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BRIEFLY Eagles fans can buy tickets on Yahoo Fans of the Eagles will have a chance to purchase tickets for the band’s farewell concert tour before the general public sale begins. Advance premium concert tickets for the Eagles “Farewell I” tour will go on sale begin ning today at 9 a.m. for fans who join the official Eagles Fan Club at http://eagl es.yahoo.com. The Eagles will be perform ing at the Carolina Center on May 11. The online collabora tion between the band and Yahoo! allows fans who join the club to purchase tickets before the general public tickets go on sale. The official on sale date and prices will be announced soon, and general public tickets will be available through Tickmaster Charge-By-Phone at (803) 783-2222 and at all Ticketmaster outlets, including Publix, www.ticketmaster.com, and the Carolina Center box of fice. Legislative panel to debate S.C. budget S6uth Carolina’s state bud get will be the topic of discus sion at USC on March 19. A 90-minute panel discus sion, titled “South Carolina’s State Budget: The Legislative Perspective,” will begin at 7 p.m. and will be held in the Belk Auditorium of the Moore School of Business. The event will feature for mer Gov. John C. West and five South Carolina legislators. It will be moderated by Blease Graham, a professor of politi cal science at USC. The panel discussion is part of USC’s John C. West Forum on Politics and Policy. The fo rum was organized by the de partment of government and international studies in USC’s College of Liberal Arts to ad vance the understanding of po litical processes, political lead ership, public policy, and civic governance. The discussion will be free to the public. Tylenol scholarship applications ready Applications for the 2003 Tylenol scholarships are now available for undergraduate and graduate students who are pursuing studies in a variety of health-related fields. The 2003 Tylenol scholar ships will be awarding 160 out standing students grants total ing $250,000. Applications and informa tion about the scholarships can be picked up at a number of lo cations, including Albertson’s, CVS, Eckerd, K-Mart, Kroger, Rite Aid, Target, Wal-Mart, and Walgreen’s stores, or interest ed applicants can go to Tylenol’s Web site at www.tylenol.com. Applications must be post marked no later than April 30, 2003. Recipients of the award will be notified by Scholarship America by July 15,2003. Since the program started in 1991, more than $6 million in scholarships have been award ed to students in a variety of health-related fields by McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals. USC student wins Vector scholarship A USC student has won a $500 scholarship from Vector Marketing Corporation for fin ishing tenth among national student sales representatives during the fall semester. Rebekah Rickman, recipient of the award, is a senior market ing student and a field sales man ager for the company. She joined Vector in May 2000 and has won several sales awards and honors. Each year, Vector provides a total of $160,000 in scholarship money as well as providing work opportunities for students. This year, the company has started a new program that will give each of Vector’s six region al headquarters $20,000 to award directly to colleges and univer sities in the names of their re gional All-Americans. This will be distributed three times each year, with five regional All Americans being selected in the spring and fall semesters and ten during the summer. STATE Education official threatens lawsuit COLUMBIA (AP) - The state is falling so far behind on spend ing requirements for schools that it could lead to a lawsuit, state Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum says. The dispute involves how much money is being spent per student under the 1977 Education Finance Act and how the $5.1 billion budget the House passed this week handles that commitment. The EFA was aimed at the disparity of wealth across the state and the relative inability of poor, rural districts to provide their children with the educa tion the state Constitution re quires. It set a formula for distribut ing state money to those schools. Tenenbaum says that the for mula is not being followed and legislators have not abided by a 1996 law that says school fund ing gets money before property tax breaks. ‘Pandemonium’ not wanted at beach MYRTLE BEACH (AP) -The economy here could benefit from thousands of college students on spring break, but some are con cerned about the risks involved. Some business owners say they can stand a few rowdy weeks, but they don’t want Myrtle Beach to become a party spot like Daytona Beach or Panama City Beach, Fla. "I don't think they ever need to go for that," said Chesty Chastain of Myrtle Beach Tours, which rents houses in North Myrtle Beach and benefits from spring break business. "Nobody who lives here wants pandemo nium." Although Myrtle Beach does n't target students, they still ar rive in droves. That leaves some wondering how many more stu dents would come if advertising dollars were spent to lure them. "They are foolish not to go af ter it," said Allen Dickenson, co owner of the Freaky Tiki night club, which is the official MTV Spring Break Sponsor for Myrtle Beach. NATION Terror-plot trial to Jtest U.S. prosecution DETROIT (AP) - Eighteen months after a raid on an apart ment uncovered what prosecu tors say was a conspiracy to sup port terrorist strikes in Jordan, Turkey and the United States, four men charged in the case are coming to trial this week. Tlje government claims the terror cell looked for security gaps at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, got fake identification to help others enter the country and recruited for a radical Islamic movement allied with al Qaida. The trial, set to begin Tuesday, will be one of the first for an alleged terror cell in this country since the Sept. 11,2001, attacks. It may test the government’s ability to prove accusations about terror plots in the making. “The government has not yet been compelled to show its hand in these cases,” said Juliette Kayyem, a terrorism expert and professor at Harvard University. “There have been a lot of press conferences and indictments, but those are not facts.” Country singer sorry after facing boycotts DALLAS (AP) - Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, is