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Condon sets up tip line
for school bomb threats
by Charles Prasjiaw
The Gamecock
Attorney General Charlie Condon
asked residents at a press conference Friday
to help stop school bomb threats.
Condon, who is running for governor,
has set up a toll-free tip line for students
who have information that could lead to
arrests in bomb-threat cases.
“The threat to blow up a school, even
if intended as a harmless prank, is a
despicable act of terror,” Condon said.
All information received will remain
confidential, Condon said. Rewards of
$ 100 will be given to callers whose tips
lead to an arrest and conviction.
Condon warned young people that
“threatening to bomb a school is a
felony under the law.”
Condon said people convicted of
making bomb threats could receive one
to 10-year sentences.
He said he got the idea for the hotline
after an anonymous tip led to a recent
arrest in a bomb-threat case at a Beaufort
school.
During the press conference, Condon
talked about several bomb threats in South
Carolina schools.
On Friday, North Charleston police
arrested four students for allegedly making
11 bomb threats to six Charleston County
schools in the past month.
The students, ages 13 to 16, attended
area schools, according to North Charleston
Police Chief Chad Caldwell.
According to Condon, Myrtle Beach
antf Socastee high schools in Hony County
were shut down twice last month after
someone made threats on the same day
against both schools.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested in
Horry County a week ago for allegedly
threatening to bomb an elementary school.
People with information on bomb
threats may call 1-877-SEE-A-GUN or 1
877-733-2486.
The city desk can be reached at
gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com
University
Thursday, April 5
■ Assault and battery between
roommates, Columbia Hall room 1005.
Richard Morris said he had a verbal
altercation with roommate Jonathan Slager
that led to Morris grabbing Slager’s ear
and choking him to the floor. The RA plans
to do an emergency roommate change.
Reporting officer: L. Forte.
■ Missing inventory, Coker Life
Science Building. Employees said a $5,000
computer projector panel is missing from
inventory. Reporting officer: L. Forte.
■ Civil disturbance. Columbia Hall
parking lot. Reporting officer M. Moore
saw Kaleta Brown and Carlos Cato in a
verbal altercation in the parking lot. The
officer told the two to go to their separate
dorm rooms.
Columbia
Sunday, April 8
■ Information, 900 Senate-St. Reporting
officer S. Koon was called in reference to
a traffic accident involving a high-ranking
state official. The report didn’t say who
the official was.
Saturday, April 7
■ Grand larceny of motor vehicle,
3301 Harden St. William Wilson said
someone stole his car while he was staying
the night at the incident location. Reporting
officer: L. Reaves.
■ Public drunkenness, possession
of alcohol in public, 700 Saluda Ave.
Reporting officer C. Butler saw Michael
Bader, 49, drinking a one-pint bottle of
Canadian whiskey wliile on a public street.
Bader was very drunk and had slurred
speech.
■ Disorderly conduct, 1308 Oak St.
Reporting officer C. White saw Joseph
Raymond being very loud and boisterous.
Raymond wouldn’t calm down after being
repeatedly warned by the officer. He was
arrested and transported to Richland
County Detention Center.
■ Discharging a firearm into a
dwelling, malicious injury to
personal property, 1809 Wmdover St.
Claude Matthews said someone fired a
gun into his house multiple times.
Matthews said at least 20 shots were fired
at his vehicle and his house. Police
recovered .40 caliber shells front the scene.
Reporting officer: I. Menendez.
■ Drunkenness, 1800 Blanding St.
(Club Metropolis), Maggie Gault, 30, was
extremely intoxicated and was involved
in a verbal and physical fight. She was
transported to Richland County Detention
Center. Reporting officer: I. Menendez.
■ Lynching, 1200 Park St. (Art Bar).
Jeffery Cavanaugh, 28, was jumped by
several men at the bar. Cavanaugh was
later taken to Palmetto Ricliland Memorial
Hospital. Reporting officer: J. Whittle.
Representatives
from:
Bent Tree Apts.
Broad River Trace
CopperfieldApts.
Country Walk Apts.
Meredith Square
Townhomes
Morgan Properties
RcdntreeApts.
RiverbendApts.
Stone Ridge Apts.
The Arbors at
Windsor Lake
The Fairways
The Paddock Club
Whaley's Mill Apts.
The Waterford
St Andrew's Commons
Rivergate Apartments
Hampton Greene
Apartments
Forest Bnxrk
I Apartments
Gable Hill Apartments
Cornell Arms
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Wednesday
April 11
11am - 2pm
Greene St.
(Rain location:
Russell House
Ballroom C)
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Citadel to get own cheer squad
Associated Press
The Citadel will soon be able to have
its own squad of cheerleaders, now that
the military institution has gone co-ed.
Since the 1960s, the college has
“borrowed” female students from the
neighboring College of Charleston for
its cheerleading team. Now the women
must leave the squad, though many of
them wanted to cheer throughout their
college years.
“We thought they’d let us finish out
our senior years,” Lauren Heesemann
said.
She said she thought it was “wrong
for The Citadel to just flat-out cut us.”
Citadel cheerleaders are treated just
like cadets, according to College of
Charleston student Leslie Kintrey.
“We run and we practice and then
we might have to go to die training room ”
Kimrey said.
“If we mess up a stunt during a game,
we stay after and do push-ups.”
Squad captain Sara Amick said she
cheered for The Citadel as a way of
becoming involved with the school
because women weren’t always admitted.
