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EXTENDED FORECAST ♦TODAY ♦THURSDAY ♦FRIDAY ♦SATURDAY ♦SUNDAY O'M 'TP'H’P' lATTT’R . i vl> . Uli 1xj.1L VV 1L1> www.dailygamecock.com = Look for these stories in Thursday's online edition: High 46 High 57 High 52 High 49 High 54 NEWS A USC alumnus left the school $1 million SPORTS Michael Finnegan previews the Low 27 Low 31 Low 34 Low 37 Low 26 it will use to provide scholarships for liberal arts j Women’s basketball game against Alabama. students. STATE House to consider charter school bill A proposal to create a statewide school district that would oversee charter schools passed the House Education and Public Works Committee on Tuesday. Under this bill, a charter school sponsored by the state district would get the share of state and federal money for each student that enrolls. If it has the support of the local district, it also would get local money. Rep. Bob Walker, R-Landrum, said the bill also makes it easier to apply for federal grants. The measure is headed to the House floor for debate. Ten Commandments bill passes committee A bill allowing the Ten Commandments to be displayed at the Statehouse passed ' a Senate Finance subcommittee Tuesday. The bill says the Ten Commandments can be displayed at the Statehouse or its grounds just like any other document of historical significance. An amendment the subcommittee adopted says that public money can’t be used to pay for the display. NATION Students learn about ‘intelligent design’ HARRISBURG, Pa. — High school students heard about “intelligent design” for the first time Tuesday in a school district that attracted national attention by requiring students to be made aware of it as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Administrators in the Dover Area School District read a statement to three biology classes Tuesday and were expected to read it to other classes on Wednesday, according to a statement from a law center speaking on the district’s behalf. The district is believed to be the only one in the nation to require students to hear about intelligent design — a concept that holds that the universe is so complex, it had to be created by an unspecified guiding force. Businessman pleads in oil-for-fooa case WASHINGTON —An Iraqi-American businessman, accused of pocketing millions of dollars through the U.N. oil for-food program with Iraq, pleaded guilty Tuesday to acting as an illegal agent of Saddam Hussein’s government. Samir A. Vincent, 64, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Annandale, Va., is the first person to be charged in the Justice Department’s investigation of the program, which U.N. audits have shown was badly mismanaged. The United Nations operated the p'rogram from 1996 to 2003 as a way for Iraq’s oil riches to benefit its people. WORLD Group seeks better journalist protection BRUSSELS, Belgium — A group representing journalists around the world urged governments Tuesday to do more to protect reporters, after 129 media professionals were killed in 2004, the deadliest in years. The International Federation of Journalists said Iraq was the deadliest place with 49 deaths last year, followed by the Philippines with 13 and India with seven. The group said the death toll was the highest since it began keeping records in the 1980s. China defends ouster of Communist leader BEIJING — China on Tuesday defended its 1989 decision to depose former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang for sympathizing with the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protesters, indicating there were no plans to honor him in death. The statements by a Foreign Ministry spokesman were the first official comments on Zhao since his death Monday at the age of 85. Zhao spent his last 15 years under house arrest after being dismissed as the country’s top leader, following the Chinese military’s June 4, 1989 attack on the demonstrators, which killed hundreds and possibly thousands. jBRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Keillor’s radio show celebrates 30th season with DVD NEW YORK — A key to storytelling is a sense of place. TV viewers know this, whether they’re visiting placid Mayberry or wallowing in the debauchery of Wisteria Lane. But radio can create a sense of place that’s all the more vivid for its absence of visual form. Just ask fans of “A Prairie Home Companion,” which for 30 years has transported them to the realer-than-real haven of Lake Wobegone, Minn., courtesy of host Garrison Keillor, its enduring bard. No plasma screen is needed to enjoy the hi-def experience Keillor invokes live for two hours every weekend on nearly 600 public radio stations (check local listings). But among 4 million “Prairie Home Companion” listeners, quite a number by now might be reasonably interested in putting a face to Keillor’s euphonious voice, and to get a look at how he and his troupe stage this music-and-humor show each week. Offering such a glimpse is “The 30th Broadcast Season Celebration” DVD, which captures in sound and in video, too, the show’s anniversary edition as it took place last summer from St. Paul’s Fitzgerald Theater, longtime “Prairie Home Companion” home. Keillor would be pleased if you ordered this DVD, though, to be ANN HEISENFELT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Garrison Keillor, author and public radio host