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CASH YOUR NOTES Visit LeConte 117 for more info, or call 777-6142 Office of Student Disability Services A University Sponsored Service Class Section Acct 404 001 Arth 539 001 Arts 103 003 Arts 111 003 Arts 260 001 Biol 415 002 Biol 530 001 Clis 325 002 Crju 211 001 Crju 351 001 Csce 101 002 Eche 310 001 Econ 222 003 Econ 224 004 tcon zz4 uuz Edec 250 002 Edex 533 003 Edse 547 001 Edte 402 005 Engl 102 106 Engl 102 081 Engl 102 023 Engl 102 025 Engl 282 001 Engl 283 011 Engl 288 003 Engl 391 001 Engl 439S 001 Engl 460 004 Engl 473 001 Engl Z282 801 Fina 463 001 Fina 468 300 Fren E110 300 Geog 346 001 Geol 103 019 ’ Hist 112 015 Hist E109 300 Hist E112 301 Hrtm 228 001 Hrtm 370 002 Hrtm 370 005 Hrtm 410 001 Hrtm 490 001 Hrtm 557 001 Hrtm E280 300 Idst J390 655 Jour 303 002 Laws 540 001 Mart 572 001 Mart E371 300 Math 111 002 Math 115 300 Math 122 002 Math 122 300 Math 170 006 Math 221 002 Math 554 001 Math Z122 851 Mgmt 250 011 Mgmt 476 851 Mgmt 478 008 Mgmt 479 002 Mgsc 290 003 Mgsc 395 004 Mktg 350 004 Mktg 350 005 Mktg 350 301 Mktg 352 001 Phil 110 013 i mi in uui Phil 201 001 Phil 211 009 Phil 301 001 Poli 315 003 Poli 441 001 Psyc 410 001 Psyc E380 801 Relg Z491D 851 Retl 261 003 Retl 261 002 Retl 351 001 Socy 220 003 Sowk 710 001 Sowk 716 003 Sowk 742 002 Sowk 791 004 Span 122 021 Spch 140 025 Spch 140 017 Spch 140 002 Spch 140 028 Spte 325 001 Stat 110 006 Stat 110 006 Stat 201 011 Swah 122 001 Tstm 342 001 VVost Elll 801 State of the Union to avoid Social Security details By TERENCE HUNT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Bush will outline ideas about strengthening Social Security but will not spell out all the details of a plan to fix the system’s financial problems when he delivers his State of the Union address Wednesday night. Bush’s strategy in offering a partial outline rather than a detailed remedy reflects a split between the two houses of Congress about the president’s role in the politically sensitive debate. In the House, where every seat is up for election every two years, Republican leaders want the president to present a specific plan and work to sell it to the country before pressing Congress to vote. But key Senate leaders prefer that Bush work behind the scenes with Congress to develop a bipartisan consensus. “It’s time to shine a very clear light on the problems facing Social Security and then to talk about ways we can work together to strengthen it,” White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Tuesday. Social Security will be Bush’s top domestic priority when he goes before Congress and a nationally televised audience at 9 p.m. EST Wednesday. He will devote the first half of his 40-minute speech to domestic matters and the second half to international issues. On the international front, he will urge North Korea to return to six-nation talks about dismantling its suspected nuclear weapons program, the White House said. He will express support for European efforts to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear program. Bush also will point to elections in Iraq and the Palestinian territories as hopeful signs for the spread of democracy around the world. Social Security restructuring has been on Bush’s agenda since before he entered the White House. In 2000 he campaigned on the idea of letting younger workers divert some of their SUSAN STERNER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This photo released by the White House shows first lady Laura Bush looking on as President Bush signs a proclamation designating February as American Heart Month on Tuesday in the Oval Office of the White House. The proclamation encourages awareness of factors leading to heart disease such as smoking, high cholesterol, lack of exercise, obesity and diabetes. Social Security payroll taxes into private investment accounts, a move that might offer higher returns but also would deplete money for guaranteed benefits in the future. The administration said Bush’s speech would leave key elements to be worked out with Congress and that Bush was willing to come out and make another speech sometime in the future to articulate more details of a solution. Without any changes, Social Security will start paying out more in benefits than it collects in payroll taxes in the year 2018, according to the Social Security trustees’ latest estimate. In 2042, it will be able to cover only about 73 percent of benefits owed, the trustees indicated. “In the State of the Union you’re going to hear him talk in greater detail about ideas for strengthening and saving Social Security, in greater detail than he has previously,” McClellan said. One thing Bush is expected to discuss is how the private investment accounts would operate. The accounts would be investments in stocks or bonds and would be structured like many company-sponsored retirement plans, with only a handful of investment options, Bush’s advisers have recommended. Bush is nowhere near ready to propose actual legislation, and a senior administration official cast some doubt on whether the administration would even be ready to spell out details in late February or early March, as had earlier been suggested. Many Republicans fear that Bush’s Social Security plan could cause a backlash, as did the Clinton heath-care proposal in 1994. The unpopularity of that plan contributed to heavy losses for Clinton’s Democratic party in both the House and the Senate. “There are a lot of details that will have to be worked out by Congress,” the official said at a pre-speech briefing, insisting on anonymity so as not to steal Bush’s thunder. “And the whole key is ... what will jT help and what will hurt, what will be inviting to both parties, what won’t. “We’re not in a position where we want to be ruling things in or out,” the official said. Bush’s proposal to rewrite the income-tax code, meanwhile, is clearly an initiative on the back burner. The senior official didn’t even mention it when he first ran down the priorities that Bush would emphasize, although when pressed, he said it remains a key Bush second-term item. The official said