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Race for governor heats up
Hodges, Sanford
focus on key issues
as election nears
BY JESSICA CLANTON
Til K (iAMKOlMlK
With Election Day less than three
weeks away, Republican Mark Sanford is
trying to unseat Democratic incumbent
Jim Hodges to be the next governor of
South Caroling.
Both gubernatorial candidates are lob
bying for votes by focusing on key issues
such as education, taxes and government
restructuring.
♦ One of the main issues that the candi
dates disagree about is where to spend lot
tery revenue.
“My bias would be to allocate these
funds to K through 12, and even pre-K,
because if a child is not reading by grade
level in the fourth grade, they will not
be reading by grade level in the eighth
grade,” Sanford said on his Web site,
www.sanfordforgovernor.com. “Edu
cation experts across the country would
concur and tell you that, to make a dif
ference in education, you need to spend
the money early.”
But Samantha Sapnick, a member of
Hodges’ staff, said, “Governor Hodges be
lieves that higher education is the key for
better economic status, a better way of
life, and better health coverage.”
Hodges’ Web site, www.hod
ges2002.com, says “100,000 students will
be attending college and technical schools
this fall” because of his promise of lottery
funded scholarships.
The education issue is prevalent in the
race for governor, and both candidates
deem it one of their top priorities.
According to Hodges’ Web site, his
“Next Steps to Better Schools” education
plan “focuses on enhancing the quality of
preschool, increasing teacher quality and
accountability, improving the learning
environment for our students, engaging
South Carolina’s parents and communi
ties in this statewide improvement effort,
and expanding access to higher education
in our state.”
Sanford, on his Web site, said, “Our
campaign proposes building on South
Carolina’s educational advancements and
complementing it with a program for a
disciplined environment of multiple edu
cation avenues to nurture academic
achievement and student readiness for all
South Carolina children.”
Hodges said the number of new jobs
created in South Carolina has reached
an all-time high of 35,123 over the past
two years. But Sanford said, “Rather
than just doling out large tax breaks, I
would strive to create a steady diet of
competitive business in South
Carolina.”
Sanford said on his Web site that help
ing business “would help everyone,”
from out-of-state businesses looking to
♦ ELECTIONS, SEE PAGE 5
Gubernatorial candidates take a stand
on South Carolina’s issues
1
Education
Supports spending lottery funds on
scholarships for students attending
South Carolina schools. Thinks
vouchers will hurt public education.
Jobs
Hodges says he has already
begun improving the jobs and
economy in the state. Under his
administration, the state
experienced its top year for job
creation and capital investment
Taxes
Hodges says he already supports
tax breaks because he
implemented them for seniors
and working families. He has also
increased the Homestead Tax
exemption so that nearly half of
seniors are exempt from property
taxes.
Sanford
Education
Thinks lottery funds should go to
K-12. Wants to give parents the
right to choose which school their
child attends through the use of
vouchers.
Jobs
Wants to develop new jobs by
creating competitive business
advantages. Wants to reduce or
eliminate the “wealth gap” that
exists between South Carolinians
and the average American.
Taxes
Wants to eliminate income taxes
within 18 years. Wants to
broaden the sales tax to include
gasoline. This pool of money
would be drawn on as a line of
credit in the event of economic
downturn.”
Source: Candidates' Web sites
GRAPHIC BY SARAH MCLAULIN/THE GAMECOCK
Hodges
Chalk
slogans
violate
policy
BY COREY GARRIOTT
THU (iAMKCOCK
Though the political slogans
^ chalked onto the Pickens
Street bridge have washed
away in the rain, Student
Activities Director Carmela I
Carr said chalking the side
walks is illegal under univer
sity policy.
Carr pointed to university
policy section 3.11, on postings
and publicity, which says:
“Publicity material(s) shall be
posted only on bulletin boards
or other approved areas desig
nated in this policy. Under no
circumstances shall any pub
licity material be placed, writ
ten or painted upon any surface
(interior or exterior) including,
♦ PROTESTS, SEE PAGE 5
Fall break ends too soon
PHOTO BY CANDI HAUGLUM/THE GAMECOCK
As students made their way back to school from fall break, there was heavy traffic on major
highways around Columbia. Students are preparing to hunker down after a long weekend and
get back to work for the rest of the semester.
