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computer equipment and to up
grade its Web site. “Most mu
seum money comes for a spe
cific exhibit,” Robertson said.
“But this one can be used for
infrastructure.”
McKissick plans to use
some of the money to dis
tribute newsletters and print
posters. “We haven’t had any
advertising money for a num
ber of years,” Robertson said.
The museum’s Web site pro
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mation for
people re
searching
the South.
“Our spe
cialization
is working
life in the
Southeast
ern United
States: art
history,
folk life, the
environ
ment. A lot
of people
nntsirip thp
Southeast access our Web site,”
she said.’
Its specialty in Southern stud
ies might have been what
cinched the grant for McKissick.
The museum’s strongest suit
is the public history of the
Southeast — a field that pro
vides students with academic
history, as well as technical
skills useful for a museum job.
“It’s methodology, archival
management, museum man
agement, preservation,”
Robertson said.
“If you want to understand
South Carolina, say, in the
1840s, you need to know more
than just what people did. You
need to know what their land
scape looked like, what kind of
objects they created, and how
those objects tell us about what
they did and their values in
their culture,” she said.
McKissick was almost shut
down last year as the universi
ty went through a long-range
planning process.
“The museum, like a lot of
other departments, was being
looked at in terms of proving
our worth,” Robertson said.
“For some people, a nonteach
ing department may have
looked less essential.”
But “we provide services for
faculty, staff, students and the
general public,” she said.
Eighty thousand people attend
McKissick each year. The mu
seum also has severed traveling
exhibits, including one in
Cleveland and two between
In the future, the museum
plans to lengthen the duration
of its exhibits. “It’ll make them
more useful for university in
structional programs,”
Robertson said.
She said main exhibits that
usually run nine weeks will
now run a semester and a half.
This will result in fewer ex
hibits so that the staff can use
its time better, she said.
This spring, the museum will
air an exhibit on folk life, using
artists who have won South
Carolina folk heritage awards
during the past few years. The ex
hibit will feature bluegrass, blues
and gospel music; basket making,
and cooking traditions, she said.
With its new grant money,
McKissick will reinstall its nat
ural-science gallery, which fea
tures geological rocks, and put
more of its permanent collec
tions on display, “rather than
borrow topically designed ex
hibits.”
And in 2005, a planned ex
hibit will examine what pet
keeping says about humans.
“Why do people get more upset
about cruelty to animals than
they do sometimes about cru
elty to people?” Robertson said.
The exhibit, she said, shows
that how we treat our pets con
veys a much deeper message
about how we view ourselves
and how we construct our com
munities. __
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“The
museum,
like a lot of
other
departments,
was being
looked at in
terms of
proving our
worth ”
LYNN ROBERTSON
DIRECTOR OF MCKISSICK
MUSEUM
POLICE REPORT
Each number on
the map stands
fora crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6a.m.-6p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department
Compiled by Emma Ritch.
Wednesday, Oct. 30
(» . GRAND LARCENY OF STEEL
BEAMS, GRAND LARCENY OF
TRAILER, 900 BLOSSOM ST.
On Nov. 5, Michael Chris
Hathaway said someone took
his trailer, which contained 25
steel beams. Estimated value
$4,500. Reporting officer: T.
Means.
Wednesday, Nov. 6
O auto break-in, grand
LARCENY OF CDS, UPPER
ROOST SS LOT, 1322
HEYWARD ST. Dennis
Demetrius Williams said
someone broke his front right
window and took a CD player,
an amplifier and 80 CDs.
Estimated value: $2,160.
Joshua Wayne Eargle said
someone broke the right
window of his vehicle and took
a CD player, 40 CDs and a
Nokia cell phone. Estimated
value: $370. Reporting officer:
T. Means.
© AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY
OF TRIM RING, S-4 PARKING
LOT, 819 BARNWELL ST.
Marcus R. Gilliard said
someone broke the left
driver’s-side window and
took the trim ring of the CD
player. Estimated value: $50.
Reporting officer: D.W. Friels.
Thursday, Nov. 7
© VANDALISM/GRAFFITI,
MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL
PROPERTY, PRINTING
SERVICES, 718 DEVINE ST.
Someone spray-painted
graffiti on the USC Facility
Services building. Estimated
damage: $100. Reporting
officer: B. Timbers.
Friday, Nov. 8
© DRIVING WITH AN
UNLAWFUL ALCOHOL
~ CONCENTRATION,
DISREGARDING TRAFFIC
SIGNAL, GEORGE ROGERS
BOULEVARD AND BLUFF ROAD
(OFF MAP). Reporting officer
J.D. Patterson saw Stacey
Dewan Anderson’s vehicle
traveling at a high speed.
Anderson swerved a couple of
times, ran a red light and
drove a quarter of a mile
before stopping for police.
Patterson said Anderson
smelled of alcohol and did not
have his driver’s license. His
speech was slurred, and his
eyes were bloodshot. Anderson
had a blood-alcohol level of 0.23
and was arrested and taken to
the Columbia Police
, Department, then to the Alvin
S. Glenn Detention Center.
STATE
Citadel gets $1
million for stadium
CHARLESTON (AP) - The
Citadel has been given $1 million
for the renovation of its football
stadium by the former mayor of
Boynton Beach, Fla., a former
Bulldog baseball player.
Gene Moore IH, who made mil
lions in real estate and banking
in south Florida, graduated from
The Citadel in 1950 and was may
or of Boynton Beach from 1989-91.
