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IN THIS ISSUE
♦ NEWS
Five Points
face-lift
Multimillion dollar
renovation project has
Harden Street ripped up,
but business owners say
they are excited.
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♦ 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.
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♦ THE MIX
Used CDs
save money
Saving music listeners
moola, used CDs offer a
way to cash in on others
cast offs.
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♦ 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.
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WEATHER
High 86
Low 62
♦ THURS..
High 89
Low 62
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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
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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
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♦ 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
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“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