of “A Prairie Home Companion," stands near the entrance of his St. Paul, Minn., home. honest, he hasn’t seen it. “Except some baseball, I haven’t watched television in 20 years,” he explains. Why then would he make an exception to watch, of all things, himself? “Anything that’s visual is really fixed in time. But the audio medium is very, very fluid,” he muses over fried eggs, corned beef hash and home fries in a Manhattan coffee shop one recent morning. “In late middle age, which is where I am now,” says the 62-year old Keillor in his unhurried cadence, “)jdu start coming around to the certain burden of what you’ve done before. But in radio, no. You are perpetually young. You are perpetually starting over new, in radio. I don’t know what I’m talking about, but these are really good ? ^ A ' “Most of my lyrics B / m v materialize from taking in everything around me. ■■■'* ^ •*- -**« Friends, stuff I see in movies or read in books.” Wednesday, January 19, 2005 __ _ _ . SONGWRITER. ON BEING A SONGWRITER potatoes.” A fine breakfast indeed, conceivably improvable only by Powdermilk Biscuits, one of the mythical “Prairie Home Companion” sponsors which, as Keillor has told his listeners too many times to count, “gives shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.” If Keillor isn’t one of those shy people, he surely represents them. Raised in Anoka, Minn., a small town outside Minneapolis, he embodies heartland reserve, even while shrewdly amused by it in others. His bulldoggish face prefers a deadpan expression. He reacts with discomfort at praise for his work, dismissing it as “a man talking slow.” Knauss opts for Dior bridal gown NEW YORK — When Melania Knauss walks down the aisle to marry real estate mogul Donald Trump, she’ll be wearing a sumptuous gown by Christian Dior. Knauss chose the gown during the haute couture shows in Paris with help from Vogue editors Sally Singer and Andre Leon Talley. She models the voluminous strapless gown on the cover of Vogue’s February issue and Singer chronicles the shopping trip over 14 pages inside. “Melania definitely got what she was looking for: a dress that would be absolutely special and a dress that could only be worn to one’s wedding,” Singer told The Associated Press Monday. Knauss will marry Trump Saturday in Palm Beach, Fla. It will be the third marriage for Trump, host of the NBC reality show “The Apprentice.” Knauss, like many brides-to-be, thought she wanted something a little more modern, but eventually realized she wanted a more theatrical dress, Singer said. “The dress also had to hold its own against the massive ballroom they’ve built at Mar-a-Lago (the Trump estate in Palm Beach),” Singer said. The room is in the ornate Louis XTV style and the visual theme of the wedding is white, gold and jewelry. Singer, who will be a guest at the wedding, said she couldn’t begin to estimate the gown’s price tag. “Some of these couture gpwns, they are showpieces. No one really expects someone to order them. ... I’m sure it cost a lot.” Ihe Vogue fashion and features director said she “believed” Trump had purchased the gown because she couldn’t imagine Dior giving away something so expensive, but she didn’t know the arrangements. Knauss, 34, wasn’t intimidated by the hunt for her wedding dress or the ceremony of haute couture. “Most women when they encounter fashion — whether it’s in a magazine or in the mall or watching the Golden Globes — they compare it to what they can wear. Melania isn’t like that, probably because she was born beautiful,” said Singer. PIANO MAN NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK Charles Fugo performs Tuesday night in Faculty Recital, a School of Music presentation. Fugo performed songs by Chopin and other artists. Because of the sheer volume of the dress, the magazine reports, Knauss decided to sit on a bench for dinner because a chair wouldn’t work and change into a new outfit following the traditional first dance with her new husband. That dress is a sexy and sleek tulle number by Vera Wang. Giuliani’s ex-wife writes about love NEW YORK — Whatever happened to that ex-love you can’t forget? Donna Hanover, former wife of ex-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, recommends reconnecting with an old flame. She did, and married him. Then she wrote a book about it. The book, “My Boyfriend’s Back: True Stories of Rediscovering Love With a Long-Lost Sweetheart," is due in bookstores Tuesday, in time for Valentine’s Day. In it, Hanover talks about finding her lost love, Ed Oster, when he called her before a Stanford University reunion, some 30 years after they split up. The couple was married in August 2003. She and Oster, an attorney, have two homes: in Newport Beach, Calif., and New York City, where Hanover is raising her children with Giuliani. “People loved hearing our story,” Hanover said in a news release promoting the book. “People often responded with their own stories of a cousin or friend who had reconnected with a long ago sweetheart and fallen in love.” Hanover, 54, the host of the nationally syndicated television program, Famous Homes & Hideaways, was divorced from Giuliani after 18 years of marriage in July 2002, following an ugly, public breakup. The book includes the stories of 50 other couples, including actress Carol Channing, who at age 80 recently married her high school