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I
STATE
Clemson dorm fees,
SAT scores increase
Clemson University students will pay
more to live on campus next year.
The increases will boost housing fees
beginning in the fall semester for two
freshman dorms by $75 and three
upper-class dorms by $80-$ 100.
Clemson apartments will see increases
ranging from $85 to $115, officials said.
In-state applications to Clemson are up
by 16 percent this year compared with
•2004. The average SAT scores for
.applicants also is up 16 points this year
to 1198.
Casino to advertise
on pregnant woman
MYRTLE BEACH — A Myrtle Beach
woman selling advertising on her
pregnant belly will receive $4,050 from
the highest eBay auction bidder, Golden
Palace Casino. Amber Rainey will have
the online casino’s Web site temporarily
tattooed to her stomach Thursday. It
will remain until she delivers her first
child, due on March 21. Rainey has
received national attention as her eBay
auction page received more than 50,000
hits. Rainey said Golden Palace officials
would like her to expose her belly at
concerts and the Super Bowl, though no
final decisions have been made.
NATION
Army, Halliburton
resolve payment tiff
VYAbMINUIUN — I he Army said
Thursday it will not withhold any of the
payments due Halliburton in a contract
providing services to U.S. troops in Iraq
and elsewhere. The Army flip-flopped
several times last year on whether it
would withhold 15 percent of the
payments, which could have cost Vice
President t)ick Cheney’s former
company $60 million a month.
The potential withholding was
related to billing disputes for work
orders in which requirements may
change.
‘Crazy For You’ bear
pulled from market
MONTPELIER, Vt. — To the relief of
advocates for the mentally ill, the
Vermont Teddy Bear Co. said Thursday
that its straitjacketed “Crazy For You”
bears are sold out and that it will not
make any more.
For weeks, advocates and Republican
Gov. James Douglas have criticized the
toy as insensitive. The $69.95 bear,
marketed as a Valentine’s Day gift, came
with a straitjacket and commitment
papers.
The company said it had decided
weeks ago that it would stop
rfnanufacturing the bears but would
^continue selling them through
Valentine’s Day.
■C
WORLD
*1
Prime minister dead
after heater gas leak
TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian Prime
•Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead
•Thursday following an apparent gas leak
Trom a heater, dealing a blow to the
J^oung government’s efforts to wipe out
Corruption and resolve two simmering
^separatist conflicts in the former Soviet
•republic.
^ Authorities played down any hint of
loul play, but many Georgians were
Skeptical, given the impoverished
Country’s history of often violent
apolitical intrigue. One lawmaker linked
-Zhvania’s death and a car bombing in a
town west of the capital two days earlier
•and hinted at Russian involvement.
U.S. considering sale
of F-16s to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A senior
U.S. defense official said Thursday that
Washington is considering an appeal
from Pakistan for F-16 fighter aircraft.
Pakistan is a key ally of the United
States in its war on terrorism.
^Washington recently agreed to sell $ 1.2
Million in weapons to Pakistan, but the
deal doesn’t include the F-16 aircraft
-that Islamabad has long desired.
• BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shanley
rape trial
heads to
jury phase
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A jury on
Thursday began deliberating the fate
of defrocked priest Paul Shanley,
who is charged with raping a boy at
his church outside Boston in the
1980s.
The jury got the case after lawyers
clashed over the validity of the
repressed memories Shanley’s
accuser said came to him three years
ago, when the Boston church abuse
scandal broke.
The jury of seven men and five
women deliberated for all of 30
minutes before the judge sent them
home for the day. They were to
return Friday.
The defense earlier presented a
sole witness: a psychologist who
argued that some people’s repressed
memories are really false.
Shanley’s lawyer said the accuser’s
claims of sexual abuse were lies
orchestrated by personal injury
lawyers.
But prosecutor Lynn Rooney said
the accuser had no reason to lie,
particularly since he was required to
endure three days of intense
questioning on the witness stand.
School photographs of the
accuser as a little boy were put on
display as Rooney told jurors:
“Remember what happened to him
on those Sunday mornings.”
The lone remaining accuser in
the case, now a 27-year-old
firefighter in a Boston suburb,
testified Shanley began raping him
MIKE ADASKAVEG/
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Defrocked priest Paul Shanley
listens to testimony during his
trial in Cambridge, Mass., on
Jan. 28. The man accusing
Shanley of sexually abusing him
as a child finished his testimony
Friday.
while he was in the second grade,
taking him out of Sunday school
classes for discipline and raping him
in the confessional.
