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U.S., British warplanes bomb in no-fly zone, Iraqi spokesman says BAGHDAD, IRAQ - U.S. and British warplanes bombed Iraqi installations in the southern no fly zone Sunday, an Iraqi mili tary spokesman told Iraq’s offi cial news agency. The agency report did not say if the early morning raid in Dhi Qar province, about 210 miles south of Baghdad, caused any damage or casualties. The U.S. military confirmed the attack. A statement released by U.S. Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida said coalition aircraft re sponded to Iraqi ground fire by launching precision-guided weapons to strike an air defense communications facility. The Iraqi spokesman told the official agency U.S. and British warplanes bombed “civil and ser vice installations.” “Our heroic missiles and anti aircraft units fired at the aircraft, forcing them to flee back to Kuwaiti territories,” the spokesman said without provid ing further details. Sunday’s raids brought to 38 the number of strikes reported this year by the U.S. and British coalition formed to patrol north ern and southern Iraqi zones af ter the 1991 Gulf War. The last at tack was Sept. 9. The latest strikes also come three days after President Bush told the U.N. General Assembly that Baghdad must grant access to U.N. weapons inspectors or face confrontation. Bush accus es Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and spon soring terrorists, and says he must be toppled. Arab leaders oppose a U.S. at tack against Iraq, but want Baghdad to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions con cerning weapons inspections and disarmament to avert any con flict with America. Attacks and counterattacks in the no-fly zones have been ongo ing for several years. The num bers ebb and flow, and the Pentagon says there is no partic ular increase now. Iraq considers the patrols a vi olation of its sovereignty and fre quently shoots at the planes with anti-aircraft artillery and sur face-to-air missiles. In response, coalition pilots try to bomb Iraqi air defense systems. Rankings CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 its success to its graduate pro gram. “The principle factor of our undergraduate success comes from our graduate program and that we have taken some compo nents of that successful program and put them into our under graduate program,” Smith said. The international business school will continue to aspire to greater achievements. “We will maintain quality through man aging our size and content and by continuing to refine our exper tise,” Smith said. Following USC’s undergradu ate international business pro gram are, from second to fifth, those at New York University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and University of Southern California. First-year business student Amrita Jayaram called the rank ing “something to be proud of,” and said it would benefit the en tire university. In 1972, USC pioneered a small experimental class in re sponse to Vietnam War protests around campus. This program, university 101, has evolved into a one-semester course to aid first-year students in making the transition from high school to college, and has enrolled 2,672 students. “We have done this program for 30 years, and we are perceived • as one of the most caring and con cerned programs in the world due to our wonderful volunteer faculty and upper-class peer lead ers,” said Dan Berman, univer sity 101 director. Berman also attributes the program’s success to the rela tionship between faculty and stu dents. “We really respect the stu dents and treat them as adults. We give them honest and accu rate information and the ability to critically access that informa tion,” he said. The program has been a guide for many developing programs across the country. “We are geared towards helping students develop fully and giving them a sense of empowerment in the USC culture,” Berman said. “We want students to feel like they are at a small college, while still re ceiving all of the benefits of a larger university.” The university 101 program exceeded all other programs, in cluding those at the rest of the top five: in order, Brevard College, Appalachian State University, Princeton University and Stanford University. USC’s university 101 program will try to continue its success by creat ing other ways to aid students. “This high ranking will rein force a feeling of pride, but it will not make us sit back and relax,” Berman said. “In fact, we are now planning a university 201 class for second semester. So we are planning ahead and grow ing.” First-year nursing student Jessica Holsomback called the course “a fun class that gives me a chance to have a one-on one relationship with my teach er.” Sarah Weeks, a first-year sports and entertainment