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Economic researchers
headline conference
USC’s 25th annual Economic
Outlook Conference will be
held today at the ' Marriott
Columbia City Center.
William C. Harris is the
keynote speaker.
The conference will feature
USC research economists
Donald Schunk and Doug
Woodward and their outlook
for S.C.’s economy in 2006,
along with busirifcss leaders and
economic experts discussing the
state’s economy.
THIS WEEK © USC
TODAY
English horn master class
with Atlanta Symphony’s Pat ■
McFarland: 12:15 p.m. School
of Music 206
Ian Jeffress doctoral
saxophone recital: 4 p.m.
School of Music 206
Edwards trombone studio
recital: 7:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
TUESDAY
Roger Keane senior tuba
recital: 4:30 p.m. School of
Music 206
N.C. mans
fossil finds
putting state
in limelight
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — Vince
Schneider, self-taught fossil
hunter and paleontology
curator at the N.C. Museum of
Natural Sciences, has pulled
hundreds of rare fossils from
the clay basins of central North
Carolina.
Bone by bone, Schneider’s
work is making North Carolina
a mandatory stop for scientists
trying to unlock secrets from a
very distant past.
“What he is finding, in a
word, is extraordinary,” said
Hans-Dieter Sues, collections
director at the Smithsonian
Institution’s National Museum
of Natural History. “A lot of the
animals he is finding we didn’t
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Schneider’s finds from
Durham, Chatham, Lee and
Anson counties are said to be
220 million years old, They
date back the Triassic Period, a
geologic era that is said to
predate the days when
dinosaurs ruled Earth.
Most of them come from
reptiles that, while strangers to
most people, are considered
early relatives to all animals
living today.
Triassic soils are abundant in
central North Carolina in a
string of basins, known as red
beds, that cut through the
Triangle and continue south.
Few traces of the Triassic
survive, especially in eastern
North America, which means
anything Schneider finds could
be valuable.
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Rocky Trice, right, defends against a Toledo player during Sunday’s game. USC won 83-75.
State
‘Microquake’ rumbles
outside Summerville
SUMMERVILLE — The
U.S. Geological Survey
reported a “microquake”
Saturday afternoon near
Summerville.
The minor earthquake
occurred at 3:59 p.m. about 1
mile from Summerville,
according to the agency’s Web
site.
John Bellini, a geophysicist
with the survey’s National
Earthquake Information
Center in Golden, Colo., said
it was so small, seismologists
were having a hard time
determining its magnitude and
depth. He estimated the
magnitude at 2.4 on the
Richter scale.
“It was a very small
microquake," Bellini said. “It
was barely large enough for
people to feel it at all."
Summerville police said no
injuries were reported.
Nation
Tropical Storm Gamma
could threaten Florida
MIAMI — Tropical Storm
Gamma blew along the coasts of
Belize and Honduras on
•Saturday as it threatened to turn
onto a path that could threaten
South Florida this coming week.
The storm already had caused
flooding and landslides in
Honduras that killed at least
two people and prompted the
government to evacuate
hundreds from coastal towns.
Gamma, the 24th storm of
the busiest hurricane season on
record, had top sustained wind
near 45 mph, the National
Hurricane Center said in
Miami.
Gamma was expected to turn
toward the north and east on
Sunday, sending it across the
northeastern Caribbean and
toward western Cuba. Gamma
could cross Cuba and approach
the Florida Keys island chain on
Monday.
World
Eight terror suspects
killed by U.S. forces
BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S.
forces sealed off a house in the
northern city of Mosul where
eight suspected al-Qaida
members died in a gunfight —
some by their own hand to
avoid capture. A U.S. official
said Sunday that efforts were
under way to determine if terror
leader Abu* Musab al-Zarqawi
was among the dead.
In Washington, a U.S. official
said the identities of the terror
suspects killed was unknown.
Asked if they could include al
Zarqawi, the official replied:
“There are efforts under way to
determine if he was killed."
American soldiers maintained
control of the site, imposing
extraordinary security measures,
a day after a fierce gunbatde that
broke out when Iraqi police and
U.S. soldiers surrounded a
house after reports that al-Qaida
in Iraq members were inside.
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the Association of African
American Students, has made
plenty of friends at USC since
he started here in spring 2005,
but stays in touch with some of
the soldiers he fought alongside.
He said they are “a lot easier to
talk to ... because they’ve been
through what I’ve been through
— they can relate to my
experiences,” unlike many of his
classmates.
During his next deployment,
during which McDonald
expects to spend about seven
months in Iraq, he will likely
meet a new set of soldiers to
keep in touch with, as he faces
new challenges in the landscape
of a rapidly changing country.
During his previous
deployment, McDonalds
company controlled an airfield
but also got “passed out” to do
convoy security and guard duty.
“Out there it didn’t really matter
what your job was. It mattered
what needed to be done,” he
said, noting that he did some
work that he wasn’t technically
qualified to do.
Much of the military efforts
in Iraq are focused on
establishing a democratic
government instead of
overthrowing a dictatorship,
and many of the Iraqi people are
now friendlier to the American
soldiers. Terrorists still exist in
Iraq, where suicide bombings
are a frequent occurrence.
