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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.
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