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NEWS USC receives a grant
to research alternative .
energy vehicles. The
Gamecock gos further in
depth on what this means to
the university.
SPORTS Alex Riley previews
the men’s golf team’s first
tournament of the 2004-2005
season.
VIEWPOINTS The editorial
board of The Gamecock says
the need to crack down on
underage drinking shows how
little there is for younger
students to do on campus.
STATE
Group might re-create
19th century village
MONCKS CORNER — A rural 19th
century South Carolina village
could come to life with plans by
two Berkeley County groups to
create a living history exhibit.
The idea is to move several old
buildings, including a schoolhouse,
church, post office, tenant house
and country store, to create a
village on a site next to the
Berkeley Museum.
The plans by the Berkeley
County Historical Society and the
museum are still preliminary.
“We want to develop a village as
it might have been in the late 1800s
in rural Berkeley County,”
historical society president Anne
Propst said. “This will be a great
educational tool for the county.”
Propst and Berkeley County
Museum chairwoman Shanda
Thornley said it could take as much
as $500,000 to create the village.
NATION
Divided pilots union
slows down airline
ARLINGTON, Va. — US Airways’
efforts to extract $800 million in cost
cuts from its unions and avoid a
return to bankruptcy suffered a major
setback when a divided pilots union
refused to submit a contract proposal
to its membership for a vote.
US Airways has warned that a
bankruptcy filing could happen in
the coming weeks if it cannot cut
new labor deals with its unions. A
study commissioned by the pilots’
union concluded that bankruptcy
loomed as soon as mid-September
if the airline could not implement
changes to its current operations.
The airline is seeking $295
million a year in cuts from its 3,000
pilots and $800 million from all its
unions as part of an overall plan to
cut costs by $1.5 billion a year.
Details of the contract proposal
were not made public, but people
familiar with the negotiations said
they would have required pilots to
accept a pay cut of about 20
percent and cuts to their retirement
plan of about 50 percent.
Gunman dies after
shootout near school
GENEVA, Ohio — A man opened
fire with a semiautomatic rifle on
the town’s main thoroughfare as
residents headed to work Tuesday,
wounding three people. The
gunman was killed.
Police Chief Dan Dudik would
not confirm the man killed himself
but said no one else, including
police, had fired any shots.
The shootings took place about
500 feet from an elementary school.
Several children were on their way
to class but none were hurt.
Michael J. Harwood, 32, of
nearby Madison, fired about 50
shots from a .223-caliber
semiautomatic rifle fitted with a
telescopic sight, the police chief said.
Dudik would not discuss a
possible motive but said Harwood
was aiming at a specific car, whose
driver was wounded and in guarded
condition at a hospital. A second
motorist was wounded and was
listed in satisfactory condition. A
pedestrian was treated for a
gunshot wound and released.
WORLD
Campaigning begins
for Afghan elections
KABUL, Afghanistan —
Afghanistan’s historic election
campaign got under way Tuesday,
pitting 17 hopefuls against interim
leader Hamid Karzai in the race to
become the impoverished country’s
first popularly elected president.
The U.S.-backed incumbent
inaugurated a rare new factory and
promised to help Afghans out of
poverty, while the lone female
challenger wowed widows with a
tirade against warlords.
But the danger that violence
could mar a contest supposed to
cement the country’s recovery since
the ouster of the ruling Taliban
militia in 2001 was underlined by
fresh battles with militants in the
south that killed at least seven
people.
Speeding
catches up
with rocker
Jay Kay
LONDON — Jay Kay, the lead
singer of pop band Jamiroquai,
had his driving privileges
revoked for six months for
speeding.
Sheriff Robert McCreadie of
Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland
also ordered the star to pay a
$1,350 fine on Monday and told
him his conduct was “entirely
unacceptable.”
The musician, whose full
name is Jason Kay, had pleaded
guilty. He previously explained
in a letter to the court why he
overtook a string of cars on a
road near Perth on Feb. 26,
exceeding the 70 mph speed
limit. Police officers recorded
that his four-wheel drive vehicle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jamiroquai front man Jay
Kay loses his driving
privileges for six months.
was traveling at 105 mph.
“I’d set out early in the
morning but had become stuck
behind slow moving traffic on
the single-carriageway road,”
the 34-year-old said in the
letter.
“I appreciate the maximum
penalty for this offense could
lead to the loss of my license and
this is a matter of grave concern
to me,” Kay wrote.
Nashville’s Jackson
explores sadder side
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — For an
upbeat guy, Alan Jackson sure
sings a lot of sad songs.
About half of the 12 tracks on
his new album “What I Do,” set
for release Tuesday, deal with
lost love or loneliness.
“It just happened that way,”
said Jackson, who speaks in the
same lazy drawl that he sings in.
