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NEWS Student
Government Senate meets
tonight. Find out what
happened online.
THE MIX ‘Lost Boys of
Sudan’ gives poignant
look at orphaned
immigrants who escape to
the United States.
VIEWPOINTS The
editorial board weighs in
the University’s decision
to require graduates to
have health insurance.
STATE
DHEC to receive
coastal zone grants
South Carolina will receive $4.5
million in three grants from the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, U.S. Sen. Ernest
“Fritz” Hollings said.
One grant will go to the state
Department of Health and
Environmental Control. The $2.6
million will be used for continued
implementation of the state’s
federally-approved coastal zone
management program.
A second grant of $l-.l million
will go to the South Carolina Sea
Grant Consortium for the Land
Use-Coastal Ecosystem Study. The
study examines how land use
affects marine resources.
The third grant worth $832,000
for the South Carolina Sea Grant
Consortium will be used to define,
measure and model the impacts of
urbanization on coastal estuaries of
the southeastern United States.
NATION
Explosive letter sent
to Schwarzenegger
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Authorities intercepted a letter
bound for Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger that had been
rigged to ignite when opened, one
of 19 such letters sent to governors
around the country since last week.
Three of the letters found earlier
caught fire, but no one has been
injured.
The letter to Schwarzenegger
was spotted Monday by screeners
who routinely inspect letters
intended for the governor and
other members of the state’s
executive branch at a California
Highway Patrol center in West
Sacramento, CHP spokesman Tom
Marshall said.
Schwarzenegger’s office had no
comment Tuesday.
Anti-Bush protestors
file lawsuit after rally
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A couple
arrested for wearing anti-Bush T
shirts to a July 4 presidential
appearance filed a federal lawsuit
Tuesday alleging their First
Amendment rights were violated.
Nicole and Jeff Rank were
removed from the event at the West
Virginia Capitol in handcuffs after
revealing T-shirts with President
Bush’s name crossed out on the
front. Nicole Rank’s shirt had the
words “Love America, Hate Bush”
on the back and Jeff Rank’s said
“Regime change starts at home.”
Their lawsuit was filed in federal
court by American Civil Liberties
Union attorneys.
Trespassing charges filed against
the couple were later dismissed. The
City Council and Mayor Danny
Jones have publicly apologized.
WORLD
Miss Indonesia faces
swimsuit controversy
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Artika
Sari Devi looks the part of a beauty
queen with her million-dollar smile
and hourglass figure. And she
dreams of becoming Indonesia’s
first Miss Universe.
There is only one thing holding
her back, a swimsuit.
Like most international beauty
competitions, Miss Universe
requires participants to appear in a
swimsuit, either a one-piece model
or a bikini. But here in the world’s
most populous Muslim nation, the
24-year-old Miss Indonesia faces
condemnation from religious
leaders and government officials
who say women in swimsuits
violate religious tenets requiring
them to dress modestly.
Battles over bathing suits would
seem out of place in Indonesia,
where newsstands are filled with
magazines featuring scantily clad
models and miniskirts.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
Ashton’s
eatery
robbed
twice
NEW YORK — Ashton
Kutcher's exclusive Los Angeles
restaurant, Dolce, was
burglarized twice over Labor
Day weekend, syndicated
entertainment show “Access
Hollywood” reports.
The upscale restaurant is also
owned by Kutcher’s co-stars from
“That 70’s Show”: Wilmer
Valderrama and Danny
Masterson. Also co-owners are
actors Jamie Kennedy,
Masterson’s brother Chris and 15
other investors.
The manager of Dolce would
not comment on the burglaries.
“Access” reports that the
LAPD says the restaurant was
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Actor Ashton Kutcher’s L.A.
restaurant was robbed twice
over the Labor Day weekend.
robbed of money and checks
from a small safe on Sept. 4, and
again on Sept. 6, this time taking
cash and several bottles of wine.
Kutcher is the host of the
MTV show “Punk’d.”
