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CAROLINA © BRIEF ' USC student earns Truman Scholarship Third-year student Thomas Scott of Columbia has been named a 2006 Harry S. Truman scholar. Highly competitive and prestigious, the Truman Scholarship is valued at $30,000 and is awarded to approximately 75 juniors nationally. Scott "is seeking a baccalaureus artium et scientiae degree, a rigorous Honors College degree program that combines the arts and sciences. /-i . • /-i i • 3COLL is a ^arumia Scholar a Palmetto Fellow and a National Merit Scholar. He said he plans to use the Truman award to pursue a law degree from the International Law Program at New York University School of Law. He plans to pursue a career in public policy and economic development in Africa. Scott was a 2005 Rotary International Ambassadorial scholar and studied at the University of Cape Town in South Africa.' During his breaks, he did volunteer work in Swaziland and conducted AIDS research in Zambia. In 2004, he was the youngest .student ever selected to intern for the Global Development Initiative of The Carter Center in Atlanta. He helped establish an after-school program in the Waverly Community and has recruited other USC students to volunteer for the program. THIS WEEK m USC TODAY Kaci Henderson & Hannah Polk junior horn recital: 8 p.in. School of Music 206 THURSDAY Carolina Alive: 7:30 p.m. School of Music 206 USC Dance Company in Concert: 7:30 p.m. Roger Center FRIDAY Men's lacrosse — USC vs. Clemson: 7 p.m. Blatt Field ON fHE WEB © WWW.DAILYGAMEC0CK.COM Read online five days a week. It’s in the game. Marrow-minded Nick Esares / THE GAMECOCK Second-year education student Amanda McCarthy has blood drawn Tuesday at the Sweet Caroline Bone Marrow Typing/Blood Drive sponsored by Delta Zeta sorority. State Senate: Possible death for repeat molesters The South Carolina Senate agreed Tuesday that twice-convicted child molesters should be eligible for the death penalty, setting aside arguments the move might be unconstitutional. “What we’ve got to do -today is vote our conviction,” said Sen. Larry Martin, R-Pickens. The proposal was approved as part of a larger bill that sets minimum sentences and lifetime electronic monitoring for some sex offenders. It allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty for sex offenders who are convicted twice of raping a child younger than 11. Senators worried the charge of criminal sexual conduct with a minor was too Droaa, ana insertea a change Tuesday that specifies the offense.must involve rape. Such criminals “don’t deserve to be on the face of this earth,” said Sen. Jake Knotts, R-West Columbia, the chief sponsor of the bill dubbed the Sex Offender Accountability and Protection of Minors Act. “In a lot of cases, death isn’t good enough for them,” Knotts said. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 1977 Georgia case involving an adult victim that sentencing someone to death for rape was unconstitutional. But the high court has not ruled on whether that applies to a child victim. Nation Bush dismisses Card, taps Bolten for post WASHINGTON — Struggling to revive his troubled presidency, President Bush replaced longtime chief of staff Andy Card with budget director Joshua Bolten on Tuesday and gave Bolten authority to make further changes in a White House staff that even Republicans have complained is tired, insular and lacking fresh ideas. Appearing with Bush in the Oval Office, Bolten gave no hint about what, if any, shake-up he might order. But White House officials said no one should doubt his ability to replace Bush oinpc “He’ll have all the authority he needs ... to make the decisions that he feels best, working with the president,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said. Once believed to harbor ambitions of surpassing Sherman Adams’ nearly six year record as the longest serving chief of staff under Dwight Eisenhower, Card told Bush on March 8 he thought he should leave, McClellan said. Bush decided over the weekend at Camp David to accept the resignation and replace Card with Bolten, the spokesman said. To the public, Card may be best known as the aide who calmly walked into a Florida classroom and whispered to Bush that America was under attack on Sept. 11, 2001. World Ex-Liberian warlord disappears from villa ABUJA, Nigeria — Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor slipped away just after Nigeria reluctantly agreed to transfer him to a war crimes tribunal, and the White House suggested Tuesday that President Bush may cancel a meeting with Nigeria’s leader. The Nigerian government said Taylor vanished Monday night from his villa in the southern city of Calabar, where he had lived in exile since being forced from power under a 2003 peace deal that ended Liberia’s civil war. The announcement came three days after President Olusegun Obasanjo, under pressure from Washington and others, agreed to surrender Taylor to a U.N. backed tribunal. He would be the first African leader to face trial for crimes against humanity. The U.S.