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POLICE REPORT These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. Compiled by Wendy Jeffcoat Each number on the map stands fora crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. DAY CRIMES (6a.m.-6 p.m.) □ Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES (6p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent # Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS 0 Violent || Nonviolent Wednesday, Jan. 15 ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, BATES LOT S-6, 1405 WHALEY ST. Justin Williams said someone broke out the passenger’s-side window of his vehicle and took a CD player. Estimated value: $250. Reporting officer: S.D. Jones. ® LARCENY OF VIDEO CAMERA, ROOST, 103 S. MARION ST.Christopher Hernandez said someone took two pairs of sunglasses, a video camera, PlayStation memory cards, PlayStation games, CDs, DVDs and a CD case from his room during winter break. Estimated value: $1,940. Reporting officer: S.D. Jones. Q AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CAR STEREO, 1328 WHEAT ST. Tracy Herzog said someone broke into her vehicle and took a car stereo. Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. O AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CAR STEREO, 1328 WHEAT ST. Jacquelyn Simmons said someone broke into her vehicle and removed a car stereo, CDs, a pair of shoes, a pair of pants and a shirt. Estimated value: $290.00. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. O AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD FACE, 1328 WHEAT ST. Shelina Siu said someone broke into her vehicle and removed a CD face plate, two stereo box and speakers, an amplifier, a car manufacturer’s stereo and CDs. Estimated value: $4530.00. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. V Tuesday, Jan. 14 O AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD FACE, 1211 WHEAT ST. Erin Beasley said someone broke out the rear passenger’s side fly window of her vehicle and took the faceplate for a CD player from her glove compartment. Estimated value: $75. Reporting officer: S.D. Jones. Q LARCENY OF LAMP HEAD, HUMANITIES OFFICE BUILDING, 1620 COLLEGE ST. Edward Senn said someone took a lamp head from its post. Estimated value: $100. Reporting officer: T. Means. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF RADIO FACE, 1423 WHALEY ST. Alyssa Collaro said someone broke out the right vent window of her vehicle and took a radio faceplate. Estimated value: $75. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1423 WHALEY ST. James Proctor said someone broke out the front driver’s-side window of his vehicle and took a CD player and radar detector. Estimated value: $400. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, 1423 WHALEY ST. Andrew Wilder said someone broke out the front passenger’s-side window of his vehicle and searched through it. He said nothing appeared to be missing. Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons. Bush opts to oppose Michigan affirmative-action policy BY RON FOURNIER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Bush plans to challenge a University of Michigan program that gives preference to minority students, telling the Supreme Court there are better ways to promote diversity, administra tion officials say. Justice Department and White House attorneys, acting on Bush’s orders, worked Tuesday night on a brief arguing against programs that gave black and Hispanic stu dents an edge when applying to the university and its law school. Without confirming Bush’s plans, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the president was to meet again Wednesday with his advisers to review the brief. “He wants to find a way to rec ognize the importance of diversi ty, and do so in a way that serves one and all,” Fleischer told re porters. “The challenge is to fo cus on diversity in ways that do not use quotas.” The lawsuit brought by three white students is the biggest affir mative action case in a genera tion, a political lightning rod as Bush struggles to increase his par ty’s appeal to minorities. Fleischer outlined Bush’s philos ophy moments after announcing the president’s plans to commem orate Martin Luther King’s birth day and increase aid to Africa. The university’s undergradu ate program awards extra points to minority candidates, while the law school uses race as one of many factors that could enhance an applicant’s chances. The president had not given his final approval of the brief ear ly Wednesday, officials said, but he was familiar with its contents and was expected to give lawyers the go-ahead before Thursday’s deadline. Key details were still being de bated, including whether to use the case to make a sweeping state ment against racial quotas or rather stake out a more limited challenge to the Michigan pro gram’s constitutionality. Bush administration lawyers intend to praise the merits of di versity in higher education, but argue that the University of Michigan’s approach is wrong, of ficials said, speaking only on con dition of anonymity. The brief is expected to high light a university admissions pro gram founded in Texas while Bush was governor, as well as af firmative action opinions by the Clinton administration that seem to support the president’s views, they said. In Texas, Bush opposed racial preferences in public universities and proposed instead that stu dents graduating in the top 10 per cent of all high schools be eligible for admission. Supporters say the policy increased diversity with out making race a direct factor in admissions policies, because many high schools are made up largely of minority students. Critics said Bush’s plan was a blow to affirmative action pro grams that have helped minori ties overcome social obstacles. The officials said administra tion lawyers could argue that the university’s program relies too much on race and leaves open the question whether schools could usenther methods of assuring a diverse student body. Some administration lawyers have argued that any policy based on race or ethnic status is uncon stitutional and that the goal of a diverse student body is not enough to justify using race to guide admissions. The case, the biggest issue fac ing the Supreme Court this year, is a politically charged issue in the aftermath of Sen. Trent Lott’s remarks that seemed to show nos talgia for segregation. The Mississippi lawmaker was forced to step down last month as Senate Republican leader amid harsh criticism from Bush. The president must balance the desires of his conservative back ers, who tend to staunchly oppose affirmative action, against poten tial fallout from the broader elec torate if he is viewed as being racially insensitive. Officials said Justice Department lawyers, led by Solicitor General Ted Olson, have argued that race should never be a factor in admissions. Some of Bush’s top advisers, including po litical aide Karl Rove and top White House lawyer Alberto Gonzales, have sought to steer Bush toward a politically safer course, officials said. Bush’s intervention would not be a surprise. 