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STATE
Legislators question
candidate’s donation
A candidate for The Citadel’s board
gave a $3,500 contribution last month
to the House Republican caucus, a
practice the law allows but legislators
now question.
Claude W. Burns III, a candidate for
an open Citadel Board of Visitors seat,
made the donation to the House
Majority Caucus’s Business Round
Table within the past three weeks, said
House Majority Leader Jim Merrill, R
Charleston. The money’s being
returned, he said.
Wexler resigns post
at Democratic Party
The executive director of the South
Carolina Democratic Party announced
Thursday he would step down to pursue
work in Washington, D.C.
Nu Wexler, 31, helped lead the cash
strapped party through the state’s first
in-the-South presidential primary and a
high-profile race to replace retiring Sen.
Ernest “Fritz” Hollings last year.
Wexler worked as Hollings’ deputy
spokesman for two years before he
joined the state party in the summer of
2003 during a major staff overhaul.
NATION
Government pushes
student vaccinations
ATLANTA — All college freshmen
who live in dorms should be vaccinated
for meningitis, a government panel
recommended Thursday for the first
time.
The panel is also advising doctors to
give the shot to all 11- to 12-year-old
children and that it be provided to at
least 4 million children eligible under
the federal children’s vaccines program.
. Because each dose is expected to cost
about $100 and only 3,000 cases of
meningococcal meningitis are reported
each year, “it won’t save money,” said
Mark Messonier, an economist with the
Centers • for Disease Control and
Prevention.
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Attorney convicted
of helping terrorist
NEW YORK — A veteran civil rights
lawyer was convicted Thursday of
crossing the line by smuggling messages
of violence from one of her jailed clients,
a radical Egyptian sheik, to his terrorist
disciples on the outside.
The jury deliberated 13 days over the past
month before convicting Lynne Stewart, 65, a
firebrand, left-wing activist known for
representing radicals and revolutionaries in her
30 years ontheNewYork legal scene.
WORLD
Pope leaves hospital
after 10-day recovery
VATICAN CITY — Waving to crowds
from his brighdy lit popemobile, Pope John
Paul II returned to the Vatican Thursday after
a 10-day hospital stay.
* The pope’s return was broadcast live
On Italian television.
Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Vails
said the pope had recovered completely from
the breathing crisis following influenza that led
to his urgent hospitalization at Rome’s
Gemelli Polyclinic on Feb. 1, and that his
general condition was continuing to improve.
Navarro-Valis said a battery of tests,
including a CT scan, a three-dimensional X
ray, had ruled out any new illnesses
Images show damage
from tsunami quake
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — The fira
images of the seabed that was rocked by the
earthquake that triggered Asia’s catastrophic
tsunami revealed huge ruptures spanning
several miles along the Indian Ocean’s floor.
' Scientists have compared the
ruptures to the Grand Canyon.
The images of the seabed were from a
British naval ship collecting data off the
coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island for a
tsunami early warning system for the
Indian Ocean region.
The images show “slide scars” more
than six miles wide resulting from the
9.0 magnitude quake on Dec. 26, the
world’s biggest in 40 years.
- BRIEFS FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Simpson
disavows
marriage
problems
NEW YORK — Jessica Simpson
is denying rumors of any impending
split with husband Nick Lachey.
After tabloids ran pictures of
Lachey, 31, surrounded by
cheerleaders at a Super Bowl party in
Jacksonville, Fla., and reports of a
dinner with ex-girlfriend Jordana
Jarjura, Simpson says their
difficulties have been greatly
exaggerated.
“I trust Nick totally, and he trusts
me,” Simpson told Us Weekly
magazine in an issue hitting
newsstands Friday. “We are
committed to our relationship.”
Simpson says she was unaware of
Lachey’s meeting with Jarjura, and
while it was “innocent,” it was also a
learning experience.
“There are lessons to be learned,”
says Simpson. “Now Nick and I will
tell each other about something like
this ahead of time.”
The stars of MTV1 s “Newlyweds:
Nick & Jessica” have been beset by
tabloid speculation on their
marriage’s imminent doom. But
Simpson, 24, says that even when
they are in different places, they are
close.
“Lie’s always the last person I talk
to before I go to sleep.”
“Newlyweds” recently returned
for a third season. Simpson has just
finished shooting her big-screen
debut, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and
plans to begin recording a new
album in the spring.
SARA JAYE WEISS/
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In this photo released by Dessert
Treats, pop si nger Jessica
Simpson and husband Nick
Lachey display examples of
Simpson’s cosmetic line and
new venture, Dessert Treats, at a
news conference in New York,
Wednesday.
