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www.dailygamecock.com _MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,2003_ ! ■ Bush to ask for $87 billion in terror war BY DEB RIECHMANN THE ASSOCIATED I'llESS WASHINGTON — President Bush said Sunday night he will ask Congress for $87 billion to fight terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, appealing for troops and money from other countries, even those who opposed the U.S. led war. Bush, in a 15-minute national ly televised speech from the Cabinet Room, said the United States would not intimidated into retreat by violence. “The terrorists have cited the examples of Beirut and Somalia, claiming that if you inflict harm on Americans we will run from a challenge,” Bush said. “In this, they are mistaken.” Bush spoke just four days be fore the anniversary of the terror ist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Seeking support for his policy, he said, “The surest way to avoid at tacks on our own people is to en gage the enemy where he lives and plans. “We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today, so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.” Bush addressed the nation from the Cabinet Room in his first ma jor speech on Iraq since May 1 when he stood on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major com bat operations. Since then, more Americans have died in Iraq than were killed during the war. The over all death count is 287 —149 since May 1. The violence — including four major bombing attacks in a month — have raised alarms about Bush’s handling of Iraq. Republicans and Democrats alike have urged Bush to change course and seek more troops and money from other countries. Questions also have been fueled by the administration’s failure to find any of Saddam Hussein’s al leged illegal weapons or Saddam himself. Bush said Iraq and the Middle East are critical to winning the global war on terror. Bush’s plan for Mideast plan appeared to be unraveling after Saturday’s res ignation of Mahmoud Abbas, thi U.S.-backed Palestinian primi minister. Bush described Iraq as the cen tral front in the war against ter ror and said that “enemies of free dom are making a desperate stanc there, and there they must be de feated. “This will take time and re quire sacrifice,” he said. “Yet w< will do what is necessary, we wil spend what is necessary, t< achieve this essential victory ir the war on terror, to promote free dom and to make our own nation i more secure.” i Bush said the current number of U.S. troops in Iraq —130,000 — is sufficient but that more foreign troops are needed. He said two multinational divisions, led by Britain and Poland, are serving alongside the United States, and that American commanders have requested a third multinatidn&l division. Some countries have asked for > an explicit U.N. peacekeeping ♦ BUSH, SEE PAGE 2 Power outage strikes campus BY JON TURNER THE OAMKCOt'.K Students’ pregame prepara tions were interrupted Saturday as hair dryers sputtered and ele , vators cut off when the main pow ;r went out on the south part of campus. Power went out about 11 a.m. Saturday and wasn’t restored un til 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Jim Demarest of USC Facility Services said he was proud of the way university staff responded to the problem — a short on a pri mary feed 823-volt line. “Our staff responded very quickly,” he said, “and we actual ly anticipated that we’d have a more difficult time pulling out the cable since, with that kind of heat, cables can sometimes weld them selves together. AncJ this is about a 900-foot run that we had to pull out, so we had to obviously use - some heavy pulling equipment to fin it ” Demarest said the line was about 30 years old. “We believe that age was part of the problem,” he said. “We probably had cracks in the insu lation jacket, and I’m suspecting that maybe the moisture that we’ve had played a part in it. When you get moisture on an 823 volt line, you get kind of a small explosion.” Demarest said another outage was a possibility, but the univer sity was planning for such an event. “The residence halls have emergency generators that pro w vide electricity for emergency lighting, and we’re putting to gether a plan for the vice president to address all those problems on campus,” he said. Mallory Mowery, a first-year business student, was still in bed when her room in Bates residence hall lost power. “It was right before the game,” she said. “Everyone was trying to get ready. All I knew was that my air conditioner was off.” Mowery said Bates residents had been without hot water for a full day. Luckily there were Dackup lights in the bathroom, so we didn’t have to pee in the dark,” she said. One of Mowery’s friends had to climb up and down the (Bates’) nine stories of stairs before the — game. Sonia Karamchandani, a sec ond-year chemistry student, was