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>',V\ -.V . CAROLINA 0 BRIEF USC president’s salary to exceed $500,000 USC’s board of trustees has approved a bonus that puts the school president’s salary above the $500,000 mark for the first time. President Andrew Sorensen, who has been at.USC for three years, is paid $222,525 by the state of South Carolina. A private foundation supplements that salary with $265,000. The board recently approved a $40,000 bonus to reward Sorensen for his success in bringing in ■ research money, _ gifts and other donations. That takes his pay to $527,525. “I don’t think anyone can say we’re underpaying the president of USC," said Rep. Ronnie Townsend, R-Anderson and chairman of the House Education and Public Works committees. Townsend said Sorensen is doing a good job, but he was surprised by the figure. Trustees president Herbert Adams said Sorensen does a great job of communicating with South Carolinians from all walks of life. “We had the highest annual giving ever this year," Adams said. “He’s trying as hard as he can to make the university a better place and we think succeeding." THIS WEEK 0 USC TODAY Katie Ipock flute recital: 4 p.m. School of Music 206 USC Opera presents Rossini’s “L’ltaliana in Algeri”: 7:30 p.m. Keenan • High School, 3455 Pine Belt Road Theatre South Carolina presents Anton Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”: Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m., Sundays at 3 p.m.; Drayton Hall; through Saturday, Nov. 19 SATURDAY Andrae Raffield junior viola recital: : 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 SUNDAY USC Opera presents Rossini’s “L’ltaliana in Algeri”: 3 p.m. Keenan High School, 3455 Pine Belt Road TH#ftiAMECOCK Nobody covers USC better. Nobody. xM rHE WEB © WWW.DAILYGAMECOCK.COM Read online five days a week. True. Weather Forecast TODAY I High 66 Loui 31 SAT. High II loui 18 High 16 Low 54 fim | r V ' i»8B I High 18 loui 53 TUE. Low 53 In protest Laura-Joyce Gough/'\'HE fiAMECOCK Members of USC’s Student Coalition for the Empowerment of African-Americans gathered outside the Russell House on Wednesday. I POLICE REPORT MONDAY, NOV. 7 Assistance rendered, 10:40p.m. Patterson Hall, 1520 Devine St. An 18-year-old woman said she had severe pain in her leg. First Responders and EMS arrived. The woman was taken to Providence Hospital’s ER. Reporting officer: M.A. Winnington TUESDAY, NOV. 8 Accidental Damage Jones Physical Science Center, 712 Main St. The victim, 18, said she left her wallet in a room, and it was missing when she returned to retrieve it. The wallet is garnet with the Student Government logo on it and contained an ID, a driver’s license, a Visa card and a key. Reporting officer: M.J. Winnington Collision, 4:40p.m. E-5 Lot, Wheat Street While backing out, a 51-year-old woman’s car struck a vehicle in the road. Her car had a dent on the bumper, and the other vehicle suffered damage to a rear panel. Larceny of key, 7:30 p.m. Snowden, 600 Main St. The victim said someone removed a car key from his room. Reporting officer: A. Mitchell WEDNESDAY, NOV. 9 Simple possession of marijuana, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, 12:45 a.m. 400 block ot Blossom Street Reporting officer B. Timbers stopped a vehicle that appeared to be having trouble staying in its lane. Upon approaching the vehicle, Timbers noted a strong odor of burning marijuana. Further investigation turned up a plastic bag with a green, leafy substance believed to be marijuana and another bag with white-and-yellow pills believed to be amphetamines on the person of driver Laura Bearden, 34. She was arrested and taken to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Reports are taken from the USC Police Department. Venus probe launched successfully toward Earth's neighbor IDelissa Eddy ,THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DARMSTADT, Germany — A European spacecraft left Earth Wednesday on a five-month, 220 million-mile journey to Venus, an exploratory mission that could help spur a new space race. The European Space Agency said the unmanned Venus Express lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and mission control in Darmstadt activated the probe’s instruments and immediately picked up a signal to hearty applause in the observation room. The Europeans then received another signal — a congratulatory note from the Pasadena, Calif.,-based Planetary Society, which had monitored the launch from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. The $260 million spacecraft will take 163 days to reach its destination, where it will drop into orbit and explore the hot, dense atmosphere of Venus. “The mission is an outstanding success,” Gaele Winters, director of ESA’s operations in Darmstadt, told reporters. “We had a perfect launch, the instruments are switched on, the solar panels are deployed, everything is working.” The Venus mission is the latest sign that competition in space is heating up even as NASA is reassessing its own exploration plans. NASA is cutting some of its programs to focus resources on developing a replacement for the space shuttle. The space shutde Columbia tragedy in 2003 caused NASA to ground its fleet for more than two years. Flights resumed in July with the Discovery, but the dangerous loss of a chunk of its insulation during launch has put future missions on hold until at least May, and possibly even next summer. State New Testament to go into print in Gullah ST. HELENA ISLAND — More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the Creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants for generations along the sea islands off the Southeast coast^A “I think this makes th^A language universal," said Ervena Faulkner, the co manager of history and culture at the Penn Center, which is nestled amid spreading oaks dripping Spanish moss on this island just east of Beaufort. Nation Not many VVWI vets still alive in America WASHINGTON — Lloyd Brown remembers Armistice Day in 1918 as few — ever few — veterans can. “For the servicemen there were lots of hugs and kisses," recalls Brown, of Charlotte Hall, Md., a teenage seaman aboard the battleship USS New Hampshire, which was in port stateside when the fighting stopped. “We were so happy that the war was over." Now 104, Brown adds, “There’s not too many of us around any more." No one knows exactly how many of America’s World War I veterans will celebrate Veterans Day, which marks the armistic^B of Nov. 11, 1918, that endetW' what then was considered the Great War. World Liberian woman wins presidential election MONROVIA, Liberia — A former finance minister and Harvard graduate claimed victory Thursday in Liberia’s presidential election, a win that, if certified, would make her the first elected female leader ever in Africa. With 90.8 percent of vote^® counted, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf had received 59.1 percent and former international soccer star George Weah 40.9 percent, the National Elections Commission said. There was no immediate word from Weah’s camp on whether he was conceding defeat in the vote — Liberia’s first since the end of a 1989 2003 civil war and subsequent formation of a transitional government. Earlier, officials called for calm amid Weah’s accusations that poll workers stuffed ballot boxes in Johnson-Sirleaf^^ favor, charges her campaig^B denied. Thomas Cahill Best:selling author and Guest lecturer "The Gift of the Jru>." "Desire of the EverlastmgtMUs; The World Before and After JesirC —