-educated Taylor has been indicted by the tribunal on charges of committing crimes against humanity while in office by aiding and directing a rebel movement during Sierra Leone’s 1991-2001 civil war. He was accused of trading guns and gems with the insurgents, including child fighters, who terrorized victims by chopping off their arms, legs, ears and lips. The former warlord also plunged Liberia into years of civil war in 1989 when he led a small rebel band that invaded from neighboring Ivory Coast. Weather Forecast TODAY High T4 Low 48 High 16 Loui S3 High 18 Loui SO High 80 Low 55 High 19 Loui 56 CRIME REPORT SATURDAY, MARCH 25 Assisting other agency, $•.46 p.m. VVUSC, Russell House, 1400 Greene'St. The subject was served a complaint and motion for a restraining order in a civil case. Reporting officer: C.R. Gallman MONDAY, MARCH 25 Assistance rendered 2:10 p.m. Roost A. 1320 lleyward St. The victim, 43, was lying on, the lawn. Reporting officer D. Davis dispatched EMS. The victim was transported to Baptist Medical Center. Lost property, 2:45 p.m. Bates West, 1405 Whaley St. The victim, 19, said she got on the yellow route bus and lost her silver, Verizon flip phone. Reporting officer: N. Peter CNNfounder Ted Turner blasts media, President Bush ^ Harry R. Uleber THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — Ted Turner took shots Tuesday at the media for its coverage of sex and violence, at himself for losing control of the cable network he founded and at the Bush administration for its decision to go to war in Iraq. The ever-outspoken billionaire philanthropist made his comments during a symposium at which he was being honored for his promotion of global understanding. “There’s an awful lot of superfluous news, the pervert of the day and someone that shot seven people at a fraternity party,” Turner told a crowd gathered at a downtown hotel. “Who needs it all?” Turner, 67, said he regrets losing control of CNN, which he founded in 1980, to Time Warner Inc. after its merger with America Online. “I lost control of it and I lost it a long time ago when the AOL merger went through, and I apologize for that,” Turner said. “I had a sacred trust there and I let it go. I thought there was no way they could phase me out, and I was wrong.” In 2003, Turner resigned as vice chairman of what was then known as AOL Time Warner Inc. Then, last month, he said he wouldn’t seek re-election to the board of what is now known simply as Time Warner. As for Bush, Turner didn’t waste time offering his political views. “We can’t afford the war in Iraq,” Turner said. “This is a big waste of time.” He added, “I wish we would say, ‘We won and we are going home.’ We shouldn’t be there. Bombing isn’t a way of changing people’s minds. You do that with education.” And he said, “We shouldn’t be starting a war. The big guy doesn’^^ start a fight with a little^^ guy. We learned that with wrestling.” Turner said Bush lacks a true understanding of the world. “We had a president of the United States who had been out of the country but once before he was elected,” Turner said. “There’s been a lot since.” He added, “And this guy has his finger on the nuclear trigger, too — reformed alcoholic, nothing wrong with that.”^^ White Hous e^^ spokeswoman Maria Tamburri, reached by telephone, said in response to Turner’s comments, “Iraq remains a central front in the war on terror, and it’s important for the security of our nation to have a Democratic Iraq as a friend and ally.” She said she had no immediate comment on what Turner said about the president and alcohol use. Bush has been open about his alcohol use in the past and spoke about it during the run-up to th^^ 2000 presidential election.^^ _ Yeah. Tiy getting this comfortable in a dorm. min u n i ve rs ity COMMONS a pa Rtm e n ts i 803.939.0444 4 1 >