The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, September 21, 2001, Page 3, Image 3
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.
Congressional Democrats
passed up their opportunity to of
fer a televised response to Bush’s
speech, determined to make sure
“the whole world and all of our
•citizens know that America
speaks tonight with one voice,”
said House Democratic Leader
Dick Gephardt.
“We will rally the world to
this cause, by our efforts and by
our courage,” Bush said. “We
will not tire, we will not falter
and we will not fail.”
To government leaders
around the world, Bush stated:
“Either you are with us or you
are with the terrorists.”
Major in savings.
HP 315 Digital
Camera
Rio 600/32MB
MP3 Player
Canon ZR20 or
ZR25 MC Camcorder
Handspring Visor
Edge Handheld
/
Buy more. Save more
Buy any Mac and receive a free Lexmark color printer*
(tax and other chaises not included).
Now s the time to buy your Mac. They re fast, easy to use, and
loaded with features. Express yourself by creating your own
iMovies. Use iTunes to rip MP3s from your favorite CDs, or f
bum custom CDs. Enhance your work with productivity
and graphics software. And share files with anyone.
The benefits add up—just like the savings.
Save even more when you also buy these great products:
Canon ZR20 or ZR25 MC Camcorder, HP 315 Digital Camera, Handspring Visor
Edge Handheld, and Rio 600/32MB MP3 Player. For each product you buy, you II
receive a $100 instant rebate.
Take advantage of special student pricing. You can even get an Apple
Instant Loan for Education. Buy and save online at the Apple Store for Education:
www.appIe.com/education/store, call 800-780-5009, or visit the Russell House
Bookstore.
Offer good between July 18, 2001, and October 14, 2001.
* Store purchase required and is subject to sales tax. Offer based on 169 instant rebate and >69 Manufacturer s Suggested Retail Price for the Lexmark 732 Cok*r Jetprinter. Offer also good toward iff) instant rebate for > 139 MSRP on the 1 exmark 7.53 Color Jet primer.
© 2001 Affile Contfmter Inc Ml rights reserved Apple, the Apple logo. Appleton, Mac. and 'Think different ' are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. registered in the Vi and other countries. LVatie is a trademark nfApple Qmpnter, Inc. (.Hber company and product names \ lthnriypH Dpcpllpp
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies iTurus is licensed for reproduction of noncopyrighted materials or materials the user is legally permitted to reproduce i\U U lUI 1ZCU IxCoC HO