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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
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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
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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.
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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. Adams
Found property,
12:30 p.m
A red bag in lost-and
found contained five 9
inillimeter bullets and
miscellaneous items. The
owner retrieved the bag
and obtained a receipt for
the bullets.
Reporting officer:
N. Peter
Assistance rendered,
1:01 p.m.
Maxcy College,
1332 Pendleton St.
The victim complained
of headaches and told
reporting officer A. Mitchell
he was diabetic. He was
transported to Baptist
Hospital.
Information, 1:30 p.m.
Rates House.
1423 Whaley St.
An RA from East
Quad completed a health
and safety check and
discovered a housing
violation.
Reporting officer:
A. Mitchell
Auto break-in, larceny
USC Maintenance,
723 Greene St.
Someone pried the cage
open on a Dodge van and
removed various tools.
Estimated value: $1,075
Reporting officer:
J. Patterson
THURSDAY, JAN. 12
Burglary, larceny
of cell phone, assault,
12:15 a.m.
West Quad,
438 Main St. a
A 20-year-old victim ^P
said unknown persons
entered his room and
stole his wallet, money
clip, laptop, Sirius radio
and cell phone. He then
chased the suspects
into the street where he
recovered his laptop and
radio.
Estimated value: $659
Reporting officer:
D. Adams
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His involvement in the
FCA helped him discover
his passion for helping
others.
“I attribute that to God
... bringing both of them
together,” Franks said.
He believes that before
he departed for Jericho in
2005 he felt God at work
for him. Franks announced
his trip to family and his
church to gain support. In
a short amount of time, he
said, God brought more
support to him than he
expected.
Originally, Franks
planned on staying in
Jericho for three months,
but the endless support led
him to stay twice as long.
During his trip, Franks
learned much about
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the Palestinian people,
Palestinian-controlled
Jericho and its Muslim
majority. Jericho has been
called the oldest and lowest
city in the world and is a
well-traveled tourist spot.
“It was really neat that
there would be a Christian
church that was helping
(the needy) and trying to
reach out to people,” said
Franks.
While there, he made
friends with Palestinians
and realized they have
names, families and needs
just like in America.
For his second trip,
Franks plans to stay for six
months but feels it could be
longer.
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