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STATE Guard to monitor Cuban detainees COLUMBIA (AP) — More than 100 members of a South Carolina National Guard unit will soon be sent to Cuba to guard Taliban and al Qaida prisoners. The soldiers of the 132nd Military Police Company, based in Columbia, left Thursday morning for a few weeks of special training at Fort Dix, N. J. The unit will then report to Camp X-Ray prison, a facility at the U.S. Naval Base in . Guantanamo Bay. They will be one of several military police units on duty at the prison, which houses about 600 prisoners. Despite the grim duty, the South Carolina soldiers are ready to go, said Capt. Brian Pitts, the unit’s commander. Charleston bridge project proposed CHARLESTON (AP) - Now that the design is set and work finally under way on a new $632 million Cooper River bridge be tween Charleston and Mount Pleasant, there are plans for de veloping a long-vacant parcel on the Mount Pleasant side. An almost 18-acre tract near the base of the existing bridges has stood empty for 15 years be cause it wasn’t clear exactly where the new bridge would be built. Now developer Richard Coen is proposing a mixed-use devel opment to be called Eastport Village. NATION Sniper case linked to Alabama slaying MONTGOMERY, ALA. (AP) - An Alabama police officer might have come within a few feet of thwarting the deadly string of sniper shootings in the Washington, D.C., area days be fore they began. Authorities said a teenager arrested at a Maryland rest stop Thursday in the sniper siege could have been the gunman who was nearly caught in Montgomery Sept. 21 when a liquor store clerk was killed. Police recounted how the Montgomery officer was only a couple of feet away from the gun man but couldn’t capture him. The officer chased the man af ter one woman was killed and an other critically wounded outside the store. Police Chief John Wilson said the man who fled had some sim ilarities to John Lee Malvo, a 17 year-old arrested along with his Army veteran stepfather, John Allen Muhammad. Pentagon to restart U.S.-China talks WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon is ready to resume high-level U.S.-China military talks, frozen for more than a year and a half after the crash landing of an American spy plane in China, senior defense officials said Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, two officials said the idea is likely to be discussed at the Texas summit between President Bush and Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Friday. WORLD Russia wants U.S. to weigh Iraq vote UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia on Thursday warned that putting the new U.S. resolution on Iraq to a quick vote would be “counterproductive” and France said it was “very important” to hear whether United Nations weapons inspectors think they can operate under its provisions. In a move to spur U.N. action, the United States introduced a seven-page draft resolution to the full 15-member Security Council on Wednesday after six weeks of difficult negotiations by the five veto-wielding perma nent members. The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain re main divided over language in the U.S. draft, which Moscow, Paris and Beijing think could trigger military action against Iraq, and over tough new rules for inspections. Leaders tackle border trade issues CABO SAN LUCAS, MEXICO (AP) — Leaders of nations and corporations met Thursday to discuss how to open borders to trade and close them to terror ists. But violence kept Russia’s president away as his Pacific Rim counterparts streamed in for a weekend summit. The gatherings of ministers from four continents and execu tives from 400 companies — as well as the violence that has hit nations of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum— left no doubt that finance and diplomacy have merged. Scholars CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 eral other American scholars, in cluding Anne Firor Scott of Duke University and Charles Joyner of Coastal Carolina University. In all, 33 presenters from 28 uni versities and 12 countries will participate in the forum. “This conference shows that the South and its past continue to attract the attention of an in ternational audience,” Donaldson said. “For me, the South has both a haunting and fascinating past. Here in South Carolina, my foreparents arrived as slaves near Charleston.” He went on to say that “how the region, the land and its peo ple underwent these crucial changes remains an area of in terest for scholars.” This year marks the second time the Southern Studies Forum has been held in the United States The first was in 1993, when it was also held at USC. The Robert E. McNair Endowment in Southern Studies makes USC’s sponsorship of the Southern Studies Forum possi ble. “USC has a wonderful reposi tory of archival materials on Southern and African-American history, which has attracted scholars and researchers from around the world,” Donaldson said. “The fact that such a stellar, group of literary and history scholars will be coming to our campus indicates that we are a leading center for the study of Southern life and culture,” he -said. The Southern Studies Forum was founded as part of the European Association for American Studies in West Berlin in April 1988. Since the program was first held by the University of Genoa in Italy, it has been held at such' location^ as the University of Bonn in Germany, Cambridge University in Englahd and Odense University in Denmark. The Forum was initially scheduled for the fall of 2001 at USC, but the events of Sept. 11 pushed it back to October of this year. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@kotmail.com Bikes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 SAGE president and second year international studies stu dent, Cedric Baele, said he thinks that bicycling is a short-term so lution to the limited parking availability on campus and also a long-term offshoot for the factors that affect the environment. In his work with SAGE, Baele deals with campus environmental is sues. Through Critical Mass, he said, SAGE hopes to raise “awareness that there are people who are ride bikes on campus, and we have a right to be on the road also.” Baele said the turnout for the bicycle rally was a success. “It was a good start with the 25 or so people that we had come out, es pecially being that San Francisco only had 48 people participate in their first Critical Mass,” he said. Cedric said his main goal was to gain enough support to have a Critical Mass every month. Scott Weidner, a second-year graduate studentdn the School of the Environment and a SAGE member, said he attended an Environmental Advisory Committee meeting recently in which President Sorensen spoke * on issues such as bicycle safety. Weidner said Sorensen seemed supportive of increasing bicycle amenities around campus if he is given modest proposals that show a significant amount of stu dent support. “Personally, I enjoy riding my bike; I don’t have to worry about finding a parking spot or feeding a meter — it’s a feeling of free dom,” Weidner said. Though Weidner was not able to ride in Critical Mass, he was able to come out and show his support, and overall he said he was hap py with the turnout. Also riding in the event were two USC police officers, Lt. Allen Broadus and patrolman Eric Adkins. Both agreed parking problems could be alleviated if more students rode bikes instead of cars. Adkins said, “Bicycling is a convenient way to get around, and it’s a great way to stay in shape.” And though Adkins said he has not seen any bicycle acci dents since coming here, Broadus was quick to add that “bicyclists need to be aware of pedestrians and other cyclists when riding.” This event offered cyclists a chance to show their support for SAGE’s attempt to make USC a more bicycle-friendly campus while also having fun. 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