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For more information, please contact [email protected]. dailygamecock.com The University of South Carolina Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Vol. 100, No. 11 ● Since 1908 Under rule, cigarettes piling up Smoking policy outside USC buildings causes mix of appreciation, anger, ashtrays year elementary education Kathleen Kemp student, said he has THE DAILY GAMECOCK noticed that the litter is everywhere. Since the new smoking The smoking ban policy went into effect prohibits smoking within Aug. 1, a marked increase 25 feet of university in cigarette butts left buildings; in outdoor on the ground has been seating areas (such as the noticed. Russell House patio); in Around noon Monday, ATM, ticket and bus lines 11 cigarette butts were on campus; in outdoor on the ground between fixed seating venues the Humanities classroom (such as Williams-Brice building and the Welsh Stadium) and outdoor humanities building. events. Several trashcans (some The ban also prohibits outfitted with ashtrays) the sale and advertisement were in sight; however, of tobacco on campus under the new policy, or through university a person smoking a publications. cigarette next to one of Miller Wofford, a the trashcans would be too first-year pre-pharmacy close to at least one of the student, said logistics buildings. ● Jake Rambo, a third- SMOKING 2 In fi rst meeting, RHA talks money, visitation policy Ryan James reports that addressed THE DAILY GAMECOCK such issues as the passing Meg Gaillard / THE DAILY GAMECOCK of the Senate budget and The Thomas Cooper Library features rare books such as an Ernest Hemingway collection valued at $1.8 million. The Residence Hall the implementation of new Association held its first programs to be offered to meeting of the year in the students living in residence Student Senate Chambers halls. on Tuesday to discuss basic Numerous student meeting procedures and organizations and branches prominent issues that it of official university Books-a-million will face throughout the departments were year. represented at the meeting RHA President Terrill and were offered time to Th omas Cooper home to valuable manuscripts, special collections Wilkins, a fourth-year express their interests and history student, opened the connections with RHA. Gina Vasselli acquisitions largely from meeting by congratulating Tom Ha rlu kow icz , a n STAFF WRITER gifts, both gifts of books student senators and athletics department and gifts of money to buy summarized the key representative, said his Millions of dollars worth books, and partly from points that RHA hopes to department hopes to of materials are sitting on library endowment income,” address. establish a residence hall the mezzanine level of the said Patrick Scott, Special “I would first like to soccer tournament. Thomas Cooper Library. Collections director. congratulate each and Brittany Mallin, a campus Rare Books and Special There has not been a major every one of you for wellness representative, said Collections have original addition in the past 10 years being elected to serve in its university ambassadors manuscripts and books that was not primarily funded this representative body,” program would serve as that can be worth more by one of those three options, Wilkins said. “You may liaisons for the campus than a million dollars, such Scott said. have faced varying degrees wellness programs to USC as the Ernest Hemingway People give their of competition in your students. collection, which was collections to the library so respective residence hall “Basically, we just want appraised at $1.8 million. that they will be taken care elections. As a whole, you the wellness ambassadors Where does Rare Books of correctly and so that they have all displayed the program to be a means for Meg Gaillard / THE DAILY GAMECOCK get the money to buy things will remain a collection. ability to take initiative in students to know about the worth almost $2 million? “The collector has an A rare manuscript is on display on the mezzanine level your communities.” services available to them. People give it away. investment not only of of USC’s Thomas Cooper Library. Wilkins said RHA is So many students tell us “Rare Books gets new money but of expertise and finishing its advocacy they never knew this stuff collections or individual long-term involvement,” USC alumnus, Edward S. said. to reform the current was out there.” Scott said. “Few collectors Hallman. A private donor and visitation policy. RHA Campus Wellness want to see their collection The new addition to