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Archaeology summit
to discuss Topper site
Nearly 1,000 archaeologists
and other scientists who study
Clovis culture and the earliest
evidence of man in North
America will be featured at
USC’s “Clovis in the
Southeast” Conference starting
Wednesday.
The conference, held at the
Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center, will
include interviews with
scientists about their latest
findings, including Topper, the
pre-Clovis site in Allendale
County excavated by USC
professor and archeologist
Albert Goodyear.
Some archaeologists have
debated the results of
Goodyears radiocarbon dating
of charcoal found with stone
tools at Topper.
Two Pulitzer winners
to attend conference
Three-time Pulitzer Prize
winner Edward Albee will. be
one of three notable writers
featured at the Fall Festival of
Authors on Wednesday. The
three-day festival will hold
sessions at 6 p.m. in the law
school auditorium.
Poet Charles Wright, also a
Pulitzer Prize winner, and
writer Francine Prose, whose
novel, “Blue Angel," was a
finalist for the National Book
Award, will also be featured.
USC poet and English
professor Fred Dings is
coordinator of this years festival.
THIS WEEK © USC
TODAY
Ron Davis Faculty tuba
recital: 7:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
Steven Michael Dragun
senior saxophone recital: 7:30
p.m. School of Music 206
TUESDAY
Johnathan Mears voice
recitab 5:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
Jameson Bucci guitar recitab
7:30 p.m. School of Music 206
USC Left Bank Jazz Combo:
7:30 p.m. School of Music 016
WEDNESDAY
Essena Setaro graduate
violin recitab 5:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
Fall Festival of Authors
featuring Pulitzer Prize
winning playwright Edward
Albee: 6 p.m. law school
auditorium
Stephanie Titus piano
recitab 7:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
THURSDAY
Foreign Language Poetry
Declamation Contest: 8-2 p.m.
Russell House lobby
Fall Festival of Authors
featuring Pulitzer Prize
winning poet Charles Wright: 6
p.m. law school auditorium
Palmetto Pans Concert: 7:30
p.m. School of Music 206
FRIDAY
Fall Festival of Authors
featuring MFA poetry and
fiction readings: 3 p.m. Gervais
and Vine, 620 Gervais St.
Campbell Law School
informational lunch: noon
Russell House 322
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POLICE REPORT
THURSDAY, OCT. 20
Assistance rendered, 8:20 a.m.
Bull Street Garage construction site
A drill bit that fell from the top floor of
the garage struck a 19-year-old man,
embedding it 4-5 inches in the man’s left
shoulder. EMS and First Responders
were contacted, and EMS transported
the man to Palmetto Health Richland.
Accidental damage, 10 p.m.
Moore dormitory, 600 Sumter St.
The front brick wall was damaged by a
vehicle involved in a traffic accident.
Estimated valtle: $500.
Reporting officer: J.M. Harrelson
Assistance rendered, 7:20p. m.
Koger Center, 1051 Greene St.
The Koger Centers staff dispatched
reporting officer D. Davis, First
Responders and EMS in response
to a person passed out in the
lobby. The medical teams
determined the victim needed to
be evaluated further, and the
victim was transported to
Palmetto Health Richland.
FRIDAY, OCT. 21
Reckless driving; Possession of
an altered identification card,
4:02 a.m.
Blossom and Park streets
Reporting officer J.M. Harrelson
stopped a green Chevy Tahoe he
observed turn left on Park Street
at high speed and strike several curbs in
the Greek Village parking lot. Preston
Priester, 20, was driving the vehicle and
was found to be in possession of an
altered ID. He was arrested and taken to
Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Hurricane Wilma speeds toward Florida ‘like a rocket’
Dauid Royse
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KEY WEST, Fla. —
Hurricane Wilma accelerated
toward storm-weary Florida
on Sunday and grew stronger,
threatening residents with
110-mph winds, tornadoes
and a surge of seawater that
could flood the Keys and the
state’s southwest coast.
After crawling slowly
through the Caribbean for
several days, Wilma pulled
away from Mexico’s Yucatan
Peninsula as a Category 2
storm and, forecasters said,
began picking up speed “like a
rocket” as it headed toward
the U.S. mainland. The storm
was expected to make landfall
around dawn Monday.
The southern half of the
state was under a hurricane
warning, and an estimated
160,000 residents were told to
evacuate, although many in
the low-lying Keys island
chain decided to stay.
“I cannot emphasize
enough to the folks that live
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Artist Tony Gregory and his wife Christine sign their latest piece
of impromptu art on the hurricane shutters at the Art Attack
gallery on Sunday in Key West, Fla.
in the Florida Keys: A
hurricane
is coming,” Gov. Jeb Bush
said. “Perhaps people are
saying, ‘I’m going to hunker
down.’ They shouldn’t do
that. They should evacuate,
and there’s very little time left
to do so.”
