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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 2004
Police alert USC
of carjackings
Students voice safety concerns after
2 carjackings in less than 2 weeks
BY JON TURNER
THKIIAMKCOCK'
The USC Police Department
has issued a safety alert after two
armed carjackings occurred on
campus in less than two weeks.
USCPD posted the alert on its
| Website April 5, five days after the
' second crime was committed.
Police records show that on
March 20 two black men at
tempted an armed carjacking in
the Bull Street Garage. Two sus
pects fitting that description suc
cessfully stole a car from the
East Quad Parking Lot March 31.
Police records list the suspects
as slender, between 5 feet 8 inch
es and 5 feet 9 inches tall and
from their late teens to their ear
ly 20s.
“We’re still on the investigation
right now,” said Maj. Eric Grabski
of the USCPD.
Students were concerned about
the carjacking, as well as the uni
versity’s seemingly delayed re
sponse, more than two weeks af
ter the first armed attempt.
Grabski said the crimes had
been reported promptly.
“We worked in conjunction
Wltn rUDIlC
Affairs with
that alert,” he
said. “We pro
vided the infor
mation to
Housing not
long after, and
why this infor
mation just
came up today
I’m not exactly
sure, but I know
we’ve been working on it since.
“It was a collaborative effort,”
he said. “I can’t give you an exact
reason why it didn’t get into print
until yesterday. I can tell you that
we were in touch with the admin
istration of the university, and we
tried to get that out in the most
timely manner possible.”
Jennifer Williams, a fourth-year
biology student with a parking
space in the Bull Street Garage,
said she hadn’t heard about the car
jacking attempt.
“I was already nervous about
my stuff getting stolen, like keys
and stuff,” she said. “But I never
thought about actually getting
hurt.” She added that if it had hap
pened to her she would have been
terrified.
“I’d also be kind of pissed that
ut>o nasn i uone any
thing to tell people
about it,” she said.
Williams said
USC should do a bet
ter job informing
students of local in
cidents. “It’s kind of
the same with any
thing that happens
around campus,"
she said. “I mean, we
don’t hear anything
about it.
First-year biology student
Melanie Schad said she doesn’t
live on campus but often comes
downtown on weekends. She said
she wished the university had
been more prompt with their
warning.
“The main point is that as soon
as it happened they should post an
alert,” she said.
Second-year English student
♦ CARJACKINGS, SEE PAGE 3
“I was already
nervous about my
stuff getting stolen,
like keys and stuff.
But I never thought
about actually getting
hurt.”
JENNIFER WILLIAMS
FOURTH-YEAR BIOLOGY STUDENT
Dorm.duties
Housing predicts no wait for seniors
BY MICHAEL LAFORGIA AND
ALEXIS STRATTON
THE GAMECOCK
University Housing officials
expect to offer housing to every
upperclassman for the 2004-2005
school year, with the opening of
West Quad residence hall provid
^ ing close to 500 extra rooms.
| Last spring, 550 upperclassmen
were put on a housing wait list for
this year. By the middle of
August, all wait-listed students
were offered campus housing.
Housing Director Gene Luna
said West Quad, a $29 million pro
ject billed as a “residential center
for sustainable futures,” will add
the 500 beds needed to accommo
date all upperclassmen. He said
most juniors and seniors were
matched with their preferred
roommates.
Two of the quad’s three resi
dence halls should be completd
this semester. Each of these halls
will house 210 students. In addi
tion, a third, 80-student hall will
be finished this summer.
™ use will seek “green” certifica
tion for West Quad from Leadership
in Energy and Environment
PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK
West Quad, the newest addition to on-campus living, will help ease the housing pinch this fall.
Design. The quad will be one of a
handful of certified “green” resi
dence halls in the world.
Luna said Housing received
about 200 applications from stu
dents interested in living in West
Quad.
“Some students want to live
there because it’s going to be
some of the nicest housing on
campus,” Luna said. “It’ll be ab
solutely full by fall.”
Jeena Godsey, a second-year
♦ HOUSING, SEE PAGE 3
The way of the cross
PHOTO BY JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Stanley Worthington, a third-year mechanical engineering student, portrays Christ during the
2nd Annual Ecumenical Way of the Cross, a traditional lenten devotion of Jesus’ last hours.
U.S. Marines killed
as violence spreads
to several Iraqi cities
BY HAMZA HENDAWI
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NAJAF, IRAQ — Iraqi insurgents
and rebellious Shiites mounted a
string of attacks across the south
and fought pitched battles against
Marines in the turbulent city of
Fallujah on Tuesday. Up to a
dozen Marines, two more coalition
soldiers and at least 66 Iraqis were
reported killed.
Reports from the city of Ramadi,
near Fallujah, said dozens of Iraqis
attacked a Marine position near the
governor’s palace, a senior defense
official said from Washington. “A
significant number” of Marines
were killed, and initial reports in
dicate it may be up to a dozen, said
the official, speaking on condition
of anonymity.
U.S. authorities also launched
a crackdown on radical Shiite cler
ic Muqtada al-Sadr al-Sadr and his
militia after a series of weekend
uprisings in Baghdad and cities
and towns to the south that took a
heavy toll in both American and
Iraqi lives. The fighting marks the
first major outbreak of violence
between the U.S.-led occupation
force and the Shiites since
Baghdad fell a year ago.
Two more coalition soldiers —
an American in Baghdad and a
Ukrainian in Kut — were killed in
fighting. The deaths brought the
three-day total to up to about 30
Americans and 136 Iraqis killed in
♦ IRAQ, SEE PAGE 5
PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS
“No America, no Israel,” shout University of Tech students
during a protest In support of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.
The words on the street
BY JUSTIN CHAPPELL
THEOAMECOCK
“Outsourcing,” “metrosexual”
and “hip-hop” are three of the
newer words to evolve in the
English language and become dic
tionary entries through an estab
lished process that seems like a
catch-22.
The Oxford English
. Dictionary’s listings consist of
P words that have “caught on,”
meaning that there are examples
of a word in use in several differ
ent publications during a “rea
sonaDie span
of time.” It’s a
straightfor
ward ap
proach to doc
umenting lan
guage that
aims to record
words that
aren’t fads.
But publica
tions — whetner tney are news
41
papers, magazines or novels —
are generally only going to use
words already list
ed in the dictio
nary and under
stood by a mass
audience.
With these two
strongholds in
place, it seems
likely that new
words would nev
er develop and
English would remain infinitely
stagnant. But it’s evolving — so
quickly that OED updates entries
every three months with more
than 1,000 additions and revisions.
Growth this abundant hints at the
possibility of a breakdown in the
process.
“Lobbyists in Washington cre
ate words to advance causes, and
reporters pick up on them,” said
USC journalism professor Doug
Fisher, who specializes in lan
♦ WORDS, SEE PAGE 3
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Index
Comics and Crossword 11
Classified 14
Horoscopesn
Letters to the Editor 8
Online Poll 8
Police Report _ 2
Entertainment News_ 2
USC Calendar 2
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