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__ _ www.dailygamecoch.com MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2003 '’‘Y" -= 1 " ■ 1 - 1 ~ ~ ’■ - —- ■ - — ■— 1 . - ■ ■■ ■— ■ — ■ ■■ ' ■ ■ --- USC can’t wrap up the Rebels PHOTO BY ANDREW LOGAN/THE DAILY MISSISSIPIAN USC’s Dunta Robinson tries to bring down an Ole Miss player during Saturday’s game In Oxford, Miss. The Gamecocks lost 43-40. ♦ FOR FULL STORY, SEE PAGE 8 USC alumnus to tour ►nation, promote film Z’ANNE COVELL THE i.'AMKCOCK USC alumnus Dan Klores, pro prietor of a successful New York public-relations company, will screen his new documentary, “The Boys of Second Street Park,” at the Russell House Theatre on Nov. 18. The event, coordinated by the College of Liberal Arts and Carolina Productions, will begin at 8 p.m. and is free and open to the public. A question-and-an K swer session and reception will W follow the screening so that au dience can speak with Klores. Klores’ company, Dan Klores Communications, has worked with many big-name celebrities and political figures, including Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Donald Trump and Rudolph Giuliani. However, Klores will be pro moting his personal documen tary instead of the personal lives of his clients. Klores’ visit to USC is part of a national campus tour sponsored by USA Today to in I---r— troduce college students to his film. “The Boys of Second Street Park,” Klores’ first documentary, traces the lives of a group of his childhood friends that grew up in Brooklyn during the 1950s and ‘60s and then grew apart as then lives took divergent paths. Klores made the film with the help of one of his childhood friends, Ron Berger. “When you see the documen tary, it’s heartfelt, and it’s a la bor of love,” said Karla Berry, co ordinator of media arts and as sociate professor in the art de partment. “You learn a lot about friendships and family and grow ing up in America.” But the nostalgic film not only reminisces about the good times — it also deals with the hard ships of life. “The documentary deals with counterculture issues such as drugs,” said Matthew Sefick, a media arts graduate student and research assistant who is help ing coordinate Klores’ visit. “I think students will be able to re late to the film because of this, and Klores wants to get feedback from students.” Sefick said the documentary, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on Showtime, has received great reviews throughout the country. “It’s not going to interest strictly film students. It makes you think about your own friends and your own life,” Sefick said. “Everyone has friends that grow up together and grow apart.” Berry said Klores’ visit is an opportunity for Klores and stu dents alike. “He wants to give back to the university, and we’re very hap py to have alumni come back to campus and share their experi ences with current students,” Berry said. For more information about Klores’ visit or his documentary, contact Sefick at 777-1216. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Index Comics and Crossword 7 Classifieds_ 9 Horoscopes 7 \ Letters to the Editor 4 Online Poll_ 4 Police Report 3 Weathei TODAY High 84 Low 57 a I TUESDAY High 82 Low 65 -1 In This Issue ♦ NEWS A USC professor explores the minds of daredevil I waterfall jumpers in his new book. Page 2 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Ryan Holt says j prayer should return to public schools. Page 4 ♦ THE MIX Image is everything, j and celebrities set style standards when they walk the j red carpet. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS The USC football team falls short of a comeback at Ole Miss. Page 8 -jt Napster returns with music downloads for sale BY KALYN PALMER THE (iAMRCOCK More than two years after be ing shut down, Napster has been relaunched as a legal online mu sic service. In July 2001, Napster was forced to shut down after the mu sic industry and individual artists sued over copyright in fringement. Carol Allison, retired FBI su pervisory senior resident agent, said young people who download free music online don’t realize they are stealing. f “They are denying the artist and everyone associated with the who create the music.” Napster 2.0, now a division of muoiv. muuo* try their in come, includ ing producers, suppliers, mar keters and the musicians themselves,” she said. “I be lieve a legal ized, online music service “If I only wanted one song off a CD, I would use Kazaa, and I wanted the whole album, I would rather buy it and have the real copy.” BRIDGET DOLINAR FIRST-YEAR EXERCISE SCIENCE STUDENT IXUAIU, <X UlglLcU media software company, be came available to music lovers Wednesday. The new Napster charges for mu sic download ing and for the use of special a. guuu iucg and whose time has come. It is convenient and it supnorts those ICdlUi 111 eluding access to more than four decades of Billboard charts and i t the ability to transfer music files to portable listening devices and CD burners. Such companies as Gateway, Samsung, Roxio, Microsoft and Yahoo have all partnered with Napster to offer special services. These companies are integrating Napster features into computers and application software. The Napster 2.0 software is free to download, but the music is 99 cents per song and $9.95 per album. Prepaid Napster cards, available at retail outlets around the coun ♦ NAPSTER, SEE PAGE 2 Clark speaks on health, Iraq BY WES WOLFE THE GAMECOCK Democratic presidential candi date Gen. Wesley Clark was in Columbia on Friday to speak at a forum hosted by the USC Law School Democrats. Students, faculty, area resi dents and the local media were in attendance