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POLICE REPORT These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. Compiled by Alexis Stratton. 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 (6 p.m.-6a.m.) ■ Violent • Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS E Violent © Nonviolent Monday, Aug. 25 ®INDECENT EXPOSURE, BATES WEST PARKING LOT, 1405 WHALEY ST. The victim said that someone asking for directions exposed himself to her from inside his vehicle. Reporting officer: R.B. Baker, o VERBAL THREAT, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. The victim said Malik Kareem, who is a former temporary employee, came to the coliseum and made a non-specific threat when he said, “I’ll kill somebody over my girlfriend.” Police said that Kareem then exited the area. Reporting officer: J.B. Coaxum. Tuesday, Aug. 26 (D PETTY LARCENY, 1620 PENDLETON ST. The victim said that while getting dressed, she placed an envelope containing approximately $300 on the bathroom counter of the room she was staying in overnight. Police said that because the victim was in a hurry, she forgot to move it. At around 8:30 p.m. she discovered that she didn’t secure the envelope and found it missing from her room. Reporting officer: E.A. Adkins. ® TRESPASS AFTER NOTICE, CAROLINA COLISEUM, 701 ASSEMBLY ST. Officers responded to a complaint that Christopher McGill was harassing staff via phone calls, e mail and then went to the Carolina Coliseum. Officers made contact with McGill there. Further investigation revealed McGill was suspended from the university and had received trespass warnings on two occasions. Police said McGill was arrested and issued a ticket. Reporting officers: M.L. Gooding and P.I. Jones. Wednesday, Aug. 27 ® FOUND PROPERTY, DEVINE STREET IN FRONT OF DREHER HIGH SCHOOL (OFF MAP). The complainant said that he found a black wallet with miscellaneous papers, one South Carolina driver license and one USC ID. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. (6) COUNTERFEIT MONEY, RUSSELL HOUSE, 1400 GREENE ST. The victim said that she gave the cashier at the Grand Market Place cash to pay for her food. The cashier gave her a $5 bill for change, which appeared to be counterfeit. Reporting officer: R.A. Whitlock. □ ASSAULT AND BATTERY, 1400 BLOSSOM ST. The victim said that Mary Beth Welch came into her room and shoved her, then began to punch her. First Responder was notified and responded. The victim refused transport. The victim provided a written statement and a victim impact statement. Reporting officer: N. Dettaai. 40-minute electricity loss plagues parts of England BY JACK GARLAND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Power went out in parts of the capitol and southeast England on Thursday, bringing much of the London Underground and many regional trains to a halt and stranding hundreds of thou sands of rush hour commuters. Electricity was cut for about 40 minutes before it came back on at about 7 p.m., said EDF Energy, which handles power transmission for the affected areas of London. The outages appeared to be con fined to south London and Kent, a county southeast of the city. Overland train service was tem porarily halted in those areas and trains were canceled and delayed throughout the evening. Problems on London’s aging subway system were also widespread and long lasting. A spokesman for the Underground said 60 percent of the subway system was halted at the height of the evening rush hour. Workers evacuated affected trains and stations but it would take “some time” to return service to normal, London Underground said. Some subways began run ning later in the evening. At London’s Victoria Station, boards listing train schedules went blank and people stood out side in the rain waiting for the gat ed-off subway entrances to reopen. Others squeezed onto jammed double-decker buses. London Mayor Ken Livingstone told Sky News about 500,000 com muters were affected on the Underground and on train lines. He also told Channel 4 News that up to 150,000 people lost pow er, and he demanded an investi gation. Some hospitals were forced to rely on backup generators. “There’s no indication of any terrorist involvement, but it is an absolutely horrendous position be cause it has caught the rush hour,” he said. The outage was far less severe than the Aug. 14 blackout in the United States and Canada, which affected 50 million people. Jenny White, 20, was stuck out side Victoria station in south London, trying to get home to Longfield, Kent. “I’ve been here for ages now,” she said. “The queue for the cabs is about a mile long and there’s nowhere I can get a bus, there are so many people out there.” Area pubs were packed with stranded commuters. “It’s quite amazing that a big city like London can be brought to a standstill like this,” teacher Valerie Chalancon said. EDF spokesman Gareth Wynn said the power problem originat ed in two high-voltage lines be longing to the