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CAROLINA CD BRIEF
Carnegie lauds USC
for research efforts
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USC is among the
nation’s premiere research
institutions, according to
the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of
Teaching.
u>t n a s Deen
designated a research
institution of “very high
research activity.” The
classification, which is
the foundation’s highest,
places USC in the same
research category with
Harvard, Duke, Emory,
Johns Hopkins and
Vanderbilt universities,
as well as the universities
of North Carolina and
California at Berkeley.
USC is the only
university in South
Carolina to have this
designation, granted to
62 public and 32 private
research institutions.
The Carnegie
classification system,
considered the
leading research
classification system,
recently underwent a
comprehensive revision
to group similar
institutions.
It is based on factors
such as the number
of faculty involved
in research, research
expenditures in science
and engineering and
the number of doctoral
degrees awarded by an
institution.
THIS WEEK m USC
TODAY
Greg Jebaily senior voice
recital: 4:30 p.tn. School
of Music 206
Essena Setaro graduate
violin recital: 5:30 p.tn.
School of Music 206
FMLA presents Jessica
Bearden, “Back Up Your
Birth Control": 7 p.m.
Gambrell 005
THURSDAY
We n r ui Gong,
“Synthesizing DSP
Applications onto
Reconflgurable Computing":
11 a.tn. Swearingen
faculty lounge
Jessie Forcucci & Lauren
Remmers flute recital: 5:30
p.m. School of Music
206
Jessica Porterfield junior
piano recital: 7:30 p.m.
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Sophomore wide receiver Syvelle Newton, who missed some of the last football season
with a torn Achilles’ tendon, watched spring practice Monday. "I’m going to be ready
(this fall),” Newton said. “I have no doubts in my mind. I’m not going to push it.”
State
School board could
face suit under FOIA
SUMTER — The Sumter
District 17 school board
may have violated state law
when it met behind closed
doors to discuss legal action
against a former employee,
a media attorney says.
The board voted between
two options in public, but
didn’t disclose what the
options were.
“The meeting itself was
inappropriately closed,
illegally closed,” said Jay
Bender, an attorney for
the South Carolina Press
Association and expert
on the state’s Freedom of
Information Act.
The attorney general’s
office says the board
discussed Tom Lewis.
Nation
Judge says Moussaoui
can get death penalty
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The
judge in the Zacarias
Moussaoui sentencing case
decided Tuesday to allow
the government to continue
to seek the death penalty
against the confessed al
Qaida conspirator.
But, exasperated by
mounting government
missteps, Judge Leonie
Brinkema ruled that no
testimony about aviation
security measures would
be allowed during the trial
into whether Moussaoui is
executed or spends life in
prison.
Prosecutors had said
previously that testimony
from aviation officials would
comprise half their case.
World
Organization brings
Beethoven to slums
SAO PAULO, Brazil —
Edmilson Venturelli has
something different to offer
slum kids accustomed to
the gunfire, police sirens
and gangsta rap that echo
through the city’s largest
shantytown — Beethoven.
Venturelli, a group of
educators and musicians
plan to build a $6.6 million
performing arts complex
in Heliopolis, a sprawling
labyrinth of narrow streets,
open-air sewers and
improvised shacks.
Venturelli sees classical
music as a way out of
the drugs, crime and
prostitution that prevail
among the slum’s 100,000
residents.
CRIME REPORT
SUNDAY,
MARCH 12
Malicious injury
to personal property,
7 p.m.
S-26 Lot,
1200 Catawba St.
The victim, 20, said
when he returned to
the incident location,
he found his vehicle’s
window damaged by
someone by unknown
means.
Estimated value: $150
Reporting officer:
M. Davis
Information;
Clary Act, 2:30 a.m.
800 block
of Catawba St.
The victim, 19, said
as he was walking, two
unidentified black males
confronted him, engaged
in a physical altercation,
and took his wallet and
cell phone at knifepoint.
Reporting officer:
D. Adams
MONDAY,
MARCH 13
Assistance rendered,
1:30 p.m.
nag. >
1620 Pendleton St.
The victim, 47, said
she was not feeling well.
First Responder and EMS
arrived, and transported ^
her to Baptist Hospital. ^
Reporting officers: M.A.
Winnmgton,
J. Winnmgton
Found property,
4:10 p.m.
BA Parking Garage,
1705 College St.
The victim’s briefcase
was found unattended in
the BA Parking Garage.
Reporting officer N. Peter
attempted to contact him
with negative results, but
left a message for the
victim to come pick up m
the briefcase. *
Towed vehicle,
9:05 p.m.
Greek Village
A Mitsubishi vehicle
was towed for a parking
violation.
Reporting officer:
J. Widdifield
Former Enron Corp. executive:
Staff swept from risk assessment |
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Kristen Hays
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — A former
Enron Corp. executive
said Tuesday he and his
staff were swept from the
company’s risk-assessment
squad to another division
after former Chief
Executive Officer Jeffrey
Skilling complained they
had acted more like “cops”
than deal facilitators.
Vince Kaminski, still
evaluating risk for Enron
two years later, said he got
a cold reaction when he
told executives, including
company founder
Kenneth Lay, that Enron
needed to “come clean”
on questionable financial
structures in the weeks
before it crashed into
bankruptcy proceedings.
“I felt the company
was threatened and I
had a duty to speak up,”
said Kaminski, who was
a managing director of a
research unit in the Risk
Analytics and Control
group, which evaluated
deals from divisions across
Enron.
But he couldn’t find
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a receptive ear among
Enron’s top ranks, the
expert mathematician and
economist told jurors in
the seventh week of the
fraud and conspiracy trial
of Skilling and Lay.
Through Kaminski,
government prosecutors
sought to show Tuesday
that the defendants knew
one of the company’s
top risk assessors voiced
concern about the
propriety of partnerships
run by former finance^
chief Andrew Fastow to^
conduct deals with Enron
and that they did nothing
to intervene.
The defense maintains
negative publicity, shattered
market confidence and an
overall bear market forced
Enron to seek bankruptcy
protection in December
2001.
The defense is expected
to cross-examine Kaminski
Wednesday. His testimony
will be followed by that
of Sherron Watkins, the
Enron executive who sent
Lay a memo months before
the company’s collapse^
warning . of Fastow’s™
accounting schemes.
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