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CAROLINA 0 BRIEF Study finds Hispanics spending more money Hispanic buying power is growing steadily and having a significant impact on the states economy, a USC economist said Friday. Doug Woodward, who has conducted a six-month economic-impact study of the states Latino population, discussed preliminary results of his study, which gives a snapshot of the states fastest growing population. He will present his findings at a conference oh South Carolina Latino issues today. Woodward said the total economic impact of Latinos on the state is $2.35 billion. Woodward surveyed 240 Mexican immigrants in Lexington in March and Hilton Head Island in June at sites at the Mexican mobile consulate, where immigrants can get a matricula,1 or a Mexican ID card, allowing them to get a drivers license. Of . 240 surveyed — 100 from Lexington and 140 from Hilton Head — 75 percent were male, with an average age of 32.3. The majority of the respondents were from the Mexican states of Veracruz and Oaxaca. The survey results from Lexington and Hilton Head Island are part of a larger study and will be combined with results from surveys Woodward plans to conduct at similar matricula consulars in South Carolina this fall, including one in Greenville. According to the U.S. Census, as of 2002, South Carolina has emerged as the state with the fourth-fastest rate of increase in Latino population after Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina. South Carolina’s Latino population grew 258 percent from 1990 to 2002. Mexicans represent the largest segment of the state’s Latino population, with other significant populations coming from Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and other central and South American countries. Study Abroad Fair to kick off next month USC’s Study Abroad Fair will be held Friday, Sept. 23, in the Russell House from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. The exhibition will feature programs for 35 countries on six continents. Two new USC programs, the Capstone Scholars Abroad Maymester program in the British Isles and the anthropology department’s summer 2006 program in the Dominican Republic, will participate. Last year, 410 students studied abroad, a 40 percent increase from the year before. THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Andrew Loeffler Trumpet Recital 7:30 p.rn. School of Music 206. THURSDAY “Nuclear Impressionism” Colloquium: 3:45 p.m. Jones Physical Science Cenrer 409. SUNDAY Cornelia Freeman September Concert Series, Program No. 1 — European: 3 j.m. School of Music 206. ft ON THE WEB ® wWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM Look for online stories Thursday. Weather Forecast TODAY j TUGS. □□ I High 89 High 81 M Loui 16 Loui' 15 Web on the go ■ him m i in m' it—i % f * mm m ..__ R Elite Beavers/THE GAMECOCK Second-year exercise science student Brie Croxton takes advantage of the recently added wireless Internet in Gibbes Court. POLICE REPORT THURSDAY, AUG. 25 Petit larceny of purse, 9:22 a. m. Jones Physical Science Center, 700 Main St. Kim Leera said someone removed her pink-and-white purse from inside the building. A cell phone, wallet, cash and other objects were reported stolen. Estimated value of stolen objects: $335. Reporting officer: D. Adams. Suspicious activity, 12:20 p.m. Blatt P.E. Center, 1328 Wheat St. The victim said a black male in his early 20s entered the gym claiming to be a former student. When the victim told the man that the gym’s policy was for former students to pay a fee to use the facility, the man became agitated and cursed at the victim. The man said he “would come back and get him,” then left when the victim called the police. Reporting officer: T. Widdifield. Grand larceny of laptop, 1 p.m. Carolina Coliseum, 701 Assembly St. Someone removed a Sony laptop belonging to the Columbia Inferno hockey team from a secure location. Estimated value: $1,000. Reporting officer: T. Widdifield. Harassment, 5p.m. Wade Hampton, 1528 Greene St. The victim said someone has been leaving unspecified messages on her dry-erase board. Reporting officer: M. A. Winnington. Grand larceny of laptop, 6p.m. Columbia Hall, 918 Barnwell St. Brandon Lever said a silver-and-black HP Pavilion laptop was taken from an unlocked room. Estimated value: $1,700. Reporting officer: C. Taylor. LUireeny uj rnuney unu wuuei, 11 m. Close/Hipp Building, 1705 College St. Christa Campbell said someone removed her wallet from her purse. Reporting officer J. M. Harrelson found the wallet in a nearby trash can with $80 in cash reportedly removed. These reports are taken directly from the USC Police Department. r P f ff Iraq finishes new constitution without Sunni approval Robert H. Reid THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, IRAQ — After weeks of haggling and four missed deadlines, it was finally