W E D N E S D AY JAN. 21, 2004 Vol. 125, No. 41
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INSIDE Bush vows to stay the course SUPERFLIRT
State of the Union address focuses on national security By Jonathan Greenberger q Associate Editor
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President Bush unofficially kicked off his reelection campaign last night, addressing the nation with a State of the Union address that defended the decision to go to war in Iraq and the handling of the war’s aftermath. “The work of building a new Iraq is hard, and it is right,” said Bush. “And America has always been willing to do what it takes for what is right.” Bush also said that the overthrow and capture of Saddam Hussein has made the U.S. safer, citing Libya’s recent decision to halt its weapons of mass destruction program as evidence that the war in Iraq has already had positive repercussions throughout the world. At the same time, Bush emphasized that the war on terror is far from over.
“Twenty-eight months have passed since Sept. 11, 2001—over two years without an attack on American soil—and it is tempting to believe that the danger is behind us. That hope is understandable, comforting—and false,” he said. Bush went on to say that the U.S. is continuing to fight the war on terror by “confronting the regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and that could supply them with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.” Public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans tend to support Bush’s handling of the war on terrorism. Steven Smith, the director of Washington University’s Weidenbaum Center, said this is why the president spent almost half of his speech focused on national security issues. “It reflects the president’s own priorities for the moment. He wants to emphasize his own leadership qualities, and national security is probably where he is best able to do that,” said Smith. “I think the White House believes na-
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Gephardt exits ‘04 primary race
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Freshman commuter student Jamie Presson walks to her car in the Wohl Garage. The top level of the garage is now a green parking zone.
Grad students irate over new parking changes Sneak a peak into how the men’s and women’s basketball teams spent their winter break and how they fared against their UAA rivals.
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President Bush delivers his “stay the course” State of the Union address Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress.
By Kelly Donahue q News Editor As of yesterday, many graduate students and administrative staff found themselves inconvenienced by changes initiated by Parking Services. Parking Services decided to switch all green parking spaces on the top level of the Millbrook Garage to more expensive yellow permit spaces. The number of green permit spaces on campus will remain the same, however, as additional green spaces will be added on top of Wohl Garage and in Lot 4, the parking lot at the corner of Skinker and Brookings Drive. According to Lisa Underwood, manager of Parking and Transportation Services, the green permit was created as a “lower cost parking alternative” for graduate students on Hilltop Campus. Green permit holders must park in less convenient locations in exchange for paying a reduced cost. “As [the north] side of campus has been built up, Millbrook Garage is no longer situated in a remote location,” said Underwood. Many of the grad students and employees with green permits who were expecting to continue parking on top of Millbrook this semester have expressed dissatisfaction with the reallocation occurring halfway through the year. The convenience of lower-cost parking in Millbrook Garage allowed students like Jonathan Glusman to walk shorter distances to fi nd their cars at night. “I tend to stay in the law school very late several nights a week,” said Glusman, a third-year law student. “It is important to feel safe, and having to carry a laptop across campus is good reason to want to park near the law school.” Parking Services staff informed Glusman that the green spaces were being replaced by yellow because the office was “responding to a large number of complaints from yellow permit holders who could not fi nd spaces.” Second-year law student Beth Davidson was also disappointed that Parking Services broke their initial agreement with her halfway through the academic year.
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His name will still be on the Feb. 3 Missouri primary ballot, but his candidacy is no more. Flanked by his family, a teary-eyed Representative Dick Gephardt announced that he was withdrawing from the race for his party’s presidential nomination. “I accept the results with the knowledge that I gave this campaign everything that I had in me,” said the Missouri congressman, referring to his disappointing fourth-place fi nish in Monday’s Iowa caucus, which led him to bow out of the race at a St. Louis news conference Tuesday afternoon. “Today, my pursuit of the presidency has reached its end. I am withdrawing as a candidate and returning to private life after a long time in the warm light of public service.” Gephardt did not rule out accepting a cabinet position or other government position, including the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nomination, sometime in the future. He did rule out a run for the U.S. Senate. The congressman said that he has not decided when or if he’ll endorse one of the other candidates. “I haven’t had a chance to do anything but what I have been doing, and I have had a little trouble with that,” said Gephardt. We’ll figure out the rest later.” He thanked his children, Matt, Chrissy and Kate, his wife Jane, and his supporters in Missouri’s Third Congressional District. “My life’s work has been fighting for the honor and dignity of their life’s work and I couldn’t ask for anything better,” said Gephardt. “I am going to return to Congress and dedicate my last remaining year to representing them to the best of my ability.” “I will continue to work for universal health care, pension reform, more teachers in the classroom, energy independence from Gulf oil, and a trade
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With his wife Jane and his children standing by, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt announced yesterday that he would not run for his party’s presidential nomination.
Students form kibbutz-style cooperative Is the FBI watching you? News Editor Elizabeth Neukirch investigates how the FBI is handling protests of the war in Iraq.
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Members hope to present ideas as a new housing option By Liz Neukirch q News Editor Inspired by the kibbutz movement in Israel and a desire to live truthfully, a group of Washington University students is working to start the Wash. U. Cooperative—an off-campus housing option that will foster such ideals as community, healthy living and social responsibility. Junior Alexandra Templer began organizing the cooperative last March with the support of Religious Studies Professor Jerome Bauer and Satadru Sen, a professor of history. “I was dissatisfied with the dichotomy I saw between my rigorous academic life and my purely recreational social time,” said Templer. “I wanted to learn not only from my professors and books, but from real
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people—people my own age with similar experiences. [Forming a] cooperative also seemed like a way to actualize—socially, politically, and economically—what I learned in my classes, particularly sustainability and responsibility.” As it was late in the semester when Templer began to share these ideas, many students had already settled on housing plans. A small group of students, however, decided to experiment informally with this lifestyle, and with Dr. Bauer’s assistance, Templer coordinated an independent study this year to explore the models and ideology of sustainable cooperative living. “Once I heard about it in the beginning of [last] semester, I asked to join,” said sophomore Chloe Byruck of the independent course. “We met once a week with Professor Bauer to discuss various books [and] started reading about the kibbutz movement in Israel, [which inspired] us to try to officially start a school co-op.” Templer explained that the models provided a framework, but that the spirit of the movement drove the students. “[While] the available models give us an outline
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for how to do this, the inspiration was just living and wanting a little more than what we have,” said Templer. By definition, a kibbutz is a collective society of members who share the aims of equality, self-labor and shared responsibilities of production and consumption. Kibbutzim first began to appear almost a century ago in what is now Israel, when small groups of Jewish immigrants set up close-knit egalitarian communities. While these original settlements had small memberships and were thought of as enlarged families, today most have several hundred members. This is very similar to the setup of a cooperative—an organization run jointly by its members and whose profits are shared among them. Cooperatives are as varied as the people within them, and can focus on anything from food to business to living arrangements. According to its constitution, the Wash. U. Cooperative is a “student-run, not-for-profit organization that
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