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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.)
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□ © CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS
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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.”
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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
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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.
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Ocean
Methane on ridge
may provide energy
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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
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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.
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