man agement student, said the rank ing made her proud. “The class gives me a lot of in formation, and they definitely de serve this award,” she said. Comments on this story?E-mail zamemckudesk@hotmail.com STATE Bridge lights could put turtles at risk CHARLESTON (AP) - Architects want to illuminate the Cooper River Bridge’s 128 cables and nearly 60-story-high towers to create a virtual “Cathedral of Light” visible from 30 miles away. But this puts them at odds with stargazers and turtle ad vocates, who say a lighted bridge will pollute the night sky and fool hatching sea turtles. The islands where turtles nest are miles away from the bridge, but the state Department of Transportation says it will consider turtles as the lights are designed for the $650 million bridge. After bubbling up out of the sand, loggerhead hatchlings in stinctively dash off toward the brightest light, which until modern times has been the moon reflected on the ocean. The evolutionary scramble is their only defense against ma rauding ghost crabs and gulls. Sexuality an issue in Lowcountry race CHARLESTON (AP)-Oneof this year’s hottest Statehouse races will be in the Lowcountry, where a gay Democrat is taking on a Republican incumbent who is seldom shy about what he calls the sin of homosexuality. Charlie Smith says his cam paign to knock off state Rep. John Graham Altman in is per sonal and has roots in what Smith said were extreme com ments that Altman made about killing hate crimes legislation in 1999. “I think he’s an embarrass ment, and I don’t think he’s re flective of the voters of South Carolina,” said county Democratic Chairwoman Diane Aghapour, a longtime Altman critic. Smith works as a gay rights activist and makes his living selling real estate. Smith said he doesn’t think his sexuality shopld be an issue in the race.”Ninety percent of the peo ple in the district are not gay,” he' said. “I don’t have any sex issues in the race. My opponent does.” NATION Derailed train cars leak acid fumes FARRAGUT, TENN. (AP) - Derailed railroad cars leaked fumes of highly corrosive sulfu ric acid in a residential area Sunday, forcing the evacuation of thousands of people. No seri ous injuries were reported, said Alan Lawson, deputy director of the Knoxville-Knox County Emergency Management Agency. Some people exposed to the acid fumes complained of mi nor skin and lung irritation and a few were taken to a hos pital, where they were treated and released, said Lt. Jeff Devlin of the Metro Special Hazards Team. Residents up to three miles away were told to stay in their homes and turn off their air conditioning. The train was traveling westbound when at least 20 cars derailed about 11:30 a.m. The derailment ruptured one tanker carrying about 93,000 pounds of sulfuric acid, said Lt. Jeff Devlin of the Metro Special Hazards Team. Students detained on terror suspicion DAVIE, FLA. - A Miami hos pital says it no longer wants the three Muslim medical students who were detained for 17 hours after a woman said she over heard them discussing terror plans. The men later said the incident was simply a misun derstanding. The head of Larkin Community Hospital in Miami said Sunday he had received more than 200 e-mails after the incident, some threatening. “Obviously, nothing is final,” said Jack Michel president and chief executive officer of Larkin. “Our primary objective is to take care of patients. I don’t know how that could be done with all this media coverage. ” He said the medical school where the men are studying, Ross University, had agreed to transfer them to a different training program. “We’re medical students. We are not terrorists,” said Kambiz Butt, 25.”Our concern in life is to become doctors. We want to help people. We do not want to hurt.” WORLD Man posing as N.Y. firefighter arrested LETHBRIDGE, CANADA (AP) An American who claimed to be a New York city firefighter on stress leave in Canada received a hero’s welcome and was arrested by Canadian police, an official said Sunday. “Michael Carle LaCarte, 39, was arrested on Friday and is now at a correctional institute,” Staff Sgt. Dave Hastie told the Associated Press. LaCarte told people in Alberta that he was a seven-year firefight er in Manhattan and 11 of his co workers died when the Worl Trade Center towers collapsed, fire platoon chief Charlie Brown said. Brown said he came to the Lethbridge fire department head quarters on Sept. 10 and “we re ceived him as a hero and broth er.” The local firefighters showed him around, gave him a shirt and a ball cap, bought him dinner and gave him a $95 check to a nice restaurant, Brown said. Local newspaper Lethbridge Herald quoted Oregon City, Ore. pa role officer Malcolm McDonald as saying LaCarte was in custody when the Sept. 11 attacks happened. U.S. diplomat is sued for damages