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V Bush summons nations to war Bush tells world, ‘you are with us, or you are with the terrorists’ BY DAVID ESPO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - President Bush summoned all nations to wage war on terrorism Thursday night and vowed “justice will be done” against those who killed thousands in last week’s attacks. With warplanes and ships on the move, he urged an anxious America to be calm, “even in the face of a continuing threat.” Bush issued a series of de mands - not open to negotiation or discussion - to the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan: turn over Osama bin Laden, the suspected master mind of the attacks, or share in his fate. “Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom,” he said nine days after the suicide attacks that leveled the once-soaring World Trade Center and wounded the mighty Pentagon. “Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to res olution.” Bush spoke before a joint ses sion of Congress and a nationwide television audience counting in the millions. His 35-minute speech was interrupted by applause 30 times. Security concerns were high enough to keep Vice President Dick Cheney away from the Capitol. A few hours before the com mander in chief spoke, New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sharply revised the number of missing and presumed dead upward - to 6,333 - at the World Trade Center twin towers, destroyed by the impact of hijacked jetliners. An addition al 189 are believed dead from a similar attack on the Pentagon, and 44 more perished when a fourth hijacked plane crashed in Pennsylvania. Compounding the nation’s ♦ FOR EXCERPTS FROM BUSH’S SPEECH, SEE PAGE 2. woes were concerns about the economy. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said “much economic activity ground to a halt” after the attacks, and the country’s main stock index suf fered its third triple-digit loss of the week, down more than 300 points for the day. The cost of the nation’s response to the terrorism could reach $100 billion, which would create the first federal deficits since 1997. With planes flying far below ca pacity and public confidence shak ♦ BUSH, SEE PAGE 3 SOUTH CAROLINA UPSETS MISSISSIPPI STATE Gamecock fullbaok Andrew Pinnook breaks free for a touchdown run. U8C amassed an astonishing 238 yards on the ground In the 16-14 win, For more on USC’s win over Mississippi State, see page 8. PHorg by kbt 6*mpu§ President George W. Bush addresses the nation on Thursday night, Behind Bush are House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Sen. Robert Byrd photo by rongarriso/krt campus SDIC convenes forum on USC budget cuts Committee formed to handle budget seeks input from students, faculty BY ADAM BEAM TIIBIWMBOIHIK The Strategic Directives and Initiatives Committee held its first public forum on Tuesday to hear opinions from students and fhcuf ty on how the university should handle a potential 5 percent bud' get cut during the middle of the school year and 10 percent total cut tbr the year, "The only thing that concerned me, more than anything else, was the lack of student attendance," University Provost and SDIG Chairman Jerry Odom said. Odom attributed the lack of stu dent attendance to the World Affairs Council's forum on ter rorism held the same night but at a different time, Odom stressed the idea of "strategic cuts" rather than an across-the-board cut, "If you cut across the board, it's just not a good way of dealing with what your strength and weaknesses are," he said, "What we need to do is to identify those strengths and weaknesses and then recommend strategic cuts to the president," The university reports the number of each program's degree recipients to the South Carolina Commission on Higher Education. The commission in turn alerts the university when ♦ BUDGET, SEE PAGE 3 TERRORIST ATTACKS: USC PERSPECTIVE One of our own Friends mourn USC graduate killed in attack on trade center BY NIKKI GASKINS THU (IAMECOCK During hours of darkness, stu dents gathered in a circle, clutch ing candles and wearing yellow ribbons to say goodbye to a Mend and fellow USC student. Josh Reiss, 23, a 2000 USC gov ernment and international studies graduate, had been working on the 102nd floor of the World Trade Center when a plane smashed into the building Sept. 11, beginning a terrorist attack that has left more than 6,000 people dead or missing. Reiss, an employee of Cantor Fitzgerald Partners, was the youngest bond trader in the com pany’s history, according to his longtime