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POLICE REPORT Each numbered symbol on the map represents a single crime that corresponds with the numbered descriptions in the list below it DAY CRIMES f □ Violent crimes ■ 1 NIGHT CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) q Nonviolent crimes # J (6p.m.-6a.m.) H © CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS Thursday, Aug. 30 ® LARCENY OF BATTERY, 700 BLOCK GADSDEN ST. Wesley Steinmeyer said someone took one “Interstate” brand battery from a construction trailer at Hertz Equipment Rental. Estimated valye: $100. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier ® AUTO BREAK-IN, 1300 BLOSSOM ST. Daniel B. Bostic said someone stole his student parking decal from his vehicle inside the Blossom Street garage. The vehicle was left unsecured and there were no signs of forced entry. Estimated value: $1.00. Reporting officer: J.D. Patterson. Friday, Aug. 31 ® LARCENY OF CAR TIRE, 1405 WHALEY ST. Allison L. Strunk said someone took her front passenger-side tire from her car. Estimated value: $80. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. o ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 918 BARNWELL ST. A female student said an unknown male has called her room twice. She said neither she nor her roommate knows who the caller is. The caller is harassing her and saying he “needs her to "help him with something. Police issued her a log to keep track of the calls. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. Saturday, Sept. 1 H SIMPLE ASSAULT, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD. Jason Becknell assaulted reporting officer K.E. Reese at the USC vs. Boise State football game. Becknell was trying to stop police from arresting his friend. He yelled and cursed loudly, causing a general disturbance. Becknell repeatedly hit Reese with his hands and feet. Reporting officer: K.E. Reese, o DISORDERLY CONDUCT, WILLIAMS BRICE STADIUM. At the football game, reporting officer Gregory A. White saw a bulge in John R. Brookshire’s pockets. White inspected the pockets and found a beer. Brookshire tried to leave before White could complete a student disciplinary form. Brookshire pushed his way through a crowd and was stopped again by White. Brookshire also had another beer. He was arrested and taken to the Richland County Police Department for bond court. Reporting officer: Gregory A. White. ©) SCALPING, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD. Alexander Nelson tried to sell a USC vs. Boise State football ticket for $40.00 to officer A.W. Radcliff. Nelson was arrested but ran from Radcliff, who caught him after a short run. Police gave Nelson a uniform ticket. Reporting officer: A.W. Radcliff. nr DOMESTIC DISPUTE, CAPSTONE HOUSE. Elaine Pitts said William A. Bratton was harassing her daughter, Tara E. Pitts. An investigation revealed that Bratton had an active warrant from the Columbia Police Department. CPD arrested Eiratton on a warrant for simple possession of marijuana. Reporting officer: M.R. Glass. (?) ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 1502 DEVINE ST. A female student said a male who called himself “Rob Thomas” phoned her and tried several times to get personal information about her in a harassing manner. Police gave her a log to keep track of the calls. She called back to dispatch and said someone began knocking on her door and shaking her door handle once she returned to her room. The student didn’t know whether the two incidents were related. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. Sunday, Sept. 2 ® LARCENY OF SIGNS, 1400 GREENE ST. Kenneth E. Williams said someone stole two signs from the Carolina Mall in the Russell House. The stolen signs were one yellow “Veggie Street” sign and one blue-and white “Freshens” sign. Total estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier 0 AUTO BREAK-IN, 1423 WHALEY ST. Warren R. Barrett said someone broke his front driver-side window and stole his “Whistler” radar detector. A silver Toyota key was found on the driver’s seat. Barrett said the key wasn’t his. The key was taken and stored as evidence. Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. luesaay, oepi. h 0 ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 1311 WHALEY ST. A male student said he has received a number of harassing phone calls from an unknown female caller. Police gave him a log to keep track of the calls. Reporting officer: J.R. Merrill. @ THREATENING INSTANT MESSAGES, 820 HENDERSON ST. A female student said someone sent her a threatening instant message. Police gave her a log to keep track of the messages. Reporting officer: C.R. Morales. 0 LARCENY OF MONEY, 918 BARNWELL ST. Cleveland Marsh said someone broke off parking meters 84,87 and 109. The suspect then stole an unknown amount of money from the three meters. Meters 84 and 87 were found behind a trash Dumpster. Meter 109 was found beside meter 108 in the B.A. building’s meter lot. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. Middle Program seeks USC students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 serve their community, espe cially if they have required com munity service hours.” Kate Stewart, a public health graduate student and an assis tant at the Bicentennial office, has been spending an hour per week with a sixth grader at Crayton Middle School in Co lumbia. “I give him supplemen - tal help, especially with vocab ulary and math,” said Stewart. “It seems to work well for him.” According to McKay, many people have expressed surprise that this middle school outreach program is a part of the Bicen tennial plan, especially because it isn’t directly connected with the university. “It is unexpected, which is one of the great things about it,” said McKay. “We want the stu dents in schools around the state to be a part of this — of the spirit of our Bicentennial. As the oldest public institution of higher