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AROUND THE
SOUTHEAST
Missing girl’s mother
told by police not to
hold out hope
GILMORE, Ark. — The mother of
a young girl missing since the
weekend said Wednesday that
police have told her not to hold out
much hope for the child.
1 Patricia Miles, age 7, has been
missing since Sunday morning,
when she rode her pink bicycle to a
corner grocery store for sunflower
seeds and a soda pop. Her bicycle
was found in a cornfield early
Monday, about 100 yards from her
shoes.
A woman arrested on a
kidnapping charge, Jo Ann
Buchanan, appeared Wednesday
before West Memphis District
Judge William “Pal” Rainey, who
ordered that the Miles family
friend continue to be held in lieu of
$1 million bond.
An arraignment had been
scheduled Wednesday, but
Buchanan said she didn’t have a
lawyer yet and the judge delayed
acceptance of a plea. A new
arraignment date wasn’t set.
Searchers on Wednesday used
i a helicopter and boats in their
search and also combed fields and
ditches on foot. They expanded
the search into a third county,
Poinsett, after searching Sunday
through Tuesday in Crittenden
and Mississippi.
The girl’s mother, also named
Patricia Miles, met with police
Wednesday.
“They said they really didn’t
want to get my hopes up,” Miles
said. “I want her to be safe. I
want her to come back. If my
friend did it, why? I want to
know why.”
As late as Tuesday evening,
police spoke optimistically about
finding the child safe. They
wouldn’t say Wednesday why they
| were prepared to use various
methods of searching for the girl.
Buchanan has not been
cooperating, police said.
After Wednesday’s court
hearing, some Buchanan family
members objected to the size of the
bond, which Rainey imposed in an
initial hearing Tuesday.
“She is not a flight risk. She is a
resident,” said Gerald Stamps, a
brother-in-law of Buchanan. “She
has not been in trouble with the
law before.”
Stamps said Buchanan had told
her family that she was innocent.
Her two children, a boy age 16 and
a girl age 11, were staying with
separate relatives, Stamps said.
Buchanan had occasionally
babysat the little girl.
Virginia regulator’s
yank car dealer’s
license
NORFOLK, Va. — State regulators
yanked the license of a Virginia
used car dealer accused of luring
young service members from
North Carolina, then pressuring
them to buy cars by playing on
fears they’d be stranded. The
dealer also faces a criminal
investigation, authorities said
Wednesday.
Ronnie Neff surrendered his
dealer and salesman licenses on
Tuesday, about two hours before
he received the decision by Bruce
Gould, the executive director of
the state Motor Vehicle Board. The
decision was publicly released
Wednesday.
“I’m surprised he turned his
licenses in,” Gould said. “I’m
not sure exactly why he did, but
he did, and I gladly accepted
them.”
Without a dealer or salesman
license, Neff no longer can sell
directly to the public, Gould said.
Typically when a dealer’s license is
revoked, the dealer is given about
30 days to deplete his inventory,
either by taking the vehicles to an
auction or consigning them to
another dealer.
Meanwhile, the Virginia
Department of Motor Vehicles is
conducting a criminal investigation
of Carland, agency spokeswoman
Pam Goheen said. She declined to
give details.
The dealer board looked into
Carland after receiving complaints
from at least nine service members
at Cherry Point, Fort Bragg and
Camp Lejeune.
Rush week impacts
more than Greeks
By JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
Rush week is wrapping up,
and on Friday and Saturday,
some USC students will begin
their induction into Greek
organizations. Orientation
meetings were held Sunday in
the Russell House, kicking off
fraternity and sorority rush.
Alex Rose, a first-year
international studies student
rushing for a fraternity,
described the process.
“The first two nights you
went around and you had to
meet with every fraternity and
talk with them,” he said, “and
you had to get this little sheet
stamped by every frat or else
you couldn’t accept a bid.”
“It’s basically to force people
to interact, to shop around in
terms of what fraternity they
want to join.”
Rose said that the open rush
days allowed him to visit
whomever he wanted.
Sororities hold Scholarship
Day and Service Day Tuesday
and Wednesday.
“They’ll have food and
stuff,” he said, “and you just
kind of come and hang around
with whoever you want to hang
around with.”
