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CAROLINA © BRIEF Finance magazine praises university USC has been cited by KipHnger’s Personal Finance as one of the Top 100 values in public colleges. USC was ranked No. 31 among schools “where students can receive a stellar education without graduating with a mountain of debt.” The story will appear in Tuesday’s Greenville News. THIS WEEK m USC TODAY FIRST LEGO League tournament: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Breakfast: 7:30 a.m., The Zone, WUIiarns-Briee Stadium SATURDAY International Magic Show: 8 p.m. Kager Center Men’s Basketball vs. Georgia: 3 p.m. Colonial Center MONDAY MLKDay ofService: 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Greater Columbia Community A night of remembrance: Martin, our Fallen Brother: 6-10 p.m. Russell House 1 Ballroom Alpha Phi Alpha MLK vigil: 7 p.m. Russell House Ballroom MLK Gospel Unity Fest: 6:30 p.m. Roger Center mRRSHdll • COflTinUED PRQfTl t of the confirmation hearings, but I haven’t seen too much, and I just wanted to get some more information. I just like to be informed,” she said. Fourth-year political science student Adam Paige said he was disappointed that another woman wasn’t nominated for the seat. “There are too many rich white men (on the Supreme Court),” he said. “I’m really interested in what (Marshall) has to say.” Marshall worked in the White House under the Clinton administration and has experience in the area of judicial nominations, and said he is “troubled” by Bush’s nomination of Alito. “Bush has indicated he wanted someone (on the Supreme Court) to further his specific agenda and that’s troublesome to me,” he said. Marshall said that Bush’s main agenda in nominating his next nominee was to further executive power. “I think George Bush cares about one thing more than anything else, and that’s executive power,” Marshall ON THE WEB © www.dailygamecock.com Read online five* days a week. Bloody fabulous. On the rebound Juan Bias / THE GAMECOCK Brandon Wallace watches a rebound slip away in Sunday’s game against Tennessee. The Gamecocks will play host to Georgia on Saturday at 3 p.m. State Lawmakers introduce bill to pray at Citadel A Charleston state representative has proposed legislation allowing Citadel cadets to pray together before meals. In 2003, the state military college replaced a cadet led prayer with a moment of silence after a federal appeals court ruled that saying prayers before meals at Virginia Military Institute was unconstitutional. The bill proposed by Rep. Wallace Scarborough, R Charleston, and backed by at least 3 0 other state lawmakers could face constitutional challenges. Nation Toxic handshake gets Mich, man jail time LANSING, Mich. — A man has been jailed on assault charges after a prosecutor, police officer and courtroom bailiff became seriously ill after shaking hands with him. During a Dec. 21 court appearance on a traffic charge,John Ridgewaypulled out a vial of an unknown liquid, rubbed his hands with the contents and insisted on shaking hands with the three people, authorities said. All of them got sick within an hour, suffering from nausea, headaches, numbness and tingling that lasted about a day. World Islamic pilgrims killed during hajj stampede MINA, Saudi Arabia — Muslim pilgrims tripped over luggage while hurrying to ritually stone the devil Thursday, causing a crush that trampled at least 345 people to death in the latest stampede to mar Islam’s annual hajj. Saudi authorities have sought for years to ease the flow of increasingly mammoth crowds, but the tragedy underlined the difficulty in managing one of the biggest religious events in the world, which this time drew more than 2.5 million pilgrims. said. He spoke about the recent anti-torture bill that Bush signed, but said that he would only enforce it to a point that didn’t infringe upon executive power. “That’s basically saying ‘Up yours, Lindsey Graham,’” Marshall said. Alito does not have a strong record of judgments about executive power because of the court he served in, making him an ideal candidate for the nomination because not everyone knows where he stands on the issue. Alito recently completed 18 hours of questioning, split among three days, before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Key issues in the questioning included Alito’s stance on abortion, judicial activism and executive power. CNN reported that committee chairman Arlen Specter said that a vote from the committee could come as early as next week and a vote from the full Senate could come the week after that. Duringhis speech, Marshall discussed the recent history of Supreme Court justices and how partisan interests have affected decisions. He cited affirmative action cases and property rights cases as instances where Justice Antonin Scalia “and company” claimed to interpret the law without political bias but were just offering hypocrisy. “There’s not an originalist argument in the world that suggest this is unconstitutional,” Marshall said of the case preventing federal affirmative action. He continued to further criticize Scalia, saying that his decisions supported a “jurisprudence that protects the powerful against the weak.” “Doesn’t that sound backwards to you?” he asked the audience. Slamming his fist on the podium to accentuate each word, Marshall said the Bush administration, “always favors business,” then took a step back to say, “Well, maybe only 98 percent of the time.” Throughout his speech, Marshall emphasized that the Supreme Court is leaning toward supporting minorities and the rich population, and said that Alito’s pre-existing philosophies are what got him the nomination. Marshall said that Alito “threaded the needle” between conservatives who opposed the nomination of Harriet Miers and liberals who opposed someone more “polarizing.” The Feminist Majority League and Students Allied for a Greener Earth sponsored the event. Similar events are happening or have happened at campuses across the country, including at Princeton University, Florida State University, the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan and the University of Maine. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecocknews@gwm. sc. edu Weather Forecast TODAY o_ High II High 54 High 61 High 64 High 12 Loui 40 Low 31 Low 31 Low 44 Low 48 CRIME REPORT WEDNESDAY, JAN. 11 Assistance rendered, 3:30 a.m. Moore, 601 Sumter St. An 18-year-old male was found face down in the men’s restroom heavily intoxicated. EMS transported him to Palmetto Baptist Hospital. Reporting officer: D. 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