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♦ THE MIX
Unfolding on
the runway
The Mix recaps the
spring 2005 collections,
which made their debut
last week in New York.
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♦ SPORTS
Syvelle shines
in first start
The Gamecock sports
staff gives an inside
look at Syvelle
Newton's first start at
quarterback and
Saturday’s 34-3 victory
over South Florida.
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ELECTION 2004
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Trustus Theatre, located next to the Publix on Huger Street, will hold a Rock the Vote concert
Wednesday. The event will offer free food, live music and opportunities to register to vote.
Rock the Vote stops
at Trustus Theatre
By TAYLOR SMITH
THE GAMECOCK
Trustus Theatre and Armed
Chair Productions are
collaborating with the Rock the
Vote organization to bring
together a night of free food,
music and voter registration.
The event, which will feature
eight local bands and food from
local restaurants, begins at 7:30
p.m. and is designed to raise
awareness for the election and
bring in more college-age voters.
"We are trying to do something
that would speak to our audience
of voters," said fourth-year
English student Ben Compton, a
co-organizer.
Third-year theatre student and
co-organizer Patrick Kelly said the
main purpose of the event "is to
drive youth empowerment into
the election."
"We wanted this to be a
y<gm
community outreach effort, to get
a lot of people together out there."
Compton and Kelly are part of
the Armed Chair productions
group and said they have
organized events before, but
nothing of this magnitude.
♦ Please see VOTE, page 3
Foreign students’
files open to FBI
By JON TURNER
THE GAMECOCK
The U.S. Department of
Homeland Security eliminated the
judicial role in the investigation of
foreign terror suspects Tuesday,
when it granted the FBI direct
access to the files of foreign
students.
Before the policy change came
into effect, the FBI was obligated to
go through the Department of
Homeland Security for information
from the Student and Exchange
Visitor Information System and US
VISIT, two programs that store
information on foreign students.
FBI special agent LaRae Quy
said in an interview with the Daily
Californian that the Bureau could
only access a student’s files if there
was an open investigation against
them, but Denyse Williams,
executive director of the American
Civil Liberties Union South
Carolina affiliate, said a pending
investigation wasn’t a significant
obstacle to the average agent.
“Under the Patriot Act,” she
said, “any special agent in charge
can open an investigation and get
any kind of information on anyone,
whether th^’re a citizen or a non
citizen. With the Patriot Act in
effect they didn’t even need to do
this.”
The previous method used by
agents to obtain information
through the Patriot Act involved a
request to a special Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance
Administration court.
According to Williams, a direct
access policy would “do it without
any type of court order. That
means that anybody in the FBI
that’s a special agent or a special
agent in charge can give a
certification that their (students’)
privacy can be invadecl.”
The new policy would
.“eliminate the jurisdiction of the
FISA court” in a “gross
infringement on civil liberties,”
Williams said.
Asaad Yusaf, a graduate math
and accounting student, said that,
although he generally felt welcome
in Columbia, “if you go out and
come back, it’s a lot different.”
“It’s like two sides of one coin,”
he said. “On one side they need to
be doing this, but on the other side
where does it end?”
Yusaf said he had run into
trouble reentering the country since
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “All
♦ f^ease see FBI, page 3
Candidate
outlines
vision for
Arts and
Sciences
By JACOB DAVIS
THE GAMECOCK
A candidate for the dean of
the new College of Arts and
Sciences spoke to USC students
and faculty members Friday
afternoon, outlining what he
saw as the “three key
constituencies” the new college
would serve.
Joe Glover, associate provost
for academic affairs at the
University of Florida, said
students were the top priority
and that serving them would also
serve the interests of USC and
the state.
Glover was the second
candidate to speak to USC
students and faculty members.
Joseph Pitt, from Virginia Tech,
spoke Sept. 10. Last year, the
USC Board of Trustees approved
the merger of the College of
Liberal Arts and the College of
♦ Please see DEAN.^page 3
Middle East wall
controversy builds
on Greene Street
■ Students
to protest Israel's
West Bank barrier
By SYDNEY SMITH
THE GAMECOCK
Student organizations' are
teaming up to build a 30-foot wall
in front of the Russell House on
Tuesday to raise awareness about
conflict in the Middle East.
The Muslim Student Association
will assist the Carolina Peace
Resource Center in bringing the
Stop the Wall Tour, a human rights
campaign in response to Israel’s
decision to build a wall around the
West Bank.
The tour started in July and runs
through November, stopping in
different cities to build replicas of
the Israeli wall.
After hearing about the tour,
Michael Berg, co-director of the
Carolina Peace Resource Center,
contacted the Muslim Student
Association, and the two groups
worKeu togerner to Dring tne tour
to USC. The tour will come to the
Russell House Tuesday and build a
30-foot replica wall in front of the
Russell House from 9 a.m. to 11
a.m. The wall will stand from 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. Along with the
replica wall, a map showing the
Palestine-lsrael boundaries and
where the wall is now will be set up
for students to look at.
Khalidah Ali, vice president of
the Muslim Student Association,
said she’s excited about the
potential impact of the replica wall
on USC students. Ali, a second
year nursing student, said she
hopes that when USC students
stand next to the wall, they will
realize the enormity of the issue
and the wall’s presence in the lives
of Palestinians.
Berg said, “It’s not a Muslim
.Jewish issue, but a human rights
issue.” The wall blocks access to
water, work, school and more, he
said. “It’s unconscionable to
support such a wall in such a
♦ Please see WALL, page 3
Sharon says Israel
to stay in West Bank
A Palestinian demonstrator jump:
Monday during a protest against t
■ Israeli Prime
Minister won’t
follow U.S. plan
By KARIN LAUB
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Israel will not
follow the U.S.-backed “road map”
peace plan and could remain in
much of the West Bank for an
extended period after it withdraws
from the Gaza
Strip, Prime
Minister Ariel
Sharon said in a
newspaper
interview
published
Wednesday.
Sharon’s
comments were
his most detailed
vpf nn his Inna
term vision for the region.
Palestinian officials said the
remarks confirmed their fears that
Israel plans to draw its own
borders and keep a large chunk of
the West Bank, rather than
negotiate a peace deal with the
Palestinians, as envisioned by the
road map.
In violence Wednesday, 10
Palestinians were killed in clashes
with Israeli troops in two West
Bank towns. Among the "dead were
at least six fugitives and an 11-year
old girl, Palestinian hospital
officials said.
Sharon’s plan of “unilateral
disengagement” from the
Palestinians has created deep
divisions in Israel, with opponents
resorting to increasingly ’ harsh
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ODED BALILTY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
across concrete wall segments
he Israeli security barrier.
rhetoric against him.
The government hopes to use
cash advancements to entice large
numbers of settlers to leave
voluntarily, and make it easier for
troops to evacuate those
remaining.
In an interview with the Yediot
Ahronot newspaper published
Wednesday, Sharon said that once
Israel withdraws from Gaza and
the four West Bank settlements, “it
is very possible ... there will be a
long period when nothing else
happens.”
“Israel will continue its
war on terrorism, and will
stay in the territories (of
the West Bank) that will
remain after the
implementation of
disengagement.”
ARIEL SHARON
PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL
He said that as long as there is
no significant shift in the
Palestinian leadership and policy,
“Israel will continue its war on
terrorism, and will stay in the
territories (of the West Bank) that
will remain after the
implementation of disengagement.”
The road map was adopted by
Israel and the Palestinians last year,
but never got off the ground. The
plan envisioned a Palestinian state
by 2005, but did not spell out its
borders.
U.S. officials have said that
Israel’s occupation of the West
♦ Please see SHARON, page 3