“It wasn’t anything planned.
Even some of the lighter songs
are about that same subject. But
that’s always been my favorite
kind of song anyway.”
“What I Do” is Jackson’s
14th album and follows the
triple platinum “Greatest Hits
Volume II” collection.
Long after most of his
contemporaries have faded, he
'jj & “I see good things out
of each one of them.
It’s hard to tell. We
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Wednesday, September 8, 2004 ^Hudson
_ WOMAN’S VOLLEYBALL JOACH
PICTURE OF THE DAY
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
From left: Third-year computer information systems student Brian Buran, third-year
computer engineering student Williams Buran and first-year pharmacy student Renee
Sandlok weather the storm using borrowed umbrellas in front of the Russell House.
COM NG
UP(g)USC
TODAY *
STUDENT ORGANIZATION RENEWAL
AND TREASURERS WORKSHOPS:
Russell House 322/326, 3-4:30 p.m.
and 7-8:30 p.m.
GRAD STUDENT Q/A SESSION
WITH USC PRESIDENT ANDREW
SORENSEN: Capstone Campus
THURSDAY
DNA SEQUENCING LECTURE:
Jones Physical Science Center 409,
3:45 p.m.
COLLOQUIUM: LaConte College,
210A, 12:30-2 p.m.
LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR SENIOR
GRADUATION
FRIDAY
use SOCCER vs. BUCKNELL:
Stone Stadium, 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY
NATIVE AMERICAN BEADWORK
WORKSHOP: McKissick Museum,
1-5 p.m.
TUESDAY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
GRADUATION FAIR: Russell House
Bookstore, 11-4 p.m.
remains one of Nashville’s
biggest stars. He snagged a
leading seven awards
nominations last month from
the Country Music
Association, including one for
Entertainer of the Year.
The new album, on which
Jackson wrote five of the 12
tracks, is often melancholy. He
sings about a failing
relationship in “You Don’t
Have to Paint Me a Picture,”
learning to love again in
“There You Go,” and the pain
of losing a loved one in
“Strong Enough.”
Jackson is heartbroken but still
funny on “If French Fries Were
Fat Free,” singing in the chorus,
“If french fries were fat free and
you still loved me/ What a
wonderful world this would be.”
“My wife makes fun of me
because I have a lot of songs
with food. But I say write what
you know, and I know about
food, cars and broken hearts,”
he says.
Redford coached
ex-president Carter
PROVO, Utah — Actor and
filmmaker Robert Redford
played videotapes of the 1960
Kennedy-Nixon debate “over
and over” to coach former
President Jimmy Carter before
his debates with former
President Gerald Ford.
“I was probably president
because of Bob Redford,” said
Carter, who confided that
before the debate leading to
his 1976 election he “didn’t
know what in the world I was
going to do.”
Redford told him what not
to do. He arrived at Carter’s
house with a projector and
films of the historic debate that
made Richard Nixon look dour
and John F. Kennedy
charismatic.
Redford “played the tape over
and over and gave me advice,”
Carter said Saturday as part of an
author’s series.
Redford embraced Carter
before taking the podium to
praise his old friend at his
Sundance ski resort, nature
preserve and corporate retreat in
Utah’s Wasatch Mountains.
“His concern for peace,
human rights and justice was
more than evident when he was
in office but even more so after
he left office,” Redford said.
Carter, author of 17
nonfiction books, talked about
his writing career after serving
one term as president. He joked
that Redford offered him no
advice for the 1980 election
campaign he lost to Ronald
Reagan.
Carter’s latest work,
“Hornet’s Nest,” is a saga of
Deep South colonists during the
Revolutionary War. The
characters were patterned after
Carter’s own ancestors, who
helped settle Georgia during the
18 th century.
Music festival offers
wide array of artists
AUSTIN, Texas — As some
concerts and outdoor music
events struggle, the Austin City
Limits Music Festival revels in its
success.
The three-day festival offering
blues, rock, country, reggae and
gospel returns for its third year
to Austin’s Zilker Park on Sept.
17-19, featuring 130 bands on
eight stages. About 75,000
people are expected each day.
The festival is named for the
long-running music program that
airs nationally on public television.
Sheryl Crow, Los Lonely Boys,
The Pixies, Ben Harper and the
Innocent Criminals, and Phish
lead singer Trey Anastasio are
among the headliners. Other
acts include The Roots, Modest
Mouse, The Wailers, Medeski
Martin and Wood, Joe Ely, The
Gourds, G. Love and Special A
Sauce, Wilco, and Toots and the^
Maytals.
use BRIEFS
Cancer awareness
groups sponsor tea
•***■
October is Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. The
American Cancer Society, The
Best Chance Network, South
Carolina Department of
Health and Environmental
Control and Carolina Medical
Review are sponsoring a tea to
honor of breast cancer
survivors and to promote
breast cancer education,
detection and treatment.
