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Bush CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The president ignored a ques tion about whether he'll use his new power on Capitol Hill to seek restrictions on abortion rights and, in a bristling response, he rejected suggestions that he'll now be deliyering on the agenda of his party's conservative wing. “I don't take cues from any body,” he said. Bush shrugged off credit, mim icking in a sing-songy tone - “George Bush won, George Bush lost” - pundits who framed Tuesday's result as belated vali dation for a president elected without a majority of the 200C popular vote. “I really don't put this in per sonal terms,” Bush said. “I think candidates win elec tions because they're good candi dates, not because they may hap pen to have the president as a friend - or a foe, for that matter.” He spoke with reporters on the eve of a United Nations Security Council vote on the U.S.-backed compromise resolution demand ing that Iraq disarm under the threat of war. Earlier Thursday, Bush talked by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Jacques Chirac to lob by for the resolution. Both have been cool to Bush's hardline in sistence upon confronting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. ‘Tm loath to put words in some body else's mouth,” Bush said coy ly of the conversations. But, he added, “I’m opti mistic we'll get the resolution vote tomorrow, let me put it to you that way.” If it comes to sending American troops into Iraq, Bush promised they “will move swift ly with force to r\n tliQ inh Vaii don't have to worry about that.” As for North Korea, which has admitted having a nuclear weapons program and cheating on its agreements with the United States, Bush reiterated his pursuit of a diplomatic reso lution and acknowledged his dif ferent standards for Pyongyang and Baghdad. “I do care about North Korea,” Bush said. “Each threat requires a different type of response.” In Tuesday's midterm elec tions, Republicans recaptured the Senate and increased their margin of control in the House - a sweep that left the season's GOP campaigner-in-chief Bush brim ming with good cheer even two days later. He obliged one re porter's three follow-up ques tions, saying, If the elections had gone a different way, I might not be so generous.” He made a tele vised solicitation for gifts for Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, who is on brief leave to get married, and raised himself up nn tinnu-tnPQ in meet the eye of a particularly tall reporter. Republican leaders were opti mistic that their election success would translate into passage of Bush administration proposals that had been stalled in the Senate by the Democrats who had controlled the chamber. The old Congress reconvenes on Tuesday to wrap up some busi ness before the new Congress, un “There's going to be a huge laundry list of things people want to get done, and my job is to set priorities and get them done.” GEORGE W. BUSH U.S. PRESIDENT der complete Republican com mand, takes over in January. Lott of Mississippi has been privately telling colleagues that he hopes the postelection session will wrap up by the end of next week, leaving homeland securi ty and necessary government spending bills for next year. He's likely to get an earful, then, from Bush when the two meet to plot strategy Friday at the White House with House Speaker Dennis Hastert. As Bush emphasized to re porters, he wants his plan for a new Department of Homeland Security approved before anyone in Congress goes home for the holidays. It had been stuck be cause Democrats object to Bush's insistence upon denying collec tive bargaining rights to workers in the new government agency. “The election may be over, but a terrorist threat is still real,” Bush said. Despite the sagging stock mar ket that has cost Americans bil lions in lost retirement savings, Bush said he stands behind his controversial plan to allow younger workers to funnel some of their Social Security payroll taxes into stocks and other pri vate investments. Award CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Taylor said Spurrier asked all the students to come by his office during the semester so that he could get to know them better. “He’s really personable,” she said. “And really seems to be in terested in the well-being of every student.” Spurrier said he was nominat ed for the award by the universi ty, which nominates one faculty member each year. He said he was probably cho sen because “the university tra ditionally nominates the winner of the Amoco award.” Spurrier re ceived the prestigious under graduate teaching award, which is the university’s highest teach ing honor, in 2000. Spurrier said the governor’s award is “not something that one would ever expect to win.” In addition to the AMOCO and governor’s awards, Spurrier also has received three other teaching awards at USC, including an award from Mortar Board in 2001 and the South Carolina Honors College Professor in Science award in 1995. Spurrier has received four grants from the National Science Foundation for innovation in teaching. The Governor’s professor of the year award is given to two South Carolina faculty members a year. One award is given to a professor from a two-year campus and one to a professor from a four year campus. Leaders from civic, business, government and academic orga nizations and representatives from the governor’s office and the Commission on Higher Education constitute the selection commit tee. Finalists are selected from written nominations, supporting materials and an interview. “It’s a great honor to win this award,” Spurrier said. “I know there are a number of excellent professors around the state, and I was accepting it on behalf of them.” Spurrier said he had “no idea” why he won the award, but “all I know is that I try to be the best teacher I can be.” Spurrier said he wants his stu dents to do “more than memorize facts for a semester.” “My goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of as many Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Wireless CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 the full wireless network so that USC can compete with nearby schools for admissions. Galliger