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STATE
NAACP tries to build
support for boycott
The state NAACP said it is renewing
talks with the NCAA and black religious
organizations to strengthen economic
sanctions against South Carolina.
NAACP state President Lonnie
Randolph would not elaborate on what
additional actions the NCAA might be
asked to take in support of its boycott,
but said an announcement could be
made within a month.
The state NAACP has held its
convention in states bordering South
Carolina for the past three years as
part of its boycott against South
Carolina.
The boycott was declared in 2000,
after the state pulled the Confederate
flag from atop the State House and
moved it to a monument on the
grounds.
NATION
Bush ads disguised
as TV news resurface
WASHINGTON — The Bush
administration has promoted its
education law with a video that comes
across as a news story but fails to make
clear the reporter involved was paid with
taxpayer money.
The Education Department also has
paid for rankings of newspaper coverage
of the No Child Left Behind law, a
centerpiece of the president’s domestic
agenda. Points are awarded for stories
that say President Bush and the
Republican Party are strong on
education, among other factors.
The news ratings also rank individual
reporters on how they cover the law,
based on the points system set up by
Ketchum, a public relations firm hired
by the government.
Three states to vote
on marijuana laws
PORTLAND, Ore. — Three states are
on the verge of legalizing a substance the
nation has spent millions of dollars
fighting.
In each state, activists seeking to
ease drug laws have placed a
marijuana-related proposal on the Nov.
2 ballot.
If all three measures are approved,
Montana would become the 10th state
to legalize pot for medical purposes,
Oregon would dramatically expand its
existing medical-marijuana program,
and Alaska would become the first
state to decriminalize marijuana
altogether.
WORLD
Candidates protest
election procedure
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans
packed polling stations on Saturday for a
historic presidential election that was
blemished when all 15 candidates
opposing U.S.-backed interim President
Hamid Karzai withdrew, charging the
government and the U.N. with fraud
and incompetence.
The opposition candidates claimed
the ink used to mark people’s thumbs
rubbed off too easily, allowing for mass
deception.
Electoral officials rejected opposition
demands that voting be stopped at
midday, saying it would rob millions of
people of their first chance to directly
decide their leader, and the joint U.N.
Afghan panel overseeing the election
would rule later on the vote’s
legitimacy.
Australians re-elect
leader for fourth term
SYDNEY, Australia — Prime
Minister John Howard’s conservative
alliance handily won a fourth term in
Australia’s parliamentary elections
Saturday, overcoming widespread anger
at his decision to send troops to Iraq
last year and his pledge to keep them
there.
The island continent’s robust
economy under Howard’s leadership
apparently trumped concerns about the
war.
The election was watched abroad as
the first referendum for the three main
leaders in the March 2003 invasion of
Iraq, with President Bush facing a ballot
in three weeks and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair probably facing
voters next spring.
^IEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Actors aid
in search
for dog’s
murderer
BOSTON — Comedian Richard
Pryor and former “Friends” star
Matthew Perry are adding to the
reward for information leading to the
arrest of the person who drowned a
golden retriever in the surf on the
Massachusetts coast.
The dog, which police said had
been tied up, muzzled and stuffed
inside a burlap bag, was found on
Sept. 21 by a person walking on the
beach in Nahant, Mass.
• Pryor heard about the incident
through a network of fellow
animal lovers, said Linda Horsley,
a pet sitter from Nahant, who is
helping to organize the reward
efforts with the Massachusetts
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals.
“The thinking is just so sick,”
Horsley said. “It’s important to raise
MARK J. TERRI LL/THE.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Richard Pryor waves to an
audience after receiving the
Hall of Fame award at the
NAACP 27th Image Awards
in 1996 in Pasadena, Calif.
the awareness that cruelty to animals
is just not tolerable.”
Pryor and his wife, Jennifer, have
donated $1,000 to the reward fund,
Horsley said. They have also paid
for a banner to appear at a fund
raising walk for the MSPCA on Oct.
17.'
The MSPCA said Perry has also
contributed to the fund.
The MSPCA has raised a total of
$12,000 thus far.
Walken gets star
on Hollywood walk
LOS ANGELES — Academy
Award-winning actor Christopher
Walken has left his hand and foot
prints at Hollywood’s fabled
Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
“This is a thrill, a big day for
me,” Walken said at the ceremony
Friday. “I’m not sure how I arrived
at this place today, but one sure
thing: I’ve been lucky. Thank you
for this day.”
Walken, 61, stamped prints of
dancing shoes into the cement
outside the theater, recalling his
childhood training as a dancer. ,
'These are my favorite shoes,”
Walken said. Though the dancing
shoes were crusted with cement,
Walken joked that he might hang
them off his car’s rearview
mirror.
The ceremony coincided with the
opening of Walken’s latest film,
“Around the Bend,” about four
generations of men in a broken
DAY
Monday, October 17, 2004.
“I think the white ID is
the mark of an
upperclassman. It is a
status symbol.”
BEN HOOD
FOURTH-YEAR CRIMINAL
JUSTICE AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
STUDENT, ON STUDENT IDS
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Erin Caskey, a third-year sociology student and USC cheerleader, waves to the judges at
the corner of College and Sumter streets during the Homecoming Parade on Friday.
family who reunite.
