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NADA CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 en it because “there will be one community instead of two build ings and it will also help with in tegration to American life for the internationals because there will be more Americans around.” Annabelle Molliet, a chemistry exchange student from France, also pointed out that “South Quad is much closer to Bates West, where many other international students are housed.” An open house for Carolina’s new Global Community is being held in the South Quad Lounge on Wednesday, Feb. 13 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. for students who are inter ested in living in the community. Refreshments will be provided at the open house and current NADA residents will be there to discuss the community. Applications for Carolina’s Global Community are now being accepted for fall 2002. The priority application deadline is Feb. 15, but applications will still be accepted after this date. Applications can be picked up at University Housing at 1215 Blossom St., or can be con veniently filled out online at www.sc.edu/ips/forms/cgcappli cation.html. Applicants must have at least 60 hours at the beginning of the fall 2002 semester. . The brick building known as NADA, originally named for the donor’s daughter, will be open as regular apartments for upper classmen with over 60 hours in fall 2002. For fall 2003, University Housing hopes to create a new liv ing and learning community in NADA, but it has not decided on what its special theme will be. Comments on this story?E-mail ga mecockudesk(a>ho tmail. com Crime CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Associate Criminal Justice Dean Danny Baker specializes in crime prevention. “Crime equals opportunity over desire,” Baker said. “As long at you have the opportunity and the desire you will have some kind of criminal activity out there.” Another significant jump in the statistics was found in the total crime index, which showed a total of 352 crimes in 1999, compared with 742 in 2000. Ellis attributed this jump to first-year college students learning the ropes of the real world. “Most of them have come from the safety of their own home, where they slept with their bed room door open, where they parked their car and then walked 20 feet at night to get to the front of the house, and they bring a lot of those senses of security with them to this campus environ ment,” he said. Kyle Mitchell, a graduate stu dent completing his master’s in crime mapping, has identified three areas of campus where crime is most concentrated. Mitchell divided up the campus into 360 square-foot areas, and, working with the USCPD, mapped out the areas that were most prone to criminal activity. The three grid areas all occur at the Blossom, Sumter, Assembly and Pickens Street areas of cam pus. “It’s just higher permeabili ty from either outside the city, or from our students or our faculty or whoever,” Mitchell said. “So as people are traveling these streets, like I said, you are going to have more targets available, people viewing more offenders.” Mitchell said that the universi ty’s location in the heart of down town Columbia had an adverse af “We can’t put a gate around campus and make it nice and se cure,” he said. “It’s not going to be like it is at Clemson University, where it is mainly a rural campus and the university keeps the town alive. Right now, we’re symbiotic with the city of Columbia. Whatever happens to them is go ing to affect us, and whatever hap pens to us is going to affect them.” One possible reason for the in crease in reported crime is the in ability of the USCPD to recruit and retain skilled officers. Within the city of Columbia, there are at least a dozen law enforcement agencies that all compete for high-quality officers, which Ellis says makes it difficult to retain key personnel. “I don’t want to say that it is at tributed to any spike in crime, but it has some effect on it because that officer is not as productive while he’s in that learning cycle,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesklahotma il.com Postal Service CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 along with the address; if a full name doesn’t match the mail sorters, students should send the mail back to the Main Street Post Office to be verified. Also, Moss said some students use a Columbia ZIP code when receiving and sending mail in stead of the USC ZIP codes, which are 29225 for students and 29208 for faculty and staff. This delays delivery because the mail can get mixed with Columbia city mail before it’s rightfully sent to USC. Other delays are caused by students who try to use their dorm addresses to receive mail. This mail also must be sorted in the Main Street Post Office. “Of course, students who re ceive mail on campus, and no ad dress is put on the correspon dence, will see some kind of de lay,” Moss said. USC Postal Services has 17 full-time employees and five part-time employees who work half-days. Currently, Postal Services, like many other de partments, is facing a hiring freeze. There are some positions Postal Services isn’t able to fill at this time, according to Moss. “So far, I have most of my em ployees working a full 40 hours a week to keep up with our deliv ery schedule,” Moss said. Most of the USC postal work “We do our best every day to get the mail out to students.” JOHN SMITH use POSTAL WORKER ers are retired U.S. postal em ployees, like John Smith. Smith worked for the USPS for 38 years, but he now works in the second floor sorting room of the Russell House, near the Grand Marketplace. Smith also pointed out that the department is a little short handed. He said that he knows that the upstairs sorting room has been short one employee since December and there hasn’t been any talk about filling that position with another worker. “We do our best every day to get the mail out to students,” Smith said. “We really enjoy what we do. Most of us have been in the mail business most of our lives.” Another second-floor postal worker is Gordon Graham, who has worked for the USPS for 41 years. Graham said most of the mail is sorted out by 4 p.m. If by the rare chance it isn’t, two em ployees stay late to make sure it is all delivered. “We push it hard to get done, for the amount of pay that we get,” Graham said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com BY DAVID ESPO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Congress dug forcefully into the Enron debacle on Tuesday with a second sub poena for Kenneth Lay, the for mer chairman of the energy trad ing firm, and a sympathetic hear ing for a laid-off employee whose retirement savings all but disap peared when the company failed. “This should not and cannot ever happen again in America,” said Deborah Perrotta, who tear fully told lawmakers she lost $40,000 from her retirement ac count when Enron’s stock price plummeted last fall. The vote was unanimous in the Senate Commerce Committee to compel Lay’s appearance on Feb. 12. “We have no choice,” said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., one day after Lay scrubbed a vol untary appearance. Lawmakers predicted Lay would invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-in crimination when he appears. Lay’s attorney, Earl Silbert, said he had already accepted a subpoena from a second con gressional panel seeking testi mony, this one in the House. The lawyer said any suggestion that Lay was “making himself scarce” is “absolute nonsense. He’s in Houston with his family.” Congress aside, the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are in vestigating the Enron bankrupt cy, and politicians in both parties have scrambled to return cam paign donations connected to the firm and its executives. President Bush has called for legislation granting greater pro tection for the retirement ac counts of average Americans. “This is a business problem that our Justice Department is going to investigate, and if there’s wrongdoing we’ll hold them ac countable for mistreatment of employees and shareholders,” he told reporters during the day, turning aside a suggestion from one Democrat for the appoint ment of an independent counsel. Millions of investors lost mon ejvand thousands of current and former Enron employees lost the great bulk of their retirement savings, when the company col lapsed. An Enron-sponsored in vestigation released over the weekend blamed senior manage ment for failipg to provide proper supervision over a complex web of partnerships that helped the company hide debt and post un realistic profit figures. Once disclosed, these transac tions contributed to the compa ny’s unraveling. At four hearings during the day, lawmakers expressed con cern for the victims of the bank ruptcy and anger at the actions taken at Enron and Arthur Andersen, the firm’s accountants. “You have squandered the in tegrity of your company,” Rep. Gary Ackerman bluntly told Joseph Berardino, chief execu tive of Arthur Andersen. Rep. Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, noted that the Enron internal in vestigation found active partici pation by Andersen in setting up the partnerships, and that the ac counting firm had received $5.7 million for advice on the subject. “You weren’t just checking the boxes,” he told Berardino. The Andersen executive said he was still gathering the facts about his firm’s relationship with Enron. “I did not do the audit of the com pany,” he said at one point. 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