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CAROLINA 0 BRIEF Law school to honor 1965 voting rights act USC’s School ■ of Law will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act in a series of public events Oct. 20 and 21. On Oct. 20, historians from USC, Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Justice, whose work chronicles the African-American voting rights movement and the implementation of the act since its passage, will participate in a panel discussion, titled “Voting Rights: A * Historical Perspective on the African American Struggle For the Right to Vote." The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the School of Law auditorium. I he rromise or Voter Equality: Examining the Voting Rights Act at 40," will be held at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center on Oct. 21. It will feature legal scholars from USC, Loyola, Hofstra, Minnesota, Ohio State and Fordham law schools and attorneys who have litigated voting-rights cases in South Carolina and across the nation. The Oct. 21 symposium will explore the legacy of the Voting Rights Act, beginning with the 9 a.m. session on “The Supreme Courts Approach to the Protection of Voting Rights." THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Thomas Hammond saxophone recital: 6 p.m. School of Music 206 TUESDAY Stephen K. Wilson master’s trombone recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 THURSDAY LAST DAY TO DROP A COURSE WITHOUT A GRADE OF “WE” BEING RECORDED Taeseong Kim doctoral piano recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Statistics Colloquium — John Spurrier, “Comparing Two Regression Lines Over a Fixed Interval”: 2 p.m. LeConte College 210A FRIDAY Petrea Wameck doctoral oboe recital: 6 p.m. School of Music 206 Fall 2005 Seminar Series — Wally Scrivens, “Polymer Nanocomposites and Nanomaterials at USC": 4 p.m. Jones Physical Science Center 006 Weather Forecast HNTHFWFR a ]m Tues- m THURS- FRI Um mt VVtD © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM Read online five days a week. Happy go jacky. V» <^w' <*wwr Vi High 90 High 81 High 88 High 86 High 15 Low II Low 69 Low 68 Low 55 Low 53 Flag football Katie Kirkland/THE (JAM ECOGK An ROTC member supports the flag during the national anthem before Saturday’s football game at Williams-Brice Stadium. UOLURTEER • COnTinUCD PROfT) I traveled to 10 countries and taught religion classes to students on board the ship. French, one of 20 faculty members participating in the program, said the course material was integrated with visits to cultural and historical places of interest to enhance the learning experience. There was a service component to the voyage as well, he said. The students and faculty took food, supplies, clothing and toys to orphanages and schools at various ports. The voyage lasted about 100 days, with half spent at ports and half spent at sea. French said he made some “pretty close personal contacts” through the program. As an ordained minister, he has also performed four weddings for people he met on board. French remembers well one port in Louisiana. “I’m glad (we stopped in) New Orleans,” he said. “That was the last time I was in New Orleans. French said he likes the challenge. “I just love interacting with students, and it’s always a continuing intellectual challenge, of course,” French said of his work. He calls working with students “very fulfilling,” and feels that, more than any other role he has had in his career, his talents and interests best match up with teaching. French said one of his goals is to help students, particularly those in the South, broaden their horizons. “There’s an African proverb that says, ‘He who never travels thinks mother is the only cook,”’ French said. French said “one of these days” he will retire. But until then, he will continue to teach, write articles and participate in service projects. “Ten years after retirement, I’m not taking it nearly seriously enough,” he said. French teaches two Honors College classes and is also involved in the production of “The Encyclopedia of Hinduism” as a member of the Board of Editors. The research project has been in progress for more than 15 years, French said, and he met with other editors in India and New Jersey for a week each this past summer. French is the author of five books, including “Zen and the Art of Anything,” listed in 2001 as one of the 50 Best Spiritual Books of the Year by The Journal of Spirituality and Health. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc. edu For collector, it’s beer cans that count Andrew Dys THE ROCK HILL HERALD ROCK HILL — Next to the Archie Bunker chair in the living room, near the couch where Mike Allen’s wife grades elementary school tests, sits a Bible and Smithsonian magazine — in addition to a magazine called Beer Cans and Brewery Collectibles. The chair and the magazine and the old beer cans in the barn belong to Allen, a 39 year-old husband and father of two. In his wallet is a membership card in the Brewery Collectibles Club of America. A fancy name for guys with the beer can collections. Allen proudly displays the card that entitles the bearer to “all rights and privileges” of the beer can manic. Privileges such as spending this weekend in Charlotte, N.C., among other can men for the annual “CANvention.” “I started with my buddies when I was in high school,” Allen said. “We all had shelves of old beer cans.” “Bet your parents were proud of you,” quipped wife Mary Helen Allen. “Even now, he has a bumper sticker on his truck showing off about collecting beer cans. Imagine. I have the beer can husband.” POLICE REPORT THURSDAY, SEPT. well. 2 2 Reporting officer: A. Mitchell Harassment (non threatening), 9:30 a.m. Wade Hampton, 1528 Greene St. The victim says she keeps receiving e-mails from her boyfriends ex-girlfriend despite asking to be left alone. The victim also said she sometimes receives calls from the woman as RITf) • COnTinUCD PROffll residents with fresh memories of Katrina heeded evacuation orders and the storm followed a path that spared Houston and more populous stretches of the coast. Along the central Louisiana coastline where Rita’s heavy rains and storm surge flooding pushed water up to nine feet in homes, more than 100 boats gassed up at an Abbeville car dealership Sunday before venturing out on search-and rescue missions to find hundreds of residents believed to have tried to ride At If- TJ I M About 500 people were rescued from high waters along the Louisiana coast in the immediate aftermath of the storm and emergency calls were still coming in from far-flung areas near the Gulf of Mexico. “The