Bellucci becomes
mother to baby girl
PARIS — Monica Bellucci
and her husband, French actor
Vincent Cassel, became parents
over the weekend to a baby girl
named Deva, Bellucci’s agent
said Monday.
“The mother and child are
doing well,” said Laurent
Gregoire, the actress’ Paris
based agent. The child was born
Sunday in a Rome hospital.
The 34-year-old Italian
actress, a former Elite model,
has cultivated a thriving
international film career in her
native Italy and her adopted
country France. She’s also a
familiar face in Hollywood.
The actress appeared in the
two “Matrix” sequels and played
Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson’s
“The Passion of the Christ.”
Bellucci met her husband in
the mid-1990s on the set of
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Wednesday, September IS, 2004
JUST IN CASE
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JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Fire trucks sit outside the Coker Life Sciences building
Monday night after a suspicious smelt caused a false alarm.
Officials blocked off Sumter Street.
“L’Appartement,” her first
French-language film and the
first of eight movies they have
shot together.
Grisham to write
political novel
RICHMOND, Va. — What
John Grisham did for small
town lawyers in his crime
novels he’s about to do for
politicians.
The author of “The Firm,”
“A Time To hull” and other
best-selling legal thrillers said
Monday he took copious notes
during bull sessions with fellow
lawmakers during his years in
the Mississippi House of
Representatives in the late
1980s. '
One day, they’ll appear in a
beefy novel set in Ford
County, Miss., the same
fictitious venue as “A Time to
Kill,” Grisham said after he
addressed the Southern
Governors Association’s 70th
annual conference.
“I have a lot of notes; there
will be a lot of layers to it. It’ll
be a big, thick book and I’m not
in the mood to write a big thick
book right now,” Grisham said in
an interview. “It’s probably at
least five years away.”
Grisham practiced law in
Southaven, Miss., and represented
the Memphis, Term., suburb in the
legislature for six years, leaving in
1990 to focus full time on writing.
Police don’t show up
at Givens traffic trial
MIAMI — Charges were
dismissed Monday against actress
Robin Givens after three police
officers failed to show up for her
traffic court trial for running over
an elderly pedestrian’s leg.
Givens, a star of the 1980s TV
comedy “Head of the Glass” and
the ex-wife of boxer Mike Tyson,
struck Maria Antonia Alcover as
she was about to step onto the
sidewalk after crossing a busy city
street Jan. 28, police said.
After stopping at a red light,
Givens turned the corner and hit
the 89-year-old woman, sending
her into a backward fall, police
said. The back wheel of Givens’
“A lot of television viewers —
more, quite frankly, than I’m
comfortable with — get their news *
from the comedy channel on a
program called The Daily Show.”’
TED KOPPEL
‘DATELINE’ HOST, ON LATE NIGHT TELEVISION
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use BRIEFS
Library sponsoring
Faulkner program
USC’s Thomas Cooper
Society is sponsoring a
presentation centering on
William Faulkner’s “The Sound
and the Fury” on Sept. 23 at 4:30
p.m. in the Graniteville Room of
the Thomas Cooper Library.
The program will include a
talk by Boyd Saunders about a
new suite of illustrations he
created based on the Faulkner
book. Noted Faulkner scholar,
James Meriwether, will also be
speaking at theevent.
The event, which will
conclude with a reception, is
free and open to the public.
Exhibit to feature
civil rights history
An exhibit titled “Evidence of
Things Not Seen: Civil Rights
Collections at USC” will be on
display at USC’s South
Caroliniana Library from
Monday through Oct. 31.
The exhibit will
commemorate the 50th
anniversary oftheBriggsv. Elliott
court case and will feature many
items reflecting the civil rights
struggle in South Carolina.
South Caroliniana Library
and the African Americans
Studies Program are co
sponsoring the event.
GOP to register *
voters Saturday
Saturday, at the South
Florida football game, Reggie
the Voter Registration Rig will
visit USC to register people to
vote in the upcoming election.