at the Law School to ] meet the retired U.S. Army gener al, who recently took the lead in the S.C. Democratic primary race. Several Democratic presiden tial candidates have spoken at events arranged by the Law School Democrats, but Clark said his USC appearance was a part of his overall strategy to visit all parts of the state. “I don’t know anything about what the other candidates have done, really,” he said. “I just want ed a dialogue with-the voters and the people who will be active in this primary and helping to shape the nation’s choice for the election in 2004. So, I’m really happy to be here. I’ll be in many, many places --- in South Carolina.” Several prominent state Democrats were in the audience, including South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Joe Erwin and the party’s state exec utive director, Nu Wexler. Lonnie Randolph, president of the S.C. Conference of the NAACP, was also in the crowd. Before Clark arrived, two cam paign volunteers passed out Clark candy bars to the audience. Clark arrived at the event 35 min utes late, but many members of the overflow crowd endured the hot and humid room to hear Clark speak and to ask a few ques tions. Clark began his speech by tak ing the microphone off the stand early and walking around the front of the room to discuss the is sue of Iraq. “We were taken to war on false pretenses,” Clark said. “It was a war that wasn’t necessary; it was a war that wasn’t planned well; it was a war that we fought without adequate forces on the ground to do the job, without a plan and without leveling to the American people what’s going to happen next.” Clark also spoke on another major issue, health care, by relat ing a story about how the excel lent medical treatment he re ceived after was critically wound ed in Vietnam. One of Clark’s pro posals is universal health insur ance coverage for everyone under the age of 22. “We’re going to make health care mandatory for every child in America 22 and under,” Clark said."I mean, why not? You can’t drive an automobile legally if you don’t have automobile insur ance.” After his speech, Clark took a few questions from the audience, covering such topics as free trade, urban economic growth and how the United States can define victo ry in Iraq. After Clark left the forum, he greeted supporters and answered ♦ CLARK, SEE PAGE 2 Crime alert puts campus on lookout BY KEVIN FELLNER ; THE (iAMECOCK More than three weeks after USC police issued an alert about a man charged with sexual assault who might be trespassing on cam pus, many students are still look ing over their shoulders while walking alone. Timothy Robert Kearns, who is charged with kidnapping and sex ual assault, is free on bond and awaiting trial in connection with an incident that happened on cam pus in April. Someone matching his descrip tion has been spotted recently on or near campus, said USC Law Enforcement spokesman Ernie Ellis. Second-year Spanish student Susan Strauss said she had heard some people talking about a po tential sex offender on campus but didn’t become nervous at first. “I know in my dorm there was a picture of the guy, and I kind of shrugged it off,” Strauss said. She said she is most concerned with walking on campus alone at night. Second-year business student Meredith Leach said she has seen Kearns’ picture but doesn’t know if she could properly identify him in public. “It’s hard to see a picture and then see him in real life and com • pare,” Leach said. “I’m definitely keeping my eyes open.” The judge in Kearns’ trial has specifically informed him that he is not allowed on any USC proper ty and that violation of the re striction could result in trespass ing charges. “We would certainly encour age students to be on the lookout for him because we know that he frequents the downtown Columbia area, and if they see him, particularly on university property, to please call our police department and advise us,” Ellis said. Ellis stressed the importance of having students visit the divi sion’s Web site, www.les.sc.edu, and to be aware of Kearns’ de scription when on campus. He also advises people not to ap proach Kearns under any circum stances. The crime alert describes Kearns as a 51-year-old white man who is 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 250 pounds. He drives a brown 1983 Chevy Impala with the South Carolina license tag “247 LZC”. Ellis said Kearns might enter some areas that aren't clearly a part of campus. But he said au thorities and not citizens should mak« the judgment of what could be considered trespassing. “Any area that is university property is restricted from him. but there are a lot of city streets, sidewalks and parks that are in tertwined in our campus,” Ellis said. “Rather than ask the stu dents to make that assumption on their own, I would just encourage ♦ SEX OFFENDER, SEE PAGE 2 2 Benedict students shot IIIh ANSl-HilATKD PHKSS COLUMBIA — Two students have been wounded in a shooting at Benedict College. Neither stu dents’ injuries were considered life-threatening. Police and college officials said Saturday’s shooting came during an argument between the driver of a car and some students who had been crossing the street. Neither student that was hit - a man and a woman - were involved in the argument, Benedict spokeswoman Kymm Hunter said. The wounded students were not identified. Police are looking for the driver of the car. who fled the scene. The driver was wearing a red sports headband and a red, black and white plaid shirt. Hunter said. The car is described as dark green with four doors. Neon lights were around the license tag. Hunter said the shooting ap peared to be random.