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Card CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the engineering program,” he said. •" Card, a native of Holbrook, Mass., was involved in the Society of Civijl Engineering, Navy ROTC and College Republicans. “My fondest memories at USC are my great friends, professors, and my time spent with the Navy ROTC, the engineering program and going to many sporting events, such as the basketball games,” he said. Card encourages students to be involved if they want to be in his political position. “Participate as a leader in your school and community, show spir it for your school and academics, and have the courage to do things for other people,” he said. As chief of staff, Card has many duties, but one of the most diffi cult was having to inform President Bush of the Sept. 11 ter rorist attacks. “Telling President Bush of the •Sept. 11 attacks was something no one could expect to have to do. I was very deliberate in my deliv ery and knew that what I said could leave.no room for question because he was in a classroom full of children,” Card said. “I had to be efficient and decid ed to tell him that a second plane had hit the second tower and then .give an editorial comment: America is under attack,” Card said. “It was a heavy and unwel come burden to carry.” Card has had a front-row seat to the developing conflict with Iraq. When asked about antiwar sentiment, Card said: “Remember that the president and.his staff had to take an oath to protect the U.S. constitution, and that consti tution came under attack on 9/11. We have a responsibility to pro tect this country and our order of civilization.” “There is gathering danger in Iraq,” he said, “and it is unlike any danger this country has ever faced before. We used to feel that we could be protected by our oceans, but the 9/11 terrorist at tacks have taught us that we are vulnerable. The president will exhaust all diplomatic processes before entering war, but he will also make sure that we are pro tected.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com v PHOTO COURTESY OF KRT CAMPUS/THE GAMECOCK White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card was given one of three Distinguished Alumni Awards at a Friday ceremony. Construction CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 find it irritating that the univer sity is willing to let us work in an unsafe environment.” Miguel Goni, a professor in the department, said he has set off a fire alarm because of a hole in one of the laboratory walls, He was sawing wood for a project and was unable to control the particles go ing through the hole. The parti cles triggered the alarm, and ev eryone had to be evacuated. Goni eventually put up plywood sheets to secure his laboratory. There was some controversy about whether the geology de partment or the university would pay to finish the construction. According to Aceves, 45.5 percent of each grant the geology depart ment receives is skimmed off for overhead expenses, such as elec tricity and plumbing for the up keep of the building; this cuts the department’s funds for fixing this problem nearly in half, she said. “My personal opinion is that it (a safe work environment) should be something covered by the uni versity,” Goni said. James Kellogg, chairman of the geology department, said initial ly he was pleased to see Facilities move quickly to resolve the build ing’s structural problems. “We are now concerned, how ever, that the job has been left un finished,” he said. According to Aceves, this isn’t the first time the geology depart ment has had trouble getting a fa cilities request finished. In 2000, the lab that Aceves works in had a bro ken hood, which sucks the fumes from the chemicals out of the lab. “Everybody ended up with headaches, and we finally figured out it was this hood,” Aceves said. She said it took Facilities two years to replace the hood, “with me constantly harping, threaten ing, making all sorts of threats, and I just didn’t know the paths to go through” to get it fixed. Geology professor Christopher Kendall said he’s sure the building is structurally sound, but he won ders what’s going on with the work. “It’s disturbing that they haven’t filled the gaps,” he said. “It should be fixed.” Mark Woodworth, a doctoral candidate in the geology depart ment, said certain standards must be met in order to do research. “I think that, in order to get more research, we have to do our job, and we can’t do our job when they can’t fix things and have ad equate space,” he said. Jeffcoat said the existing pro ject shouldn’t take much longer to complete. “The project manager tells me he thinks the thing can be completely finished—that’s the fireproofing of the steel and the closing up of the walls—within 30 days,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com v • ■ \ IB—_I III. students dig for Deep Throat’s name Class has been searching for insider source since fall 1999 BY ANNA HAIGH DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN (U. OF PENNSYLVANIA) (U-WIRE) - More than 40 journalism students have worked on an intensive project to discover the identity of Deep Throat as part of a class that be gan in thefall of 1999 that is taught by Professor William Gaines at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The story was even featured on Dateline this summer and in newspapers across the country. Deep Throat was an anony mous insider at the White House who disclosed important infor mation to Bob Woodward and his colleague Carl Bernstein. Their subsequent reports on the Watergate break-in and illegal activities within the White House led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. Woodward and Bernstein continue to keep the identity of Deep Throat secret, prompting years of speculation even from Watergate participants and in siders. In a talk at the University of Pennsylvania earlier this week, Woodward would only comment that Deep Throat is “a