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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.
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Wednesday, Oct. 10
O ACCIDENTAL DAMAGE, 1620 .
COLLEGE ST. The complainant _
found a window on the south side
of the Humanities office broken.
Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock.
© LARCENY OF MICROWAVE,
1523 GREENE ST. The
complainant said someone took
a brown Sears microwave from
LeConte. Estimated value: $100.
Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum.
Monday, Oct. 15
® MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL
PROPERTY, 813 ASSEMBLY The
complainant said someone
damaged the red door at the
School of Music by scratching
the door several times.
Estimated value: $200. Reporting
officer: L.R. Morales.
Tuesday, Oct. 16
O MALICIOUS INJURY TO
PERSONAL PROPERTY, 600
BULL ST. The victim said
someone broke off the
American flag post attached to
the window of her silver 1992
Ford Tempo. The window
insulation also was damaged.
Estimated damage: $25.
Reporting officer: L. Forte.
Q INDECENT EXPOSURE, 1322
GREENE ST. The complainant
said a black male with long
braids and wire-rimmed glasses
wearing a dark blue No. 8 Dallas
Cowboys jersey exposed himself
to her in an unwelcome manner.
Investigation continues.
Reporting officer: M.P. Moore.
© NON-CRIMINAL MISCHIEF,
1321 WHALEY ST. The
complainant said someone
rearranged the furniture in his
Cliff apartment. He said he
doesn’t notice anything missing.
Reporting officer: M.P. Craska.
o SIMPLE POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA, 614 MAIN ST.
Reporting officers J.D.
Patterson and M.P. Moore
answered a call of a suspicious
odor on the fourth floor of
Douglas. The suspect, Craig N.
Buying, tried to leave, but was
detained by an officer. After
further investigation, Buying
turned over three plastic bags
containing a green leafy
substance believed to be
marijuana. Buying was
arrested and taken to the
Richland County Detention
Center.
® LOST PROPERTY, 901
SUMTER ST.The victim said
he misplaced his wallet at the
Byrnes Center. Items missing
include $800 cash, an
American Express card, a
Carolina Collegiate credit
card, a Discover card, a
Carolina Collegiate aim
card, a Shell gas card, a
Texaco gas card, a Lowe’s
" credit card, two USC library
cards and a $2 “Lucky Bill.”
Reporting officer: J. A. Clarke,
o SIMPLE POSSESSION OF
MARIJUANA, 614 MAIN ST.
Responding officers J.D.
Patterson and M.P. Moore
answered a call of drug use at
Douglas. The R. A.
accompanied the officers to
the room where they found
Timothy George O’Brien
outside his room. O’Brien
gave permission to enter the
room. Moore went inside to
talk with O’Brien’s friends,
while Moore asked O’Brien to
provide the marijuana from
his room. O’Brien presented a
glass pipe and a plastic bag
containing a green leafy
substance believed to be
marijuana. O’Brien was
arrested and taken to the
Richland County Detention
Center.
Homecoming
Students say no
'pro-Greek bias
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- to recruit non-Greek organiza
tions. “Committee members went
to different organizations’ meet
ings to recruit them, and they
took bookmarks and stickers,”
she said. “We told them when the
meetings were, but after that it
was up to them.”
Students in the non-Greek or
ganizations involved have var
ied opinions about Homecoming
activities as they relate to Greek
organizations.
“I think it’s all been very
fair,” said fourth-year student
Elisabeth Magura, Homecoming
liaison for the Carolina Classics.
“This is our first year being in
volved with it, and we’ve been
kind of surprised we’ve done so
well so far. We made the cut to
participate in Spurs and Struts.”
Members of Carolina Classics
escort potential USC athletics
recruits to football games and
help football coaches with ad
ministrative duties. For
Homecoming, they decorated a
banner, participated in Spurs
and Struts (a dance contest, for
merly called Jamfest) and en
tered the Spirit of Carolina es
say contest.
“I don’t think I’ve seen any
bias toward Greeks,” Magura
said. “The committee has han
dled things Well.”
Bobby Tran, a third-year stu
dent and student government
special projects co-director, said
non-Greek organizations have
a harder time earning atten
dance points than Greeks.
