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The University of South Carolina Monday, October 10, 2005 VoL99,No.27 • Since 1908
Yet another football player arrested
Johnson becomes
13th Gamecock
arrested since January
Justin Chapura
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Josh Johnson, a junior
defensive end on the football
team, was arrested early Sunday
morning on a litany of charges
stemming from an incident
outside a Five Points bar.
According to incident reports,
a Columbia police officer arrested
Johnson, 20, for simple assault,
resisting arrest, disorderly
conduct, interfering with police
and possession of an open
container of alcohol. He is the
13th football player arrested since
January.
Reports state that Johnson was
arrested in Five Points early
Sunday along with his brother
Justin, 18, by Columbia police
officers B.F. Duckett and N.
Peter. Justin Johnson was charged
with disorderly conduct and
resisting arrest.
Duckett and Peter reported
that they were flagged down at
about 1 a.m. Sunday morning on
Harden Street to break up an
alleged fight involving both
Johnsons.
The brothers became “very
loud and used profanity,”
continuing to do so after Duckett
asked them to calm down and
leave, the officers reported.
When Duckett tried to place
Justin Johnson in handcuffs, he
tried to pull away and his brother
allegedly helped to pull him,
despite the officers’ commands to
stop.
With Justin Johnson in
custody, the officers attempted to
arrest Josh Johnson, who allegedly
pushed one officer and “actively
resisted” other efforts to arrest
him.
Four more officers arrived on
scene to subdue Johnson, who
upon arrest was discovered to
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STUDENTS
STILL UPSET
. ABOUT
' WEB SITE
Facebook group prompts
black organizations
to examine racial divide
Francis flllen Jr.
FOR THE GAMECOCK
In the weeks following the
controversy over a thefacebook.com
group with racial slurs in its title,
| students have continued to vocalize
“ on the topic of racial divide at USC.
During a discussion of the group at
the Brothers of Nubian Descent’s
Sept. 27 meeting, member and third
year media arts student Frank
Williams said, “It’s just crazy because
the creator of the group really doesn’t
understand why the black people on
campus are mad over this issue.”
The group’s name, “Northerners
Dress Like the Negroes Do,” sparked
controversy on its Web page, even
after changing its name from
“Northerners Dress Like the Coloreds
Do.” Group founder Kevin Eckman,
a fourth-year marketing student, said
| he created the group in response to
another page criticizing Southern
fashion, and changed the name in
response to “threatening” posts left for
him on the site’s message boards.
Like many other black students,
Williams said that he was offended by
the use of both terms, but he was
more offended by the idea that
dressing “like black people” is an
insult.
After a meeting of the Student
Coalition Empowering African
Americans on Sept. 29, a one black
FBCEBOOH • >1
INSIDE
I Viewpoints
Brandt Boidy discusses the absurdity
behind the psychic manhunt for
Saddam Hussein; Jacob Davis vents
about USC’s attendance policy.
8
The Mix
Looking east
Qigong a Chinese meditative
exercise, offers a different way to
relax, promote natural healing.
9
i Sports
m m
Wildcats tamed
The Gamecocks get back on track
with a 44-16 win against
Kentucky, their first in SEC play.
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Manish Swamp / The Associated Press
A man carries water as he walks past houses destroyed by an earthquake in Uri, India, on Sunday.
Desperate
Rescuers struggle to reach survivors in Pakistan and India as quake death toll rises
SadaqatJan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan —
Rescuers struggled to reach remote,
mountainous areas Sunday after
Pakistan’s worst-ever earthquake wiped
out entire villages, buried roads in
rubble and knocked out electricity and
water supplies. The death toll stood at
20,000 and was expected to rise.
In this devastated Himalayan city,
wounded covered by shawls lay in the
street, and villagers used sledgehammers
to break through the rubble of flattened
schools and homes seeking survivors.
The quake collapsed the city’s
Islamabad Public School. Soldiers with
white cloth tied around their mouths
and noses pulled a small girl’s dust
covered body from the ruins, while the
body of a boy remained pinned between
heavy slabs of concrete.
The United Nations said more than
2.5 million people need shelter after the
magnitude-7.6 earthquake along the
Pakistan-India border. The Office for
the Coordination of Humanitarian
Relief said it urgendy needed 200,000
winterized tents.
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf
complained of a shortage of helicopters
needed to ferry in relief workers, food
and medical supplies, and appealed for
international help.
