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NADA
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. At an
other, he added, “Information was
withheld from us.”
The company fired auditor
David Duncan in January, ac
cusing him of organizing the de
struction of Enron documents.
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