Walken’s role in 1978’s “The
Deer Hunter” earned him an
Academy Award for best supporting
actor. He also was nominated for a
2002 Oscar for his performance in
Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me If You
Can.”
Overall, Walken has starred in
more than 50 films, including “Pulp
Fiction,” “Biloxi Blues,” “Pennies
from Heaven,” “Man on Fire,” and
“Annie Hall/”
Rodman says image
blocking comeback
MONTERREY, Mexico —Former
NBA star Dennis Rodman said his
bad-boy image may be hindering his
attempts at a comeback to
professional basketball.
“They think I’m uncoachable
and I don’t know why,” Rodman
said. “I’m just a free and
independent person.”
Rodman, 43, hasn’t played pro
basketball since 2000 when he was
waived by the NBA’s Dallas
Mavericks after a 29-day stint with
the team.
Rodman, who is in Mexico to
play two games with Monterrey’s
Fuerza Regia team, acknowledged
it may be difficult for pro
basketball teams to give him a
chance.
“I’m not doing what they want
me to do,” Rodman said. “I’m just
putting it out there. ... I’m ready to
come back. I’m in good shape and I
know I can do well.”
Rodman was in Colorado last
month practicing with the Denver
Nuggets but the team’s general •
manager hasn’t said whether
Rodman will join the team.
Rodman, who was the NBA’s
leading rebounder for seven
straight seasons during the 1990s,
has stayed in the limelight
recently thanks to his brief
marriage to Carmen Electra, wild
partying and numerous brush-ins
with the law.
Stewart to promote
new CD live online
NEW YORK — Singer Rod
Stewart is heading to Harlem’s
Apollo Theater for a concert to kick
off the release of his latest CD,
“Stardust ... The Great American
Songbook: Volume III.”
The invitation-only concert on
Oct. 18 will be broadcast live on the
Internet and will feature songs from
the new album.
His first and second volumes of
“The Great American Songbook” _
released in 2002 and 2003 _ were
both Grammy nominees, together
selling more than 10 million
copies.
.Stewart sings duets on the third
volume with Dolly Parton and Bette
Midler. Eric Clapton accompanies
him on one track with his guitar,
and Stevie Wonder plays
harmonica on another.
“Singing these amazing songs has
moved me deeply,” Stewart said.
Stewart is among a group of
singers who’ve recently revived the
age-old American Songbook,
including Neil Diamond, Anna
Bergman and Barry Manilow and
21-year-old Peter Cincotti.
The live Web broadcast will be
carried on AOL.
POLICE REPORT
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DAY CRIMES
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NIGHT CRIMES
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: ■ Violent
^ Nonviolent
CREMES AT
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□ Violent
| © Nonviolent
THURSDAY, OCT. 7
©Larceny of cell phone, 1621
Greene St.
The victim said her black purse was
taken, containing an ATM and Shell
gas card, Carolina ID card, $10 in cash,
a Nokia cell phone and a key ring with
six keys. Total estimated value: $128.
Reporting officer: N. DeHaai.
©Auto break-in, larceny of
sunvisor pouch, digital video disks,
1136 Bull St.
An unknown person shattered the
driver s side window of the victim’s
car and took an “American Wedding”
DVD, one sunvisor pouch, a “When
we were Soldiers” DVD and an “8
Mile” DVD. Total estimated value:
$75. Reporting officer: R.I. Jones.
(3jAuto break-in, larceny of CDs,
800 Greene St.
The victim said on Oct. 4 someone
cut the drivers’ side plastic window
and took 10 CDs valued at a total of
$100.
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BRIEFS
DHEC revitalizes
recycling project
PalmettoPride, DHEC, USC
and the USC Athletic
Department are teaming up to
fight litter at Wiiiiams-Brice
Stadium. It takes an average of
three days to clean Williams
Brice Stadium after each home
football game, which generates
an estimated 40 tons of waste.
A new program recruits fans
to participate in a recycling
effort. The program is a
collaborative effort to inform and
encourage the Carolina
Community about the
importance of recycling and litter
prevention. Officials at
PalmettoPride and DHEC
expect to expand the recycling
program to other interested
university and college campuses
in South Carolina.
“It is our intention to use this
program to revitalize recycling
and litter prevention efforts at
USC,” said state Sen. David
Thomas, PalmettoPride
chairman. “By working together,
we will increase recycling on
USC’s campus and contribute to
a litter-free South Carolina.”
For more information about
the recycling program at USC,
contact Mary Nash at 758
6034 or log onto the
PalmettoPride Web site at
www.palmettopride.org.
Museum to host
African art exhibit
Beginning Friday, the
Columbia Museum of An will
host an exhibition of African
art, “Where Gods and Mortals
Meet: Continuity and Renewal
in Urhobo Art.”
This exhibition is the first to
focus exclusively on the art of
the Urhobo, the people of the
western fringe of the Niger
River Delta in southern Nigeria.
Approximately 80 works of art,
including photographs, video
and audio recordings of cultural
performances are included in the
exhibition. “Where Gods and
Mortals Meet” addresses the
effort to preserve culture, religion
and art in the face of
modernization.
This exhibition introduces the
spiritual beliefs, social and
economic life, and the role that
art plays among the Urhobo
people. It was organized by the
Museum for African Art in Long
Island City, N.Y. and the
Columbia exhibit was sponsored
by Columbia and BlueCross
BlueShield of South Carolina.
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