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Bush urges stability Graceland Too
owner visits RUF
Genie Alice Via
Senior Staff Reporter
Pablo Martinez Monsivais AP Photo
President Bush gives his fifth State of the Union speech Tuesday on Capitol Hill in
Washington. Behind Bush is Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and Vice
President Dick Cheney, left.
Bryan Doyle
Campus News Editor
Rejecting retreat and maintaining American competitiveness were key themes in
the 51-minute State of the Union address
given by President George W. Bush to the
American people Tuesday night.
Not until the end of the speech did the
President mention Hurricane Katrina, the
natural disaster that last August devastated
the Gulf Coast, physically and financially
crippling Mississippi and Louisiana.
Bush did mention that the federal government has committed $85 billion to the
people of the Gulf Coast and New Or-
leans.
However, he made no specific mention
of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency or any specific long-term recovery plans.
Bush said now is the time to address
“deeper challenges” that existed before
the storm arrived.
“The answer is not only temporary relief, but schools that teach every job, and
job skills that bring upward mobility...and
more opportunity to own a home and start
a business.”
Bush said in his address to the AmeriSee BUSH
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Any hour of the day or night
Graceland Too is open, and several
Ole Miss students make the trip to
Holly Springs after the bars close,
usually to get a good laugh and have
something fun to talk about for a
few days.
Paul McLeod, owner of Graceland Too, a Holly Springs house
filled with Elvis memorabilia, and
Photo courtesy of RUF
the self-proclaimed biggest Elvis
fan, never fails to provide humorous Paul McLeod, proprietor of Graceland Too
entertainment for anyone willing to in Holly Springs, joined students at a recent
pay the $5 fee to get in.
Reformed University Fellowship session.
However, Alan Williams, RUF
intern, said he has seen a comto film part of a video he was working
pletely different side of McLeod than on for RUF. While the filming was takmost. Williamsʼ willingness to get to ing place, Williams asked McLeod if he
know McLeod on a different level ulti- would visit RUF.
mately led to McLeodʼs visit to RUF last
“Of course I didnʼt know if he would
Wednesday night.
actually come, but it would at least make
“Iʼve visited Graceland Too at late the video that he wanted to come,” Wilhours in the night and witnessed the ec- liams said. “In the video, we eat chicken
centric nature in which Paul shares his on a stick from Chevron on his couch
life,” Williams said. “I admit that it is under an Elvis blanket. Paulʼs cooperahard to keep a straight face through sto- tion definitely showed his sense of huries pertaining to guns, girls and ʻmil- mor and willingness to be goofy – he
lions of dollars in cash,ʼ but last week knew we were acting.
I met Paul at his house for lunch. As I
“The filming was fun, but seeing a
waited in the next room with our cheese- side of Paul that most had not seen was
burgers, I couldnʼt help but observe the most interesting. We actually had plenty
sincerity and professionalism that fol- of conversations having nothing to do
lowed Paul through the house as he with Elvis.”
showed off his knowledge and memoFor three days, McLeod refused to
rabilia to three visiting Elvis fans from come to Oxford. Finally, on Williamsʼ
Tupelo.”
fourth visit in a row, McLeod was cleanThis blossoming friendship started
when Williams went to Graceland Too
See RUF
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Mayor voices his Black History Month kicks off
support for tax
Katherine Sands
Staff Reporter
Claudia Worrell
and eventually phased out by the
year 2014.
Go. Haley Barbour vetoed the
Despite efforts of persuasion,
the battle to pass the proposed bill in Jan. 18, citing his belief
tax bill to increase the cigarette that lowering the tax on groceries
tax and phase out the grocery tax during a “period of fiscal unceris still a hot debate for elected tainty” could be detrimental for
officials and constituents in the the state. Tuck and others in the
state Legstate
of
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Missishowevsippi.
er, have
Lt. Gov.
called for
Amy Tuck
an overproposed
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Average Oxford resident would save $336
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reports,
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year
by
eliminating
sales
tax
on
groceries.
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current
mailed
Proposed 4 mill property tax increase
18 cents
a set of
would
cost
average
homeowner
$100
a pack to
*Source: Oxford City Government
calcula75 cents
tions to
a pack on
July 1. This rate will rise to $1 city mayors to show the financial
next year. This $1 tax on ciga- damage the new bill would cause
rettes will potentially lead to a cities throughout the state. In response, Tuck issued her own set
20 percent drop in smoking.
