
the front door, she heard the sound
of glass breaking coming from the
kitchen area. She ran out of the
house and observed a black male
standing by her kitchen window.
When she asked what he was doing,
he replied, "I came to clean the place
out." She then said she was going to
call the police, at which point the
suspect, Jerome Waddell, started to
walk toward the victim. When the
suspect got close to the victim, he
hit her in the face, knocking her to
the ground.
Sunday, October 1
• Petit Larceny. 1123 Kinard Court.
The complainant, Ricky Holley, a
mechanic at the incident location,
confirmed that the victim, Tony
Johnson, is a customer who brought
his vehicle to the incident loction
for repair. The suspect, believed to
live in a junk vehicle on the east side
of the business, asked’thc com
plainant if he could borrow a car bat
tery. The complainant said no. Lat
er, the car battery was found stolen.
• Drunkenness. 634 Harden St. The
complainant and reporting officer,
r.C. ihomas, observed the suspect,
John Eugene Mixson, unsteady on
his feet and falling against his vehi
cle. As Thomas approached Mix
son, the suspect proceeded to get
into his vehicle and back out of
the parking space. Thomas or
dered the suspect to put the vehicle
in park and turn off the ignition. In
stead, the suspect put the vehicle in
gear to go forward. Thomas imme
diately reached into the vehicle, put
it into park and turned off the igni
tion. Mixson was arrested and tak
en to jail.
Saturday, September 30
• Larceny. 1800 Senate St. The com
plainant, William Radden, stated that
an unknown subject removed park
ing meter No. 801 from the ground.
The meter-cannot be located. Esti
mated damages: $350.
Petition
from page 1
and to think about it," Eaddy said. "You
can’t just take something that’s like this
issue and ask them to vote on it."
Hornick said some of the faculty
members she had spoken to already ap
proved of the proposal.
"They think it’s a great idea for stu
dents," she said. "They agree that we
have too short of a time."
Those professors don’t think it will
disrupt class to move the drop date back,
Homick said. One concern with past
proposals, which included an extension
of the add date, was that students com
ing into class late would lag behind and
perform poorly.
The amount of research SG has done
this year also distinguishes this proposal
from those of the past, Homick said.
"We have more research than
they’ve had in the past," she said.
Eaddy said if the SG is able to gath
er 10,000 signatures, it can show fac
ulty senate that students "truly support
what we’re doing."
But SG hopes to get the proposal
in front of the senate before the end of
the semester, and Homick and Eaddy
said the number of signatures wouldn’t
necessarily make or break that timing.
Hornick said even if the goal is
reached, the petition drive wouldn’t
end until the proposal goes up for ap
proval.
"It’s our goal, but it’s not just some
magic number," Homick said.
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Smith
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C&S/Sovran/NCNB merger creating
NationsBank in 1991.
He is the chairman of the Spoleto
Festival USA and has served as chair
man of the Central Carolina Economic
Development Alliance.
Smith serves on the boards of sev
eral oiganizations and education insti
tutions, including the South Carolina
Business Center for Excellence in Ed
ucation, the University of the South,
the Benedict College Presidential Ad
visory Committee and the Governor's
School for Science and Mathematics
Foundation.
At USC, he serves on the Presi
dent's Advisory Board and is president
of the Business Partnership Founda
tion for the business school. He also
was an adjunct professor of the busi
ness school.
He has won numerous awards and
honors, including International Am
bassador of the Year by the Central
Carolina Economic Development Al
liance and South Carolina Business
man of Year by the South Carolina
Chamber of Commerce.
Smith is married to Kit Sossamon
Smith, the chairwoman of Richland
County Council. They have three chil- 0
dren.
The university desk can be reached at
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Lottery
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“It’s immoral,” he said “It’s addictive ...
[it promotes] trying to get something for
nothing.”
A state lottery would corrupt tradi
tional values, Columbia resident Joe Gri
maud said. He said he fears for the belief
system he and his wife, Gladys, have in
stilled in their two sons, both USC stu
dents.
“Personally, anything I can do to sup
port the defeat of this referendum I think
I should do,” Grimaud said.
However, lottery supporter Carrie
Gray said those who oppose the lottery
for religious reasons are little more than
hypocrites, citing preachers that ask for
money from the pulpit.
“You ain’t supposed to go and put none
nowhere else,” Gray said. “It don’t hurt
the poor no more than it’s ever hurt them.”
Spokespeople for Gov. Jim Hodges,
who ran on a 1998 election platform in
which a state lottery was a central issue,
did not return phone calls to respond to
the Action Council’s criticisms and alle
gations.
Brandon Larrabee contributed to this
report.
The city/state desk can be reached at &
gamecockcrtydesk@hotmail.com.
USC professor advances AIDS research
by Greta Hale
The Gamecock
A USC professor has found new in
formation that might help lead to the cre
ation of an AIDS vaccine.
Dr. Austin Hughes, a professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences, ana
lyzed DNA sequences taken from a virus
in monkeys as part of a team of biologi
cal researchers headed by a professor at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The researches found that inside the
AIDS virus, the tat protein replicates rapid
ly during the first two weeks of infection.
This causes the immune system not rec
ognize the virus, and therefore not to be
able to fight it off.
This is the key to why we don’t elim
inate the AIDS virus, Hughes said.
“It certainly wasn’t something we ex
pected,” Hughes said. “If you had a vac
cine that got the immune system ready to
attack the tat proton, then it could get rid
of the virus before it had a chance.”
Eighteen monkeys were studied, with
a control group of eight and another group
of 10 that was infected with the SIDS virus,
the monkey version of the AIDS virus.
While the study’s findings were ap
plicable to monkeys, it is unclear if the
same information will hold true for hu
mans.
Hughes specialty is bioinformatics, or
using a computer for biological compu
tations, and he was the only one on the
team who performed this task.
“When I first started doing this, I was
really unusual” Hughes said. “People would
ask, ‘how can you be a biologist if you just
use computers?”’
Hughes did the computer computa
tions in the spring. All of the infomiation
in the DNA double helix can be reduced
to a string of letters, which can be ana
lyzed on a computer, he said. He com
pared the initial virus in the monkeys to
a virus that had replicated and mutated in
their bodies.
Hughes co-authored an article about
the research that appeared in the Sept. 21
issue of the well-known journal, Nature.
“We publish a lot, but it is not always
something that gets this high of a profile,”
Hughes said.
His research brings national visibility
to the USC biology department.
“This increases the department’s com
petitiveness in attracting quality under
graduate and graduate students, as well as
faculty,” said Franklin Beiger, biology de
partment chairman, adding that the re
search Hughes has done is well respected
among his peers.
His research also could increase the
number of grants the biology department
gets. I
“Publication in a prestigious journal
such as Nature indicates that Dr. Hughes’
research is conducted within a strong sci
entific environment,” Berger said. “The
quality and depth of research at an insti
tution can be a very critical factor in the
review of grant applications by federal
agencies.”
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