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Monday, March 5
■ Malicious Injury to personal
property, Biossom Street garage, 7th
level. Virginia Sewell said someone
damaged her driver’s side rear-view mirror
while her vehicle was parked in the
garage. Estimated value of the mirror:
$294. Reporting officer: R. C. Osborne.
Sunday, March 4
■ Malicious injury to personal
property, Patterson Hall. Richard Wfeiler
said someone threw a water balloon out
a Patterson Hall window onto his vehicle,
causing damage to the windshield.
Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer:
C. T. Wilkes.
Friday, March 2
■ Grand larceny of motor vehicle,
recovery. Spring Sports Center parking
lot, 1316 Heyward St. Gary Pell said
someone stole his vehicle from the
parking lot. The vehicle was recovered
by the Columbia Police Department. Pell
said the following items were missing
from the vehicle:
■One CD player. Estimated value:
$400.
■ One four-channel amplifier.
Estimated value: $350.
■ One 305-watt, five-channel
amplifier. Estimated value: $450.
■ One speaker. Estimated value:
$120.
■ One 12-inch subwoofer in the box.
Estimated value: $200.
■ Four 18-inch chrome rims.
Estimated value: $3,000.
■ Four tires. Estimated value: $1,000.
■ One 17-inch, 14-karat gold-linked
bracelet. Estimated value: $600.
■ One radar detector. Estimated
value: $100.
Total damage: $6,220.
On-call investigator and lieutenant were
notified. Vehicle was released to owner.
Reporting officer: R. A. Whitlock.
■ Larceny of license tags, Spring
Sports Center parking lot, 1316 Heyward
St. Jennifer Ridgway and Melissa Sandel
said someone removed the tags from their
vehicles. Reporting officer: N. V. Beza.
Columbia
Tuesday, March 6
■ Accidental damage, 3100 Two
Notch Road. Elizabeth Tilford said
that, while driving through a work zone,
one of the directional signs fell on her
car when the wind blew it down.
Reporting officer: S. Murphy.
Monday, March 5
■ Meter tampering, 2000 Hampton
• St. William Radden said someone damaged
city meter No. 2012. Estimated value of
the meter: $350. Reporting officer: K.
Battiste.
■ Information, 1901 Assembly St.
Bruce Wyndham said his deposit of
$63,453.18 wasn’t correct at his bank.
The bank sent him a carrier deposit slip,
saying the deposit was $6,715.40 short.
■ Grand theft auto, 1331 Lilly Ave.
Jason Staley said his vehicle was
parked in front of his residence. Upon
returning from a weekend trip, he found
the vehicle missing. Reporting officer:
M. Menedez.
■ Attempted suicide, 1800 Richland
St. A dispatcher at the Columbia Central
Police Station received a phone call from
someone who said another person was
threatening to kill herself over the Internet
on AOL Instant Messenger. Reporting
officer: C. Thomas.
Sunday, March 4
■ Larceny of herbie curbie, 3515
Whlnut Ave. Cheryl Hunter said someone
removed her city-issued trash can.
Estimated value: $50. Reporting officer:
K. Battiste.
Hodges: Don’t publish autopsy photos
by Valerie Matchette
The Gamecock
Gov. Jim Hodges spoke out Monday
against the media’s publishing of private
autopsy photographs and introduced plans
to prevent that from happening in South
Carolina.
Hodges said results and photos from
autopsies should be considered medical
records, which would make them
unavailable to the general public.
To illustrate the reasoning behind
his case, Hodges referred to a document
published in 1981, issued from then-State
Attorney General Daniel McLeod, to
Georgetown County Coroner Willson
Williams. Hodges sent copies of the report
to coroners in each county in the state.
“The details of an autopsy report are
of such an intimate, personal nature
concerning vivid medical allusions to parts
of the human body, their description and
indications of prior history. A report of
this nature constitutes a medical record
which is not available for public
consumption,” McLeod’s report read, in
part.
McLeod’s words effectively authorize
the medical community to decline to
release autopsy information to the media
at their discretion, but this would also
allow them to release autopsy information
if they deem it necessary, even without
the permission of the deceased’s family.
Hodges said officials should have the
rights and responsibilities to handle the
media, but the ultimate choice should
go to the next of kin.