also inconvenienced by the pow 1 er outage. “Most of the food in the refrig erator went bad,” she said, “and we had it loaded, so all the dairy products and the meat went bad.” Karamchandani, who also lost her air conditioning in the outage, said she considered the cool ♦ POWER, SEE PAGE 2 —psi rii PHOTO BY JOHNNY HAYNES/THE GAMECOCK . Freshman linebacker Ryan Brown runs out with the rest of the > Gamecock football team as It makes its legendary entrance onto J the field before the start of Saturday's game against Virginia. Gamecock tradition \ continues to excite fans after 20years BY MARY PINCKNEY WATERS THE (JAM MOCK ik . USC’s most beloved football tradi- §| tion-— the dramatic “2001” entrance V into Williams-Brice Stadium — actu- > | ally has more to do with Elvis Presley y| than Stanley Kubrick. F Most fans recognize the piece as the theme of Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A I ‘ Space Odyssey,” in which it accompa- . B nies a sunrise in the opening scene. But It' color commentator and former USC B quarterback Tommy Suggs knows the L ( real story behind the energetic en- n “I felt like we needed something to B excite the crowd,” Suggs said. “I got the B ♦ 2001, SEE PAGE 2 ^ ’"■'"TZ35? Exchange students experience football, tailgating BY JON SERPAS THE GAMECOCK For USC students, tailgating and Gamecock football go hand in hand on autumn Saturdays. But for some international stu dents, the fairgrounds off George Rogers Boulevard on game day can look as unfamil iar as the surface of the moon. Three international stu dents, Jimmy Coverdale, Mike Picard and Christine Reid, all third-year American studies students from England, experi enced American college football for the first time Saturday when the Gamecocks took on Virginia. Before the game, Coverdale, Picard and Reid went tailgating — a new concept to them. Picard said tailgating is sim ply unheard of in Europe. “Back home, we usually go to the pub for a pint and stop by a fish-and-chips shop before the game,” he said. Nonetheless, they all said they now enjoy tailgating as much as the Americans do. Another new experience for these students was halftime en tertainment. “We don’t have any halftime in England,” Picard said. “They put lots of effort into it here,” he added. Reid said she thought the game was boring, except for halftime, which she called “the best part.” And what was the best part of halftime, according to Reid? “Cocky,” she said enthusias tically. Aside from tailgating and the halftime show, Reid said she was most impressed with the male cheerleaders. “We don’t really have cheer leading in England, certainly not any male ones,” she said. Picard said he was impressed with the crowd participation. “They really get loud,” he said. “At home you have a section of drunk guys always yelling, but everyone else just relaxes and watches the game.” While the college football scene can get wild — with thou sands of excited college stu dents tearing down goalposts and rioting in the streets after big games — Coverdale said the ♦ GAMEDAY, SEE PAGE 2 PHOTO BY TRISHA SHADWELL/THE GAMECOCK The International Masters of Business Administration Student Association tailgates before Saturdays game. I * l Professors say nanotechnology could revolutionize science, life BY JESSICA FOSTER TilK GAMECOCK Although nanoscience appli cations have already made pos sible the production of stain-re sistant pants, longer-lasting ten nis balls and stronger and lighter car bumpers, USC pro fessor Robert Best said the field has only begun to scratch the surface. Best is a professor in the USC School of Medicine and member of USC’s Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team. He said by creating small but complicated molecules, nanoscience could lead to the creation of small agents that could be sent into the blood stream to correct de fects or that could penetrate cancer cells and incinerate tu mors. He said nanoscience could possibly even provide a solution to the world’s energy crisis. For Best and the rest of the 18 faculty member research team, the study of nanoscience at USC is about to get much more excit ing with the help of a $1.3 mil lion grant from the National Science Foundation to study the societal and ethical implications of nanoscience, a field that seeks to manipulate matter on a molecular scale. The grant comes only two ♦ SCIENCE, SEE PAGE 2 e Index Comics and Crossword 7 Classifieds 10 Horoscopes 7 Letters to the Editor4 Online Poll 4 Police Report 2 Weather High 81 High 85 Low 66 Low 67 ----1 Inside ♦ ON THE WEB Checkout state, nation and world briefs. www.dailygamecock.com ♦ VIEWPOINTS Josh Watson tells why he could never be a Clemsonfan. Page 4 ♦ THE MIX Video on demand. The Mix sums up campus favorites and coming attractions. Page 5 ♦ SPORTS The USC football team upsets Virginia and replaces the Cavaliers in the top 25. Page 8 -- ■ ■ ft-1