Casino billionaire
to put ads on hotel
LAS VEGAS — Casino
impresario Steve Wynn doesn’t need
the Super Bowl. He’s got the Oscars.
The billionaire will use
Hollywood’s biggest stage to air a
commercial about his $2.7 billion
Wynn Las Vegas megaresort that’s
slated to open April 28.
Wynn decided to book time on
the Academy Awards, which will air
Feb. 27 on ABC, after the NFL shot
•W^ A *W T “I’m more optimistic as I
learn more about it. The
more you learn, you Know,
things could get better.”
Friday, February 1L 2005 CAROLINE TERRY
7 THIRD-YEAR PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT ON HER
ONGOING BATTLE WITH LEUKEMIA
MODEL CITIZENS
NORA ELKIN/THE GAMECOCK
Models pose at the NAACP-sponsored Hair and Beauty Expo at the Russell House Ballroom
on Tuesday night. The expo included a hair show, free makeovers, giveaways and door
prizes.USC’s NAACP held the event as part of its Black History Month activities.
down a national Super Bowl spot on
Fox because his commercial was
associated with gambling, a long
standing league taboo.
Wynn knew the National
Football League would probably
reject his ad but he was surprised to
learn he also had been censored in
the gambling capital of the world.
At some of its Las Vegas Strip
hotel-casinos, rival MGM Mirage
has been accused of using its logo to
cover up the Wynn advertisement
that ran on local affiliates in the state
during the big game.
MGM Mirage might be able to
stymie his ads, Wynn said, but the
company can’t block out his
towering 2,700-room hotel-casino
that dominates the north end of the
Las Vegas Strip.
“What are they going to do when
the hotel opens?” Wynn asked.
“Cover up the building?”
One MGM Mirage official says
Wynn shouldn’t get too upset: The
move was right out of his playbook.
When Wynn ran Mirage Resorts,
his hotels blocked out competitors’
commercials.
Woman charged
with scalping girl
BOISE, Idaho — A woman was
arrested and charged with felony
aggravated battery after being
accused of scalping a mohawk
wearing teenage girl who was a
fellow member of a punk clique.
Marianne Dahle, 26, allegedly
used a 4-inch knife to cut away the
crown and back of the scalp of the
16-year-old victim, apparently as
punishment for her disrespectful
behavior toward women. The teen
survived.
Dahle is accused of tying up the
teenager, who identified herself to
reporters only as Sheila, and cutting
away a 6-by-8-inch section of her
scalp.
Sheila said she underwent skin
grafts and anticipated another
surgery to repair the damage.
Authorities did not release the girl’s
name.
Dahle surrendered at the Ada
County Jail, where she was being held on
$25,000 bond. If convicted, she could be
sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Dahle was visiting Kirkham Hot
Spring? in central Idaho with the girl and
a teenage friend when the attack occurred
Jan. 18. The teen spent two weeks in the
hospital and is now recovering at home.
Bill Braddock, chief deputy of
Boise County, said Dahle was
retaliating for behavior she
considered offensive to women.
He said the victim, Dahle and the girl
who witnessed the attack belonged to the
same punk clique. In their group, he said,
those who disrespect women are not
allowed to have their hair in a mohawk.
He also said Dahle appeared to be
exerting psychological control over
teenage members of the clique, and
added that there were “sexual overtones.”
Police would not release many
details for fear it would harm the
prosecution’s case.
Man kills deputy,
caught after chase
PAISLEY, Fla. — When Sara
Heckerman called authorities and said
her boyfriend had “almost killed” her, she
warned them there might be trouble
when officers arrived.
“My old man has lost it, and he has
promised me that if a cop pulls'into that
driveway there’s going to be a gun battle,”
Heckerman said in her call. “He’s a big
boy so you might want to bring more
than one.”
Police say Jason Lee Wlieeler, 29,
ambushed officers responding to
Heckerman’s complaint, gunning down
one sheriff s deputy and wounding two
others outside the couple’s home.
He was captured Wednesday in
the Ocala National Forest after a
daylong search by hundreds of law
enforcement officers.
Wheeler was wounded in a gunfight
with officers, who captured him in piney
woods six miles from his home in rural
Lake County, about 30 miles north of
Orlando, officers said.
“We were able to flush him out of the
woods,” Sheriff Chris Daniels said.
