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'(the 6 am eco rk Sunday, June 24 ■Assisting other agency, 277 Farrow Road. Reporting officer E. Pereira responded for Columbia Police Department officer Van Houten, who was attempting to stop a Jeep Cherokee after Michael Draft had thrown several things out of the vehicle’s window. Draft stopped the vehicle and ran on foot. Officer Pereira arrived on the scene as Draft was taken into custody. Pereira assisted Van Houten with a search of the items that were thrown from the vehicle. Draft was arrested for simple possession of marijuana, failure to stop for blue lights and littering. ■Found property, 1300 block of Sumter Street. Employee Toni Harp said she found an American Express credit card, Helzburg Diamond credit card. Regency Jewelers credit card, and other miscellaneous membership and phone cards scattered on the sidewalk of Sumter Street near the Thomas Cooper Library. Reporting officer: L. Forte. ■ Driving under the influence, simple possession of marijuana, Wheat and South Saluda streets. Reporting officer M. Gass saw a vehicle driving north in the southbound lane of South Saluda Street. Gass smelled alcohol on the breath of the driver, Thurgood Klugh, and asked him to step from the vehicle. Klugh was unsteady on his feet and failed to pass five sobriety tests. Gass peered into vehicle and saw a plastic bag with a green leafy substance in plain view in the console between the driver and the passenger seats. Klugh and the passenger, Lasha Mclain, denied ownership. Klugh was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and simple possession of marijuana. SATURDAY, JUNE ■Accidental damage, McMaster College. Employee and reporting officer Carlton Taylor said that while backing up, he misjudged distance and accidentally collided with two parked vehicles belonging to the USC Transportation Services, causing minor damage to both vehicles. ■ Larceny, Laborde Residence Hall. Student Alyson Drake said someone removed a pair of Laura Ashley eyeglasses, an eyeglass case, an Elvis Presley cigarette tin, a Sprint flip phone, a brown leather wallet and $15 cash, with a total estimated value of $500, without her permission. Reporting officer: C. Ethenger. Friday, June 22 ■ Disorderly conduct, Sumter and Park streets. Reporting officer J. Coaxum responded to a call about a suspicious male around the Bates house area, sleeping or unconscious in the grass. Officer Coaxum located Jeffrey Medlock on the corner of Sumter and Whaley streets. Medlock was lying in the grass at the intersection. Officer Coaxum asked Medlock whether he had been drinking, and Medlock said yes. Medlock couldn’t recite the alphabet, was unsteady on his feet, had bloodshot eyes and smelled of alcohol. Thursday, June 21 ■ Malicious injury to personal property. Russell House Bookstore. Employee Robert Hoffman said someone broke the glass window on the north side of the Russell House. Estimated value of the damage is $500. Reporting officer: N. Beza. Wednesday, June 20 ■Larceny of tools, VA Medical School. Employee Rickie Conner said someone removed tools outside of room B-6 that were left in the hallway. Conner said he accidently left the tools out overnight, and when he returned in the morning, he discovered they were missing. The total estimated value of the tools was $428. Reporting officer: E. Pereira. ■ Simple assault, Carolina Coliseum. Saraishsa Belatorre said she and Carlos Jemenez got into a verbal altercation, which turned physical when Jemenez pushed her and called her obscene names. Belatorre lost her balance, but caught herself before she fell. An impact statement was issued. Reporting officer: J. Aspedon. I Tuition hikes complicate lottery Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - College tuition increases caused by the budget crunch could make it more difficult to decide how to spend lottery profits. With Clemson University’s tuition scheduled to go up 42 percent, a broad disparity will be created between LIFE scholarships at Clemson and other public four-year colleges. The lottery legislation signed into law by Gov. Jim Hodges earlier this month calls for the lottery-funded scholarships at public four-year colleges to equal the full-time in-state tuition plus a $300-dollar-per-year book allowance. A Clemson student would receive $5,390, compared with $4,458 for a University of South Carolina student, according to the formula that will be used in the fall of 2002. The Clemson tuition increase also would add about $4.5 million to the cost of the scholarship program. Sen. Tom Moore, D Clearwater and a member of the lottery conference committee, said constituents are complaining that the LIFE scholarship formula would give students at one college a greater benefit than students at other institutions. Moore said the college tuition problem proves that the Legislature shouldn’t rush to finish the bill. He said the Legislature can continue to negotiate terms of the lottery spending plan when it returns in January and still award the first scholarships in the fall of 2002. Lottery tickets are scheduled to go on sale Nov. 1. But a bill to earmark spending of the lottery profits remains in legislative limbo because of the disagreements over spending priorities. If the current law stands, it means that a LIFE scholar at Clemson would receive $390 per year more than the recipients of the $5,000 Palmetto Fellow award, the state’s current premier scholarship. “It certainly was not the intent that Palmetto Fellowships would be worth less than the LIFE scholarship,” Moore said. Sen. Larry Martin. R-Pickens, said lottery scholarship formulas need to be revisited to head off inequities between schools. Martin said some lawmakers have discussed a cap of about $4,800 for LIFE lottery-funded scholarships. Current LIFE recipients receive up to $3,000. Tuition CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ford later said. “We are lucky that it is not higher, like Clemson’s.” Many students and parents said they feel the increase was unavoidable and that the university dealt with the $12.7 million reduction in state funds in the best way possible — a combination of frugal cuts and increase in tuition. “I really don’t want my tuition to increase, but I understand that it has to because of the budget cuts. But I am glad that it is only being raised by 10.4 percent instead of the 41.8 percent of Clemson’s,” third-year student Mary-Leigh Dowd said. Dowd’s parents had a similar outlook on the prospect of the tuition increase. “I still think that ■ (the University of) South Carolina is still good value. Since the state cut the budget, the money has to come from somewhere, whether from the students, parents or scholarships,” said Dr. Clay Nichols, Dowd’s father. “But obviously the Gamecocks are smarter than their Clemson counterparts, who think that anyone is going to put up with a 40 percent increase.” Mack Whittle, chairman of the USC board of trustees, said USC’s reaction in this situation was both courageous and knowledgeable. ‘The budget that we adopted [Friday] is extremely responsible, showing courage to cut where necessary and the wisdom to support key items that are critical to maintaining the type of quality education that is expected of our state’s flagship university,^ Whittle said. The news desk can be reached at gamecockudesk® hotmail.com