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CAROLINA © BRIEF
Contest highlights
poetry celebration
The South Carolina
Poetry Initiative will play
host to a celebration of
the poetic arts, where it
will announce the winners
of the third annual South
Carolina Poetry and Book
Contest, on Saturday,
April 8, at the Columbia
Museum of Art.
The University of
South Carolina event,
which is free and open
to the public, will be
held 8:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. It is sponsored
by the museum, The
State newspaper, the
South Carolina Arts
Commission and the
National Endowment of
the Arts. The poet with
the winning poem will
receive $400, and more
than $5Q0 in additional
prizes will be awarded.
More than 600 entries
were received for this
year’s contest.
THIS WEEK © USC
TODAY
“Stop the Raid on
Student Aid” Rally: 6 p.m.
Russell House Theater
I - C o m m Week
— “Political Activity:
Getting Engaged”: 7 p.m.,
ColiseumpftOl r
David Muehling
Sophomore Tuba Recital:
7:30 p.m., School of
Music Recital Hall
THURSDAY
1-Comrn Week — “School
of Library Information
Science Deans’ Lecture”:
7:30 p.m., Swearingen
Amoco Hall
USC Jazz Combos: 7:30
p.m.,' School of Music
Recital Hall
FRIDAY
I- Comm Week — “Why
Should I Stay Connected
to the College of Mass
Communications and
Information Studies?”: 10
aim., Athletic Practice
Facility’s Frank McGuire
Room
Want your
organization’s meetings
on the calendar?
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@gwm.sc.edu
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Heart on your sleeve
Meg Gaillard / THE GAMECOCK
Second-year psychology student CT Thompson displays T-shirts from the Clothesline
Project in Calcott on Tuesday. The display is part of Sexual Violence Awareness Week.
State
Notre Dame professor
offered USC dean post
A University of Notre
Dame law professor says he
has been offered the dean
position at the University
of South Carolina Law
School.
Walter “Jack” Pratt Jr.,
one of three candidates
interviewed on campus,
told The Associated Press
on Tuesday he received the
offer about a week ago.
“There will be a formal
offer and it gets put in
writing,” he said. “But one
of the nice things about this
process is it’s been more
of a conversation among
friends than a stereotypical
negotiation that most people
think of.”
The Jackson, Miss., native
wouldn’t say what the salary
offer was.
Nation
Amid deep pay cuts,
strike looms for Delta
ATLANTA — Delta Air
Lines Inc. pilots, angered
by management’s effort to
throw out their contract
and impose deep pay cuts,
voted by a wide margin to
authorize a strike, union
leaders said Tuesday.
The 94.7 percent vote
in favor of authorizing a
strike gives union leaders
the authority to set a strike
date.
They didn’t set a date
immediately and gave no
indication *vhen they might
act.
The results were
announced in a memo to
pilots from the chairman
of the union’s executive
committee, Lee Moak,
and first reported by The
Associated Press.
World
New French jobs law
spurs riot in streets
PARIS — Demonstrators
opposed to a new jobs law
swarmed parts of downtown
Paris on Tuesday, throwing
stones, tearing down street
signs and ripping up park
benches. Police, firing tear
gas canisters and making
several charges, carried away
protesters in handcuffs.
Police said at least 1
million people poured
into the streets around the
country in the latest protests
against the law, which
makes it easier to fire young
workers. Organizers said 3
million people marched.
A nationwide strike shut
down the Eiffel Tower and
snarled air and rail travel for
the second time in a week
while students barricaded
themselves in schools.
. Weather Forecast
TODAY
High 15
Loui H6
High 18
Lout 51
High 85
Low 62
SOT.
High 80
Loui 52
High II
Loui 49
CRIME REPORT
MONDAY, APRIL 3
Assistance rendered,
11:25 a-m
Capstone,
902 Barnwell St.
The complainant,
42, said she was having
chest pains. She was
transported to Baptist
Hospital by EMS.
Reporting officer:
J.E. Silcox
Grand larceny of auto,
2:30 p.m.
R'lfpc
1423 Whaley St.
The victim said
someone took his
vehicle.
Estimated value: $8,000
Reporting officer:
J. E. Silcox
Larceny of laptop,
2:33 p.m.
Russell Mouse,
1400 Greene St.
The victim, 21, said
someone removed a
Gateway laptop.
Estimated value: $950
Reporting officer:
R. Baker
Act of nature,
5:15 p.m. W
500 block
of Lincoln Street
The complainant, 20,
parked his father’s vehicle
on the roadway next
to a construction area.
Strong winds pushed the
fence surrounding the
construction area onto
pie vehicle.
Estimated value: $300
Reporting officer:
J. DuPree
Grand larceny
of laptop, 9:50 p.m .
Douglas, 614 \1ain Sr.
The victim, 19, said
someone removed his
laptop.
Estimated value: $500
Reporting officer:
S. Wilcox
Iran tests radar-avoiding missile
to support defense against U.S.
nil nhbar Darem
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran
said Tuesday it has tested a
second new radar-avoiding
missile in the Persian Gulf
that the military says are
aimed at preparing the
country’s defenses against
the United States.
The new surface-to
sea missile is equipped
with remote-control
and searching systems,
the state-run television
reported Tuesday.
On Friday, the country
tested the Fajr-3, a missile
that it said can avoid radars
and hit several targets
simultaneously using
multiple warheads. Iran
also has tested what it calls
two new torpedoes.
The Revolutionary
Guards, the elite branch of
Iran’s military, have been
holding their maneuvers
— code-named the
“Great Prophet” — since
Friday, touting what they
call domestically built
technological advances in
their armed forces.
But some experts say
it appears some of the
technology has come from
other countries, possibly
Russia, and some experts
also have questioned just
how adept the missiles are
at evading radar.
It has not been possible_
to verify Iran’s claims fo^B
the new armaments.
the country has made clear
it aims to send a message
of strength to the United
States amid heightened
tensions over its nuclear
program.
The U.N. Security
Council has demanded
Iran give up uranium
enrichment, a crucial part
of the nuclear process.
Washington is pressing
for sanctions if Tehran
continues its refusal to do
so, though U.S. official^
have not ruled out militarj^P
In Russia, a Kremlin
allied lawmaker on Tuesday
criticized the recent
torpedo and missile tests as
a counterproductive show
of might at a time when
it should be trying to allay
fears that it is trying to
build a nuclear weapon.
“It is clear that Iran is
demonstrating its muscle
in order to forestall any
discussions of a possible
operation using force
against Iran,” Konstantin
Kosachev, the head of
the parliamentary foreign
affairs committee, waA
quoted as saying accordin^^
to the RIA Novosti news
agency.
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