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The University of South Carolina Friday, October 7, 2005 VoL 99, No. 26 • Since 1908 Man charged with murdering USC student Four-year search ends; authorities arrest former roommate in shooting Stephen fastenau NEWS EDITOR A Columbia man was arrested Thursday on charges he murdered a USC student reported missing in 2001. While no body has been ' found, Richland County Sheriffs deputies arrested Mark Anthony Richardson, 31, in connection with the disappearance of Shelton Sander Sanders, then a 25-year-old hospitality, retail and sports management student. Lt. Chris Cowan, spokesman for the Richland County Sheriffs Department, said Thursday that Sanders and Richardson were rS roommates. The arrest warrant alleges that on June 16, 2001, Richardson V shot and killed Sanders. & Richardson then drove Sanders’ car> the warrant states, and g parked it at Greenbriar Apartments on Parkland Road. Police say Richardson’s cell phone records place him where the car was found at around the time Sanders disappeared. Richardson admitted to police that he was the only one near Sanders when several neighbors reported hearing gunshots at Richardson’s home. According to the warrant, police interviewed several witnesses who claim Richardson said he wanted to murder one of his friends. Police obtained sworn statements from witnesses confirming the facts listed in the warrant. Sanders’ family reported him missing on June 46, 2001, and offered a $10,000 reward for information on SIMDCRS«a DOUGHNUT COMPANY IN LEGAL • TROUBLE Krispy Kreme to ‘vigorously defend’ self in latest lawsuit Paul flouiell THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. will #“vigorously defend” itself against a awsuit filed by its largest franchise that claims company executives misappropriated marketing money and billed for phony charges, the company said Thursday. Richard Reinis and Roger Glickman, partners in Los Angeles based Great Circle Family Foods LLC, also claimed in their lawsuit that Krispy Kreme was trying to force their company into bankruptcy. Krispy Kreme spokeswoman Laura Smith said Thursday the company has been served with the lawsuit and would have no further comment beyond a short written statement •pledging a vigorous defense. Shares of Krispy Kreme closed at $6.25, down 2 cents, on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. The lawsuit filed Sept. 29 in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Krispy Kreme and its executives of making false representations to convince franchise owners to personally guarantee the franchise’s financial obligations. The suit also claims Krispy Kreme systematically inflated its prices and engaged in deceptive business KRISPY • 3 INSIDE w Viewpoints Chase Stoudenmire writes yet another column about girls, but not his mom; Aaron Brazier tackles the divine dilemma of intelligent design. g The Mix Art Bar will hold its annual Bavarian Bash this Saturday to celebrate Oktoberfest. 1 -| The Write Stuff Post editor shares experience with Law School audience Kelly Cavanaugh FOR THE GAMECOCK Washington Post associate editor and senior foreign correspondent Jim Hoagland spoke on the topic of emotionalism and its effect on journalists Wednesday night at the second annual Buchheit Family Lecture. Hoagland said an important topic in the journalism field today is how journalists’ emotions affect their work, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. “The television reporters and anchors had shown their anger so much at officials who seemed not to be doing their job,” said Hoagland, a USC graduate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. ieievision is a not medium in which emotion often replaces information,” Hoagland said. Hoagland said increasingly, journalists have themselves become the story, referencing in particular New York Times reporter Judith Miller. “I started long enough ago to remember when journalists worried deeply about becoming part of the story, and certainly the idea that the journalist would be the story ... it’s something that I think was very troubling to all of us,” Hoagland said. Hoagland said one of the former foreign editors at The Washington Post felt so strongly that the newspaper, rather than the journalist, should get credit for the journalist’s work that he suggested Hoagland not accept the Pulitzer Prize he had won. Hoagland said journalism is becoming an entrepreneurial trade rather than a collective one. Hoagland said that when he worked at The Evening Herald, The State and The Columbia Record, he had a wide range of tasks. “I did everything at The Herald, including sweeping floors,” he said. Hoagland said the U.S. must stay focused on its role in the world, even NickEsares/THE GAMECOCK Jim Hoagland, USC alum and Washington Post columnist, speaks Wednesday. in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. He said that while it is important