flooding is still extensive,” said Michael Bertrand of the Vermilion Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness, adding that water was actually creeping into areas that were spared flooding Saturday. “We’ll be going back through there to see if there’s anybody left.” During a helicopter tour, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, whose Cajun roots run deep in the region, got her first look at the hardest hit areas. In Cameron Parish, just across the state line from Texas and in the path of Rita’s harshest winds east of the eye, fishing communities were reduced to splinters, with concrete slabs the only evidence that homes once stood there. Debris was strewn for miles by water or wind. Holly Beach, a popular vacation and fishing spot, was gone. Only the stilts that held houses off the ground remained. A line of shrimp boats steamed through an oil sheen to reach Hackberry, only to find homes and camps had been flattened. In one area, there was a flooded high school football field, its bleachers and goal posts jutting from what had become part of the Gulf of Mexico. “In Cameron, there’s really hardly anything left. Everything is just obliterated,” said Blanco, who has asked the federal government for $34 billion to aid in storm recovery. Added Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, head of the Louisiana National Guard: “This is terrible. Whole communities are gone.” Some bayou residents arrived with boats in hopes of getting back in to survey the damage to their property, but state officials sealed off the borders and weren’t letting Larceny of bicycle, 10:40 a.m. Russell House, 1400 Greene St. Someone stole a women’s blue Schwinn bike locked with a cable to a rack. Estimated value: $150. Reporting officer: A. Mitchell anyone in. But all it took was a scan of the Intracoastal waterway to see a hint of the damage: refrigerators and even a few coffins from the area’s above-ground cemeteries bobbing in the water. Standing in the hot sun outside Abbeville, evacuees from the flooded reaches of Vermilion Parish stared at the ground, shoulders stooped, clearly exhausted. Many recalled seeing deer stuck on levees and cows swimming through seawater miles from the Gulf of Mexico. Tracy Savage, a 33-year old diesel technician, said his house was four feet underwater. “All I got now is my kids and my motorhome,” he said, camouflage jeans stuffed into galoshes. He was able to salvage a toolbox and a few life vests Sunday, but not much more. “We’ve never had this much water, we’ve just never seen it.” After a briefing with Blanco in Baton Rouge, President Bush said: “I know the people of this state have been through a lot. We ask for God’s blessings on them and their families.” Just across the state line, Texas’ Perry toured the badly hit refinery towns of Beaumont and Port Arthur area by air Sunday. “Look at that,” he said, pointing to a private aircraft hangar with a roof that was half collapsed and half strewn across the surrounding field. “It looks like a blender just went over the top of it.” He said the region has been secured by law enforcement, but does not have water and sewer services available. He urged residents to stay out for now, though the statewide picture was better. “Even though the people right here in Beaumont and Port Arthur and this part of Orange County really got whacked, the rest of the state missed a bullet,” Perry said. In contrast to Katrina, with its death toll of more than 1,000, only two deaths had been attributed to Rita by Sunday — a person killed in north-central Mississippi when a tornado spawned by the hurricane overturned a mobile home and an east Texas man struck by a fallen tree. Two dozen evacuees were killed before the storm hit in a fatal bus fire near Dallas. In Houston, which along with coastal Galveston was spared the brunt of Rita, officials set up a voluntary, staggered plan for an “orderly migration” with different areas going home Sunday, Monday and Tuesday to avoid the massive gridlock that accompanied the exodus out. State Rock Hill firefighter finds new job in Ohio ROCK HILL — The Rock Hill firefighter who lost his job after marrying the daughter of a fire captain at another station in the city has found work, as a firefighter in his hometown of Findlay, Ohio. ^ Matt Cooper, 25, was firedfl in July after a judge refused to let him keep his job while he challenged Rock Hill’s anti nepotism policy. The policy bans relatives, including in laws, from working in the same department. Findlay, Ohio, a city of about 40,000 people about two hours of Lake Erie, doesn’t have such a rule. Cooper’s father, Robin, works as a captain in the Findlay Fire Department. Cooper had worked for the Rock Hill department for more than two years. M Nation ' Cheney feeling well after knee surgeries Vice President Dick Cheney had surgery Saturday to repair aneurysms on the back of both knees and was alert and comfortable after the six-hour procedure, his spokesman said. Cheney was under local anesthesia during the surgery at George Washington University Hospital. “He will remain in thfl hospital for up to 48 hours to monitor his recovery. He is expected to resume a regular schedule when he is released to home," said Steve Schmidt, counselor to the vice president. Cheneys aneurysms, known as popliteal aneurysms, were discovered during his July' physical. Cheney, 64, has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a special pacemaker in his chest. The pacemaker^ starts if needed to regulate hifl heartbeat. Cheney’s overall cardio health was judged as good after the first part of the exam, which included a general physical exam, an electrocardiogram and a stress test. World After 35 years of war, IRA lays down arms BELFAST, Northern Ireland — International weapons inspectors have supervised the full disarmament of the outlawed Irish Republica^ Army, a long-sought goal o^ Northern Irelands peace process, an aide to the process’ monitor said Sunday. The breakthrough should smash the biggest obstacle in Northern Ireland’s peace process since Britain opened negotiations with Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked party, in December 1994. Most analysts agree the IRA move is coming years too late to kickstart the revival of a Roman Catholic-Protestant administration, the centra^ dream of Northern Ireland^ 1998 peace accord, requiring the IRA to disarm by May 2000. The IRA said in July its 35 year campaign to overthrow British rule of Northern Ireland by force — which claimed nearly 1,800 lives before its 1997 suspension — was over. 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