In addition to this tax raise, of calculations that were distribthe grocery tax will be lowered
See TAX
page 4
Staff Reporter
Cigarette
Tax
Quick Facts
The Black History Month
Committee is sponsoring a kickoff to Black History Month this
Thursday in the Student Union.
The kickoff will start off a
string of events throughout the
university in honor of Black History Month.
The event will be lead by
Donald C. Cole, assistant to the
chancellor concerning minority
affairs, with “Celebrating Black
History Month 2006: Remembering, Reflecting, and Projecting.”
“[Black History Month] is a
time for reflection and one needs
that,” Cole said. “It is a time to
look outside the box and to look
back and assess.”
The kickoff celebration will
let people know what will be
going on throughout the campus during the month as well as
recognizing those that organized
the events taking place. The first
annual Lift Every Voice Award
will be presented. The award is
given to someone who actively
promotes diversity throughout
the Ole Miss and Oxford community.
Students are also enthused by
the month as well as what it represents. “[Black History Month]
helps acknowledge the events
that really took place, and it allows us to try and move on and
better that,” said Lekeshia Harmon, a senior banking and finance major.
Cole said the university has
been supportive of Black History
Month events, but he feels there
is more room for improvement in
regards to personal involvement.
“The university has pretty
much adopted it,” Cole said. “We
could probably do better in participation, but that comes down
to the individual.”
The committee has been working hard to reach out to different
departments to take part in Black
History Month. Cole feels having different departments plan
different events allows more individual involvement. “It pulls
some others into the spectrum,”
he said.
One of the major events during
Black History Month at the university is the visitation of Spike
Lee, the controversial filmmaker
behind such movies as “Malcolm
X,” who will speak on “Importance of Cultural Diversity in
Life and Film” on Feb. 9.
Other events include several
brown bag lunch and lectures, a
film series, as well as honoring
35 years of black athletes at the
university. Coolidge Ball, the
first black athlete at Ole Miss,
and many others will be honored
Feb. 24.
Black History Month became
a hot topic recently when Morgan Freeman called the month
“ridiculous” during his “60 Minutes” interview in December.
Freeman also said, “The only
way to rid of racism is to stop
talking about it.”
Cole says he can appreciate
the nature of Freemanʼs statements, but it might not have been
the right time.
“Of course, Morgan Freeman
is perhaps looking at the bigger
picture and the future,” he said.
“We look at where it is now and
pushing it to where it ought to
be.”
Black History Month was developed by Carter G. Woodson in
1926 as “Negro History Week.”
Woodson wanted to bring black
history into the mainstream publicʼs idea of history. Woodson
chose February for the celebration of black history because it
marked the birthdays of Abraham
Lincoln and Frederick Douglass,
both of whom greatly influenced
the black population.
The Black History Month
kickoff will be Feb. 2 in the Student Union Lobby at 12 p.m.
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WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 1, 2006
RUF: Video of appearance on RUF site
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
Tonight: Ole Miss Karate Club
will have practice tonight (every
Monday and Wednesday) from 78:30 p.m. in the Turner Center
Dance Hall. Come learn self
defense. Beginners are welcome.
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THIS WEEK
Feb. 24: The Department of English
will host the Evans Harrington creative writting contest/scholarship
for freshman, sophmores: $500
tuition waiver. Ella Somerville
Award for juniors, seniors: two
$100 prizes. Bondurant Prize for
grad students: two $150 prizes.
One entry per category. One story
or up to 3 poems. Put contact info.
on separate sheet and send to David
Galef, C135 Bondurant Hall.
NEWS ROUNDUP
In Mississippi
In the U.S.
About 35 Guardsmen Clinton campaign
funds at $21 million
headed to Iraq
JACKSON — About 35
members of a Mississippi Army
National Guard attack helicopter unit are being mobilized for
a mission in the Middle East,
Guard officials said.
The soldiers are in the Tupelo-based E Troop, 1st Squadron, 104th Cavalry.
The soldiers will report for
duty on Feb. 13, and prepare
for departure to a mobilization
station at Fort Hood, Texas on
Feb. 16.
The unit will undergo various
types of training at Fort Hood
for about four months before
shipping out.
The members of E Troop fly
and maintain the AH-64 Attack
Helicopter, commonly known as
the Apache.
Police search for teen
in murder case
HATTIESBURG — Police have
issued a warrant for the arrest of a
fourth teenager in the shooting death
of a Hattiesburg man.
