Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICE REPORT \ iCALHOUNST. \Vv ITj I i j |BlCHljAN|pat. Mil . ~rS \ laurelstJ.]_.!.II._i_ \ \ 2 BLANOING ST. •k3s.ii, iim ■ HII Hi * HH 'i * | SENATE ST. 5 EH I ^8 .L_ ,pendlet|nst, ““H f &.J II These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department Compiled by Wendy Jfeffcoat. Each number on the map stands fora crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in -j 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 Friday, Feb. 21 ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT.The victim said someone broke into her vehicle and stole a CD player and CDs. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT.The victim said someone broke out the window in her vehicle and attempted to remove some CDs and a CD player. Estimated value: $500 (evidence taken). Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT.The victim said someone broke out the window in her vehicle and took a CD player, a CD arranger and CDs. Estimated value: $950. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT.The Victim said someone broke out the window of his vehicle and removed a CD player. There was also damage to the console and the car. Estimated value: $170. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. February 24 ICfWiiiei February 25 Movie Night ' Soulfood RH Theater Carolina Production © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT. The victim said someone broke out her vehicle window and took a CD player and CDs. Estimated value: $1,300. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF GOLF CLUBS, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT. The victim said someone broke out his vehicle window and took golf clubs and a CD player. Estimated value: $1,225. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. d AUTO BREAK-IN, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT.The victim said someone broke out her vehicle window, but nothing was missing. Reporting officer G. Kerwin. © AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT. The victim said someone broke out her vehicle window and took a CD player. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ©AUTO BREAK-IN, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT. The victim said someone broke out his vehicle window and attempted to take his CD player. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. (ft) AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1425 WHALEY ST., BATES PARKING LOT. The victim said someone took from her vehicle a pair of running shoes, CD player, CD case and CDs. No signs of forced entry. Estimated value: $753. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. @ AUTO BREAK-IN, GRAND LARCENY OF RADIO EQUIPMENT, CAROLINA PLAZA PARKING LOT, 937 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said someone broke out the vehicle window and removed a CD player, an amplifier and three subwoofers. Estimated value: $2,500. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. @ AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CDS, CAROLINA PLAZA PARKING LOT, 937 ASSEMBLY ST.The victim said someone broke out the vehicle window and took a CD case and CDs. Estimated value: $395. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, CAROLINA PLAZA PARKING LOT, 937 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said someone broke out the window of his vehicle and went through his belongings, but nothing appeared to be missing. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador. Saturday, Feb. 22 ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CD PLAYER, 1600 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone broke into her vehicle and took her CD player. Estimated value: $180. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. ® LARCENY OF CELL PHONE, 1400 GREENE ST., RUSSELL HOUSE. The victim said that while she was in the Russell House, someone took her cell phone and wallet. Estimated value: $263. Reporting officer: E.A. Adkins. i$ LARCENY OF POCKET PC, SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 815 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said he left his pocket PC unattended and when he returned it was gone. Estimated value: $500. Reporting officer: J. Coaxum. @ LARCENY OF WALLET, 820 HENDERSON ST., NADA APARTMENTS. The victim said someone removed her wallet from her purse in her bedroom. Estimated value: $24. Reporting officer: N. DeHaai. Sunday, Feb. 23 © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1309 BLOSSOM ST., MCBRYDE “A.” Reporting officer E.A. Adkins discovered that a window in the stairwell of McBryde was broken. A smaller window was also broken in the door of the third floor of McBryde. Maintenance was notified. Estimated damage: $300. ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 600 BULL ST., BULL STREET GARAGE. Reporting officer R. B. Baker said someone damaged the elevator panel with crushing blows, rendering it inoperable. Estimated damage: $1,500. ® MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 600 BULL ST., BULL STREET GARAGE. The victim said someone vandalized his vehicle by discharging a fire extinguisher. The fire extinguisher was found on scene. Estimated damage: $25. Reporting officer: G. Kerwin. @ MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 600 BULL ST., BULL STREET GARAGE The victim said someone discharged a fire extinguisher on her vehicle. Estimated damage: $25. Monday, Feb. 24 # GRAND LARCENY OF VEHICLE, 614 PICKENS ST., PATIO CAFE LOADING DOCK AREA. The victim said she parked her vehicle at the loading dock area with the keys still in the ignition. She said she was away from her vehicle for about five minutes, and when she came back she spotted her vehicle at the intersection of Pickens and Blossom streets. A friend of the victim drove up and they tried to follow the vehicle, but got