He says memories of the abuse
came flooding back three years ago
after he heard a friend’s account of
similar abuse. "
But Dr. Elizabeth Loftus, a
psychologist from the University of
California at Irvine, testified that her
DAY
Friday, February 4, 2005
“I was pissed off. I got up
that morning and looked at
the computer to see if it was
cancelled and went to class
anyway.”
SARA CRAIN
SECOND-YEAR HISTORY STUDENT. ON THE
DELAYED CANCELLATION OF SATURDAY'S
CLASSES DUE TO WEATHER ADVISORY.
’BACKS BALK__'
* NICK ESARES/THE GAMECOCK
Sophomore forward Renaldo Balkman plays tough defense on an Arkansas shooter in the
second half of the Gamecock’s win over the Razorbacks on Wednesday. Balkman and
Carolina will now travel to Georgia on Saturday to try to win their first road game of the year.
I
research shows people can wind up
convinced that implanted ideas or
suggestions are real.
“Many people who have false
memories have a lot of confidence
and have a lot of detail about their
memories,” Loftus said. “False
memories can be held with a lot of
emotion.”
Loftus spent about two hours on
the stand before Shanley’s attorney,
Frank Mondano, rested.
Culkin to seek plea
in delayed hearing
OKLAHOMA CITY — A court
hearing for former child star
Macaulay Culkin on his drug
possession case has been delayed
until April so that lawyers can work
on a plea bargain, court officials
said.
v^uiKin naa Deen scneauiea to
appear in Oklahoma County
District Court Thursday, but the
hearing was moved to April 6. His
lawyer, Catherine Burton, couldn’t
be reached for comment Wednesday
afternoon.
Culkin, best known for his role
in the “Home Alone” movies, was
arrested Sept. 17 during a traffic
stop on Interstate 44 in Oklahoma
City.
Police said officers found about
17 grams of marijuana and 16
milligrams of Xanax, a prescription
drug used to treat depression and
panic disorders. Culkin, 24, wasn’t
driving the vehicle.
Oklahoma County prosecutors
charged Culkin with misdemeanor
counts of possession of marijuana
and possession of the Xanax. He
pleaded not guilty to the charges in
October.
Keys leads singers
for tsunami relief
BANGKOK, Thailand — R&B
star Alicia Keys led an array of
singers and other international
celebrities who entertained an
enthusiastic audience of thousands
4to raise money for tsunami relief
work.
The MTV Asia Aid event in
Bangkok Thursday night brought
together Western musicians and
actors from India’s Bollywood film
industry to aid relief efforts in
countries devastated by the Dec. 26
disaster.
Thailand’s own sultry pop singer
Tata Young was an early performer
on a bill that included India’s Asha
Bhosle, Good Charlotte from the
United States and Taiwan’s Jay
C.hmi
Sting, 50 Cent and Robbie
Williams voiced their support in
taped messages. The crowd also saw
a tape of Ricky Martin touring the
devastated areas of southern
Thailand last week.
Jennifer Lopez gave a
performance on video, as did Irish
pop star Ronan Keating, which
showed him singing and playing
guitar last week on Thailand’s
tsunami-hit Phuket island,
accompanied by Thai children.
Chester Bennington of rap-rock
band Linkin Park, who just -
returned from visiting Phuket, was
among the presenters.
MTV Asia Aid will be available
free to broadcasters globally to raise
money for UNICEF, the primary
recipient of the funds, and local
charities.
Matthews charity
to aid sick children
SAN FRANCISCO — The $1
million that the Dave Matthews
Band raised during a charity concert
at Golden Gate Park will go toward
a summer camp for children with
life-threatening illnesses, building a
playground at a San Francisco
public housing project and the city’s
programs for the homeless.
The Sept. 12 concert was free,
but the 60,000 fans who jammed
the park were encouraged to make
voluntary donations. Concession
sales and VIP tickets provided more
of the money that was distributed
this week by the Charlottesville,
Va.-based band.
Some $250,000 will be used to
replace the run-down playground at
the Sunnydale housing project,
while $500,000 has been earmarked
for homeless programs, Mayor
Gavin Newsom said.
Reggae artist jailed
for profanity use
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Popular
reggae dancehall singer Sizzla was
sentenced to 15 days in prison for
using profanity during a Christmas
Day performance.
Sizzla, whose real name is Miguel
Collins, began serving the prison
term immediately after a court
sentenced him Wednesday in
Yallahs, just east of Kingston, the
Jamaican capital.
