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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 > 1 Q Nonviolent crimes # j (6p.m,6a.m.) □ o CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS Wednesday, Oct. 23 ® LARCENY OF CELL PHONE, 1405 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone took a cell phone, ring and bracelet from her bedroom. She said the apartment was unlocked, but someone was in the apartment at all times. The victim said no noise was heard in the apartment. Estimated value: $379. . Reporting officer: J.A. Henry Thursday, Oct. 24 ® LARCENY OF PLAYSTATION 2,1400 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said someone stole a black Playstation 2, a memory card and a game. The victim said he wasn’t sure whether the room was locked. Estimated value: $430. Reporting officer: K.A. Gilbert o MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1423 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone broke both driver and passenger-side mirrors from the doors. The mirrors were left hanging by their cords. Reporting officer: J.D. Patterson Friday, Oct. 25 (D MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 600 PARK ST. The victim said someone slashed both tires on the left side of his vehicle. Estimated value: $300. Reporting officer: A.R. Ross (s) MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 700 PARK ST. The complainant said someone broke out the front passenger-side window of a vehicle, from which nothing was taken. Estimated value: $300. Reporting officer: S.D. Patterson © TRESPASSING AFTER NOTICE, 1322 GREENE ST. The complainant said Rogers William Shell Jr., who was inside the Thomas Cooper Library, seemed drunk. The complainant, who works for the library, said Shell has been warned before to stay out of the library or face arrest fortrespassing. A check of field interview cards showed this agency gave the suspect such warning at the request of the library staff on Oct. 12. The suspect was arrested for trespassing after notice, handcuffed and taken to Richland County Detention Center. Reporting officer: J.R. Merrill ® LARCENY OF PLAYSTATION 2, 1423 WHALEY ST. The victim said someone took his Playstation 2 from his room. Two memory cards were inside the PlayStation. The victim said the i uuin iuun.eu ctiiu incu seveicu other break-ins have happened on his floor. He talked with all his neighbors, but no one saw anything. Estimated value: $320. Reporting officer: J.D. Patterson O LARCENY OF BICYCLE, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim said someone broke or cut the security chain attached to his bike and stole the bike. The bike, chained to a bicycle rack in front of Capstone House, was described as a blue Mt. Fury “Roadmaster” with black and silver lettering. The drink holder is bent, and the black “gel” seat is torn. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: J.R. Merrill o LARCENY OF BICYCLE, 1312 PENDLETON ST. The complainant said someone stole his black GT Timberline mountain bike with blue flames. The bike has red mantou on front forks. Estimated value: $600. Reporting officer: J.D. Patterson USG BRIEFS Board chooses incubator finalists The South Carolina Research Foundation Incubator Board has released the names of the USC students who are finalists for this year’s incubator project. The seven groups of finalists will now train in how to write a business plan, which they will submit to the committee. Four groups will be chosen to participate in the program and will receive a $1,000 start-up fund, office space and technological services. The seven finalists groups are Santiago Aragon and Tiago Cavalcanti; Lauren Kinney and Sara Wingate; Alexandre Rambau; John Home, Bryan Meyer and Billy Gilbert; Shanequa Jones and Tyrone Simon; Costa Marcotsis; and Thomas Dennis. Mock Trial Team wins tournament The USC undergraduate Intercollegiate Mock Trial Team won a four state, 20 team tournament at USC Spartanburg on Oct. 22. USC’s three teams won the overall championship, finishing first, sixth and $0th. USC’s first-place team included Sarah Bayko, Aiissa uooper, isrisuna oooper, Norm Jones, Patrick Kelly, Julie Moore and Melissa Moose. Jay Cooper won the award for best attorney at the tournament. Braden Core and Colleen Strigle won individual awards as outstanding witnesses. The team is coached by Don Stronger and John Szmer, both of the Government and International Studies Department. AROUND USC CAMPUS HAPPENINGS TRICK OR TREAT: Moore and Snowden Hall government will offer trick-or-treating for children of the USC community, faculty, staff and students from 6 9 p.m. Wednesday at Moore and Snowden halls. All are welcome for safe and fun trick-or-treating. FREEDOM CELEBRATION:The USC Marketing Scholars’ “Celebrate Freedom with Love” event will be on Greene Street from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday. New models of the Chevrolet Camaro, Malibu, S-10 pickup, Trailblazer and Aztec will be on display. Students can win prizes by playing interactive games. A bake sale will raise proceeds for the American Red Cross. ROAD CLOSING: The portion of Lincoln Street between Blossom Street and Devine Street will be closed to traffic