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Military
stretched
infighting
insurgency
After U. S. forces storm
Iraqi towns, rebel forces
live to fight again
Antonio Castaneda
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HADITHA, IRAQ — Periodic U S.
offensives across Iraq’s huge western
region aim to keep insurgents on the
run. But stamping them out
completely is another matter: Once
Overstretched American forces
can’t keep a permanent presence in
the swath of territory leading to the
Syrian border — an area the size of
West Virginia — and too few Iraqi
forces are on the ground to hold the
towns.
Til t . I t •
i ne laicsi operation, utununcu
Saturday when 1,000 mostly Marines
stormed the village of Sadah near the
Syrian border, could end the same
way several other offensives have since
this spring — with partial control of a
spot for only a limited period of time.
*The problem, the Marines say, is
he lack of Iraqi troops or soldiers to
maintain control once U.S. troops
have swept through, searching block
by-block for suspects.
“We do maintenance work up and
down here ... We just keep sweeping
the trash back to Syria,” Col. Stephen
W. Davis, who commands Marine
operations in western Anbar province,
said in a recent interview.
Now, with open talk by the top
U.S. commander in Iraq of a possible
staged American withdrawal next
year, the question of the sweeps’
effectiveness has become more urgent.
This area could — if substantial
^^raqi forces are not added, or if U.S.
Worces are trimmed during a pullout
— foretell a future where Sunni tribes
with ties to the insurgency rule large
parts of Iraq.
IRAQ • 3
For first time,
Spurrier drops
3 straight in SEC
Use coach Steve Spurrier lost
three consecutive conference
games for the first time Saturday
night, as the Auburn Tigers defeated
the Gamecocks, 48-7.
In front of a capacity crowd of
more than 87,000 at Jordan-Hare
Stadium, the Tigers dominated
Carolina on both sides of the ball.
Former Gamecock Kenny Irons,
now a running back at Auburn, and
Columbia native Travis Williams, a
linebacker for the Tigers, got in on
the action as Irons scored twice and
Williams recorded 11 tackles.
Redshirt freshman Antonio
Heffner made his first collegiate
start Saturday and struggled,
leading USC to only one
touchdown on the game. The
Memphis native fumbled once but
didn’t throw any interceptions.
™ The loss dropped the Gamecocks
to 2-3 and left them still looking for
their first conference victory. To
reach Spurrier’s goal of six wins and
a bowl berth, the Gamecocks will
have to win four of their final six
games, including at least one
against rivals Tennessee, Florida or
Clemson.
For complete coverage, see page
10.
—Jonathan Hillyard
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Juan Bias/THE GAMECOCK
Columbia native Travis Williams stops Daccus Turman in Saturday’s game against Auburn. USC lost 48-7.
Thomas Cooper gets long-awaited overhaul
Library renovations include more student study areas, writing center 'outpost’
Kelly Cavanaugh
FOR THE GAMECOCK
It’s their one-and-a-half-year-long
dream come true.
Or at least that’s how Thomas
Cooper Library officials describe the
long-awaited renovations that
provide additional seating on the
main and mezzanine levels.
“We just know that this is going to
mean so much to the kids,” said Jane
Olsgaard, coordinator the library’s
processing services.
The furniture for the south end of
the main level arrived Thursday.
Library officials had hoped the new
study area would be open by the time
students returned this fall, but a
furniture delivery caused delays,
Olsgaard said.
The main level contains 238
additional seats, and the mezzanine
contains 24, Olsgaard said. Three
former offices have been converted to
study rooms on the main level, a
result of the catalog and acquisitions
department moving down a floor at
the end of the spring semester,
Jessica Munday /THE GAMECOCK
Clifford Marsh, a graduate social work
student, studies in the Thomas Cooper
Library on Sunday. The library has
been renovated to make room for more
student study areas.
Olsgaard said, and a fourth group
study room could be added in the
future.
The library is home to a new
“outpost” of the writing center on
the main level, which doubles as a
group study room during off hours,
Olsgaard said. New computers
strictly for student, faculty and staff [
use occupy some of the area. In
addition, Olsgaard said eventually |
the library wants the computer area J
to have the “same type of setup that
the computer lab (on Level 5) has.”
