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STATE
Fall bike week off to
quiet start at beach
MYRTLE BEACH — This week’s fell
motorcycle rally along the Grand Strand
has gotten off to a quiet start.
Police reported no major problems
and only a few wrecks as the bike week
kicked off Saturday.
The 40,000 motorcycle enthusiasts
expected, for the fall bike week is much
smaller than the several hundred
thousand bikers that come to Myrtle
Beach for the better-known spring
rallies.
“This seems like more of a family
friendly environment,” said Lee Bastillo,
who brought his children to the beach
for the week. “I don’t have to worry
about the kids seeing too many crazy
things or wondering if they’ll be safe.”
Gay candidate labels
opponent a ‘bigot’
CHARLESTON — A gay candidate for
the state House of Representatives says
his Republican opponent should be
embarrassed for saying the Democrat is
aligned with a “militant homosexual
lobby.”
Charlie Smith is seeking the
Lowcountry seat for the second time
against Rep. John Graham Altman, R
Charleston.
Smith said he is a board member for
a gay rights group called Alliance for
Full Acceptance, but he said the
nonprofit organization is not militant or
involved in those activities.
In an e-mail sent to his supporters,
Smith forwarded a copy of the letter
along with a statement calling Altman a
“bigot” and a “national embarrassment.”
NATION
Hazard level higher
at Mount St. Helens
MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL
MONUMENT, Wash. — As scientists
warned that an eruption of Mount St.
Helens appeared imminent Sunday,
eager tourists camped out along park
roads, hoping to catch a glimpse of the
seething volcano without being
overcome by ash and smok$.
A second-long tremor early Sunday
and an increase in volcanic gases
strongly suggest magma is moving
inside, researchers from the U.S.
Geological Survey said. The mountain’s
alert was raised to Level 3, the highest
possible, after a volcanic tremor was
detected Saturday for the first time since
before the mountain’s 1980 eruption.
“I don’t think anyone now thinks
this will stop with steam explosions,”
geologist Willie Scott said Sunday at the
Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano
Observatory in Vancouver, Wash.,
about SO miles south of the volcano.
WORLD
Suspected separatists
kill 40 in bombings
GAUHATI, India — In a shattering
series of attacks, suspected separatists hit
nine targets, a railroad station and eight
markets, with bombs and gunfire across
two states in northeastern India on
Saturday, killing more than 40 people.
The violence was some of the
deadliest to hit this ethnic patchwork
region, where more than three dozen
insurgent groups have been active,
including one of Asia’s longest running
separatist conflicts, dating to shortly
before India gained independence from
Britain in 1947.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility, and it wasn’t clear
whether the nine attacks in Nagaland
and Assam states were linked.
Hamas gunmen vow
more rocket attacks
JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza
Strip — Israeli troops and aircraft hit
hard at Palestinian militants Saturday,
killing at least ten on the third bloody
day of a massive Israeli incursion into
the Gaza Strip’s largest refugee camp, as
masked Hamas gunmen vowed more
rocket attacks on Israeli towns.
About 2,000 soldiers have taken
control of a 5-mile-deep chunk of
northern Gaza to counter militants
firing homemade rockets into Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
said late Saturday that the army’s
mission was to stop the rocket fire
“completely.” He told Israel Radio,
“This operation will continue as long as
necessary.”
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BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago
mayor to
seek new
marijuana
penalties
CHICAGO — Mayor Richard
Daley, a former prosecutor, runs the
nation’s third-largest city with a
pragmatic, law-and-order style. He
wears his hair short, and you’ll never
catch him in a Grateful Dead T
shirt.
So when he starts complaining
about the colossal waste of time and
money involved in prosecuting
small-time marijuana cases, people
take notice.
What IJaley did was to say late
last month that a police sergeant was
on to something when he suggested
that it might be better to impose
fines between $250 and $1,000 for
possession of small amounts of
marijuana rather than prosecute the
MARK J. TERRILL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Chicago Mayor Richard
Daley talks to the media.
cases.
Sgt. Thomas Donegan
determined that nearly 7,000 cases
involving 2.5 grams of pot or less
were filed last year in Chicago. About
94 percent were dismissed.
