Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICE REPORT Each number on the map stands for a crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS E3 Violent © Nonviolent These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. Thursday, Sept. 19 ® LOST PROPERTY, GAMBRELL, 817 HENDERSON ST. Erica Folden said she lost her keys and wallet somewhere between the Gambrell and Wardlaw buildings. She said the wallet contained a Zale’s credit card, a Capital One Visa card, a Wachovia bank check card, a South Carolina driver’s permit, a USC ID card and $100 cash. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. o BURGLARY IN THE FIRST (RECOVERY), GRAND LARCENY OF LAPTOP, SOUTH QUAD, 500 SUMTER ST. Kathryn Church, Alissa Cooper and Heather Bridge said a black male entered their apartment and tried to take a Dell laptop computer and a Dell docking station. Cooper and Bridge said they stopped him from taking the items. Officers searched the area, but did not find the suspect. Estimated value of the recovered items: $2,000. Reporting officers: N.U. Beza, A. Lee. Q DISORDERLY CONDUCT, SHELL STATION, ASSEMBLY AND COLLEGE STREETS Dawn Temples flagged reporting officer E.R. Stoudenmire down because she said Jonathan Robinson approached her vehicle and yelled profanities at her while she was getting gasoline. Stoudenmire asked USC Police Department officers to search around the Shell station. The police saw Robinson washing the windows of a Ford Explorer and said he smelled strongly of alcohol, had slurred speech and was unsteady on his feet. Robinson was arrested and taken to the USC Police Department for paperwork, then taken to the Richland County Detention Center. Friday, Sept. 20 □ INFORMATION, GREEK VILLAGE, SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON HOUSE Reporting officer E.R. Stoudenmire was called to the Palmetto Baptist Medical Center emergency room because of a fight at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house. Patrick Lemaster had a small cut under his right eye, but could not tell police how he got it. Lemaster said he was cut either when someone hit him with a fist or elbow or when he fell to the ground. There were no witnesses to the fight. Hodges CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 needs to come: education.” Hodges was the second-highest ranking state official to campaign at USC in the past week. Superintendent of Education Inez Tenenbaum spoke to USC law stu dents this past Tuesday. Part of Hodges’ plan for crimi nal justice students involves giv ing existing law enforcement offi cers the chance to go back to school. “We got to update who is in the system now,” Hodges said. Third-year criminal justice stu dent Amanda Lee said she liked Hodges’ idea. “Officers who have been in the force for 10 years may get rusty,” she said. The Democratic incumbent for governor also addressed law en forcement and racial profiling, but connected everything with educa tion. “He was able to tie every ques tion asked back to education,” third-year criminal justice student Chris Kelly said. Criminal justice professor Bob Stokes said Hodges kept with his theme for governorship. “I don’t think he was sidestep ' ping,” he said. “He did what any good politician does, and that’s staying with his message.” Hodges wants more profession alism where racial profiling is con cerned. “We have to track stops and ar rests that are made to make sure no one particular race is being sin gled out,” Hodges said. “We have to make sure our system is not one that would foster racial profiling.” Hodges said he thinks crime in South Carolina will decrease in the long run once after-school pro grams are started in middle schools, where, he says, children start making bigger decisions for themselves. This way, according to Hodges, more people will earn a high school degree and ulti mately be employed. “My focus is educational im provement because that’s where it makes the most difference,” Hodges said. “The people in prison, black or white, almost ev ery one of them in the system is not a high school graduate. We can resolve problems in prisons. We can reduce the number of people that get in trouble and that stay in jail by bettering the education sys tem and getting more criminal justice programs.” Stokes said, “He used problems here at USC to talk about faculty, facilities and students and his plans for education.” Hodges said he thinks the most important issue at USC is the qual ity of facilities and faculty. “I wouldn’t care if it’s [the crim inal justice program is] a depart ment or a college, just as long as you’re getting a quality educa tion,” Hodges said. Trina Elfering, a fourth-year criminal justice student, said: “He’s done a decent job. He has a good chance to be re-elected. There’s more to be done.” Hodges has been traveling statewide campaigning for his re election. He faces Republican nominee Mark Sanford on Nov. 5. “Education is the number 1 is sue in the state,” Hodges said. “Educational improvement is my priority. We have made good pro cess, but there’s still lots more to improve.