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3the ©amccork * I , ; Thursday, November 2 1 • Disorderly conduct, comer of As sembly and Blossom streets. Re porting officer M. Gass observed Shawn Wiedman, 25, in public in an extremely intoxicated state, un steady on his feet, with slurred speech, and using profanity. He was arrested and transported to Richland County Detention Center. Wednesday, November 1 • Illegal use of telephone, Business school. USC employee stated that for the past semester she has been receiving harassing telephone calls at work. Victim stated that unknown person(s) will call and as soon as she says “hello” they will hang up or say the word “pat.” This will happen four to five times a day once a week. • Abandoned property, B lot. A USC employee stated to police that-he found a blue “ultra-shock” bicycle at the above location. Police have placed the bike in storage for safe keeping. Reporting officer was D. Friels. • Attempted suicide, assistance ren dered. Reporting officer C. Garo re sponded to a call of an 18-year-old female student who had blacked out after trying to hurt herself. EMS was notified, and she was transported to Baptist Medical Hospital’s emer gency room. • Assistance rendered. Reporting of ficer C. Garo responded to another 18-year-old female who called po lice and said she was suffering from severe depression and that she need ed help. She was also transported to Baptist Medical Hospital’s emer gency room. Tuesday, October 31 • Illegal use of telephone, East Quad. A female resident of the above lo cation stated that unknown person(s) had been calling her more than five times a week. The reporting officer was A. Johnson. Thursday, November 2 • Drunkenness, 634 Harden St. Officers were dispatched to the in cident location in reference to a fight in progress. Upon arrival, reporting officer F. C. Thomas observed the subject, Thomas Gary Nelson, 22, in a verbal altercation with an em ployee of a local business. Nelson was unsteady on his feet, had very slurred speech and smelled strong ly of alcohol. Nelson was arrested and transported to Richland Coun ty Detention Center. • Service ofbench warrant, 700 San tee St. Complainant and reporting officer Donald Cribb stated the sub ject, James Anthony Bethel, 37, was loitering on the 700 block of San tee Street. Bethel’s name and date of birth were checked out, showing him having a bench warrant with the City of Columbia. Bethel was placed under arrest and transported to Richland County Detention Cen ter. Wednesday, November 1 • Driving under suspension, 3900 West Belt Line Blvd. Reporting of ficer Goodwin was conducting a traffic stop on the subject, Kiwafa Siebles, for disregarding a red light, when he discovered Siebles was dri ving under suspension. He-was field booked, cited. His driver’s license held and sent to the Department of Public Safety. • Attempted burglary, 1108 Queen St. The complainant, Joseph Thompson, stated that while he and his girlfriend were inside his resi dence, they heard someone at tempting to gain entry to the house through a living room window lo cated on the side of the house. Thompson yelled to the unknown subject, at which time the subject fled in an unknown direction. Re porting officers D. S. Cribb and J. P. Auld observed the window screen had been pried away from the window, causing minor damage. Estimated damage: $15. Tuesday, October 31 • Malicious injury to personal prop erty, 2549 Cherry St. The com plainant, Carolyn Noble, stated an unknown subject damaged her ve hicle at the incident location. No ble said the subject scratched her vehicle with an unknown object, covering the majority of the vehi cle. Estimated damage: $300. Re porting officer: W. C. Gordon. • Larceny of auto accessories, 1001 True St. (Huntington Place Apart ments). The complainant, John Reed, reported that an unknown subject removed four rims and four tires from his vehicle, a 1951 blue Chevrolet pickup truck. The tire brand is Hoosier, valued at $250 each and the rims, Keystone brand, are valued at $1,000 collectively. Estimated value: $2,000. Reporting officer: R. L. Sumpter. Fund-raiser from page 1 for the university.” “We ’re excited for him and we’re go ing to miss him,” Snyder said. “But the campaign is going to continue on without missing a beat.” University officials also had words of praise for Staton. “Bob Staton is well known in the Co lumbia community as well as the state community,” Odom said. “I’m ... happy that Bob Staton has made the decision to help us out.” USC President John Palms highlight ed Staton’s leadership ability. “Bob’s record of strong and effective leadership in the business world and his demonstrated commitment to serving his community will ensure the university’s continued success,” Palms said. South Carolina Secretary of Com merce Charlie My, who chairs USC’s Na tional Advisory Council for the Bicen tennial Campaign, also praised the appointment. “To date, our campaign has made out standing progress on behalf of Carolina,” My said. “The continued solid leadership that I know Bob Staton will bring us will guarantee that the momentum of our cam paign will remain intact.” A native of Emporia, Va., Staton is a graduate of Presbyterian College and USC’s School of Law. Staton is a member of the Business Partnership Foundation Board at the Darla Moore School of Business and the Presbyterian College board of trustees. He was named South Carolina Business Leader of the Year in 1998. Staton was out of the country and un available for comment. