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CAROLINA t BRIEF News analyst to speak at graduation service ABC commentator and NPR news analyst Cokie Roberts will address the university’s commencement exercises on Monday, Dec. 12, at the Colonial Center, USC confirmed Tuesday. Roberts will also receive an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the 3:30 p.m. ceremony. Roberts is an accomplished broadcast journalist with more than 30 years’ experience, and she has won three Emmy Awards, as well as the esteemed Edward R. Murrow Award for her work in public radio. Roberts Collaborates heavily with her husband Steven, writing a syndicated weekly column for several major newspapers as well as “From This Day Forward,” an account of their and other Americans’ marriages. USC taps Dodenhoff for advancement post USC President Andrew Sorensen announced Tuesday that Michelle DeRussy Dodenhoff has been named interim vice president for University Advancement. She succeeds Hudson Akin, who resigned effective today. Dodenhoff will take her place Thursday. Dodenhoff has directed the university’s fundraising efforts since joining USC last December' as assistant vice president for university development. THIS WEEK O USC TODAY John Randall Altman Jr. junior voice recital: 5:30 p.m. School of Music 206 Joseph Rackers faculty piano recital: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 THURSDAY Graduate vocal ensemble with conductor Matt Whitcom’s: 6 p.m. School of Music 206 USC Dance Company’s “Blue Jeans to Ballet 2005”: 7:30 p.m. Drayton Hall USC Student Composers Concert: 8:30 p.m. School of Music 206 FRIDAY Alvoy Louis Bryan Jr. doctoral viola recital: 4 p.m. School of Music 206 Devin K. Farmer junior piano recital: 5:30 p.m. School of M usic 206 Weather Forecast V nM THF WFR T0DflV THU FRL SflT sun U“ I nt WtD © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM kX^ Read online five days a week. Groovy. High 64 High 63 High 61 High 60 High 12 Loui 36 Low 3S Low 35 Low 48 Low 45 Christmas at the capitol Afiflfc Esans /Tl IK < JAM K(HM IK Columbia’s annual Christmas tree joins the Confederate flag in front of the State House on Gervais Street. POLICE REPORT SATURDAY, NOV. 19 Assistance rendered, 4:10a.m. Maxcy College, 1332 Pendleton St. First Responders and EMS arrived to find the victim, 18, intoxicated. EMS transported her to Baptist Hospital’s emergency room. Minor in possession of liquor, 5 a.m. East Quad, 1400 Greene St. Reporting officer J.E. Silcox responded to an alcohol-related complaint. Upon entering the room, Silcox observed a bottle of rum in plain view. A further search produced a bottle of Everclear in the room of Thomas Grady II, 19. Grady iimc orrpct-p^ on/-] tob-pn fn R irklin/1 County Detention Center. Grand larceny of camera, 2:37p.m. Carolina Coliseum, 701 Assembly St. Someone took a black Sony Handycam from the building. Estimated value: $4,000 Reporting officer: N. Husbands Disorderly conduct, 8:20p.m. Williams-Brice Stadium, 1000 George Rogers Blvd. Reporting officer J. D. Patterson saw Mitchell Green, 23, shove another spectator at the Carolina-Clemson ■game. Green was asked to leave but refused even after Officer A. Mitchell was called to the scene. Green was arrested after he became unruly. Disorderly conduct, 9:40p.m. WIIliams-Brice Stadium, 1000 George Rogers Blvd. Reporting officer T. Brewster-Gooding saw G. Charlton June, 55, highiy intoxicated, unstable on his feet, and acting loud and boisterous. June was arrested. Larceny, 11:30 p.m. Snowden, 600 Main St. Two men said someone removed a white iPod and PlayStation 2 from their room. Total estimated value: $650 Reporting officer: C. Taylor SUNDAY, NOV. 20 Assistance rendered, disorderly conduct, 4:10a.m. Bates House, 1423 Whaley st. i/ir't-im woe fminrl r»occ^*rl out and intoxicated with several cuts on his hands. First Responder and EMS responded, and the victim was transported to Palmetto Health Baptist hospital. Reporting officer: J.E. Silcox. Assistance Rendered Bates House second-floor bathroom, 1423 Whaley St. Reporting officer C. Knoche responded to a complaint of two extremely intoxicated men on the sixth floor. One man, 18, was found in a public restroom in a pool of vomit. EMS responded and transported him to Baptist Hospital. The other man, John Funderbunk, 18, was arrested for disorderly conduct because he was extremely intoxicated. Funderbunk was taken to RCDC. FRIDAY, NOV. 25 Interference with fire and police alarm boxes, 11:30 p.m. School of Music, 1051 Assembly St. Reporting officer J. Widdifield observed John DeWolfe, 20, walking up to an alarm box and activating it. DeWolfe told Widdifield he had no legal reason to use the box. He was arrested and taken by Officer D. Adams to Glenn Detention Center. MONDAY, NOV. 28 Non-suspicious fire, 11:17 a.m. Pendleton St. Garage, 1501 Pendleton St. The complainant said the front right tire of a vehicle was on fire. Columbia Fire Department and Health & Safety responded to extinguish the fire. CFD could not determine the cause of the fire. Reporting officer: N. Husbands Assault, 11:15 a.m. Thomas Cooper Library The victim said that at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 19, a 20-year-old man assaulted her by pushing her to the ground. He then harassed her by following her around campus. No arrests have been made. Reporting officer: C. Gallman State Safety board: Trains should slow in cities WASHINGTON — Trains carrying poisonous gases should be required to go slowly through populated areas, say safety officials who investigated a crash that killed nine people when it released chlorine gas on Graniteville. On Jan. 6, a Norfolk Southern train veered off the main track onto a spur, rear ending a parked train whose crew hadn’t returned the hand operated switch to its original position, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded. The switch would have kept the moving train on the main rail. Nation Va. governor spares life of convicted killer RICHMOND, Va. — Gov. Mark R. Warner on Tuesday spared the life of a convicted killer who would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punisnment to resume in iv/o. The governor commuted Robin Lovitt’s death sentence to life in prison without parole. Lovitt, 42, was set to be executed by injection Wednesday night for stabbing a man to death with a pair of scissors during a pool-hall robbery in 1998. In granting clemency, which Warner had never before done to a death row inmate during his four years in office, the governor noted that evidence that had been improperly destroyed after Lovitfs conviction. World Video shows capture of 4 peace activists BAGHDAD, Iraq — Al-Jazeera broadcast video Tuesday of four Western peace activists held hostage by a previously unknown group, part of a new wave of kidnappings police fear is ‘aimed at disrupting next months elections. The news station said the four were seized by the Swords of Righteousness Brigade, which claimed they were spies working under the cover of Christian peace activists. The captives — an American, a Briton and two Canadians — were members of the Chicago-based aid group Christian Peacemaker Teams, which confirmed they disappeared Saturday. 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