learning in South Car Race Policies examined at nearby schools CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Terry Davis, undergraduate admissions director at USC, said even if USC were in the 11th Circuit Court’s jurisdic tion, the decision would not af fect USC’s policy. “We don’t consider race or gender,” Davis said. “[This] court case won’t affect in any way the way we admit stu dents.” Unlike the University of Florida’s former practice of awarding race-based scholar ships, “all scholarships we award through the Admissions Office are based on academic credentials,” Davis said. Davis also said diversity is not a problem at USC, even without considerations for un derrepresented races and sex es. “24 percent of this year’s freshman class are minori ties.” x uixim U1V i V.UUU11 uiw wuivi schools did consider those fac tors was to balance the num bers,” Davis said. “An absolute cutoff [of SAT scores] may af fect the makeup of the [minor ity] class,” Davis said. USC does not have an SAT cut-off, she said. Fourth-year history student Aja Vaughn was surprised to hear about USC’s policy. “I am shocked—I thought we proba bly used [race-based admis sions], I thought everybody did,” Vaughn said. Race-based admissions have been debated in courts since 1978, when the Medical School of the University of California at Davis admitted less-qualified minority students than some rejected white applicants. One denied applicant sued for ad mission under the 14th Amend ment. The resulting case, Regents Football Bulldogs provide challenge for USC CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 neth Harney is doubtful for the game, with a sprained left an kle. Harney will make the trip to Georgia and could play some, though how much has not yet been determined, USC coach Lou Holtz said. Safety Deandre Eiland (hurt ankle) is questionable. After a 32-13 win over Boise State, which averaged nearly olina, on our 200th birthday, it’s our responsibility and privilege to reach out to the students of our state.” “I hope Carolina students will understand our need for them to get involved,” said Hubbard, who spends time with a student each week work ing on language arts skills. “I have had the most wonderful ex perience.” “University students have such a potential for reaching out to these students and trying to keep them connected with their goals,” said Hubbard. “And vol unteers always get much more than they give.” Anyone interested in becom ing a part of the Meet in the Mid dle program may sign up online at www.sc.edu/bicentennial, or call the Bicentennial office at 777-1801. The USC Bicentennial Office will sponsor many events for the remainder of 2001, all of which are intended to celebrate USC’s 200th year. Many cultural events, lectures, seminars and other events are scheduled for this fall. “We don’t consider race or gender. [This] court case won’t affect in any way the way we admit students.” TERRY DAVIS USC UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR of the University of California v. Bakke, was the first and only case in which the U.S. Supreme Court has addressed concern over racial diversity by allow ing race to be considered as a predominant factor in admit ting minorities into universi ties. “The divided Supreme Court opinion on UCA v. Bakke has caused American educational institutions to be in a state of uncertainty of how and if they can use race as a factor in admissions,” said a New York attorney with the Simpson Thacher & Bartlett law firm. While UCA v. Bakke ended race being used as a predomi nant factor in admission to universities, the ruling did not clearly state how much of a fac tor race can play. The attorney said UGA was probably using this race-based admissions policy as a “reme dy for past discrimination, but federal courts have consis tently held that the link be tween discrimination of the past and today’s university’s admissions is too far removed to allow such an ‘extreme’ remedy.” Despite USC not using race as a factor for admission, some students think the campus is still diverse. “Considering we don’t have affirmative action here, we have a wide variety of cul tures,” said Vaughn. 45 points a game last season, USC knows tomorrow’s match up is just as important as last year’s. In order for the Gamecocks to have a shot at the SEC cham pionship, Saturday’s game is almost a must-win, with No. 7 Tennessee and No. 1 Florida still on the horizon. Kickoff is slated for 7:45 p.m. tomorrow night and will be broadcast nationwide on ESPN. The Associated Press con tributed to this report. Middle schools with no volunteers Bicentennial committee needs help from college students who would like to serve as mentors to middle schoolers statewide. AIKEN A.L. Corbett Middle, Wagener Jackson Middle, Jackson BEAUFORT H.E. McCracken Middle, Bluffton Hilton Head Middle, Hilton Head Robert Smalls Middle, Beaufort Whale Branch Middle, Seabrook BERKELEY Cainhoy Middle, Huger Cross Jr. High, Cross Hanahan Middle, Hanahan Macedonia Middle, Moncks Comer CHARLESTON Haut Gap Middle, Johns Island Laing Middle, Mt. Pleasant McClellanville Middle, McClellanville Momingside Middle, North Charleston CHEROKEE Ewing Jr. High, Gaffney Granard Middle, Gaffney DILLON Lake View Middle, Lake View Latta Middle, Latta DORCHESTER Gregg Middle, Summerville Oakbrook Middle, Ladson EDGEFIELD Johnston-Edgefield-Trenton, Johnston Merriwether, North Augusta GREENVILLE Parker Academy, Greenville Riverside Middle, Greer JASPER Ridgeland Middle, Ridgeland KERSHAW Camden Middle, Camden MARLBORO Blenheim Middle, Blenheim McColl Middle, McColl Wallace Middle, Wallace SPARTANBURG Campobello-Gramling, Campobello Landrum Middle, Landrum Mabry Jr. High, Inman SUMTER Furman Middle, Sumter Hillcrest Middle, Dalzell Mayewood Middle, Sumter YORK Fort Mill Middle, Fort Mill Gold Hill Middle, Fort Mill Harold C. Johnson Middle, York Sullivan Middle, Rock Hill use BRIEFS USC historian wins documentary