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Che Gamecock
University
Thursday, March 29
■ Driving under the influence, comer
of Main and Blossom streets. Lisa Marie
McCarta, 27, was observed by reporting
officer R. Osborne driving south on Main
Street at a high speed. McCarta was also
seen weaving in and out of lanes. Osborne
made a routine traffic stop, and upon
walking up to the car, the officer noticed
a smell of alcohol about McCarta. The
officer asked for her driver’s license, but
she had trouble finding it. The officer asked
McCarta to get out of the car andperform
two sobriety tests: the ABC and standing
on-one-leg tests. She did poorly on both
and had to stop the one-leg test because
she kept falling over. She refused a
Breathalyzer test and was taken to Richland
County Detention Center.
■ Information, 2000 Devine St.
Mackenzie Clements said the keys to her
dorm room were stolen while she was in
the Five Points area Columbia police took
a larceny report because USCPD has no
jurisdiction in the area of the incident.
Reporting officer: R. Osborne.
Tuesday, March 27
■ Larceny of N64, Snowden 607. Matt
Robinson said someone stole a N64 game
system, various N64 games and a blue
sports coat from his room. Estimated value:
$635. Reporting officer: C. Ettenger.
■ Lost property. Grand Market Place.
Amber Curtis said that while in line at the
GMP, she placed her purse on the ground
and walked away. When she returned, her
purse was gone. Reporting officer: C.
Ettinger.
Monday, March 26
■ Suspicious activity, 1400 Greene
St. USC student Sarah Tomasi said an
unknown man followed her from the
corner of Bull Street to the incident
location, where she stopped and asked
for help. Upon stopping, the man ran
off to an unknown location. Reporting
offficer: G. Whitlock.
Columbia
Wednesday, March 28
■ Loud music, 2504 Center St.
Richard Patterson, 65, told police his
neighbor was playing very loud bass music.
When reporting officer I. Menedez came
to the neighbor’s residence, there was loud
music playing. The officer had further
reports from the location that night.
■ Found property, 2211 Read St.
Reporting officer B. Carter said while
checking a vehicle, the plates on the car
came back as not belonging to another car.
The officer contacted the owner of the
plates and the highway department.
■ Simple assault,1333 Taylor St.
(Baptist Medical Hospital). Sue Grossman,
a BMH employee said an unknown woman
was veiy loud and disruptive in the hospital
lobby. When Grossman asked the woman
to quiet down, the woman became enraged
and hit Grossman in the chest area. Hospital
security escorted the woman out of the
hospital, and she was gone by the time
police arrived. Reporting officer: B. Carter.
■ Counterfeit money, 3514 N. Main
St. (Hess Gas Station). A Hess employee
said an unknown man puniped $ 10 in gas
and paid with what was later discovered
to be a counterfeit $10 bill. Reporting
officer: V. Mallardi.
Monday, March 26
■ Vicious dog, 1700 Broadband Ave.
Dores Bass said two dogs came into her
yard and started to fight with her dog, that
was chained. Bass tried to stop the dogs
from attacking her dog, and was bitten.
The two dogs killed Bass’ dog. Reporting
officer: G.Wise.
Students work to
find ways around
Napster’s filters ,
by Crisy Infinger
Twe Gamecock
USC students are finding ways to
get around Napster’s new filters and are
using alternative Web sites that serve the
same purpose — downloading free music.
While many copyrighted songs are
still available on Napster, a recent court
injunction is forcing the Internet upstart
to filter these songs, preventing users from
downloading the music.
“I think that it is unfortunate that
Napster shut down, because it was
convenient and easy to use,” said Meredith
Roquemore, a second-year student in the
College of Journalism and Mass
Communications.
The recent battles against Napster,
which allows users to download music for
free, have involved music stars Metallica
and Dr. Dre.
On March 5, Napster was ordered by
U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall
Patel to block copyrighted songs listed by
the record companies that brought the
suit.
But students have found ways to get
around the Napster block. Programs such
as Aimster and Napigator provide links
that go around the block and allow students
to continue downloading songs. Many
songs can be downloaded just by spelling
the name of the artist or the song
incorrectly.
Students are also using other tile
sharing services that haven’t been ordered
to stop, such as BearShare, a free program
* that uses the Gnutella network.
“1 think that it is ridiculous that they
are shutting Napster down because most
people are not out to profit off of Napster,
but are just using it for their personal
enjoyment,” said Lauren Clark, a
fourth-year student in the Darla Moore
School of Business.
Students are also finding ways to get
around the restrictions while still using
Napster. One option uses a variation on
Pig Latin to slip copyrighted songs past
Napster’s filtering software.
That’s the premise behind
NapCamcBack, a program that scrambles
the names of music files in a person’s MP3
directory. This allows Napster users to
continue downloading copyrighted music.
NapCameBack takes the first letter
of an artist’s name and puts it at the end
of the name. For example, Radiohead
becomes adioheadr.
“NapCameBack.com is already
working on a new version of our software
that will generate new encryption schemes
for protecting your files as needed,” reads
a message on the NapCameBack’s web
site. “Basically, if Napster starts filtering
based on our current encryption pattern,
the next time you run NapCameBack
software, your computer will contact our
Wfeb site and download a new encryption.
Whsh, rinse and repeat.”
