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USC to give diplomas
to 2,300 at graduation
USC expects to hand more
than 2,300 graduates their
diplomas when commencement
takes place Dec. 12 at the
Colonial Center.
Cokie Roberts; a National
Public Radio analyst and ABC
News commentator, will give
the address.
Roberts has received three
Emmy Awards for her
television work and received the
Edward R. Murrow Award for
her work with public radio.
One thousand seventy-five
baccalaureate degrees will be
given to USC-Columbia
students. Sixteen law degrees
and 79 doctoral degrees will
also be awarded.
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The ceremonies will be
broadcast on ETV live on Dec.
12 beginning at 3 p.m. USC
will also have streaming video
of the ceremony at
www.sc.edu/commencement.
THIS WEEK © USC
TODAY
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 Music 206
Marina Lomazov studio
recital: 7:30 p.m. School of
Mhsic 206
Fall 2005 Seminar Series —
Kirk S. Schanze, “Conjugated
Polyelectrolytes: Self-Assembly,
Amplified Quenching and
Application to Biosensors”: 4
p.m. Jones Physii.il - Science"'
Center 006 . -
SATURDAY
Junichiro Harada doctoral
piano recital: 5:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
William Terwilliger violin
and viola studio recital: 7 p.m.
.v School pf Music 206
Pets in America exhibit: runs
through Apt. '■ 22, 2006,
McKisskk Museum
SUNDAY
An Evening of Chamber
Music: 7:30 p.m. 'School' of
Music 206
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POLICE REPORT
TUESDAY, NOV. 29
Assistance rendered, 8:58 a.m
Longstreet Theatre, 1300 Greene St.
A 53-year-old woman said she felt
dizzy and fell, possibly hitting her head.
First Responders and EMS arrived, and
the woman was taken to Palmetto Baptist
hospital.
Reporting officer: T. Brewster-Gooding
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30
Disorderly conduct, trespassing
after notice, 2:04a.m.
Spring Sports, 1316 Heyward St.
John Floyd, 69, was found during a
routine property check. Floyd had no ID,
Dut a records cnecK revealed previous;'*
trespassing notices. Floyd began to yell
profanities at the officer and was arrested.
Reporting officer: D. Adams
Information; Larceny and recovery
of wallet, 11:30 a.m.
Seawells, 1125 Rosewood Dr.
A 28-year-old wohian said someone
took her wallet, and a 21-year-old man
said he found a wallet in the back of his
truck, the ID inside of which matched
the woman. The victim said she canceled
all of her cards the day of the larceny.
Reporting officer: M.A. Winnington
Malicious injury to real •
property,
2 p.m.
300 Sumter St.
and 1200 Catawba St.
Facilities Management reported
that someone sprayed paint on a
Dumpster and a bus stop nearby.
Estimated value: $200
Reporting officer: A. Mitchell
Found property, 5:05 p.m.
1600 Hampton St.
Parking Lot
A 31-year-old woman said she
was leaving the lot in her vehicle
rwnen sne aiscoverea a computer
hard drive on her floor board. The woman
said it was not hers' and she had no idea
where it came from. There were no signs
of forced entry into the vehicle, and
nothing was missing from the interior.
The HP Pavilion a305W hard drive was
put into evidence for safe keeping.
Reporting officer:
J.M. Harrelson
Information, accidental damage,
9:32 p.m.
Chi Omega House, 515 Gadsden St.
Reporting officer M.J. Winnington
responded to a fire alarm. A second-floor
washing machine overflowed and caused
damaged to the first-floor kitchen ceiling
and wiring, which triggered the fire
alarm.
Trespassing after notice, 11:30p. m.
School of Music, 1051 Assembly St.
Reporting officers M.J. Winnington and
J. Widdifield arrived around 10:10 p.m.
and found Philip Smith, 49, yelling at
students entering the back of the
building. Winnington asked him to
leave, only to find him at the scene an
hour later. Smith was arrested and taken
to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center.
Haiti kidnappers seize bus carrying 14 children
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* ' THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti
— Gunmen hijacked a school
bus carrying 14 children
Thursday, and a U.S.
missionary was abducted while
driving outside Haiti’s capital,
police said.
The separate kidnappings
came five weeks before
national elections are to be
held to restore democracy and
stability in this strife-torn,
impoverished nation. But
police said they did not appear
to be politically related.
The bus was taking the
children to school when several
armed men stopped it,
boarded it and drove off down
a main road heading west from
Port-au-Prince, the capital,
Police Commissioner Francois
Flenry Doussous told The
Associated Press.