Mass e-mailing virus Bugbear
emerges in university’s system
use computer
Services works to
fix the problem
BY HOLLY BOUNDS
mi; (jamkgocK
A new e-mail virus has be
come present on USC’s campus
and Computer Services is doing
t.yall it can to alleviate the problem.
W32.Bugbear, commonly
known as Bugbear, is a mass e
mailing worm. It became known
on Sept. 30, and just days later
USC Computer Services was no
tified, according to Sean
Crymble, interim head of anti
virus support.
Symantec Security Response
has upgraded this threat from
a Category 3 to a Category 4 as
of Oct. 2. Crymble says there
are only a few known infections
of the virus on campus, and
they are working on clearing
those.
The Bugbear virus infects
computers running on the
Windows operating system and
an unpatched version of Internet
Explorer 5.5, according to an ad
visory posted by the security
company Symantec.
An error in MIME (the multi
purpose Internet mail exten
sions) lets a malicious program
attached to an e-mail message
infect a computer, when the text
of the message appears in
Outlook.
According to Norton Anti
virus, once running, Bugbear
searches a PC for e-mail address
es and uses its own e-mail engine
to send off infected messages to
each address listed.
_I SURFYOURSELF
Read about the Bugbear virus at
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcent
er/venc/data/w32.bugbear@mm.html.
Also, it uses random e-mail
_ addresses in the “from” field of
the header to camouflage where
the infected message is coming
from.
Lastly, Bugbear sends off an
encrypted file with information
about the computer it infected to
a predefined e-mail address and
opens a backdoor for network at
tackers to use to sneak into the
system.
Kerry Welsh, a second-year
nursing student, recently re
ceived an e-mail from someone
she didn’t know. She said the ti
tle was unusual and she had
heard rumor of the “Bugbear”
virus, so she decided not to open
it.
Welsh found out later that
many of her friends received the
same e-mail, which was linked
with the Bugbear virus.
A similar situation came from
Julia DesChamps, a second-year
marketing student at Clemson
University.
“I received an e-mail from
someone I didn’t know, and so did
my friend that attends USC,” said
DesChamps. “It had an odd sub
♦ VIRUS, SEE PAGE 3
Inmate
calls USC
students
BY ALLYSON BIRD
Tin; (IAMKCOCK
Megan Moxie woke up to the
sound of her phone ringing on a
Sunday morning last month, but
the voice on the other end wasn’t
who she was expecting.
"The phone kept ringing, and I’d
answer it. It would be a collect call
from someone named John. The op
erator would ask if I would like to
accept the charges and then say
that he was an inmate at Richland
County Detention Center and that
my call could be recorded for use in
court — then I’d hang up,” said
Moxie, a first-year business stu
dent.
But “John” kept calling until
Moxie, disturbed, finally took her
phone off the hook after he had
called about 10 times.
“He would use the same name
twice and then change it,” Moxie
said. “Next he was Peter, and I
think he said his name was Paul
after that.”
When he began running out of
biblical names, though, the inmate
got angry.
“After a few times, he’d say, ‘Pick
up the damn phone,’ ” Moxie said.
It was then that she went to her
dorm’s front desk worker, who in
structed her to call the police. The
USC Police Department then gave
Moxie a number to call to block in
mates from calling, “but of course
that number only works 9 to 5
weekdays,” she said. She never ac
cepted the inmate’s calls.
Clarissa Knotts, a third-year
nursing student, did.
At 8 p.m. Sept. 16, “John” called
Knotts. Thinking that a friend
named John had run into trouble,
Clarissa accepted the charges.
“He said, ‘No one gave me your
number, but I just wanted someone
to talk to.’ He kept saying it over and
over again — that he’d been there
19 months,” Knotts said. When the
inmate asked her what color her
shorts were, she hung up.
Capt. Redmond, an officer at
RCDC, said that, upon request, the
facility will block inmates from
calling any phone number. “But
that includes your friends if they
get in trouble in Five Points,” he
said.
Redmond stressed that the
method by which inmates contact
♦ PRISON, SEE PAGE 5
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