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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 ( □ Violent crimes ■ \ NIGHT CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) i r (6p.m.-6a.m.) I O Nonviolent cnmes # I □ © CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS i /LWix:I II , r UJI K . Monday, Sept. 17 ® INDECENT EXPOSURE, 1705 COLLEGE ST. The victim said the suspect walked up to her and asked her “V\fhat time is it?” The suspect began to masturbate in her presence. The victim said she started yelling at the subject, and he ran off. The victim said the suspect was wearing a white T-shirt, baggy blue jeans and beige Timber land boots. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier Tuesday, Sept. 18 O ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, 1400 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone has been calling her in a harassing manner and saying he saw her picture and phone number on the Internet. Police gave the victim a log. to document the calls. Reporting officer: J. D. Rosier Wednesday, Sept. 19 © FORGERY/ BREACH OF TRUST, 901 SUMTER ST. A representative for the USC Alumni Fund said William A. Jefferson altered two checks belonging tb the fund. The investigation continues. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock Friday, Sept. 20 © INDECENT EXPOSURE, MEDICAL PARK 15 (OFF . MAPjThe victim said the suspect exposed his private area to her. The investigation continues. Reporting officer: C. Taylor © LARCENY OF BOOKS, 1112 GREENE STREET Someone took Civil Procedure by John Cound and Corporations Including Partnerships and Limited Liability by Robert Hamilton from a secured carrel. Total estimated value: $168. Reporting officer: N. Beza © LARCENY OF VCR, VA MEDICAL ON SOUTH GARNERS FERRY ROAD (OFF MAP) The complainant said someone took her VCR. Steve Wilson was detained near the incident location and questioned about the offense. A witness made a written statement about Wilson’s involvement. Investigation continues. Reporting officer: M. Gass o ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE (HARRASING), 1420 WHALEY STREET The victim said an unknown male called her. He identified himself as “John Thomas.” The victim said the call was harassing in nature. Police gave the victim a log to document the calls. Reporting officer: J. F. Aspedon S.C. college applications now online4 BY SEAN WALLER THE GAMECOCK Applying to South Carolina colleges has just become easier. Launched September 6, the new state-funded web site SCHOLAR (South Carolina High er Ed Online Application and Re sources) provides students with „ applications to many in-state schools. The site allows students to complete a single application for all the colleges they wish to attend. Using SCHOLAR is straightfor ward. A student can create a per sonal account so that each step can be saved for future retrieval. Sim ple information, like one’s name, address and social security num ber has only to be entered once. Questions can be saved with out the information being sent to any colleges, so students may take as long as they wish to com plete applications. Students may then choose to finish and submit applications. Students can pay application fees directly from their checking accounts or credit cards. The SCHOLAR web site itself charges no additional fees. Notification of received applications will appear in the Personal Log, which stores all saved information. Tips are provided for some of the steps on the application. Checks in the system watch for mistakes on the application and also inform the student of any dif ficulty sending it. Students can access further in formation about universities through links on the SCHOLAR homepage. Information on schol arships, financial aid and grants is given throughout the web site. Although applications for these scholarships are not contained on the site, some may soon be added. “For the one program adminis tered in our office (the Palmetto Fellows Scholarship), we are in the process of exploring the feasibility ■ of placing that application online,” said Charlie FitzSimons, Director of Administration and the Leg islative Liason for SCHOLAR. Many schools have welcomed this web site, due to the increas ing popularity of online applica tion. “Some institutions have had as many as 20% of their applica tions submitted online in recent years,” said FitzSimons. Charlene Davis of USC Ad missions said that one-third of USC’s freshman class applied on line last semester. Many prospective students are expected to use this new program over the next few years. Several guidance counselors in the Co lumbia area are excited about the new program and say that this will make it much easier on the stu dents, as well as the counselors. “I wish that web site was around when I was applying to colleges,” said first-year transfer student Trip Reynolds. Currently, applications for 13 universities are available on the SCHOLAR site. Among them are USC, Clemson, College of Charleston and South Carolina State. In the next few years, 50 uni versities are anticipated to start using the SCHOLAR program. “Many schools not using * SCHOLAR believe it will be a very f Schools already participating in SCHOLAR Charleston Southern University Clemson University Coastal Carolina University College of Charleston Francis Marion Lander University Medical University of SC SC State University Spartanburg Methodist College Spartanburg Technical College USC Beaufort USC Columbia Winthrop University | iseful tool for prospective stu lents, and they are strongly con sidering participating,” said FiteSi nons. “We are hopeful that over he next year, the majority of schools in the state will be partici >ating.” Comments on this story?E-mail 'amecockudesk@hotmail.com. ATTACKS BRIEFS Government might run airport security WASHINGTON (AP) - The top leaders in Congress agreed Sunday that the federal government might have to take over airport security nationwide to reassure Americans that air travel is safe. “We have to work out who pays for what part of it,” said House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, D Mo. “But I think we must convince the American people very quickly that it’s safe to go to airports and to get on airplanes and fly as we did before Sept. 11, and I think the federal government has the central responsibility to do that,” Gephardt said. He joined Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott on NBC’s Meet the Press. Many lawmakers, industry representatives and watchdog groups have long said the government should replace security companies paid by the airlines and handle security itself. Jane Garvey, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, has estimated that it would cost taxpayers $1.8 billion a year if the government took over the job of screening passengers before they board planes. Suspect in WTC attacks released LONDON (AP) — A 29-year old man arrested in connection with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center has been released from custody, Scotland Yard said Saturday. The man was one of four people arrested on Friday by anti-terrorist police. The man was arrested at a residential address in west London at about 3 a.m. Friday. At a separate address in west London, a man aged 27 and a woman