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Athletics
Faculty committees
will oversee study
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pation in an earlier version of the
certification program in 1995
helped to improve the quality of
the athletic department in general.
“There are a lot of areas that we
have improved over the last sev
en or eight years,” Tharp said.
Tharp said that the certification
process usually receives a wel
comed response from athletic di
rectors and associates from uni
versities in the NCAA. “I just
think that as we take a look at
what we do and our department,
we remember that we are in the
education process, educating stu
dent athletes, and educating
young people,” Tharp said.
“Hopefully, they become better
people from the time they start on
campus to the time that they
leave.”
The NCAA approved the certi
fication process in 1993. The
process was later revised in 1999.
Every Division I school is re
quired to conduct a self-study
every ten years and provide an in
terim report midway between
each full certification. The NCAA
is responsible for maintaining in
tercollegiate athletics as an inte
gral part of an educational pro
gram, according to their mission
statement.
When the'committee concludes
its study in November 2002, a vis
iting committee comprising rep
resentatives from other universi
ties and sports conferences will
conduct.an evaluation based on
USC’s self-study. USC and the vis
iting committee will give a com
bined report for approval from the
NCAA. The NCAA last certified
USC in 1995 after its previous re
port.
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Uprising
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killed, ’ soldier says
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“I don’t know how many
Americans there were. I think one
was killed, but I’m not sure,” the
U.S. soldier said in the footage.
“There were two of us at least, me
and some other guy,” he said.
The soldiers appeared to have
planned the battle, Central
Command spokesman Lt. Cmdr.
Dave Culler said, describing it as
an apparent “suicide mission.”
For several hours the firefight
continued between the hundreds
of prisoners and what ARD said
were only 100 guards.
“There was general pandemo
nium,” said Simon Brooks, head
of Red Cross operations for north
ern Afghanistan, who was at the
prison to check on the detainees’
condition and escaped by climb
ing onto the roof with northern al
liance commanders.
Gen. Rashid Dostum, who con
trols the compound but was over
seeing the surrender at Kunduz
when the uprising began, returned
several hours later with tanks and
machine guns. Stoneking said 500
troops accompanied him.
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Second trial set in
Lexington County
The man whose murder
trial was marred when a
Lexington County prosecutor
saw a videotaped conversation
between him and his lawyer
returns to court for a second
death-penalty trial this week.
B. J. Quattlebaum is charged
with murder in the 1995 death
of William Swartz, who was
shot at his home near Gilbert.
A jury convicted
Quattlebaum and sentenced
him to death in 1998.
The state Supreme Court
ordered a new trial last year.
The court’s ruling said a
former Lexington County
deputy prosecutor engaged in
prosecutorial misconduct by
eavesdropping on a private
conversation between
Quattlebaum and his lawyer.
The Supreme Court has
banned Lexington County
prosecutors from the retrial.
The trial will be in Lexington
County Circuit Court, though
Quattlebaum’s lawyers have
tried twice to move it to
Richland County.
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DANGEROUS HOLIDAY
ROADS: Leesville man Jesse
Wilson Smith Jr., 39, lost
control of his motorcycle on a
secondary road in Lexington
County and became the 11th
fatality on South Carolina
roads this Thanksgiving
holiday weekend.
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BRIEFS
Scientists claim to
clone first embryo
BOSTON — A group of
scientists in Massachusetts
claimed Sunday they had
cloned the first early human
embryo, a step toward v
providing genetically
matched replacement cells for
patients with a wide range of
diseases.
The scientists at Advanced
Cell Technology, in
Worcester, Mass., say they
have no interest at present in
transplanting such early
embryos into a woman’s
womb to give birth to a cloned
human being.
Several states, including
California, have banned
human cloning. Congress is
considering such a ban.
In findings published
Sunday by The Journal of
Regenerative Medicine and
described online in Scientific
American, the scientists said
they had grown a six-cell
human embryo.
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ANTHRAX: Sen. Patrick
Leahy, D-Vt., says there was
enough anthrax in the letter
sent to his office to kill more
than 100,000 people. The
letter, which has yet to be
opened, was found Nov. 16 in
a batch of unopened mail that
had been quarantined since
the discovery of an anthrax
contaminated letter to Senate
Majority Leader Tom
Daschle, D-S.D., on Oct. 15.
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U.S. Marines move
into Kandahar area
CHAMAN, PAKISTAN -
Helicoptering in over the
barren brown desert of
southern Afghanistan, the
first wave of U.S. Marines on
Monday joined what is already
a push by anti-Taliban tribal
fighters to hit the Taliban in
their home base, Kandahar .
Hundreds of Marines
landed in helicopters
southwest of Kandahar, the
Taliban’s last garrison, and
were to be followed by several
hundred more from Navy
ships in the Arabian Sea, a
senior U.S. defense official
said in Washington on
condition of anonymity.
Tribal leaders said the U.S.
forces were moving toward
Kandahar from the south.
The deployment came as
tribal fighters claimed that
they had seized an area near
Kandahar, the Taliban’s
spiritual home. By taking
control of Toarkoter, the
fighters said they had a clear
view of Kandahar’s airport,
three miles away. Taliban
fighters briefly resisted before
fleeing, said a tribal leader,
Abdul Jabbar.
At least 10 dead
after plane crashes
ZURICH, Switzerland - A
Swiss airliner with 33 people
on board crashed Saturday
night as it was approaching
Zurich Airport to land. At
least 10 people were killed and
nine others walked away from
the wreckage, officials said.
' Local authorities issued an
urgent appeal for local
" residents to join the search for
survivors from the Crossair
Jumbolino, which went down
in a wooded area in the
suburb of Birchwil, some two
miles east of the airport.
The cause of the crash —
the second to strike Crossair
in less than two years — was
not immediately known.
However, two experts
quoted on state-run Swiss
television said the plane
appeared to be flying too low.
Weather conditions were also
poor when Flight LX3597 went
down, just after 10 p.m., with
rain and some snow. Crossair
chief Andre Dose said there
* were no indications that
terrorism was to blame.
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DISASTER: Work crews dug
more bodies from a pile of
rock and mud left by a
landslide at a condemned
Colombian mine, bringing the
death toll to 47 on Saturday.
An official said there was no
hope offinding survivors.
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