finding out that some times saying you’re sorry doesn’t make much of a differ ence. Radio stations nationwide are boycotting the Dixie Chicks, even though Maines publicly apologized for telling a London audience last Monday: “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.” Maines is a Lubbock native. In her apology Friday, Maines said: “As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my re mark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the ut most respect.” The words didn’t carry much weight with listeners in Maines’ home state and elsewhere. “We’ve had a huge listener reaction and movement against the statements,” said Paul Williams of KPLX-FM in Dallas Fort Worth, the nation’s fifth largest radio market. Justice Department reveals flawed cases WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department has identi fied about 3,000 criminal cases that could have been affected by flawed science and skewed tes timony at the FBI laboratory be fore 1997, and is letting prosecu tors who handled those cases de cide whether defendants should be notified. To date, government officials told The Associated Press they are aware of between 100 and 150 cases in which prosecutors de cided to alert defendants of prob lems they concluded were mate rial to their verdicts. None has resulted in overturned convic tions, they said. WORLD American student killed in Gaza Strip GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP ^AP) — An American college student in Gaza to protest Israel opera tions was killed Sunday when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home. At least one Palestinian also was killed. The killing of the student by the Israelis — the first of a for eign activist in 29 months of fighting — came as Israelis and Palestinians wrangled over the terms of a U.S.-backed plan to end the violence and establish a Palestinian state. Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Wash., had been with U.S. and British demonstrators in the Rafah refugee camp trying to stop demolitions. She died in the hospital, said Dr. Ali Moussa, a hospital administrator. “This is a regrettable acci dent,” said Capt. Jacob Dallal, an army spokesman. “We are deal ing with a group of protesters who were acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger.” There was no immediate re action from Washington. Central African rebeJs take capital BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (AP) - Rebels in the Central African Republic claimed to have captured the cap-, ital Sunday, and a spokesman called the insurgents’ leader the country’s new president. The rebels began their attack on Bangui on Saturday while President Ange-Felix Patasse was visiting Niger for a meeting of African heads of state. Rebel spokesman Capt Parfait Mbaye said on the captured state radio station that the rebels con trolled the entire city of 622,000 people by Sunday morning, though his claims could not be in dependently verified. The insurgents imposed a 10 day dusk-till-dawn curfew in Bangui, an announcer said in a subsequent state radio trans mission. Apart from that, the station played martial music. Witnesses said Sunday they had seen many government sol diers shedding their uniforms and that Patasse’s presidential guard had begun the looting at his home. After sporadic gunfire overnight, only silence could be heard Sunday morning. Afthanistan to free Pakistani prisoners KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (AP) —Afghanistan will hand over all remaining Pakistani prisoners who were captured in the U.S. led war that ousted the Taliban in late 2001, Pakistan’s ambas sador said Sunday. Ambassador Rustam Shah Mohmand said about 900 pris oners will be transferred to Pakistan, where they will be screened by authorities and like ly released. "This is a welcome decision although it has come late in the day,” Mohmand told reporters in a rare news conference. Donehue CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the office even if elected, he can celed his campaign. Donehue said he will not ap peal the probation. “There’s a chance I could get into even □ more trouble,” he said. In any case, he said, “it will be about two weeks until I can get the appeal, and that’ll be af ter the election.” _ Donehue said he could not give details about the incident because he is under restraint from the Judicial Affairs Office. In January, according to USC police reports, Donehue entered J.D. Shipman’s presidential campaign meeting and threat ened to attack the attendees, in cluding former College Republicans President Charles Duncan, who had just resigned. Shipman, who had previous ly worked for Donehue’s cam paign, had started his own bid for the presidency. Donehue said that it had hurt his feelings and that he and Shipman were friends' before the incident oc curred. Shipman then called the po lice on behalf of Duncan, and Donehue was detained by the police. “J.D. filed over 50 complaints against Wes,” Robinson said. “Everything he could think of he filed a complaint about. They couldn’t do any thing about the complaints be cause of the time lapse between Shipman what allegedly occurred and the time of the complaints.” But Adam Hark, J.D.’s for mer campaign manager, en tered in another complaint that set the council in motion, Robinson said. Donehue said it happened af ter Hark wrote a letter to the ed itor that was published in The Gamecock (“Donehue is unfit for SG presidency”, Feb. 19). Donehue then placed a nega tive away message on his AOL Instant Messenger about Adam Hark, Robinson said. She said Hark “claimed to be scared.” Hark then placed the complaint, she said. “Because that all happened, I’m not in good standing,” Donehue said. Hark said mere were multi ple sides to the story, but said he could not comment on the in cident because of judicial office restrictions. “I know that I can’t talk about this,” Hark said. “I know that Wes is also under the same stipulations I am to not talk about this, and I believe those stipulations include not speak ing about this through a third party, which at first glance it ap pears to me is what is going on ■- with Kendall’s statements.” Donehue said that he plans to lay low for a while until he graduates. “Right now, I’m just gonna keep my nose clean and stay out of SG stuff,” Donehue said. 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