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Columbia Thursday, April 12 ■ Malicious injury to personal property, 2700 Forest Drive. George Potter said he was driving when someone threw something at his car, shattering the window. Reporting officer: E. Murphy. Wednesday, April 11 ■ Attempted suicide. 1330 Johnson *4 Ave. A woman took 10-15 tablets of a 500-mg prescription of Cephalexin in an attempt to kill herself. EMS later took her to Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital. Reporting-officer: S. Laney. ■ Petit larceny of pistol, 901 Colleton St. Lawanda Cohens said someone took her pistol from her dresser drawer. Cohens said only her two sons and her fiance knew about the gun and had access to her room. Reporting officer: S. Narewski. ■ Assisting other agency, recovery of a stolen vehicle, 3900 Main St. (Bi-Lo). Reporting officer S. Narewski was dispatched because of a suspicious car parked in the loading dock behind Bi-Lo. Police found that the car had been reported as stolen. Tuesday, April 10 ■ Larcenty of Herbie curbie, 1118 Taylor St. Clara Atkinson said her city issued trash can was stolen from her yard. Reporting officer: E. Feiguson. University Wednesday, April 11 ■ Non-Criminal Mischief, Bates West Dorm. Student Courtney Barrett was reported to be throwing beer bottles from student Mary Isom’s dorm room. The RA and the RHA responded and wrote both students up for housing infractions. Each student also received student disciplines. Reporting officer: L. Forte. ■ Malicious Injury to Personal Property, Coliseum S-9 Parking Lot. Student Mark McGrath said someone broke the driver’s side window of his vehicle. Estimated damage of $200. Reporting officer: L. Morales. ■ Accidental Damage, Capstone Lobby. Employee ShirleyMcKie said someone slammed the inside lobby ioor, cracking it. Reporting officer: C. Iaylor. ruesday, April 10 ■ Larceny of Wheel Covers, Level 3 Blossom Street Garage. Student Bobby Binnicker said someone took the wheel covers from his vehicle. Estimated /alue of $50 each. Reporting officer: D. Longshore. ■ Larceny of Money Bag, Russell House. Employee Carmela Carr said someone took a secured green money bag belonging to USC Student Services from a secured location. The money bag contained $1405.45 in cash. The investigation is still active. Reporting officer: G. Whitlock. Monday, April 9 ■ Suspicious Activity/ Prowler, South Quad. Student Sarah Reeves said someone tried to enter her residence. Reeves said she heard someone shaking the door handles. The person fled. Reporting officer: N. Beza. Fisher from page 1 basics of the Baha’i faith. Baha’ullah, the founder of the faith, is the base for the word “Baha’i.” Baha’ullah died in-1892 after spending his adult life in prison, held in contempt for teaching the religion, Fisher said. The Baha’i faith has three main concepts: there is one god, called different names by different faiths; there is one unfolding religion, revealed over time by messengers of God; and humanity is not divided into races. “Baha’ullah said, ‘The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens,”’ Fisher said. The rest of her speech focused on the third concept: fighting racism. She emphasized that the Baha’i’s need to eradicate racism is a “vital, key, spiritual principle ingrained in the heart.” “We’re kind of caught right now in that rough time between adolescence and adulthood,” she said about humanity’s position on racism. Fisher quoted the faith’s golden rule: ‘“Blessed is he who prefers his brother before himself.’” Fisher became interested in the Baha’i faith in 1995. She was attending a Methodist church and teaching Sunday school at the time. She researched Baha’i and started attending meetings. She encouraged the audience to research religion, as well. “My life would have been so small and so limited if I had not been brought into this faith,” she said. “This has enriched my life.” But she didn’t want to push any views on anyone present. She stressed that Baha’is are forbidden to be overbearing about their faith. Jason Goldie, a third-year student in the College of Science and Math, said he attended the meeting because he had been to a Baha’i discussion last year at which Fisher spoke as part of a 7-member panel. He said he saw fliers for this speech and was curious. “I wanted to find out what she meant,” Goldie said. Dr. Carey Murphy, Chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of West Columbia, holds Baha’i “firesides,’’which Fisher attends, at her house. Murphy defined a fireside as “the opening of one’s home.” Murphy’s group meets every Friday at 7:30 p.m. for informal discussions and questions about the faith. “It’s a way people in a comfortable setting can ask questions,” Murphy said. Murphy said there are five spiritual assemblies in the metro area for Baha’is. She said she estimated there were 300 Baha’is in Columbia and around 10,000 in South Carolina. She also said South Carolina had the most Baha’is, except for California, and the only Baha’i radio station (based in Hemingway) in the country. