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www.dailygamecock.com WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 V0/ Since°908 IN THIS ISSUE ♦ NEWS Five Points face-lift Multimillion dollar renovation project has Harden Street ripped up, but business owners say they are excited. Page 4 ♦ VIEWPOINTS Bureaucracy caused 9/11 Curtis Chow makes note of how problems in the federal bureaucracy — CIA, FBI, NSA — namely their failure to communicate, caused 9/11. gg Page 7 ♦ THE MIX Used CDs save money Saving music listeners moola, used CDs offer a way to cash in on others cast offs. Page 8 ♦ SPORTS Wiggins leads USC tennis team season Jake Broom previews the upcoming season, heralding the return of 25th-ranked Danielle Wiggins, who went 21 13 for USC last season. Page 11 WEATHER High 86 Low 62 ♦ THURS.. High 89 Low 62 FOR EXTENDED FORECAST, SEE PAGE 2. INDEX Comics and Crossword.10 Classifieds.13 Horoscopes.10 Letters to the Editor.7 Online Poll.7 Police Report.j.2 MENINGITIS Student battles rare fatal disease ■ First-year KA pledge ‘still very nr in hospital By ALEXIS STRATTON THE GAMECOCK Kirkland Darby, the first-year business student diagnosed with bacterial meningitis Monday, was reported to be in serious condition Tuesday evening as he battled the fatal disease from a local hospital bed. Housing Director Gene Luna said Tuesday that Darby was “still very ill,” but that “every hour he is still with us is a very good sign.” First-year business student Mitchell Kiser, Darby’s roommate, and another student drove Darby to Palmetto Health Baptist Hospital Monday morning. Luna said the two took Darby to the hospital when they found him unresponsive and lethargic. “Their care and support for their friend may be why he is with us today,” Luna said. USC and the Thomson Student Health Center were informed by late morning of Darby’s condition and sent the information to the USC community through USC’s Web site, e-mails, notices on WRHA, phone calls and personal visits to those most at risk. Bacterial meningitis is the more ♦ Please see MENINGITIS, page 6 MENINGITIS J ♦ Definition: an infection of the fluid of a person's spinal cord and the fluid that surrounds the brain, ^jj ♦ Early symptoms: High fever, severe headaches, neck stiffness, nausea, vomiting, confusion, lethargy, rashes. Anyone who has these symptoms should seek medical cate immediately. ♦ How it is spread: Close contact with the infected, generally through respiratory and throat secretions. 4 Who needs antibiotic treatment Students who have had close contact with Kirkland Darby within the last seven days, jfr especialiy those in the fraternity Kappa Alpha, sorority Zeta Tau Alpha, or on the third floor of LaBorde. Students who attend the same classes as Darby or attended the football game but did not share ^ drinks, eating utensils, or have other cbse^. contact with him should not be at risk. SOURCES: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL. MENINGITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, USC STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES ISRAELI WALL r ' ~ l ' -__jI JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK Student groups built a 30-foot wall on Greene Street Monday to protest Israel’s wall around the West Bank region. Below, other students counter protested, saying the wall was necessary to defeat terrorism. Both sides of the wall ■ Israel’s barrier sparks debate on Greene Street By JON TURNER THE GAMECOCK Greene Street was transformed into the West Bank Tuesday as a 30 foot wall separated two groups of protesters over Israel’s security policies. On one side of the road, the Carolina Peace Resource Center, Muslim Student Association, Stop the Wall Tour and Students Allied for a Greener Earth set up displays urging students to protest what they called a “massive civil rights violation.” On the other side, Hillel, a Jewish organization, and Students Defending Democracy posted reminders of Israel’s need for self defense. “Stop killing Israeli children,” the signs read. “The barrier saves lives.” Erica Kay, a founder of the Stop the Wall Tour, said she was inspired by the impressions of people visiting the Wall in Israel. “We decided, well, a lot of people in the U.S. haven’t had that opportunity, so why don’t we take it to them?” she said. “We started building this thing up in our own community in Seattle, Washington, and one day someone just said, ‘Well why don’t you throw the wall on top of a trailer and.take it around the country so people can get an idea of what it is?’” USC students had mixed reactions to the display, a 60-foot tarp draped over a 30-foot plastic framework. Kathryn Miller, a first-year international studies student, said she understood the strategy, but she didn’t think Israeli’s method was going to heal the hatred of extremists. “It’s not saving the problem, because it’s just inflaming terror,” she said. Miller said the wall could be considered a metaphor for the division that already exists between Israelis and Palestinians and compared the conflict to the Cold War. “It’s a whole different kind of war,” she said. “But the tensions are just as deeply embedded as with Americans and communists. It’s hard for us to put ourselves in the shoes of Palestinians or Israelis in the West Bank.” Miller had trouble identifying t ♦ Please see WALL, page 3 Students can register to vote from Columbia ■ Absentee request forms available online By THOMAS CHANDLER THE GAMECOCK Students can register to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election from their Columbia addresses if they include an official government document, such as a utility or cell phone bill, sent to their local addresses. Gloria Wilson, with the Richland county board of Voter Registration, said students could mail these documents to the Voter Registration office or present them at the polls as a proof of residence. She said several registration forms she has received from student organizations lists the Russell House as the students’ residence, which is incorrect. USC’s campus straddles house districts 72 and 74, so election officials have to know where the student is living to make sure he or she votes in the correct precinct. Students who want to vote absentee can visit Harvard’s “State-by-State Guide to Absentee Voting” at www.iop.harvard.edu. The S.C. Election Commission’s Web site reads that to be eligible to register in Columbia, “Students must demonstrate that they intend to remain in the community permanently or indefinitely.” In the 1998 amendments to the Higher Education Act, the federal government ordered the distribution of adequate registration materials throughout college and university campuses at least 120 days prior to an election. USC partially fulfills the requirements by making registration materials available ♦ Please see ABSENTEE, page 4 RHA axes cable show funding, gives it to WRHA By JACOB DAVIS THEGAMEOCK The RHA Senate cut CTV from its budget Tuesday night, leaving the group with none of the $7,400 it requested, allotting instead $1,010 to WRHA to produce a show to replace the one CTV had provided. The budget passed 34-16, just barely enough to give the two-thirds majority necessary to pass the budget. Four senators abstained. RHA treasurer Dierdre McCabe presented the budget that the executive committee had approved, but before senators could vote CTV affiliate Adam Pennett told the Senate he was upset with the decision. “1 feel disrespected,” Pennett said. “We have already had our vote and our right to speak taken away, and now our funding has also been removed.” In his committee report, WRHA representative Brian $ “I feel disrespected. We have already had our vote and our right to speak taken away, and now our funding has also been removed.” ADAM PENNETT CTV AFFILIATE Wayne cited “the lack of production from CTV in the past.” McCabe also reported that “as a Senator in Maxcy last year, I can tell you, students don’t watch, and most of them don’t even know what CTV is. If WRHA could produce what CTV does for less money, it cannot help but benefit our constituents.” Moderator Nicole Modeen from Preston agreed saying, “we had this same debate last year when we allotted CTV money. In terms of benefiting our residents, maybe we need something fresh.” The budget has a surplus of more than $6,600, with ♦ Please see RHA, page 5 J