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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 (6 a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6 p.m.-6 a.m.) ■ Violent # Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent O Nonviolent ! ft l These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Allyson Bird. Thursday, Nov. 21 O AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, S-6 LOT, 1423 WHALEY ST. Nicole Nakagana said someone broke the window of her car and took a CD player and radar detector. Reporting officer: S. Jones. O LARCENY OF ROCKING CHAIR, ALPHA TAU OMEGA HOUSE, GREEK VILLAGE, 820 MARK BYWAY (OFF MAP) Hope Domingues said someone took a green rocking chair belonging to the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity from the front porch. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: S. Jones. o MALICIOUS INJURY TO REAL PROPERTY, GAMBRELL HALL, 817 HENDERSON ST Roger Coate said someone caused a water valve to open, which led to extensive flood damage to four rooms. Estimated cost of repairs: $10,000. Reporting officer: J. Merrill. SCSL CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 sponsible for making sure USC’s chapter continues to exist and takes fair representation. Shaw, who has been involved with SCSL for two years, said he has seen the organization grow and become stronger. He said he wants to encourage students to get involved with the program. “I want people to know how successful we are,” he said. Shaw said SCSL members who have gone on to success include former South Carolina Gov. Robert McNair, who was SCSL governor in 1956. Shaw said he thinks it doesn’t take an extraordinary, outgoing or intelligent student to benefit the conference, but it does help to have students who thorough ly study their legislation and are passionate about it. Terrance Beeks, a fourth-year political science student, has participated in SCSL since his freshman year. Beeks has served as speaker of the house, chairman of the MisceRaneous Committee and chairman of the USC delegation. He said he en joyed being speaker the most out of all the offices he has held. “Whenever you go before 80 people and you’re the one pre siding over and calling out or ders, it’s a great feeling,” he said. Beeks said, “It was a handful presiding over 80 people, but you have to be fair.” Beeks said he agrees with Shaw that SCSL benefits from having true lead ers involved in the program. Along with Oppermann’s win, second-year political sci ence student Charles Duncan and fourth-year political science student Travis Nagy were ap pointed as supreme court jus tices. Also, second-year political science student Jeremy Reynolds received honorable mention for his legislation to create Strom Thurmond Day in South Carolina. Oppermann said he is opti mistic about his future as gov ernor of SCSL. “It’s a lot of work, and it is going to be a big re sponsibility, but I am looking forward to it, and I think it can be rewarding,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Riots CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ken by a group of people who pa raded the goal posts down a street. ♦ In Columbus, Ohio, state troopers used pepper spray on fans to keep them away from one of the goal posts after No. 2 Ohio State beat Michigan 14-9. Some fans climbed the goal post, but couldn’t knock it down. Eight people were arrested for disor derly conduct and open-con tainer violations, and at least a dozen small fires were reported near the campus after the game. Fans also tore up pieces of the field. Some threw clumps at offi cers, while others said they would try to sell them on the Internet. ♦ In Berkeley, Calif., hun dreds of Cal fans overwhelmed security guards and tore down the goal posts following the Golden Bears’ 30-7 win over Stanford in the 105th Big Game. Some of the fans were taken away in handcuffs. Fans of the losing team in Pullman, Wash., showed their displeasure by showering the field with objects, including bot tles and plastic souvenirs, after the visiting Huskies beat No. 3 Washington State 29-26 in triple overtime. “I feared for my life,” Washington athletic director Barbara Hedges said following the dramatic Apple Cup, which was decided by a referee’s call that went against the Cougars. None of the players on either side was hurt, but some journal ists had cuts and needed minor treatment. MCAT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 guides, to help with test-taking skills, he said. Some medical school students think it’s not right for all scores to be released to potential col leges. “I would almost think it was an invasion of privacy,” said Teddy Elgarico, a first-year medicine student from Charleston. “I would think a score is personal and if you didn’t want it released, I don’t think it should be released.” Lisa Bellil, a first-year medicine student from Charleston, agreed. “I’d still like to have the op tion of not having my scores re leased,” she said. Jeff Blackburn, a first-year medicine student from Raleigh, N.C., said he didn’t think it was that big of a deal. Medical schools are “going to see your scores at some point, anyway,” he said. While the new rule about score reporting might hinder some stu dents from taking the exam be cause they think they are not pre pared for it. Hoppmann said there are ways to practice and be ready for the MCAT. He said preparation for the test really begins the first year of un dergraduate study and suggests that students keep all their notes and review them. Also, there are numerous study aides, such as ones offered by Kaplan and Princeton, and classes to help stu dents prepare