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmai l. com Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cause it will guide the president and this nation probably into war,” Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said on ABC’s “This Week.” Even those comfortable with the proposed language said they would accommodate change to speed it through. The White House wants the legislation to pass before Congress recesses be fore elections Nov. 5. “We can correct that; I don’t think that’s fatal to the heart of the resolution,” said Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations committee. Still, Hyde, R-Dl., called the ob jections “specious” and said the proposed resolution was standard. Hagel and Sen. John Kyi, R Ariz., predicted the resolution would easily pass before the elec tions, but Biden warned that Bush needed to work harder to explain his plans. “The American people are grown up,” he said. “You tell them what we need to do, tell them the threat and they will back the pres ident. But we haven’t told them all of the story yet.” He and Levin also urged Bush to work closely with the Security Council, saying it would bolster domestic backing for any war. “There is a degree of confidence that increases in direct proportion to the notion that we are not go ing to be going alone with this,” Biden said. Levin said the Iraqi president was more likely to fold before joint action than if he were threatened by the United States alone. “I want him to look down the barrel of a gun with the world behind it.” Whatever the stakes, lawmak ers urged Israel to avoid retaliat ing against any Iraqi provocation. “The Israelis going into it could just be a widespread war in the Middle East,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala„ said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” Biden agreed. “You would find probably every embassy in the Middle East burned to the ground before it went too far,” he said. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Israel would heed U.S. appeals for restraint, but reserved the right to respond if it were attacked. “We understand there is not go ing to be two wars and there are not going to be two supreme com mands,” Peres said on CNN. “It will be, should be coordinated ... and also, we insist on our rights.” The Pentagon has delivered to Bush a detailed set of options for using military force to remove Hussein and neutralize his most dangerous weapons, according to a senior defense official. The Washington Post reported Sunday that the Pentagon favors a “narrowly focused... intense” war that would target Saddam and the elite surrounding him. SG CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 through SG will automatically be approved, but Patel says he is en couraged by the “mere fact that he [President Sorensen] is interest ed.” Sorensen could not be reached for comment. Senate President Pro-Tempore Bill Cordova said he is pleased that Sorensen is “very willing to talk” with SG representatives. He says that, “on the surface, it seems like a great idea,” but would like to see Sorensen have regular discussions with representatives other than Patel and his Cabinet. “The senators are much more connected and representative of the student body,” Cordova said. Cordova said that, while he has yet to talk to Sorensen, he would welcome the opportunity to have the president’s ear on some of the issues SG is dealing with. Cordova would like to hear about Sorensen’s vision for the uni versity’s future, and especially how he plans to alleviate the parking problems around campus. Sorensen has put great empha sis on getting out into the USC com munity, as well as Columbia and South Carolina, since he took over his post earlier this summer. Sorensen recently embarked on a 25-stop tour of the state, called the “Carolina Bow Tie Tour,” in which he will visit with people varying from members of the USC Black Alumni Association to stu dents at A.C. Moore Elementary. Overall, Patel said he is proud that Sorensen is showing so much enthusiasm and support for the student body and the USC community. “President Sorensen is the perfect choice to carry on the tradition of Dr. Palms,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Financial Aid CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “I always recommend that they check with their civic organiza tions, the chamber of commerce, ro tary clubs, churches — a lot of places offer scholarships,” Byrd said. “Therearealotofscholarships out there... you just have to look for them. They don’t jump out at you.” As for dissatisfied students, Princeton Review’s Olson says students might not feel they are getting the aid they need or de serve. “This might be something tem porary — I will not make a com-’ ment on causes,” Olson said, but “it’s not a good list to be on, espe cially in these economic times.” Olson does say, however, that the rankings might not be completely accurate. “What I would encourage the ad ministration to do is encourage stu dents to use the online survey—a very inclusive survey,” he said. “The more students that the ad ministration encourages to fill out the survey, the more we hear. If we’re not perfect well, show us that we’re not perfect.” The survey link can be found at http://survey.review.com. 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