Hattiesburg Police Department
spokeswoman Robin Walker said
authorities were seeking 16-yearold Davarius Chauncey Thomas of
Hattiesburg. Walker said Thomas is
a suspect in this past Fridayʼs shooting death of 23-year-old Antonio
McCullar outside a house here.
On Monday, Municipal Judge
Vanessa Jones denied bond for Evans Morris, 21, of Hattiesburg, and
Jarvin M. Summerall, 20, of Petal
on a charge of murder and three
counts of aggravated assault. Morris
and Summerall were free on bond
on drug charges at the time of the
shooting. Jones revoked the prior
bond and denied bond in the other
charges.
Lawmakers react
strongly to address
JACKSON — The response
of Mississippi lawmakers on
Tuesday to President Bushʼs fifth
State of the Union address followed party lines.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., said
the president used the State of
the Union as an opportunity to
stake out directions and legislative proposals that can be
achieved in Congress.
“Iʼve always believed that the
best politics is good policy,” Lott
said in a statement. “And the
president has put forth a broad
and bold policy agenda that the
majority of Americans – regardless of political affiliation,
share.”
U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson,
D-Miss., said the president neglected the state and the region
impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
WASHINGTON — Democratic
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton raised
$21.4 million last year for her reelection campaign in New York and
has $17 million in cash on hand,
totals driven in part by her frontrunner reputation if she decides to
pursue the presidency in 2008.
The former first lady collected $6
million from 56,899 donors in the
final three months of 2005, bringing
her total to more than $21 million
for the year, according to reports
filed Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.
She spent about $9.3 million,
leaving her with $17,101,626 and
no major opposition in her bid for a
second Senate term.
New York Republicans have
struggled to mount a serious challenge to Clinton, and recent polls
show her more than 25 points ahead
of her nearest GOP rival.
Then-Westchester County
District Attorney Jeanine Pirro abandoned her bid after several stumbles.
Florida execution
blocked by Court
WASHINGTON — The
Supreme Court on Tuesday
blocked the execution of a man
who drowned a woman in her
bathtub a decade ago, granting
a stay to a Florida death row
inmate for the second time in a
week.
The court, acting without its
newest member, ordered Florida
to stop the evening execution of
Arthur Rutherford, who claims
that the stateʼs lethal injection
procedure is cruel and unusual
punishment.
In the World
Japanʼs ʻnerd cultureʼ
goes mainstream
YOKOHAMA, Japan — A
grown man living with two nearly 5foot-tall dolls in his apartment – and
dozens of smaller figurines – would
seem bizarre anywhere. And indeed,
Masa keeps his full identity hidden and his curtains drawn to avoid
ridicule by outsiders.
But he also is on the cutting edge
of a billion-dollar “Nerd Culture”
that has grown so enormous it has
taken over an entire neighborhood in
Tokyo and is making inroads into the
mainstream.
The culture is firmly rooted in
Japanʼs enduring fascination with
comic books and animation that
have won fans and critical acclaim
worldwide.
But these people have taken that
trend to another level by collecting
dolls like Konoha or flocking to
cafes staffed by waitresses dressed as
comic book maids.
– Associated Press
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ly shaven and said he would be
willing to leave his house, “as
long as I made a sign that said
ʻGraceland Too will be closing
for three hours.ʼ”
McLeod also told Williams he
did not want to be made fun of
while he was in Oxford.
On the car ride to Oxford,
McLeod revealed he had not
been to “Ole Miss College,”
as he called it, in more than 10
years, and it was only the second
time in five years he had left his
house at all.
McLeod also requested to
go to a “place called Wal-Mart
to pick up some pictures,” and
asked if “they still made those
tacos” at Taco Bell.
Williams described the way
McLeod acted at Taco Bell as
like a little kid.
“He wanted some extras to
take home with him after RUF,”
Williams said.
When McLeod walked in at
his cue on the video that was
playing, he received about a
three-minute standing ovation,
according to Williams.
“Paul told RUF that he had a
ʻhell of a good time shooting the
videoʼ and how much he appreciated all the Ole Miss students
coming and visiting him,” Williams said. “He posed for pictures afterward and gave me a
hug before he left and said, ʻIt
was a great night.ʼ”
Williams admitted he has
gone out to Graceland Too before for the same reasons many
others have.
“On more than one occasion,
Iʼve perfectly played the role of
the guy who walks into Paulʼs
house and anxiously waits for
the comment that will provide a
never-ending source of laughter
for the car ride home,” he said.
“After seeing Paul in a different
light, I sense that his actions are
often reflective of unfair expectations created by visitors like
me. My dad used to always say
that everyone has a story to tell.