Today is the last day of rush
for fraternities. “Tomorrow, it’s
coat and tie, but it’s by
invitation only,” Rose said.
“They invite the people back
who they want to come.”
Friday is bid day for the
fraternities, but the sororities
aren’t done yet. They call it
Leadership Day, and end their
rush Saturday.
Rose said he was convinced
to join a fraternity for the social
factor.
“My dad did it, and it
seemed like a good way to have
some fun,” he said, and
although he has them, Rose said
wouldn’t feel right stating any
preferences at this point.
Tyler Tolleson, a second
year religious studies student.
said he had never seriously
considered joining a fraternity.
“I don’t know a lot about it,
because I’ve never been very
interested in it, but I know that
a lot of partying is involved,
and I’m not a party guy in any
sense, good or bad,” he said.
The posted schedule for
fraternity rush emphasized that
the week’s parties were dry
parties, and Rose said
everything had been fairly
subdued.
“It’s not really like I expect it
to be,” he said. “It’s not really
like the movies make it out to
be.”
He added that the different
fraternities were not exactly the
same.
“The way they deal with
things, the way they talk to
people, they’re very different,”
he said. Rose said everyone has
been friendly to him, “but I
kind of fit the stereotype,” he
said.
Tolleson pointed out that
fraternities were good ways to
network, but that they have a
downside.
“You know, I think they’re
good ways to be social, and
make a lot of friends in college,
but I also think that there is a
little too much importance put
on it. The lives of my friends
who’ve joined have just been so
consumed by it all.”
Tolleson didn’t like the idea
of hanging out with a certain
type of people.
“The whole clique thing that
you get in high school is official
in college. I’m not big on having
to do everything a certain way,”
he said. “I like being around
people and having friends and
stuff, but not when they’re
going to make me like them.”
He said he was glad he had
never pledged for a fraternity.
“I know there are advantages
they have, oh, test files, and the
upperclassmen help out the
underclassmen, but it’s just not
my thing. I’m pretty happy the
way things are now.” _
JASON STEELMANETHE GAMECOCK
Nicole Hughshenas, a second-year pre-med and psychology
student, discovers a ticket on her mother’s car on Bull Street.
■ PARKING
Continued from page 1
assault cases in the garages last
year.
“USC is an urban campus and
we want to make it one of the
safest on the East Coast/ he said.
Citing an increase in call
boxes, better lighting and more
sophisticated surveillance
equipment in several lots,
Huggins reiterated that “safety is
our first priority.”
Huggins said much of the
extra revenue is going to pay for
• a new parking garage on Bull
Street in place of a gravel lot.
However, the increase in price
has drawn much criticism,
including some from Student
Government President Zachery
Scott.
“Personally, I stand against the
raising of the garage passes
because they were already far
above the national average,”
Scott said. “However, 1 did agree
with the raising of the general
student passes in order to match
with the national average.”
Scott expressed the desire of
students for better parking
services, especially those
concerning safety. But felt that
although he understood the
decision to raise the prices of
^garage passes to pay for these
services, he did not agree with it.
Scott said that he was
“extremely disappointed” with
the approval of the increase by
the Board of Trustees despite his
objections as SG president.
“Unfortunately, sometimes the
school will decide an issue
against the students opinion,” he
said.
Among students who are in
disagreement with the increase,
few are as angered as second-year
engineering student Robert
Freeman.
“If you look at the number of
spots in each garage and do the
math on how much each spot
costs, it just doesn’t seem to add
up,” he said. “I can’t understand
where the money’s been going
for the past several years.”
Freeman, who has a student
sticker stuck on the back window
of his 1996 Ford Taurus,
typically parks at the engineering
building where both of the lots
are gravel.
“On rainy days both of the
lots flood and parking becomes
next to impossible to park. I’ve
just got to ask where the money’s
been going to before.”
For his part, , second-year
physics student Ryan Mork
recognized the decision to raise
prices as unfortunate but
necessary.
“I really can’t believe that the
increase is going to deter many
from parking on campus. It costs '
money to provide services and if
students want more parking and
more protection they’re going to
have to pay for it,” he said.
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