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Page 2 _Wednesday, November 1, 2000 . Che (Bamecock Monday, October 30 • Simple assualt, South Quad. Reporting officer M. Gass arrived at above lo cation in response to an assault in progress. When officer arrived at the room, he found LaiJy Rollins, 23, loitering and refusing to leave the room. The officer also said Rollins acted in a loud and obnoxious man ner, disturbing the lawful room’s oc cupant. Rollins was arrested and trans ported to Richland County Detention Center. Sunday, October 29 • Auto-break in, larceny of radio. Mikal Goodman, 19, stated that an unknown person(s), pried open his driver’s side door and removed a Panasonic stereo worth $180. The reporting officer is C. McKnight. . • Grand larceny of computer, Bates West. Adam Barker, 19, states an un known subject stole one Compaq Pre sario 1920 Laptop worth $2,000 and one PCS Sprint cell phone worth $250. Reporting officer: D. Lewis. • DUL altered driver’s licenses, 743 Greene St. Reporting officer M. Moore stopped Tradd Bazemore, 18, at the above location due to his speed and erratic driving. The officer ob served Bazemore bottom out on the train tracks on Greene Street. After stopping Bazemore, the officer issued liim a sobraity test, and he failed both die ABC and standing on one-leg test. Saturday, October 28 • Non-criminal mischief, 3rd floor, Snowden residence hall. A USC em ployee said an unknown subject re moved the fire hose from the cabinet and dragged it to the 2nd floor via the stairwell. The reporting officer was M. Moore Tuesday, October 31 • Drunkenness, 2200 Rosewood Dri ve, 12:45 am. Responding Officer Snead observed the subject, Terry Alexander, staggering down the street. Alexander was found to be highly in toxicated, with slurred speech and an odor of alcohol about his person and ' on his breath, and he was unsteady on his feet. Alexander was arrested and transported to Richland County De tention Center. Monday, October 30 • Possession of cocaine in proximity to school or park, failure to stop at police command, 1300 McDuffie St., 9:50 pm. While on standard patrol, Officer Kelly observed the suspect, John Doe, standing in the roadway. Upon returning to conduct a field in terview, the suspect ran west on Mc Duffie Street and was captured at 2400 Lenoy Court. The suspect was arrested and transported to Richland County Detention Center. Search incident to arrest revealed a white powder sub stance that field tested positive for co caine. •Auto breaking, petit larceny, 3009 Wilmot St., 6 pm. W. Elizabeth McLeod reported that unknown sub ject(s) entered the victim’s unsecured vehicle and a black canvas bag con taining McLeod’s laptop computer. Estimated value of computer: $700. Estimated value of bag: $20. • Trespassing, 2507 Greene St. Don nie Scarborough was observed by responding officer White loitering at the incident location where it is post ed “No Trespassing” on all sides of the building. Scarborough was arrested and transported Richland County De tention Center. • Auto breaking, petit larceny, 3400 Devine St. Reporting Officer Camp bell responded to an auto breaking at incident location. Upon arrival, Campbell found the vehicle with the radio missing from the dash. There was no sign of forced entry. Napster from page 1 Hogue agreed with Snyder. „ “We don’t want to be in the position of being net work police,” Hogue said. But Hogue did warn that if USC started having problems with the network because students were clogging the system by getting on Napster, then com puter services would have to consider blocking ac cess. Students said the glitch inconvenienced them. “I don’t know what they tire doing, but I wish I could get back on Napster,” sophomore Evan Smiley • said. The Napster issue got a little emotional when someone posted fliers in various residence halls rec ommending that everyone call and email the Direc tor of Computer Systems Bill Mowery about the sup posed blocked Napster access. , In fact, Mowery had very little to do with the glitch. His boss, Director of Computer Services Stan Yarbrough, who hits been out of his office for the past week, oversees all networking concerns, Yiirbrough’s secretary said. Mowery has been filling in for Yarbrough. Universities that have officially banned and blocked students from getting on Napster include Arizona State, Geoigia State, Kent State, University of Mis sissippi, New York University, Notre Dame, North western, University of Texas, Yale and the Universi ty of Southern California. Brandon Limbec contributed to this story. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. i Two USC honors students at heart of 2000 campaign ■V» by Charles Prashaw The Gamecock For many college students, this year’s presidential election between A1 Gore and Geoige W. Bush will be the first in which they will be able to vote. But for two USC Honor’s College students, political involvement goes far beyond the ballot box. At the center of the presidential campaigns are Rachana Desai, who works for the Gore campaign in Nashville, Tenn., and David Hill, who works for the Bush campaign in Austin, Texas. Desai is the assistant polit ical director for the Northeast for Gore’s campaign and Hill is a staff assistant for the Southeast region for Bush’s. Both students credit political insider Don Folwer, a USC faculty member, with the inspiration to become involved in the political process. Hill worked on former Gov. David Beasley’s campaign in 1998 and with the Bush campaign until February of this year. Desai, who is a senior political science major, said the job was intense and great preparation for the real world. After returning to Nashville from a campaign stop in West Virginia, she said in a telephone inter view that the job requires working seven days a week ;ind sometimes 12 hours a day. “You wouldn’t believe the amount of work there is to do here. You can really value sleep after a while,” Desai said. She plans to return to USC in January and graduate in May 2001. After college she plans to head for Washington to work in politics. Desai said she now realizes the value of writing all those college papers, the