over. Unable to win Sunni Arab approval, negotiators forwarded Iraq’s new constitution to voters who will decide whether it is the foundation for a democratic future or a political disaster. No sooner had officials announced agreement between the Shiites and Kurds on the draft charter than the Sunni Arabs on the constitutional committee said they had rejected it. Sunni leaders promised to rally their community to vote down the charter in an Oct. 15 referendum. To the end, the Sunni Arabs were asking for concessions. But the Shiites and Kurds, the new political masters of Iraq, decided they’d given away enough. A document that American officials hoped would bring together Iraq’s myriad ethnic and religious groups and lay the foundation for a new, democratic nation instead triggered a major political battle over the future of the country more than two years after the ouster of Saddam Hussein. Sunni negotiators delivered their rejection Sunday in a joint statement shordy after the draft was submitted to parliament. They branded the final version as “illegitimate” and asked the Arab League, the United Nations anc^ “international organizations” to intervene against the document. Intervention is unlikely, however, and no further amendments to the draft are possible under the law, said a legal expert on the drafting committee, Hussein Addab. “I think if this constitution passes as it is, it will worsen everything in the country,” said Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni negotiator. President Bush expressed disappointment that the Sunnis did not sign on but pinned his hopes on the referendum, saying it was a chance for Iraqis to “set the foundation for a permanent Iraqi government.” But the depth of disillusionment over the charter in the Sunni establishment extended beyond the 15 negotiators, who were appointed to the ( constitutional committee in June ufider U.S. pressure. KhalidMohammed!TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS A Baghdad resident gets a haircut on Sunday as a TV broadcasts the news on the Iraqi constitution. Iraqi negotiators finished the country’s new constitution Sunday without the endorsement of Sunni Arabs who helped prepare it. State Walterboro man killed in cocaine argument WALTERBORO — A Walterboro man collapsed in the middle of S.C. 15 after he was shot during an argument over the price of crack cocaine, Colleton County deputies said. James A. Thompson, Jr., 27, died from a gunshot wound to ^ his chest, Coroner Richard Harvey said. Deputies arrested Melvin L. Daniels, 31, of Walterboro, and charged him with murder, according to Colleton County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Ted Stanfield. The shooting happened about 2 a.m. Friday, Stanfield said. A woman who was with Thompson told investigators they were planning to buy crack from Daniels when they got into an argument and Daniels started firing a 9mm, deputies said. Nation New Orleans braces as Katrina bears down NEW ORLEANS — Monstrous Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the Big Easy on Sunday with 175-mph wind and a threat of a 28-foot storm surge, forcing a mandatory evacuation, a last-ditch Superdome shelter and prayers for those left to face the doomsday scenario this below sea-level city has long dreaded. Katrina intensified into a Category 5 giant over the warm water of the Gulf of Mexico on a path to come ashore early Monday in the heart of New Orleans. That would make it the city’s first direct hit in 40 years and the most powerful storm ever to slam the city. Estimates have been made of tens of thousands of deaths from flooding that could overrun the levees and turn New Orleans into a 30-foot- ^|i deep toxic lake filled with chemicals and petroleum from refineries, and waste from ruined septic systems. A hurricane warning was in effect for the north-central Gulf Coast from Morgan City, La., to the Alabama-Florida line, the hurricane center said. Tropical storm warnings extended east to Indian Pass, Fla., and west to Cameron, La., a spread of about 480 miles. World Two more arrested ^ in Holloway case ORANJESTAD, ARUBA — Natalee Hollaway’s mother said Saturday she believes “we are going to get answers” in the nearly three-month disappearance of her daughter after two brothers previously detained and released in the case were taken back into custody. Satish and Deepak Kalpoe were arrested Friday on suspicion of involvement in premeditated murder and rape of the 18-year-old honors mI student, Aruba’s prosecutor’s ™ office said. The arrest was based on new evidence, the office said, without elaborating. “I was pumped up at the news," Beth Holloway Twitty told The Associated Press by telephone from her home in Birmingham, Ala. Holloway Twitty called the arrests a vindication for the teen’s family, which was angered by a judge’s decision in July to release the brothers for lack of evidence. ^