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Friday, October 10, 2003 University Press Page 2
“Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles
writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them.
There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by
a good teacher.”
— Flannery O’Connor
Reaction
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mass destruction.”
Drury acknowledged the many dif-
ferences that set Saddam and al-Qaeda
apart. For instance, he pointed out that
Saddam was a tyrant within his own
country, and al-Qaeda is an international
terrorist organization inspired by its reli-
gious beliefs.
He said that Saddam was the type of
Islamic leader that al-Qaeda hates.
“I really couldn’t see any connection
between them,” Drury said.
“Unfortunately our administration is
a go-at-it-alone gun slinger, impatient
and wanting to make its own decisions —
and they did.
“And once they did it, it’s not Bush
that’s there. It’s the United States that’s
there,” he said. “So we’ve got to try to fin-
ish the job as best as possible, which
means bringing in other countries and the
United Nations now.”
Since we put ourselves in this situa-
tion, we can’t leave a country in ruins and
not have some closure in some way with
Iraq, Drury said.
Both professors suggested that
spending the $87 billion is not only some-
thing that is affordable, but something
that, in some ways, we need to do.
“I don’t have a problem with spend-
ing $87 billion,” Hawkins said, “but I feel
that we need to look around and reduce
spending somewhere else.”
“But then you must look at spending
priorities and where they pull it from in
order to finance these expenditures in
Iraq,” he said.
“My concern is that we don’t gener-
ate additional budget deficits in order to
finance those expenditures.”
Hawkins said that $87 billion dollars
in a multi-trillion-dollar deficit is not that
significant.
“On an absolute basis, the 87-some-
odd-billion dollars, when you look at it
compared to overall expenditures, in our
national debt — it’s fairly insignificant,”
Hawkins said.
Reach this writer at
univpress@hal.lamar.edu
Culture
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sororities and fraternities), featuring red
beans and rice and hot links.
Menus for Eastem/Western Culture
Day through Greek Life Culture Day will
include desserts, and some organizations
will have foods from their individual cul-
tures.
Thomas said there will be enough
food for students to “taste the culture.”
From the rice, provided by the SSC, to the
unique cultural foods, she said, all food
will be free. All that students have to do
is “walk up to it and get it.”
The rice portions, Thomas said, will
not be as large as they would be on a
Cardinal Craze Thursday, but they will
give students a chance to taste the vari-
ous foods.
There will not be a Cardinal Craze
Thursday this week because of the week-
long event. Cardinal Craze Thursdays will
return on Oct. 23.
The real reason for the week isn’t
rice. It is the sharing of the diverse cus-
toms and rituals that exist within the
Lamar community.
The Human Race Machine, created
by artist Nancy Burson, to allow people
to challenge their perception of race, age
and outward features, will be available
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will close
around noon on Friday, Thomas said.
The machine consists of four differ-
ent computer programs which are The
Age Machine that allows viewers to age
their faces. It has been used by the FBI.
The Anomaly Machine allows partic-
ipants to see themselves with simulated
facial anomalies.
The Couples Machine combines pho-
tographs to allow couples to view their
potential children.
The Human Race Machine allows
participants to see themselves with the
facial characteristics of six different races.
For the Eastern/Western Culture
Day, the Friends of India organization
will present a fashion show in the Arbor,
with traditional garb for both males and
females.
A variety of teas will be served to
students. There will also be a movie,
“Monsoon Wedding,” shown from 7 p.m.
to 9 p.m. in the SSC Ballroom, Thomas
said.
The La Hacienda Marachi band will
perform Wednesday in the Quad, along
with the Memorial High School dancers
and the Martin Elementary School
dancers. A live remote from 100.7 FM, a
Hispanic broadcasting station, will be
conducted from Mirabeau’s patio. Enoc
Briones will be the master of ceremony
throughout the day to provide informa-
tion on his Hispanic culture.
Performing in the Arbor on Thurs-
day will be Psalm 150, the praise dancers,
Wanda Johnson and her high school stu-
dents, and Release.
For Greek Life Culture Day, some of
the on-campus greeks will host a forum
spotlighting their founders. They will give
hints and tips on greek life.
Events are free. On Tuesday and
Wednesday, events will run from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. On Thursday, events will begin
at 11 a.m. and go to about 1:15 p.m. On
Friday, events will run from noon to 2
p.m., Thomas said.
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Number of U.S. soldiers that
have died since major com-
bat operations began March
20.
APPhotoselect
Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, right, is joined by wife Maria Shriver
as he celebrates his victory in the California gubernatorial recall election in
Los Angeles, Tuesday.
Arnold faces challenges
as California governor
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Gov.-elect Arnold Schwar-
zenegger said he expects a
seamless move into his new
office, naming a congressman
to head his transition team
after fielding calls from
President Bush, Nelson Man-
dela and other well-wishing
luminaries.
Next comes the hard part:
making good on a long list of
campaign-trail promises to
restore the California dream.
