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NAACP
to help
register
voters
Members plan
to spend 3 days a
week on campus
to register 1,000
BY KEVIN FELLNER
THE GAMECOCK
The USC chapter of the
NAACP will register students to
vote in the Nov. 5 election as a
part of its recognition of
September as National Voter
Empowerment Month.
Chapter volunteers will be
available on Greene Street
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September in
an effort to
reach their
goal of regis
! tering 1,000
USC students
before the Oct.
5 deadline for
this year’s elec
tion. The vol
unteers have
already regis
tered more
than 150 stu
dents and plan
to continue
their efforts at
least three
“For 90
years, this
has been a
focus of (the
NAACP),
and we have
always been
at the
forefront of
getting
people the
right to
vote.”
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Jerome
Bryant, the chapter's president,
said registering students to vote
is not only a part of the chapter’s
duties as a service organization,
but also mirrors a national effort
by the NAACP for voter empow
erment.
“For 90 years, this has been a
focus of (the NAACP), and we
have always been at the forefront
of getting people the right to
vote,” Bryant said.
Volunteers will also mobilize
their efforts in several campus
residence halls. Bryant said they
would try to target freshman and
sophomore halls where students
are younger and probably haven’t
voted in previous elections.
The chapter’s effort is only the
first phase of its voter empower
♦ VOTING, SEE PAGE 2
I More students, less parking
Construction,
bigger freshman
class limit
campus spaces
BY HOLLY BOUNDS
THKliAMliCOCK
The arrival of the largest
freshman class in USC's history
has boosted SAT scores and in
creased the popularity of the
flagship university of South
Carolina — but one negative re
sult is an increased parking de
mand on an already cramped
campus.
The Coliseum lot is the largest
right now, but the new Carolina
Center, slated to be completed in
November, will bring an addi
tional 1,000 spaces. Those spots
will replace the ones on Wheat
Street, where the new West Quad
dorm, expected to be completed
by fall 2004, will eliminate park
ing spots.
Bryan Cox, a third-year broad
cast journalism student, says he
is trying to understand what
caused the parking problem.
♦ PARKING, SEE PAGE 3
PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
Cars outside the Carolina Center are ticketed for parking illegally. Finding parking spaces on campus is increasingly difficult as
the student body grows. Parking Services Director Derrick Huggins says students shouldn't rely on street spaces for parking.
When cries for help
are heard too late
Suicide offormer USC grad student shocks family
BY KATHERINE HALLORAN
THE GAMECOCK
Sometimes the people you
least expect take their own lives,
and former USC psychology
graduate student Kimberly
Terrell-Crum is proof of that.
After completing her under
graduate degree at Ohio
University, she and her high
school sweetheart married just a
week after graduating college
and were ready to start a new
life together in South Carolina
— a life that ended July 29,2002,
when Kim took her own life.
“I was really shocked,” said
Jenny Savitz-Smith, Kim’s
friend and co-worker. “She
shared stories about her life
with me, but never talked about
being depressed.”
Close to earn
ing her Ph.D.,
Kim wanted to
become a clinical
psychologist and
eventually to
have children
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Terrell-Crum band, Dave.
Even though
close family members knew
Kim had struggled with depres
sion for years, friends and co
workers said they were not
aware of her depression.
“Kim was so put together
from the outside; she did such a
good job of putting on a mask,”
Dave Terrell-Crum said.
Shortly before Kim took her
life, she went through therapy
with a psychiatrist who, ac
cording to Dave Terrell-Crum,
helped her and her family “to
see a light at the end of the tun
nel.”
“But unfortunately,” he said,
“help didn’t come quickly
enough.” '
According to the National
Strategy for Suicide Prevention,
more than 30,000 Americans die
from suicide each year, making
it the 11th leading cause of death
for Americans, and the second
leading cause of death for col
lege-age students.
Though suicide rates have
declined among 15- to 24-year
olds in the last six years, the
rates have nearly tripled over
the past several decades.
Statistics indicate there is no
way of predicting when sui
♦ SUICIDE, SEE PAGE 2
Gamecocks brought low
PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
Corey Jenkins, who was sacked three times in Saturday’s
game against the University of Virginia, gets pulled down by
Chris Canty of Virginia. For more on USC’s loss, see page 7.
Bush officials go on TV
to urge attack on Iraq
BY SCOTT LINDLAW
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) -Saddam
Hussein is aggressively seeking
nuclear and biological weapons
and “the United States may well
become the target” of an attack,
Vice President Dick Cheney said
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Bush adminis
tration pressed
its case for top
pling the Iraqi
leader.
Cheney and
top administra
tion officials took
to the Sunday Cheney
talk shows as
part of President Bush’s effort to
convince the public, Congress,
and other countries that action
against Saddam is urgently
needed. The officials cited the
Sept. 11 attacks in making the
case that the world cannot wait
to find out whether or not the
Iraqi president has weapons of
mass destruction.
“The problem here is that
there will always be some un
certainty about how quickly he
can acquire nuclear weapons.
But we don’t want the smoking
gun to be a mushroom cloud,”
national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice told CNN’s
“Late Edition.”
“How long are we going to
wait to deal with what is clearly
a gathering threat against the
United States, against our allies,
and against his own region?”
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld added on CBS’s “Face
the Nation”: “Imagine, a
September 11 with weapons of
mass destruction. It’s not 3,000;
it’s tens of thousands of innocent
men, women, and children.”
Cheney, citing unspecified in
telligence gathered over the past
12 to 14 months, said Saddam has
the technical expertise and de
signs for a nuclear weapon and
has been seeking a type of alu
minum tube needed to enrich
uranium for a weapon. The
tubes have been intercepted
through one known channel,
Cheney said.
“We know we have a part of the
picture and that part of the picture
♦ CHENEY, SEE PAGE 2
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A DIVIDED MESSAGE
PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
Pro-life demonstrators protest on Sumter Street Jan. 12. The pro
life movement is split over how far to go in spreading its cause.
Pro-life advocates
split over how best
to spread message
BY EMMA RITCH
THE GAMECOCK
They are a common sight at
USC football games, high schools
and Planned Parenthood clinics.
Members of Columbia
Christians for Life, a pro-life or
ganization known for its graphic
signs depicting abortions, have
shared a pro-life message with lo
cal churches for 11 years in
Columbia. Steve Lefemine, direc
tor of the four-member group, re
cently distributed a news release
indicating a split in the pro-life
- movement.
He said the group protested at
several sites, including the South
Carolina Governor’s Mansion,
Richland Memorial Hospital and
two local churches: Forest Drive
Baptist and Shandon Baptist. The
release identifies the churches as
“not far from Planned
Parenthood’s death camp, both of
whom lack any direct Christian
‘presence’ at this ‘gate of hell.’ “
Representatives from the
churches did not return calls.
♦PROTESTS, SEE PAGE 2
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Horoscopes_ 6
Letters to the Editor 4
Online Poll 4
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Hollywood. Page 5
♦ THE MIX Queens of the Stone
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“Songs for the Deaf." Page 5
♦ SPORTS Seven turnovers
lead to Virginia's 34-21 victory
over the Gamecocks. Page 7
♦ SPORTS Volleyball sweeps
the competition en route to the
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