that making first term Bush tax cuts permanent remained a priority. ■ GOAT something so low as to do something of his fraternity. like that,” Canine said. “As far as other fraternities, 1 Continued from page 1 ] {c saRj t}R- act was cruel and wouldn’t know if they would do revealed disrespect for the Alpha Delta something like that,” Canine said. “But Canine said he had not heard Pis. I would hope no one in our fraternity anything about the incident in There have been cases, Canine would do something like that.” question, but he said no one in his added, in which a pledge might be - fraternity was responsible. made to do something like tie a goat to Comments on this story? E-mail “Nobody in my fraternity would do a door, but he reiterated the innocence gamecockneu'S@gwm.sc.edu I ■ WEATHER Continued from page 1 storm since she started attending. “I think that is kind of odd because they know there are classes on that day, and they should be able to give adequate warning,” Crain said. McKinney said the Office of Student Affairs usually puts together the advisories. “Unfortunately, this is the way it is run,” McKinney said. “And we are just trying to make everyone happy.” Regardless of positive experiences with USC, Crain said that a mistake like ■*y this in the future might change her ^ opinion of the school. “We try to get out as much notice as possible,” McKinney said. South Carolina residents experienced one of 2005’s coldest days Friday, a snap that resulted in several traffic accidents across the state. But students of Crain’s class made it to campus successfully, despite almost half the students being absent. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm <r. etht ■ MAIL Continued from page 1 “I don’t think it’s peculiar just to USC’s mail,” she said. She added that the Russell House post office was already taking steps to amend the tardiness of the mail being delivered. “We are having constant dialogues with the post office right now about what we think are some of their delivery problems,” she said. “Unfortunately, we can’t control the delivery time and delays that are occurring within the U.S. post office.” The Russell House post office had also been receiving criticism for the insecurity of its boxes. But Zeigler said that any mail USC received was almost always processed quickly and routed to its rightful recipient. “Our policy, and our mission, is to distribute, the first day, 100 percent of the first class mail and 90 percent of magazines and newspapers,” she said. “We want students to get it the same day we receive it.” Zeigler said USC almost always accomplishes that goal. “There are very few situations in which we’re not able to achieve that,” she said. As for late mail, she said students should know that the Russell House post office is doing everything in its power to speed the process of delivery. “It is a good system, and I don’t know how we’re going to dispel this myth that delay in the mail is a problem with our process,” she said. “The same day we receive it, and usually within a matter of hours, it’s out of our hands and in the students’ mailboxes.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm.sc.edu ■ WILLLIAMS Continued from page 1 confrontation with Thurmond: “Black people hate you, senator. My husband hates you. I tried to speak up for you. But he hates you. Almost all black people do. They don’t see you as a friend. They see you as the enemy. Their worst enemy. Is that the way you want to be looked at?” As she stood up to go, according to the book, Thurmond handed her an envelope filled with thousands of dollars, what her husband, Julias Williams, called ‘hush money,’ according to the book. But those segregationist times changed, and Williams said she was proud of Thurmond after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed. ' Williams publicly revealed she was Thurmond’s daughter a little more than a year ago. The Thurmond family quickly acknowledged her claim, and she has since met with her two brothers, Strom Jr. and Paul, and their mother, Thurmond’s estranged wife, Nancy. “When I was down last February, we had dinner with Strom Jr., the older son. Then last May when I was there, we had lunch with his younger brother, Paul. The only one I haven’t met is Julie,” Williams said of Thurmond’s youngest. She hopes to again meet with family when she visits Columbia later this week. In contrast to Williams, the Thurmond family has been quiet j-i ■, about their relationship, refusing interviews and brushing off questions about Williams, saying it’s a private matter. “They are planning to write a book later,” Williams said. “I think they are so private and people have annoyed them so much that they just don t do any talking.” Williams also said she doesn’t “have any plans at this time to challenge" Thurmond’s will, but her attorney Frank Wheaton said if circumstances warrant, there could be a challenge. Williams was in Washington on Tuesday to promote a new campaign with the Black Patriots Foundation to raise money for a monument on The National Mall. From there, her book signing tour takes her to the Carolinas, Georgia and then out West. A movie based on the book should be out within a few months, she said, and during her trip to Columbia, Williams wants to visit the Thurmond monument on the Statehouse grounds. Her named was added to the monument last summer. “It’s amazing how rapidly the time has passed,” she said. “But I have become more accustomed to it and I’m glad to do it because I do want to encourage people to get the book and read it.” Gamecocks ^M^Cbnnection! Your source for Gamecocks news alerts —11 right on jrour u rn&rH raWECOCkS—* I 9 Get up-to-the-minute news T Linecocte extend, S -**>*»c™* I 1 m from the Gamecocks, Streak Wtn Atawaui I H onyour wireless phone. Log on to www.vtext.com T\Val W overtime. I 19 and select "Coaches Corner!" I ^?|eIS teg^ate' 1 ■ Subject to Customer Agreement and Calling Plan $35 activation fee may apply. $175 early termination fee applies. Requires credit approval. Subject to taxes, charges and other restrictions. 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