stopped by the same light. Estimated value: $19,000. Reporting officer: J.A. Clarke. Sanford draws more criticism for closed Cabinet meetings BY JIM DAVENPORT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COLUMBIA - Gov. Mark Sanford’s decision to close Cabinet meetings to the public has drawn criticism from the Society of Professional Journalists. Sanford kept reporters and cameras out of his first Cabinet meeting two weeks ago, saying af terward the media “adds little val ue to the actual sausage-making process. For me, disclosure is all about after... debate, after ideas have been kicked around, you come up with a final product. Then let’s talk about it.” But that stance is drawing crit icism. “You might think the public doesn’t need — or want — to see how decisions are made,” Holly Fisher, the state Society of Professional Journalists’ open meetings chairwoman, told Sanford in a letter. “Yet how can the citizens of your state be in formed? How can'they make deci sions about voting? How can they be confident in your abilities as governor if you exclude them from the discussion?” Governors have the power to set standards that school boards and public bodies follow, Fisher wrote. “That is a great responsi bility, so don’t let this incident overshadow your past and future accomplishments,” she wrote. Sanford’s office did not imme diately respond to Fisher’s letter. On Monday, Sanford defended his stance before a national audi ence during a C-SPAN interview from the National Governors Association meeting in Washington. Sanford said he had spoken with a number of gover nors and had “yet to find a person who has an open cabinet meeting.” “If you really want to have a fruitful working meeting, whether in business, or whether in your home or whether in poli tics, it’s probably not in that in stance best to have five cameras sitting at the other end of the table.” But governors in nine states — Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Wyoming - have open cabinet meetings, according to the Council of State Governments in Lexington, Ky. Cabinet meetings in Alaska are open unless an executive session is called, according to the coun cil’s Book of the States. Sanford said Monday the Alaska Supreme Court ruled in favor of the governor in Alaska, saying it was important to close the meetings to have a candid and open conversation among cabinet members. John Manly, a spokesman for Alaska Gov. Frank Murkowski, said he could recall no court rul ing to that effect. However, Alaska’s cabinet meetings are tra ditionally cl sed, he said. Smokestack CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Aviation Administration-ap proved lights. He said the stack’s base will be included as a historic feature of the walkway. “The smoke stack will be part of pedestrian plaza,” Jefifcoat said. Facilities Planning and Construction expects work to be gin on the walkway within the next few months, although Jeffcoat said it might wait until summer to de molish the buildings. No one has expressed any concern about the demolition of the old buildings. The walkway should be com pleted within the next 12 months. Jeffcoat said the pedestrian walkway project has been ap proved for funding for about five years, and that it will cost the uni versity $500,000 to $750,000. According to Daniel Walker Hollis’ book “The University of South Carolina,” the Board of Trustees placed USC in the hands of Dean Andrew Charles Moore af ter President Samuel Chiles Mitchell resigned in 1913. Moore then secured $24,767 for the construction of several cam pus buildings, including a cen tralized heating system to be lo cated behind Rutledge College along with a new dormitory. The dormitory, named after President James Woodrow, was opened in 1914, and students were charged an additional $10 to live in the cen trally heated building. Jeffcoat said he researched the heating plant’s history for cam pus-construction-planning pur poses and found that the original energy plant structure was brick with a pitched roof and had two metal smokestacks. Jeffcoat said the building was modified several times over the years. “It used to be the university’s only central plant,” Jeffcoat said. “It served all of those buildings in that area.” Jeffcoat uncovered a recom mendation by Walter E. Rowe, School of Engineering dean in 1936, which said that the metal stacks were in danger of falling over and should be replaced with a single brick stack that could ac commodate the facility’s needs. In a letter to Jeffcoat, Marta Matthews of the South Carolina Archives and History Center wrote that the construction of the stack was completed by 1940. Jeffcoat also found that the coal fired energy plant was still in use as late as 1954. According to Jeffcoat, the cor respondence between Facilities Planning and Construction and the South Carolina Archives and History Center comes after plans to construct a pedestrian walkway from the Horseshoe to the Russell House, which would require the demolishing of certain historical buildings. OUUU1 V^cuuilllcl AIIU1VW tAiivx History officials approved plans to destroy the old heating plant and science annex for the walk way; they said, however, that they would not “concur with the re moval of the brick stack. ” “The brick stack has an archi tectural character and signifi cance that belies its simple func tion,” Matthews said. “While it is not particularly old, most students and many visitors recognize the stack as part of the experience of the university.” Jeffcoat said former USC President James Holderman had “THE USC” painted on the smokestack before President Ronald Reagan visited the campus in the 1980s. Research has shown that USC was the first to use the initials “USC,” and the University of Southern California followed. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Complimentary Gift Wrap £ I MrtwVtKlt* "~5~* OJ ) CU ’_»_