national power grid that help supply the Wimbledon area of southwest London. It was unlikely the problem was caused by sabotage, he said. Ann Gibson of National Grid, which runs the national power network, said electricity was re stored to the lines where the prob lem began. British Transport Police said the outage affected all of south London’s major overland train sta tions — including Victoria, London Bridge and Waterloo — and temporarily halted all main lines in the area. “Things are now starting to move slowly,” a spokesman said. Kevin Groves, a spokesman for Network Rail, which operates Britain’s rail infrastructure, said power was cut along tracks stretch ing 20-30 miles south of London. The police were contacting London Underground to make sure there were no people on the tracks before reactivating the lines. London’s Metropolitan Police said 270 sets of traffic lights went out around south London, but all came back on. STATE GOP leaders blast teachers’ report COLUMBIA (AP) - State Republican Party leaders blast ed a report card on legislators’ support of education that was released Thursday by the South Carolina Education Association. The report card gave legis lators a score, from 0 to 100, based on whether they sup ported the association’s posi tion on 42 votes on education bills and amendments. Many legislators scored poorly on the report, a reflec tion of more than $350 million in cuts to education in the past year, said association President Jan McCarthy. All legislators —12 senators and 16 representatives — who received perfect scores were Democrats. No Republican leg islator received a score higher than 38, and many received single digit scores. The Education Association looked at votes on several amendments and bills, some that would have created fees or increased taxes to create more money for education. Lieberman tour visits Spartanburg SPARTANBURG (AP) - Democratic presidential can didate Joe Lieberman criti cized President Bush for soar ing gas prices and the loss of manufacturing jobs as the Connecticut senator cam paigned in the Upstate Wednesday. Lieberman toured the Mount Vernon Mills Arkwright plant, which makes fabric for work gloves, blan kets and linens. Lieberman told workers the nation has lost 2.4 million manufacturing jobs in the past 21/2 years and South Carolina has lost about 53,000 of those jobs. The plant employs 138 hourly employees and 28 salary, said plant manager Bob Hayes. Many of those employ ees have watched other manu facturing plants disappear over the years and are fearful for their own jobs. Lieberman said Bush is to blame for ignoring China’s cur rency manipulations that keep product prices and labor costs artificially low. NATION University drops point system ANN ARBOR, MICH. (AP) - The University of Michigan unveiled a new affirmative ac tion policy for undergraduates Thursday, dropping a point system thrown out by the • Supreme Court in favor of a les ,]?id process that still takes'race into account. Applicants will be given the option of identifying their race, but the answer will be consid- , ered holistically with the rest of the application and will not be assigned a point value, Provost Paul Courant said. The new undergraduate pol icy was modeled in part on the less-rigid law school policy, which tries to ensure that mi norities make up 10 percent to 12 percent of each class. The new application will be used for freshmen entering in 2004. It also will be in effect for a small number of transfer stu dents applying this fall, spokeswoman Julie Peterson said. Crowd celebrates King’s speech ATLANTA (AP) - Arms . linked, a crowd of300 marched Thursday through downtown Atlanta and the neighborhoods where Martin Luther King Jr. grew up to mark the 40th an niversary of the slain civil rights leader’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Political and community leaders, including presidential candidate A1 Sharpton, led the march through the city’s his toric Sweet Auburn district to a rally that eventually drew about 400 people at the MLK National Historic Site. In Washington, Martin Luther King III addressed the National Press Club and up dated his late father’s 40-year old dream for racial equality. He also lashed out at oppo nents of affirmative action for trying to twist the meaning of the words of his father. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at a rally in New Haven, Conn., for striking Yale University workers, reminded the crowd that King’s speech also was about broken promis es the government made after slavery, jobs for Americans and civil rights legislation. WORLD Palestine charities face investigations GAZA C|TY, GAZA STRIP (AP) — Palestinian authorities said Thursday they froze the bank accounts of nine Islamic chari ties to investigate whether the organizations funnel money to militants — the Palestinians’ most striking action yet in a U.S.