Daley wondered if ticketing
offenders might be smarter. “If 99
percent of the cases are thrown out
and we have police officers going (to
court to testify in the cases), why?”
the mayor said. “It costs a lot of
money for police officers to go to
court.”
In Seattle, voters passed an
initiative requiring law-enforcement
officials to make personal-use
marijuana cases their lowest priority.
In California and Oregon, possession
of a small amount of marijuana is a
misdemeanor punishable by a $100
to $500 fine. In Colorado, it doesn’t
even rise to the level of misdemeanor;
it’s a petty offense with a fine of no
more than $100.
Watts wins struggle
with throat cancer
LONDON — Rolling Stones
drummer Charlie Watts has won a
battle with throat cancer, lead singer
Mick Jagger said.
Watts, 63, was diagnosed with
cancer four months ago and recently
finished a successful six-week
chemotherapy treatment at a London
hospital.
“Charlie has had all his treatments
and he’s now been cleared and is free
of any illness,” Jagger told the Daily
Mirror for Saturday’s edition.
The chemotherapy left Watts
weak, and he will spend time
recovering with his wife, Shirley,
DAY
Monday, October 4, 2004
“I pay more to live here than
I would living off campus,
and I feel that the level of
safety that I expect has been
compromised.”
WYATT ADAMS
PHARMACY GRADUATE STUDENT ON
CONSTRUCTION WORKER
LIVE FROM WUSC
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JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
The band “The Main Line” plays in the WUSC studio Sunday during D.J. Spoony's “Cup of
Tunes” radio show.
before going back to work, the
Mirror reported.
The drummer has recendy split
his time between the Stones and his
jazz band, Tentet. Jagger said he
hoped to record new material and
schedule a tour in the near future for
the Stones.
“Keith Richards and I have been
writing lots of songs for the new
Rolling Stones album,” Jagger said.
“We haven’t booked the tour yet
and when we do we’ll let you know,
but there will definitely be another
one.”
Campbell honored
by Autry National
LOS ANGELES — Glen
Campbell is joining a heady list of
Western heroes.
The Autry National Center is
honoring Campbell with its
Western Heritage Award for
promoting the spirit and legacy of
the American West. Past recipients
include James Stewart, James
Garner, Clint Eastwood, James
Arness, Willie Nelson, Johnny
Cash, Robert Wagner, Clayton
Moore and Gene Autry.
“I’m in some pretty heavy
company,” said Campbell, 68,
noting, “Gene Autry was my hero.
Dad would take us to see his
movies. Gene Autry was just
awesome.
“He was always the good guy,
who didn’t lie, steal or cheat. He
was so considerate of other people.
I was glad to find out that Gene
Autry was just like that off the
screen.”
Campbell served 10 nights in jail
for extreme drunken driving earlier
this year following an arrest near his
posh Phoenix home. His string of
hits include “Rhinestone Cowboy,”
“Galveston,* “Gentle on My Mind”
and “By the Time I Get to
Phoenix.”
Government voids
Panama passports
PANAMA CITY, Panama —
James Bond no longer has
diplomatic status, at least not in
Panama,
The government on Friday
canceled 121 diplomatic passports
issued by the previous presidential
administration, including one
extended to actor Sean Connery.
The cancelations came as part of
a massive effort to clean up and
update the Foreign Relation
Department’s files, according to
Vice President Samuel Lewis
Navarro.
The vice president described the
Scotland-born Connery as a friend
of former President Mireya
MOSCOSO. Connery traveled to
Panama in March 2003, visited a
coffee plantation belonging to
Moscoso and received an award <
from the then-president. i
\rt collector opts
for normal display
LONDON — He is famous for his
iffection for unmade beds and
jickled sharks, but art collector
Charles Saatchi has chosen to
feature the more traditional medium
jf painting for his gallery’s 20th
inniversary.
Saatchi plans to clear his Saatchi
Sallery in London of installations
jy well-known artists such as
)amien Hirst, who was responsible
or the shark, and Tracey Emin,
vho showcased her bed.
Starting Jan. 26, his exhibition
‘The Triumph of Painting” will
how the works of Martin
(ippenberger, Peter Doig,
Marlene Dumas. Luc Tuymans,
org Immendorff and Hermann
MitSCh, all established painters,
ilthough not well known outside
:ontemporary art circles.