College Press Exchange contributed to
this report. The university desk can be
reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com
T-shirt display
‘airs the laundry’
of abuse victims
■ Seventh annual
- Clothesline Project
remembers victims
By Mary Hartney
The Gamecock
Hundreds of brightly colored T-shiits
hung on Greene Street Wednesday to
“air the laundry” of interpersonal
violence victims.
Victims of interpersonal violence,
and their loved ones, painted the
shirts for the Clothesline Project. The
shirts were color-coded according to
the type of violence the victim
encountered.
A blue shirt quoted singer Ani
DiFranco: “He took something from
me I didn’t even know I had.” One
startling design on a
yellow shirt was the
pink letters over a
sun: “You Have
Rights.” A pink shirt
read: “May you
wither as I flourish.”
Another one simply
read: “Anger. Pain.
Hope.”
Tricia Phaup,
Sexual Health and
Violence Prevention
Office Director, said
the shirts were symbolic of dirty laundry,
because they were decorated with
personal messages by victims and loved
ones about abuse.
“It’s about airing your dirty laundry,”
Phaup said. “Too often we keep quiet,
and [the Sexual Health and Violence
Prevention Office] wants to let
people know they can come forward
and let them know they’re not alone.”
The Sexual Health and Violence
Prevention Office sponsored the
Clothesline Project. The office’s student
group, SHARE, helped pass out fliers
Wednesday and coordinated the project.
Kathy LaLima, the SHARE chair
for the project, said the painters were
offered an open opportunity to paint in
a safe space. Painting sessions were held
in different residence halls and through
some organizations, such as BGLA and
the Women’s Studies Program. Women
from local Sistercare shelters were also
invited to decorate T-shirts.
This year’s “Grand Display” was
part of the seventh annual Clothesline
Project, and was one of the most visible
events of the week. SHARE members
also sponsored the Thursday night
keynote speaker, Donald McPherson.
The Clothesline Project also
included a weeklong display of posters
in the Russell House, to advertise and
inform students about the Sexual Health
and Violence Prevention Office.
The posters also addressed the roles
of predatory drugs (such as Roofies),
stalking and drinking in interpersonal
violence.
The week also included a self
defense workshop Tuesday night which
LaLima said had good attendance.
uveran, uauma
said the impact of the
Clothesline Project was
overwhelming.
“It’s something I
feel is important not
just on a personal level,
but also on a larger
public scale,” she said.
LaLima said
violence and sexual
crimes against women
are “still under the
influence of a daunting
set of societal taboos that only perpetuate
misinformation, miscommunication and
more violence. The Clothesline Project
is a confrontation of these types of
violence by their survivors; I can’t think
of anything more powerful.”
The Clothesline project also included
shirts decorated by male victims of sexual
abuse. Phaup said that the project
encouraged men to paint, but that it
might be more difficult for them to do
so because of a stigma of masculinity
and the feeling of a need to protect
themselves.
The posters will still be on display
in the Russell House Friday.
The university desk can be reached at
gamecockudesk@hotmail.com
Color Symbolism
■ White: Those who have
died from violence
■ Yellow: Those who have
been assaulted or battered
■ Pink: Sexual assault vic
tims
■ Blue: Survivors of incest
or child abuse
■ Purple: Victims attacked
for their sexual orientation
Satellite campuses
brace for budget cuts
by Rebecca Whitehead
The Gamecock
USC satellite campuses are preparing
for possible budget cuts, administrators
say.
“We are going to be prepared for the
worst-case scenario,” USC-Sumter Dean
C. Leslie Carpenter said.
The campuses are bracing for a
budget cut of 10 to 15 percent as state
leaders try to make up for a possible
$500 million shortfall in the budget.
Carpenter said 80 percent of
Sumter’s money was in human resources.
He said Sumter would have to reduce
its personnel, which would include losing
33 part-time workers next year. Six of
the full-time positions there would be
caught up in the hiring freeze declared
by USC President John Palms and won’t
be filled, Carpenter said.
The situation is similar at the Aiken
campus. “There are five faculty positions
we would not be able to fill,” Assistant
Chancellor Deidre Martin said.
Martin said Aiken couldn’t hire
business, nursing or math instructors. A
librarian’s position also wouldn’t be filled.
Union isn’t filling one position, but
that’s more dramatic than it sounds,
according to Dean Jim Edwards.
“One position on a small campus
is a lot; it equals about 15 or 20 positions
[in Columbia],” he said.
Another big impact of the budget
cut is tuition increases. The increase was
estimated to be around 10 percent,
according to Union, Spartanburg and
Aiken campuses.
Some campuses are focusing on
increasing enrollment. Spartanburg
Director of University Communications
Gibson Smith said increasing enrollment,
though part of the plan, comes with a
number of costs. These include more
faculty to handle the increase in students.
Carpenter said USC-Sumter would
reduce course sections, making classes
larger and causing less schedule flexibility
for students.
The satellite campuses are also having
to cut “discretionary” spending. “We are
being very frugal this year,” Edwards
said. “Absolutely no travel.”
Other expenditures, like technology
fees, student activity fees, media funding
and money for office and maintenance
supplies will be affected.
Most of the campuses are hopeful
about Gov. Jim Hodges working on a
solution. This past Thursday, Hodges
proposed a plan that would wipe out cuts
to higher education.
Until the budget cut is finally
determined, Carpenter will remain
“cautiously optimistic” about the
governor’s plan.
“I’m certainly gratified,” he said,
but didn’t want to speak too soon.
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