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Senate passes half of elections codes revision; vote on troublesome second section delayed by Brandon Larrabee The Gamecock The student senate approved Wednes day half of a set of proposed revisions to the election codes but referred the most controversial part of the revisions to the Judiciary Committee. The revisions that passed dealt with the size of the commission and a clause allowing the elections commission to use discretion when deciding whether a can didate’s associate counts as a member of the campaign staff. This caveat is impor tant when deciding about possible viola tions of the elections codes. The provision passed 36-2. The split vote resulted from an ob scure parliamentary procedure that allows a bill to be split in two. Sen. Hydrick Hard en’s motion to do a split vote was approved by the senate. However, the part of the legislation approved by the senate was not without some conflict. Sen. Tyson Nettles said the provision gave the elections commission too much power. “I think we’re making a big rush to get this thing done,” Nettles-said. He said the bill would change the way candidates conducted their campaigns. “What it does is it turns the race not into a race for the most votes, but a race for the least infractions,” Nettles said. But Sen. Melissa Fletcher, who spon sored the legislation on behalf of SG Elec tions Commissioner Angie Alpert, said that wasn’t the case. “That’s not how it works,” Fletcher said. “This code is not giving any more power to the elections commission than it should have.” Alpert said she was pleased with the senate vote. “I’m very excited that we can move on and start focusing on awareness of the elections rather than focusing on the elections codes,” she said. However, senate didn’t take action on some of the most controversial aspects of the new bill. After the bill was split and the vote on the first portion taken, SG Vice Pres ident Corey Ford used his power as chair of the senate to send the second por tion back to the Judiciary Committee. Some senators want to remove a clause adding a measure restricting person-to person distribution of campaign materi als to the two days during which the elec tion is held. While that restriction has long been enforced, it isn’t part of the codes. But removing the clause is opposed by Alpert and has raised the specter of a rare veto by SG President Jotaka Eaddy. Alpert said she agreed with the deci sion. “I think that’s for the best,” Alpert said. “It’s a controversial amendment.” Harden said he proposed splitting the bill so the non-controversial portion of the bill could pass. “I felt in interest of productivity ... it would be best to go ahead and ratify the amendments the majority of senators could agree on,” Harden said after the meeting. Ford said he didn’t expect the rest of the elections amendments to come to the floor at senate’s next meeting. “Honestly, I don’t think it will come up next week,” he said. Ford said more negotiating needed to be done between the two parties on op posite sides of the issue. The senate has two weeks to consider the bill again be fore it dies. Meanwhile, The Gamecock has learned that if the amendment were to come to a vote as it currently stands, op ponents of the amendment believe enough votes exist to defeat it, according to a sen ator who asked not to be identified. The vote on the first half of the elections code took place before the sen ate meeting became tied up in a resolu tion supporting the South Carolina lot tery initiative. That bill’s fate is in limbo while SG officials try to decide whether it passed. Wednesday marked one of the busiest meetings in a session where senate had not voted on a binding bill since the be ginning of the semester. “At least you can’t say senate was bor The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. River from page 1 owners who live in flood plains in other parts of the country, Adams questioned whether it made sense for Richland Coun ty to allow such a huge development in a flood plain. “Clearly what Burroughs and Chapin has proposed is inappropriate for river bottomland,” Adams said. “We would rue the day that we approve that develop ment.” Adams said that as Burroughs & Chapin’s project gained momentum, his concerns over the development grew and he decided to pull together a group of con cerned citizens. More than 50 people have joined Con garee Task Force to date, including area business people, elected officials and con cerned citizens representing neighbor hood and community service associations. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. Lottery from page 1 been nothing more than a page in a book” of resolutions passed by the senate. Sen. Nathan White said after the meeting that he abstained from the vote because, while he agrees with the lot tery, he supports it as an alternative to taxation instead of a way of funding ed ucation. “I support a lottery,” he said “I don’t support a lottery on the notion that it’s an educational lottery.” Sen. Brian Phillips, who also per sonally supports the lottery, said the sen ate shouldn’t take a stance on the issue. “I don’t think it’s our place as a body, or as a university, to take a stance on the lottery,” Phillips said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com. r ' - "" ra -W, _ I I I for Student Advantage® members. I When you present this coupon and your 1 Student Advantage Card. ^ JOFF for non-members with student ID. 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