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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.
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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
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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.
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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.^^
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