in crash MOSCOW (AP) - In 1998, 23 year-old part-time student Alexander Kashin flagged down a ride on one of the main streets of Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok. Shortly after he took his seat, he saw a car coming to ward his at right angles, tensed and lost consciousness. Kashin awoke paralyzed below the shoulders—and in a diplomat ic controversy. The car that hit his was driven by Douglas Kent, the U.S. consul general in Vladivostok. In the four years since the acci dent, Kashin and his lawyers made several attempts to bring ac tion against Kent. The moves were met with citations of diplomats immunity and motions to dismiss The legal maneuverings have an gered Russians, who see this con troversy as trying to dodge their le gal and moral responsibilities. This summer a U.S. federal court denied Kent’s latest motion to dismiss a civil suit by Kashin seeking $9 million in damages, and on Friday papers were filed to set a trial date. Roost CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 According to data from the USC Police Department, four rapes occurred at the university in 1999, two rapes in 2000 and four in 2001. These include “stranger rapes” as well as date rapes. “As a result of that (the inci dent), we need to focus on safe ty,” Ellis said. “The best thing we can do for that victim is to make sure no one else becomes a victim.” Ellis said one way students can avoid being a victim is to take advantage of the evening shuttle that runs through cam pus. Another is for them to con tact the USCPD or some other escort service when they are go ing out late at night. Rape Aggression Defense, a program for college women, fo cuses on issues such as how not to become a victim, how to make one’s living area safe and how to judge one’s surroundings. It’s what Ellis calls a “full-concept protection class.” Most importantly, Ellis said, students need to remove temp tations for criminals. Don’t walk down the street at 2 or 3 in the morning, and do lock doors and remove valuable items from cars. “You throw a chicken leg in that parking lot out there and expect ants not to run to it, you’re sadly mistaken,” Ellis said. “If you do the same thing in your lifestyle and expect not to become a victim of crime, you’re sadly mistaken. I don’t ever want an individual to feel like it’s their fault they’re a vic tim of crime.” Some students living in the Roost, though, say they think lack of lighting is a problem in the area. “I think if there was better lighting and more stuff going on (around the Roost), it would be better,” said Kristen Pursley, a first-year criminal justice stu dent from Rhode Island. Jacqueline Welch, a USC soc cer player and first-year exer cise science student from Florida, said she agrees it’s pret ty dark. “I haven’t left here (the dorm) without one of my friends on the team,” she said. “I don’t go any where by myself, especially at night.” Ellis said the university looks at the lighting situation during a campuswide survey before class es start every semester. He said the area by the Roost is pretty wide open, and though the area might not have as many lights, the natural light there is more than in most parts of the cam pus. Russ McKinney, director of public affairs at USC, said that, if students have a concern about an area they think isn’t safe, they should let administrators know, and they will look into it. “Any time students have a concern, let us know,” he said. “We want to know.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Smoking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I’m trying to quit because & many people don’t lik cigarettes,” she said. “And I thin! about my health.” “Cigarette smoking is the nun ber-one preventable cause o death, so quitting is a good ide; because of the health benefits, Gardner said. Information such as this about the addictive nature am harmful side effects of cigarettes had a sobering effect on th< HRTM student, along with oth ers. “This information just wasn’ available to me before, and it’ shocking,” she said. “But it’s goo< to know.” For those who ask how to quit once they’ve made the decision ' to do so, the health center offers smoking cessation classes on an ) ongoing basis. One is under way, ; and runs from Sept. 9 through , i Sept. 25 every Monday am Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. in Russell House 203. f Another class will be held from i Oct. 7 through Oct. 23 at the same ’ times. The class and all medica tion (Zyban and nicotine patches) , are free. 1 The classes offer coping strate , gies, and have had an 80 percent > success rate. For more information, call 777 8248. Classes fill quickly, t > * Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com ^p^ September 21 (USC v. 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