The theme is “Be Victorious
in Pink.” The tea will be held
at the Lace House at the
Governor’s Mansion from
10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on
Oct. 4. RSVP toll-free at (877)
227-9398.
Law school to host
town hall meeting
Prejudice toward gay,
lesbian, bisexual and
transgender employees will be
the focus of a town hall meeting
hosted by the USC Law School.
Speakers include Kevin Dunbar,
plaintiff of a recent Columbia
lawsuit alleging discrimination
by Footlocker, Inc., and Greg
Nevins, an attorney with Lamda
Legal.
Lamda Legal has also
released a publication called
“Out at Work: A Guide for
LGBT Employees” as part of a
national campaign to promote
awareness of workplace
discrimination. The town hall
meeting will take place on Sept.
14 at 7 p.m. in the Strom
Thurmond Auditorium of the
USC Law School.
Family Fund plans
new donation drive
The Family Fund, a division
of USC’s Annual Giving
Programs, is scheduled to
begin a new drive for
donations beginning Monday.
Last year, USC faculty
members, staff members and
retirees gave $420,000 to
benefit students and programs
and $2.5 million to the
university in general.
Money from the Family
Fund goes to support academic
departments, scholarships,
athletics and student resources.
The Family Fund is led this
year by baseball coach Ray
Tanner and includes 180
faculty and staff volunteers.
This year’s goal is to raise
$500,000 by the end of the
fiscal year on June 30.
For more information about
the fund, students can visit
www.sc.edu/development/fami
ly.
POLICE REPORT
COMPILED BY JON TURNER/THE GAMECOCK
These reports are taken directly from the USC
Police Department.
Each number on
the map stands
for a crime
corresponding
with numbered
descriptions in
the list below.
DAY CRIMES
(6 a.m.-6 p.m.)
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
NIGHT CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
0 Violent
© Nonviolent
THURSDAY, SEPT. 2
(D GRAND LARCENY OF CAMERAS
MCMASTER COLLEGE ROOM 213
Unknown person or persons
removed three cameras from the
incident location after only one of
three doors was unsecure.
Estimated total value $1,600.
Reporting officer: G. Kerwin
©GRAND LARCENY OF LAPTOP
HAMILTON COLLEGE ROOM 211,
1215 PENDLETON ST.
Unknown person or persons
removed laptop from the unsecure
location. Estimated total value is
$1,000. Reporting officer: G.
Kerwin
©FLOOD CAUSING ACCIDENTAL
DAMAGE WEST QUAD ROOM 315,
438 MAIN ST.
A fire alarm caused a sprinkler in
the room to go off and leak from
the third floor to the second floor.
Reporting officer: R/B. Baker
FRIDAY, SEPT. 3
® THIRD DEGREE BURGLARY AND
LARCENY OF HAND TOOLS
GAMBRELL HALL MACHINE ROOM,
817 HENDERSON ST.
Unknown person or persons
removed these items belonging to
two victims: printer, multimeter,
fan, extension cord, hammer drill
and a tool bag with various tools
inside. Estimated total value is $1,
235. Reporting officer: M. Denard
SUNDAY, SEPT. 5
(D AUTO BREAK-IN AND LARCENY
OF CD PLAYER PENDLETON STREET
GARAGE LEVEL 5A 1501 PENDLETON
ST.
Unknown person or persons broke
the front passenger window of the
vehicle and removed a CD player.
Estimated value is $150.
Reporting officer: A. Mitchell
MONDAY, SEPT. 6
® AUTO BREAK-IN SENATE STREET
GARAGE, 1602 SENATE ST.
Unknown person or persons broke
the driver’s side door window of
the vehicle. Nothing was removed,
but the CD player appeared to be
tampered with. Reporting officer:
B. Timbers
® ACT OF NATURE S 3 LOT, 1423
WHALEY ST.
A tree branch fell on a parked car
causing damage to the trunk.
Reporting officer: J.L. Meador
® AUTO BREAK-IN PENDLETON
STREET GARAGE LEVEL 5A, 1501
PENDLETON ST.
Unknown person or persons
entered the secure vehicle by
breaking the driver’s side front
window, but took nothing.
Reporting officer: D. Pardue ^ ^
TUESDAY, SEPT. 7
® VANDALISM S 3 PARKING LOT,
1423 WHALEY ST.
Three people witnessed two
subjects damage a parked vehicle
by breaking both side view
mirrors, jumping on the hood
causing a dent, kicking and
denting the driver side doors and
breaking the front windshield.
Estimated damage cost is $1, 200.
Reporting officer: J.M. Simmons