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« CAROLINA # BRIEF USC law school dean to return to teaching Burnele V. Powell, dean of USC’s school of law, told faculty, staff and students Friday he is stepping down from his post, effective Jan. 1, 2006. Powell, a nationally recognized expert on legal ethics, will remain on the law faculty as a full, tenured professor. “As this chapter concludes, I look forward to a resumption of my teaching and scholarly responsibilities while simultaneously feeling enormous pride about what we have accomplished," Powell said. USC '' President Andrew Sorensen thanked Powell for his service and said he was pleased Powell has decided to remain on the faculty. Powell became dean of USC’s law school in January 2004 after serving as professor and former dean of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He also has taught at the law schools of the University of Oregon, Washington University and the University of North Carolina. USC Provost Mark Becker expects to announce an interim dean later this semester and plans to appoint a committee to conduct a national search for a new dean. THIS WEEK O USC TODAY USC remembers 9/11:4 p.m. Davis Field. WEDNESDAY USC Jazz Trio performance: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. North Campus Katrina Donation Drive: 4-7 p.m. all north campus buildings. SUNDAY Cornelia Freeman September ' Concert Series, Program No. 3 — Slavic!Russian: 3 p.m. School of Music 206. Ryan Lewis doctoral percussion recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206. Weather Forecast DN THF WFR today tue- m- THUR m Ui¥ s nc ¥¥C,P QP WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM ^ ^ ^ wa. Read online five days a week. Joy. 4 J. J J High 86 High 91 High 95 High 9S High 91 Low 68 Low 10 Low 10 Low 12 Low 61 Mascot love IMI1 IBHfMfUliifl'JIII 'I Katie Kirkland f\'\\V, fiAMEC.OCK Cocky and (Jga buddy up Saturday. USC lost to Georgia 15-17 at Sanford Stadium during coach Steve Spurrier's return to SEC play. POLICE REPORT -I....—..- ' THURSDAY, SEPT. 8 Larceny of textbooks (recovered); obtaining goods under false pretense; assaulting police while resistingr; escape, 2:20 p.m. Thomas Cooper Library, 1322 Greene St. The library manager said Marlon Crawford, 25, removed from the library three books, a calculator, a USB save drive and a bookbag (estimated total value: $220). Crawford was recorded on camera leaving the library with the bookbag. Reporting officer K. Adams arrived at the scene, and a library employee said someone matching Crawfords description had returned books to Addam’s Bookstore. Upon arriving at the bookstore, Adams observed Crawford hiding behind a support beam at the Holiday Inn on Assembly Street. Adams made contact with him and said he was to be taken into investigative detention, not arrest. Crawford struck Adams’ arm when the officer tried to handcuff him and then tried to flee the scene. FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Trafficking cocaine; trafficking cocaine within proximity of a school; possession of a controlled substance; simple possession of marijuana, 12:45 p.m. Jillians, 800 Gervais St. While conducting alcohol enforcement at Jillians, reporting officer R. Baker saw two men, ages 25 and 26, sitting in a vehicle behind the restaurant. The two gave consent to a search, and on the first man Baker found a bag with a white, powdery substance „ , .. , , r ... , These reports are taken directly from the and two green pills. The second po|jce Department man was found to have a bag /'ll i*i i r UUCU Willi d glCCil, lCdiy substance believed to be marijuana. The white substance tested positive for cocaine. Disorderly conduct; altered driver’s license, 2:40a.m. Petigru Lot, corner of Bull and Greene streets Patrick Smith was walking west on Greene Street, yelling loudly and kicking anything on the sidewalk. He kicked and dented some waist-level signs in the lot. Reporting officer B. Timbers smelled alcohol on Smith, and found on his person a drivers license belonging to someone else, the age of whom was over 21. Smith was arrested and transported to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Iraqi, U.S. troops open offensive to retake northern town The Associated Press TAL AFAR, IRAQ — U.S. and i Iraqi troops swept into the : insurgent stronghold ofTal Afar i early Saturday, conducting < house-to-house searches and i battering down walls with ; armored vehicles in a second ! bid to clean the city of militant fighters. 1 Some 30 miles south of < Baghdad, meanwhile, police i found the bodies of 18 men who had been handcuffed and ( shot to death in Iskandariya, a 1 town where dozens of killings 1 have been reported in escalating < vengeance killings by Shiite s Muslim and Sunni Aram “death squads.” J In the capital, Baghdad s International Airport reopened i early Saturday after a day’s i closure in a payment dispute s between the government and a t British security company, t Global Strategies Group said it ] agreed to resume security work < after the government promised to pay half of what the 1 company said it is owed. ; Iraq police said two mortar t shells were fired into the Green J Zone that houses the U.S. { Embassy, the Iraqi parliament I and government offices. There 1 was no word on casualties or j damage. In the Tal Afar offensive, vhich had been expected for veeks, coalition forces faced everal hundred lighdy armed nsurgents in the largely leserted city, 260 miles lorthwest of Baghdad and bout 60 miles east of the iyrian border. There was heavy gunfire in he Sarai district, the oldest part if the city and the major nsurgent stronghold. “I can see why the terrorists hose this place for a fight, it’s ike a big funnel of death,” Sgt. William