Schwarzenegger’s plans to
attract jobs, revive a troubled
economy and erase a massive
deficit will have to go through
a Legislature controlled by
Democrats angered by the
recall process some called a
hostile takeover.
Actor Schwarzenegger ex-
pressed confidence that Cali-
fornia lawmakers would get
the message voters delivered in
Tbesday night’s election.
“The legislators up there
have gotten this message last
night, that the people of
California want change,” he
said.
The action hero’s first
news conference Wednesday, a
day after he snatched away
Gov. Gray Davis’ job, yielded
few new specifics about how
he plans to fix California’s ills.
He reiterated plans for an
independent audit of the
state’s books before revealing
program cuts, pledged to re-
peal the recent tripling of the
car tax, said he’d work with
Indian tribes to negotiate
more casino revenues and
promised again not to raise
taxes.
APPhotoselect
A U.S. Army soldier guards the blast area after an explosion outside a police station in the
Baghdad suburb of Al Sadr city Thursday, The suicide car bomber killed at least 10 people
in a Shiite Muslim area of Baghdad, police said.
Iraq
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“It was a huge blast and every-
thing became dark from the debris
and sand. I was thrown to the
ground,” said Mohammed Adnan, 35,
who sells watermelons across from
the station.
The police building has been
undergoing repairs, and several
dozen workers were believed to have
been inside at the time of the blast,
according to U.S. and Iraqi officials at
the scene.
Angry residents thronged the
area after the bombing, and scores of
U.S. soldiers surrounded the police
building in Humvees. An Iraqi police-
man who pushed through the crowd
was stabbed in the right arm after
being set upon by the mob, which
chanted “No, no to America!” U.S.
military medics treated him at the
scene.
A nearby mosque, meanwhile,
blared warnings for people to leave
the area for fear of another booby-
trapped car.
Some blamed the bombing on
ultraorthodox Wahhabi Sunni Mus-
lims, religious enemies of the Shiites;
policemen said they had been threat-
ened by a local Shiite imam; and oth-
ers blamed Saddam’s ousted Baa-
thists and the Americans.
“This is all the fault of the
Americans. They didn’t catch Sad-
dam,” said a woman outside the Al-
Mubarka Hospital.
Inside, a police sergeant who was
wounded in the legs, Saad Drawal al-
Dharaji, 29, said an imam had threat-
ened to take action against the police
station unless it turned over some
officers for “punishment” for having
served under Saddam.
“We will have our revenge for
this,” al-Dharaji said. He said he did-
n’t know the name of the clergyman.
A fellow sergeant, Jassim Mohsen, 31,
confirmed that duty officers earlier
this week recorded the threats, made
in last Friday’s sermon and in letters
to the police.
Jabar mentioned another possi-
ble motive for a bombing: the release
of Shiite cleric Moayed al-Khazraji,
arrested by the U.S. occupation force
Monday and accused of unspecified
“criminal and anti-coalition activi-
ties.” Protesters had rallied at the
police station Wednesday to demand
his release but dispersed peacefully.
“We didn’t have the imam,”
Jabar said.
Sami said the attack was
“aimed at obstructing police work
at a time when the force was
becoming more and more effective
in combating crime.”
Some in Iraq view police as sell-
outs doing the Americans’ bidding.
Others associate them with Saddam’s
regime or his Baath.Party.
The police bombing was the lat-
est in a series that began in early
August with an attack on the
Jordanian Embassy, which was fol-
lowed by car and truck bombings at
the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad
and at a Shiite shrine in the southern
city of Najaf. More than 120 people
were killed, including a leading Shiite
cleric.
The U.S. Central Command said
Thursday’s deadly convoy attack
occurred about 2 a.m. in Baqouba,
about 30 miles northeast of Baghdad.
The American died of his wounds at
the 21st Combat Support Hospital,
the military said.
The death brought to 92 the
number of U.S. soldiers killed in hos-
tile fire since President Bush de-
clared an end to major fighting on
May 1. A total of 321 U.S. soldiers
have died in Iraq since the war began
on March 20.
The Spanish official, identified as
Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, was
killed after four men knocked on his
door about 8 a.m., according to a
Spanish diplomat in Baghdad who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
A school guard opposite Bernal’s
home said the men tried to drag him
out of his house. Bernal escaped, tried
to run away and was shot in the head.
He died at the scene.
The Spanish Foreign Ministry said
Bernal was an air force sergeant
attached to Spain’s National Intel-
ligence Center.
Officials said U.S. soldiers con-
ducted a major raid Sunday near the
Syrian border and detained 112 sus-
pects, including a high-ranking offi-
cials in the former Republican Guard.
The massive raid in Al-Qa’im,
about six miles from the border,
ended with the capture of a man intel-
ligence officials said was a major gen-
eral in the guard air defense branch.
“The general officer that they
captured, Abed Hamed Mowhoush
al-Mahalowi, ...was reported to have
links with Saddam Hussein and was a
financier of anti-coalition activities,
according to intelligence sources,” a
military spokesperson said, on condi-
tion of anonymity.
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