Emmy Dr. Dan T. Carter, an Educational Foundation Professor of history at USC, won an Emmy on Wednesday for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft as a researcher for PBS’ “George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire,” partofPBS’sThe American Experience series. The honor marks the first time a historian has won an Emmy. Other nominees in the category included researchers for CBS Evening News, HBO and Dateline. “George Wallace: Settin’ the Woods on Fire,” selected by the Writers Guild of America for best documentary of2000, also garnered an Emmy nomination for best documentary script writing. The documentary was based on Carter’s 1995 biography, “Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics.” i he 22na Annual News ana Documentary Emmy Awards was held Sept. 5 in Los Angeles. One of the nation’s most celebrated U.S. and Southern historians, Carter, a USC alumnus, joined USC’s history faculty in 2000. He previously taught at Emory University. Research funding rises one percent USC’s sponsored program and research funding hit a record of $122.8 million in 2000-2001, a 1 percent increase from this past year. Research funding has increased every year for the past 19 years, but USC’s vice president for research, Bill Harris, said this year’s is actually a “relatively small funding increase.” “This was an exceptionally difficult year for faculty retention,” he said. The amount increased 25 percent this past year as the university passed the $100 million mark. Harris said this year’s small jump follows past patterns of large growth jumps occurring every two or three years. Significant portions of the research money come from the Defense Department, the National Institutes of Health, the Education Department and the National Science Foundation. State funding has dropped 9 percent from the past year. Of the $122.8 million, about $84 million funded research, about $27.5 million funded service and equipment and the rest went toward graduate assistantships and training projects. Mediation center opens at USC-S USC-Spartanburg has openec its Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, the only mediation center on a college campus in the state. In the next year, it will also b the nation’s only campus-based center serving nonprofit needs for the surrounding community The center advocates non violent resolution of interpersonal conflict in homes schools, nonprofit organization and communities. It will begin its duties on campus by mediating and performing ombudsman duties, including roommate conflicts and noise complaints. The center will eventually train and mediate external bodies, especially families. The S.C. Supreme Court has designated Spartanburg Count; to handle mandatory mediatior in cases before family court. There are about 250 mediatio centers on college campuses. Events to honor the late James Dickey The Sandlapper Singers will hold a conference today and Saturday, as well as a concert Saturday night, commemoratir the work of James Dickey. Dickey, a former USC poet in residence, died in 1997. The Sandlapper Singers Conference on Poetry and Song will be held Friday from 2-5 p.m at Columbia College and Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at USC’s School of Music recital hall. It is open to the public and is free. Call 255-0208 for more information. The concert, “The Poet, The Composer, The Premier,” will t held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Koger Center. It will feature “Falling,” a choral drama basec on the Dickey poem, which recounts the final thoughts of a flight attendant who is falling t( her death. Two other works based on Dickey’s poetry will also be performed. Audio and video of James Dickey will also be shown, and composer Libby Larson and USC’s undergraduate affairs’ dean, Di Don Greiner, will provide commentary. Tickets are available througl Capital Tickets. NAACP Group urges more recruitment of blacks CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 USC’s student population is sixteen percent African-Ameri can, compared with a faculty that is 3 percent African-American, and retention of those instructors is low, Campbell said. Campbell told the group the best approach is to “let it be { known that you want more s African-American faculty.” He i also said that because of the large v number of African-Americans on i campus, students should ap proach the administration and i say, “W& as black students feel we need this, this and this.” * ( The chapter president, Lee Allyson Gailliard, thinks “there t needs to be four times as many I (African-American) faculty as t there are now.” < Another issue discussed was irejudice against international tudents, who were represented t the meeting by Elizabeth ames, an international student dviser. According to James, “There re a lot of layers to race relations - language barriers and cultural lifferences.” She acknowledged the exis ence of tensions among people of he same race based on their sta uses as American citizens or for ign nationals. “International students do ex perience racial issues,” James said. Of the 1,300 international stu dents on campus, one-fourth are Indian and another fourth are Chinese, with the remaining half encompassing students of other international origin. One student expressed prob lems with coverage of African Americans in The Gamecock. Toinette Drayton said “some thing was always found offen sive” to her in the paper. She also mentioned what she saw as un necessary critiques in the “sports section — about pro [basketball] players and their [fashion] styles.” On the matter of race relations in the upcoming school year, there was agreement that it’s too early to tell. Letisha Scotland, the chapter’s treasurer, said, “Student rela tions seem to always be fairly calm. We either are going to get along or just ignore each other - — like roommates.” a The Gamecock. We’ve got use covered. if <