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See page 7 See page 5 dailygamecock.com UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2008 VOL. 102, NO. 41 ● SINCE 1908 Fire Prevention Week promotes safety “The number one cause of fi res is cooking Offi cials offer tips, protective and people leaving things on the stove,” measures for apartments, dorms Jenkins said. “You have to be conscious of not leaving things cooking while you’re not home.” Josh Dawsey STAFF WRITER Ellison Neese, the president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which is the fraternity that Almost one year ago, the campus of the lost three members to the fi re, said his group University of South Carolina was in a state is cognizant of a need for more education. of disbelief when six USC students and one “Being proactive and working on things Clemson University student were killed in a like fire prevention is definitely important tragic fi re near Ocean Isle, North Carolina. to us. Pretty freaky things happen, and the Now, students from USC and the city of more laws we get passed, the better,” said the Columbia are urging caution, as the city third-year biology student. kicks off its annual drive to prevent house As cold weather season arrives in the fi res in the Midlands area. upcoming weeks, residents should be wary Every week, at least two homes burn in the of space heaters and kerosene heaters as well. Columbia area, Columbia deputy fi re chief For college students, grilling on balconies is Aubrey Jenkins said. unacceptable, Jenkins said. “We respond to incidents everyday,” “Grilling on a balcony is never okay,” Jenkins said. “There’s rarely a day without Jenkins said. “We want college students a fi re.” to have a good time, but they have to be But many of the fires are preventable, careful.” Chad Simmons / THE DAILY GAMECOCK Jenkins said. FIRE ● 3 Columbia hosts a parade at Riverfront Park on Monday to celebrate Fire Prevention Week. Columbia International Upcoming car feature gives boot to Soulforce restricts young drivers Gay-rights activists’ touring protest not MyKey prevents speeds The company already welcomed by university’s administration uses computer chips in over 80 mph, excessive its keys to prevent thefts. Katrina A. Goggins The car won’t start unless Th e Associated Press stereo volume for teens it recognizes the chip in the key. More than a dozen students and faculty at a private, “It’s making use of Christian university crossed police tape Monday to meet Tom Krisher existing technology, and with gay rights activists protesting the school’s policy Th e Associated Press through the magic of against openly gay students on campus. DETROIT — So you think software, we’re able to Sitting inside a school-designated protest area with Junior is a little too lead- build features on top of the Bibles opened, gay rights activists and students at Columbia footed when he drives the features we already have,” International University debated scripture and the college’s family car? Starting next Buczkowski said. policy. Mary Ann Chastain / The Associated Press year, Ford Motor Co. will In addition to speed It was a stark contrast to a similar demonstration at Bob give you the power to do limits, MyKey also will limit Jones University in Greenville last year when three gay Members of Soulforce, a gay-rights group, listen to students something about it. the volume of the audio activists of the group Soulforce were arrested and Bible- from Columbia International University on Monday. The company will roll system, and it will sound toting, anti-gay protesters held signs and preached through out a new feature on many a six-second chime every bullhorns. The university student handbook states that “certain 2010 models that can limit minute if seat belts are not Soulforce, a Lynchburg, Va.-based organization, behaviors are expressly prohibited in Scripture and teen drivers to 80 mph fastened. The chime sounds informed campus officials months ago they would therefore are to be avoided by members of the University using a computer chip in for adult drivers, too, but attempt to enter the campus despite threats of arrest. community. These include theft, gambling, lying, the key. ends after five minutes to The group initially decided Monday not to trespass, but dishonesty, gossip, slander, backbiting, profanity, vulgarity Parents also have the avoid annoying adults who were reconsidering after talks to show a Soulforce fi lm on (including crude language), sexual promiscuity (including option of programming adamantly don’t want to campus came to a halt. adultery, homosexual behavior, premarital sex, and the teen’s key to limit the wear seat belts, Buczkowski “We never go to a campus wanting to be arrested,” pornography), drunkenness, immodest attire, and occult audio system’s volume and said. Soulforce spokeswoman Caitlin MacIntyre said. “We’re practice.” to sound continuous alerts Parents also have the hoping to be an affi rming voice, the fi rst that some of them Students who enroll at the school sign the school’s code if the driver doesn’t wear a option of having the car have ever heard.” of conduct, Blackwell said. seat belt. sound a chime if the teen Soulforce’s national bus tour of Southern faith- Soulforce organizer Katie Higgins said she doesn’t think “Our message to parents exceeds 45, 55 or 65 mph. based colleges began last week at Liberty University in homosexuality should be put in the same category with is, hey, we are providing The feature will debut Virginia. drunkenness or occult practice. you some conditions to give on the 2010 Focus compact Columbia International University spokesman Mike “All of these things are incredibly harmful to individuals, your new drivers that may car and quickly move to Blackwell said Soulforce refused an offer to meet with while we believe that being gay, lesbian, bisexual or allow you to feel a little other company models faculty, staff and student leaders off campus. The university transgender is out of place in this line,” she said. more comfortable in giving as a standard feature, the won’t invite any groups to campus that advocate beliefs The group has received several letters from gay them the car more often,” company said. contrary to school policies, he said. Columbia International University students scared to said Jim Buczkowski, Ford’s Ford said its market “We just didn’t see any reason to give them a forum speak out — even an anonymous one from a former student director of electronic research shows 75 percent to communicate something that we didn’t believe in,” and electrical systems of parents like the speed Blackwell said. ● RIGHTS 3 engineering. and audio limits, but as you The feature, called might expect, 67 percent of “MyKey,” will be standard teens don’t like them. on an unspecifi ed number Danisha Williams, Free airport shuttle available to students for break of Ford models when the a 16-year-old senior at 2010 cars and trucks come Southfield-Lathrup High Fall Break Shuttle Dates: out late next summer. The School in suburban Detroit, Depart from the RH Oct. 8 and Need a free ride to the Students should sign up feature will spread to the said she’s against the idea. airport in Columbia for fall Oct. 9: entire Ford, Lincoln and “I wouldn’t want my break? Student Government — 5 a.m. online at SG’s Web site, Mercury lineup as models parents to have that much and the Department of — 9 a.m. http://www.sg.sc.edu/ are updated, spokesman control over how I’m Transportation and Parking — 1 p.m. Wes Sherwood said. driving,” she said. “If your Services collaborated on a — 5 p.m. colaMetroAirportFallBreak. Ford arrived at the 80 parents are holding your program that will provide a free — 9 p.m. htm, if they wish to use the mph limit even though hand, you’re never going to shuttle service running to and — 1 a.m. freeway speed limits are learn.” from the Russell House and service. For more information, lower in most states because Brittany Hawthorne, 17, Depart from the airport Oct. 12: the Columbia Metropolitan e-mail sastgov@mailbox. it wanted to leave a margin another Southfi eld-Lathrup Airport. This service will be — 5 a.m. in case an unusual situation senior, said there may be available during all university — 9 a.m. sc.edu. arises, Buczkowski said. emergency situations breaks for the 2008-2009 school — 1 p.m. “Just lopping it off at where she’d have to drive year and will begin Oct. 8. — 5 p.m. — Information from Student Government exactly 70 mph was felt to be more than 80, possibly to — 9 p.m. — Compiled by News Editor Liz Segrist too limiting,” Buczkowski — 1 a.m. said. KEYS ● 3 Sports The Mix Opinion............... 4 TODAY WEDNESDAY Crime report............ 2 Jimmy Maurer’s shutout got USC’s McLaughlin receives 3 out of Puzzles...............