“We want our coroners and medical
examiners-to know that the law is on their
side,” Hodges said. “Furthermore, I call
upon the legislature to tighten up loopholes
in our public records law so that we can
protect personal privacy and human
decency.”
One catalyst for Hodges’ action is the
death of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt
and the subsequent requests from news
‘We want our coroners and medical examiners
to know that the law is on their side.’
*
Jim Hodges
S.C. governor
media to medical officials for photos and
reports about his autopsy. Earnhardt’s
widow, Teresa, has taken legal action to
prevent publication of the information.
“Families shouldn’t have to worry
about public officials releasing autopsy
photos,” Hodges said. “Wfe must make sure
that the pain experienced by Teresa
Earnhardt and her family never occurs
in South Carolina.”
According to Richland County
Coroner Gary Watts, because autopsy
results are considered medical records,
they aren’t subject to the Freedom of
Information Act, so Hodges’ plan wouldn’t
be a constitutional violation of the First
Amendment. In fact, Watts said the plan
wouldn’t make a very significant impact
in the way the coroner’s office operates.
This is because they release only a
standardized packet of information to the
media, unless there’s a specific request
from a family member or an attorney if
legal issues are involved.
“It’s not anything different than
anything we do anyway,” Witts said of the
plan.
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Eaddy
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■ Drop-date extension: Eaddy said her Cabinet would
try to get the administration to increase the number of
days students can drop a class before getting a “W.” That
proposal is currently in the faculty senate Committee on
Standards and Petitions, but it won’t come to the full
senate before its April meeting, chairman Gary Reeves
said.
Eaddy also ticks off a laundry list of other
accomplishments her administration has had a hand in,
including the $150,000 grant Student Government
won for a student incubator. It was the largest grant in
SG history.
Changing the Attitude
Eaddy said one of the keys to her administration’s
effectiveness was a can-do attitude. She said she was tired
of being told Student Government couldn’t accomplish
its goals.
“I think we, this year, took the attitude, ‘We can do
this,”’ Eaddy said. “That was what the key was.”
Her successor. President-elect Corey Ford, agrees
Eaddy has changed Student Government’s mindset.
“She has totally changed the attitude of Student
Government into an activist organization,” Ford said.
But Ford also credits “a good political mind” and a
strong personality.
“She knows how to ... organize different issues and
how they need to be brought up,” Ford said. “And also,
don’t underestimate her personality. She’s all business
and she gets the job done.”
One part of Eaddy’s plan was to designate certain
Cabinet members to take care of certain Contract goals.
One of those officers was Heather Hornick, SG
academic affairs director and the person who spearheaded
the drop-date effort.
Eaddy didn’t micromanage, but she was willing to
help her Cabinet complete its goals, Homick said.
“She was involved in what we were doing as much
as we wanted her to be,” Homick said.
Never letting a moment go
Homick also remembers a football game where Eaddy
begin talking to some fens about wliat Student Government
was doing.
“It’s almost like she never lets a moment go where
she can try to reach out to the students,” Homick said
Eaddy said, occasionally, she tries to forget being
president. But it’s always there, she said
“In the back of my mind, I know I’m always still the
president,” Eaddy said.
The experience has changed her.
“I think, personally, I’ve stayed up a lot later this
year,” she said at 12:55 a.m., laughing.
“I think I’ve also grown so much,” Eaddy said.
She said she’s enjoyed meeting people. One of her
favorites is Norma Palms, wife of USC President John
Palms. She’s also fond of Palms himself, the board of
trustees, their wives and “all the students that I have met
on a day-to-day basis.”
“I feel like I know everybody,” Eaddy said.
‘Wherever I’m needed’
When her term ends, Eaddy said, she’ll still be around.
“I help out wherever I’m needed,” Eaddy said.
Ford would welcome the help.
“Oh, yeah,” Ford said without hesitation when asked
whether he’ll seek Eaddy’s advice. “She’s probabl.w
somebody to call back on and ask for advice.”
Mostly, though, Eaddy said it will be time for her
to rest.
“I’m going to spend time with some of my best friends
and enjoy the University of South Carolina,” Eaddy said.
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