to help the victims on the Gulf Coast, America must not forget its responsibilities to help other countries. Hoagland said reporters covering Katrina’s aftermath were shocked at the victims’ living conditions before and after the storm. He said hurricanes Katrina and Rita exposed the deep poverty of the region. “It came as a surprise not only to the public but especially to the reporters and the anchormen who were so angry at the conditions,” he said. “We’ve lost the habit of encountering poverty; we’ve lost the habit of writing or broadcasting about it. That shock that we were transmitting ... was very much our shock,” Hoagland said. Hoagland has worked as a journalist for the past 48 years. He writes a twice-weekly column that focuses on national security and foreign affairs. According to the lecture brochure, the Rock Hill native graduated cum laude from USC and did graduate work at the University of Aix-en-Provence in France and at Columbia University in New York. He joined The Washington Post in 1966 as a metropolitan reporter. The Buchheit Family Lecture Series is sponsored by the Buchheit Family Endowment in honor of the late Phil Buchheit, former publisher of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gum.sc.edu SG buys security cameras, votes on campaign law Justin Chapura ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR Twenty-four-hour surveillance cameras are now in place in the Blossom Street parking garage to help combat what Student Government targeted as a high-crime area, SG Treasurer Tommy Preston said at Wednesday’s Student Senate meeting. The cameras, which record and feed live to a central surveillance center at USCPD headquarters, cost SG $31,000 from the surplus allotted by Student Life. Preston, a third-year political science student, also reported on meeting with the Faculty Senate to address rising textbook prices. \ V “They couldn’t believe the problems we students face in the textbook prices,” Preston said. He said 10 faculty members approached him after the meeting pledging support for Preston’s long-term plan to combat textbook inflation. Other projects announced in the meeting included the upcoming launch of SGTV on Channel 4 of on campus television, which SG President Justin Williams said will happen in early November. Williams, a fourth-year public relations student, called for “more firepower” from the senate in exerting influence on administration officials S6 • 3 » Justin Lhapura / \ \\Yj (JAMrAIUCK SG Sen. Sarah Chakales signs legislation Wednesday evening. www. dauygamecock. com RESEARCH: ATHLETES LESS MORAL Boston University administrators, athletes agree with Idaho study Oily manning THE (BOSTON U.) DAILY FREE PRESS BOSTON — After a recent University of Idaho study reported that character growth is negatively affected by involvement in sports, Boston University athletes and administrators say the study’s findings are visible in athletes’ behavior on and off the field. Boston University Sports Psychology Director Dr. Len Zaichkowsky said the topic of low moral judgment in athletes has been “bounced around” in recent years. “They are just so competitive that they’ll do whatever it takes to win — within the rules,” he said. “But when you try to measure what’s right and wrong in life and then in sports, it depends on what circumstance you’re in.” The study, conducted over the past 17 years, evaluated 72,000 individuals from 1987 to 2004 and linked moral development with the competitive nature of organized athletics, as opposed to recreational activities. “The environment of athletics has not been supportive of teaching and modeling moral knowing, moral valuing and moral action,” the results stated. The study reported that ATHLETES • 3 BUSH PRESSES ' VACCINE MAKERS Lauran fleergaard THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Bush summoned vaccine manufacturers to a White House meeting Friday, hoping to personally boost the rickety industry amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu. It’s the latest in a flurry of preparations for a possible pandemic after criticism of the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. This month, vaccine maker Sanofi-Pasteur begins the first mass production of a new vaccine that promises to protect against bird flu, producing $100 million worth of inoculations for a government stockpile. But it would take months to create a new vaccine from scratch if a different strain of bird flu than todays known as H5N1 emerges. Even if the vaccine works, Sanofi is producing enough to protect anywhere from 2 million to 20 million people — depending on how much must be put into each dose — and it’s not clear when or where similar large stockpiles could be made. The nation has only three main manufacturers of vaccine against the regular flu that circulates each winter. Bush called together the heads of major vaccine companies “to press ahead to expand our unccine • 5