Reggie comes with fully
interactive multimedia capa
bilities, Xbox video game
systems, and flat screen TVs.
USC College Republicans will be
serving hot dogs.
The USC College
Republicans and the University
of Southern California College
Republicans will be having a
voter registration competition.
Mercedes-Benz SUV ran over
Alcover’s right leg. She was
critically injured and suffered
internal injuries, but doctors
were able to save her foot.
Givens was ticketed for
failing to use due care with a
pedestrian in the crosswalk, an
offense carrying a fine of less
thaa^JZO- .The charge was
dropped when the officers
didn’t come to court.
Gates gives millions
to Carnegie Mellon
PITTSBURGH — The Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation has
given $20 million to Carnegie
Mellon University to help fund
construction of a new computer
science building.
The 150,000-square-foot,
$50 million building will be
called the Gates Center for
Computer Sciences and will
include space for 80 teachers
and several computer areas
“With its state-of-the-art
facilities and resources, the new
Gates Center will help us to
continue to transform computer
science with outstanding
research and thinking, while
visibly and remarkably
transforming our campus with a
bright new space for learning,”
Carnegie Mellon President Jared
L. Cohon said recently.
COM NG
UP(g)USC
TODAY
CAREER FAIR BLITZ: Carolina
Coliseum 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
use WOMEN'S SOCCER vs.
CLEMSON: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m.
VOLUNTEER FAIR: Greene
Street, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
WORKPLACEWORKSHOP: Computer
Services 309,8:45 a.m. to noon.
QUANTUM REFERENCE FRAMES
LECTURE: Jones Physical Science
Center 409, 4 p.m.
THURSDAY
ROSH HASHANAH
FRIDAY
use VOLLEYBALL vs. SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA: Basketball practice
facility, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY
use FOOTBALL vs. SOUTH
FLORIDA: Williams-Brice Stadium, 7
p.m.
use VOLLEYBALL vs. MICHIGAN
STATE: Basketball practice facility,
noon.
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 CREMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
% Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
13 Violent
O Nonviolent
SUNDAY, SEPT. 12
©Minor in Possession of Beer and
Fake ID, Intersection of Bull and
Greene Streets
Alexander Harris was stopped
for making an illegal left turn at
Greene and Bull Streets. When
reporting officer R. Baker
approached his vehicle, he saw
several cans and an unopened box
of beer in the rear of the vehicle.
Harris said the beer was his from
the football game even though
there was no smell of alcohol on
him. Harris also found a fake ID.
MONDAY, SEPT. 13
B Simple Assault, LaBorde Dorm,
615 Sumter St.
A black male wearing a black
shirt and blue baggy pants,
cornrolls and large earrings in
both ears tried to enter the dorm
with a fake USC ID. When the
victim asserted that he was using a
fake ID, he grabbed her around
the neck and shoulders with his
hands and shook her until the fake
ID fell from her hands to the
floor. The suspect then left with
the fake ID.
Reporting officer: C. Taylor.
(D Grand Larceny of P.A.
equipment, Belk Auditorium, 1705
College St.
A black receiver, black lector
Sonics body pack and a black
microphone were reported stolen
from an unsecured location.
Estimated total value is $3,000.
0 Reporting officer: D. Hare.
Disturbing School and Resisting
Arrest, Gambrell Hall, 817
Henderson St.
Darryl Adrian Martin was seen
at the Russell House acting
suspicious. Reporting officer M.
Wheeler followed Martin to
Gambrell Hall and approached him
near the elevators. When Wheeler
tried to talk to Martin, he became
loud and tried to leave. After then
disturbing the school, Wheeler
tried to put Martin under arrest,
but Martin pushed away and tried
to run. Wheeler then grabbed a
hold of Martin, and they both went
to the ground. Wheeler finally got
him handcuffed and was reading his
rights to him. Martin interrupted
him and said he knew his rights and
that what he did was wrong.
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