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Bob Jones to retire as
university president
Bob Jones III said Thursday he will
retire as president of the fundamentalist
Christian university that bears his name
following the school’s May graduation
ceremonies.
Jones, whose grandfather founded
the school 78 years ago, has been
president for 34 of his 65 years. He will
be replaced by his son the Rev. Stephen
Jones, who has served as vice president
for administration.
License plate bill
sent back to Senate
A bill that would have let the state
collect money for a Sons of Confederate
Veterans license tag and give profits to
that group was sent back to a Senate
committee Thursday.
Don Gordon, chairman of the South
Carolina Division of the Sons of
Confederate Veteran’s Heritage Defense
Committee, said he doesn’t see that, as a
setback.
Senate President Pro Tern Glenn
McConnell, a Charleston Republican
and SCV member, said all groups with
specialty license tags should be treated
the same. But he said he is unsure the
state should play a fund-raising role for
private groups.
NATION
CDC: Use anti-AIDS
drugs for prevention
ATLANTA — In a major policy shift,
the government recommended for the
first time Thursday that people exposed
to the AIDS virus from rapes, accidents
or occasional drug use or unsafe sex
receive drug cocktails that can keep
them from becoming infected.
The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention expanded its guidelines to
rape victims and many others Thursday.
It said treatment should start no more
than 72 hours after a person has been
exposed to the virus, and the drugs
should be used by patients for 28 days.
Christian bookstore
can’t convert profits
PUTNEY, Ky. — A- man whose
religious conversion prompted him to
turn his adult novelty shop into a
Christian bookstore is giving up because
of poor sales.
Owner Mike Braithwaite had a
religious conversion in the fall of 2002
after he was booked on charges of
distributing obscene materials at his
Love World adult novelty store.
He decided to burn all the leather
gear, rubber playthings and otherwise
naughty merchandise and convert his
business into a Bible bookstore renamed
Mike’s Place. The obscenity charges
were eventually dropped.
WORLD
Church restates ban
on contraceptive use
MADRID, Spain — The Catholic
Church in Spain backtracked from a
leading bishop’s groundbreaking
statement in support of condom use to
fight the spread of AIDS, saying instead
the church still believes artificial
contraception is immoral.
. ' A ruling Socialist politician involved
if* health care issues said she was
mystified by the church’s about-face in
the space of 24 hours. Gay groups said
they regretted the church’s return to old
policy after its “attack of lucidity.” A
liberal theologian said the church had
quickly backpedaled after the Vatican
reaffirmed its opposition to condoms.
U.S. troops launch
Mosul guerrilla raids
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. troops
launched fresh raids Thursday around
the northern city of Mosul to rein in
guerrillas who have threatened to
disrupt the upcoming election.
Iraqi forces sealed off main routes
into Baghdad one day after a wave of car
bombings rocked the capital. U.S.
forces have intensified nighttime
operations in Iraq’s third-largest city in a
race to make it safe enough for voters to
cast ballots in the Jan. 30 parliamentary
and regional elections.
In the past two weeks alone, U.S. and
Iraqi forces have rounded up 200
suspected insurgents there, the U.S.
military said.
~ BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Trump
says great
episodes
to come
NEW YORK — Before Donald
Trump walks down the aisle for a
third time, he’ll strut back into the
boardroom for the premiere of the
third season of NBC’s “The
Apprentice.”
Trump said the new season’s
“book smarts versus street smarts”
boardroom sessions will have less
“meanness” and more “emotion”
compared with the previous season,
which included screaming spats
between runner-up Jennifer Massey
and candidate Sandy Ferreira.
The real estate mogul called the
confrontations, which were filmed
last fall, “the best yet.”
“I think they’re deeper, more
emotional,” Trump told The
Associated Press on Tuesday. “I
think the emotion is what makes
them amazing. There are some that
are unbelievable.”
Although Trump wouldn’t reveal
who might be the next Omarosa
Manigault-Stallworth or Raj Bhakta,
he did use some choice words to
describe the candidates from both
book smarts team Magna and street
smarts team Networth.
Trump said Magna team member
Danny Kastner, a marketing
technology firm owner, is “smart”
and “deceptive,” while lawyer Bren
Olswanger is “cunning.” Networth
team member and real estate agent
Audrey Evans is “very, very
successful” and “she also happens to
be very attractive.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Real-estate mogul Donald
Trump, host of "The
Apprentice,” brings his hit
show back Thursday.
