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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 ■ \ NIGHT CRIMES (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) \ ~~r—r. . .-^ (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) I O Nonviolent cnmes #1 E2 0 CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS Monday, Sept. 17 ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, S-ll LOT The victim said someone damaged the passenger’s-side door handles of her 1991 blue Honda Accord. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. Monday, Sept. 24 ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1300 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone knocked off the driver’s-side rearview mirror and kicked both rear taillights out of his 1993 red Toyota. Total estimated .value: $500. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. Friday, Sept. 28 B ASSISTANCE RENDERED, 1227 BARNWELL ST. The complainant said Jue Wung assaulted him on the city lot. The Columbia Police Department took over the scene. Reporting officer: N.U. Beza. ® GRAND LARCENY OF LAPTOP COMPUTER, 1323 GREENE ST.The complainant said someone stole her father’s Toshiba laptop computer from her Preston dorm room. A second victim said the following items were missing: a Jansport book bag, a pocket watch, a USC ID, a South Carolina driver’s license and various keys. Total estimated value: $2,084. Reporting officer: C.N. Ettenger. © AUTO BREAK-IN, FS-5 LOT PARK AND COLLEGE ST. The victim said someone broke out the passenger’s-side window on his 1996 black Ford EPR. The following items were missing: a black purse, a Richland County library card and miscellaneous currency. Total estimated value: $25. Reporting officer: C.N. Ettenger. Saturday, Sept. 29 © GRAND LARCENY, 1405 WHALEY ST. The victim said the following items were missing from his room in East Quad: a Dreamcast, a PlayStation 2, PlayStation 2 games, PlayStation 2 accessories and various DVD’s. A second victim said the following items were missing from his room: a PlayStation 2, PlayStation 2 accessories, and PlayStation 2 games. A third victim said someone took the following items from his room: a Compaq Presario, a PlayStation 2, PlayStation 2 games, a Fossil watch and the Boogie Nights DVD. Prints were taken from the room and placed into evidence. Total estimated value: $4,660. Reporting officer: N.U. Beza. ® LARCENY, 1000 GEORGE ROGERS BLVD. The complainant said someone stole a light blue wheelchair from the breezeway to Section 9 at Williams Brice Stadium. The wheelchair was unsecured. Estimated value: $500. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. O AUTO BREAK-IN, 1321 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone smashed the passenger’s-side front windows of his 1996 green Lincoln Continental. The suspect damaged the cupholder on the dashboard and removed the following items: two ecometrics textbooks, a policy textbook, a Publius textbook and a bfack Timberland book bag. Totcil estimated value: $660. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. Sunday, Sept. 30 ® FLOODING, 1405 WHALEY ST.Tim W. Galloway was playing with a basketball in his room at Bates West and struck a sprinkler head, causing it to go off. Columbia Fire Department, Physical Plant, Housing Maintenance, Health and Safety, Housing Staff and Custodial were notified and responded. Initial damage estimates indicate heavy damage to the seventh and eighth floors, moderate damage to the sixth floor and minor damage on the fourth and fifth floors. Reporting officer: M.L. Gooding. © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 147 J SOUTH MARION ST. I The victim said someone damaged his 1996 white Landrover Discovery. Several scratches were on both sides and the hood of the car. Total estimated damage: $500. Reporting officer: J.R. Merrill. use BRIEFS Music sites blocked to free up Internet File-sharing applications that many USC students use to download music have been unavailable at USC since the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. These applications, such as Morpheus and Kazaa, were hindering students and faculty who were trying to contact friends and family online. Computer Services blocked these applications because of the high traffic they placed on the servers. “Students are becoming servers and probably don’t know it,” said Ronni Wilkinson, Computer Services security engineer. USC’s direct Internet connection decreases loading times, and this allows people outside the USC server to receive files from people inside the server much faster. The server needs extra bandwidth to compensate when this happens, creating problems such as slower connections and loading times. Computer Services said it should have the problem fixed by the end of fall break. In the meantime, Wilkinson suggested programs like Gnutella and Imesh for file sharing. USC hosts conference on sports business USC will play host to the “International Conference on Sport & Entertainment Business” at the Adams Mark Hotel Oct. 3-7. Discuss the future of the sports business will be sports industry leaders such as Jim Baugh, Wilson Sporting Goods president; Bill Sutton, NBA vice president; and Lisa Thomas, Family Circle Tennis Cup general manager. For a complete conference agenda, call USC Media Relations at 777-5400. Costs to force closing of Nada house BY LIZ SWARTZ THE GAMECOCK The residence hall Nada, “Car olina’s Global Community,” will lose another of its two open hous es at the end of this school year. Until last year, Nada had three houses: Brick House, Blue House and Yellow House. Yellow House closed at the end of the 1999-2000 school year, and Blue House will close at the end of this school year, leaving Brick House as the small remaining part of what was once a thriving international community. Plans currently exist to expand Nada into one or two floors in one of the regular residence halls, Housing Director Gene Luna' said. Nada needs renovations, but those could cost more than $750,000, according to Luna. The buildings might be converted to office space, which would still cost money, but not as much as it would cost to renovate