from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2. A construction project that involves the removal of railroad tracks will be in progress. CDC confirms N J. anthrax case Postal worker has lethal form, centers report BY RANDOLPH E. SCHMID ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Sunday that a female New Jersey postal worker has inhalation anthrax, the most serious form of the dis ease that has claimed three lives and prompted thousands to take antibiotics. CDC spokesman Tom Skinner stressed it was not a new case of the disease but one that had been listed as suspected anthrax. Lab tests con firmed the diagnosis, he said. At least five New Jersey postal workers have suspected or con firmed cases of anthrax. Anthrax tainted letters sent to Washington and New York originated there. The diagnosis came as tests continued at postal and govern ment offices in the nation’s capi tal and elsewhere. Officials were seeking to determine whether other tainted letters are in the mail system. Thousands of postal workers and others who dealt with large amounts of mail were being urged to take preventive antibiotics. “There may be other letters that are stuck in the system,” White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card said on Fox News Sunday. “We’re asking people to be very careful.” Deputy Postmaster General John M. Nolan said on CBS’s Face the Nation that there are many suppositions among inves tigators about more letters, “but I don’t have any way of knowing.” Despite the strain on the sys tem, postal vice- president Deborah Willhite vowed the mail will go through. “We’re coming up to the first of the month, and a lot of people are very dependent upon the movement of mail, receiving and sending of financial instruments is a vital public service,” she said. “The Postal Service will rise to that duty.” Dr. Ivan Walks, Washington’s public health director, said no new anthrax had been found in the city since contamination was discovered Friday at a Supreme Court mail-handling facility. To disseminate the growing volume of information on an thrax, Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge will begin briefing re porters at least three times a week, and more likely every day, Bush administration officials said Sunday. There have been 13 confirmed cases of anthrax in the outbreak, including eight inhaled versions of the disease. Five people in New York and New Jersey are being treated for the less dangerous skin form of anthrax and a few other cases are suspected. On Capitol Hill, the Hart Senate Office Building was to re main closed Monday but the garage it shares with the adjacent Dirksen building was scheduled to reopen along with other Senate offices. On the House side, the Ford and Longworth office build ings were closed thorough the weekend. Whether they would re open Monday was unclear. The Hart building is home to the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who received a let ter containing a highly potent form of anthrax three weeks ago, mark ing the start of the anthrax scare in the nation’s capital. Since then, two postal employ ees from a facility that processed the letter have died. Two others, as well as a State Department mailroom worker, have been hos pitalized with the inhaled form of the disease. All three remained in serious condition Sunday. More than 10,000 people who may have been exposed to the bacteria have been urged to be gin taking antibiotics as a pre caution. Walks and Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health said doxycycline was being rec ommended because it has fewer side effects than Cipro, which had been prescribed at first. Willhite said postal workers were being switched to doxycycline at the suggestion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fauci said tests on the anthrax show it can be treated with the less costly and more available doxycycline so that drug is now being recommended for people who deal with large volumes of mail, including workers in pri vate mailrooms. Willhite also said the post of- t fice is investigating technology not only to sanitize the mail but also to detect biological agents. There are devices that can de tect contamination and postal en gineers are working with the Defense Department on how that equipment can be used by the mail, she said. “The Postal Service will do whatever it takes to continue to serve the American people,” she said. “The Postal Service is not optional.” On Friday, the post office signed a $40 million contract to buy eight electron-beam devices to sanitize letters and packages. The equipment will be used first in the nation’s capital. College students pay price for anthrax hoax ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, KY.