said, however, he might wait un til next year to implement wire less networking because of its lim itations and cost. Its chief limitations are student demand for bandwidth and secu rity. “We have anywhere from 40 to 60 megabytes of traffic constantly, always,” coming from students, he said. MP3s are about four megabytes, so this is equivalent to downloading 10 to 15 songs each second. “The newer standards of wire less tout 54 megabits a second at an access point,” he said, but on a normal day, students should ex pect to experience half that. A megabit is one-eighth of a megabyte. This is the reason the universi ty would need 1,200 localized nodes to accommodate the demand. Some students think the switch to wireless could be beneficial to campus. Michael Chajewski, a third year psychology student, said the wireless network would free up a lot of computers in the labs. But, other students disagree. “What we have now is sufficient,” said Steve Shuler, a second-year electronic journalism student, “and the money would be better spent on other areas of campus — like parking or tuition. ” Security is also an issue. Because" wireless signals are broadcast like radio waves, any one can listen to what is being sent and easily hijack a wireless node. To solve the problem, “there are a lot-of proprietary products out there that’ll allow you to do se curity on a wireless network,” Galliger said. But there isn’t an in dustry standard, so each compa ny sells its own version. A published standard would let generic vendors sell cheaper solu tions, he said. A proprietary solu tion would be expensive - and once purchased, it couldn’t be modified. This means USC will probably wait until the standard comes out next February, so “we don’t have to invest a whole bunch of money in a proprietary mechanism to do the encryption with,” Galliger said. He contrasted this decision with decisions made by other campus es, such as Georgia Tech, which al ready uses wireless technology but will pay the costs of early imple mentation in time and money. “Right now, our priority issue is to upgrade the network hard ware itself, to stabilize the infras tructure. After that time, it’d be a good idea to roll out the full wire less cloud,” Galliger said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Poll CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 was mainly science and technol ogy, questions varied from home land security and terrorism to ca reers and social evaluations. Three-fourths of the students polled said they think the United States will face threats from ter rorists during the coming years. Ninety percent think science and technology will play an impor tant role in combating these fu ture threats. “The survey, we hope, will raise the importance of science lit eracy,” Lucore said. She said Bayer hopes the survey will raise awareness about the importance of science in today’s society and the many new opportunities avail able fdr students since Sept. 11. “It becomes clear to everyone that the threats aren’t over, and they will continue for quite some time,” she said. “You see a lot of -- new opportunities being created, such as homeland security di rector,” a job that never existed before. “Science and technology are playing a very big role.” While one-fifth of the students polled said they seriously con sidered changing majors or ca reer plans after Sept. 11, the trend is not noticeable at USC. “I haven’t seen a lot of that. I think maybe closer to Sept. 11 or immediately after, there may have been some of that that went on,” but not as much a year lat er, said Michael Hix, associate di rector for the USC Career Center. “I think in the last year, espe cially, there’s been more concern about finding any sort of job post graduation.” Heather Benson, a second-year baccalaureus student, said Sept. 11 “sort of made me want to do something I knew that I would enjoy.” “It made me think about, what if I don’t get a chance to go back later and do what I want to?” she said. She also said Sept. 11 made her more aware of the world around her. “It sort of made me more aware of who and what was go ing on around me,” Benson said. “At the same time, it made me think a lot more about the kind of criticism people get because of where they’re from.” While Jessica Little, a fourth year music education student, said Sept. 11 did not affect her fu ture career plans much, she did agree that she is also more alert to her environment. “I’m more aware of what’s go ing on in the world. I watch the news more and follow more close ly,” Little said. “The feeling of be ing untouchable has disappeared. ( We now know things can happen to us.” Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockudesk@hotmail.com Guns CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 ate director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center at HSPH. The study's co-authors are David Hemenway, director of the re search center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center at HSPH and Henry Wechsler, di rector of the Aiconoi studies Program at the public health school. According to the study, 4.3 percent of col lege students own a nrearm ana aa percent oi households in the Southeast have handguns. Compared with New England students, students in the Southeast were 3.4 times more likely to have a firearm at college. They were also 2.2 times more likely to have been threatened with a firearm while at college, the study reports. “If the statistic is correct, then the chances of students’ having guns are higher here than col leges out of the Southeast,” said Mathieu Deflem, a USC assistant professor of sociology. “It doesn’t mean more students have them, though, or that they’re going to be more likely to use them —simply that the chances of (USC students) owning guns are higher than other schools in other states.” The study also reports that stu dents owning guns are more like ly to be male, white and live off campus with a signmcani om er. It reports they are also more likely to binge drink and to drive after drinking. Twelve per cent oi tnose wno reponeu unnK ing and driving also reported hav ing a gun at college, compared with 2.7 percent of students who did not binge drink. 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