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Museum collecting
war zone ermails
A project to collect e-mails sent
home from soldiers in Iraq and oth
er war zones has only about a dozen
participants. The Confederate Relic
Room started the Write From the
Front project last year.
The museum is still taking cor
respondence. Anyone who has
saved e-mails from family members
in the war zone can still send them.
Man sues Hardee’s,
claims his innocence
GREENVILLE — A Greenville
man is suing the Hardee’s restau
rant chain, saying he was wrongly
accused of attacking an employee
and trying to rob a store.
Ronald Maurice Anderson, 22,
filed a lawsuit March 1 against
Hardee’s Foods Inc., alleging that
it employed the man who accused
him of attacking an employee and
attempting to rob the restaurant.
Anderson’s suit doesn’t fault
the Greenville Police Department,
which arrested him, or the 13th
Circuit Solicitor’s Office, which
dropped the charges after a year
because of concerns about the
credibility of the sole eyewitness.
Nation
Students upset about
new international fee
BOSTON — About 200 interna
tional students at the University
of Massachusetts have refused to
pay a new student fee, a protest
that could result in dismissal from
the school and loss of their student
visas.
The $65-per-semester fee for for
eign students was designed to
compensate for cuts to the budget
of the university’s international
' programs office. It appeared for
the first time on the spring
semester bills due this month.
University spokesman Patrick
Callahan said the budget for the
international student office was
cut $240,000 last year, and the new
fee would provide a little over
$200,000.
Former Bush adviser
slams administration
WASHINGTON - Richard A.
Clarke, the former White House
counterterrorism coordinator, ac
cuses the Bush administration of
failing to recognize the al-Qaida
threat before the September 11 ter
ror attacks and then manipulat
ing America into war with Iraq
with dangerous consequences.
Clarke, who is expected to tes
tify Tuesday before a federal panel
reviewing the attacks, writes in a
new book going on sale Monday
that Bush and his Cabinet were
preoccupied during the early
months of his presidency with
some of the same Cold War issues
that had faced his father’s admin
istration.
World
Afghani minister killed
during power struggle
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -
Soldiers loyal to a local comman
der shot and killed Afghanistan’s
aviation minister Sunday in the
western city of Herat, setting off a
gunbattle in which as many as 100
people died in vicious factional
fighting, the commander said.
In Kabul, President Hamid
Karzai’s Cabinet convened in an
emergency session after the
killing of minister Mirwais Sadiq
and dispatched extra troops to try
to calm the city. Presidential
spokesman Khaleeq Ahmed said
that the minister had been shot in
his car and circumstances were
unclear.
Sharon proposes
Gaza withdrawal plan
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon presented his pro
posal for a Gaza Strip withdrawal
to Cabinet ministers from his
Likud Party on Sunday, which
met significant opposition but ap
parently not enough to sink the
plan, participants said.
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz,
meanwhile, told a Cabinet meet
ing that he has prepared a plan to
strike hard at Hamas, ahead of
any pullout, branding the Islamic
militant group a strategic threat.
The plan includes intensifying tar
geted killings of militants and
stepping up army raids.
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FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC
RECITAL: School of Music 206,3
p.nr.
BUTCH TARBUTTON SAXOPHONE
RECITAL: School of Music 206,
7:30 p.m.
ADAPTIVE RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT FOR DYNAMIC,
DISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME
SYSTEMS: Swearingen
Engineering Center 1A03,3:30 -
4:30 p.m.
Tuesday
use SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
FEATURING VADIM GLUZMAN:
Roger Center for the Arts,
Gonzalez Hall, 7:30 p.m.
THE FINANCIAL EDGE
WORKSHOP: 1600 Hampton
Street Annex 104. 0-11 a m.
Wednesday
ADAM ESTES, SID TYNER AND
JENNIFER FORET CONCERTO
RECITAL: School of Music 206,6
p.m.
BRIAN MCNAMARA JUNIOR
GUITAR RECITAL: School of
Music 206,7 p.m.
EDUCATION RECRUITMENT DAY:
Carolina Coliseum, 10 a.m.-12
p.m., 1-5 p.m.
