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CAROLINA m BRIEF
Wachovia to donate
scholarship funds
A $1 million gift from
the Wachovia Foundation
to USC will help minority
students earn a business
degree at the Moore
School of Business.
Wachovia and university
officials announced the
gift, the largest ever from
Wachovia to USC, Friday,
at a luncheon at Williams
Brice Stadium.
The lunch was held
in conjunction with the
Moore School’s Wachovia
Executive Lecture
Series, which featured
a talk earlier Friday by
Wachovia Chairman,
President and CEO Ken
Thompson to Moore
School undergraduate
o
The gift is intended
for the recruitment
and retention of under
represented students,
including African
American and other
minority students, by the
Moore School.
The Wachovia gift
will support educational
grants, as well as funds for
work-study assistantships
for Wachovia scholars.
Funds will be used for
numerous recruiting
and retention initiatives,
including summer camps,
workshops and mentoring
programs. Wachovia
scholars also will have the
opportunity to meet and
interact with Wachovia
executives.
The first summer camp
will be in 2007, with the
first class of Wachovia
scholars entering USC in
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THIS WEEK $ USC
TUESDAY
Eric Hollenbeck guest
percussion recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206
WEDNESDAY
SG Executive Candidate
debate: 12:30 p.m. Greene
Street in front of Russell
House
THURSDAY
Clifford Leaman faculty
saxophone recital: 7:30 p.m.
School of Music 206
FRIDAY
Caleb Hood senior voice
recital: 5:30 p.m.' School
of Music 206
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Professor Andrew Harding of the University of Victoria in British Columbia speaks
Saturday as part of the Rudolph C. Barnes Sr. Symposium titled “Legitimacy and
Western & Non-Western Views of Human Rights.” The event was held at the law school
and featured more than 30 scholars and public figures from across the world.
State
Blacks, women paid
less than white men
White men continue to
make more money than
blacks and women who have
similar state government
jobs, according to a report by
the South Carolina Human
Affairs Commission.
Blackstateemployeesmade
gains, closing the salary gap
with whites at upper levels
of state government, and
women continue to be paid
less than men at executive
level positions.
The report showed how
state agencies met goals in
hiring workers based on race
and gender, and compared
how much workers were
paid.
Black state executives
made 7.6 percent less than
white executives, who were
paid an average of $68,107
in 2005.
Blacks made an average of
$62,645 last year.
Nation
Suspect in club attack
killed by police fire
GASSVILLE, Ark. — The
teenager suspected in a
hatchet and gun attack inside
a New England gay bar and
in the killing of a policeman
died Sunday after being
wounded in a shootout with
Arkansas officers.
Authorities said they
believe he also killed a female
acquaintance he had picked
up while driving through
West Virginia.
Jacob D. Robida, 18, died
at Cox-South Hospital in
Springfield, Mo., hospital
spokesman Randy Berger
said.
Investigators said the high
school dropout from New
Bedford, Mass., had dabbled
in Nazism.
Police there said the attack
that injured three men, one
critically, at the Puzzles
Lounge on Thursday was a
hate crime.
World
Mastermind of attack
on USS Cole escapes
LYON, France — A man
considered a mastermind of
the USS Cole bombing that
killed 17 sailors in a Yemeni
port in 2000 was among 23
people who escaped from
a Yemen prison last week,
Interpol said Sunday.
The international police
agency issued an “urgent
global security alert” for
those who escaped Friday
from the prison via a tunnel.
It called the escapees
“dangerous individuals.”
A Yemen security official
announced the escape of
convicted al-Qaida members
Friday but did not provide
details.
Interpol said in a statement
that at least 13 of the 23
escapees were convicted al
Qaida fighters, who escaped
via a 140-yard-long tunnel
“dug by the prisoners and
co-conspirators outside.”
Weather Forecast
TODAY TUE. DIED. THU. FRI.
High 52 High 54 High 51 High 48 High 58
Low 32 Low 31 Low 32 Low 29 Low 31
CRIME REPORT
THURSDAY, FEB. 2
Information;
Injured student,
12:39 p.m.
Intersection of
Blossom and
Buli streets
Reporting officer R.
Bakei- responded with
CDP to assist with a
traffic accident involving
a pedestrian, who was
a USC student. First
Responder was dispatched
to the scene and assisted
EMS in assisting the
victim. The victim was
taken to Baptist Hospital
for treatment.
Suspicious activity,
5:38 p.m.
Kappa Delta,
514 Gasden St.
The complainant said
one of the residents
opened the door for an
unknown male, and he
entered the living room
and started playing the
piano. The complainant
said she escorted him out
but was unaware of where
the male was going.
Reporting Officer:
N. Husbands
FRIDAY, FEB. 3
Leaving the scene
of an accident; Reckless
driving; No proof
of insurance, 2:10 a.tn.
Corner of Blossom
and Bull streets
Reporting officer C.
Knoche stopped a vehicle
after observing it travel
westbound on Greene
Street rvith extensive body
damage.
Upon interview, the
driver was found to
have struck a vehicle on
Greene Street. Further
investigation yielded he
had no proof of insurance.
The victim of the hit
and-run was notified and
responded to the accident
scene.
Assistance Rendered,
4:34 a.m.
Preston College,
1323 Greene St.
The victim, 36, said
his foot was hurting.
EMS was notified and
transported him to
Lexington Medical.
Reporting Officers:
PTIM. Davis,
C. Knoche
Protestors in Beirut torch
Danish mission in reaction 9
to Islamic editorial cartoons
Joseph Panossian
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT, Lebanon —
Muslimrageovercaricatures
of the prophet Muhammad
grew increasingly violent
Sunday as thousands of
rampaging protesters _
undaunted by tear gas and
water cannons _ torched
the Danish mission and
ransacked a Christian
neighborhood. At least one
person reportedly died and
about 200 were detained,
officials said.
Muslimclericsdenounced
the violence, with some
wading into the mobs trying
to stop them. Copenhagen
ordered Danes to leave the
country or stay indoors in
the second day of attacks
on its diplomatic outposts
in the Middle East.
In Beirut, a day after
violent protests in
neighboring Syria, the
crowd broke through a
cordon of troops and police
that had encircled the
embassy. Security forces
ired tear gas and loosed
heir weapons into the air
:o stop the onslaught.
The protesters, armed
with stones and sticks,
iamaged police and fire
vehicles and threw stones at
i Maronite Catholic church
n the wealthy Ashrafieh area
_ a Christian neighborhood
where the Danish Embassy
is located.
Flames and smoke
sillowed from the 10-story
suilding, which also houses
he Austrian Embassy and
he residence of Slovakia’s
:onsul. Protesters waved
jreen and black Islamic
lags from broken windows
md tossed papers and filing
;abinets outside.
Witnesses said one
srotester, apparently
wercome by smoke,
umped from a window and
was rushed to the hospital,
security officials said he
lied.
Thirty people were
injured, half of them
:nembers of the security
forces, officials said. *■
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