and get some prac tice before taking the MCAT. Chen said students should be optimistic about having the chance to take this exam and go to medical school. “Treat this as an opportunity and not an obstacle,” he said. “Be prepared and practice.” Commen ts on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com BRIEFLY USC student gets PR scholarship Melissa Miklus, a fourth year public relations student, has become the first USC stu dent to be awarded the presti gious Betsy Plank scholarship from the Public Relations Student Society of America. Melissa was one of four stu dents honored nationally with the scholarship in recognition of their academic achieve ments, leadership, practical ex perience and commitment to public relations. Only 48 stu dents have won the Betsy Plank scholarship since 1989. “This is a big honor,” said Beth Dickey, a USC professor I and advisor for USC’s PRSSA. “Betsy Plank is a legend in pub lic relations, and this scholar ship is one of the most recog nized in the public relations in dustry,” she said. Student group to discuss steroid use Students in Free Enterprise will present a paper on Ethic Month on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. on the second floor of the Roost. The presentation will be about steroid use and its effects on sports and athletes. STATE Motorcycle rally to move to Columbia MYRTLE BEACH (AP) - A group of state motorcycle own ers says it is taking its Harley ■ Davidson Myrtle Beach fall rally to Columbia next year. The South Carolina State Harley Owners Group might have been the bikers who paved the way for the event that at tracts 45,000 people each year to Myrtle Beach. But it has broken off from the larger group and will hold its rally Sept. 25-27 in Columbia. The H.O.G. rally, which at tracted as many as 1,700 bikers during its peak, moved to Greenville this past October. “Nothing personal toward Myrtle Beach,” said state coor dinator David Pugh of Spartanburg. “Myrtle Beach was always a good host city. But it got to a point where you didn’t hardly know who was a Harley Owners Group member or not.” The group wants to make its rally a true state event by trav eling to different cities each year. “By no way is it going to af fect the fall rally,” said Sandy Leone, events director at Myrtle Beach Harley-Davidson. “We are expecting a good time and a good crowd.” NATION Saudis examine alleged link to 9/11 WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawmakers pressed for answers Sunday on a possible Saudi mon ey trail in the Sept. 11 hijackings and said regardless of whether one exists, the kingdom must stop its “duplicitous” coddling of terrorists. Saudi officials spent the week end having bankers pore over the records of Princess Haifa al Faisal, wife of their ambassador to the United States, to see how thousands of dollars from her ac count might have ended up in the wrong hands, said Saudi foreign policy adviser Adel al-Jubeir. But he said it was “crazy” to suggest she had done anything in tentionally to support terrorism. Lawmakers said the FBI’s in vestigation should pull no punches, and the Bush adminis tration should be open about the findings, despite the risk of of fending an important ally with whom relations already have been strained. In a harsh turn bound to be uncomfortable for administra tion officials as they seek Saudi assistance in a possible war with Iraq, senators upbraided the Saudi government for what they see as years of complicity in anti-American radicalism. WORLD French man defends finding of burial box TORONTO (AP) - The French scholar who discovered the pur ported burial box of Jesus’ broth er strongly defended the artifact’s identification Sdnday against skeptical points raised at a con vention of religion scholars. Andre Lemaire asserted that “I have been very cautious. I say it is very probable.” The animated panel discus sion involved crucial technical points, such as grammar and the forms of handwriting in the in scription, which reads “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” The words appear on a first century bone box known as an “ossuary,” a form of Jewish burial that ended in A.D. 70. The New Testament identifies James as Jesus’ brother and the leader of Jerusalem’s early Christians. If experts decide the inscrip tion refers to Jesus of Nazareth rather than some other Jesus, and is not a forgery, the box would rank as a monumental ar chaeological discovery. Since Lemaire reported the box’s existence last month in Biblical Archaeology Review magazine, some have suggested * the Jesus phrase could have been added by a forger, more likely in ancient than in modern times. Classes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 more money,” Byrnes said. “You might not see a wide variety of courses in special topics.” She said one of the conse quences of this trend could be larg er class sizes than students are used to. But she said colleges are going to have to make “more effi cient use of their seats” when de termining how many sections of each class to offer. Administrators say colleges most likely will try to keep class sizes in introductory courses as small as possible. The trends of larger class sizes and fewer courses would be the administration’s best argu ment to persuade the Board of Trustees to accept USC President Andrew Sorensen’s enrollment management plan. Sorensen is expected to discuss his plan with the board at its Dec. 16 meeting. His plan calls for the freshman class to be reduced from the cur rent 3,500 students to 3,300 by 2007, while increasing the aca demic standards of admission. 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