Haslett of Rocklin, Zalifi, said of the twisting treets and alleys in the old city. Prime Minister Ibrahim al aafari announced the 2 a.m. tart of the offensive in a tatement issued early Saturday, it a news conference later, he aid the insurgents had been rying “to isolate Tal Afar from he political process as we are ireparing for the referendum in the draft constitution.” Tal Afar residents were irgely Turkomen, with ethnic nd cultural ties to Turkey to he north. They are mostly iunni Muslims but had been ;overned since the ouster of laddam Hussein by a U.S. >acked Shiite Muslim city ;overnment and police force. Interior Minister Bayan Jabr Mohammed Ibrahim /The Associated Press Iraqi soldiers greet returning U.S. troops as they man their checkpoint on the road to Tal Afar in northwest Iraq on Sunday. said 48 insurgents had been captured so far, along with mortars and communications gear. He said Iraqi troops had suffered two wounded and no deaths. Defense Minister Saadoun al-Dulaimi said that in the past two days, 141 “terrorists” had been killed and 197 wounded. Five government soldiers died and three were injured, he said. Al-Dulaimi said 11 Iraqi army battalions and three battalions of paramilitary police were engaged in the offensive, along with three battalions of U.S. troops, and promised Iraqi forces would broaden the offensive against insurgents north arid west of Baghdad, right up to the Syrian border. “We say to our people in (the insurgent strongholds of) Qaim, Rawa, Samarra and Ramadi, we are coming and terrorists and criminals will not be able to hide there,” he said. He complained that neighboring nations had not done enough to stop the flow of foreign fighters. “I regret to say that instead of sending medicines to us, our Arab brothers are sending terrorists,” al-Dulaimi said. U.S. forces cleared Tal Afar of militants last year but quickly withdrew, leaving behind a force of only 500 that was unable to block the militants’ return. V In a bid to soften resistance, the U.S. military carried out repeated air and artillery strikes on targets in the city, where most of the population of 200,000 was reported to have fled to the surrounding countryside. On Friday, die government issued a statement hinting a major attack was imminent, and die U.S. military reported killing 11 insurgents during raids over the past two days. The Iraqi military claimed it had arrested 150 foreign fighters who had infiltrated from Syria. In Baghdad, acting Transportation Minister Esmat Amer told I he Associated Press that the city’s main airport — Iraq’s only reliable and relatively safe link to the outside world — reopened after negotiations overnight between the government and the British company. “We have reached agreement with the Global security firm, and the airport is open now for domestic and international flights,” said Amer. •Company spokesman Giles Morgan told AP from London that Global agreed to return to work after the government promised to pay 50 percent of what was owed. State S.C. to seek teachers during Gulf Coast trip Teacher recruiters from South Carolina will head to the Gulf Coast in a few weeks to find educators who are out of work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. State Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum A said Friday that South Carolina ^ has about 400 openings with critical needs for math, science and special needs teachers. About 10,000 teachers are out of work in Mississippi and Louisiana, Tenenbaum said. A message on the New Orleans Public Schools Web site recommends teachers “seek alternative employment immediately." Teachers from Mississippi and Louisiana can teach in South Carolina for a year without having to gain certification here. ^ The state will waive its $51 ^ certification application fee, and Tenenbaum said she has asked local school districts to cover the $24 fee for a required FBI background check and fingerprinting. Nation Probe: 9/11 program ‘accomplished little’ A federal probe concluded that a government program to monitor the health of federal m employees at the World Trade ” Center disaster site in New York “accomplished little” even though city and state programs screened more than 30,000 people. A report by the Government Accountability Office found that the health-screening program conducted only about 400 exams, a small fraction of the thousands of federal employees who worked on the hazardous debris pile in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The federal worker screening A program established by the ” Health and Human Services Department “has accomplished little, completing screenings of less than 400 of the thousands of federal responders," the GAO determined. It has been known for some time that the government cut short the federal worker screening program, but the GAO report suggests that part of the reason for that may have been uncertainty about what to do with the results. World Ukrainian president 4 sacks feuding cabinet ^ KIEV, UKRAINE When President Viktor Yushchenko picked his first Cabinet after the Orange Revolution, he looked no further than Independence Square — those rallying the thousands of protesters and those writing the checks. The result was 51 fragile and mismatched coalition united only in their desire not to follow in the footsteps of the corruption-tainted regime of . former Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma. That team crumbled this week after months of ideological tug-of-wars over the economy and privatization and amid mutual allegations of their own corruption. On Thursday, Yushchenko sacked all of them. Analysts were divided over whether Yushchenko would emerge from the most tumultuous week of his presidency strengthened or crippled*