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Enrollment from page 1 enrollment change would increase the university’s ideal funding under the formula by $990,850 in fiscal year 2002 and nearly $5.3 million in 2007. “In essence, [Mission Resource Requirement, a part of the state’s formula] and the supposed ‘quality indicators’ notwithstanding, student headcount is the key to financial reward from the state,” the report says. ■ Increased student fees. USC would pick up $659,400 in student fees next fiscal year and $3.5 million by 2007. ■ Increases in revenue from housing, meal plans and book sales. Those increases would total more than $1.9 million next year and rise to $2.4 million by 2007. Without the plan, USC’s losses would soar, with an almost $4.9 million loss in performance-based funding and a $3.2 million loss in student fees by 2007, the report says. Palms’ report says the increase in enrollment would mean a decrease in the average SAT score, from the current 1116, of incoming freshmen. “We can set an enrollment target to keep us out of the funding ‘danger zone’ and then work to achieve the SAT average as a strategic goal,” Palms wrote. “Still, keeping in mind the progress we have made, a slight variation in the SAT score will not adversely affect our ability to attain our goal of an average SAT score of 1175 by 2005,” the report says. Palms’ report also says the plan wouldn’t affect the university’s longstanding goal of entering the Association of American Universities. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com oTUDENT GOVERNMENT Additional cabinet positions proposed by Mark Hiner The Gamecock A legislative amendment that would increase the number of executive cabinet members came before the student senate Wednesday during the second meeting of the new term. The proposed amendment, sponsored by Sen. Chris Odom of the College of Science and Mathematics, would give Student Government President Corey Ford the option of choosing up to five new cabinet members. Odom said because of the ^addition of new senators from the music and nursing schools, the senate is growing, and more cabinet members will be needed to keep the two groups proportional. “The floor of the Senate is expanding,” he said, “and this is just another way to get more people into the process.” Ford spoke in support of the proposed amendment, saying he would add only three positions to his cabinet should the amendment pass. Ford wants a cabinet member for the South Carolina Student’s Association and an Internal Affairs Director to improve communication within the cabinet. The university desk can be reached at gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Want your voice heard? Write a letter to the editor! GAMES date cost time GEORGIA SEPT.8 $27.00 TBA . MISSISSIPPI ST. SEPT. 20 $26.00 TBA I ARKANSAS OCT. 13 $25.00 TBA TENNESSEE OCT. 27 $38.00 TBA Clemson will be by Lottery j_J Procedures zuill be published in the Fall ' — A limited number of away football tickets will be made available to the University of South Carolina Student Body. The tickets will be limited to one (1) per student. Orders will be taken on Friday, April 20th. The price is as listed above, cash only, and all tickets must be paid for on this date. Students must come to the athletic ticket office on Rosewood Drive between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. to purchase away game tickets. The tickets may be claimed in the fall by coming to the ticket office and presenting a current Fall 2001 full-time ID card. This won’t get you anywhere this summer. Don’t just hang out this summer. Do something productive. Enroll in Coed Summer School at Columbia College. We have the courses you need (nearly I OO IN ALL)... FIVE SEPARATE SESSIONS... DAY AND EVENING OPTIONS ... SMALL CLASSES. . .GREAT FACULTY. .. 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