man, he’s alive.... The story will be told sometime — not tonight.” “It’s obvious if you know the answer — which I do,” he added. Woodward said he will continue to keep Deep Throat’s identity secret until the source dies or otherwise releases Woodward from his original promise. Woodward has also acknowl edged that Deep Throat was a smoker and a Scotch whiskey drinker. The class’s final list of possi ble Deep Throat identities in cludes Stephen Bull, a special ad ministrative assistant; Fred Fielding, a White House lawyer; Gerald Warren, a presidential spokesman; Jonathan Rose, an attorney for White House rela tions; David Gergen, speech writer; and Raymond Price, head speechwriter for Nixon and Pat Buchanan, a special assis tant to Nixon and later a presi dential candidate himself. When polled by Dateline, stu dents agreed that Buchanan was their top choice, although re search still continues and Gaines, himself, has not named his own top suspect. “We con tacted Bob Woodward, but he would not comment,” Gaines said in an e-mail. “We believe we have it right if Woodward and Bernstein have been truthful in the account of their dealings with Throat.” The class offers students a unique opportunity to gain valu able investigative reporting skills with an award-winning journalist. Not just a college pro fessor, Gaines teaches with bet ter-than-average credentials, having won two Pulitzer Prizes for his investigative reporting at the Chicago Tribune in his more than 30 years at the paper. Gaines and the students com bined three years of progressive work by using a process of elim ination and a large database cre ated by Gaines to compile a list of 72 top suspects and narrow the field down to seven con tenders. Students worked together us ing sources such as old newspa pers and phone books, published autobiographies of participants in the scandal and 16,000 pages of FBI investigative reports on Watergate and Nixon tapes and papers. University of Illinois senior Jessica Heckinger was in volved in the investigation for a semester and called Gaines “amazing” and the experience “mindblowing.” Heckinger de scribed long hours listening to Nixon tapes and the class’s ap preciation of receiving one of the most helpful sources — an original manuscript of Woodward’s first book, “All the President’s Men.” The manuscript contained scat tered notes by Woodward that hinted at the identity of Deep Throat, leading the class to con clusions that helped narrow the field of suspects. Heckinger fre quently contacted Pat Buchanan because of his posi tion at the White House and was surprised to receive a postcard from him this summer after he was named a top suspect. “Basically, the only defense he had was he had no motive and he quit smoking in... February of ’72,” she said. She said she thinks he is probably Deep Throat. Fellow class member William Brumleve, a senior at the uni versity, agreed with Heckinger and the rest of the class. “I’m really not sure. The class came up with Pat Buchanan. I have no reason to think it’s not,” he said. Buchanan was the only suspect who “never publicly de nied it,” he said. The list of the class’s top sev en suspects was released this summer on the Finder’s Guide to Deep Throat, a site run by Gaines detailing the long process and the eventual results of the class. Penn History Professor Bruce Kuklick argued that the result of the classs’ work and the continuous speculation about Deep Throat’s true identity is unimportant, calling the issue “trivial” and “silly.” “This search for one person... is not a fruitful way to look at what was happening,” he said. He thinks Woodward created one source “out of various pieces of evidence... 10 different guys who are telling different parts of the story.” The students who have worked closely on the project, however, disagree. “Doesn’t everyone want to know?” Brumleve asked. Investigators making progress in search for D.C.-area shooter BY STEPHEN MANNING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROCKVILLE, MD.- One of the six people killed in a suburban Washington shooting spree was buried Sunday as investigators completed a profile that focus es on where the killer might live. Police also were awaiting a FBI psychological profile of the shooter, Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose said. Police have begun to use a geo graphic profile submitted by in vestigators that uses crime loca tions to determine where the killer feels comfortable traveling and may live. Moose would not offer specifics on what the geographic profile revealed. Investigators were making progress, he said, but “some of the more desirable smoking gun leads just aren’t there.” Family and friends also gath ered Sunday to bury Prem Kumar Walekar, a taxi driver slain Thursday at an Aspen Hill gas station. Walekar was one of five peo ple shot to death at random in Montgomery County in a 16 hour span Wednesday and Thursday. A sixth victim was killed Thursday in Washington, D.C. Tests conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms confirmed that the same weapon was used to kill Walekar and three other victims. Investigators said Sunday that ballistics evidence also linked the shooting of a 43-year-old woman in Spotsylvania County, Va., on Friday with the Maryland mur ders. She was shot in the back in a parking lot at a Michael’s craft store about 2:30 p.m. in Fredericksburg, Va. She was in stable condition Sunday at INOVA Fairfax Hospital. A window of a Michael’s store in Montgomery County was shot out 45 minutes before the first killing, but ATF agent Michael Bouchard said Sunday that a bul let obtained from that scene was too badly damaged to be of any use in the investigation.shoot ings are linked. Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan appealed to residents to continue calling police with any information that might be helpful, noting that f about 4,000 calls so far have led to 800 leads. HiiiiiaiiiMMfetifllMiiiHP^IHi^H ri ampus Recreation