“I go to the College of Charleston,
but I grew up going to Citadel football
and basketball games always wanting to
‘Those pretty little girls from the College of
Charleston have been great for us, but I
guess we have to move forward with
reality.*
Stan Hurteau
Executive director of The Citadel’s booster club
be a Citadel cheerleader,” Amick said.
“My blood runs Citadel blue.”
Associate Athletics Director Ray
Whiteman said though the women might
not agree with it, the decision to cut the
team had to be all-or-nothing.
“Finally, we decided it was best to
go all one way or all the other,” Whiteman
said.
Citadel cheerleader Jean Valdez said
he thought it seemed to be an
inappropriate route for the athletics
department to take.
“I understand The Citadel, now being
a co-ed school, wanting to get rid of all
outside sources,” Valdez said. “But it’s
not fair to these particular girls to say,
‘Sorry, we can’t use you anymore.’”
Stan Hurteau, executive director of
The Citadel’s booster club, expressed
regret the women were leaving, but said
it was necessary for the school.
“Those pretty little girls from the
College of Charleston have been great
for us, but I guess we have to move
forward with reality,” Hurteau said.
Athletics Director Les Robinson
agreed the change is needed so that The
Citadel’s cheerleaders are more
representative of the school.
“Now that we have enough women
in die corps, we can keep our cheerleading
squad in-house,” Robinson said.
“It’s a school activity, and you don’t
have people from other schools doing
any other things for The Citadel. It just
makes sense.”
Sliannon Faulkner was the first female
cadet to join The Citadel amid controversy
in 1995.Thereare81 women now enrolled.
Campus Calendar
Monday, April 9
■ Workshop: Truman Scholarship
workshop. 4 p.m., Harper College
Conference Room, first floor.
Tuesday, April 10
■ Event 46th annual art auction. Art
goes on display, 1 p.m.; preview party,
7 p.m., Capstone Campus Room.
Auction begins at 8 p.m.
■ Event Big Man on Campus Twister
4
Marathon. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Greene
Street.
■ Address: Novelist Nicholas Baker
addresses Thomas Cooper Society.
5 p.m., Graniteville Room, Thomas
Cooper Library.
■ Blood drive: Red Cross.
4 p.m., RH 531.
Wednesday, April 11
■ Lecture: Valinda Littlefield,
Department of History. “‘I’m Only One,
But I Am One': South African-American
Women Schoolteachers, 1884-1954,"
3:30 p.m., Gambrell 152. Reception
following in Gambrell 428.
■ Speech: Susan Aude Fisher speaks
on racism and the Baha’i faith. 7 p.m.,
RH 302.
■ Event Big Man on Campus
Pageant. 8 p.m., Koger Center.
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The Office of Greek Life would like to congratulate the outstanding
academic achievements of the Greek Community as recognized at the
Spring Scholars luncheon on April 6, 2001.
Alpha Chi Omega
Therese Garwacki
Margaret Mathney
Lindsay Squeglia
Allison Whitworth
Alpha Delta Pi
April Dendy
Emily Lynn
Amanda Murdock
Megan Pickworth
Jobeth Stephens
Lauren Taylor
Anna Laura
Molly Walker
Claire Woodward
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Erika Meeks
Chi Omega
Jaclyn Bessent
Jillian Brown
Melissa Harris
Beth Keenan
Christina Klein
Rachel McCurry
Rachel Moyle
Christine Perkinson
Arrianda Richardson
Leigh-Anne
Kathleen Semon
Helen Tecklenburg
Amanda Veldman
Delta Delta Delta
Mary Catherine Bundy
Carissa Chapman
Jennifer Franzen
Monica Smoak
Kristin Tant
Jessica Thompson
Lane Westmoreland
Amanda Williams
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Delta Gamma
Ann-Margaret Brannon
Sharon Hinson
Amber Liebsch
Jessica Roaden
Delta Zeta
Caroline Akers
Valeria Cometto
Jaime Soblesky
Danielle Scroggins
Brooke Spitzer
Kappa Delta
Bonnie Buchheit
Allyson Carbaugh
Mary Downing
Grace Draffin
Emily Easterlin
Tucker Lisa Hurst
Marina Kanos
Elizabeth McDonald
Jane Tate
Bailie Thompson
Erin Whitworth
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Lauren Anderson
Mireille Dizard
Carol Edwards
Sarah Huskamp
Joann Johnston
Jennett Lockrow
Kathleen Mahan
Audrey McCall
Stephanie Menio
Travers Lauren Propst
Amy Weeter
ZetaTau Alpha
Katherine Heller
Lindsey Hendrick
Sara McDonald
Caroline Wooten
Alpha Tau Omega
Rutledge Cox
Delta Tau Delta
James Byrd
Hydrick Harden
Paul Letso
Douglas McCartha
Graham Newman
Delta Upsilon
Jason Clark
Kappa Alpha
Charles Butler
Thomas Griffin
William Rhodes
Cameron Smith
Daniel Smith
Kappa Sigma
Scott Tiedebohl
Lambda Chi Alpha
James Hensley
Stephane Schafeitel
Pi Kappa Phi
C.K. Anderson
Jason Morton
Ricky Shah
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Matthew Carpenter
Denny Major
William Snyder
Sigma Chi
William Fogle
Sigma Nu
John Conatser
Gregory Literati
Justin Verona
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Andrew Del Gaizo
Matthew Dobrodziej
Ryan Ziegler
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Kelvin Billingsley
Michael Hyland
These Chapters were recognized for receiving the highest average GPA
Spring 2000 - Chi Omega & Pi Kappa Phi
Fall 2000 - Chi Omega & Kappa Alpha r
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