“A lot of student government
members are Greek, and their
Greek organizations require them
to sign in with them,” Tran said.
Tran said student govern
ment traditionally has been in
volved with Homecoming but
has tried to increase participa
tion this year. “We have a float
this year, and we have three
people in Showcase,” he said.
“Freshman Council has really
helped a lot, which is great be
cause older members have a lot
of other commitments.”
Residence Hall Association
Secretary Ashley Jones said her
organization’s experience this
year has been positive.
“The committee has been re
ally supportive, especially
Katherine,” Jones said.
Katherine Veldran is the home
coming commissioner.
“We’ve been on equal footing
as far as I’m concerned,” Jones
said. “We have large numbers
behind us, so that helps.” RHA
made a banner and has several
Showcase representatives.
“We try to give equal oppor
tunity to everyone,” Dhokai
said. “The committee has tried
for diverse involvement.
Hopefully it’ll he even more so
in the future.”
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Afghanistan
War planes hit
close to palace
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Ayman al-Zawahri, say former
fighters in Afghanistan.
The center said two of al
Masri’s comrades, a Chinese
Muslim and a Yemeni, were in
jured in the attack. The report
could not be independently con
firmed.
Attacks on the capital began
before dawn Thursday when
U.S. warplanes pounded areas
around the presidential palace
and beyond, drawing heavy anti
aircraft barrages. Flames rose
from the airport north of the
city.
Taliban Information Ministry
officials said the strikes were
blasting the city’s Shash Tarak
district — not far from
Quialazaman Khan — an area
where the Taliban Defense
Ministry, a garrison and a tank
unit are located, as well as the
long-abandoned U.S. Embassy.
In Kandahar, the Taliban’s
headquarters in southern
Afghanistan, U.S. jets struck
military targets throughout the
city, Taliban officials reported.
Residents reported by telephone
Wednesday that Taliban Fight
ers in the city were handing out
weapons to civilians. New
strikes were also reported in
Jalalabad, targeting the airport.
President Bush told a flag
waving crowd Wednesday that
American airstrikes were
“paving the way for friendly
troops on the ground,” his clear
est suggestion yet that U.S. mil
itary officials were taking
Afghanistan’s northern-based
opposition alliance into account
in themcampaign. Bush ordered
the bombing, starting Oct. 7, to
root out bin Laden, chief suspect
in last month’s terrorist attacks
in the United States.
Opposition forces have been
locked in combat for days in what
U.S. defense officials described as
a seesaw battle for Mazar-e
Sharif, the major city of the
north.
A Taliban Information
Ministry official in Kabul, Abdul
Hanan Himat, acknowledged the
Taliban had lost control of some
areas around Mazar-e-Sharif but
insisted the Islamic regime’s
forces had pushed its enemy back
during one battle to the south.
Afghanistan’s opposition
forces are an alliance made up
largely of minority ethnic
Uzbeks and Tajiks. Control of
Mazar-e-Sharif would allow
them to consolidate supply lines
along the borders with
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, from
which they obtain weapons.
In Washington, defense offi
cials said U.S. special forces
units themselves were now
poised to join the battle on the
ground, if called for.
Speaking on condition of
anonymity, the officials said he
licopter-bome special operations
forces were put aboard the USS
Kitty Hawk several days ago.
The officials stressed that did not
necessarily mean the troops
were about to enter combat.
In northwestern Pakistan, a
militant Muslim leader said
Thursday that pro-Taliban
groups there were ready to offer
tens of thousands of volunteers
to help the Taliban if U.S.
ground troops joined the fight.
“The day American troops
land on the soil of Afghanistan,
our youths are fully trained,”
said Maulana Samiul Haq, pres
ident of the Afghan Defense
Council, a coalition of 35 pro
Taliban groups.
Aid groups, meanwhile, com
plained that looting by the
Taliban and other armed bands
was hampering desperately
needed relief operations for
Afghan civilians.
Medecins sans Frontieres, or
Doctors Without Borders, shut
down medical operations in
Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif
on Thursday after its offices
there were sacked.