friend Brooke Oppleman. At the Sept. 13 vigil, Brent Collins, the Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter pres Went and one of Reiss' fraternity brothers, led the crowd of nearly 100 In a prayer before members of Reiss' pledge class and other friends spoke about the Northerner who loved Gamecock football. "He used to call me a redneck," joked Collins, who pledged the fra ternity under Reiss’ leadership as pledgemaster. "He loved his North but was amazed at how we talked and acted down here,” Collins said of Reiss’ relocation from Pennsyl vania for college. Oppleman, a fourth-year inter disciplinary studies major, re called the ambition showed by her close friend of six years. “All he ever wanted was to be at the top of the world, and to be work ing on the 102nd floor of the WTC was, for him, just that,” she said. Oppleman and Reiss first met during their freshman years at Bates House residence hall. On Sept. 11, she had just come home from grooming her dog when she saw on television that an airplane had struck the first World Trade Center, the building Reiss was working in. “I immediately started crying, USC graduate Josh Reiss Is shown In this 1997 photo with Brooke Oppleman (left) and Laura McCartney. SPECIAL TO THE GAMECOCK and my hands couldn't stop shak ing,” Oppleman said. Oppleman’s boyfriend, fourth year retailing major Tony Capolino, called Reiss’ mother, who hadn’t yet heard the news. ♦ USC GRAD, SEE PAGE 2 Professors gather to discuss terrorist attacks on America BY MATT BUTLER THE GAMECOCK USC professors offered their perspectives on terrorism at an open forum Tuesday In Gambrell Hall’s auditorium. "Terror in America: Reflect ions One Week Later” was spon sored by the Professional Society of International Studies, who part nered with the South Carolina Honors College, the Columbia World Affairs Council and Walker Institute of International Studies. The panel was comprised of Shahrough Akhavi, Jerel Rosati and Lee Jane Kauftnan, govern ment and international studies professors; Kevin Lewis, a reli gious studies professor; Peter Sederberg, Honors College dean; and Don Wedlock, a law school professor. The discussion was moderated by Donald Puchala, also a government and interna tional studies professor. Puchala opened the discus sion, suggesting that everyone at the forum focus on the meaning of the events of Sept. 11. America's response and the short- and long-term conse quences of the attacks, Sederberg spoke first. "We al ways rally around the rhetoric of war," Sederberg said. "We must exercise utmost restraint. This struggle will involve more civil ian deaths than military casual ties," he said. Akhavl was asked to offer a Middle Eastern perspective. "There is no such thing as a Mideast perspective," he said, re minding the audience that a “ma jority of Muslim people, govern ments and clerics have reacted with revulsion.” Akhavi added that the terror ists were “responding to per ceived injury,” which he said was a result of United States pol icy. “The United States is per ceived to be supportive of au thoritative regimes,” he said, and named the U.S.’s policy toward Israelis and Palestinians as the source of major strife. Rosati focused on the numbing effects of the tragedy. "I believe that a human tragedy has hap pened to the United States and the world - and I am numbed,” he said. But he said this was indeed an opportunity for the United States. "This is an opportunity for the U.S, to lead a global re sponse against terrorism." Kaufman suggested that the United States has a responsibil ity to "keep in consideration of human rights" and to “keep in mind the people in the so-called area of consideration.... If we’re going to conduct reprisals, inter national law asks us to come up with solutions.” She said it was unfortunate that the United States isn’t wholeheartedly "sup porting the development of the international courts." After each panelist was given the chance to react or explain his or her point of view, Puchala opened the floor for discussion. When asked what the appro priate course of action would be ♦ FORUM, SEE PAGE 2 USC’S PAST September 25,1990 USC officially accepted an invitation to join the Southeastern conference. WEATHER Today Tomorrow Sunny, Sunny, 86/64 89/66 i^=== — . ---- "■■■ - INSIDE TODAY’S ISSUE ‘Lord of the Rings’ on the small screen Animated movies re-released on DVD. ♦PAGE 5 < Women’s soccer wins over SC State Lady Gamecock defeat Bulldogs 12-0. ♦ PAGE 8 ONLINE POLL Enlistment If the United States goes to war, would you enlist? YES 46% NO 40% I DON’T KNOW 14%