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• 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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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