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Candidates can ONLY receive an application by attending an information meeting. Candidates must present a picture ID prior to entering the information meeting. All sessions will begin at announced times. Please arrive on time. North Campus - Sun., Jan 27; Campus Room in Capstone at 8pm - Mon., Jan 28; Classroom in Maxcy at 6pm - Mon., Jan 28; Preston Seminar Room at 8pm - Tues., Jan 29; Columbia Hall Classroom at 8pm ^ - Fri., Feb 1; Horseshoe Reading Room (Pinckney-Legare) at 3pm South Campus - Mon., Jan 28; Bates West Social Room at 5:30pm and 8pm - Tues., Jan 29; Bates West Social Room at 5pm - Wed., Jan 30; East Quad Classroom at 9pm -Thurs., Jan 31; South Quad Multi-Purpose Room at 6:30pm Central Campus - Tues., Jan 29; Sims Classroom at 9pm - Tues., Jan 29; Classroom in the Towers at 6pm - Tues., Jan 29; McClintock Lounge at 7:30pm - Wed., Jan 30; Patterson Basement at 9pm - Thurs., Jan 31; Classroom in the Towers at 9pm - Sun., Feb 3; Wade Hampton Lounge at 8:30pm - Sun., Feb 3; Classroom in the Towers at 7pm - Mon., Feb 4; Classroom in the Towers at 7pm University Housing - De^t^nwofi Cotnmmtti€4'/bf Li/Vt+xg' muL Learning ■*■'_ 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 (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent | NIGHT CRIMES § (6p.m.-6a.m.) | ■ Violent ^ # Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS H Violent © Nonviolent Tuesday, Jan. 15 ® LARCENY OF MEDICATION, 712 MAIN ST. The victim said someone took his Phentermine medication, an Old Navy pouch and $2. Estimated value: $57. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. Thursday, Jan. 17 Q LOST PROPERTY, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said he lost his Audiovox cell phone in the stands while attending a basketball game at the Coliseum. Reporting officer: M.P. Moore. Q AUTO BREAK-IN, 915 GREGG ST. The victim said someone entered his 1976 Jeep and took the following items: BB gun, survival knife, jack and lug wrench set, ammo can, pair of reading glasses, tire gauge, hammer, hatchet, shovel, bungee cords, tie straps, goggles, gloves and poncho. Estimated value: $183. Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke. Friday, Jan. 18 ©MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1400 GREENE ST. The complainant said the subject damaged merchandise at the Russell House Bookstore. When confronted, the subject said, “But I did not take it.” The complainant provided the officers with the merchandise damaged by the subject. The subject was arrested for malicious injury to personal property and transported to Richland County Detention Center. Reporting officer: J. A. Clarke ©AUTO BREAK-IN, 1719 PENDLETON ST. The victim said someone entered her locked Dodge and took an AM-FM radio/CD player. Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer: J. Taylor Jr. © LARCENY OF CAMERA, 615 SUMTER ST. The victim said someone took the following from an unlocked location in Laborde: silver Sanyo digital camera, an algebra textbook and $60. Estimated value: $600. Reporting officer: M.P. Moore ® LARCENY OF MINICASSETTE RECORDER, 2 RICHLAND MEDICAL DRIVE (OFF MAP) Victim No. 1 said someone took a Sony minicassette recorder from his desk. Victim No. 2 said someone took a bottle of Avon “Skin So Soft” from her desk. Victim No. 3 said she had $10 taken from a container in her desk drawer. Estimated value: $48. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. o LARCENY OF WALLET, 1415 WHEAT ST.The victim said someone took a leather Guess wallet, Carolina First debit card, $10 Best Buy gift certificate, Blue Cross/Blue Shield lunch card, $5, birth certificate and South Carolina driver’s license. Estimated value: $76. Reporting officer: u ,u. mcauui . ® ASSISTANCE RENDERED, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim was conscious but not responding to medical staff. She was also having trouble breathing. Victim was transported to Richland Memorial Hospital. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. ® LOST PROPERTY, 1620 PENDLETON ST. The victim said he lost a Toshiba digital camera in a black nylon case at the National Advocacy Center. Reporting officer: J.B. Coazum. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, 1211 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone knocked out the rear passenger window of his 1996 Ford Explorer. The following items were missing: Compaq laptop, PlayStation 2 game console, Kora 12-inch speaker, USA Performance amp and CD case with 65 CDs. Estimated value: $3180. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. Elections Warnings won't be given for infractions CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mandate me to do that,” Bourne said. “We will take a vote, but I re serve the right to veto.” The commission’s main en forcement power is the ability to give candidates infractions for any violation of the rules. Any candidate who receives five in fractions in the course of the cam paign is disqualified. The commission also won’t try to encourage greater turnout among students this year, Bourne said. That also marks a difference from previous commissions. “In the end, it’s the candidate’s responsibility to increase voter turnout,” Bourne said. And candidates might face less severe punishment for posting vi olations, which have to do with where a candidate can put