Trump said race and sex don’t
factor into his firing process.
“I don’t think about it,” he told
the AP. “I can’t think like that. I hire
the person.”
The new season of “The
Apprentice” premieres Thursday
night. Trump will marry model
Melania Knauss in Palm Beach, Fla.,
on Saturday.
Baker, Fuller axed
from reality ‘Race’
NEW YORK — Married
entrepreneurs Jonathan Baker and
Victoria Fuller bickered their way
across the globe on CBS’ “The
Amazing Race” but were eliminated
during Tuesday’s episode.
“I knew that he was going to be
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over the top. I know Jon very well,”
Fuller told The Associated Press on
Wednesday. “I know he can be very
enthusiastic. I was a little taken
aback by his intensity. It was so off
the charts.”
Baker went into the competition
with hopes of being the show’s
villain, but he had no idea “it would
look like that.” Most of “that” were
arguments and a shoving incident
with his wife.
“I turned off my compassion,”
said Baker. “I pushed the envelope
too far. I learned a lot about myself.
I’m deeply sorry if I offended people
out there. I look at what I saw up
there, and I didn’t like the person
that I saw.”
Viewers (and host Phil Keoghan)
were shocked when Baker, 42,
shoved the 32-year-old Fuller after a
footrace spat in Berlin during the
fifth leg of the race. After the
incident, Baker declared he was
done with the competition,
something that wasn’t seen on the
show.
“I did quit the race,” Baker told
the AP. “I said, 'It’s done.’ I was
mad at how it was handled. I was
mad at Phil. He kept asking me
these questions. I was mad at myself.
I was mad at the whole situation.”
Seven hours later, Baker changed
his mind.
“It was a flip of a switch,” he said.
“Well into the morning, [the
producers] said it was up to me if I
showed up or not. I have to say the
love of 'The Amazing Race’ put me
back on it.”
Model says babies
should breast-feed
LONDON — Australian
supermodel Elle Macpherson visited
a hospital maternity ward to
encourage new mothers to breast
feed their babies.
Macpherson, who promotes
breast-feeding for UNICEF, was
shown around the maternity unit at
the Royal Oldham Hospital in
Manchester, northern England,
Wednesday.
She presented the hospital with a
Baby Friendly Award for its work in
supporting mothers who want to
breast-feed.
In 1994, before the Royal
Oldham Hospital started working
toward Baby Friendly standards,
only 29 percent of new mothers
were breast-feeding and almost all
of those quit within the First four
weeks after the birth. By 2004,
almost two-thirds of new mothers
were breast-feeding and 40
percent were still doing so after
four weeks.
“I’ve been so impressed by the
commitment of the staff to the
ideals of being baby friendly,”
Macpherson said.
She breast-fed her two sons and
said it was “the best start in life that
I could have given them.”
“However, many women d<? not
get the help and support they need
in order to breast-feed their babies,
and this can be a major
disappointment to them,”
Macpherson said.
The World Health Organization
and UNICEF say that babies who
are fed only breast milk for the first
six months of life are less likely to
develop illnesses in infancy,
childhood and adulthood.
Their Baby Friendly Award is a
globally recognized standard of care.
Kusturica to head
film festival jury
PARIS — Director Emir
Kusturica, a two-time winner of
the Cannes Film Festival’s top
honor, will serve as president of
this year’s jury, organizers said
Wednesday. .
The Sarajevo-born director,
known for his whimsical, folkloric
style, won the Palme d’Or for
1985’s “When Father Was Away on
Business” and 1995’s
“Underground.”
Only three other directors have
won the honor twice: Shohei
Imamura of Japan, Bille August of
Denmark and Francis Ford Coppola
of the United States.
The 58th Cannes Film Festival
will take place May 11-22.
Firefox creator says
not in it for money
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Blake
Ross is. 19, the same age Bill Gates
was when he founded Microsoft,
but the surprising success of the free
Internet browser Ross helped create
doesn’t yet have him dreaming
about a Gates-sized fortune.
“That’s not really my concern
right now. I just want to make a
good product,” Ross said recently
1 from the bedroom of his parents’
condo as he the watched the Mozilla
Firefox browser quietly chip away at
Microsoft Corp.’s stranglehold on
Web surfing.
Since its release late last year,'
Firefox has gotten rave reviews for
its speed and ease of use, and has
been downloaded more than 19
million times.
But in the midst of the
groundswell, the Stanford
University sophomore seems more
concerned with his next computer
science final and working on the
latest version of the program.
