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LOW 36 LOW 56 Low 42 Low 38 reported to the USCPD. Charlotte.
STATE
ETV film draws ire
from state senator
State Rep. John Graham Altman, R
Charleston, wants to cut South Carolina
Educational Television’s $12.7 million
budget after it aired a documentary on
gays in the South. He said the show
actively promoted homosexuality.
“We are your Neighbors” was part of a
twice-monthly series about life in the
South. The Southern Lens series also
featured “Sentencing the Victim,” an
award-winning documentary on the
rights of crime victims.
The documentary “was just one 26
minute show out of 8,700 hours of
programming.” SCETV President
Maurice Bresnahan said.
Touch-screens prove
effective in election
New touch-screen voting machines
are expected to be shipped next month
to the state’s remaining 31 counties.
State Election Gommission Director
Marci Andino said she was satisfied with
their performance in 15 counties during
the general election earlier this month.
The few voting problems that occurred
have allowed her to feel vindicated, she
said.
About 1.6 million South
Carolinians, or 70 percent of the state ‘s
registered voters, went to the polls this
year. Almost 900,000 voters in 15
counties used the state’s new Ivotronic
touch-screen voting system, a
computerized voting machine that
stirred controversy for Andino.
NATION
Tanker leaks crude oil
into Delaware river
PHILADELPHIA — A tanker spilled
30,000 gallons of crude oil into the
Delaware River between Philadelphia
and southern New Jersey, creating a 20
mile-long slick that killed dozens of
birds and threatened other wildlife,
federal officials said Saturday.
Private contractors were called in to
skim oil from the surface of the water
and place thousands of feet of boom to
contain the floating slick.
The leak was stopped within an
hour. The cause of the spill was still
under investigation, Sarubbi said.
Colorado road crews
work to clear rocks
GLENW00D SPRINGS, Colo. —
Crews reopened a lane of traffic in each
direction Friday on a major Colorado
highway, a day after a rock slide sent
boulders as big as vans crashing onto the
road.
Repair crews could take months
before the stretch of Interstate 70 is
completely fixed, said Colorado
Department of Transportation
spokeswoman Stacey Stegman.
*More than three dozen boulders
landed on 1-70 early Thursday, some
embedded 6 feet deep.
Transportation officials estimated
that there was $1 million in damage.
WORLD
Al-Zarqawi’s group
claims responsibility
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s most
feared terror group claimed
responsibility Sunday for slaughtering
members of the Iraqi security forces in
Mosul, where dozens of bodies have
been found. The claim raises fears the
terror group has expanded to the north
after the loss of its purported base in
Fallujah.
Meanwhile, insurgents attacked U.S.
and Iraqi targets in Baghdad and in
Sunni Arab areas.
Iraq’s deputy prime minister,
Barham Saleh, said sticking to the Jan.
30 election timetable would be a
challenge, but delaying it would bolster
the insurgents’ cause.
Coal mine explosion
traps China workers
BEIJING — A gas explosion tore
through a central Chinese coal mine on
Sunday, trapping at least 187 miners,
the government said.
The accident occurred in the state
owned Chenjiashan coal mine in Shaanxi
province at 7:20 a.m. when more than
200 workers were underground, the
official Xinhua News Agency said. It did
not give an exact number of miners in the
shaft.
BRIEFS FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
Obama uses
‘Late Night’
interview to
mock GOP
Democratic Sen.-elect Barack
Obama poked fun at the Illinois
Republican Party when he appeared
as a guest on the “Late Show with
David Letterman.”
Obama told Letterman on
Friday night’s show that after
Republican challenger Jack Ryan
dropped out of the race in June,
the state’s GOP “couldn’t find
anyone out of the 12 million
people in Illinois to run against
me.”
Instead, Illinois Republicans
picked Alan Keyes, a conservative
political commentator from
Maryland, to replace Ryan on the
November ballot.
Obama won 70 percent of the
vote on Nov. 2 compared to 27
percent for Keyes.
Since arriving in Washington,
D.C., Obama told Letterman he has
had breakfast with Vice President
Dick Cheney and President Bush’s
adviser Karl Rove, and has been
spending time answering mail from
Illinois residents.
Obama, who will be the fifth
black U.S. senator in history, told
Letterman he hoped his victory will
help spur voters to elect more
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL,
poked fun at the Illinois
Republican parity Friday
night while appearing as a
guest on the “Late Show with
David Letterman."
senators of different races.
Letterman, calling Obama a
rising star, asked Obama to promise
to return as a guest when he runs for
president.
Obama responded: “I hope you
invite me (back) before then.”