sweetheart Harry Kullijian, and Suzanne Pleshette and Tom Poston, both veterans of “The Bob Newhart Show." Springer plays host to radio talk show CINCINNATI — Jerry Springer’s new radio talk show doesn’t have guests who get in fist fights or blurt foul language. Springer promised to provide unabashed liberal views to counter the positions of President Bush in the first airing Monday of his radio show in Cincinnati, where he once served as mayor. Springer, who will continue to host his more raucous TV show, called the war in Iraq immoral, saying it appeared to be focused on determining whether Iraq’s Shiite majority or Sunni minority will be in charge as the country tries to grow into independence. “Would you be willing to have your son or daughter die for that?” Springer said. Springer politely received those who called in to his radio show, in contrast to the conflict-oriented style of his TV show. Some see the radio show as a springboard for the Democrat s possible return to politics in 2006, although Springer has declined to comment on that issue. COMING UP@USC TODAY STUDENT ORGANIZATION TREASURER’S WORKSHOPS: Russell House 322/326, 3-4:40 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. THURSDAY JULIE MAE LICATA PERCUSSION RECITAL: School of Music 206, 6 p.m. STUDENT ORGANIZATION TREASURERS WORKSHOPS: Russell House 322/326, 3-4:30 p.m. and 5-6:30 p.m. STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS INFORMATION MEETING: Russell House MONDAY STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS FILING FOR CANDIDACY TUESDAY FILING DEADLINE FOR STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS WEDNESDAY STUDENT ORGANIZATION FAIR use BRIEFS Oates to speak at annual dinner National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates will speak at the University of South Carolina’s Thomas .Cooper Society annual dinner at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Columbia. A reception in the atrium at 6:30 p.m. will precede the dinner. Tickers are $40 per person and can be purchased by contacting Maggie Workman at 777-3142. Oates will receive the 11th Thomas Cooper Medal for Distinction in the Arts & Sciences. After her talk, Oates will sign copies of her books. The Gamecock needs writers Students unable to attend The Gamecock interest meeting but interested in writing for the News or The Mix are invited to contact Jon Turner at gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu or Jennifer Freeman at gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu Educators awarded advocate accolade The USC National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Houghton Mifflin Publishing Company have released this year’s recipients of the Outstanding First-Year Student Advocate Award. ITie award honors college faculty, administrators, staff and students for their outstanding work on behalf of first-year students and for the impact their efforts have on the students and culture of their institutions. Ten award recipients were chosen from HO nominations. This year’s recipients will be formally recognized Feb. 6, 2005, at the Annual Conference on The First-Year Experience in Phoenix, Ariz. POLICE REPORT Reports taken from the USC Police Department. 4 if; 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 0 Nonviolent CRIMES AT UNKNOWN HOURS □ Violent © Nonviolent FRIDAY, JAN. 14 ©Suspicious Activity, 430 Main Street, West Quad Officer G. Kerwin observed a man talking to himself, walking south along Main Street. He stopped on West Quad’s steps and sat next to a female student he said he didn’t know. When asked if he was a student, the man said he was “thinking about being one.” The officer patted the man down, finding a knife in his front pocket. He confiscated the knife and issued a trespass warning. SATURDAY, JAN. 15 Hlnformation, 1400 Blossom Street, East Quad In the early morning hours, victim reported her boyfriend had been gone since 9 p.m. and had failed to pick her up as planned at midnight. Her boyfriend of one and a half months had both her car and cell phone. In a fit of anger and frustration, the victim I flipped over two tables and a chair, broke a bottle and threw other unnamed items around her room. Reporting officers: M. Winnington and G. Kerwin. SUNDAY, JAN.-16 ©Suspicious activity and Found Property, 601 Sumter Street, Moore Dorm A fire alarm sounded early Sunday morning, apparently in response to a fire extinguisher. Officer M. Weiss could see smoke in the lobby upon entering. The source of the “smoke” was identified as the laundry room where an unknown person had discharged an entire extinguisher across the machines. ©Malicious Injury to Real Property, 614 Sumter Street, McBryde Dorm Two officers responded to a vandalism complaint that someone had broken a window on the third floor. The complainant said that an unknown person had thrown a red and-white ice chest and several beers through the window, causing $100 damage. The room was empty when officers R. Adams and R. Baker entered. 0 Disorderly Conduct, 916 Barnwell Street The officer noticed a man urinating unsteadily between two vehicles. He admitted to drinking but had no ID. The man also admitted to being only 20 years old. The officer noted slurred responses in both cases and arrested the man. Reporting Officer: M. Winnington. r--—r. pws———r—...v, Write for us. gamecockeditor@gwm.sc.edu