Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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POLICE REPORT Each number on the map stands fora crime corresponding with numbered descriptions in the list below. PAY CRIMES (6a.fn.-6 p.m.) □ .Violent O Nonviolent NIGHT CRIMES • (6p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS if Violent G Nonviolent These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. Compiled by Adam Beam. Wednesday, Feb. 19 ® GRAND LARCENY OF OSCILLOSCOPE, 301 S. MAIN ST. The complainant said someone took a Tektronix Oscilloscope from a secured location. There were no signs of forced entry. Estimated value: $1,000. Reporting officer: D. Hare. Tuesday, March 25 O ACCIDENTAL FIRE, 902 SUMTER ST., PRESIDENT'S HOUSE Reporting officer J.M. Simmons responded to an alarm at the President’s House. When he arrived, Simmons spoke with the Assurance Waterproofing Co., which said a heating gun that was used to clean windows was left on and caused a wooden board to catch fire. The fire, which had been extinguished before Simmons arrived, damaged a window. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CELL PHONE, WHEAT AND PICKENS STREETS, S LOT The victim said someone broke out the right passenger’s-side window and took a Nokia phone, a radar detector, a pair of black tennis shoes and three CDs. Total estimated value: $280. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. O AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF STEREO/CD PLAYER, CAPSTONE METERED PARKING LOT, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim said someone entered his car and took a stereo/ CD player from the dashboard. Estimated value: $250. Reporting officer: D. Pardue. © PETITE LARCENY, JAZZMAN’S CAFE, 1705 COLLEGE ST. The victim said someone took $200 cash from the money box under the register. All employees have access to the box, but no one had permission to remove money. Reporting officer: J. Alexander. Wednesday, March 26 © MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, CAPSTONE METERED. PARKING LOT, 902 BARNWELL ST. The victim said someone damaged the driver’s side of his car. The damage was not consistent with the damage done by a car. Estimated damage: $500. Reporting officer: J.L. Meador, o MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, S-17 LOT, 1200 WHEAT ST. The victim said someone broke out his car’s left rear vent window with an unknown object. Nothing was missing. Estimated damage: $100. Reporting officer: D.W. Friels Thursday, March 27, O SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, EAST QUAD, 1400 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said a man was pushing against her door and looking through the door’s peephole. She said he tried to get her to let him in, but she refused. She also said she does not know the man and that she called the police about five to 10 minutes after he left. The victim was advised to call the emergency number immediately if the man returned. An investigation will continue. Reporting officer: J.D. Rosier. War CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 airfield. One source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said ad- ’ ditional personnel were being flown in, as well, and an early ob jective would be securing the northern oil fields near Kirkuk. Invading forces took control of southern Iraqi oil fields in the ear ly hours of the ground war. Several miles away, Kurdish militiamen and villagers cele brated the fall during the day of a hilltop position where Iraqi forces had menaced civilians for years. U.S. forces had pounded the northern hills around Chamchamal over the past sever al days, and it appeared that the Iraqis abandoned their checkpoint and bunkers and retreated to the west. in central Iraq, the first resup ply plane landed on a restored runway at Tallil Airfield — hasti ly renamed “Bush International Airport” by American forces who had secured it. Still, Iraqi resistance continued to slow the drive on the capital and kept American and British forces out of key cities such as Basra and An Nasiriyah. Its mines kept ships with humanitarian as sistance from unloading their car go at the southern port city of Umm Qasr. After eight days of fighting, Pentagon officials said close to 90,000 troops were in Iraq, and that another 100,000 to 120,000 were en route. All were part of a military blueprint made up long ago, officials said, sensitive to crit icism that commanders had un derestimated the need for troops to quell stronger-than-expected re sistance or protect long supply lines. Bush and Blair met as anti-war protests flared anew in the United States. In New York, hundreds of demonstrators lined three blocks of Fifth Avenue and dozens more lay down in the street in a “die in.” At the United Nations, the U.S. ambassador walked out of a debate on the war after Iraq’s am