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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
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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 ^
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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.
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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
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Comics and Crossword 7
Classifieds 10
Horoscopes 7
Letters to the Editor4
Online Poll 4
Police Report 2
Weather
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