organizational skills she de I veloped in her classes, the importance of knowing cur rent events and history and being able to concentrate on multiple tasks. Also unique about Desai is that she is a first gener ation American. Her parents, Ashok and Alka Desai of I Greenwood, recently became naturalized citizens. Tltey j and their daughter will be casting votes in their first pres- | idential election She said she first became interested in politics a cou ple of years ago when she was first invited to a barbe cue where she met Gore. Soon after, she switched her major from biology and pre-med to political science, and then she started working in the State House when she was a junior. Hill went to Austin to take part in the Bush cam- 1 paign. He is also casting his first presidential vote and | is a junior public relations major. Hill said one of the highlights of his job so far has been the Republican Convention earlier this year where he was the delegation liaison for the state of Louisiana. “Working for this campaign is an opportunity that L I may never have again,” he said. Hill also juggles correspondence courses in Amer ican literature and physics. He will return to USC in No vember for two eight-week classes before the semester ends. After graduating in May 2002, he plans to attend law-school. ' The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Disaster from page 1 during a visual inspection of the plant. The leak was discovered during a planned service shutdown for plant refueling be ginning Oct.7. These outages are scheduled every 18 months, and during the refueling process, one-third of the uranium fuel assembly in the core is replaced, Duncan said. During the outages, inspectors can inspect areas of the plant that are inaccessible while it is in use. Duncan said the crack is unusual, and is the first instance of such a crack ever discovered in the nation. All welds in the piping system will be tested and inspected for similar fractures or leaks. The repair plan is to replace the af fected area of the pipe and extensively test the crack. The discovery of the crack will lengthen the scheduled outage, likely into mid-December, Duncan said. During this time, officials will gt t head start on the next schedule refueling and work on preventative and other sched uled maintenance. John Bailey contributed to this story. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. Art supplies from page 1 the bandwagon of online sales. According to Randy Hanna of City Art, shopping online at their store’s se cure site, artexpress.com, has its pros and cons. “It’s generally a little bit better priced than coming into the store, but there’s not as much product,” Hanna said. He said there is a larger variety of in dividual items in the actual store, but cus tomers needing to buy items in bulk or large volume, such as a supply of paint, would be better served online due to the discounted rates. However, buyers needing to make small purchases like a few sheets of pa per or a paintbrush should simply come into the store to see in person what they are getting. Another major supplier of goods to USC art students is Phoenix Graphix in Columbia. According to Judy Lovette, the com pany doesn’t yet have an online presence, but it acknowledges competition from)’ - temet sales and has had discussions about launching their own site. On USC’s campus, the University Bookstore at the Russell House does car ry a limited inventory of art supplies. Addams University Bookstore, Car olina’s and the South Carolina Bookstore don’t carry any at this time. The city/state desk can be reached at gamecockcitydesk@hotinaiLcoin. St. Thomas More Catholic Center I Rev. Tun Lijewski Mass Schedule Sacrament of Penance Chaplain Saturday 4:30pm Saturday 3:00pm-4:00pm Sr. Julienne Guy OSU Sunday 11:00am, 7:30pm or by appointment Director of Christian Formation Newman Club Tuesday 7:00pm ■Ttumvu&Men* 1610 Greene St. 799-5870 (Across from School of Nursing) Sunday Activities 9:00 & 11:15am - Worship Services 10:00am - LifeLine Contemporary Service 10:00am - Sunday School 3407 Devine St. ~ 256-8383 ~ www.Shandon-UMC.org PALM CAMPUS MINISTRY* Wednesday Night ~ "Body & Soul” - 5:30 p.m. (light meal following) November 1st - "God 4 Politics" with Mr. Don Fowler, ^ormer c^Qlr °f the National Democratic Committeerfej^-y^S; Sunday Worship - 5:30 p.m.(meal following) Columbia -Five Points (behind Harper’s) Proclaiming Christ through the Scriptures and Sacraments | Adult Bible Class 9:30am • Holy Communion 10:30am Member Parish -Lutheran Church Missouri Synod | Marines The Few. The Proud. If you would like a shot at a guaranteed flight training seat or to find out if you qualify for financial assistance, contact Capt. Brian Matejo at 256-9015. The Marine Corps is only looking for the best. Find out if you have what it takes to wear the title "Officer of Marines.” « Bodybuilding & Fitness Club Hosts USC Octathlon and USC Bench Press USC BENCH PRESS MEET The annual USC Bench Press Meet is co sponsored by USC Intramurals and the Bodybuilding & Fitness Club. Statue trophies were presented to winners in each weight class including Gershona Holmes (women), Keith Saxton, Eric Billings, Russ Stocker, Terry Peterson and Gene Pope in the men’s weight classes. Overall Champion, Eugene Johnson, weighing 147 pounds, bench pressed 285 pounds, almost twice his weight. use OCTATHLON The USC Octathlon includes eight sports fitness challenges including running, swimming, weight pressing events for legs and shoulders, obstacle course, chin-ups, flexibility events and a timed grip hang. Thirty Bodybuilding & Fitness Club members served as officials over the three-hour Octathlon. Top five finishers in the men included students Harrison Yomans, Ryal Stickel, Patrick Murch, Chris Durant, and Damian Baer, Karl Ehrens posted the best time in the swim and placed S’-*1 overall. Eric Alley won the shoulder press and finished 8™ overall. Top women were Jamie Huenefield and Noelle Joye. Per Larson, who was on crutches a week prior to the Octathlon, still competed and placed third in both the obstacle course and mile run. Twenty Octathletes completed all eight events. 7 - -1-ir