Stewart makes the
most of prison time
DENVER — The food at the
Federal Corrections Camp in
Alderson, W.Va., apparently is
nothing to write home about —
unless one is eating it with Martha
Stewart.
Roman Catholic nun Carol
Gilbert, 57, who is serving time in
the same prison as the famous
homemaker, says she enjoys eating
with Stewart, although the setting
could be better.
“We’re not talking about a tea
party,” Gilbert’s attorney, Sue
Tyburski, told the Rocky Mountain
News for a story in Saturday’s
editions. “We’re talking about a big
cafeteria setting with the terrible
Monday, November 29, 2004
“That’s like going from
J.Lob to Hall Berry. We’re
getting a real good
dude.”
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food.”
Gilbert is serving 33 months on
convictions of obstructing the
national defense and damaging
government property for her role in
an anti-war protest at a missile silo in
2002.
Stewart was convicted on
obstruction of justice in May and
began serving her five-month
sentence at the women’s federal
prison Oct. 8.
Stewart, 63, is getting “kid
glove” treatment from the guards,
Tyburski said.
“She’s in great demand for
people to visit with at lunchtime,”
she said.
Gilbert seemed to confirm a
rumor that Stewart is writing a book
about her prison experience.
Stewart’s publicist did not
immediately reply to an e-mail
inquiry from The Associated Press.
Garrett collapses
while body surfing
SYDNEY, Australia —
Australian rock star-turned
lawmaker Peter Garrett was
hospitalized after collapsing on a
Sydney beach following a morning
swim, authorities said.
Garrett, former lead singer of
Midnight Oil, was taken by
ambulance to. Prince of Wales
Hospital after collapsing on
Maroubra beach in southern Sydney
early Saturday.
He* was discharged from the
hospital Saturday evening, saying he
would undergo further tests to
determine why he had collapsed.
“It’s good to be back on my feet
again,” he told reporters outside the
hospital. “(There are) no obvious
causes as to why this happened and
we’ll get some more tests and checks
done next week.”
Lifeguards came to Garrett’s aid
when he collapsed as he waded from
the water where he had been body
surfing.
Garrett’s political adviser Simon
Balderstone said Garrett had no
history of medical problems.
“He’s very fit and healthy and it’s
probably fair to say he’s a lot fitter
and healthier than your average 51
year-old Australian male,” he told
Sky News television.
The rock star and committed
environmentalist was elected in
October as a lawmaker with the
opposition Labor Party.
‘Closer’ explores
relationship woes
LOS ANGELES — Director Mike
Nichols likes to talk about what’s
floating around in his head, but
longtime partner Diane Sawyer
won’t*always play that game.
Sawyer “doesn’t answer the
infamous question, ‘Honey, what
are you thinking?’” says the 73-year
old director.
Nichols told the Chicago Sun
Times for a Sunday story that
Sawyer told him his new movie
“Closer” is about the importance of
lying, “or maybe I should say
withholding what’s in a
relationship.”
“That’s why she doesn’t answer
the ‘what are you thinking’
question. She wonders, ‘Do you
have the right to know what’s in the
other person’s head even if you love
them?”
In “Closer,” Julia Roberts stars
as a photographer who is cheating
on her not-so-nice doctor husband,
played by Clive Owen. Roberts’
character is having a fling with an
obit writer played by Jude Law, who
is lying to his much younger muse
of a girlfriend, who works in a strip
club that Owen’s character
frequents.
“We’ve all heard those fatal
words in a relationship where
someone says, ‘Just tell me. I
promise I won’t be mad. I just want
the answer,’” Nichols says. “Clive
Owen asks his wife that question in
‘Closer,’ but he really doesn’t want
the answer because it’s just a slide
into great pain.”
Celebrities skip out
on holiday parade
LOS ANGELES — The .biggest
stars at the Hollywood Christmas
Parade this year will be the marble
ones under the feet of spectators.
The annual parade, which winds
past the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
was once a tradition as rich and
famous as the celebrities who graced
its floats: Jimmy Stewart, Bob
Hope, Mary Pickford and Gregory
Peck, to name a few.
But the events cachet has
declined so much in recent years
that the Hollywood personality
generating the most excitement for
the 73rd parade on Sunday is a
cartoon character, SpongeBob
SquarePants.
The other big names? Female
boxer Lai la AN, the winners of the
reality show “The Amazing Race 5”
and out-of-tune “American Idol”
loser William Hung.
i he event has been in such dire
straits recently that the Hollywood
Chamber of Commerce called
celebrity impresario and Walk of
Fame boss Johnny Grant out of
retirement last year to try to
resuscitate it.
