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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
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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
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medical removal from the work
place under federal Occupational
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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. I’m sure it’s
still been here since Prohibition
and I’m sure it’s never been shut
down.”
Last week, authorities shut
down a liquor still, confiscated 42
gallons of moonshine and arrest
ed a 55-year-old man in South
Mills, N.C. Three stills and 1,850
gallons of com mash were confis
cated and a 56-year-old man and
his friend were charged with pos
session of moonshine whiskey in
March in Columbus, Miss.
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