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Look for these stories in Tuesday's online edition:
NEWS Highlights of the
debate between U.S. Senate
candidates Jim DeMintand Inez
Tenenbaum.
VIEWPOINTS The
Gamecock editorial board
criticizes U.S. policy for releasing
' Afghan terror suspects.
SPORTS David Stagg offers
his insight on the Major League
Baseball playoffs and his
hometown Houston Astros.
STATE
Police agencies work
to stop dogfighting
Led by South Carolina Attorney
General Henry McMaster, state police
agencies have launched an organized
campaign to stop dogfighting.
McMaster said the events are
increasingly linked to drug dealing.
Others say the dogs used for fighting are
abused and can attack people. People
attending the events also bet heavily on
the animals, authorities say.
Since McMaster formed a
dogfighting task force this spring, state
and local authorities have made criminal
cases against at least 28 people suspected
of dogfighting or owning equipment
used to support it.
Authorities identify
84 groups as gangs
CHARLESTON — Police agencies
statewide have begun to look more
closely at a connection between crime
and gangs.
State authorities have identified 84
groups in S.C. that fit the general
definition of a gang.
A report by the National Drug
Intelligence Center in 2001 said a
variety of gangs had taken root in S.C.,
predominantly in Charleston, Columbia
and Grenville. The report said these
gangs were responsible for drug
trafficking, home invasions, drive-by
shootings and other crimes.
NATION
No metal detectors
at protests, court says
ATLANTA — Fear of a terrorist attack
is not sufficient reason for authorities to
search people at a protest, a federal
appeals court has ruled, saying Sept. 11
“cannot be the day liberty perished.”
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled
unanimously Friday that protesters may
not be required to pass through metal
detectors when they gather next month
for a rally against a U.S. training
academy for Latin American soldiers.
Authorities began using the metal
detectors at the annual School of the
Americas protest after the 2001 terrorist
attacks, but the court found that
practice to be unconstitutional.
Ex-adviser criticizes
Bush’s diplomacy
WASHINGTON — The national
security adviser under the first President
Bush says the current president acted
contemptuously toward NATO and
Europe after Sept. 11 and is trying to
cooperate now out of desperation to
“rescue a failing venture” in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Brent Scowcroft, a mentor to the
current national security adviser,
Condoleezza Rice, also said in an
interview published in England that
Bush is inordinately influenced by Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
“Sharon just has him wrapped
around his little finger,” Scowcroft told
London’s Financial Times. “I think the
president is mesmerized.”
WORLD
Zarqawi Movement
allies with al Qaeda
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The most feared
militant group in Iraq, the movement of
terror mastermind Abu Musab al
Zarqawi, declared its allegiance to
Osama bin Laden on Sunday, saying it
had agreed with al Qaeda over strategy
and the need for unity against “the
enemies of Islam.”
The declaration, which began with a
Quranic verse encouraging Muslim
unity, said al-Zarqawi considered bin
Laden “the best leader for Islam’s
armies against all infidels and
apostates.”
Martha’s
stay adds
novelty to
small town
ALDERSON, W.Va. — Residents
of this small community are
adjusting to having celebrity
homemaker Martha Stewart as
their neighbor in the federal prison
camp outside town, where the
maven of good taste says “everyone
is nice.”
“Things have calmed down,” said
Shirley Nichols in the mayor’s office.
“The only difference now is fans are
calling to get her address.”
Curiosity-seekers still arrive in the
town of 1,000 people in the
Appalachian hills of southeastern
West Virginia, about 270 miles
southwest of Washington, to see
where Stewart will spend the next
five months for lying about a stock
sale.
“With Martha here and the fall
STEVE HELBER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
An SUV enters the front gate
of the Alderson Federal
Prison Camp past a group of
reporters in Alderson, W.Va.
GIs refuse orders in
unarmored trucks
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. Army
Reserve soldiers who refused orders to
drive a dangerous route were members
of one of a few supply units whose
trucks are still unarmored, their
commanding general said Sunday.
The soldiers, now under
investigation, had previously focused on
local missions in safer parts of southern
Iraq and had never driven a convoy
north along the attack-prone roads
passing through Baghdad.
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BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
season, it is easy for people to say “Let’s
take a drive there,’” said Patti Grafton,
owner ofWolf Creek Gallery.
The 63-year-old Stewart slipped
into the Alderson Federal Prison
Camp, the nation’s oldest prison for
women, on Oct. 8. She is expected
to remain until March 6.