While a great deal of humor can
be derived from any of our stories, deep down, I think everyone wants their story to be taken
seriously – everyone wants to
know they are appreciated.”
The video of McLeod at RUF
can be found on RUFʼs Web site,
www.olemiss.ruf.org. It features McLeod acting, saying he
was paid $10 million in cash to
show up (a joke), him dancing to
Mariah Carey, eating chicken on
a stick and driving Williamsʼ car
to the sounds of rap music with
his hat backwards. At the end, it
shows what happened when he
walked into RUF.
The last time Williams saw
McLeod he told him he wanted to
come back to RUF some time.
“He told me the whole night
ʻtickled him to deathʼ and wanted to have another lunch soon.”
Genie Alice Via can be reached at
[email protected]
Tax: Minds change by reading of bill
From
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uted at a conference held by the
Mississippi Municipal League
in Jackson.
Oxford Mayor Richard Howorth said he has found these
numbers very helpful.
Despite having earlier concerns, after reviewing both sets
of numbers and making calculations of his own, Howorth said
he is in support of the proposed
tax bill.
Currently, the state sales tax
is 7 percent. Of that 7 percent,
18.5 percent comes back to the
city of Oxford, totaling about
$1.30 for every $100. According to Howorth, 15 percent of
Oxfordʼs sales tax revenues
come from the purchase of groceries, at $700,000 a year.
With the new bill, the state
would create a diversion fund
that will reimburse each city
for the revenues they are losing from the sales tax phaseout.
With the new bill, a reimbursement to each city will be based
on the revenues earned during
2005.
This means that 15 years
from now, the revenue amount
from 2005 will still be in effect
and the cities will lose revenue
growth. For Oxford, solving
this problem means installing
a property tax. With a property tax, Oxford will be able to
maintain a budget relevant to
the economic demands of the
times and also have growth.
Howorth said even though the
installation of a property tax
sounds unappealing, it would
be beneficial in the long run.
A five-person family spends
an average of $500 in groceries
per month. With the new tax,
these families will save about
$336 per year. As a result of the
decrease, there will potentially
be a 4 mill increase in property tax to make up for that. A
family with a home with an assessed value of $250,000, with
the property tax increase, will
spend about $100 more a year
on their home tax.
Even with the property tax
increase, the average Oxford
citizen is saving money, Howorth said. The rich are being
taxed and the lower-income
citizens are given a break.
“I think it will be a good
thing,” Howorth said. “I think
itʼs a wise thing to do and that
is important for the citizens of
Oxford.”
Despite prior opinions, students and citizens of Oxford
seemed to have “changed their
minds” after reading more about
what the new tax bill has to offer.
Alexis Whitehead, a local
grocery store clerk, is one constituent who has done a complete 180 on the topic.
“At first,” Whitehead said,
“I thought that lowering the
grocery tax was a terrible idea
because of the crisis with Hurricane Katrina. But now, after
hearing what Mayor Howorth
has said, it sounds like a great
idea. I trust that he knows what
is best for Oxford.”
Claudia Worrell can be reached at
[email protected]
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WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 1, 2006
Widow of Martin Luther King dies at the age of 78
Associated Press
ATLANTA — Coretta Scott
King, who worked to keep her
husbandʼs dream alive with a
chin-held-high grace and serenity
that made her a powerful symbol
of the Rev. Martin Luther King
Jr.ʼs creed of brotherhood and
nonviolence, died Tuesday. She
was 78.
The “first lady of the civil
rights movement” died in her
sleep during the night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico,
her family said. Arrangements
were being made to fly the body
back to Atlanta.
She had been recovering from
a serious stroke and heart attack suffered last August. Just
two weeks ago, she made her
first public appearance in a year
on the eve of her late husbandʼs
birthday.
Doctors at the clinic said King
was battling advanced ovarian
cancer when she arrived there on
Thursday. The doctors said the
cause of death was respiratory
failure.
The King family issued a statement Tuesday night saying King
“was in Mexico for observation
and consideration of treatment
for ovarian cancer. She was considered terminal by physicians
in the United States. Mrs. King
and her family wanted to explore
other options.”
News of her death led to tributes to King across Atlanta, including a moment of silence in
the Georgia Capitol and piles of
flowers placed at the tomb of her
slain husband. Flags at the King
Center – the institute devoted to
the civil rights leaderʼs legacy
– were lowered to half-staff.
“She wore her grief with
grace. She exerted her leadership
with dignity,” the Rev. Joseph
Lowery, who helped found the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference with Kingʼs husband
in 1957.
