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IChe (Bamecock Columbia Tuesday, March 20 ■ Kidnapping. 2200 Waverly St. (Vickie Corley said an unknown man pulled up next to her and ordered her into his vehicle. The man then drove to 1000 Wilson Blvd., where Corley jumped from the car. Reporting officer: M. Spires. Monday, March 19 ■ Disorderly conduct, 800 Laurel St. (Finlay Park). Jessiqi Brown said her boyfriend became verbally aggressive when told their relationship was over. He picked up a cell phone afterward and threw it at her windshield, cracking the glass. Reporting officer: V. Millard. ■ Incorrigible child, 916 Walnut St. Tonja Greene said her son is disrespectful and refuses to listen to her. He doesn’t stay in the house when told to do so and leaves through his bedroom window when he feels like it. Reporting officer: M. Price. ■ Runaway, 901 Colleton St. Deborah Semmons said her 16-year-old daughter left her house after they had a verbal altercation. As she was leaving, the girl Incubator from page 1 applications we got — I was amazed at them. I didn’t think we’d have this high caliber, but it shows the creative minds we have here at USC.” The groups who submitted proposals showed a wide range of ideas for businesses and technologies. “Wfe had everything from design firms to inventions to online magazines to e-commerce, like dot-com businesses,” Eaddy said. “They were a veiy broad range of businesses.” The groups will be finalizing their proposals in the next weeks before the told her mom she was leaving and no one would ever find her. Reporting officer: J. Braun. ■ Disturbing school, threatening a teacher, possession of a toy gun, 2600 Wheat St. (Hand Middle School). Assistant principal Biyan Mahersky called the police after a student in art class made a toy gun afid used it to threaten his teacher. Mahersky and reporting officer J. Braun determined that the child wasn’t a serious threat. Sunday, March 18 ■ Assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, 2625 Putnam St. An unlisted female said a man grabbed her right wrist and tried to force her to touch his genital area. Reporting officer: K. Baker. University March 19 ■ Disorderly conduct, Wheat and Assembly streets. A reporting officer observed someone walking in the middle of the roadway at the incident location. Andrew Jefferson was very unsteady on his feet. He smelled of alcohol and had very slurred speech and bloodshot eyes. Jefferson was arrested for disorderly conduct. Reporting officers: R. C. Osborne and C. Taylor. April 11 meeting with the incubator advisory committee. The incubator was the idea of William Hanis, vice president for research at USC, who proposed it to Eaddy. It gives USC students a chance to start their own business, with help from the Columbia and USC community. Eaddy and her Cabinet followed through with the idea and oiganized a student incubator advisory committee, whose members consist of different disciplines and age groups, Stevenson said. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotxnail.com News Analysis Uncertainty about budget persists by Brandon Larrabee The Gamecock On Friday, the S.C. House passed a bill slashing USC’s state funding by almost 12 percent. On Monday, The State reported Gov. Jim Hodges was thinking about trying to scale back some of his budget cuts. So, what does all this mean? Even with some components of the budget process apparently falling into place, there’s still a lot of uncertainty swirling around the budget. That, in all likelihood will delay USC’s planning. And while it now seems likely that tuition will be raised, that programs will be cut and that other measures will be taken, the question is one of proportion. “Even as we work for relief from the punitive aspects of the current proviso, a maximum tuition increase at this time is crucial to reducing the overall cut to the university,” USC President John Palms wrote in a recent memo. Translation: There’s likely going to be a large tuition increase. How large it is depends on how laige the Legislature will allow it to be. The General Assembly is considering a measure that would allow universities to raise tuition higher than they’re normally allowed to. If it goes through, chances are there will be a bigger-than-usual tuition increase. The university has also said it’s considering a series of other measures, including mandatory furloughs for university employees. The other measures, which university officials are calling “management tools,” also include laying off some employees, reducing campus services and “internal budget reallocations.” Officials also want to boost enrollment without cutting student quality — something that won’t likely be easy with one of the highest tuition rates in the Southeast on the rise. The furloughs have attracted most of the attention. Administrators are portraying the move as a way to reduce the number of layoffs. “A furlough could be an important management tool for the university because it would provide an additional means of reducing expenditures, which could reduce the number of employees who would have to be laid off as well as reduce the amount cut from other operational costs,” Vice President for Human Resources Jane Jameson said. Furloughs would likely take place “on days where we would normally not be there,” Faculty Senate Chairwoman Caroline Strobel said. The question, as the budget makes its way through the Senate, is what the different elements of the budget will look like when the General Assembly is done. Casting further doubt on the process were Hodges’ aides’ comments to The State. According to the newspaper, the methods Hodges could use to alleviate the cuts include devoting lottery revenues to universities’ operating budgets, devoting any money that turns up in revenue reviews to the universities or increasing the bond issue the state will make in fiscal year 2002. But there are problems with each of those approaches. 0 Hodges campaigned on using the lottery for certain purposes; using it otherwise could open the floodgates to legislators looking to raid the lottery for other purposes. Devoting extra revenues that pop up would subject USC to even more uncertainty, while bond funds are used for capital projects, such as buildings or maintenance. They’re not used for the operating budget — the same reason the university can’t use bicentennial campaign funds to cover for the cuts. About 98 percent of those funds are designated for particular purposes. Which means the whole process is still shrouded in uncertainty, even as th^ budget bill makes its way along. It’s uncertainty that might not end anytime soon. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Hodges from page 1 One member on the 13-member bipartisan task force, Republican State Rep. Mark Kelley, said the state needs standardized changes. “We should vote the same way throughout the state,” he said. Kelley said several counties use punch hole ballots or paper ballots, while others are using electronic machines. “My hope is (that) the whole state goes electronic; I think it is more accurate,” he said. “We don’t want to sit around and debate hanging chads.” But other Republicans see problems in changing laws and procedures that have been in place for years, saying that what happened in Florida is the system. “We aren’t opposed to the possibilities of change [to election procedures]. But where were the people calling for corrections two and three election cycles ago?” Republican State Committee Member Bill Prince said. Prince, who was one of South Carolina’s eight electors in this past election, said there isn’t anything wrong with our election system. “This is a classic example of people trying to re-invent the wheel when they don’t like the results,” Prince said. 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