During her first two weeks,
Stewart is undergoing an
indoctrination period to learn about
the camp and its way of life for
about 1,000 inmates.
In a message posted Friday on her
Web site, she said she is adjusting
well to the prison and described it as
“like an old-fashioned college
campus, without the freedom, of
course.”
The minimum-security facility
covers 105 acres of rolling
countryside along the Greenbrier
River, about 115 miles from the
state’s capital, Charleston.
Newcomers like Stewart are
assigned to “cottages," four-wing
buildings with 125 bunks per wing,
that also house women undergoing
drug treatment and inmates with
health problems or disabilities.
In an accommodation to her age,
Stewart was assigned to a lower
bunk. After her orientation period,
she could be moved to the 500-bed
dormitory.
Rocker Lee drums
with marching band
LINCOLN, Neb. — Drummer
Tommy Lee has played plenty of
stadium shows with his band Motley
Crue. But none was quite like his
performance with the University of
Nebraska marching band before
77,881 red-clad football fans.
“Oh yeah, it’s real different,” Lee
said of Saturday’s halftime show at
the Baylor-Nebraska game in
Memorial Stadium. “That was
awesome, absolutely great.”
Lee is in Lincoln filming a
prospective NBC-TV reality show
in which he takes classes at Nebraska
including chemistry and the history
of rock ‘n’ roll.
If the show makes the cut, it is
scheduled to ait on NBC in July.
Lee, 42, joined the band in the
stands in full uniform, playing along
with other drummers, a broad smile
on his face.
Lee took part in the band’s Latin
music halftime show, playing a rack
of five tom-toms carried on his
shoulders.
A cheer went up from the stands
as Lee was shown on the stadium’s
giant TV screens during a rendition
of the Cuban song “Malaguena.”
Aussie critic slams
reality television
GOLD COAST, Australia —
Australian television critic and
author Clive James launched a
scathing attack on the thirst for
fame, which he says has fueled the
reality television phenomenon.
Speaking to a national
conference of commercial radio
stations, James suggested that reality
shows and celebrity-obsessed tabloid
newspapers were making people
famous for doing nothing.
“If you ask people what they
would like to do with their lives,
they say they’d like to be famous or
on television,” said James, who is
based in London.
But “they don’t say what for
and they have nothing to offer. If
you want to be famous, urinate on
the shoe of someone who is
famous.”
James, who has hosted TV shows
in Britain and written poetry and an
acclaimed memoir, cited the
example of Rebecca LOOS, who
became a' minoi^personabty after
claiming to have had sex with her
former boss, soccer star David
Beckham.
“Rebecca sold her story and is
now a TV star,” he said. “We
should ... do our best to get back to
a state where fame, if we have to
have it, is at least dependent on
some kind of achievement.”
WTC architect
seeks group effort
NEW DELHI, India — Architect
Daniel Libeskind, designer of the
master plan for redeveloping New
York’s World Trade Center site,
says no one architect should
control the design of an entire
public space.
Libeskind, speaking Saturday to
more than 200 Indian architecture
students, said the amount of input
into the World Trade Center
project will make it difficult in the
future for architects to dictate their
ideas on public buildings without
collaboration.
“If a project is weak, by the end
of all the compromises, there will
be nothing left," he said. “But if it
is strong, compromises will forge
it.”
Thousands of people around the
world sent in prospective designs for
the project.
The cornerstone of Libeskind’s
design was laid July 4 for the
Freedom Tower, the first skyscraper
to go up at the 16-acre site.
use BRIEFS
Graduate schools
preview programs
A two-day program to help
prospective students .explore
graduate degree programs at the
Moore School of Business at the
USC will be held Thursday and
Friday.
Graduate Programs Showcase will
take place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on
Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 4:15
p.m. on Friday at the Moore School
and Capstone House, across from
the Moore School.
Moore offers the International
MBA, the Professional MBA, the
Master of Accounting, the Master of
Economics and the Master of
Human Resources.
Representatives of ’ six
international schools that partner
with the Moore School’s top-ranked
International MBA program will be
available to discuss their programs
with prospective students.
The schools include ESCP-EAP
in Paris, France; CDC in Cologne
and SIT in Tuebingen, Germany;
Centro Studi Italiani in Urbania,
Italy; FGV-ISAE in Curitiba, Brazil;
ESADE in Barcelona, Spain; and
ITESM in Guadalajara, Mexico.
