Bush nominates Miers for Supreme Court
Republicans, Democrats
at odds over president's
choice for bench
Jesse J. Holland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — One of the
Senates senior conservatives,
Republican Orrin Hatch, offered
unconditional support Tuesday to
Supreme Court nominee Harriet
Miers amid expressions of anxiety in
some Republican quarters over her
legal philosophy.
The Utah Republican took on
criticism that Miers has no experience
as a judge and a largely unknown track
record.
“A lot of my fellow conservatives are
^concerned, but they don’t know her as
do,” said Hatch, a former Judiciary
Committee chairman. “She’s going to
basically do what the president thinks
she should, and that is be a strict
constructionist.”
Hatch said he already has decided to
support her confirmation. “I don’t
need any more. I know her really well.
And I intend to support her,” he told
reporters.
President Bush, at a news conference
in the White House’s Rose Garden,
asked the Senate to confirm Miers by
Thanksgiving and urged Democrats to
give her a chance to explain her views of
^ the law and the Constitution.
Q He worried aloud that issues could
surface, noting that half of the
Democratic members of the Senate
had voted against John Roberts, his
choice to succeed William H.
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The Post’s
Hoagland
^to lecture
2-time Pulitzer winner,
journalism school alum
to speak tonight
Chelsea Hadauiay
FOR THE GAMECOCK
Jim Hoagland, associate editor of
The Washington Post and USC
graduate, is speaking at USC’s Law
School Auditorium today as part of
the Second Annual Buchheit Family
Lecture sponsored by the School of
Journalism and Mass
Communications.
^ Hoagland’s lecture will cover
current news events, the changing
nature of journalism, his experiences
as a foreign correspondent with the
Washington Post and his time as a
USC student.
As a Rock Hill native, he worked at
The (Rock Hill) Evening Herald and
received a journalism scholarship to
attend USC. Hoagland continued his
work at newspapers, including The
State, The Columbia Record and The
New York Times in Paris, until he got
a job at The Washington Post.
Next year will be his 40th year
working with the Post,
k “It’s a combination of great
P exhilaration and occasional terror as
the daily deadline comes near,”
Hoagland said. “The nature of the
print journalism world is changing
due to the Internet age. As an editor,
this brings numerous concerns.
“ ... The pressure is on getting it first
and a little less emphasis on getting it
right,” Hoagland said.
Hoagland also writes a semi-weekly
foreign affairs column.
His first assignment as a foreign
affairs correspondent was in South
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Eric Draper / The White House
This photo taken July 1,2005, shows President Bush and Harriet Miers in the Oval
Office of the White House. On Monday the president nominated Miers to the
Supreme Court. For extended coverage of Miers’ nomination, see page 7.
Record hints at moderate views, anti-abortion stance
Donna Cassata
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Sup reme Court
nominee Harriet Miers’ footprints
on contentious social issues suggest a
moderate position on gay rights, an
interest in advancing women and
minorities and sympathy for anti
abortion efforts. Judging from the
Smith & Wesson she once packed,
she favors gun rights, too.
Miers’ years as a corporate lawyer
and White* House insider have
t produced a record so scant that
court-watchers are picking through
16-year-old Dallas city council votes
and the like to divine how she might
come down on constitutional
matters.
She is not a completely blank slate.
A decade before the 2001 terrorist
attacks, , Miers defended
constitutional freedoms in a time of
danger, with words that would
hearten two groups of activists in the
post-9/11 world of added police
powers - civil libertarians and the
gun lobby.
“The same liberties that ensure a
free society make the innocent
vulnerable to those who prevent
rights and privileges and commit
senseless and cruel acts,” she wrote in
Texas Lawyer, when she was
president of the state bar. “Those
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The USC School of Music held a relief concert Tuesday night at the Koger Center for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Tuned In
School of Music’s concert benefits Katrina victims
Ian Chamberlain
FOR THE GAMECOCK
The USC School of Music
came together with the
charity S.C. Cares Tuesday
night to put on a concert benefiting
victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The concert, titled “USC Cares:
Renewal Through Music,” raised
money to help victims who have
been staying in South Carolina.
