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CAROLINA 0 BRIEF USC acquires print set of Civil War historian USC’s department of Rare Books and Special Collections recently acquired the fine printing collection of Clyde C. Walton, a librarian, Civil War historian and former Illinois State Historian. An exhibit ot highlights rrom the Walton Collection shows a range and variety of contemporary American fine press printing assembled by Walton during-several decades. The Walton Collection includes more than 250 limited-edition books, pamphlets and broadsides from contemporary fine presses,, together with a collection of leaves from illuminated manuscripts and early printed books. Walton, a decorated World War II veteran, began his career at the University of Iowa as the curator of rare books and university archivist, and he established a reputation as a Civil War historian. His initial research was on the Renaissance printer Nicholas Jenson, and throughout his career Walton collected examples of contemporary fine printing, especially from presses in the Midwest. He was the founding editor of “Civil War History,” the leading scholarly journal on its topic. Walton’s wife, Patricia Senn Breivik, donated the collection to USC. THIS WEEK © USC TODAY Kenneth Salters senior percussion recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Last Lecture Series — Claudia Benitez-Nelson, “‘The Day After Tomorrow? Global climate change over the last century”: 7 p.m. Harper/Elliot Gressette Room Washington Post associate editor Jim Hoagland: 7 p.m. Law School auditorium THURSDAY Graduate vocal ensemble — Sonja Sepulveda, conducting: 6 p.m. School of Music 206 Brittnee Siemon graduate voice recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 FRIDAY Violinist William Terwilliger and pianist Andrew Cooperstock — “From Bach to Country-Western: the Captivating Stylings of Paul Schoenfield”: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Nobody, and we mean nobody, covers USC better. TH#%AMECOCK Believe it. ON THE © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM Read online five days a week. Clutch. Weather Forecast TODAY High 82 loui 69 THU. High 80 low 69 Pfii. High 81 Loui 61 SOT. High 80 Loui 51 sun. ev High 15 loui 54 French connection Ugg MKtKKtttKKttKKL m- , ».*,.../ . ■ ■ Elise Bearers /Til K (JAM K( .*( H; K . University Provost Mark Becker cuts the ribbon Tuesday at the official opening of USC's French House on Henderson Street. POLICE REPORT THURSDAY, SEPT. 29 Larceny of banner, 3p. m. Russell House, 1400 Greene St. The USC Newman Club said someone removed its banner from the brick wall along Greene Street. Estimated value: $80. Reporting officer: C. Morant SUNDAY, OCT. 2 Disorderly conduct, 4:28 a.m. 1528 Greene St. Reporting officer D. Adams found Correy Campbell, 24, staggering westbound on Greene Street. Campbell smelled strongly of alcohol and admitted to having seven or eight drinks. Campbell was arrested and taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. MONDAY, OCT. 3 Larceny of weed-eater, 7:30 a. m. Bull Street Garage, 611 Bull St. Someone removed a Stihl FS110RX weed-eater belonging to USC’s grounds department. Estimated value: $500. Reporting officer: S. Wilcox Auto break-in, grand larceny of tools, 8 a.m. Someone entered a USC-owned vehicle and stole an assortment of tools, including two saws, a ratchet set and a cordless drill, among other items. Estimated total value: $2,000. • Reporting officer: S. Wilcox Larceny of bicycle, 8 a.m. The French House, 820 Henderson St. Someone stole a red Gary Fisher bicycle attached to a rack with a cable lock. Estimated value: $350. Reporting officer: T Brewster Gooding Larceny of jewelry, lp.m. South Tower, 614'Bull St. Two female residents said someone stole several items, including a pearl Draceiet, makeup, $48, earrings and a key. Estimated total value: $318. Reporting officer: C. Knoche Larceny of bicycle, 4:30p. m. Blatt P.E. Center, 1328 Wheat St. Someone removed a gray-and-yellow Mongoose bicycle from a rack. Estimated value: $200. Reporting officer: C. Morant Grand larceny of money, 11 p.m. Douglas, 614 Main St. 1328 Wheat St. Ryan Young said someone took his gray Sentry lockbox containing $1,500 from his room. Total estimated value: $1,525. Reporting officer: J. E. Silcox TUESDAY, OCT. 4 Driving under influence, first degree, 1 a.m. Corner of Blossom and Huger streets Reporting officer L. Welch stopped a blue Chevrolet that had a flat rear tire. The driver, Robbie Godwin, 49, exhibited slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and general confusion. Godwin failed one of three sobriety tests at the scene. He was arrested and taken to the Columbia Police Department for a Breathalyzer test. He refused a blood test and was taken to Glenn Detention Center. iriers • conunuED PRom i precious liberties include free speech, freedom to assemble ... access to public places, the right to bear arms and freedom from constant surveillance. “We are not willing to sacrifice these rights because of the acts of maniacs.” Miers once owned a .45 caliber revolver, a gift from a