EPIDEMIOLOGY SEMINAR,
“CHRONOEPIDEMIOLOGY”:
Dr. Bill Hrushesky of the
Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, Health Sciences
Building 103,12:30 p.m.
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 8 p.m.
Thursday
CHRISTOPHER BERG GUITAR
RECITAL: School of Music 206,
7:30 p.m.
RAPHAEL RADA VOCAL RECITAL:
School of Music 206,4:30 p.m.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN THE
ACADEMIC ARENA: Computer
Services 309,9 a.m.-12 p.m.
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10
p.m.
Friday
SEMINAR, “SOME NEW ASPECTS
OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING
OF HEME PROTEINS TO
MANIPULATE THEIR FUNCTIONS:
LIGAND BINDING, CATALYSIS
AND INTERPROTEIN
RECOGNITION": Dr. Isao
Morishima of Kyoto University,
Japan, Jones Physical Science
Center 712, Refreshments 3:45
p.m., Seminar 4 p.m.
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10
p.m.
Saturday
ORPHAN FILM SYMPOSIUM:
Russell House Theater, 9 a.m.-10
p.m.
Matchbox twenty gives new artist a chance
NEW YORK - Rob Thomas re
members the lean days before
matchbox twenty blew up into a
household name.
Now the band is giving a strug
gling musician the chance to take
center stage during one of their
live concerts.
It’s part of VHl’s “You Rock
With,” a new half-hour television
show aimed at giving an un
known artist a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to play with an es
tablished band.
It was an unusual move for a
band that has turned down plen
ty of entertainment requests in
the past.
“We do so little as a band.
Everything sounds really suspect
to us,” he said.
As part of the show, which airs
Monday, the band auditions three
guitarists to play its hit “Bright
Lights.”
Other episodes will feature Rod
Stewart, Poison, Melissa Etheridge
and Barenaked Ladies.
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2 Soul Train Awards
LOS ANGELES - OutKast’s
“Speakerboxxx/The Love Below”
won two awards, including
R&B/soul or rap album of the
year, to lead the winners at
Saturday’s 18th annual Soul Train
Music Awards.
The awards, named after the
long-running television show,
honor recording artists in R&B,
hip-hop, rap and gospel music.
They were held at the
International Cultural Center
and televised live via syndica
tion.
OutKast was the lone multiple
winner at the ceremony hosted by
Alicia Keys and producer/song
writer Kenneth “Babyface"
Edmonds.
Soul crooner Luther Vandross
was the night’s sentimental
choice, winning best R&B/soul
single, male for his song, “Dance
With My Father.”
Hawke didn’t enjoy
film’s violent themes
LOS ANGELES - Ethan Hawke
says he was uncomfortable with
the seamy plot in his new movie,
“Taking Lives.”
Hawke plays Angelina Jolle’s
love interest in the thriller. He is
an art dealer who gets involved in
the search for a serial killer and
becomes a target.
“The movie certainly deals
with some kind of sexuality-with
violence that I’ve never dealt with
in movies,” Hawke told the Daily
News of Los Angeles. “It’s some
thing that I find pretty uncom
fortable and that I don’t particu
larly enjoy.”
But Hawke said it was precisely
because it would be a new experi
ence that he took the role.
“If you want to have a long ca
reer in the movies, you’ve got to try
to work in different genres;” he said.
Clooney raises funds
for father’s election
FORT MITCHELL, KY. - Actor
George Clooney helped raise about
$140,000 at private fund-raisers for
his father’s congressional cam
paign.
Nick Clooney, a longtime
Cincinnati television personality,
is the lone Democratic candidate
for the 4th District seat of retiring
U.S. Rep. Ken Lucas.
About 150 people paid $250
each to mingle with the actor at
The Oriental Wok, a restaurant
in Fort Mitchell. In another fund
raiser, about 100 people paid
$1,000 each to see the actor at a
private home.
3 Doors Down to play
concert for charity
MOBILE, ALA. — Rock band 3
Doors Down hopes to raise at least
$125,000 for charities at its March
26 concert.
