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Iraq CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 which Powell and Russia’s Igor Ivanov laid out conflicting views, Secretary-General Kofi Annan ap pealed for them to stick together on Iraq. This is “the beginning, not an end,” he said. “We should try to maintain the unity of purpose that has emerged.” The Security Council then went into closed-door consultations on a timetable for dealing with the fast-changing Iraq issue. The council sent weapons im spectors into Iraq after the 1990 91 Gulf War, to ensure that President Saddam Hussein’s regime destroyed any chemical or biological weapons it possessed, and any capacity to produce those or nuclear weapons. The inspectors left in 1998, ahead of U.S. airstrikes, amid Iraqi allegations that some were spying for the United States and countercharges that Baghdad wasn’t cooperating with the in spec non reams. If the world body didn’t act, Bush made clear, Washington would feel free to launch a mili tary attack. Iraq’s surprise reply came late Monday, in a letter to Annan in which Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said Baghdad would allow the inspectors back “without con ditions” in order to “remove any doubts that Iraq still possesses weapons of mass destruction. ” The Bush administration late Monday had dismissed the Iraqi move as a ploy to split the Security Council. On Tuesday, Powell was equally dismissive. “We cannot just take a one-and a-quarter-page letter as the end of this matter,” Powell told re porters. “We have seen this game before” - a reference to Iraqi de lays and obstructions of past in spections. He did not specify what Washington would seek in a new resolution - a firm deadline, a threat of force or other tough ele ments. But he said the council should discuss an inspection plan and the “consequences” of an Iraqi failure to comply. Washington stresses the need for unrestricted access for the in spectors. Russia’s Ivanov said it was im portant that Baghdad, which pre viously had sought an easing of anti-Iraq U.N. sanctions, had placed no preconditions on the in spectors’return. He said a new Security Council resolution is unneeded.• “All the necessary resolutions, all the necessary decisions on that are” in existing council docu ments, he said. His government’s veto power can block any resolu tion it opposes. Speaking for the European Union, the Danish foreign minis ter, Per Stig Moeller, said the council should take up the ques tion of whether Iraq’s letter meets its demands. And meantime, he added on a skeptical note, “I would sleep with my eyes wide open and with my boots on.” Arab spokesmen were more positive. Iraq’s letter raises hopes that “the logic of war will finally be re placed by the logic of peace,” Algeria’s president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, said in an address to file General Assembly. Egypt’s for eign minister, Ahmed Maher, said he saw no need for new resolu tions. “The problem was weapons of mass destruction. Now we found a way to resume the inspec tions,” he said. Out in the Middle East, mean while, the U.S. military prepared for possible confrontation. The Pentagon disclosed it had ordered pilots, as they patrol Iraqi skies, to attack command and communications links in Iraq’s anti-aircraft system. It also said it might base B-2 stealth bombers on Britain’s Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia; that would halve their normal flight time from U.S. bases to Iraq. And the U.S. Navy said it was trying to contract a commer cial ship to move military equip ment to the Persian Gulf. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Tenenbaum CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 She said she also wants to pay teachers more annually. South Carolina teacher salaries aver age $39,000 a year. “We have been getting the best and brightest even when money is not the number 1 con cern,” she said. The state uses collage schol arships to encourage teaching careers. With the help from Tenenbaum, students majoring in education have seen money from the lottery this past year. Tenenbaum said she also helped establish an end-of-the year bonus of $7,500, good for 10 consecutive years, for National Board certified teachers. At the beginning of Tenenbaum’s term in 1999, South Carolina had 19 certified teachers. Now the state has 1,291 and is one of the top states for the most certified teachers. “We need good teachers in public schools to raise the bar,” Tenenbaum says. Tenenbaum also said that she feels Sojith Carolina has raised their stan dards in education by becoming the fastest to improve SAT scores in the nation. Approximately 50 percent of the high school seniors in the state take the SAT. “The country compares South Carolina’s scores to the states testing their top 4 percent of stu dents,” says Tenenbaum. Tenenbaum believes factors like this make SAT scores a poor way to evaluate a state’s educa tional system. “There is not one indicator to say we are 50th,” she says. Tenenbaum put an SAT coach in every high school and made available practice tests. She says, “The private pro grams, like Kaplin, are good, but every high school should have an SAT coach. Usually it is a guidance counselor or teacher.” Tenenbaum said that the statewide score improvement is extraordinary. “Without question, South Carolina’s students can compete with any other in the U.S.,” she said. The SAT’s format is being re vamped and the new version will be applied in March 2005. “More reading comprehen sion and writing will be on the new SAT,” said Tenenbaum. “Students will find success be ing that it is an academic achievement test, not just an ap titude test, like the old SAT.” Tenenbaum says she has high hopes for South Carolina. “My motto is: ‘Stay the course,”’ she said. “South Carolina won’t have to be defen sive about education. The state will be ranked way above where it is now.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Bicycles CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 make the campus more bike friendly.” Baele’s plans for SAGE in volve painting lanes around campus on already crowded pedestrian areas such as foot bridges and sidewalks. They would be “actual lanes for bikes to ride in so bicyclers don't interfere with pedestrian irau ic. Scott Weidner, an earth and envi ronmental re source man agement grad uate student, has been a member of SAGE for two years and says he looks forward to the group’s plans for bicyclers. “I’d like to see the group bring in more bike-friendly activities, like racks and bike lanes,” Weiedner said. Patrick Goodman, a first-year ■chemical engineering student who rides his bike around cam pus, said he appreciates SAGE’s intentions. “Some more bike racks are a much-needed thing,” Goodman said. “Bike lanes would make it a lot safer getting around campus and trying to get through traffic and such.” SAGE wants lanes to go on Greene Street and the foot bridge over Pickens Street, but the organization isn’t limiting itself to only those locations. Baele said that, if SAGE’s plan goes through, he hopes students across campus will help promote bike-friendliness by actually using the proposed lanes. “People can help the most by simply adopting them while bik ing,” Baele said. - “We’re trying to make it clear inai mere s a special place for bikes to ride, so it will help for peo ple to use them.” uaeie said he still wants outside ideas and opinions for the organiza tion. “We haven’t actually gone through the specifics of the pro cess; we’re still collecting ideas from people and hearing their opinions and what bothers them,” Baelesaid. “We’d still like to hear from anybody who bikes around campus or rides a bike to cam pus and invite them to meet ings.” SAGE meets every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Russell House room 203. \ Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com The student group SAGE wants to paint bicycle lanes around campus, it hopes the plan will ease USC’s barking woes. 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