CAROLINA © BRIEF
Residence hall hits
national newspaper
USC’s West Quad
residence hall is featured
in a story in the Jan. 8
edition of The New York
Times.
Titled “The Greening
of America’s Campuses,”
the story by Timothy
Egan begins on Page 20
of Section 4A (Education
Life) and includes a
photo of Mike Koman,
environmental protection
manager for University
Housing," beside solar
tubes atop the residence
hall.
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THURSDAY
SG Elections— Candidate
Information Meeting: 5
p.m. Russell House 201
Black Law School
Students Association
Symposium: 6 p.m. Law
School Auditorium
EffectsofAlitoNomination
on Supreme Court Politics
Forum: 1 p.m. Harper
College Gressette Room
FRIDAY
McKinley Stinson Jr.
Junior Percussion Recital:
7:30 p.m. School of Music
206
SUNDAY
Bonnie Hampton Guest
Artist Cello Recital: 7:30
p.m. School of Music 206
MONDAY
Martin Luther King Jr.
Day Holiday: No classes
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State
DMV worker arrested
for issuing fake IDs
A Department of Motor
Vehicles employee has
been arrested for issuing
fraudulent driver’s licenses
in exchange for money,
authorities say.
Rhonda Womack, 34,
gave people licenses with
fraudulent information,
including names and Social
Security numbers, according
to an arrest warrant issued by
the State Law Enforfcement
Division.
Womack issued at least
11 fraudulent licenses since
December 2004, according
to the warrant.
Nation
Credit card debt stays
at record level high
The proportion of
consumers behind on their
credit card bills remained
near record-high levels in
the July-September period
as high gasoline prices
and rising interest rates
continued to put stress on
personal budgets.
The American Bankers
Associated reported Tuesday
that the percentage of credit
card accounts 30 or more
days past due dipped slightly
to 4.74 percent in the July
September quarter after
having hit an all-time high of
4.81 percent in the spring.
World
Flood water destroyed
homes, revealed gold
THAM THA MAUK, Thailand
— Floods that washed away
homes, bridges and lives have
compensated hapless villagers
in southern Thailand with a
treasure — gold.
Hundreds of fortune
seekers armed with shovels
and pans are flocking to
the stream of Tham Tha
Mauk village in search of
the precious metal, which
surfaced from stream banks
after the deluge.
“The spirit of Tha Mauk
(Grandfather Mauk) has
given us worshippers a
treasure to compensate for
what we lost in the flooding,”
said 60-year-old Sangad
Chankhaew.
CRIME REPORT
SATURDAY, JAN. 7
Larceny of money,
2 p.m.
Maxcy College,
1332 Pendleton St.
The victims said
someone entered their
unsecured room and
removed $110 in currency
and $110 in gift cards.
Estimated value: $220
Reporting officer:
R. Baker
MONDAY, JAN. 9
Malicious injury
to real property,
10:4.5 a-m
South Tower,
615 Bull St.
Someone spray painted
the words “AD Star”
three times on a nearby
dumpster.
Estimated damage: $100
Reporting officer:
N. Husbands
Assistance rendered,
1:10 p.m.
1600 Hampton St.
The victim, 50,
complained of light
headedness and dizziness.
First Responders and
the Richland County
EMS took the victim to
Providence Hospital.
Reporting officers:
7.B. Coaxum
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Disorderly conduct, ™
trespassing after notice,
2:20 p.m.
Swearingen
Engineering Building,
315 Main St.
Reporting officers N.
Husbands and S. Wilcox
responded to the scene
for reports of two men
harassing passers-by.
They encountered two
men, Gerald Goins,
43, and another man
whose identity was not
immediately available.
Both men had the strong £
odor of alcohol on their ^
breath, were unsteady
on their feet, and were
loud and boisterous.
They were arrested and
taken to Richland County
Detention Center. The
unidentified man had
been issued a trespassing
notice in March 2005.
Turkey scrambles to contain
deadly Avian flu outbreak
William J. Hole
THE ASSOCIATED PKESS
ANKARA, Turkey —
Turkey raced to contain an
outbreak ofbird flu Tuesday,
destroying 300,000 fowl
and blaring warnings from
mosque loudspeakers, after
preliminary tests showed at
least 15 people have been
infected with the deadly
H5N1 strain.
The World Health
Organization, meanwhile,
reported Wednesday that
two more people in China
died from the virulent
strain, bringing the
death toll on the Chinese
mainland to five and the
worldwide toll to 78.
As Turkey recorded
the first human deaths
outside eastern Asia, jittery
European governments
stepped up border checks
and hosed down Turkish
trucks with disinfectant.
Turkey’s 15 cases in one
week is a record for the
current bird flu outbreak.
Never before has such a
high number of cases been
seen in such a short time in
Asia, where nearly all the
deaths have occurred.
European governments,
scrambling to avoid the
specter of a mutation that
could trigger a pandemic
capable of killing millions,
sprayed trucks from Turkey
with disinfectant. In Italy,
a consumer group urged
the government to impose
a ban on travel to Turkey,
and in Greece, veterinary
inspectors stepped up
border checks.
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Turkey’s government,
anxious to demonstrate^
to its citizens and the
European Union that
it was taking decisive
action, ordered more than
300,000 fowl destroyed as a
precaution. Health officials
said Tuesday most of the 70
or so people hospitalized
with flu-like symptoms had
tested negative for bird flu.
Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan dismissed
the notion that “an idea
of panic was created, ais
though the country was
invaded.”
“Everything is under
control,” he said, adding
that Turkey had no shortage^
of vaccine or medicines.
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