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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
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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.
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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.
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