McDonald doesn’t know
where he will be stationed in
Iraq or what he’ll be doing, but
he said that he doesn’t mind.
“I don’t diink in specifics of
why we’re over there,” he said.
“It’s more about serving my
country than anything.”
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POLICE REPORT
THURSDAY,
NOV. 17
Vandalism, malicious
injury to realproperty,
7 a.m.
Practice Field,
1000 George Rogers Blvd.
Someone sprayed orange
paint on the practice fields.
Reporting ojjicer: D. Davis
Larceny of rings, 2:39 p.m.
Patterson Hal!,
1520 Devine St.
The victim reported that
between Oct. 28 and Nov. 2,
someone removed two rings,
one gold with diamonds and a
silver-and-gold one with a
blue stone, from her room.
Reporting officer:
M.A. Winnington
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some cleavage and wear
shorter skirts for the
amusement of the horny old
Legislature over there,” Ariail
said. “I drew a cartoon of a
page wearing a burka with a
tag that said ‘page.’”
An anti-defamation league
for Muslims saw the cartoon
and said he didn’t understand
their culture and was making
fun of their women.
“My reaction to what
happened was that it didn’t
have anything to do with any
of that,” Ariail said. “The
point of the cartoon was to
show the outfit that covers the
most skin than any other
outfit in the world. They
didn’t want to hear that and
they started some e-mail
campaign, and I was getting
calls from all over the place
like Indonesia and other
Muslim countries. That’s just
part of the job. It ebbs and
flows.”
Ariail depicted the
controversy on the cover of his
most recent “Ariail!!!,” a book
of his cartoons.
“My first idea was to draw
myself running from a bunch
of Muslims, women in burkas,
but my editor said I should
draw it with everyone pissed
off and chasing after me and
that’s what I did,” Ariail said.
“I just have everyone on it
running after me.”
His third book was one of
Columbia’s bestselling books
in 2001. And while he realizes
it was easy for him to begin
his career as a cartoonist, he
knows it isn’t and will not be
that easy for everyone.
“Right now, there are less
political cartoonists than
when I started 20 years ago by
probably half,” Ariail said.
“Papers just don’t have
cartoonists anymore. A lot of
papers have chosen not to
have them because their
cartoonist has died or moved
somewhere else and they just
don’t rehire. Occasionally a
paper that didn’t have a
cartoonist before will hire one,
generally smaller papers. It’s
tough to break into.”
Experience, talent and
tenacity are what will help
open the door to prospective
cartoonists, Ariail said.
“It is best to get a feel for
the job by working for a paper
while you’re in school,” Ariail
said. “Generally you can get
on a paper and be a cartoonist
if you offer to do it and you
have some talent at it. You
have to be very tenacious. You
have to knock on a lot of
doors. In most cases you
would probably have to work
for the paper in other
capacities in order to get your
stuff published. Once you get
your foot in the door, then
you can be a full time
cartoonist once you prove
yourself.”
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country, taking part in the
two-day rally that ended
Sunday night.
Cutright, a third-year
English student, said speakers
took turns Saturday recalling
encounters with terrorism in
Central America.
“Most of them were
uplifting stories about how
they brought their torturers to
trial,” Cutright said.
On Sunday, the women
participated in a mock funeral
procession to the triple fences
surrounding the fort. The
crowd was estimated at
15,000. Many carried flowers
and crosses bearing the names
of people killed in Central
America.
“Everyone was carrying
crosses and they stuck them in
the fence as they walked by,”
said Jenkins, a third-year
baccalaureate student. “There
were thousands of white
crosses by the end.”
Lohman, a third-year
exercise science and Spanish
student, said the community
of Columbus has grown to
expect the annual protest, now
in it’s 16th year.
“People were (at the march
site) with tables of food. They
were charging pretty
reasonable prices. There also
was a parking lot roped off (for
incoming protesters’ vehicles)
that you had to pay for,”
Lohman said.
“We camped out. There’s a
few camping grounds about
15, 20 minutes away so we
camped with other people who .
were going to the protest,”®
Cutright said. Lohman said
she learned about the protest a
few years ago through the
Carolina Peace Resource
Center, who also sent some
members to the rally Sunday.
Jenkins is trying to make
such activism part of her post
collegiate future.
“I’m interested in making
human rights my career,
possibly as a human rights
attorney,” Jenkins said, “We
knew some people who went
last year, so we did some
research on it and learned
about the School. I think
anyone who understands the
situation could sympathize
with (the oppressed). ”
The three women travelled
with two Colombian students
from Benedict College. Earlier
this year, eight members of a
Colombian peace organization
were killed, and witnesses
claim that a military brigade
commanded by a School of the
Americas graduate was at the
scene around the time of the
killings.
“It was really cool to be a
part of something so big. It was
sad but energizing at the same
time,” Jenkins said.
“It was very moving, very
solemn,” Lohman said. “There
was a very hopeful attitude. I
think the most important
thing was that you took a
moment and reflected on hope
for the future.”
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