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Construction began Sunday on a
Habitat for Humanity house.
BUILDING
COMMENCES
ON HABITAT
HOUSE
^ Construction highlights
week of campus volunteer,
service programs
Sydney Smith
FOR THE GAMECOCK
Coldwell Banker employees began
construction on a Habitat for
Humanity house on Sunday on
Greene Street.
Coldwell Banker provided the
$50,000 required for supplies and raw
I materials. Coldwell Banker,
Columbia Metropolitan Magazine
and Robert House Construction
sponsored the house.
USC students can sign up for
building shifts today through
Thursday. Morning shifts are from 8
a.m. to noon, and afternoon shifts
run from 1 to 5 p.m.
Brittany Jones, president of USC’s
chapter of Habitat for Humanity, said
the group expects around 450 to 500
students to help build the house.
After it is built, it will be taken to
Rockgate Community in Lexington,
an area comprised of habitat houses.
Families chosen to receive habitat
houses are required to put in “sweat
equity” hours, working on other
habitat houses as part of payment for
their house.
Jones, a third-year visual
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INSIDE
Viewpoints
Andrew Bentz addresses the
many names of the BA building;
Shawn Callihan dismisses the
notion that bottled water is bet
ter than tap water.
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The Mix
Crazy eights
The USC Octathlon begins Sept.
25, testing students and faculty
members in a series of events.
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Sports
USC falls in nail-biting loss
The Gamecock football team fell
short in Athens on Saturday
against No. 7 Georgia.
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Tough Return
Spurriers cock ‘rifire
ojfense falls to Georgia
in classic SEC clash
Stephen Fastenau
NEWS EDITOR
ATHENS, Ga. — Steve Spurrier was
not the most popular man in this
college town Saturday — to say the
least.
He was cursed at tailgates. He was
booed as he entered Georgias Sanford
Stadium, booed as his name was
announced and his image was booed
every time it appeared on the
stadium’s video screen.
With the chorus of 90,000 red-clad
fans singing its displeasure for a coach
that went 11-1 against the Bulldogs
in his 12 years at Florida, Spurrier’s
much-anticipated return to the SEC
was under way.
While the outcome of the game
wasn’t quite what the Evil Genius had
in mind, Georgia’s 17-15 victory was
a far cry from the 18-point spread
placed on the game.
“The effort was there,” Spurrier
said. “Obviou* / the little 'hings here
and there made us a .oser.”
Georgia fans had 1995 fresh in
their memories, a year in which
Spurrier put up 52 points against the
Dogs, the most in Sanford Stadium
history. With revenge fresh in the
minds of ticketholders, Georgia coach
Mark Richt said all week he wasn’t
out to get Spurrier.
The only defeat Richt had
experienced at the hands of Spurrier
came in 2001, when the Gators beat
Richt’s Bulldogs by a modest 14 points.
Richt was true to his word. A 2
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USC coach Steve Spurrier walks on the field during Saturday’s 15-17 loss
to the Georgia Bulldogs at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga. Carolina is 1-1.
Pentagon rally remembers 9/11, fallen troops
J|| Rumsfeld lays wreath at Arlington National Cemetery
Frank Franklin II / The Associated Press
Friends and relatives of the victims of
the Sept. 11 attacks gather Sunday
during the memorial service at the
World Trade Center during the
September 11th Commemoration
Ceremony.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It was a
demonstration unlike legions of others
in the capital. The T-shirts were
Pentagon-approved, signs were banned
and Cabinet secretaries, usually the
target of protest, cheered on the
throngs.
Thousands walked Sunday in
remembrance of the attacks of Sept.
11, 2001, in tribute to U.S. troops
abroad. By their presence, marchers
endorsed the worldwide fight against
terrorism that began after airliners
slammed into the World Trade Center,
the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field
four years ago.
U.S. soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan
and other outposts watched on video
links as the crowd shouted, “America
supports you.” References to the
politically divisive Iraq war were
muted, but support for President
Senate begins Supreme Court hearings
to confirm John Roberts as chief justice
Bush's nominee would become court's 109th judge
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It has been 11
years since a chairman of the Senate
Judiciary Committee banged his gavel
to open hearings on a president’s
nominee to the Supreme Court.
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa„ today
convenes several days of hearings on
President Bush’s nomination of John
Roberts to become the 109th justice
on the high court and the 17th chief
justice.
