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USC wind ensembles: 7:30
p.m. Koger Center
TUESDAY
“Hot Swing” clinic and
concert with Mark O’Connor:
7:30 p.m. School of Music 206
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Last Lecture Series —
Thomas M. Hughes, “How
Would I Know ... 7 p.m.
Harper College. Gressette
Room
THURSDAY
Career Forum — “What
Can I Do with a Psych
Degree?”: A p.m. Russell House
Theater
USC Swing Shift Jazz
Combo: 7:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
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Statistics Colloquium —
Paul Schliekelman, “Power of
Expression QTLs for Mapping
of Complex Trait Loci": 2 p.m.
LeConte 210A
FRIDAY
Katherine Kuhjuss senior
voice recital: 7:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
Rebecca Nagel oboe studio
recital: A p.m. School of Music
206.
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as a prominent attorney.
Tenenbaum worked with
McDonald when she was
director of research in the House
of Representatives while he was a
senator.
“Heyward McDonald was one
of those giants in the Senate who
took on complex issues, who was
just a voice of authority in so
many areas,” she said. “But what
I learned from him was the love
of public service and treating
everyone with respect and just
the love of crafting solutions to
our states complex problems. He
was a master craftsman of public
policy and a wonderful man.”
A South Carolina native,
McDonald overcame polio and
used his disability to advocate for
the rights of the disabled.
McDonald testified before the
U.S. Congress in favor of the
Americans with Disabilities Act.
Tenenbaum compared
McDonald to Franklin D.
Roosevelt. “You never thought of
Heyward as having a disability,”
Tenenbaum said.
The Heyward E. McDonald
series is in its fourth year and is
sponsored by the Presbyterian
Student Association.
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members of full-time, or
“professional,” groups make
their living by singing.
One of the biggest stereotypes
of Southern gospel is that only
people 60 and older listen to it,
Norwood said.
Also, she said, some people
tend to think of “unintelligent
mountain folk” when they think
of people that sing or listen to
Southern gospel.
“It’s not true because some of
the performers and people who
like that kind of music have
college degrees,” Norwood said.
No one she hangs out with on
a regular basis listens to Southern
gospel music, and her friends
don’t like to ride in the car with
her because they know she plays
it, Norwood said.
“It’s kind of unconventional,
but that’s what makes it even
more special to me, because it’s
kind of like my own little world
that no one has invaded yet.”
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POLICE REPORT
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26
Non-suspicious fire,
assistance rendered, 9:15 a.m.
Cliff Apartments, corner
of Sumter and Whaley streets
The complainant, 43, said he was
cooking and a grease fire began and
damaged the stove and wall. He then
threw a pot, which was on fire, out of his
window. Columbia Fire Department and
EMS responded, and the man, who had
received burns to his hands, was
transported to Baptist Hospital.
Estimated value: S3,000.
Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox
Disorderly conduct, 9:15p.m.
Russell House, 1400 Greene St.
Reporting officer R. Baker responded to
the area in reference to a highly
intoxicated person being disorderly.
Michael Martin, 18, was found yelling
loudly and unsteady on his feet. Baker
asked Martin and his friends to stop, and
Martin yelled an obscenity at the officer.
Martin was arrested and transported
Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
THURSDAY,
OCT. 27
Simple possession
of marijuana, 2:45 a.m.
Bull Street Garage,
611 Bull St.
Reporting officer N. Husbands was
dispatched on reports of suspicious
activity. He found five men on top of the
garage and asked if any of them had any
drugs. Dave Raheja, 18, said he had
marijuana on his person and produced a
candy wrapper with a green leafy
substance in it. A second man, Thomas
Givens, 18, also produced a plastic bag
with a leafy substance. The men were
arrested.
Larceny of tools, noon
Russell House,
1400 Greene St.
Someone took a wrench and ratchet
socket from the second-floor service hall.
The complainant said the area should be
under video surveillance.
Estimated value: $20.
Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox
Assistance rendered, 9:16p.m.
Patterson Hall,
1520 Devine St.
The victim, 18, was highly intoxicated
and incoherent. First Responders and
EMS responded to the scene, and the
woman was taken to Baptist Hospital.
IRAQ • connnueD mom i
“It’s hard to explain to folks
sometimes the complexity of
what we’re doing here —
forming a nation, developing
the constitution and trying to
defeat the people who would
keep this process from taking
place to begin with,” Wise said
in a telephone interview from
Iraq. “Yes, young men and
women are over here and some
of them are paying the ultimate
sacrifice, but what we’re doing
over here has a value. If we can
help the Iraqi people establish
democracy, it will be a great
value to me wona.
Wise sees firsthand the
effects of burgeoning
democracy on the Iraqi
civilians. He relishes the story
of four men who work in his
building that literally stopped
working to read the new
constitution when he handed
it to them.
Forty-five minutes later,
they came back to ask him for
more copies to bring home to
their families, and one of the
first things they did Oct. 17
after returning from the
referendum vote was to visit
his office and show him the
ink on their fingers, signifying
that they had voted on the
constitution.
“What a neat deal to see
these things transpiring,”
Wise said.
After leaving the office no
earlier than 9 p.m., Wise
walks through the streets of
Baghdad to the trailer he
shares with a roommate. At
25 feet by 10 feet, Wise calls it
“an elongated version of
Snowden,” where he lived
while studying history as an
undergraduate.
In that trailer is where he
watches every football game
the Gamecocks play. Because
of the time difference, Wise is
up au d a.m. waiinmg uic
games on his television, but
he hasn’t missed a game yet.
“You do make sacrifices,”
he said, half-joking. “I will
stay up all night to watch
USC football and go to work
in the morning. I love the
Gamecocks.”