But even Grant, who rescued the
parade in 1978 and kept it going for
20 years, has had trouble restoring
its faded luster. The 81-year-old
honorary Hollywood mayor said he
called “just about every star in town”
for this year’s event, but most were
already booked.
“I’m not sure we have the caliber
stars today that we had back in die
era of the golden days of Hollywood.
It has changed drastically,” Grant
said. “Today the young kids are
making a lot of money and they hop
the charter jet to Miami or the ski
slopes or wherever.”
Grant hopes that the parade will
return to the days when he could
call the biggest Hollywood names
directly and ask them to appear. In
those days, he said, celebrities would
fight to be in the parade because it
was a sign they had arrived.
COMING
UP@USC
TUESDAY
HIV TESTING: Russell House
Ballroom, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
RING CEREMONY: Horseshoe, 2
p.m.
WEDNESDAY
COMEDIAN DARRELL HAMMOND:
Koger Center, 8 p.m.
ANNUAL USC TREE LIGHTING
CEREMONY: Horseshoe, 6 p.m.
SENIOR VOCAL ENSEMBLE:
School of Music Recital Hall, 4:30
p.m.
THURSDAY
STUDENT ALUMNI ESP PICK
UP: Russell House, first floor, 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
GRADUATE VOCAL ENSEMBLE:
School of Music Recital Hall, 6 p.m.
FRIDAY
LATE NIGHT CAROLINA, Russell
House, second floor lobby, 10 p.m.
to 2 a.m.
RENAISSANCE COMPUTING:
THE INTERDISCIPLINARY FUTURE:
Swearingen Engineering Center,
Amoco Hall, 2:30-4 p.m.
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BRIEFS
Students to make
quilt on AIDS day
USC student organizations,
residence halls, Greek
organizations and U101 classes
will gather on the Russell House
Patio at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday to
join together quilt panels
reflecting this year’s World AIDS
Day theme, “Women and
AIDS.”
Once the quilt panels are
connected, students will carry
the quilt to Rutledge Chapel on
the Horseshoe to join the
community-wide event, taking
place Wednesday from 6-7
p.m.
A reception will be held in the
Gressette Room of Harper
College, immediately after the
event.
Panel to discuss
election results
A panel of USC political
science faculty experts will
hold a discussion on the recent
election at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
in Room 429 of Gambrell
Hall.
The discussion, “The
Democrats: How the Election of
2004 was Lost,” will feature
analysis from a variety of
political experts on what went
wrong for the Democrats and
whether there is any hope for the
party’s future.
I'he discussion will cover
major issues surrounding the
election, including the
economy, foreign policy, 1
religion and values and women’s
issues.
For more information,
contact Betty Glad at 777-4544
or via e-mail at glad@gym.sc.edu.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
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
® Nonviolent
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10
©Larceny of Laptop, McBryde
Quad, 618 Sumter St.
Someone took two laptops worth
$1,500 and $900 from an unsecured
room.
Reporting officer: G. Kerwin
SATURDAY, NOV. 20
^Malicious Injury to Personal
Property, Larceny of Chair, Alpha Chi
Omega House, 515 Gadsden St.
Someone threw four lawn chairs, a
lawn table and an umbrella off the
building’s front porch, damaging each.
He also stole a Coleman swiveling lawn
chair worth $85 and broke a flower
pot. Estimated damage was $200.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox
MONDAY, NOV. 22
©Larceny of Change Machine,
Kappa Alpha House, 521 Lincoln
Street.
Someone stole a change machine
worth $300 and $50 in dollar bills and
quarters.
Reporting officer: A. Mitchell
O Simple Possession of Marijuana,
Roost, 103 South Marion St.
The RHD reported drug activity
and the responding officers made
contact with three subjects in their suite.
Alexander Cryan answered the door.
Jeremy Whitlock and Ron McKie were
in their suites. There was a strong odor
of marijuana coming from the main
living area. All three initially denied
smoking marijuana, but they admitted
to it after further questioning. When
McKie was asked if he had any
marijuana in his room he said he didn’t
know, but he showed the reporting
officers 4.5 oz. of marijuana hidden in a
toilet paper tube in the bathroom.
Reporting officers: R. Millhouse and
P. Jones
© Information, Columbia Hall, 918
Barnwell Street.
Tlie complainant said an
unidentified male called her room and
asked her if she would give him any
food. He asked if she would bring some
downstairs, because he didn’t have any
money. The complainant contacted an
RA, who told her to call the police.
Reporting officer: R- Millhouse
© Information, South Tower, 614
Bull St. |
The reporting officer said someone
made threatening statements on Instant
Messenger.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler