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Wednesday Sports: GSU loses at home for the first time since '97 ^ Volume 74, No. 47 January 9,2002 www.stp.gasou.edu Page6^ ON TOE INSIDE: Suicidal teen Bush will deepen national deficit remembered as patriotic to continue' War on Terrorism' KRT Campus TAMPA - Last year, as a KRT Campus straight-A student at Dunedin Covering the campus like a Academy, Charles Bishop vol- WASHINGTON - swarm of gnats unteered to carry the American President Bush acknowl- flag and lead the student body in edged Monday that the a daily procession that ended Today's WeatbgL federal budget is likely with the Pledge of Allegiance to be written in red ink and a patriotic song. for the first time since The tallest of his classmates, Sunny with a 1997, but said his priori- wearing the school polo shirt of high of 63° F ties for the coming year - red, white and blue, he sang with and a low of battling terrorism and such fervor that teachers Mon- 41° F. protecting America from day clearly remembered his attack - justify sinking voice rising above the rest. back into deficit spend- He wrote patriotic essays, too ing. - "If the United States Capitol Qrdy in America "I said to the Ameri- walls could talk" and "Ameri- • A woman puts glue in her can people that this na- can monuments preserved for daughter's eye thinking she was tion might have to run ck the future" - entering them in usuing eye drops. deficits in time of war, in a contests sponsored by Daugh- • A dog mysteriously stands guard times of national emer- )e- ters of the American Revolution at cemetary gates. gency or in times of a and Junior American Citizens. • The world's smallest bar opens recession," the president ig- Now, they only serve to make just in time for New Years Eve. said as he met at the ha his final composition all the more White House with Fed- ine unfathomable. Page 3 eral Reserve Chairman Writing on plain white pa- 1 a Alan Greenspan and top per, the 15-year-old flight stu- economic advisers. "And Opi n& KRT Campus dent and high school freshman ifat we're still in all three. ive • Amanda Permenter finds it FOCUSING ON WAR: President Bush met with other politicians in the White House to urge them to focuse on nothing else scribbled a few paragraphs ex- We had a national emer- unfair to withhold financial aid other than assisting the war effort in Afghanistan. According to the President, the money required to continue the attacks in pressing sympathy for terrorist gency, we're trying to en- checks. Afghanistan will cause the government to sink further into the national deficit and make paying it off in 2002 extremely unlikely. leader Osama bin Laden and win a war and we're in a rld, • Adam Brady remembers the admiration for the Sept. 11 at- recession." es- uneventful year in the news that tacks that killed some 3,000 Bush said he would propose Treasury surplus in 30 years, which nonpartisan analysts agree, although package that Senate Democrats de- was 2001. people in Washington, New spending "the money necessary" to was the result of bipartisan fiscal Bush's big tax cut also contributed to railed last month. He said he would as- York and Pennsylvania. Page 4 win the war against terrorism and to discipline through the 1990s and a the fiscal reversal. push the package of new tax cuts and lim Then, in bizarre emulation of protect the United States, "recogniz- relief to the unemployed again in his 3 to the suicide hijackers, he stole a Sports ing that we may not balance the bud- budget, and urged Congress "not try :ent Cessna single engine aircraft Sat- • GSU Football loses to Furman get for this year." "WE HAD A NATIONAL EMERGENCY, to play politics with tax relief or, for irae urday and crashed it into the at home and fails to advance to Mitch Daniels, Bush's budget that matter, economic stimulus pack- 29th floor of the 42-story Bank rt," the national championship. chief, and independent budget ex- WE'RE TRYING TO WIN A WAR AND ages." of America Plaza in Tampa. • GSU women's basketball falls perts predicted late last year that the In failing to enact a bill to spur the WE'RE IN A RECESSION." Police found the note in the to Western Carolina 59-56 in the president's fiscal 2003 budget, ex- stumbling economy late last year, wreckage, along with Bishop's final seconds. pected in early February, would - PRESIDENT BUSH Republicans and Democrats in Con- body. Because it was a Satur- plunge the government back into gress clashed over fundamental ideo- day, the normally busy building deficit spending. logical differences. Democrats em- was almost empty and there was In 1998, former President Bill booming economy. The current eco- In brief remarks before his meet- phasized expanding unemployment Clinton announced that the federal nomic recession is primarily respon- ing with Greenspan, Bush renewed See Crash, Page 5 government had amassed its first sible for this year's return to red ink, his push for the economic stimulus See Bush, Page 10 GSU Football names new head coach GSU student leaves to • Paul Johnson departs for Naval Academy coaching position fight war on Afghanistan Page 6 By Doug Kidd assume duties as the Eagles' offen- ter and coaching go," Sewak said in [email protected] By Amity Zvanut room, Collier received a phone call sive coordinator and quarterbacks a release.. "He's held our offensive gsi23574 @ gsaix2.cc.gasou.edu M %j^famfwwm m/mW that changed his life. He was told to After three weeks on the job, coach while Sloan will take over as scheme very close to his heart and The holidays are supposed to be a get everything the army issued to • Incubus' new album 'Morning Mike Sewak made his first major defensive backs coach. is as knowledgeable about the sys- joyful time to spend with our family him because he was being deployed. View' is less than spectacular. move as head coach when he named Sewak, named GSU's head tem as one can get." and loved ones, to eat good home "At first I felt disappointed that I • Survivor's excitement fizzles Mitch Ware and Scot Sloan assis- football coach after Paul Johnson Sewak's hire as head coach was cooked food, to relax, and enjoy time would have to put my education on among American television tant coaches on Monday. left for the top spot at the Naval made partly because of Sam Baker's away from school. hold, but after analyzing the situa- Ware comes to Statesboro from Academy, helped fill two positions desire to keep the Eagles' triple- viewers. To thank for that freedom, we tion, I felt it was my duty as a soldier Navy after four years on the job, left vacant after four coaches de- option offense intact. The GSU Page 8 have millions of American Armed and citizen of the U.S.," Collier said. while Sloan spent six years at Geor- parted with Johnson. athletic director said Sewak, offen- Services, one of whom is a GSU Collier, 20, a Residence Advisor gia Military College, the past two "Mitch is certainly a strong ad- sive coordinator under Johnson for student - Philip Collier. He is de- at Dorman hall and an active Baptist Art$ as defensive coordinator. Ware will dition to our staff as far as charac- five seasons, was a good fit. Mntertainment "We have great confidence in fending our nation this very minute Student Union member, joined the Mike to take over and lead football so we can celebrate our holiday s com- army reserve in 1998. "[I hoped] that ' 'The Never Ending Story' is program into a new era as its head fortably and freely. one for all ages of readers. The coach," Baker said. On Nov. 2, while in his dorm See Collier, Page 10 book remains popular in the U.S. Baker noted that Sewak's role 23 years after it originally was in helping develop GSU's spread published. option was key in his hiring. "When The day Statesboro froze over... we started analyzing it, we felt it ONCE IN A BLUE was the [offensive] system that has MOON: It doesn't happen made us successful over the years," often, but last week he said. Statesboro was hit with "It's only when we went away windy precipitation. Leaves from the system that we didn't have and branches crystallized success," Baker added. with icicles, causing trees' Since being named head coach and debris to fall to the and signing a four-year contract on ground. Nearly the entire' Dec. 16, Sewak has tried to tie state of Georgia saw some down remaining coaches and po- form of winter skyfall. tential recruits. Johnson took Ivin Jasper (quarterbacks), Jeff Monken (slotbacks), Brian Bohannon (de- fensive backs) and Mike Brass (strength) to Navy.