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Monday, Jan. 22
■ Assistance rendered, comer of
College and Sumter streets. Reporting
officer R. Shirer responded to a report of
a pedestrian being hit by a vehicle. A
vehicle, while crossing the street, hit
Maigaret Gordon. EMS later transported
Gordon to Baptist Medical Hospital.
■ Larceny of blinds, room 116
,Sumwalt. Reporting officer spoke with
Maria Bertsch, who complained that an
unknown person(s) took three sets of blinds
off her window.
■ Simple possession of marijua
na, 820 Henderson St. Reporting officers
K. Colefield and G. Whitlock noticed a
strong odor believed to be marijuana
coming from the balcony of one of the
apartments. The officers then saw two
men sitting on a balcony and one man
dropped what was thought to be a joint.
When officers went up to the room, the
residents agreed to let officers search the
room. In the room, officers found a bag
of green leafy substance believed to be
marijuana.
■ DUI, corner of Pendleton and
Henderson streets. Reporting officer J.
Aspedon observed a blue BMW making
an unlawful turn on red from Sumter Street
onto Pendleton. The vehicle then crossed
the center ling twice before reaching Bull
Street. After stopping the vehicle and
approaching it, the officer could smell
alcohol on the driver. William Poulson,
the driver, had difficulty producing his
driver’s license and other requested
information. The subject was given two
field sobriety tests then later arrested.
City
Tuesday, Jan. 23
■ Malicious Injury to real
property, 6104 Farrow Road Carol Peay,
23, said two different vehicles were parked
in her driveway when an unknown
individual came by and threw two bricks,
one in each of the cars’ back windows.
■ Shoplifting,, 3900 N. Main St. Bi-Lo.
Store clerk Korey Grant observed Greg
Bennett with three packages of steaks
inside the store. Grant noticed the steaks
had disappeared as Bennett left the store.
After confronting Bennett, the two men
returned to the inside of the store,
where the steaks were found in Bennett’s
pants. Bennett was later arrested and
transported to Richland County
Detention Center by reporting officer T.
McGuire.
■ Disordeiiy conduct, 1300 Assembly
St. Reporting officer T. McLoghry
observed Charles Stripling running
toward a wall at the above location, where
he began to urinate on the side of the wall.
There have been numerous complaints
about people using the area as a toilet,
which is in clear view of Assembly Street.
Church
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“It was a drain,” Melissa said
Saturday nights also had church re
lated activities: they were “date nights.”
On these nights, a “brother” would
ask a “sister” on a date. Members of the
Columbia Church of Christ weren’t al
lowed to date anyone outside the church,
Melissa said, and being asked on a date
wasn’t exactly a question. „
“I mean, it’s like, they ask, you have
■ to say yes,” she said ’
If not, the sister was open to criticism
from her discipling partner.
‘“You are not being giving, you are
being selfish with your time, how dare
you say no,’ would essentially be the mes
sage,” Melissa said, although she empha
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sized the words might vary from person
to person. “Basically, you would be reamed
out.”
Sunday church service ran from 10
On Friday:
Leaving the Columbia
Church of Christ
am. to noon, but members were again ex
pected to talk after the service, often for
as long as an hour and a half, Melissa said.
But Melissa wasn’t enjoying her time
in the Church of Christ.
“I never really had a good time —
never. I cannot think of one single instance
where I said, ‘Hey, this is a really good
time,’” she said.
Melissa started to have doubts about
the church during fall break.
Her mother would attend another ser
vice at the Columbia Church of Christ,
and would once again be disturbed by some
of the church’s doctrines.
But this time, she wouldn’t remain
silent.
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Benedict
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can’t release at this time,” said CPD
Major Charles Clark, who is part of the
investigation team in the murder case.
The Benedict murder is part of a string
of recent crimes around the
USC-Five Points-Benedict area of the city.
In addition to the murder, there have been
several armed robberies of students and
several assaults in the area.
Clark said CFPD has formed a task
force to step up patrol around USC, Bene
dict, Five Points and the Martin Luther
King Jr. Park areas. Also SLED has be
gun to patrol the two campuses regular
ly.
“We haven't come up with an
explanation for the addition around the
campus yet,” Clark said.
The arrest of the suspect on
Tuesday followed an announcement by
Benedict College that it would hire a new
private security firm to increase patrols
while trying to recruit more
campus police. America’s Best
Security of Columbia will provide four
security officers to Benedict College for
each shift.
Benedict began looking for a new
security company three months ago in the
wake of complaints about the
previous firm, Hunter said. America’s Best
signed a contract three weeks ago and be
gan work last Monday.
The city desk can be reached at
gamecockcttydesk@hotmail.com
Freeze
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Rob Wilcox, a member of the facul
ty budget committee, said the committee
had talked about the possibility of a freeze
during a discussion of the budget cuts with
USC Provost Jerry Odom.
“Ideas were floated, including the
possibility of having a freeze,” Wilcox
said.
He said the committee’s reaction to
the plan was one of reluctant support.
“I think it could be fairly
characterized as supporting a freeze... not
pleased with the necessity, but it was
probably a necessary option,” Wilcox said.
He said the freeze was better than the
alternative: hiring people, then being forced
to lay them off.
“That would be a devastating step, to
have to start laying off,” Wilcox said.
But, even without layoffs, the move
could still make it harder to attract
quality faculty to the university.
“It’s that much harder to hire quality
people every time you have news of
budget problems,” Wilcox said.
According to The State, Palms sent
out a memo to administrators at all of the
university campuses. The memo said
the freeze was indefinite, according to the
paper.
Valerie Matchette contributed to this
report.
The university desk can be reached at
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Shuttle
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Huggins estimated that Alpha Phi
Omega, a service organization that picks
up students and takes them to various
campus locations after the day shuttles
stop running, picks up an average of 30 to
45 passengers per night.
Although passengers are grateful for
the new evening shuttles, they had
suggestions for improvement.
“I think it could be more efficient if
they added more vans,” said Carzanna
Jones, a third-year student in the College
of Liberal Arts.
Latoya Glover, a third-year student
in the College of Science and
Mathematics, thinks the routes are long.
“But the drivers are nice,” she said.
The two vans take the same route, but
go in different directions. The route
includes stops at the Coliseum, the
Russell House, the Capstone area,
Maxcy, Byrnes Center, the Towers,
Swearingen Engineering building, the
Roost, Bates area and the Blatt RE.
Center. It takes between 10 and 15 min
utes to complete the route.
“Once we see kids are using it and
reach the 300 mark, we are looking to get
more vans,” Huggins said. “If we reach
300, it shows a very well utilized transit
system.”
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com
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