up signs around campus. Posting re strictions, often imposed by the university, have been a major source of controversy in the past. Previous candidates have ex pressed concern about the possi bility of disqualification for break ing those rules. Ford said candidates would be allowed a second chance if they were given posting violations for any specific area. However, if can didates don’t remove the sign from that area, they will be given an infraction. Past commissions have chosen to give candidates warnings on some posting violations but have given candidates infractions after another posting violation, whether the subsequent violations were in the same location or not. However, Ford said repeat of fenders who ignore a warning while having four infractions would still risk punishment. “If it has happened again and it’s blatant, then we’d have to take a se rious, hard look at it,” Ford said. Another change supported by Ford, a bill that would have re quired candidates to disclose their finances, failed in Student Senate at the end of last semester. Also, an attempt to change so licitation rules to allow candidates to send mass mailings to students was knocked down by the admin istration, Ford said. The commis sion will enforce that rule because it’s part of university policy. “They’ll come down on that,” he said. “They’ll have to.” Ginny Thornton contributed to this story. Comments ?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com School Bus Driver had passed background check CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 their will and wanted to turn him self in. “He wanted the kids to be OK and let their parents know they were OK,” said Chabla, who was wearing his police uniform at the store. The gun was a loaded semiau tomatic rifle. Gulotta said it was found behind the driver’s seat, covered by a coat. During the search for the bus, distraught parents arrived at the Oley municipal building to await word of their children. Other resi dents went looking for the bus, in cluding Karen Roberts, 45, a mother of five children — none of them on the bus. “Being a parent in a small com munity, you just have to do your part,” she said. The parents were later put on a bus with ministers and coun selors and taken to Maryland for a reunion with their children at a police station. Police said the group said a prayer and ate pizza. Authorities said Nuss had worked for the Quigley Bus Service since September. The company contracts with the Oley Valley School District. School officials said Nuss had not driven a school bus before this year, but had passed a criminal background check and a child abuse check. STATE NAACP chiefs won’t meet with Condon COLUMBIA (AP) - The NAACP has dropped plans to meet with South Carolina’s at torney general, who threatened to sue the civil rights group over its planned “border patrols.” Leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People think meeting with Attorney General Charlie Condon will not yield any results, state NAACP president James Gallman said Thursday night. “His tone of what he is going to do and what will happen and the overall threatening tone of the letter, it implies there is go ing to be no serious meeting of the minds,” Gallman said of let ters Condon sent to the NAACFs state and national offices. The NAACP plans to send its members to rest stops at the state’s boarder, asking mo torists not to stop in South Carolina and it has called for an economic boycott of the state to force the removal of the Confederate flag from out side the State House. NATION American Taliban has first hearing ALEXANDRIA, VA. (AP) - Shorn of his long hair and beard, John Walker Lindh qui etly faced his government’s charges Thursday that he con spired to kill fellow Americans in Afghanistan. "Yes, I do, thank you,” he an swered when asked at his first court appearance if he grasped the accusations that he con spired to kill Americans abroad and aided terrorist groups. His lawyers, in a signal of the defense they will pursue, strong ly criticized the FBI’s question ing of the 20-year-old shortly af ter his capture in Afghanistan. Lindh "asked for a lawyer, repeatedly asked for a lawyer,” from Dec. 2 on, his lead attor ney, James Brosnahan, said outside the courthouse. The government countered that Lindh had made his own decision to waive his right to an attorney before that question ing — and to join the Taliban and support Osama bin Linden’s al-Qaida terrorist organization. WORLD Israel says missile killed Hamas leader JERUSALEM (AP) - A senior Hamas commander died in an Israeli helicopter strike in Gaza late Thursday, the Israeli military said, and five other Palestinians were killed in separate incidents. Tension ran high amid expec tations of further violence. Because of the flare-up, U.S. offi cials put a truce mediation effort by envoy Anthony Zinni on indef inite hold. In Gaza after nightfall, wit nesses said an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a car, killing one Palestinian and wounding two others. The Israeli military identified the dead Palestinian as Adli Hamdan and said he was the se nior Hamas commander in Khan Younis, responsible for dozens of attacks. But Palestinians gave a differ ing description. They identified him as Bakr Hamdan, 28, a mem ber of the Hamas military wing and a relative of the top Hamas leader iii the Gaza city of Khan Younis.