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NEWS USC BGLSA will host
a drag show in the Russell House
Ballroom. The proceeds, jn tips,
will go to charity.
VIEWPOINTS Alt* Harper
and Kim Patrick debate foreign
policy regarding the upcoming
presidential election.
SPORTS Stephen Demedis
updates the status of the
Gamecock football team after their
off week.
STATE
Experts can’t predict
minibottle outcome
CHARLESTON — More than one
fifth of South Carolinians are undecided
on whether they will vote for a
constitutional amendment to do away
with minibottles, according to a new
poll.
Voters will choose Nov. 2 whether or
not they want to keep the tiny bottles of
liquor or move to regular-sized bottles
like the rest of the country.
About 44 percent of those surveyed
in a Mason-Dixon poll favor the bigger
bottles compared with 35 percent who
would opt to keep the minibottles,
according to the poll conducted for The
(Charleston) Post and Courier. The poll
has a margin of error of 4 percentage
points.
NATION
60,000 voters may be
registered in 2 states
CHARLOTTE — As many as 60,000
people may be registered to vote in both
North and South Carolina, according to
an investigation by The Charlotte
OL server and WCNC-TV.
A computer comparison by the news
organizations found more than 60,000
people who appear to be registered to
vote in both states, one of several
instances of possible voter fraud cited in
an Observer article Sunday.
Halliburton targeted
by Pentagon inquiry
WASHINGTON — The Army has
agreed to a Pentagon investigation into
claims by a top contracting official that a
Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no
bid contracts worth billions of dollars
for work in Iraq and the Balkans,
according to Army documents obtained
Sunday.
The complaint alleges that the award
of contracts without competition to
restore Iraq’s oil industry and to supply
and feed U.S. troops in the Balkans puts
at risk “the integrity of the federal
contracting program as it relates to a
major defense contractor.”
It also asks protection from retaliation
for the whistle-blower, Bunnantine
Greenhouse, chief contracting officer of
the Army Corps of Engineers.
FBI chases new leads
on election attack
WASHINGTON — FBI investigators
have made new arrests and developed
leads that reinforce concerns that
terrorists plan to strike around the
presidential election, officials said
Saturday, even though the CIA has
discredited a person who told its agents
of such a plot involving al Qaeda.
A senior FBI official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said some of the
leads were culled from interviews with
thousands of individuals that agents have
conducted in the Muslim community.
WORLD
50 Iraqi soldiers dead
after rebel ambush
BAGHDAD, Iraq — In their boldest
and deadliest ambush yet, insurgents
waylaid three minibuses carrying U.S.
trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on
leave and massacred about 50 of them
— forcing many to lie down on the
ground and shooting them in the head,
officials said Sunday.
Some accounts by police said the rebels
were dressed in Iraqi military uniforms.
The killing of so many Iraqi soldiers
— unarmed and in civilian clothes — in
such an apparendy sure-footed operation
reinforced American and Iraqi suspicions
that the country’s security services have
been infiltrated by insurgents.
Massive earthquake
kills 21, injures 2,000
OJIYA, Japan — Tens of thousands
of Japanese huddled in emergency
shelters Sunday after a series of
earthquakes in northern Japan flattened
homes, toppled bridges and derailed
trains, killing at least 21 people and
injuring as many as 2,000. Eight people
were believed missing.
A 6.8-magnitude quake rocked the
largely rural Niigata prefecture Saturday
evening, rattling buildings as far away as
the Japanese capital. Several strong
quakes followed through the night, and
aftershocks continued to jolt the area
Sunday.
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BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nov. 2
will be final
election
for Brokaw
NEW YORK — As a 16-year-old
high school student, Tom Brokaw
spent his first working Election
Night in a radio station newsroom in
Yankton, S.D. He reported results
from rural polling places, and ate
chicken catered from Kip’s Blue
Moon restaurant.
His last Election Night will be
considerably grander.
NBC News is building a huge
temple of democracy at New York’s
Rockefeller Center. A giant jigsaw
puzzle map of the United States will
cover the famed ice skating surface
and the General Electric building
will be the backdrop for an electronic
bar graph tracking the Bush-Kerry
fight.
And when either candidate
reaches the magic mark of 270
MARY ALTAFFERFTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tom Brokaw gestures while
talking to friends during the
63rd annual Peabody awards
luncheon in New York.
electoral votes, fireworks will explode
over the New York City skyline.
OK, that last part’s a fib.
But you get the idea.
NBC is expecting a big night for
TV viewers, and Brokaw will be at
the center of it all.
Election Night will also mark the
end of an era in broadcast
journalism. For more than two
decades, the three biggest networks
have turned to the same men to
anchor coverage of important news
stories, Brokaw, Peter Jennings and
Dan Rather
This should be Brokaw’s last
hurrah, since he steps down as
NBC’s chief anchorman Dec. 1. By
Election Day 2008, certainly one and
maybe all three network faces will be
different. Rather turns 73 on
Halloween and is fighting for his
future after CBS’s botched story on
President Bush’s National Guard
service. Jennings is 66.