For more information on the
Moore School’s Graduate Programs
Showcase, or to register online,
students Van visit the Web site
http://mooreschool.sc.edu/moor e/gr
adadm/showcase/showcase.htm, or
call Reena Lichtenfeld at 777-6749.
Honors College
awards top alumnus
Rear Admiral Jacob L. Shuford,
DAY
Monday, October 18, 2004
“This endowment is
broader, and I think that its
impact will be broader than
any single gift.”
J8EL SMITH
MOORE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
DEAN, ON A $3 MILLION CASH
DONATION FROM SONOCO
P—I-:—
MEN AT WORK
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Construction workers drill supports next to the stairs at the Bull Street parking garage. The
construction will extend available parking over the pre-existing gravel space.
COMING
UP@USC
TUESDAY
PRE-MED ACADEMIC & CAREER
EXPLORATION SERIES: Towers
Classroom, 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
HIP-HOP HUMP DAY: Greene
Street, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
THURSDAY
“MODAL ANALYSIS OF
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS”: Jones
Physical Science Center, Rogers
Room, 3:45 p.m.
STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
LeConte 210A, 2 p.m.
FRIDAY
use VOLLEYBALL VS. GEORGIA:
Basketball Practice Facility, 7 p.m.
“SCALING RELATIONS IN
BIOLOGY": Jones Physical Science
Center, 3:45 p.m.
SATURDAY
SOUTH CAROLINA STATE
STUDENT ASSOCIATION
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
Gambrell Hall, 9 to 11:30 a.m.
SUNDAY
use WOMEN’S SOCCER vs.
LSU: Stone Stadium, 1 p.m.
use VOLLEYBALL vs. FLORIDA:
Basketball Practice Facility, 1 p.m.
the 51st president of the Naval War
College in Newport, R.I., is the 2004
recipient of the South Carolina
Honors College Distinguished
Alumni Award.
Presented during the USC’s
Homecoming events, th% award goes
to alumni who1 excel in their chosen
professions and who have
contributed time and effort to the
betterment of the Honors College or
their communities.
Shuford, who grew up in
Bishopville, was among the first
students admitted to USC’s honors
program, the forerunner of South
Carolina Honors College. He was
attracted to USC, in part, because he
loved the Gamecocks, and he has
remained a dedicated fan throughout i
his military career.
Shuford came to USC with an
interest in journalism and
performing arts. At USC, he was a
member of Kappa Sigma fraternity
and booked artistic performances for
the university. He earned his
bachelor’s degree in arts and letters,
but it wds his commission in 1974
from the NROTC program at USC
that put him on the path toward the
military.
Shuford’s honors include the
Defense Superior Service Medal,
Bronze Star, the Legion of Merit
(five awards), the Meritorious
Service Medal (three awards), the
Navy Commendation Medal (three
awards) and the Navy Achievement
Medal. However, he said the award
from South Carolina Honors
College is particularly meaningful.
“I’m honored to be a part of
something important — an
institution with a great history and
continuing impact. It is very nice to
be ‘claimed’ by your alma mater.”
Shuford said.
POLICE REPORT
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 CRLMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
% Nonviolent
CRLMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
© Nonviolent
Reports taken from USC Police Department.
MONDAY, OCT. 11
OAuto break-in, Larceny of CD
player, C Lot Coliseum, 600 Park St.
Someone used a brick to break the
passenger side window of a parked
vehicle and take a CD player, radar
detector and hair clippers. Total
estimated value is $430.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox
©Auto break-in, Larceny of
portable CD player, AD 9 Lot, Corner
of Blossom and Park streets
Someone tore out the windows to a
Jeep and took a portable CD player at
an estimated value of $70.
Reporting officer: T. Brewster
TUESDAY, OCT 12
©Auto break-in, larceny of CDs,
Pendleton Street Garage, 1501
Pendleton St.
Someone broke the passenger side
window and took 40 CDs. Total
estimated value is $400.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
WEDNESDAY OCT. 13
©Larceny of laptop, Columbia Hall,
918 Barnwell St.
Someone took a black Dell laptop
and Visa credit card from the
unsecured location. Estimated value is
$1,800.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox
©Larceny of Motor Vehicle, AD 9
Lot, Corner of Blossom and Park
streets *
Someone used the keys left in the
glove compartment to take the vehicle.
Estimated value is $4,000.
Reporting officer: T. Brewster