The money raised in Mobile
will be shared among 16 nonprof
it organizations, including the
Mulherin Custodial Home,
Ronald McDonald House, Gulf
Coast Women’s Center for
Nonviolence and Habitat for
Humanity.
Band members are donating the
money they would make from the
show, although this doesn’t include
production costs such as payroll
for the crew.
“We’re making zero,” said gui
tarist Matt Roberts.
Mark Smith, a financial advis
er coordinating part of the con
cert’s charitable side, said the
band also donated eight guitars
and a dozen decorated drumheads
for auction.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE
PHOTO SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK
Matchbox twenty Joins VHl’s “You Rock With” to play with an aspiring musician.
USC.Briefly
Workshop to give staff
The Financial Edge’
“The Financial Edge” work
shop will be presented to facul
ty and staff Tuesday 9-11 a.m.
This workshop, which will be
held in room 104 of the 1600
Hampton Street Annex, offers an
in-depth look at the reports that
are generated by new accounting
software, The Financial Edge.
Participants will learn how to read
and interpret reports generated by
the software. For more informa
tion, call 777-6578, e-mail
hrtrain@gwm.sc.edu or visit
http://hr.sc.edu/profdevp/class
es/flnedge.html.
Education recruiters
to come to job fair
School Districts from around
the country will be recruiting
teachers, administrators, librari
ans and media specialists
Tuesday at the Carolina
Coliseum. The event will be a tra
ditional career fair 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
and an opportunity to participate
in interviews with school districts
1-5 p.m. For more information,
contact the Career Center at 777
3969 or heatherb@gwm.sc.edu.
Sexual harassment
info session offered
The Professional Development
Office will be holding “Sexual
Harassment in the Academic
Arena,” an information session
for faculty and staff to take place
on Thursday 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
The session will be held in tht
Computer Services building
room 309. Students can attend
this session to find out why
there are no real winners in a
sexual harassment complaint.
For more information, call 777
6578, e-mail
hrtrain@gwm.sc.edu, or visit
http://hr.sc.edu/profdevp/class
es/harassment.html.
Police. Report
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
E3 Violent
© Nonviolent
Wednesday, March 17
© LARCENY OF PLAYSTATION
2, BATES HOUSE, 1423
WHALEY ST. The victim said
someone took a PlayStation 2
with two controllers, seven
PlayStation games and nine
DVDs from his unsecured
room. Estimated value: $560.
Reporting officer: D. Pardue.
Thursday, March 18
® FIRE (NON-SUSPICIOUS),
1212 GREENE ST. Reporting
officer G. Kerwin received a
call in reference to a trash can
fire. Columbia Fire
Department was notified and
extinguished the fire.
Friday, March 19
Q DUI, FAKE ID, BLOSSOM
AND ASSEMBLY STREETS
Reporting officer M.L. Gooding
was stopped west-bound on
Blossom and Assembly streets
when he saw James Willis’
vehicle turn onto Blossom
Street running up onto the
concrete median. Gooding
made a U-turn to get behind
the vehicle and saw it turn
north onto Main Street almost
striking cars in legal parking
spaces along the side of the
road. Gooding made a traffic
stop. Willis had a strong odor
of alcohol about him as well as
slightly slurred speech and
glassy eyes. Willis said several
times that he had not been
drinking and then said \s had
had one beer. Willis wa£
advised of his Miranda rights
and was given field sobriety
tests. He was asked to say his
ABCs from D to N and said, “D,
E, F, J, K” and then said
random letters until he was
stopped. He was given a one
legged stand test and could not
follow directions at first. The p
test was restarted, and he
placed his foot down at 4 and 6
seconds, at which time
Gooding stopped the test for
safety. Willis said he had not
had too much to drink, just six
beers at a fraternity function.
He was arrested for DUI and
advised of all necessary rights,
at which time another ID was
discovered in his right front
pocket. Another ID was found
in the vehicle belonging to the
passenger, Tyler Gregg.
Report jig officers: M.L. 1
Gooding, Simmons.