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STATE BRIEFS Police officer leads chase after break-in CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Three suspects led an off-duty Cottageville police officer and other authorities on a chase through three counties after they tried to break into the officer’s home, police said. Capt. Ray Taylor confronted the suspects Wednesday as they were trying to open the door at his Colleton County home, Cottageville Police Chief Ralph Putti said. Taylor chased the group and stopped them in his unmarked police cruiser. But when he asked to see their IDs, they sped off, knocking him to the ground and dragging him a short distance. He wasn’t seriously injured, Putti said. Taylor called for backup and went after the suspects. That’s when the 30-mile chase crossed three counties and reached speeds of 80 mph or higher, Putti said. At one point during the chase, Taylor fired four shots to try to blow out the tires on the suspect’s car, but he missed. Nothing was hit and no one was hurt, Putti said. Residents concerned about island use CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - For two decades, Polly Island has been a tree-shrouded island in Wappoo Creek. But it once was, and soon again will be, a dredge spoil area for silt dredged from the creek, and that has some local residents upset. Federal workers are clear cutting trees in the middle of the island for use as a dredge spoils area. Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has an easement on the 10-acre island to dump dredge spoils, the agency could have done a better job handling the project, said Elmer Schwingen of the agency’s Charleston office. NATION BRIEFS Search continues in bridge collapse PORT ISABEL, TEXAS (AP) — A Navy dive team joined the search Thursday for three people still missing since the collapse of a South Padre Island bridge. Three sections of the Queen Isabella Causeway collapsed Saturday morning after being struck by barges. Five people are confirmed dead. Five vehicles have been recovered, and two remain missing. The Navy dive team, with sophisticated sonar and metal detection equipment, arrived Thursday morning. Lt. Lynn Dixon, leading a 15 member dive team for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said this was the most dangerous mission his team has undertaken in its five years. On Wednesday, Texas Attorney General John Comyn filed a lawsuit against the owners of a tugboat that pushed the barges into the causeway. Cincinnati officer’s trial will continue CINCINNATI (AP)-A judge Thursday refused to throw out charges against a white police officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black man sparked the city’s April riots. Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge Ralph E. Winkler ordered that the trial of Officer Stephen Roach continue. Defense lawyer Merlyn Shiverdecker argued that the state failed during three days of testimony to prove that Roach was guilty of negligent homicide and obstructing official business. The rioting, which lasted three nights, was the city’s worst racial violence since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. WORLD BRIEFS Mideast deaths threaten truce JERUSALEM (AP) - Threatening a U.S.-backed truce effort, Palestinian gunmen on Thursday killed an Israeli woman and seriously wounded her husband in a West Bank road ambush. The couple’s three young children witnessed the attack. Later, a Palestinian was killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip after five soldiers were wounded in a grenade attack. The violence came two days after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced he was enforcing an informal truce, and Israel responded by halting military strikes. The shooting was expected to delay a meeting between Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres that had been tentatively planned for later in the week. Death toll in hotel collapse at four ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AP) Two people hurt in the collapse of an Istanbul hotel Wednesday have died from their injuries, raising the number of dead to four, an official said. Rescue workers were still looking Thursday for a mother and her daughter be lieved to be buried inside, said firefighter Ilhan Ince. Two of the 18 people injured in the collapse died in a hospital, said Birgul Ozkan, a spokeswoman for the mayor’s office. The hotel caved in Wednes day when a subway tunnel being built underneath collapsed. Rescue efforts were temporarily halted late Wednesday when debris and earth slipped, making the site unsafe for rescuers. Hopes for finding the mother and her 13-year-old daughter alive were fading. Budget Committee holds first public forum CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 certain programs fail to meet cer tain productivity standards, a factor that will weigh heavily in the SDIC’s decisions. “There are degree programs that are not very productive in the number of students that grad uate from that program. Those programs are very costly to the university,” Odom said. “We will look very closely at programs that we don’t feel are productive, and it may be that we’ll have to eliminate those.” Saying the committee is in “informational gathering mode,” Odom expressed how hard it is for the committee to make these recommendations. “There are 18 colleges on this campus,” Odom said. “To be able at look at this university, and go ing from very large colleges like liberal arts to very small colleges like social work, library infor mation science, criminal justice or nursing, it’s going to be very difficult to make some recom mendations.” Many faculty members attend ed the meeting and voiced their concerns about university policies. “I think undergraduate education... is being eroded,” said Professor Harry Hansen from the art de partment. “I think it’s eroding at every university. I think it’s not recognized, and that money is flow ing out of teaching into fundrais ing, and that’s a problem.” Hansen was also concerned about the lack of university scholarships, an issue Odom ad dressed directly. “To have enough scholarship money to bring excellent stu dents here is a true university problem that we have to'deal with as a university,” he said. Odom said most of the money from fundraising has been des ignated for specific areas, leav ing few unrestricted dollars to use for scholarships. Odom also stressed the neces sity of buying books from the university, saying the university loses about $1 million a year from a lack of book sales. Professor Dan Streible from the art department promoted “horizontal relationships” among university departments. “Vertical power structures, which is what we have now, refers to the institution being di vided into departments and col leges where everyone expects a head to make a decision, and everything else flow from that,” Streible said. “Horizontal implies that people have connections across departments and divides, which, if they’re liberated and not conffned by the walls be tween them, they can make a lot. of good things happen by collab orating.” The SDIC meets every Tuesday in Osborne 107C from 3:30 p.m. -until 5 p.m., and every Tuesday from 3:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. All meetings are open, and students and faculty are encour . aged to attend. The next public forum is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the Law School auditorium. “I was ready to answer questions until no more hands were raised,” Odom said. “We’ll continue to have these open meetings until everyone has been able to voice their opinion.” Get involved with the future of USC , ♦ Go to the public forums and share your opinions with committee members. The next one will be Tuesday, Sept 25, from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m. in the Law School auditorium. ♦ Go to the committee meetings. These are open to the public. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25, from 3:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. in Osborne 107C. ♦ Send your concerns, questions and comments to the committee by e-mailing Dr. Sonya Duhe’ at sduhe@sc.edu Bush Bush forms new Cabinet position CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 en, lawmakers and the adminis tration labored through the day on economic relief for the airline industry, coupled with measures to limit their liability from law suits. House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he hoped for legis lation by Friday, and Bush said he and lawmakers would find a way to stabilize a sudden vul nerable industry. Bush’s speech marked an oc casion unlike any other in recent history. Security, normally high for a presidential address, was tightened considerably, as bomb sniffing dogs patrolled the Capitol and barricades were erected on the streets outside. “Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution,” he said. “Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring jus tice to our enemies, justice will be done.” Bush sought to reassure Americans at the same time he announced measures to improve its defenses against further ter rorist attacks. He announced the creation of a Cabinet-level home land defense office, charged with coordinating efforts to prevent terrorism, and named Pennsyl vania Gov. Tom Ridge to run it. 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