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POLICE REPORT Compiled by Adam Beam. > Each number on the map stands for a 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 H Violent © Nonviolent Wednesday, March 26 © LARCENY OF BICYCLE, 300 MAIN ST. The victim said someone took her bike, which was secured to a bike rack. Tuesday, April 1 © LARCENY OF WALLET, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said someone took her black, Nine West wallet, which contained $10 and a Wachovia debit card. Estimated value: $40. ® AUTO BREAK-IN, LARCENY OF CDS, WHEAT AND PICKENS STREETS, GRAVEL LOT. The victim said someone broke the passenger’s-side front window by throwing a rusted steel railroad peg through the window. The person took a fleece jacket, a black CD case with about 75 CDs, and a portable Sony CD player with adapter. Estimated value: $1,065. O SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The complainant said a male was seen inside the concourse level of the Coliseum. All outer doors were secure. Reporting officer R. A. Whitlock checked the area and made no contact. The complainant also said one of the north doors had been propped open earlier in the morning. ® LARCENY OF PURSE, SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, 6430 GARNERS FERRY RD. (OFF MAP) The victim said someone entered her office and took her purse from the bottom right drawer. It was described as a medium red Limited purse. It contained the following items: Discover card, Sears card, Limited card, GM card, Rich’s card, Belk card, Banana Republic card, Water House card, Home Depot card, Cash Corner card, one USC paycheck, two personal checks, a $50 Belk gift certificate, a $25 Lowes gift certificate, a $38 Cash Corner gift certificate-and a $25 Home Depot gift certificate. Reporting officer: S. Alexander. O MALICIOUS INJURY TO PERSONAL PROPERTY, 1600 SENATE ST., SENATE STREET GARAGE The victim said someone deflated the left rear tire of his car. The gas cap of the car was also removed, and it appeared that a liquid was poured into the gas tank and a twig was shoved into the filler tube. Estimated damage: $950. ' Reporting officer: J.M. _ Simmons^ Wednesday, April 2 ® SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY, 801 HENDERSON ST. The complainant said a female called and asked for the name and address of the facility. When questioned why she needed this information, she hung up. Reporting officer: D. Hare. © ILLEGAL USE OF TELEPHONE, COLUMBIA HALL, 916 BARNWELL ST. The complainant said someone is leaving harassing text messages on his phone. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. Law School CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 it is unfortunate that we were not able to attract one of them,” Odom said. Hillman’s withdrawal, mark ing the end of the second search <- for a Law School dean in the - past two years, left some Law School faculty frustrated. “We are, at this point, rud derless, essentially,” said Law School professor Eldon Wedlock. “We don’t have a lead er. Whether we like him or not, he at least provides some direc tion that we can either push for or against.” The Board of Trustees is dis cussing plans for a new Law School building that Odom said will be expensive and paid for mostly by private donors. He said that not having a dean in place could serve as a setback for those plans. “The dean is the creative leader and the person who leads first in terms of philanthropy,” t he said. The vacancy also comes when the university is in the middle of restructuring its bud get system. With the adoption of value-centered management July 1, there are some worries that the Law School would suf fer without having a leader. “What we want to have is a dean who would be there to fight for certain interpretations of VCM that would benefit the Law School, and I’m not sure.that an interim dean is going to want to do that,” Wedlock said. Wedlock said the search would have little effect on stu dents. “Some external demands are going to be made on the Law School, and we are not well equipped to weather the storm. But as far as a basic legal edu cation is concerned, it shouldn’t affect than,” Wedlock said. “I’m not sure they even care.” Suzy Bouleware, a second year law student, said it was dis appointing that the school couldn’t attract a good candi date but that the school will con tinue to operate as it should. “As students, we don’t have a lot of interaction with the dean,” she said. “I think regard less of who the dean is, the pro fessors are the same, and they do their jobs, and I don’t think it will have a direct impact on the education the students re ceive.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Tuition CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 “We are trying to work all of this out,” he said. “I am adamant that the four-year institutions and the two-year institutions that also comprise the University of South Carolina will not be neglected in whatever arrangement we come up with.” A bill introduced in the General Assembly in March pro posed integrating USC’s two-year campuses with the state’s techni cal colleges under one governing board. Sorensen opposed the bill, saying the missions of the two types of schools are vastly differ ent. Faculty senator and journalism professor Ernest Wiggins said he understands that Sorensen has to both promote a research agenda and protect the satellite campus es at the same time. “It’s clear that research is why he’s here,” Wiggins said. “He wants to build a research reputa tion and raise the profile of the in stitution in that regard.” Wiggins said he supports Sorensen’s vision, so long as the satellite'campuses don’t feel “abandoned.” “He seems to be tireless, going after so m&ny pockets of money,” he said about Sorensen’s fund raising efforts for such research expansion. Sorensen also expressed his. gratitude to members of the General Assembly who helped se cure $30 million in lottery funds to establish an endowed chairs program for the university. Sorensen left town shortly af ter the meeting for a trip to Florida and Texas on his Bow Tie Sky Tour, in which he will meet with alumni and other prospec tive private donors. Next week, he will meet with members of Congress to discuss possibilities for obtaining federal funds. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Confederate Flag shirts stir controversy BY BRUCE SMITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEAUFORT, S.C. - The sus pensions of 35 high school stu dents in this quaint coastal town have made it the new focus of an old issue, the potentially offensive fashion statement made by cloth ing depicting the Confederate flag. Outrage over the recent sus pensions sparked a protest march to the school district office and a roadside protest near one school where students waved the flag and held signs proclaiming “Heritage, not hate.” “I had no idea in the world any one would be offended by this,” says Brook Armstrong, a 17-year old Beaufort High student sitting in the great room of her family’s home overlooking the marsh and a dock where a Confederate flag snaps in the breeze. She wears the white T-shirt that got her suspended. On the back, it shows chickens hatching from eggs decorated with the Confederate flag. “Southern chicks, better than the rest,” reads the shirt. To Armstrong, the shirt is part of being a Southern girl. “If anyone asks ‘Do you know Brook Armstrong?’ everyone says I ' — . the real Southern girl with the country accent,” she says. “That’s my personality and how every body knows me.” But such T-shirts were banned at Beaufort High after a student, who has since left school, wore a [lag shirt and handed out litera ture with Confederate emblems in an attempt to recruit members for the Aryan Nation, a white supremacist group. A few days later, school hall nonitors headed off a confronta :ion between the student and two athers. The monitors reported nore students also seemed to be wearing the flag shirts, says Beaufort High principal Bill Evans. Under the county school dress code, the administrators may pro hibit the wearing of clothing “which may foreseeably disrupt or interfere with the school envi ronment.” The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that students’ free speech rights don’t end at the school house door. But other courts have ruled that administrators do have the responsibility for safety in schools. * ?m Tfflusm mn question Mr mums, mu % 2003 mom m mmu. m Imagine all the people Sharing the World... h WAS m IN 1998 m ■!& f You may say I m a dreamer. But I‘m not the only one —John Lennon ■ •v The Department of Justice, Office of Legal Education Is seeking 50 Volunteers to be Jurors in Criminal Mock Trials at the National Advocacy Center, 1620 Pendleton Street For more information, call Annemarie Sullivan at 803-544-5152 (Monday - Friday between 8:30 am - 5:30 pm)