Some questions and answers about
how the process is expected to unfold:
Q: What has Roberts been doing
since Bush nominated him?
A: Roberts has met with Senate
leaders, members of the committee
and other senators. He also has
brushed up on constitutional and legal
issues that may come up at the
hearing. He has reviewed committee
members’ pet issues and his own
record as a lawyer and federal appeals
court judge.
Roberts was nominated on July 19
to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day
O’Connor. After Chief Justice William
H. Rehnquist died on Sept. 3, Bush
decided that Roberts should lead the
court, renominating him on Sept. 3.
Roberts helped carry Rehnquist’s
casket into the Supreme Court
building for the public viewing last
Tuesday and attended Rehnquist’s
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Bush’s policy was, for many, a subtext
of the day.
His voice breaking, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld noted
during a wreath-laying at Arlington
National Cemetery that the children
of some of the 184 victims killed
inside the Pentagon and aboard
hijacked American Airlines Flight 77
on Sept. 11 were in his audience.
“They will likely want to know why
this terrible thing happened,” he said.
“It’s hard for free people to
comprehend the mix of extremism and
hatred that leads terrorists to murder
innocent men, women and children.
But perhaps we can tell them this:
Throughout human history there have
been those who seek power through
fear and mass murder but eventually
all of them — every one — has fallen.”
In a city more accustomed to
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Dennis Cook / The Associated Press
Judge John Roberts, left, meets with
Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., on Capitol
Hill on Friday to discuss Roberts’
nomination to be Chief Justice of the
United States.
funeral on Wednesday.
The last confirmation hearing for a
chief justice was for Rehnquist, which
ran from July 29-Aug. 1, 1986.
Rehnquist’s confirmation vote was 65
33 on Sept. 17, 1986.
Q: Who is on the Senate committee?
A: Ten Republicans and eight
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Ophelia puts
Carolinians
on high alert
Katrina-wary residents
brace for Category One
hurricane off coast
The Dssociated Press
WILMINGTON, N.C. — Hurricane
Ophelia sat nearly stationary off the
coast of the Carolinas on Sunday,
taunting coastal residents made wary
by the destruction that Katrina caused
along the Gulf Coast.
The storm was more than 200 miles
from land with sustained wind of
nearly 75 mph, but it was piling up
heavy surf that challenged surfers and
pounded the beaches. A tropical storm
warning was issued Sunday evening
from Cape Lookout south to the South
Santee River in South Carolina, and a
hurricane watch remains in effect from
Cape Lookout to Edisto Beach.
Warning of the possibility of coastal
flooding, Gov. Mike Easley sent 200
National Guard soldiers to staging
centers in eastern North Carolina and
ordered a mandatory evacuation of
fragile Ocracoke Island on the Outer
Banks, reachable only by ferry.
Near Wilmington at Wrightsville
Beach, lifeguards with megaphones
ordered swimmers out of the water.
“They are saying they don’t want
anyone to even touch the water,”
Kathy Carroll, 37, of Wilmington, said
after abandoning an attempt to body
surf in the waves. “Now I know how a
flounder feels. I was getting tossed all
over the place.”
Some people stocked up on
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The Associated Press
An infrared satellite image of
Hurricane Ophelia is seen at the
National Hurricane Center Saturday in
Miami. As of 5 p.m., the center of
Hurricane Ophelia was approximately
230 miles east-southeast of
Charleston. Ophelia is traveling north
near 2 mph, with maximum sustained
winds near 80 mph.
Coucil unveils
‘healing wall’
for evacuees
Service group sponsors
to help USC campus,
evacuees communicate
Gina Uasselli
FOR THE GAMECOCK
As New Orleans dries up and
relief efforts continue from Houston
to Charlotte, small gestures are made
to communicate empathy toward
evacuees living in shelters around
the Midlands.
The Carolina Service Council is
sponsoring a Hurricane Katrina
“Wall of Healing” for the USC
community in conjunction with the
Habitat for Humanity house
construction this week.
“We were brainstorming on
different ways we could help the
evacuees and s'omeone said it’d be a
good idea to let the students and
staff express how they feel about the
tragedy,” said Kelley Cox, president
of the Carolina Service Council and
a fourth-year psychology student.
Cox said the wall is a place for
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