“For the last 10 years, only five of
he 40 Turner Prize artists have been
jure painters,” Saatchi said Friday,
eferring to Britain’s prestigious art
jrize.
“We think it’s time for a painting
urvey, looking at established
nternational artists and later on in
he year, the younger new young
Jainters.”
Saatchi, who married TV chef
iigella Lawson last year, has
lelighted and disgusted audiences
hroughout the world with his
ollection.
POLICE REPORT
Sports taken from the USC Police Department.
Each number on
the map stands
fora 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
13 Violent
@ Nonviolent
THURSDAY
©Larceny of laptop, Bates House
room 908-B, 1423 Whaley St.
Someone took a black Dell laptop
from the room. The laptop was worth
$1,700.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox.
@Auto break-in, larceny of
speakers, Roost Dorm parking lot,
147 S. Marion St.
Someone broke into a parked
vehicle and took two Pioneer speakers
worth $100.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox.
B Assault with intent to kill, Bates
House room 401 -C, 1423 Whaley
St.
Cambreion Sa’el Ryans’ three
week problem with his roommate led
to a verbal altercation in the room and
later to the common area in Bates
House. Ryans threatened to stab his
roommate and a roommate’s friend,
who was not preset, with what
looked like a knife with a black handle
and silver blade. There was no
physical contact because another
person was able to calm down the
situation, and Ryans went back to the
room. The room and common area
were searched, but no knife was
found. Ryans said he did not have a
knife and was using his keys when he
threatened the victims. University
Housing is arranging for room
changes.
Reporting officer: R. Baker.
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SPURS & STRUTS: Davis Field,
time to be announced
FIRST DAY OF HOMECOMING
WEEK
TUESDAY
HOMECOMING SHOWCASE:
Roger Center, 8 p.m.
PRE-MEDICAL ACADEMIC &
CAREER EXPLORATION SERIES:
Towers Classroom, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
HIP-HOP HUMP DAY: Greene
Street, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
CAROLINA BAND JAM: Russell
House Ballroom, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY ,
FLOATBUILDING PARTY: Corner
of Gadsden and Greene streets,
8.pm.
MIDPOINT IN THE SEMESTER
FRIDAY
COCKFEST: Williams-Brice
Stadium, 8 p.m.
HOMECOMING PARADE:
Greene, Sumter and Pendleton
Streets, 4 p.m.
SATURDAY
use FOOTBALL vs.
MISSISSIPPI
GREAT GAMECOCK TAILGATE
PARTY: National Guard Armory,
Bluff Road, 2 hours before the
game.
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BRIEFS
Workshop offers
PowerPoint tips
On Wednesday, instructional
developer Vera Polyakova
Norwood will be teaching a
workshop on PowerPoint,
“Waking up From ‘PowerPoint
Induced Sleep’: Effective Use of
PowerPoint for Teaching,” from
2-3:30 p.m. at the Thomas
Cooper Library.
Workshop participants will
examine the educational value of
PowerPoint and explore teaching
situations, which can benefit
from the use of this presentation
software.
The workshop will include a
discussion of current practices,
experiences, and success (or
horror) stories about using this
software as a teaching tool.
PowerPoint tips, teaching
techniques and an instrument for
evaluating its use in the
classroom will be shared with
participants.
A hands-on exercise will give
participants a chance to practice
with new ideas and techniques
learned at the workshop.
To register, contact Bettie
Wright at bwright@gwm.sc.edu
and provide your name, email
address and the name of your
department. Registration is free
for USC faculty members, staff
and students.
Graduate schools
to recruit at fair
USC will host a graduate and
professional school fair on Oct.
7 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Schools from various cities and
states will be at the fair
answering questions about the
kinds of programs that exist for
students with undergraduate
educations.
Representatives from Kaplan
will be on hand to answer
questions about preparing for
examinations such as the MCAT
and GRE.
The event, sponsored by the
Graduate Student Association,
will feature a number of
giveaways and prizes and will be
held on Greene Street. For more
information, contact Nabeela
Zahid at 777-2477.
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