Doussous said the captors
contacted the children’s
families and demanded
$50,000 for their release. The
children are aged 5-17.
Also Thursday, gunmen
shot and kidnapped U.S.
missionary Phillip Snyder as he
was driving on a road north of
the capital, Doussous said.
Snyder, 48, is the president
of Glow Ministries
International, based in
Zeeland, Mich., about 90
miles west of the state capital
of Lansing, according to the
groups Web site.
The kidnap victims wife,
Amber Snyder, 38, said in a
phone interview with the AP
from Zeeland that she received
a brief telephone call from her
husband Thursday afternoon,
where he told her that he had
been kidnapped and shot.
“He sounded strained,” she
said. “He told me he wasn’t
being hurt.”
Amber Snyder said the Red
Cross was able to examine her
husband.
She said a boy, about 7 or 8
years old, may have been
kidnapped along with her 48
year-old husband. She said the
father of the boy, who was
being taken to obtain a
medical visa so he could have
eye surgery, also may have been
kidnapped and released.
She said the one of the
couple’s sons, who lives in
Haiti, was acting as a
negotiator with the
kidnappers.
Doussous said police believe
the two kidnappings are
unrelated. The police
commander spoke with
Snyder’s kidnappers by phone,
who said they want $300,000
for the American’s release. The
kidnappers also put Snyder
himself on the phone with the
police commander.
Amber Snyder said her
husband’s family has worked in
Haiti for more than three
decades in helping the poor.
Doussous said police believe
the kidnappers brought Snyder
to the Port-au-Prince slum of
Cite Soleil, a base for armed
gangs blamed for much of the
recent violence in the capital.
Haiti, the Western
Hemisphere’s poorest nation,
has a long history of instability.
Elections are slated for Jan. 8,
to elect a president and
parliament. A rebellion ousted
President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide in February 2004.
“We do not consider these
kidnaps to be politically
motivated,” said Doussous.
“This is purely criminal
activity, the gangs need
money.” *
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Possible bacteria found
at coastal area hospital
MYRTLE BEACH — The
Grand Strand Regional Medical
Center has sent letters to more
than 3,500 patients warning
them the mouthwash they
received at the hospital could be
contaminated with bacteria.
The mouthwash was sent to
hospitals and other medical
facilities across the country by ift
Medline Industries of
Mundelein, 111., which recalled
the product in late August.
The mouthwash was
distributed in personal hygiene
kits when patients were admitted
between March 23 and Aug. 31.
It has an identification code of
RA05CRR and lot numbers
0503 through 0508.
The mouthwash tested
positive for Burkholderia
cepacia. '
The bacteria poses little threat
to healthy people, but others
with health problems such as
weakened immune systems or
chronic lung diseases could be
more susceptible.
Nation
New Orleans opens
final closed district
NEW ORLEANS — The last
neighborhood in New Orleans
that had remained closed after
Hurricane Katrina reopened
Thursday with some residents
of the Lower Ninth Ward
saying they planned to abandon
the area and others vowing to
rebuild.
Residents were allowed in for
the day to gather what
belongings they could. Until
now, people had been able to
view the destruction only on
bus tours. Residents still cannot
stay in the neighborhood,
which has no electric power.
The Lower Ninth Ward was
the last section of the city; to
reopen, owing to the
destruction wrought by the
storm and floods after the
London Avenue Canal levee
breach. \
The neighborhood remai ed
treacherous. Streets were c ar,
but hundreds df buildings \ :re
on the verge of collapse ad
yards were full of broken g ss,
metal shards . and bo ds
studded with rusting riails.
Before the hurricane, si ne
residents had decried groy rig
violent crime iii die w d,
which has loriig ' hade a
reputation as one jpf the cjjy’s
most dangerous arejs.
World I j
Police clash with vote's
during Egypt’s electic n
MANSOURA, Egypt -
Violence wracked the, jjj lal
round of Egypt’s troubled
parliamentary elections
Thursday as police opened fire
on crowds and used nightsticks
and tear gas to bar voters from
entering polling stations in
opposition strongholds. At least
one person was killed and 60
were wounded.
Voters were met at the polls
by lines of police in towns
where ruling party candidates
faced stiff competition from the
opposition, and only people
who said they would cast ballots
for President Hosni Mubarak’s
National Democratic Party were
allowed through.
The elections — considered a
key test of Mubarak’s openness
to reform — have been plagued
by battles between the
government and the
Brotherhood, Egypt’s main
Islamist group. The
Brotherhood racked up seats in
the two election stages last
month, increasing its
representation in the parliament
by at least five times more than
what it'previously was. ,