He was arrested Dec. 25 after
swearing while performing at the
East Fest concert in St. Thomas
parish in eastern Jamaica. He was
released on bail pending the court
hearing.
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY
“The Merry Wives of Windsor”:
7:30 p.m. Keenan High School
Spring 2005 Seminar Series: 4
p.m. Jones Physical Science Center
SATURDAY
Annual Student Leadership
Conference: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Russell
House second-floor lobby
SUNDAY
Brown v. Board of Education
Panel Discussion: 3 p.m.
McKissick Museum
Women’s Basketball vs.
Auburn: 3 p.m. Colonial Center
MONDAY
Vibrations Dance Company
“Experience in Rhythm” Person: 7
p.m. Russell House Ballroom
WEDNESDAY
MTV “Real World" Stars: 8
p.m. Russell House Ballroom
use
BRIEFS
NAACP to hold
hair, beauty show
The college chapter of the
NAACP will play host to a Hair &
Beauty Expo Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
in the Russell House Ballroom.
This program will consist of
highlighting the importance of
hair and beauty in the black
community. The show will include
a mini-hair show, free makeovers,
giveaways and door prizes. The
tickets are $3 for students, $2 for
non-students and $ 1 for. NAACP
members.
Medicine school
to play host to gala
The School of Medicine will
host a Black-Tie/White-Coat Gala
Sunday from 7 to 11 p.m. at The
Zone at Williams-Brice Stadium
to benefit the Free Medical Clinic
and the Alumni Scholarship Fund.
There will be a silent auction,
food and entertainment. For ticket
information call Alumni
Coordinator Debbie Truluck at
803-733-1568 or register online at
http://alumni.med.sc.edu.
Opera performs
‘Merry Wives’
Opera at USC will perform
Otto Nicolai’s comedic adaptation
of Shakespeare’s “The Merry
Wives of Windsor” tonight and
Sunday. Curtain times are 7:30
p.m. tonight and 3 p.m. Sunday at
Keenan Theater on Pinebelt Road
in Columbia. Student tickets are
$5.
POLICE REPORT
Reports taken from the USC Police Department.
tacn numDeron
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
E3 Violent
® Nonviolent
JAN. 31
O Petit Larceny, Parking Meters
Malicious Injury to Real Property BA
Building, 916 Barnwell St.
Someone removed seven BA
building parking meters along with
monetary contents. The estimated
value of each parking meter is $75.
Reporting officer: J.M.H.
Harrelson.
FEB. 2
0 Illegal use of Telephone,
Threatening WUSC, 1400 Greene
St.
The victim said someone called her
workplace and made threatening
remarks of bodily harm because of the
music she was playing.
Reporting officer: P.l. Jones.
FEB. 3
0Suspicious Activity, Blossom
Garage, 1300 Blossom St.
The subject was riding his bicycle
inside Blossom Street Garage. He had
no identification on him, but he said
his name and date of birth. It matched
up with DMV files. It was found that
the subject’s driver’s license is
suspended for DUI. He was on the
second floor of the garage and was also
observed riding on the 11 th floor.
The officer ran a rap sheet on the
subject and found that he has had
prior charges in Colorado and Illinois.
0 Verbal Harassment, Maxcy Dorm,
1400 Greene St.
Reporting officer K. Adams spoke
with the complainant, an RA in the
building, who said he is being harassed
by one of his residents. The RA said
that for several months the resident
has violated several rules in Maxcy and
has been written up for the violations.
The RA said that each time he writes
the resident up, the resident harasses
him. Adams tried to make contact
with the resident, but was not able to.
The RA said no further assistance was
needed at the time.
0 Trespass after Notice, Columbia
Hall, 918 Barnwell St.
Shortly after midnight the subject
was seen riding a bike on Barnwell
Street. Because of a high volume of
parking meter coin thefts, reporting
officers M.P. Weiss and K. Adams
observed the subject for a few minutes.
Adams was in a place of concealment
overlooking the BA parking lot. The
subject appeared to be panhandling, and
she approached several people along the
roadway and in the Columbia Hall
parking lots. When subject left, she was
stopped on Senate and Henderson
streets where she was identified by the
officers. The subject was checked
through in-house records and was found
to have a prior trespass notice on July
20, 2003, in the BA Building. She was
in possession of a Raleigh mountain
bike that was sent to headquarters (or
safekeeping.
• Fuel Leak V.A. Medical School,
6450 Garners Ferry Road
Reporting officer G. Kerwin and
CFD responded to a call at the medical
school because of a diesel fuel leak. Not
pictured on map.
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