The school plans a $10 million
renovation of Johnson Hagood
Stadium that will include a new
tower for luxury suites, club lev
el seats and a new press box.
DHEC disputes
safety of murals
MYRTLE BEACH (AP) - A
nursing home has to paint over
four murals on security doors af
ter DHEC said residents might
get confused in an emergency.
Artist Karen Pellegrino paint
ed the doors at Myrtle Beach
Manor to look like bookshelves
and a cabinet. “I guess they’re try
ing to protect people, but it just
goes way too far,” Pellegrino said.
The murals could pose a dan
ger if residents can’t find the
door during an emergency,
DHEC spokeswoman Jan
Easterling said. Before the mu
rals went up, the doors tempted
residents in the Alzheimer’s
wing to walk outside.
NATION
Severe storms kill
3, injure 13 in Tenn.
CLARKSVILLE, TENN. (AP) -
Severe storms swept across
Tennessee early Sunday, killing
at least three people, injuring 13
and knocking out power to thou
sands of homes and businesses.
The National Weather Service
had not determined whether the
damage in at least six counties
was caused by tornadoes.
Hardest hit were Montgomery
and Sumner counties in Middle
Tennessee, where wind was es
timated at 100 mph to 120 mph.
Family of 4 found
dead in N. Carolina
LEXINGTON, N.C. (AP)-A re
cently separated couple and two
children were found dead in
their home Saturday, and police
suspected a murder-suicide.
The victims may have been
dead for almost a week before
their bodies were discovered.
They were last seen Nov. 3.
The victims were identified
as Donald Mark Tetter, 40;
Elizabeth Tetter, 42; their daugh
ter, Kristen Nicole Tetter, 8; and
Manuel Alejandro Ojeda
Gonzalez, 12, Elizabeth Tetter’s
son from an earlier marriage.
Donald and Kristen Tetter
died of gunshot wounds, he said.
There were no visible wounds
on the other two victims, he
said. Autopsies were ordered.
WORLD
Jewish community
warns against hate
BERLIN (AP) - Warning
against resurgent anti
Semitism, Berlin’s Jewish com
munity marked the 64th an
niversary Saturday of the de
struction of synagogues and
Jewish businesses across
Germany in the 1938
Kristallnacht pogrom, seen as
a precursor to the Holocaust.
Several hundred people gath
ered at the city’s main Jewish
community center, which
stands on the site of a syna
gogue destroyed Nov. 9,1938.
“After that night, no one in
Germany could say they knew
nothing,” said Ralph Giordano,
a German Jewish essayist who
was 15 at the time and later
barely escaped being sent to
the Auschwitz death camp.
A surge in hate crimes in
2000 prompted the German
government to launch a crack
down on right-wing extrem
ism, including an application
to outlaw the far-right National
Democratic Party, which offi
cials blamed for encouraging
that increase.
I
BRIEFLY
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_ jimmy uunei to
perform Feb. 5
Jimmy Buffett and the Coral
Reefer Band have announced
they will perform at
Columbia’s Carolina Center
Feb. 5 at 8 p.m. Tickets for the
show will go on sale Saturday,
Nov. 16, at 10 a.m.
Another act that recently
announced plans to visit the
Carolina Center is the Chevy
Champions on Ice 25th
Anniversary Tour, which will
come to Columbia Jan. 5 at 3 ,
p.m.
The exhibition will feature
figure skaters Dorothy Hamill,
Victor Petrenko, Nancy
Kerrigan and Elvis Stojko.
Tickets go on sale Monday and
start at $26.
Tickets for both shows will
be available at the Carolina
Center Box Office, all
Ticketmaster outlets or by
phone at 783-2222.
Tickets for the Buffett show
are available at http://cc.com,
and Champions on Ice tickets
are available at www.ticket
master.com.
i nearer auamons
open for students
USC Theatre South
Carolina will hold open audi
tions for its spring productions
Saturday, Nov. 23, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 24,
from 6 to 9 p.m.
The auditions are open to
USC students and community
actors. Auditions will be held
in the acting and rehearsal stu
. dios in the basement of the
Booker T. Washington audito
rium.
Anyone wishing to audition
must sign up starting Monday
on the fourth floor of
Longstreet Theatre. Actors
should prepare two contrast
ing monologues for a two
minute audition.
Callbacks will be held
Monday, Nov. 25, at 6 p.m.
Planned spring productions
are “Rhinoceros” by Eugene
Ionesco, “Stop Kiss” by Diana
Son and “The Crucible” by
Arthur Miller.
For more information, call
Tim Donahue at 777-9353.
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25*h Anniversary
The Carolina Center
Sunday • January 5, 2003 • 3:00 PM
. Tickets On Sale Now!
Charge by Phone: 803-783-2222
lickels Starlingal S26.00 • Service fee applies , , _
Box Office • ticketmaster.com • championsonice.com M A
Youth and Senior Discounts Available y^
m Croups of 20 or more 803-777-9738 L/
tjJwGnaster ch3mpionsonicr.com —
Cast of skaters subject to change due to injury or unforeseen circumstances.
Preston (Residential) College invites all interested individuals to
join the College's Faculty, Staff and Residents for a Recruitment
Dance in the Russell House Ballroom on Monday, November 11
at eight o' clock in the evening.
come see what the buzz is about!
* ' refreshments provided
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