Former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, one of Martin Luther Kingʼs top aides, said Coretta Scott Kingʼs fortitude rivaled
that of her husband. “She was
strong if not stronger than he
was,” Young said.
Coretta Scott King was a supportive lieutenant to her husband during the most dangerous
and tumultuous days of the civil
rights movement, and after his
assassination in Memphis, Tenn.,
on April 4, 1968, she carried on
his work while also raising their
four children.
“Iʼm more determined than
ever that my husbandʼs dream
will become a reality,” the young
widow said soon after his slaying.
She pushed and goaded politicians for more than a decade
to have her husbandʼs birthday
observed as a national holiday,
achieving success in 1986. In
1969 she founded the Martin
Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta
and used it to confront hunger,
unemployment, voting rights and
racism.
“The center enables us to go
out and struggle against the evils
in our society,” she often said.
She also accused movie and
TV companies, video arcades,
gun manufacturers and toy makers of promoting violence.
King became a symbol in her
own right of her husbandʼs struggle for peace and brotherhood,
presiding with an almost regal
bearing over seminars and con-
Edith Savage-Jennings, 81, of Trenton listens to New Jersey Gov. Jon S.
Corzine, left, speak as she sits at a ceremony at the Statehouse in Trenton,
N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2006, honoring Corretta Scott King.
ferences.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who
was with her husband when he
was assassinated, said Tuesday
that she understood that every
time her husband left home, there
was the chance he might not
come back. Jackson pronounced
her a “freedom fighter.”
“Like all great champions she
learned to function with pain and
keep serving,” he said, adding:
“She kept marching. She did not
flinch.”
In Washington, President Bush
hailed her as “a remarkable and
courageous woman and a great
civil rights leader.”
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Sex offenders will see great
changes in their lifestyles if a bill
approved by the Mississippi House
of Representatives is enforced in
the months to come.
The bill would require sex offenders to wear electronic tracking
bracelets while on probation or parole. Approved in a vote of 113-5,
the bill would also require offenders to take part in drug testing for
sexual enhancement drugs like Viagra while they wear the bracelet.
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of dealing with sex offenders has
been a big issue,” said Ronald
Rychlack, associate dean of the
Ole Miss Law School. “Iʼm not
surprised that such bills are making their way into the Mississippi
House.”
Many other states have introduced strong legislation against
sexual offenders over the past few
years. This bill is one of the first
of what could be multiple proposals relating to actions that should
be taken against sexual crimes in
Mississippi.
Actions relating to offenders
who commit a sexual crime against
someone under the age of 16 are
even more strict. If convicted of
such a crime, an offender could be
required to wear a bracelet for life.
Other requirements could make
those convicted have the words
“sex offender” printed on their license. The measurements can be
used to help communities throughout the state know if a sex offender
is living in their neighborhood.
Senators and House members in
Mississippi are hoping that these
bills can help track those who
commit sex crimes and make sure
they do not re-offend in this state
or any other. Laws against such
crimes are not finalized, and legal action could be taken to block
some ideas considered in the bill.
“Some may want changes in the
bill because of what it tries to accomplish,” Rychlack said. “They
may ask if such a bill is a form
of cruel and unusual punishment,
even when relating to sex offenders.”
Electronic monitoring bracelets may not be just the case for
tracking offenders in Mississippi.
If other states join this system, a
global positioning system could
be used to track offenders, even
if they leave the state they are
convicted in for their first crime.
The costs of the bracelets are not
expected to be high and could encourage other states surrounding
Mississippi to join the system.
“Of course, there will be questions relating to the bracelets and
how they work,” Rychlack stated.
“However, they could be used very
effectively if the bill is enforced.”
Alex Beene can be reached at
[email protected]
Bush: Calls made for increased federal research into alternative fuels
From
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can people that the country must
break its dependence on oil in
the Middle East.
“America is addicted to oil,
which is often imported from
unstable parts of the world,”
Bush said.
Bush also staved off criticisms of the war in Iraq, lashing
out at his critics, whose message
he deemed “defeatist.”
While constructive criticism
should be welcomed, calls for
retreat are unwarranted, he said.
“Hindsight alone is not wisdom,” Bush said. “And secondguessing is not a strategy.”
“Our nation has one option:
keep our word, defeat our enemies and stand behind American
military in this mission.”
The president called for increased federal research into alternative fuels, such as ethanol
made from weeds or wood chips
instead of corn.