A print station will be added near
the computers, Olsgaard said. The
equipment has been ordered, and
library officials are waiting for it to
arrive, she said. A dictionary” stand
and a station with handouts will also
LIBRARY • 3
CONGRESS
ADVISORY
BOARD TAPS
MEMBERS
SG Treasurer Preston
helps begin nations first
college student coalition
Justin Chapura
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The nation’s first campus-to
Congress liaison group chose its first
members over the weekend at USC in
a project designed to give students a
direct avenue of collaboration
between Columbia and Washington.
The USC Student Congressional
Advisory Board, a project
spearheaded by Student Government
Treasurer Tommy Preston, took
applications at the beginning of the
academic year for a 12-body policy
research and recommendation
committee, that will poll students,
research issues and advise South
Carolina’s federal delegation about
education issues.
Preston, a third-year political
science student, said the board is the
first of its kind for college campuses
in the nation and is partially modeled
after a high school advisory board
started by Rep. Anna Eshoo, D
Calif., in 1993. Eshoo created the
board as a means for high school
students in California’s 14th District
to research issues and develop policy
recommendations.
Constant communication with the
federal legislative branch of
government is the cornerstone of the
group, and Preston said the board
will travel to Washington at least
once a year to present a report of
issues important to students in the
state.
“The board will be looking at a
variety of issues that are of a concern
to students .... (The board) will
compile all of the concerns ... into a
report, which they will present to
BORRD • 3
AFTERMATH
Many return to Gulf after hurricanes; Katrina victims wary of excess stress
In spite of back-to-back
disasters, proponents
defend coastal living
Jermaine T. Jackson
(U. MISSISSIPPI) DAILY MISSISSIPPI
OXFORD, Miss. — After two
hurricanes struck the Gulf Coast
within weeks of each other, destroyed
coastal towns and billions of dollars of
damage are all that remain.
Nearly 300 damaged public schools
in Mississippi will cost an estimated
$1.22 billion to repair.
The question on the minds of many
people is, “Why live on the coast at
all?”
Susan Storey, public relations
manager of SouthCoast USA, which
specializes in arranging travel and
living arrangements on the coasts of
Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and
Louisiana, said there is a certain allure
with living on the coast.
“I think there’s a draw to coastal
living,” Storey said. “It’s a certain
quality of life: ambiance and small
town living.”
According to Storey, living on the
coast provides people with more jobs
than they would find inland.
“A lot of people make their living on
the coast,” she said. “With the large
catfish, shipbuilding and shrimping
industries that Mississippi has, a lot of
jobs are provided for coastal citizens.”
Storey said she has seen the coast hit
many times.
“I’ve worked with coastal regions
RCTURn • l
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Morry Gash /The Associated Press
Bishop DeBruce Nelson holds a service on the street outside his Lighthouse
Apostolic Church on Sunday in Biloxi, Miss. In the churches that operate in the
shadows of Biloxi’s tattered casinos, religious opposition to gambling is colliding
with the region’s economic reality.
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consecutive conference defeat.
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Students picking up pieces,
moving on in wake
of Category-4 storm
Cicely fi. Richard
THE (LSU) REVEILLE
BATON ROUGE, La. — Sofia
Hujabre, film senior and New Orleans
resident, had her last year of college all
planned out. She even bought a
planner to plot the events leading to
her graduation from the University of
New Orleans in May 2006.
But when Hurricane Katrina made
landfall on Aug. 29, Hujabre’s life
changed.
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uuv lumtu my mC) otiv. adiu ui uu.
hurricane. Hujabre said she has lost
her senior year of college.
Now, she will have to take an extra
semester of school to get her degree in
film because LSU does not have a film
program.
“I feel I’m out of my comfort zone,”
she said.
Just as she was trying to find some
sense of normality, Hurricane Rita
came. “I was supposed to go to Austin
City Limits in Texas to hear some
good, relaxing music,” she said.
She even made special arrangements
with the event’s ticket office because
her tickets were in her apartment in
New Orleans, but couldn’t go because
of the evacuation of certain areas of
Texas.
Hujabre’s overwhelming pressure
can be attributed to Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder — reliving a traumatic
STRESS • 2
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