Sierra snow storm
traps group of hikers
COURTRIGHT RESERVOIR, Calif.
— As an experienced backpacker,
Frank Horath knew to check the
weather forecast before leaving on an
overnight hike with family members
to an alpine lake in the Sierra
National Forest.
The forecast said the weather
would be clear in the mountains
through the weekend, with a storm
moving in Monday. They would be
home well before then, he thought.
As Horath, his brother-in-law
and their sons huddled in their
DAY
Monday, October 25, 2004
CREED WEEK
JASON STEELMAN/THE GAMECOCK
Bobby Houch plays with “The Blue Dogs” at the courtyard
behind the Russell House on Sunday to help kick off Carolina
Creed Week. Creed Week is a celebration of the creed that all
USC students, faculty members and staff take part in by
being part of the Carolina Community.
camp Saturday night at nearly
9,900 feet on the shore of Rae
Lake, it became clear the forecast
had been wrong. The storm was
early, and it was worse than they
ever imagined.
They awoke Sunday morning,
Oct. 17, to six inches of fresh snow.
Watching more snow fall
constantly, they knew they were
trapped.
“It just snuck up on us,” Horath
said.
By the time the storm let up
Wednesday night, it had dumped
four feet of snow at the Sierra
Nevada’s highest elevations and
whipped the mountains with 50
mph wind gusts. It stranded groups
of backpackers and rock climbers
from Yosemite National Park
south to Mount Whitney, setting in
motion a series of dramatic high
elevation rescues.
By Thursday, clear weather
allowed rescuers to reach all the
hikers stranded in the mountain
range, although two of the
Yosemite rock climbers died, and
in the Lake Tahoe area near
Nevada, authorities suspended the
search for a missing mountain
biker Saturday.
Schwarzenegger
buys eco-Hummer
LOS ANGELES — Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger has introduced an
environmentally friendly Hummer,
but not the converted hydrogen
powered car he promised voters he
would build when he campaigned
for office.
Criticized by environmentalists
for owning a gas-guzzler,
Schwarzenegger said during last
year’s recall campaign that he would
convert one of his Hummers to run
on hydrogen.
Though he hasn’t done that,
the governor did introduce an
alternative Friday, a hydrogen
powered Hummer custom-built
by General Motors at his
request.
Schwarzenegger was the first
person to buy a Hummer, a
civilian version of the military
vehicle that caught the public’s
attention during the Gulf War.
GM estimates the latest version of
the vehicle, the 6,400-pound H2,
gets 10 to 13 miles per gallon.
Dealers put the figure at 8 to 10
mpg.
Though Schwarzenegger arrived
at the event in a low-pollution
vehicle, he left in a gasoline
powered SUV that typically gets
about 15 mpg. Officials said the
hydrogen Hummer needs to refuel
every 50 miles and there are only
about a dozen fueling stations
across the state.
Restaurant named
for Ted Williams
NEW YORK — Ready for “The
Curse of the Mick” ?
“It’s off the hook. It's a good
tour because it gives kids
the opportunity to be a part
of something they envy.”
MTV’S Di LEGACY
MTVU DJ, ON THE VIDEO JOCKEY
AUDITIONS HELD ON DAVIS FIELD
The family of late Hall of Famer
Mickey Mantle expressed its anger
Friday at a decision to temporarily
rename the Yankee slugger’s
eponymous restaurant, and even
worse, to call the place “Ted
Williams,” after the Red Sox great,
following Boston’s victory over the
Bronx Bombers.
The awning at the New York
restaurant carried a makeshift paper
sign reading “Ted Williams,”
covering the familiar “Mickey
Mantle” lettering. The decision was
made by the restaurant’s owner, Bill
Liederman, as an homage to the
Bostonians.
“Mickey loved Ted, and we hold
Ted’s memory in the highest
regard,” said Mantle’s widow,
Merlyn. “But Mr. Liederman’s
conduct is disgraceful and an insult
to Mickey’s memory, and to the
Yankees and their fans.”
Mantle’s sons, Danny and
David, added that the move was
made without consulting the
family. Liederman had planned to
keep the “Ted Williams” sign up
through the World Series, but he
took it down after receiving a
stream of furious phone calls. .
Sopranos star gets
new comedy snow
NEW YORK — Another cast
member of “The Sopranos” is
headed to a prime-time comedy.
Steve Schirripa, who plays
Bobby “Bacala” Bacallieri on the
HBO series, has signed a deal with
Disney’s Touchstone TV to star in
a comedy based on his book, “A
Goomba’s Guide to Life.”
The production company is
currently searching for a writer to
adapt the book for television. The
book is about stereotypes of
Italian-Americans, or ‘goombas.’
“The Sopranos” is scheduled to
end its run after its next season.