- A possible college hoax turned into a federal criminal case for two students ar rested in an anthrax scare that shut down postal service in Murray when a powdery sub stance leaked from an envelope. Preliminary state lab tests de termined the substance to be powdered sugar. Amy Wood, 22, of Benton, Ky., and Erin Creighton, 21, of Morganfield, Ky., both students at Murray State University, were arrested by the FBI after turning themselves in at a sher iffs office on Tuesday. Both were charged with mail ing a threatening communication, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. They were released Wednesday on $50,000 bond pending a prelim inary hearing on Nov. 9. Wood’s attorney, Kerry Harvey, couldn’t be reached for comment. A public defender was appointed to represent Creighton. “This is very serious,” U.S. Attorney Stephen Pence said. “As all Americans know, right now, we’re in a war against ter rorism. This type of conduct is not only illegal, but it takes re sources away from our main ob jective. “The attorney general has made it clear that we are going to prosecute anybody who perpe trates these false threats, and we think it’s essential that we pro ceed with the prosecution to de ter similar conduct.” The Murray post office closed Tuesday, and mail delivery was halted after the powder spilled onto a mail clerk’s shirt. The post office reopened Wednesday morning, 90 minutes later than normal, and three em ployees were tested as a precau tion. As many as 10,000 people visit the post office every day. “I don’t think they understood the seriousness of their hoax initially. But I think they were coming to understand the seriousness of it when they were taken into custody...They were both visibly upset.” EDDIE ROLLINS MURRAY, KY POLICE CAPTAIN Postmaster Mark Kennedy said, “I’m glad it’s over and my employees are out of peril and the public is out of peril.” Murray police Capt. Eddie Rollins said the suspects allegedly sent two letter-sized envelopes to friends as a hoax. Each contained threats, were laced with profanity and said people should direct their prayers to Muhammad. Each note also had scribbling meant to look like Arabic, he said. “I don’t think they understood the seriousness of their hoax ini tially,” Rollins said. “But I think they were coming to understand the seriousness of it when they were taken into custody.... They were both visibly upset.” Pence said federal investiga tors were still delving into details of the incident, but he said such threats couldn’t be downplayed, even if meant as college pranks. “There are similar-aged people right now who are on freedom’s frontier,” Pence said, referring to the nation’s military action in Afghanistan. “They are serving their country overseas and putting their lives on the line.... So, whether it’s a prank or not, it is absolutely unacceptable.” Collections advocate Vice Provost Terry dies BY GINNY THORNTON THE GAMECOCK George D. Terry, vice provost and dean of libraries at USC from 1991 to 2001, died Oct. 20. Dr. Terry earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from USC. He was responsible for overseeing academic and admin istrative computing, telecommu nications, distance education and instructional support services. Before serving as dean, he was director of McKissick Museum and administrator for special projects, including development of an online library system to link USC’s nine campuses. Dr. Terry led efforts to get ma terials for USC libraries’ special collections, including collections from Scottish poet Robert Bums and authors F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, and the USC president Committee will use SDIC report CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The SDIC will make a list of recommendations to increase university efficiency and will give it to President Palms, the board of trustees and the faculty senate. The recommendations will also go to the presidential search committee for use in the interview process. West said she doesn’t think the recommendations will limit the new president. “I think they will give the new president a clearer vision of the institution,” she said. William Hogue, SDIC chief in formation officer and vice pres ident for information technolo gy, said, “Certainly, anybody 1C. Warren Irving Jr. Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana. One of Dr. Terry’s dreams was fulfilled when the USC Terry Library Annex and Conserva tion Facility opened in 1999. The site provides climate-controlled storage for more than one million volumes, as well as a conserva tion and preservation laboratory. Dr. Terry is survived by his wife, Lynn Robertson of Columbia; sister, Cindy Bartone, of New Bern, N.C.; a grandfather; and two aunts. Memorials may be made to the University Foundations for the Southern Heritage Endowment, c/o USC Educational Foundation, 900 Assembly St., Columbia, SC 29208. who is interested in being the next president would wish to come at a time when money is flowing more freely.” He said potential candidates must realize budget cuts aren’t exclusive to South Carolina. Provost Jerry Odom, also an SDIC member, said the new pres ident will have to love a chal lenge. He gave a few qualities the new president should have: “First thing, I think the person is going to need to be truly grounded in academics, meaning he or she will need to have been involved in teaching and re search. In my mind, you’re going to need a creative individual. We need a person that can look at the priorities of this committee and the university and be creative.” Comments on this story? 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