Such reminders of home,
along with frequent e-mails
and not-so-frequent phone
calls to his family, accompany
Wise as he works day in and
day out, through car bombs,
violence on the streets and a
country in the turmoil of
transition.
He said he keeps his eyes on
the ultimate goal of
establishing a free and
democratic Iraq and taking
away the threat of terror.
“Sometimes we make the
mistake of trying to make
them into Americans,” Wise
said of the challenges that can
arise in working on the
constitution. “But within the
culture that they have, they
have a chance to build a nation
that will be a guidepost for the
rest of the Islamic world and
the Middle East, to show that
democracy can exist here.”
Of the death toll in Iraq (as
or Sunday arternoon, z,u 1 /
American soldiers have died
during the war, according to
icasualties.org), Wise said his
heart goes out to soldiers who
have died and that he is proud
of their sacrifice, but he has
“yet to talk to a young man or
woman over here who says
they don’t believe in what we
are doing.”
In about two weeks, Wise
will return home to South
Carolina for 15 days of
“reunion and recuperation,”
when he will get to see his
granddaughter, born in June,
for the first time. He’ll also
probably play some baseball
with his 11-year-old son,
Austin, who Wise wants to see
win an athletic scholarship to
USC one day. Wise missed
coaching Austin through his
all-star season, but took him
to the Spring Game before he
left for Iraq so Austin “could
see Spurrier get the
Gamecocks ready to go.”
His family misses him but
fully supports him, Ashley
Wise said. She chooses not to
watch the news and says some
days are harder than others on
campus, especially when other
students are talking about the
war.
Of her father’s service she
said, “I think it’s a very
commendable and a brave act.
He supports his country fully,
and he knows that going over
there isn’t to play in the sand.
He’s actually making
monumental changes by
working on the constitution.”
And while Wise said that he
would “much rather bring the
fight to Iraq so we don’t have
to be doing this in the streets
of Columbia, South
Carolina,” there are some
comforts from home that he
misses.
“If you get the chance to go
to Sandy’s and get a hot dog,
get one for me, will you?”
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PLU • CODTinUCD FROIRI
discriminate by age, it is of
particular concern for college
students, especially those
living in dorms and other
crowded areas.
Karen Shelly, head nurse at
Thompson Student Health
Center, said students can take
precautions protect
theTiselves.
“We do advise all students
to get flu vaccinations,” she
said.
Even though vaccinations
would not protect against the
Avian flu strain, sometimes
immunity to one virus can
give someone an edge on
another virus, Shelly
explained.
A big reason why many
people §o not get vaccinated,
Shelly said, is that they think
the vaccination will give
them the flu.
“You cannot get the flu
from the flu shot,” Shelly
said.
Flu vaccinations are given
at the health center Monday
through Thursday from 9 to
11 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.
Shelly suggests students
wash their hands, k^fep them
hands away from their faces,
sleep and eat well.
In the event of a
pandemic, scientists would
be able to study human cases
and culture and create a
vaccine, but “it takes a year
to create a vaccine,” Shelly
said.
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State
Safety, law officials
install checkpoints
The Department of Public
Safety is working with local law
enforcement at checkpoints
across the state on Halloween
in an effort to prevent people
from driving drunk.
“Sadly, Halloween has
become a holiday for young
adults, often leading to drinking 1
and driving,” said James
Schweitzer, the department’s
director, in a release Saturday.
“When you couple that with
child pedestrians, that can be a
volatile mix on our roadways
and in our neighborhoods.”
Authorities can test drivers’
blood-alcohol levels at the
checkpoints.
The state Highway Patrol
began a special enforcement
effort in Greenville that will
run through Dec. 31.
Greenville leads the state in
fatalities this year with 74.
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Nation
Four men plead guilty
in frat hazing death
OROVILLE, Calif. — Four
fraternity members pleaded
guilty in the death of a college
student who was forced to
drink large amounts of water
during an initiation rite.
Prosecutors said Matthew
Carrington, 21, died of heart
failure caused by water
intoxication after he and
another pledge were ordered to 1
drink water from 5-gallon jugs
and douse themselves as fans
blasted them with cold air in the
basement of the now-defunct
Chi Tau fraternity house.
California State University
Chico had already cut its ties to
Chi Tau in 2002 for alcohol
violations. Carrington’s death
last February led to a push for
an alcohol ban for all fraternities
and sororities on campus.
Gabriel Maestretti, 22,
pleaded guilty to the most
serious charges — involuntary
manslaughter and misdemeanor
hazing. He received a one-year
sentence.
World
Group admits plotting
New Delhi bombings
NEW DELHI — A little-known
group that police say has ties to
Kashmirs most feared militants
claimed responsibility Sunday
for a series of terrorist bombings
that killed 59 people in New
Delhi.
Authorities said they already
had gathered useful clues about
the near-simultaneous blasts
Saturday night that ripped I
through a bus and two markets
crowded ahead of the Hindu
festival of Diwali, one of the
year’s busiest shopping seasons.
A man called a local news
agency in Indian Kashmir to say
the militant Islamic Inquilab
ivianaz, or rront tor Islamic
Uprising, staged the bombings,
which police said killed 59
people and wounded 210.
The attacks came at a
particularly sensitive time as
India and Pakistan were hashing
out an unprecedented agreement
to partially open the heavily
militarized frontier that divides
the disputed territory of Kashmir
to speed relief to victims of a
massive earthquake earlier this
month.
The caller, who identified
himself as Ahmed Yaar
Ghaznavi, said the bombings
were “meant as a rebuff to the
claims of Indian security groups”
that militants had been wiped
out by security crackdowns and
the Oct. 8 earthquake that
devastated the insurgents’
heartland in the mountains of
Kashmir. * *