In Kabul, Taliban officials re
turned one of two U.N. World
Food Program grain warehous
es commandeered at gunpoint
this week. There was no word
on the other warehouse still in
Taliban hands.
Anthrax
Postmaster says
mail is safe
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been exposed to the disease
were pending, DiFrancesco
said.
The CBS employee, an assis
tant to Rather, was expected to
fully recover, CBS officials said.
They said that the infection was
on her cheek.
“She has no memory whatso
ever ... of any mail, anything in
the mail that raised any suspi
cions whatsoever,” Rather said.
ABC spokesman Todd Polkes
said that because the NBC and
CBS news anchormen had ap
parently been targeted, extra
precautions are being taken
with mail addressed to ABC
News anchorman Peter
Jennings.
Meanwhile, Postmaster
General John Potter, appearing
with Ridge and other officials at
a joint news conference on the
anthrax outbreaks, said the
Postal Service would mail with
in the next week “a postcard to
everyone in America” outlining
what they should be suspicious
in mail they receive.
“We believe the mail is safe;
it’s very safe if you follow the
prudent directions” we are pro
viding, Potter said.
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BRIEFS
Homecoming King
and Queen crowned
Mark Hartney was crowned
Homecoming King and Kacy
Goebel was crowned Homecom
ing Queen on Thursday night.
The Homecoming parade will
begin Friday afternoon at 3 p.m.,
and it can be viewed on Greene
Street in front of the Russell
House. See “Coming Home” in
The Mix.
Cockfest, the Homecoming
game pep rally, will begin Friday
night at 9 p.m. at Williams-Brice
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groups will perform skits, and
the event will feature the
marching band and cheerlead
ers, several football players and
Dave Coulier, a comedian, actor,
impressionist and voice-over
artist.
Time capsule from
1977 to be opened
A time capsule buried by the
1977 Homecoming Commission
will be opened Friday at 4 p.m. at
the Faculty Club Garden.
Members from the 1977 and 2001
Homecoming commissions will
be present.
The capsule was buried on
Oct. 1,1977, in front of the
McKissick Museum on the
Horseshoe and its label
instructed it to be opened this
year, as part of the Bicentennial
Celebration.
The capsule includes a Farrah
Fawcett poster, a copy of Star
Wars, a McDonald’s lunch and a
football signed by the 1977 team.
Homecoming Commissioner
Katherine Veldran will read a
letter from the 1977
commissioner.
Students to collect
money for firetruck
White Knoll Middle School
students and Columbia
firefighters will be collecting
donations in the parking lots
and at the gates for a new
firetruck for New York City at
USC’s football game Saturday.
They will be holding
collection buckets in the parking
lots and at the gates before and
after the game.
The students will identify
themselves with official t-shirts
or buttons and the firefighters
will be in uniform.
The goal is to raise more than
$350,000 to purchase a new fire
engine for New York City in
remembrance of New York’s
post-Civil War gift of firefighting
equipment to uoiumuia.
So far, more than $200,000 has
been raised.
Teachers and students at
White Knoll Middle School in
Lexington County originated the
idea of raising money for a new
fire truck to be presented to New
York City in the aftermath of the
terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
The effort has a significant
historical connection. Logbooks
kept at the Columbia Fire Dept.
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Kenya. Anthrax can be trans
mitted through a break in the
skin or through inhalation.
One anthrax-related death has
already been confirmed in
Florida.
The threat has some students
nervous. The university has re
sponded by requiring all postal
workers to wear gloves when
handling mail.
Postal worker William
Copeland said he thinks “the uni
versity has done enough to en
sure our safety. They sent a let
ter to every student and office on
campus informing people on
what to do if they receive a sus
picious-looking letter or package,
as well as phone numbers for
them to call.”
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Museum say tnat on June zv,
1867, a committee for the New
York Firemen’s Association
delivered a hose-carriage to the
Independent Fire Engine
Company of Columbia to aid the
city after a Civil War-era fire
destroyed its fire station and
equipment. At that time, a
firefighter proclaimed that
“should misfortune ever be
yours,” he hoped Columbia
would “obey that golden rule by
which you have been prompted
in the performance of this most
munificent kindness to a people
in distress.”
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