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Anti-war activists demonstrate on anniversary of invasion of Iraq By SAM DOLNICK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Anti-war activists marched in the streets of New York and other American cities on Saturday, stopping traffic and lying down alongside flag draped cardboard coffins to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. Some of the demonstrators were arrested in New York as they demanded that U.S. troops be brought home. “This country was founded by acts of civil disobedience,” said David McReynolds, 75, of New York, as he marched along 42nd Street. “We have an obligation to make our resistance public and to say as clearly as we can that the war is illegal.” Organizers encouraged civility in San Francisco, where protests just after the war began were among the most vocal and angry in the country, with thousands of arrests and frequent conflicts between police and demonstrators. “We are telling people to bring their families, their mothers, their children. We’re taking the security and the integrity of these demonstrations very seriously,” said Bill Hackwell, a spokesman for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism, the main march coordinator. About 350 people in New York listened to anti-war speeches at the United Nations, then marched along 42nd Street across Manhattan to Times Square, where police penned them in on a sidewalk. A small contingent of protesters then knelt in front of a military recruiting station and lay down on Broadway next to the flag-draped coffins. Traffic was stopped for about five minutes before police moved in and arrested 27 protesters. “It’s such a small act in light of over 100,000 Iraqis dead and 1,500 American soldiers dead,” Anna Brown, 40, of Jersey City, N.J., said before she was arrested. Besides the Times Square event, there were rallies in Harlem, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. At least nine people were arrested at the other sites, according to an unofficial police count. Veronica Momjian, 24, carried a handmade “Give Peace a Chance” sign in the Manhattan demonstration. o chastise the government for putting us in the middle of a I bloody and disgusting war,” she ( said. “Things are looking worse and there’s no foreseeable end to this.” Associated Press Writer Justin Norton contributed to this report from San Francisco. ALEXANDRE MENEGHINI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 3rotesters march in downtown Sao Paulo with an effigy of President George W. Bush during an anti-war iemonstration for the second anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq in Brazil on Saturday. ■ PROVOST Continued from page 1 “Schools of a (NCAA) Div. 1 size will generally be in the 14 to 18 range, so right now we are a little bit north of the middle,” he said. Becker said USC’s push to become a great research university, as well as the advent of health sciences divisions among colleges, should not be interpreted by students as a sellout to academic research, but as an improvement in academics in general. “It’s one thing just to teach the standard course, but it is another thing to really be working to improve the educational experience,” Becker said of professor’s dual roles as educators and researchers.' “The myth that teaching and research compete with each other is really that, a myth.” With the push for and creation of a research campus, Becker said the role of faculty members may not be changing much, but that students’ roles may change a great deal, if they so wish. In addition to a student’s course load, he said, students would have the opportunity to research at the new campus and even be paid for services. “In the future, undergraduate research opportunities will be more visible,” Becker said. “There won’t be as much something like a stipend, but probably a research account, where the faculty member doesn’t have to buy it for you ... but the research account would give you funds to travel and the research in that field.” Like USC President Andrew Sorensen and Vice-President Harris Pastides, Becker served as dean of a Public Health College before moving to Carolina. Becker said the coincidence was “not by design.” “A public health school captures a lot within a university,” Becker said. “At a public health school you have attorneys, engineers, scientists, people in management, economics and finance ... it is not a narrowly tailored group.” Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknewd@gwm.sc.edu ■ HISTORIAN Continued from page 1 The Model Editions Partnership Web site can be found at http://adh.sc.edu/. Chesnutt credits the NHPRC as one of the major financial backers of his research on the Laurens papers. “Electronic manuscripts are commonplace today, but we got into the game in the ‘70s, when most publishers were simply talking about the process personified by word processing systems, which used 8-inch floppy disks,” Chesnutt said. “With funding from the National Historical ' Publications and Records Commission, the Laurens Papers became the first documentary edition in the U.S. to adopt the new technology and to develop the precursors to today’s electronic publishing systems.” Chesnutt’s project document and index S.C. history began in the 1970s. Chesnutt thanked USC’s history department for financial support for the nearly 40-year project. 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