brother who was worried about her safety when she lived alone in Dallas, says Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, who has known Miers for 30 years and has dated her. “It’s a huge gun - he wanted to be sure she stopped the guy,” Hecht said in a telephone interview. The judge recalled one Sunday afternoon driving out to the country, setting up tin cans on a dirt road and trying to teach Miers how to shoot. “She was terrible,” said Hecht, who added that she kept the gun for a long time but said he was unsure if she ever fired it again. In her writings, Miers has pitched a brand of criminal justice that borrowed from the right and the left. On the issue that commands the most attention for court nominees, Miers pressed unsuccessfully to have the American Bar Association put its policy in favor of abortion rights to a vote of the membership, showing a sensitivity, at least, to the anti-abortion movement, if not outright support of it. Hecht said she has attended an evangelical church in Dallas, the Valley View Christian Church, for 25 years and “their position is pro-life and I’m sure her views are compatible with theirs.” Miers bought a $150 ticket to a Texas anti abortion group’s fundraising dinner in 1989, the year she won a term on the Dallas city council, the group’s president said. Kyleen Wright of the Texans for Life Coalition, then called Texans United for Life, said the dinner drew about 30 other officeholders or candidates as “bronze patrons,” the lowest level of financial support. In 1992, Miers, said presidents have no business asking court nominees to toe their line on abortion. In her current job as White House counsel, however, it is certain Bush already knows her opinion on a variety of issues. In one of the few head-on expositions of her views on public policy, a short gay rights survey she filled out during her city council campaign in 1989, Miers backed equal civil rights for homosexuals and spending on AIDS education while defending a Texas law - since overturned by the Supreme Court - that made gay sex a crime. Despite that paradox, a leading gay-rights group credited her Tuesday with an open mind. “It’s only a small window into her thinking,” said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, “but it certainly, for me, raises the possibility that she’s more fair-minded than our opponents are hoping. Solmonese said that Miers even came to a meeting of a Dallas gay and lesbian group to answer its questions suggested a wish to reach out. State Clemson to research college booze habits CLEMSON — Clemson University researchers want to hear from freshmen on campus about the situations that lead them to drink heavily in order to develop intervention programs to curb alcohol abuse. Clemson is one* of 15 universities nationwide awarded a three-year grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to develop local aiconoi prevention efforts at their campuses that can be copied elsewhere. A year and a half ago, Clemson President James Barker sent a letter to faculty, staff, students and alumni saying the school had a serious problem with alcohol abuse and calling on them to do something about it, said Hugh Spider, associate professor of public health sciences and the chief researcher on the grant project. He said the project will focus on freshmen because they generally do not have serious drinking problems when they start school. Nation O’Connor lands post at William and Mary WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — The College of William and Mary said Tuesday it has named Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor its new chancellor. O’Connor succeeds former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who was appointed in 2000. He announced his resignation, this summer when Timothy J. Sullivan stepped down as the college’s president. “I am delighted to serve as chancellor of the College of William and Mary and look forward to being an active member of the campus community,” O’Connor said in a statement. “Following such former chancellors as Henry Kissinger, Margaret Thatcher and my friend Warren Burger is truly an honor that I will cherish.” The chancellor serves as an adviser to President Gene R. Nichol and will meet occasionally with students and faculty. World Death toll reaches 50 after China typhoon BEIJING — Emergency workers found 50 bodies and were searching for dozens of people missing after Typhoon Longwang slammed into southeastern China and unleashed raging floods, state media reported Tuesday. Among the missing were 59 members of a paramilitary police brigade swept away in Fujian province Sunday night after the typhoon came ashore with 74 mph winds, state media said. The missing paramilitary officers, members of Chinas armed force in charge of domestic security, were in a training school barracks when they were washed away, state 1 media said. Chinese President Hu Jintao ordered that no efforts be spared to search for typhoon survivors, state newspapers reported. By late Tuesday, emergency workers had retrieved 50 bodies in Fujian, China Central Television reported. I