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( r f# Sponsored by the Shack Christian Campus Ministry _www.theshackusc.com__ Sanford CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The governor touched on oth er points of higher education in his inaugural address, citing a 2001 survey by the Governor’s Work Force Education Task Force that found 61 percent of South Carolina businesses could not find the kind of skilled em ployees they need. “Research universities, teach ing universities and technical ed ucation schools all are critical to our future,” he said. “But we need more focused roles, better coordination, less duplication and better responsiveness to the work force needs of this state.” Hundreds of South Carolina residents heard Sanford’s inau gural address, along with South Carolina’s Congressional and Senate delegates. Also attending were several U.S. legislators Sanford worked with during his six years in Congress. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-Ga.), Rep. Zachary Womp (R-Tenn.) and GOP Reps. Tom Coburn and Steve Largent from Oklahoma. The ceremony included per formances from the Furman Singers, the S.C. State University Choir, the Furman University Symphonic Band and soloists Sarah Reese and Phillip Boykin. Sanford was sworn in by S.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jean Toal. Afterward, Sanford spoke on unity and renewing “our commitment to each other, our families and the communi ties we live in.” He asked South Carolinians to ■ “sign a contract where I commit to earning the trust of every South Carolinian, not just those of my party or those who might have voted for me.” The governor started the day at an invitation-only prayer ser vice at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on Sumter Street. After the inauguration, Sanford greeted the public at the Governor’s Mansion, where a line stretched out the door and down the driveway. Sanford spent the evening at the Inaugural Barbecue at the State Farmers Market. Fourteen vendors from around the state prepared food for 5,000 people. “Never in my life would I have imagined people standing in line for an hour just to come by for a visit or for people to crowd around the way they did, and I’m humbled by it,” Sanford said. Comments on this story?E-mail ^ gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Stiibif. beginning in 'February, With 3outh Carolina's only 'Tibetan 'bubbhist TWonks anb the 3.C. 'Oh arm a Qroup. ^Introductory and Advanced Classes ^ tor 'Frank I www.scdharmagroup.org S03~'733~4il’301 Connecting Students to metrobaptist.org/bcm For more information contact Jane Poster, Campus Minister at 799-3854 E-mail: bcmusc@bellsouth.net Iraq . CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Ueki told The Associated Press the shells were not accounted for in Iraq’s declaration. He also said a 12th warhead was found that needed further evaluation. But Lt. Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi liaison officer to the inspection teams, said they were short-range shells imported in 1988 and men * tioned in Iraq’s report. He ex pressed “astonishment” over what he called “no more than a storm in a teacup.” Amin said the inspectors found the munitions in a sealed box that had never been opened and was covered by dust and bird drop pings. “When these boxes were opened, they found 122 mm rock ets with empty warheads. No chemical or biological warheads. Just empty rockets which are ex pired and imported in 1988,” Amin told reporters, adding similar ord nance was found by U.N. inspec tors in 1997. David Albright, a tormer nu clear weapons inspector in Iraq, said the discovery would repre sent a violation “if Iraq knew that these warheads existed and they are for chemical weapons.” Another former inspector said that at one time, Jraq had thou sands of warheads filled with chemical agents. Terry Taylor, who heads the Washington office of the London based International Institute for Strategic Studies, said chemical warheads often contain special linings to prevent the chemical agents from corroding the metal. On Dec. 7, a chemical team se cured a dozen artillery shells filled with mustard gas that had first been inventoried by earlier in spectors in the 1990s. Those were the first weapons of mass destruc tion brought under inspectors’ control in the current search, which began in November. Chief inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei have said Iraq’s weapons declaration is in complete — failing in particular to support its claims to have de stroyed missiles, warheads and chemical agents such as VX nerve gas. Blix and ElBaradei have stepped up demands that Iraqi im prove its cooperation — including allowing private interviews with scientists — and are headed to Baghdad to meet officials Sunday and Monday and seek more infor mation. Draft CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Detachment Cmdr. Col. Jay Seward with the Air Force ROTC said he thinks that no matter the composition of the military, offi cers are always in demand. “However the military is manned, through volunteer force or draft levy, there is still a need for professional, well-trained of ficers trained under the Constitution as military lead ers,” he said. Davis takes issue with any pref erence given to volunteers. “The Pentagon says volunteers are pref erential to those conscripted, but conscripted veterans from the Vietnam War and the Korean War would take offense that they weren’t as adequate, that volun teer forces were better,” he said. Hollings served as a volunteer from 1942 through 1945 in North Africa and Europe in World War II. He was decorated with a bronze star. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotma il.com