Earlier this year, actress Drea de
Matteo left the mob drama to star
opposite Matt LeBlanc in his
“Friends” spin-off, “Joey.” De
Matteo’s character, Adriana, was
killed in last season of “The
Sopranos.”
Madonna to lend
voice for ‘Arthur’
LOS ANGELES — Madonna will
head the voice cast of the big-budget
animated film “Arthur,” directed by
Luc Besson, sources close to the
movie told the Hollywood Reporter.
“Arthur” is adapted from a series
of children’s books written by
Besson, who also wrote the
screenplay for the movie.
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to
save his grandfather’s house from
developers, goes in search of treasure
hidden in the land of the Minimoys,
a tiny people living in harmony with
nature.
Madonna was said to be voicing
the part of Princess Selenia, a
character who travels with Arthur to
a mysterious forbidden city where
an evil being dwells.
The film, scheduled for a 2006
release, will include some live-action
sequences.
CAA, which represents
Madonna, separately confirmed the
deal.
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 CRIMES
(6 p.m.-6 a.m.)
■ Violent
• Nonviolent
CRIMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
Q Nonviolent
MONDAY
©Grand larceny of musical
instruments, McBryde Quad, 618
Sumter St.
Someone stole three amplifiers, a
guitar, four cymbals and two high hats
worth $3,820.
Reporting officer: J. Brewster
TUESDAY
©Larceny of money, Graduate
Science Research Center, 600
South Main St.
Someone forced open the feminine
product dispenser and removed money
and/or products. The incident
occurred in the women’s restrooms on
floors 1-5.
Reporting officer: J. Meador
©Larceny of laptop, Swearingen
Engineering Center, 315 Main St.
Someone took a Toshiba laptop
worth $1,300. L
Reporting officer: R. Baker
Simple assault and battery,
McBryde Quad, 1311 Blossom St.
The victim said Joshua Gause
struck him in the face. Investigation
cominues.
Reporting officer: J. Simmons
# Attempted auto theft, Lower Roost
Parking Lot, 103 South Marion SL
A vehicle appeared to have been
broken into through the front
window on the passenger side. The
steering column and the ignition were
broken. Nothing was taken from the
vehicle.
Reporting officer: A. Mitchell
THURSDAY
9 Suspicious activity, Melton
Observatory, 1429 Greene St.
Someone got into the
observatory and used the computer
that controls the telescope without
permission. ^
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
CAROLINIAN CREED WEEK
NAACP “REAL TALK:
PERCEPTIONS AND
MISCONCEPTIONS: GambreU Hall
room 153, 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
ALPHA LAMBDA DELTA
“ETHICS IN POLITICAL
ADVERTISING”: Russell House 322
7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
BIRDCAGE DRAG SHOW: Russell
House Ballroom, 8 p.m.
use MEN’S SOCCER vs.
FURMAN: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m.
PHARMACY DAY: Strom
Thurmond Fitness & Wellness
Center, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
THURSDAY
STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM:
LeConte College, room 210A, 2-3
p.m.
FRIDAY
USC WOMEN’S SOCCER vs.
FLORIDA: Stone Stadium, 7 p.m.
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SUNDAY
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE TEAM
WALK FOR JUVENILE DIABETES:
Carolina Research Park, 1 p.m.
ISP?
BRIEFS
Play auditions
start next month
USC Theatre South Care ina
will hold auditions for its spring
plays Nov. 12, from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. and Nov. 13, from 1
to 4 p.m.
Callbacks will be held Nov.
14, at 6:30 p.m.
Auditions will be held in the
Booker T. Washington rehearsal
studios, located on Wheat
Street, between Pickens and
Sumter streets.
Those interested in
auditioning can sign up at the
department of theatre and
dance, located on the fourth
floor of Longstreet Theatre,
beginning Nov. 5.
Actors should prepare two,
one-minute long monologues:
one from Shakespeare and
another from a contrasting,
contemporary play.
Sections from scripts for the
spring plays will be provided at
callbacks.
The spring plays are “The
Illusion” by Tony Kushner,
“Translations” by Brian Friel
and “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream” by William
Shakespeare. Some copies of
“The Illusion” and
“Translations” will be available |
for checkout from the
department offices.
Auditions are open to the
public. USC employs non
traditional casting, using
minority actors, women actors
and physically challenged acto.s
in roles where these elements
are not essential to the story of
the play.
For more information about
USC Theatre South Carolina
auditions, call Tim Donahue at
777-9353.
Literary journal {
accepting works
The Lettered Olive is
accepting poetry and prose j
submissions (limited to a
maximum of five poems or
5,000 words of prose) through
Nov. 30.
Submissions can be e
mailed to Olive@gwm.sc.edu.
Hard copies can be sent to
227 Russell House, SG 263
Columbia, SC, 29208.
Prizes of $75 and $25 will
be awarded to the best prose
and poetry.
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