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CAROLINA © BRIEF
USC School of Law
appoints new dean
A University of Notre
Dame law professor has
been named dean of
the University of South
Carolina School of Law.
USC officials
announced Thursday that
Walter F. “Jack” Pratt
Jr., who also is a former
executive associate dean
of the yniversity of
Notre Dame Law School,
will join USC July 1.
USC President Andrew
Sorensen said Pratt’s
appointment comes at a
critical time for USC’s
law school and will bring
a renewed sense of energy
and optimism to the law
school and its building
campaign.
Pratt joined the
University of Notre Dame
Law School faculty in
1986. During his tenure,
he also has served as co
director of the Notre
Dame London Law
Center and as associate
dean for academic affairs.
Before joining Notre
Dame, Pratt was on
the law faculty at Duke
University.
A JacJcson, Miss.,
native, Pratt earned his
bachelor’s degree magna
cum laude in history from
Vanderbilt University, his
doctorate in politics from
Oxford University, and
his law degree from Yale
University, where he was
article and book review
editor of the Yale h,aw
Journal.
THIS WEEK ® USC
TODAY
Third Annual Social
Justice Day: 8 a.m. until 4
p.m., BA Building
I-Comm Week — “Why
Should I Stay Connected
to the College of Mass
Communications and
Information Studies?”: 10
a.m., Athletic Practice
Facility’s Frank McGuire
Room
Re}ay for Life: I p.m.,
Baskin Track
SATURDAY
USC Opera presents
“A Little Night Music”:
7:30 p.m., Keenan High
School
USC Showcase: 10 a.m.
until 1 p.m., Horseshoe
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State
High schoolers tested
for alcohol at prom
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HILTON HEAD ISLAND —,
Hilton Head High School
students will need more than
fancy dresses and tuxedos
to get into this year’s prom.
They’ll also have to pass a
blood-alcohol test.
The high school' decided
to test all students to see
if they have been drinking
after several students
arrived at last year’s prom
intoxicated, said Obie
Schramm of the Beaufort
County School District.
“Unfortunately, there’s
always a handful of students
drinking, and that makes it
hard for everyone. We don’t
want something terrible to
happen,” Schramm said.
School officials will
administer the tests at the
prom, principal Helen Ryan
said.
Nation
Bush authorized leak
of intelligence data
WASHINGTON — Vice
President Dick Cheney’s
former top aide told
prosecutors that President
Bush authorized a leak
of sensitive intelligence
information about Iraq,
according to court papers
filed by prosecutors in the
CIA leak case.
The filing by Special
Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald
also describes Cheney’s
involvement in I. Lewis
Libby’s communications
with the press.
There was no indication
that either Bush or Cheney
authorized Libby to disclose
Valerie Plame’s CIA identity.
But Cheney could be one of
the originators of the idea
that Plame could be used to
discredit her husband, Bush
critic Joseph Wilson.
World
Tests confirm bird flu
caused swan’s death
LONDON — Britain
confirmed its first case of
the deadly H5N1 strain of
bird flu in a wild swan on
Thursday.
The swan was found in the
Scottish town of Cellardyke,
more than 450 miles north
of London, according to
Scotland’s chief veterinary
officer, Charles Milne.
Health officials said
the case poses no serious
risks to public health but
the government began
restricting poultry movement
and implementing a 965
square-mile “wild bird risk
area” around the site where
the swan was found.
The deadly virus has not
been found in domestic
British poultry. At least 109
people have died from bird
flu since late 2003.
CRIME REPORT
WEDNESDAY,
APRIL 5
Larceny of clothes,
7 a.m.
Patterson Hall,
1520 Devine St.
The victim, 19, said
someone stole her clothes
from a dryer.
Estimated value: $300
Reporting officer:
J. Widdifield
Grand larceny
of laptop, 8:yo a.m.
BA Building,
1705 College St.
The complainant, 47,
said someone removed a
Dell laptop computer.
Estimated value: $400
Repotting officer:
W. Guyon
Found property,
ii p.m.
C-2 Lot,
Byrnes Building,
901 Sumter St.
An Allsouth Federal
Credit Union Visa check
card was turned in by an
unknown person. .
Reporting officer: ^
M. A. Winnington
THURSDAY,
APRIL 6
Information,
12:55 a.m.
Intersection
of Rosewood Drive
and Garners Ferry
Road
Reporting officer A.
Mitchell saw a vehicle in
a parking lot, which was
on fire. Mitchell used a
fire extinguisher in the
patrol car to put the fire *
out. ^
U.S. decision to not join
U.N. human rights council
draws strong criticism
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS —
The United States said
Thursday it will not seek
a seat on the new U.N.
Human Rights Council
this year, a decision that
drew strong criticism
from rights groups and
members of Congress.
The United States was
virtually alone among the
191 U.N. member states
in opposing the 47-nation
council’s creation last
month. State Department
officials said the U.S.
would wait until next year
before pursuing a seat.
“There are strong
candidates ... with long
records of support for
human rights that voted
in favor of the resolution
creating the council,” State
Department spokesman
Sean McCormack said.
“They should have an
opportunity to run.”
People with knowledge
of the decision
making process that
led to Thursday’s
announcement said the
Bush administration,
criticized for alleged
abuses in Guantanamo
Bay and Abu Ghraib, also
feared it would not get the
necessary 96 votes to win
a seat.
U.S. officials had raised
the possibility of U.S.
defeat during a confidential d
U.S. National Security *
Council meeting earlier
this week, said one person
who was at the meeting
and spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was
not authorized to speak
about the closed session.
Human rights groups
criticized the decision,
noting the United States
had long worked with the
discredited Commission
on Human Rights, the
body the council replaced.
“It’s childish for the
U.S. government not to 4
cooperate with the new ^
Human Rights Council
when it cooperated for
decades with the vastly
inferior old Commission
on Human Rights,” said
Kenneth Roth, executive
director of Human Rights
Watch.
They also said the U.S.
assessment that it might
not get enough votes
contrasted with the U.S.
line during negotiations
earlier this year, when
U.S. Ambassador John
Bolton had lobbied hard
for American members to
be elected by a two-thirds a
majority of the General ®
Assembly.
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