He called for more research
on batteries for hybrid and electric cars and work on alternative
fuels.
“Our goal is to make this new
kind of ethanol practical and
competitive within six years,”
the president said.
“Breakthroughs on this and
other new technologies will help
us reach another great goal: to
replace more than 75 percent of
our oil imports from the Middle
East by 2025.”
With Congress facing midterm elections in November,
there was a partisan mood.
Democrats stood and cheered
when Bush said Congress did not
act a year ago “on my proposal
to save Social Security.”
Bush shook his finger and
continued, “yet the rising cost of
entitlements is a problem that is
not going away.”
Bush then asked lawmakers
to join him in naming a commission to examine the impact of
baby boom retirements on Social
Security, Medicare and Medicaid
spending.
Richard Forgette, head of the
political science department at
Ole Miss, said this mood is nothing new.
The one thing that did surprise
Forgette was that the response of
the Republicans was not as enthusiastic as he expected.
“There was a polite and engaged House and Senate response,” he said.
The president renewed his
oft-stated goal for Congress to
make permanent the tax cuts en-
acted during his presidency.
“If we do nothing, American
families will face a massive tax
increase they do not expect and
will not welcome,” he said.
Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., told
the Associated Press that the
president had realistic plans to
achieve the needs and desires of
the American people.
“The president presented very
appropriate goals to keep our
economy competitive, continue
tax relief, stay aggressive in the
War on Terror, to make health
care more affordable and to implement immigration reform,”
Lott said.
“And, I particularly note that
the president made a strong
statement of our need to address
the energy situation and make
America less dependent on foreign oil.”
Forgette said much of Bushʼs
speech was a rehashing of his
current domestic agenda while
reiterating a call against retreat
from Iraq.
The State of the Union address, he said, is important in the
first year of an administration or
after a pressing national event,
such as a breaking war or a natural disaster that is the focal point
of the nation.
In other times the address is
a ritual: an annual affair for the
president to garner national media attention and communicate
to the country at once, he said.
One initiative posed by Bush
that piqued Forgetteʼs interest
was one concerning education.
Bush proposed to train 70,000
high school teachers to lead Advanced Placement courses in
math and science, giving students who struggle in those areas
a chance at higher-paying jobs.
“If we ensure that Americaʼs
children succeed in life, they will
ensure that America succeeds in
the world,” he said.
Bryan Doyle can be reached at
[email protected]
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WEDNESDAY • FEBRUARY 1, 2006
Ole Miss students hold Bush impeachment rally
Marti Covington
City News Editor
Wielding hand-printed signs
that read “Impeach Bush Now!”
“No war” and “Honk for Peace,”
more than a dozen members of
the Ole Miss College Democrats
rallied in front of the Lafayette
County Courthouse in the Square
Tuesday night to call for President George W. Bush to step down
from office.
The 15 protesters assembled on
the courthouse lawn, waving their
placards in the air and shouting
their messages to gain the attention
of drivers navigating their vehicles
around the Square. The sounds of
car horns blaring their support of
the protestersʼ messages filled the
brisk night air often during the
demonstration, which started at 8
p.m. and lasted for more than an
hour.
“I think itʼs great that this many
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College Libertarians and protest
participant. “Even people blowing their horns is active. Itʼs awesome.”
While many drivers indicated
they shared the protestersʼ beliefs,
several others yelled profane comments from car windows or made
obscene hand gestures. A few passersby called out sharp words to
the demonstrators and expressed
their love of Bush; some paused in
front of the rally to engage the participants in spirited debates about
Bushʼs presidency.
“The whole reason Iʼm out
here, whether we get cheers or
jeers, is because I want to open
peopleʼs eyes,” said Katie Wetherbee, a second-year law student.
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John Flynt, a senior journalism
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at the same time as Bushʼs State of
the Union address and wanted to
bring the movement to Oxford.
“We feel very strongly that this
impeachment rally is the best way
for America to gain credibility in
the world and show them that itʼs
the Bush administration whoʼs responsible [for the Iraq War] and not
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Mack Poindexter, a freshman
English and Southern studies major, said he felt Bush needed to focus more on problems in America.
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The School of Applied Sciences is seeking nominations for the Thomas A. Crowe Outstanding Faculty Awards. These awards
recognize tenured and non-tenured, permanent faculty who are full-time and actively engaged in teaching, scholarship, and
service and whose accomplishments in one or more of these areas are considered meritorious.
Letters of nominations will be accepted from School of Applied Sciences students, faculty, staff and alumni.
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