At 8 p.m., Wilma’s winds
were just 1 mph shy of
Category 3 status. As the
storm crossed the Gulf of
Mexico, forecasters said they
saw no evidence of wind shear
that they hoped would reduce
the hurricane’s intensity
before it makes landfall in
southwest Florida.
Wilma had battered the
Mexican coastline with
howling winds and torrential
rains before moving back out
to sea. At least three people
were .killed in Mexico,
followi)!^ the deaths of 13 in
lamaiGa and Haiti.
Forecasters expected
flooding from a storm surge of
up to 17 feet on Florida’s
southwest coast and 8 feet in
the Keys. Tornadoes were
possible in some areas through
Monday.
Max Mayfield, director of
the National Hurricane
Center in Miami, predicted
Wilma would dramatically
pick up speed as it approached
Florida.
“It’s really going to take off
like a rocket,” he said. “It’s
going to start moving like 20
mph.”
Because the storm was
expected to move so swiftly
across Florida, residents of
Atlantic coast cities such as
Miami and Fort Lauderdale
were likely to face hurricane
force winds nearly as strong as
those on the Gulf: Coast,
forecasters said. V
_Wilma_would_mark
Florida’s eighth hurricane
since August 2004 and the
fourth evacuation of the Keys
this year.
Fewer than 10 percent of
the Keys’ 78,000 residents
evacuated, Monroe County
Sheriff Richard Roth said.
“I’m disappointed, but I
understand it,” Roth said.
“They’re tired of leaving
because of the limited damage
they sustained during the last
three hurricanes.”
By Sunday evening, .
tornado warnings were
already posted for parts of
southwest Florida, and the
hurricane’s outer bands began
lashing coastal areas in
Wilma’s path. A waterspout
was spotted off Key West.
It was markedly different
than conditions Sunday
morning in the Keys, when
sunshine beckoned boaters
onto the water and many
residents went about their
normal routines.
“We were born and raised
with storms, so we never
leave,” Ann Ferguson said
from her front porch in Key
West. “What happens,
happens. If you believe in the
Lord, you don’t have no fear.”
Some 100 Key West
parishioners attended Mass at
a Catholic church where a
grotto built in the 1920s is
said to provide protection
from dangerous storms. Ray
Price took his usual stroll
down Duval Street to ciieck
State
Ordinance changes
rules for gathering
CHARLESTON — Charleston
has adopted a new ordinance
governing when groups need
to -have permits for parades
and protests. The change came
after a federal lawsuit was filed
by abortion protestors who^
complained that small groups™
were required to get permits.
The ordinance requires
permits only for parades
consisting of at least 50
people.
The ordinance has
exceptions from permit
requirements for funerals,
student and governmental
functions.
Abortion protestors
Timothy Cox and Cathy
Rider sued Charleston and
Travelers Rest in 2001 after
each city said they needed to
obtain a parade permit for
demonstrations involving^
about 15 people. ^
Nation
Journalist’s practices
under investigation
NEW YORK — The New
York Times’ ombudsman said
the newspaper should review
reporter Judith Miller’s
journalism practices to address
“clear issues of trust and
credibility” in her role in the
CIA leak investigation.
Times’ Public Editor Byron^
Calame wrote in a Sunday^
column that the Times and
Miller’s Oct. 16 accounts of the
reporting that landed Miller in
jail for refusing to testily to a
grand jury “suggested that the
journalistic practices of Ms.
Miller and Times’ editors were
more flawed than I feared.”
Miller, 57, went to jail for 85
days rather than testifying to a
grand jury investigating the
leaking of covert CIA officer
Valerie Plame’s identity. She
was released Sept. 29 and
agreed to testify after her
source, Vice President Cheney’s^
chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter”™
Libby, released her from a
promise of confidentiality.
Miller’s attorney, Robert
Bennett, said on Sunday that the
newspaper is trying to deflect
criticism of its own coverage of
the leak investigation by
targeting the Miller.
World
Conservative mayor
wins Polish presidency
WARSAW, Poland —
Warsaw’s conservative Mayor
Lech Kaczynski won Poland’s
presidential runoff vote Sunday,^
partial results showed, sealing the^
rise of a party headed by his twin
brother that pledges to uphold
Roman Catholic values and
strong welfare state protections.
With 91 percent of votes
counted, Kaczynski led pro
market legislator Donald Tusk
from the Civic Platform party,
54.5 percent to 45.5 percent.
Kaczynski, a former child
actor, claimed victory and
signaled that he was ready to
reach out to Tusk’s party after the
hard-fought election.
Kaczynski overtook Tusk by
convincing older and poorer^
voters that he would protect the”
social safety protections that
have eroded somewhat in the 16
years since the collapse of
communism.
Kaczynski would become half
of an extraordinary power team
at the head of Polish politics —
his twin, Jaroslaw, heads their
Law and Justice party, which
won parliamentary election Sept.
25.
The brothers, both former
activists in the Solidarity Trade
Union movement, won fame as
child star* in a hit film, “Two