Performances ranged from
classical to a kettle-drums.
Carolina Cares, the charity that
will benefit most from the concert,
has helped evacuees in South
Carolina with such things as
prescription drugs and arranging
doctor visits. The charity is even
involved in helping those evacuees
who wish to stay in South Carolina
find jobs.
People attending the concert were
encouraged to donate $10 or more.
“Of course Bill Gates may show
up,” said Larry Wyatt, director of
choral activities for the School of
Music. “Were hoping he shows up.”
The concert is the first in a series
of three that the School of Music
intends to put on to support those
affected by Hurricane Katrina.
“We hope this can be one of
several concerts we’ll hold
throughout the year,” said dean C.
Tayloe Harding Jr. “The suffering as
a result of Katrina is going to go on
for a long time. It’s not something
that just stops when it leaves the
headlines, so we want to do
something that’s sustained over
time.”
Each concert will focus on a
different group affected by
Hurricane Katrina, with Tuesday’s
concert concentrating on those who
have taken shelter in South Carolina.
“We hope that the second concert
can benefit public school music
programs,” Harding said, “They’ve
lost their instruments, lost their
schools and in many cases lost their
music. They’re going to need help to
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light at the end of the “football
loss” tunnel; Alex Riley rejoices in
enjoying Saturdays game from the
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USC soccer senior defender Greg
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French students say bonjour
to language, ‘culture’ house
Jess Dauis
.STAFF WRITER
USC’s French Language House,
located at 820 Henderson St., held an
inauguration ceremony Tuesday
afternoon to celebrate its first year on
campus and to recognize 2005 as the
“Year of Languages.”
“This is a doubly good day for the
university,” said Provost Mark Becker.
“The .French House is not only a
language house but a culture house.
This is the first (language) house but
hopefully not the last.”
The only collegiate language house
in South Carolina, the French House
offers apartment-style housing to its
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22 residents as well as offering a
French community. Students moved
into the apartments at the beginning
of tjie fall semester. Of the 22
residents, 15 are French majors or
minors. One native French speaker,
Christen Green of Belgium, lives in
the house and serves as the activities
director.
“There are benefits on every level,”
said Green, a second-year
international business and French
student, of living in the French House.
“It’s beautifully located, fully equipped
and provides an area where (students)
can really practice French.”
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RHA EYES
BICYCLE
RENTAL
PROGRAM
Senator Kirsten Coleman
proposes buying200 bikes
for student, faculty use
Melissa Rhodes
FOR THE GAMECOCK
RHA senator Kirsten Coleman
presented a project proposal for a
public university fleet of bicycles at
the Resident Hall ' Association
meeting Tuesday night.
Coleman, a third-year
environmental studies student, is
looking to expand university bicycle
services to students, as well as
improve students’ access and safety to
bicycling services on campus and the
greater USC area.
“I’m trying to get everyone on
campus involved,” Coleman said.
“I’m working on a safe and sensible
program that allows students to get
from point A to point B on a bicycle.”
Coleman said the program affects
walkers, drivers and bicyclers.
“This is something that can help
every student,” Coleman said.
The resolution was passed
unanimously Sept. 21 during the
regular senate session.
Student Government has
committed to buying 50 bicycles for
the program.
“I think the program is very neat,”
geological sciences professor Alicia
Wilson said. “The university has been
implementing several program
recently to become environmental
leaders, but students don’t always see
this. The bikes will serve as a visible
confirmation of the university’s
attempts to become more
environmentally friendly.”
Coleman asked RHA to lend
financial support to the 200-bicycle
fleet. RHA could provide funding as a
whole organization, or separate RHA
governments could fund a bicycle.
BIKGS • 1
Why bike?
Burns 400 calories per tour
Or average, cars add
• one pound of C02to
7 the atmosphere
According to the North CaroliM”"
Department of Transportation,
the annual economic impact
of cyclists is nine times the
/ initial cost of providing
cycling facilities
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