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CAROLINA t BRIEF Honors class studies Hurricane Katrina When Charles Pierce visited the Gulf Coast last fall and witnessed the devastation caused by Hurricane: Katrina, he saw something else — a rare educational opportunity. As a member of the civil engineering faculty at the University of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Information .Technology, Pierce knew that the destruction provided invaluable lessons on the role of civil engineering in rebuilding cities and lives. k r • r rvuci IClUIlllllg 1IUII1 the Gulf Coast, Pierce developed the Honors. College course Civil Engineering in the Wake of Katrina. Designed for students in any discipline, the course focuses on topics such as how hurricanes develop, planning and managing evacuations, and levee design and failure. In March, Pierce will take the class to the Gulf Coast to work with relief efforts and learn about the region’s recovery. Pierce’s students say the class,is giving them an insider’? knowledge of the scope of the disaster. “This course is helping those of us who are non-engineering majors understand what it will take for the region to rebuild,” said Mark LaBruyere, a second-year accounting and finance student who lives just outside New Orleans in Kenner, La. THIS WEEK B USC TODAY USC Idol Auditions: 8 to 10 p.m., Russell House Ballroom THURSDAY Career Fest: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Coliseum Second-annual African American Heritage Gala: 7 p.m., Russell House Ballroom IMA American Music Recital: 9 p.m,, School of Music 206 ON THE WEB © www.dailygamecock.com Read online five days a week. Gravy. Ancient Greeks The year after the ban was lifted, ■ chapters of Alpha Tail Omega, Sigma ■ Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, and Kappa W Alpha returned to .campus. __ Meg Gaillard / THE GAMECOCK An exhibit documenting early Greek life at the university is on display at the South Caroliniana Library through April 1. It’s called “Greek Gamecocks: The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Fraternities at the University of South Carolina." The exhibit is free. State Marine to stand trial in recruit’s drowning PARRIS ISLAND — A* parade of prosecution witnesses testified Tuesday that Marine recruit Jason Tharp was shouting and seemed frantic in the minutes before he drowned in the' pool at the Parris Island Marine Recruit Depot a year ago. Most of the witnesses on cross examination said they did not see any unsafe training methods used by Marine Staff Sgt. Nadya Lopez, who is charged with negligent homicide in Tharp’s death, a 19-year-old recruit from Sutton, W. Va. Tharp died on Feb. 8, 2005, during water survival training during his fifth week of boot camp. Lopez was an instructor in the pool. Nation Three Ohio Muslims charged in terror plot CLEVELAND — Three Muslim men from the Middle East were charged Tuesday with plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq and other countries. One of the men, a citizen of both the U.S. and Jordan, was also accused of threatening to kill or injure President Bush. All three had lived in Toledo, Ohio within the past year and were arrested over the weekend, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Bauer said. “This case stands as a reminder of the need for continued vigilance in the war on terrorism,” Attorney General Alberts Gonzales said in Washington. World War crimes fugitive may soon surrender BELGRADE, Serbia Montenegro — Gen. Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb commander accused of orchestrating Europe’s worst massacre of civilians since World War II, has been located in Serbia. Authorities are negotiating his surrender. Mladic, considered the most ruthless commander of the Balkan wars in the 1990s, “has not yet been arrested,” one official, speaking on codition of anonymity told The Associated Press. Mladic is charged by the war crimes tribunal with genocide for allegedly ordering the massacre of 8,000 Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica and for the 1992-95 siege of the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo. Weather Forecast TODBV THU. FBI. SBI. SUB. 255" 5255 . ^ # ( High 69 High 61 High 59 High 51 High 53 Loui 51 Low 39 Low 91 Low 93 Low 31 CRIME REPORT MONDAY, FEB. 20 Larceny of drawing, 9:00 a.m. McMaster College, 1! 06 Pickens St. Someone removed a drawing from McMaster College. Estimated value: $5 Reporting officer: M. Davis TUESDAY, FEB. 21 Suspicious activity, 4:44 a.m. Donglas, 614 Main St. The complainant, 61, said that an unknown person entered the evening services lab and logged onto porn Web sites. Reporting officer: N. Husbands Disorderly conduct; Possession of another’s driver’s license; 4:40 a.m. First Floor Columbia Hall, 91S Barnwell St. Reporting officer S. Wilcox responded to a call that Allison Wilkins, 18, was intoxicated and vomiting near the elevator. Upon contact, Wilkins was observed by police to be grossly intoxicated. Wilkins became combative, | boisterous and used profanities when First Responder and EMS arrived. She refused treatment, was placed under arrest and transported to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center. Wilkins was cleared by EMS and was found to be in possession of another person’s South Carolina driver’s license. Suspicious activity, 9:30 Pm- A Hiatt RE. (.enter. ( 1328 'Wheat St.. The complainant said that someone put a note containing racial content on the windshield of her vehicle. Reporting officer: K. Morgan State officials postpone Calif, killer’s execution David Kravets the Associated press SAN FRANCISCO — State officials on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer, saying they could not comply with a judge’s order that a medical professional administer the lethal injection. Prison authorities called off the execution after failing to find a doctor, nurse, or other person licensed to inject medications to give a fatal dose of barbiturate, said Vernell Crittendon, a spokesman for San Quentin State Prison. “We are unable to have a licensed medical professional come forward to inject the medication intravenously, causing the life to end,” he said. It was unclear when the execution would be carried out, but the delay could last for months because of legal questions surrounding California’s method of lethal injection. The 24-hour d ea th 1 warrant for Michael Morales was to expire at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday. After that, state officials have to go back to the trial judge who imposed the death sentence in 1983 for another warrant. Morales, 46, was supposed to die by lethal injection at 12:01 a.m. But the execution was put off until at least Tuesday night after two anesthesiologists backed out because of ethical concerns that they A might have to advise the ™ executioner if the inmate woke up or appeared to suffer pain. “Any such intervention would clearly be medically unethical,” the doctors, whose identities were not released, said in a statement. “As a result, we have withdrawn from participation in this current process.” The doctors had been brought in by a federal judge after Morales’ attorneys argued that the three-part lethal injection process violates the Eighth * Amendment. ^ every TUESDAY TRIVIA NITE think while you drflnlcl 1/2 PRICE PITCHERS f OFF-CAMPUS CNNW6 N€TWOW< ^^A^VVvVVvi/l *»o»oov otiwt toun amititi “ If you ore under 21, it is against the low to buy alcoholic beverages. All ABC regulations enforced. 4 | 931 SENATE 8TJnJh«jnjm^^^OT12]