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Journalists to train
on AMBER protocol
Journalists from around
the country will be at
USC today for training
on the AMBER alert, the
system that notifies the
public when children are
reported missing.
Nineteen television
news directors-and several
online newspaper editors,
all part of the Gannett
News organization, will
participate in an intensive
daylong training led by
USC journalism faculty.
Cybele Daley, the deputy
assistant attorney general
for the LLS. Department
of Justice, will talk to
the journalists about the
importance of their role in
making the system work
effectively. The group is
the largest to participate
since USC, funded by
a $200,000 grant from
the U.S. Department pf
Justice, began training
last fall.
USC is the nation’s only
DOJ-funded provider of
AMBER alert simulation
training for broadcasters
and law-enforcement
officials. During each
session, participants
work through scenarios
and discuss topics, such
as criteria for and legal
ramifications of activating
an alert, coordination
between the media and
law enforcement officials,
public perception and
how information should
be released.
THIS WEEK m USC
TODAY
Student Government
election filing concludes
THURSDAY
Brenda Leonard cello
recital: 7:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
SUNDAY
Andrew Willis fortepiano
recital: 7:30 p.m. School
of Music 206
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First-year biology student Samirah Ashraf washes the walls of the Salvation Army in
Columbia as paft Martin Luther King Jj. service day.
State
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Non-prescription pills
put behind counters
Sudafed and other
cold medicines used to
create the illegal drug
methamphetamine would be
placed behind the counter
under a bill that received
second reading Tuesday in
the House.
“They would be back there
with cigarettes and lottery
tickets,” said Rep. Joan
Brady, the bill’s sponsor.
The bill, introduced last
year, passed 93-4 Tuesday.
The proposal affects
about a dozen products that
contain pseudoephedrine,
a key ingredient in meth.
People who go into stores
and pharmacies to buy the
cold medicine would need
to sign a log that includes
their name, address and how
much of the product they
purchased.
Nation
Supreme Court rules
for assisted suicide
The Supreme Court on
Tuesday blocked the Bush
administration’s attempt to
punish doctors who help
terminally ill patients die,
protecting Oregon’s one-of
a-kind assisted-suicide law.
It was the first loss for
Chief Justice John Roberts,
who joined the court’s most
conservative members —
Antonin Scalia and Clarence
Thomas — in a long but
restrained dissent.
The administration
improperly tried to use a
federal drug law to pursue
Oregon doctors who
prescribe lethal doses of
prescription medicines, the
court said in a rebuke to
former Attorney General
John Ashcroft.
World
Al-Qaida terrorists die
in airstrike Tuesday
PESHAWAR, Pakistan—At
least four foreign terrorists
died in the U.S. airstrike
purportedly aimed at al
Qaida’s No. 2 leader, the
provincial government said
Tuesday.
A statement by the
administration of Bajur,
the Pakistan’s tribal region
bordering Afghanistan, also
said that 10 to 12 foreign
extremists had been invited
to dinner at the village hit in
Friday’s attack.
Pakistani intelligence
officials have said Ayman al
Zawahri, Osama bin Laden’s
top lieutenant, had been
invited to a dinner in the
targeted village of Damadola
to mark an Islamic holiday
but did not show up and sent
some aides instead.
CRIME REPORT
SUNDAY, JAN. 15
Malicious injury to
real property,
12:57 am
McBryde,
614 Sumter St.
Someone smashed a
window in the building’s
stairwell. A security officer
said he saw a man, aged
18 to 21, throw an object
into the glass. Estimated
damage: $100.
Reporting officer:
M. D. Evans
Malicious injury
to real property,
4:57 a.m.
Douglas, 614 Main St.
Someone discharged
a fire extinguisher
throughout the third
floor of the building.
The Columbia Fire
Department responded,
and Health & Safety and
Tri-Tec were notified.
Estimated damage: $25.
Reporting officer:
M. D. Evans
Larceny of CD player;
Auto break-in, 8 a.m.
S-26 Lot,
1200 Catawba St.
Someone gained entry
to a vehicle and removed
a Pioneer DEH-P3500
CD player. Estimated
value: $150.
Reporting officer:
J. DuPree
Malicious injury to
private property,
5 p.m.
E-5 Lot,
1400 Wheat St.
Someone scratched the -
paint on a 1985 Chevrolet ■
vehicle’s hood, trunk
and driver’s side panel.
Estimated damage: $600.
Reporting officer:
R. Baker
MONDAY, JAN. 16
Illegal use of telephone,
3 a.m.
Roost, 1475 Marion St.
The victim, 19, said
someone called her and
made obscene comments
to her.
Reporting officer:
K, Morgan ^
Assisting other agency,
7:30 p.m.
1335 Rosewood Dr.
Reporting officer M.
J. Winnington found
the victim, 44, on
Roundhouse Road near an
adjacent parking lot. The
man said a man, aged 30
to 50, stabbed him in the
chest after the victim left
work near Rosewood and
Superior Streets. EMS
and the Columbia Police
Department responded.
The victim was taken
to Richland Memorial
Hospital.
Globe wins establish ‘Brokeback*
as early Academy Award favorite
David Germain
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.
— “Brokeback Mountain”
is moseying along the
Academy Awards trail, its
four Golden Globe wins
— best drama among them
— positioning the cowboy
love story for Oscar glory.
Homosexual and
transsexual themes
dominated Monday’s
Golden Globes with the
key wins by “Brokeback
Mountain,” plus acting
honorsforthefilmbiography
“Capote” and the gender
bending “Transamerica.”
But politics and music
ran close behind at the
Globes, second only to the
Oscars in the hierarchy of
Hollywood film honors.
Top prizes went to the
corporate and government
corruption thrillers
“Syriana” and “The
Constant Gardener,” the
terrorism drama “Paradise
Now” and the White
House series “Commander
in Chief,” while the Johnny
Cash film biography
“Walk the Line” won three
honors.
The four Globes for
“Brokeback Mountain,”
the story of old ranch
hand buddies who conceal
an ongoing homosexual
affair from their families,
included the directing
award for Ang Lee.
The fact that “Brokeback
Mountain” has found
eager audiences across
the country, including the
conservative heartland,
shows that Americans are
willing to embrace stories
of love in all forms, Lee
said.
“It has proven you can
never categorize a region or
place or stereotype them,”^^
Lee said. 0
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AND FIRST YEAR SOPHOMORES
If you earned a 3.5 GPA last semester, you are eligible for
membership in Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society. If you meet
the reqired GPA, but haven't received an invitation to join, bring
$30 cash or check (which will grant lifetime membership) to our
office in 345 Russell House (Office of Orientation & Testing)
before: *
January 31, 2006
The USC Chapter of Alpha Lambda Delta
consistently wins top honors, including
most outstanding chapter, and our most
active members earn graduate and
undergraduate scholarships. Alpha Lambda
Delta inducts between 400 and 600 new
freshmen each year representing USC's largest honorary.
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