-sought clampdown on armed groups. Israel welcomed the deci sion. But it pressed on with its hunt for militants, killing an other Hamas fighter in a mis sile raid in the Gaza Strip. The army also moved briefly into northern Gaza to destroy brush, providing cover for cross-bor der rocket attacks. v The air strike in the south ern Gaza town of Khan Younis killed Hamdi Kalakh, 23, as he was driving a donkey cart along a residential street, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. At least three other people were re ported injured. Hamas supporters said Kalakh was a member of Hamas’ military wing. The Israeli army said he was wanted for mortar, rocket and bomb attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. North Korea talks face new difficulty SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AP) — North Korea said Friday that prospects for another round of nuclear talks were in jeopardy because of inflexibility on the part of U.S. negotiators, a South Korean news agency reported. “As the United States refus es to express intentions to switch over its hostile policy against North Korea, prospects for the next round of talks have fallen into danger,” said KCNA, the North’s news agency. KCNA was quoted by Yonhap, a South Korean agency. The comments came at a six nation meeting in China that included representatives of the United States, South Korea, China, Japan and Russia as well as North Korea. The meet ing resumed Friday. A U.S. government official said in Washington on Thursday that North Korea re jected U.S. disarmament plans, saying it will prove to the world that it possesses nuclear weapons by carrying out a nu clear test. Shuttle CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 common for large organizations in the midst of crisis to make ev ery effort to provide consistent and accurate information. “That particular communique is fairly raw, there’s nothing sug ar-coated there,” said Steve O’Keeffe, president of the O’Keeffe & Co. public relations firm in McLean, Va. “It’s every communications department’s objective to manage the percep tion of the organization as best as possible.” NASA disclosed Harkins’ e mail under the Freedom of Information Act among 667 pages of documents on the eve of the re lease of the final report by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. NASA disclosed other e mails involving the safety office two weeks earlier. Other newly released docu ments included e-mail from Peter J. Rutledge, the director for NASA’s enterprise safety and mission assurance division, in structing all employees to seek approval from managers before sending any new materials to shuttle investigators, “so that we will have a complete record of what goes out.” Motichek said Rutledge’s in structions were “an effort to keep track of what the office was pro ducing and to make sure there was no contradictory informa tion.” Emory University study says inner-city moonshine consumption remains high BY DANIEL YEE the associated dress ATLANTA - You don’t have to travel to the backwoods of the ru ral South to find moonshine. A new study says plenty is being brewed in the heart of Atlanta. Nearly 9 percent of 581 emer gency care center patients sur veyed at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital — which serves indigent, inner-city pa tients — said they had consumed moonshine in the last five years, according to an Emory University study in the September issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine. “You think it’s maybe some thing that occurs in the north Georgia mountains or in Appalachia, but it’s here,” said Dr. Brent Morgan, Emory’s medical toxicology residency director. Moonshine drinkers can be poi soned from lead in homemade whiskey, which often contains residue from lead soldering in stills used in the alcohol extrac tion process. Emory and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms found 10 percent of the samples carried increased lead levels that r could result in poisoning. The al cohol content ranged from 8 per cent to 60 percent. A pint of moonshine goes for $2.50 — demand pushes the price up to $5 on Sundays, when most Georgia stores can’t sell liquor, Morgan said. The survey was conducted af ter doctors noticed that patients at Grady’s emergency department had lead poisoning from drinking contaminated moonshine. Doctors noticed the poisonings as early as 1998. In 2000, four adults were treated for moon CMOW OPEN'^I Student Accounts Welcome - M& ttresses -Futons - Dinnettes •Coffee Table Sets *And More! 1 0% OFF iwlth this shine-related lead poisoning—the patients had up to six times the lead levels that would warrant medical removal from the work place under federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules. One patient died. “We still continue to see a cou ple (of cases) who have been poi soned with lead from drinking moonshine and it’s still out here,” Morgan said. “There’s a whole cul ture that still exists. 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