Wheeler had escaped the couple’s
home on a motorcycle, which was
later found ditched, said Nick
Pallitto, a spokesman for the Lake
County Sheriff s Office.
Deputy Wayne Koester, 33, died
after being taken to a hospital,
Pallitto said. Deputies Tom
McKane and Bill Crotty were
treated for non-life-threatening
injuries.
Daniels said he did not know the
nature of Wheeler’s wounds, but the
ex-convict was at an Orlando
hospital in critical condition.
According to state records, Wheeler
has been arrested four times in Florida,
mostly for drug crimes, and has served
two six-month jail sentences.
COMING
UP@USC
TODAY I
Guest Artist Elaine Funaro
Harpsichord Recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music.
Black Tie/White Coat Gala: 7
p.m. Williams-Brice Stadium’s The
Zone
SATURDAY
Men’s Basketball vs. Auburn:
7:30 p.m. Colonial Center.
School of Medicine CME: 8:45
a.m. VA Campus’ M-II Classroom.
SUNDAY
Katherine G. Kuhfuss Junior
Vocal Recital: 4:30 p.m. School of
Music.
MONDAY i
Carolina Trombone Collective:
7:30 p.m. School of Music.
Student Government General
Elections: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. online at
vip.sc.edu or in SG’s Russell House
office
use
BRIEFS
Garnet & Black
sponsors contest
For its fourth issue, Garnet &
Black magazine is sponsoring a
short-story contest that requires all ^ |
stories to start with the following
sentence:
“This is probably worth it,”
Jordan said, about to crawl under
the train.
Submissions should be less than
1,500 words and e-mailed as an
attachment to k
gandbe@gwm.sc.edu by Tuesday, ’
March 1. The top three will be
published in March’s issue. The
first-place winner will receive $50
and the second-place $25. For
more information, contact Editor
in Chief Mary Pinckney Waters at
777-1149.
Shiraz to discuss
hip-hop culture
Yasmin Shiraz, a nationally
acclaimed author and successful
entrepreneur, will discuss her new
book, “The World of Hip-Hop —
An Insider’s View,” at 6 p.m.
Tuesday in the Russell House
Theater. In 1994, Shiraz launched
the urban-entertainment college
publication, Mad Rhythms.
Within six years, Mad Rhythms
had reached more than 4 million
students. Shiraz has worked with
celebrities such as Sean “P. Diddy”
Combs, Jay-Z, Martin Lawrence
and Johnnie Cochran. Shiraz has
also written for Black Enterprise
magazine, Upscale magazine,
Impact magazine, Storknet.com,
Exploringwomanhood.com and
EUR Extra! For more information,
contact Cerrissa Moore or Teddy
Clark at 777-5061.
Theater to show
Tubman program
Carolina Productions is
sponsoring “Harriet Tubman: The
Chosen One” at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 in
the Russell House Ballroom.
“Tubman” is a one-woman
show that takes the audience back
through history with the story of
the Underground Railroad and
how one woman’s remarkable
determination made history. For
more information, contact Telca
Markosky at 777-3950.
Write for us.
gamecockedttor@gwm.sc.edu
POLICE REPORT
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
O Nonviolent
CRLMES AT
UNKNOWN
HOURS
□ Violent
O Nonviolent
SUNDAY, FEB. 6
©Assistance Rendered, Blatt
Physical Education Center, 1328
Wheat St.
The victim cut his finger while
lifting weights. On his way to the
equipment room to get a Band
Aid, he passed out and hit his
head. The victim said he was
hypoglycemic.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler.
MONDAY FEB. 7
©Larceny of vehicle spoiler,
Kappa Alpha House, 521
Lincoln St.
Day
The victim said someone stole his
spoiler worth $900.
Reporting officer: J. Silcox.
TUESDAY, FEB. 8
©Lost Property, National
Advocacy Center, 1620
Pendleton St.
The victim said he lost about $220
on the way home from the incident
location.
Reporting officer: R. Baker.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9
©Larceny of Banner, Woodrow
College, 1415 Greene St.
A black male in a white T-shirt
removed a red, white and blue,
36-by-48-inch banner with
“Justin Williams for Student
Government President” written
on it. He said five other banners
were removed. Russell House
officials said the banners were not
removed on their authority.
Estimated value $84.
Reporting officer: M. Wheeler.
0 Assistance Rendered, Wade
Hampton, 1528 Greene St.
The victim received second-degree
burns to her right arm after dropping
her TV dinner and attempting to
catch it.
Reporting officer: B. Adams.
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