Rare foundation, William L. has also decided upon an is offering a smoking dispersed.” Books is the John Milton Richter and the William L. on-campus downloading cessation program, a For the Hemingway Collection, appraised Richter Family Foundation, program that they hope massage therapist and a collection, $900,000 of the conservatively at $1 million. are providing half of the to have on campus by free consultation with a asking price was a gift from The previous owner and million dollars, respectively. January. dietician. index the previous owner, and the library estimate it as It will be received Thursday The meeting featured RHA also presented $750,000 was a gift from a significantly more, Scott LIBRARY ● 4 executive and committee RHA ● 2 Classifieds..................12 Crossword....................9 Horoscopes....................9 Britton’s on Devine offers Steve Spurrier continues to Opinion.......................6 side stylish alternative to typical mix up USC’s offense with new Police Report................2 in tailgating. 7 players and tougher practices. 10 The Daily Gamecock ● Wednesday, September 20, 2006 ON THE WEB at Weather Forecast www.dailygamecock.com TODAY THU. FRI. SAT. SUN. Read online five days a week. The pen is blue. High 80 High 74 High 81 High 87 High 86 SULLIVAN COMES ALIVE Low 55 Low 57 Low 66 Low 67 Low 66 CRIME REPORT CAROLINA in BRIEF Two jazz musicians MONDAY, SEPT. 18 The victim, 17, said to play2 Columbia Harassment, she received threatening 5:26 p.m. e-mails. Two celebrated jazz Capstone, Responding offi cer: musicians, Russel Malone 902 Barnwell St. M. Davis and Benny Green, will jazz up the School of Music recital hall Thursday. Alleged kidnapper’s mom The 7:30 p.m. event is free and open to the public. charged with aiding son Malone, a self-taught player, has performed Meg Kinnard learned she was working with legendary jazz artist Th e Associated Press with Filyaw’s common-law Wynton Marsalis, as well wife to provide him food, as Harry Connick Jr.’s CAMDEN — The mother water and other supplies. orchestra. of a Kershaw County man Filyaw’s common-law accused of abducting and wife, Cynthia Hall, was THIS WEEK at USC assaulting a 14-year-old arrested last week as the girl was charged Tuesday search for Filyaw narrowed. TODAY with helping her son elude Police had been looking State of the University authorities and survive for Filyaw since November, Address in underground bunkers, when an arrest warrant was 3 p.m. Russell House Sheriff Steve McCaskill issued in the rape of a 12- Theater said. year-old girl. But he used an Model United Nations Brandon Davis/ THE DAILY GAMECOCK Vinson Filyaw, 36, was elaborate system of bunkers 7 p.m. Gambrell 005 charged this past weekend in the woods near his THURSDAY Mike Sullivan performs Tuesday night in the Russell House. with kidnapping and raping home to elude authorities Jinha Park Doctoral a 14-year-old girl who sent and survived on supplies Piano Recital her mother a cell phone he received from the two 5:30 p.m. School of text message from a bunker women, the sheriff said. Music Recital Hall State Nation World that led to the teen’s rescue Cobb would bring the State of the Student Body Saturday. items to Hall, who would Address With old gas station, Voter registration law Islamic militia to train On Tuesday, the sheriff leave them for Filyaw to 5 p.m. RH 322 city eyes coffer boost struck down by judge students for holy war said Filyaw’s mother, 55- retrieve from an abandoned RHA Executive Meeting year-old Ginger Nell Cobb, vehicle near his bunkers, 7 p.m. RH 301 ANDERSON — The online ATLANTA — A judge MOGADISHU, Somalia — The was arrested after police McCaskill said. auction of a former gas Tuesday st r uck dow n as Islamic militia that controls station will put more than unconstitutional the newest much of southern Somalia $2,000 into city coffers. version of a Georgia law said Tuesday it will train SMOKING ● Continued from 2 low-tech methods include The city planned to level requiring voters to show students for holy war against placing urns in popular the former Drake’s Texaco photo ID. foreign peacekeepers, an make the smoking ban a smoking areas where Want to Station and replace it with State Superior Court Judge ominous development amid lose-lose situation. students are allowed to a parking lot for the new T. Jackson Bedford Jr. ruled fears that a Taliban-style “Honestly, I don’t smoke. municipal center. Then the photo ID requirement regime is emerging in the smoke, but right now all The university is write for resident Tom Gibson, disenfranchises otherwise country.