“There’s a certain rush to
programming that’s difficult to
explain, a daunting challenge that
keeps you hooked,” he said. “It’s
that search for the grail that drives
me.”
Ross started learning about
computer programming at 10,
designing Web pages on AOL. That
hooked him, and he bought
programming books to learn complex
languages like C++ on his own.
When he was 14, the precocious
teen began fixing bugs in
Netscape’s Web browser from his
home computer. A few months
later, Ross told his parents he had a
job offer.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
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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
O Nonviolent
SUNDAY, JAN. 16
(^Disorderly Conduct,
Borrowed/Stolen ID, 1700 Blossom
Street, Lady Gamecock Parking Lot
Officer G. Kerwin observed a man
sitting in a parked car while on patrol.
He asked the man, who had bloodshot
eyes and smelled of alcohol, for his
driver’s license. While he searched, the
officer then noticed a borrowed/stolen
South Carolina ID in his wallet. The
man was arrested.
SATURDAY, JAN. 17
®Armed Robbery, 1600 Devine
Street
In the early morning hours, the
victim requested officers’ help to find
the culprit’s vehicle, an older-model
white van with a black male driver
weighing approximately 300 pounds.
He described the passenger as a thin
black male armed with a gun. Officers
checked campus and surrounding areas
and conducted traffic stops, but found
no one fitting the description.
Reporting officer: M. P. Weiss.
TUESDAY, JAN. 18
©Larceny of Money, 1112 Greene
Street, Law Center Canteen
A. Mitchell and J. Harrelson
responded when an unknown person
broke into a change machine Tuesday
morning by prying the door open. The
amount taken is unknown but $13.75
in quarters was retrieved from the
damaged machine and placed in
safekeeping.
WEDNESDAY JAN. 19
©Harassment, 1400 Greene Street,
Russell House
Two students at Bates West
reported in the afternoon that a female
student had been harassing them for
the past several months for unknown
reasons. She would curse at them and
call them names upon seeing them, and
had threatened them before. They filed
COMING
UP@USE
SATURDAY
LUNAFEST: A FILM FESTIVAL
BY AND ABOUT WOMEN TO
BENEFIT BREAST CANCER
FOUNDATION: Russell House
Theater, 7 a.m.
SUNDAY
JUSTIN VAUGHN AND CHRIS
MILLER CELLO RECITAL: School of
Music 206, 3:30 p.m.
MONDAY
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
ELECTIONS FILING FOR
CANDIDACY
TUESDAY
FILING DEADLINE FOR STUDENT
GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS
WEDNESDAY
STUDENT ORGANIZATION FAIR
FLASHLIGHT ONLINE
WORKSHOP: Computer Services
321,2-3:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
“WHAT’S IN YOUR IPOD? DISC
DRIVE NANOTECHNOLOGY”: Jones
Physical Science Center 409, 3:45
p.m.
WUSC NEW DJ INTEREST
MEETING: Russell House 322/326,
8 p.m.
FRIDAY
SPRING 2005 SEMINAR
SERIES, “CHEMICAL APPROACHES
TO STUDYING PROTEIN TYROSINE
PHOSPHATASES”: JONES Physical
Science Center 006,3:45 p.m.
STUDENT ORGANIZATION
BUDGETS DUE: Russell House 227,
noon
LATE NIGHT CAROLINA: Russell
House second-floor lobby, 10 p.m.
USC
BRIEFS
USC Opera to put
on ‘Merry Wives’
Opera at USC will perform
Otto Nicolai’s comedic adaptation
of Shakespeare’s “The Merry
Wives of Windsor” Feb. 4 and 6.
Curtain times are 7:30 p.m.
Friday and 3 p m. Sunday at
Keenan Theatre on Pinebelt Road
in Columbia. Student tickets are
$3.
USC to play host
to benefit festival
Lunafest, a national film festival
to support The Breast Cancer
Fund, will be held in the Russell
House Theater on Jan. 22-23. The
films will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday
and 4 p.m. Sunday. Student
admission is $5. Tickets can be
purchased at the Russell House
information desk or Manifest
Discs and Tapes on Broad River
Road. The event is co-sponsored
by Women’s Student Services and
Emigre ICE.
The Gamecock
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gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu or
Jennifer Freeman at
gamecockfeatures@gwm.sc.edu.
repons with officers K. Adams and B.
Baker to anain arrest warrants for future
incidents.
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