the houses to living standards. Nada is a residential commu nity with 44 students, 70 percent international and 30 percent American. Residents want to show Uni versity Housing that Nada is spe cial enough to keep in its current form despite its not generating enough revenue. “The question is, can you put a price on USC’s rep utation for a great international community?” said Mike Zini, an fourth-year international studies and German student. To increase awareness, Nada residents will hold an open house tonight from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Nada is on College Street next to Gam brell Hall and across from the business school. In Brick House apartment 101, there will be an ar ray of international foods and a chance to meet Nada residents. After 8 p.m., a movie will be shown between Brick House and Blue House. Some students feel relocating Nada would change the essence of the community. “The atmosphere would not be the same,” said Sarah Swick, a third-year international studies student. “Nada is amazing the way it is, and the best solution would be to renovate all the houses to keep the tradition going,” said Alexia Gon zalez, a second-year business stu dent. According to undergraduate English exchange student Robynne Davis, Nada is ideal for exchange students from abroad because most apartments have an American resident to help inter national students gain a better cultural perspective of the Unit ed States and meet other Ameri can and international students. “The best thing about living in Nada is meeting people from all over the world,” said Maiko Taka hata, an undergraduate Japanese exchange student. “The beginning was hard,” said Annabelle Molliet, an un dergraduate French exchange student, but she said living in the international community helped her feel more at home. Coming to a new country requires starting all over again, so it’s necessary to meet as many people as possible, she said. The close Nada community “is like a cocoon that helps us feel better, like in a family,” said Julie Leroy, an undergraduate French exchange student. For returning American study abroad participants like Swick, “Nada helps with the transition” back to American university life. For those who have been abroad it provides a place to keep in con tact with students from all over the world, Swick said. The open apartments and porches provide spaces for so cializing that’s hard to find in most residence halls. “The porch es are a great idea; residents wouldn’t see each other as much without them,” said Ben Scott, an undergraduate English exchange student. Thomas Eybl, an American fourth-year criminal justice ma jor, said, “It wouldn’t be the same in a residence hall; because it is self-contained, it’s easier to build a community.” Nada’s location is convenient because so many international students study at the business school. “The location’s great; it’s close to the business school and close to Five Points,” said Fredrik Jo hansson, an undergraduate Swedish exchange student. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudeskCcvhotmail.com. Nada residents congregate in the Brick House, which will be the only house open next year, photo by josh skidmore U.S. finds links to attacks on USS Cole, embassy BY GEORGE GEDDA ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON - In presenting its case against Osama bin Laden to U.S. allies, the Bush adminis tration said some of the same ter rorists involved in the Sept. 11 attack also have been linked to the East Africa embassy bomb ings and the attack on the USS Cole. Two senior administration of ficials said this point was part of a presentation made Tuesday by State Department counterterror ism chief Frank Taylor to NATO allies in Brussels, Belgium. The presentation was part of the U.S. campaign to garner in ternational support for its con tention that bin Laden and his al Qaida organization were respon sible for the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pen tagon. Secretary of State Colin Pow ell said information was sent out Monday to a large number of na tions that “powerfully made the case” against the al-Qaida orga nization for the terrorist attacks three weeks ago. “We traced the history of this organization, its recent activities and events around the 11th—be fore and after. I think it’s a per suasive case,” he said, speaking with reporters after a meeting with the Greek foreign minister. “Now NATO is poised to re ceive requests from the United States,” Powell said. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said U.S. am bassadors to friendly nations have been asked to brief their host governments on the admin istration’s information. Two senior officials said bin Laden’s involvement became ap parent after officials concluded that some personnel involved in the Sept. 11 attacks also took part in the Aug. 7,1998, bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa and the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000. The bin Laden associates were not identi fied. Bin Laden has been indicted in the embassy bombings and is thought by U.S. officials to have masterminded the Cole attack. Other than bin Laden, no one from al-Qaida has been publicly linked to all three attacks. Mo hamed Atif, a top bin Laden lieu tenant, is believed to have taken part in the embassy bombings. He is one of the few individuals whose assets were frozen by the U.S. gov ernment after the Sept. 11 attacks. A representative of the Taliban in Afghanistan, where bin Laden is believed to be hiding, called on the United States Tuesday to pro vide evidence of the exiled Saudi millionaire’s involvement. In response, Boucher said de livery of bin Laden and his asso ciates to a third country already is required by two U.N. Security Council resolutions based on in vestigations into the East Africa bombings. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Across from State House Sunday Worship 7:45,9 & 11:30 a.m.—Cathedral 11:30 a,m.& 6:00p.m.— Keenan Chapel Weekday Eucharist in Keenan Chapel 771-7300 www.trinityepi8Copalcathedral.org St. Thomas More Catholic Center Rev. 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