bassador accused the United States of trying to exterminate the IraaiDeoDle. One day after Iraq claimed more than a dozen civilians were injured in a missile strike in Baghdad, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said it was possible that an Iraqi missile was responsible. “It may have been a deliberate at tack inside of town,” he added. There was little official infor mation about the reported Marine casualties in fighting around An Nasiriyah, one of the southern Iraq cities where irregular forces have put up far more resistance than American military planners expected. WTVD-TV of Durham, N.C., which has a reporter with the Lejeune Marines in An Nasiriyah, reported Wednesday that at least 25 had been injured earlier in the day during fierce house-to-house fighting, and said friendly fire might have been the cause of the injuries. To the south, British forces have been trying for days to gain control over Basra, but die-hard defenders of Saddam’s regime have held positions inside the city amid reports of clashes with the local population. Adm. Michael Boyce, chief of the British defense staff, told re porters that British forces de stroyed 14 tanks that tried to leave the city during the morning. According to historians, it was Britain’s biggest such battle since. World War II. “It’s a suicidal approach, which is irrational with no military logic to it,” said Capt. A1 Lockwood, a British officer. Eight days into the war, Iraqis accused U.S. and British forces of targeting civilians. They, in turn, were accused of seizing Iraqi chil dren to force their fathers into bat tle. “They are targeting the human beings in Iraq to decrease their morale,” Iraqi Health Minister Omeed Medhat Mubarak told re porters. Officials said about 350 civilians had been killed in the op eration, and more than 3,500 oth ers injured. Bill CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 trators from all eight of USC’s campuses agree with him. The bill, sponsored by Lanny Littlejohn, (R-Cherokee and Spartanburg counties) and Harry Stille (R-Abbeville and Anderson counties), would com bine USC’s Lancaster, Salkehatchie, Sumter and Union campuses with the administration of the state’s technical colleges to integrate certain technical curricula. The bill was re ferred to the House Committee on Education and Public Works earli er this month. Stille agreed that USC’s campuses and me state s tecnmcai coneges move in different directions, but thinks consolidating them would improve the quality of higher ed ucation for everyone involved. He said relieving USC of some of the administration of these smaller campuses, which enroll fewer than 4,000 students com bined, would help the Columbia campus to focus on its mission of becoming a nationally ranked re search university. “My premise is they’ve got to divest themselves of those satel lite campuses if they want to be come a renowned institution,” Stille said, citing that most of the nation’s top-ranked research uni versities don’t have satellite cam puses and thus have fewer needs to cater to. Sorensen said: “It is true that many graduates of the technical colleges transfer to the University of South Carolina and to Clemson and to other four year institu tions. And I am delighted that they do that. But the reason that they were established is to provide peo ple who have the technical •education that a two-year edu cation affords to immediately move mto soutn uarouna maus tries.” Sorensen said that USC ad ministrators don’t think their two-year schools’ missions are in any way loftier than those of the technical colleges. “It’s just apples and oranges,” Sorensen said. He said vocational training in cludes educating students to ward being dental hygienists, X ray technicians and similar pro “My premise is they’ve got to divest themselves of those satellite campuses if they want to become a renowned institution.” HARRY STILLE ONE OF THE BILL’S SPONSORS fessions. Stille said he understands Sorensen’s objections, especial ly as they deal with tenured po sitions at the two-year schools. If those schools were taken from USC, the system determining which faculty receive tenure could change. Stille said he has tried to get similar legislation passed sever al times over the past 10 years with no success. The Commission on Higher Education worked in the early 1990s to correct duplication of curricula between a USC two year campus and a technical col lege in any given area. A CHE committee conducted a two-year study that concluded in 1994 that USC’s two-year campus system not be overhauled at the four campuses. Former USC President John Palms pushed for USC’s three four-year satellite campuses to be spun off as their own univer sities but said the education pro vided by the two-year campuses was integral to the mission of the entire university. 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