In Washington, President Bush said
eight U.S. military choppers were being
moved to help in rescue efforts, and he
promised financial assistance. India,
which has fought three wars with
Pakistan, also offered assistance, as did
Israel, which has no relations with the
Muslim nation.
“We are handling the worst disaster
in Pakistan’s history,” chief army
spokesman Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan
said.
The quake was felt across a wide
swath of South Asia from central
Afghanistan to western Bangladesh. It
swayed buildings in the capitals of three
pations, with the damage spanning a^.
least 250 miles from Jalalabad in
Afghanistan to Srinagar in northern
Indian territory. In Islamabad, a 10
story building collapsed, killing at least
24 people.
Late Sunday, helmeted rescuers
found a survivor after hearing his cries
for help. The thin man in a blue shirt,
looking dazed, emerged on his own
with little help and stood in front of a
crowd of cheering onlookers. One
rescuer patted his head, and the man
waved and pumped his fist in the air.
Pakistan said the death toll ranged
between 20,000 and 30,000. India
reported more than 600 dead, and
Afghanistan said four were killed.
“We have enough manpower but we
need financial support ... to cope with
the tragedy,” Musharraf said in
Rawalpindi, according to the state-run
news agency Associated Press of
Pakistan.
He also appealed for medicine and
tents.
Musharraf told the British
Broadcasting Corp. he knew of as many
as 20,000 people killed, and Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz told CNN about
43,000 people were injured.
Musharraf said the only way to reach
many far-flung areas was by helicopter
because roads were impassable.
“Our helicopter resources ■ are
limited,” he told the BBC. “We need
massive cargo helicopter support.”
Most of the devastation occurred in
northern Pakistan. The U.S. Geological
Survey said the quake was centered
about 60 miles northeast of the capital,
Islamabad, in the forested mountains of
Pakistani Kashmir.
“I have been informed by my
department that more than 30,000
people have died in Kashmir,” Tariq
Mahmmod, communications minister
for the Himalayan region, told The
Associated Press.
Troops “have not started relief work
in remote villages where people are still
buried in the rubble, and in some areas
nobody is present to organize funerals
for the dead,” he said.
The USGS said there had been at
least 26 aftershocks, including a 6.2
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Saturday’s
magnitude 7.6
earthquake was
centered in a
region known for
its seismic activity
since the early
1900s. The recent
crash between the
Indian plate and
the Eurasian plate
triggered an
earthquake and at
least 22 moderate
aftershocks in the
following 24 hours.
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Officials want
crane to fish
for artifacts
i
Hunley Commission seeks
states help in recovering
submerged war relics
The Associated Press
CHARLESTON — Members of the
Hunley Commission want workers
helping tear down bridges over the
Cooper River to lend their cranes to
saving artifacts from three Civil War
ships that were sunk by Confederates.
The artifacts, including a cannon
discovered decades ago, could be
helpful not just to display with the
Hunley, but also to help figure out the
best way to preserve' the Confederate
submarine.
“It’s really the chance of a lifetime to
get these pieces,” said Sen. Glenn
McConnell, R-Charleston and
chairman of the Hunley Commission!
“This cannon has been in the water
about the same length of time as the
Hunley. If it could be a guinea pig for
our new treatment, that would be
great.”
The three ships, named the
Charleston, Chicora and Palmetto
State, kept Union soldiers from taking
over the city. But on Feb. 18, 1865,
they were sunk to keep them from
falling into the hands of the Yankees.
Hunley Commission members say
all that’s needed to retrieve the objects is
a crane and there are plenty of them in
the Cooper River as workers dismantle
the John Grace Memorial Bridge
opened in 1929 and the Silas Pearman
Bridge opened in 1966.
The location of several artifacts is
known. The cannon from the Palmetto
State may have been found by workers
ARTIFACTS • 1
Sigma Epsilon
renews efforts
in AIDS fight
From staff reports
A fraternity and an organization
dedicated to raising awareness and
promoting prevention of a deadly
disease renewed a partnership last week.
Sigma Phi Epsilon, which has a USC
chapter, announced a 10-year
partnership with YouthAlDS on Oct.
5. In addition to organizing events
designed to educate young students on
the disease, the fraternity will raise
money for YouthAlDS HIV/AIDS
awareness and prevention efforts.
According to Sig Ep, 56
participating chapters have raised
$68,000 and have reached 12,000
youth with education efforts.
YouthAlDS is an initiative of
Population Services International and
targets young people between the ages
of 15 and 24 with messages of
abstinence, and correct condom use.
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