aged 25 were also arrested Friday. That evening, a man in his 40s was arrested by anti terrorist officers in Birmingham, 100 miles north of London. Officers searched all three premises using a warrant issued under a British terrorism law passed last year. But police refused to provide any more information on the suspects or elaborate further on any connection between them and the U.S. attacks. Mayoral candidates back in spotlight NEW YORK (AP) - Three Democratic candidates to replace Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stepped gingerly back onto the campaign trail Saturday, making their case for why they were best equipped to lead the nation’s largest city through an unparalleled crisis. But even as they appeared on a local TV station’s candidates forum, they found themselves answering questions about the man they are seeking to succeed and the role they envision ^ him playing in a new administration. Since the terrorist attack that leveled the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 and scuttled the city’s primary, the candidates for mayor have been in limbo. With the rescheduled primary on Tuesday, they face a political landscape that has changed dramatically. Talk of classroom size and affordable housing has been replaced by questions of security and redeveloping a devastated downtown. But even as Public Advocate Mark Green, Bronx ^ Borough President Fernando ™ Ferrer, City Comptroller Alan Hevesi and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone have fought to emerge from Giuliani’s shadow before the attack, they are now struggling to compete with the persona he has developed leading the city through the crisis. Attacks Search continues for bin Laden CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 in a possible strike against bin Laden’s network. “What we’ve been doing is getting our capabilities... arranged around the world, so that at that point where the president decides that he has a set of things he would like done, that we will be in a position to carry those things out,” Rumsfeld said on CBS’ Face the Nation. He confirmed the United States had lost contact with an unmanned aircraft over Afghanis-tan, but said he had no reason to believe the plane was brought down by Tal iban fighters, as they claimed. Administration officials reject ed claims of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban that bin Laden couldn’t be located. “It’s just not believable that the Taliban do not know where the network can be located and found and either turned over or expelled,” Rumsfeld said. Powell said that even as military forces deploy and U.S. diplomats enlist other nations in a campaign against terrorists, Americans need to show their resilience by resum ing ordinary activities. “We need to get back to work,” he said on ABC’s This Week. “We need to get back to ball games. We need to show the world that Amer ica is strong.” Without words, Bush sought to send the same message. In a cere mony at the Camp David presi dential retreat, Bush placed his hand over his heart as the flag was raised to full staff for the first time since the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. Flags around the nation were returning to full staff in keeping with a proclamation Bush signed on the day of the attack. Professional football did re sume Sunday for the first time since the attacks, but in ways large and small, signs abounded that all was not normal. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that nearly 7,000 federal workers were helping with ongoing recov ery operations in New York and Virginia, with bodies and debris still being removed from the World Trade Center and the Pen tagon. — Concerned about possible chemical weapons attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a one-day ban Sunday on crop-dusting from airplanes in do mestic airspace. — Tens of thousands-of people gathered in New York’s Yankee Stadium to pray for the missing and dead, passing through tight security that included police offi cers positioned on the stadium’s light stanchions. Powell detailed the diplomatic effort to assemble a worldwide campaign against bin Laden’s net work. He disputed suggestions that Saudi Arabia had denied the I5.S. military permission to launch attacks from a Saudi base. “They have been very respon sive to all the requests we have placed on them,” Powell said on Meet the Press on NBC. “But I don’t want to go into what we have not yet asked of them.” He said the U.S. decision Sat urday to lift sanctions on India and Pakistan, imposed after the two nations tested nuclear weapons in 1998, shows that “we will stand by our friends who stand by us.” Both nations have offered cooperation with the U.S. effort to get at the terrorists. Asked whether the United States would expand its campaign to include military action against Iraq, Powell said Bush’s “singular focus for the moment” was bin Laden’s network. He said the administration was assembling a document that would lay out the evidence against him. “His guilt is going to be very obvious to the world,” Powell said. In a reflection of the diplomatic sensitivities surrounding the U.S. response, Rumsfeld said the name of the operation would be changed ^ from Infinite Justice, which of- ® fended some Muslims. He said the administration wants a name that “in no way at all would raise any question on the part of any reli gion or any group of people.” Former president George Bush Sr. took note of the complexities of the challenge facing his son, say ing the current crisis “is a more difficult battle” than the Persian Gulf War. Bush said he tries to offer com fort, rather than advice, to his son. “What I can do these days is kind of put my arm around him from hun dreds of miles away,” he said in an interview with Time magazine. Comments on this story? E-mail A gamecockcitydesk@hotmail.com. • Ocean Methane on ridge may provide energy CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 deep-sea world of the ridge, al though yard-long worms and 8 inch-long clams contain bacteria that allow them to absorb oxygen when surrounded by methane gas and hydrogen sulfide. “It’s a very bizarre environ ment,” said Bernhard, adding that scientists need to study it before i ; ways are found to mine the area. She likens the ridge to tropical rain forests. “If we start mining this envi ronment, if we take all the methane, these organisms will be come extinct,” she said. “We don’t even know what is living there.” Bernhard is concerned with mi croscopic organisms, and the Alvin will extract cores of sedi ment from the ocean floor that she will later study at USC. The National Oceanic and At mospheric Administration chose Bernhard, who has dived three times on the Alvin and journeyed under the Antarctic ice pack, to help with the research. Scientists leave from Woods Hole, Mass., on Saturday and re turn to Charleston on Sept. 30. The group will include 16 re searchers from across the county as well as Paula Keener-Chavis, a marine biologist from the College of Charleston who will develop a curriculum that Charleston Coun ty teachers can use. Comments on this story? E-mail ^ gamecockcitydesk^ihotmail.com. ^ -1 Your words could be here. Interested in working for The Gamecock? Come to RH 333 to apply. } i ; 1