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Show StatesmanCampuS News Page 4 On Wednesday (1/14/2009), a black HP Notebook Laptop (model DV2845SE/Turicm TL-62) was stolen from the fourth floor of the Merril-Cazicr Libraiy between 3:15-4:15 pm. It had two tattoo stickers, serial number is possibly 2CE81707Y7. The laptop can be given back for $200, NO QUESTIONS ASKED! Or anyone with direct info that leads to the return of my computer will receive $200. Please contact Roger @ 801-458-4334 Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus Student Center Building, Student Event Center Room Salt Lake City, Utah 4600 S. Redwood Road Saturday January 24, 2009 Open Auditions: 10 am - 1 1 am Call Backs: 12 noon (801) 451-8059 For more information: lagoonpark.com /entertainment History: Obama gives first speech as president O continued from page 1 his economic revival plan a going-over and takes up the nomination of Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state. Her confirmation has been held up for now by Republican concern over the foundation fundraising of her husband, the former president. The new president had been buoyant and relaxed through the three days of preinaugural festivities. But he seemed somber as he stood on the Capitol steps, placed his left hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln and repeated the inaugural oath "to preserve, protect and defend" a Constitution that originally defined blacks as three-fifths of a person. A deafening cheer went up. "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly," Obama said. "This is the price and the promise of citizenship." Tuesday was a day of high spirits -jarred by sudden concern about the health of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a legendary Democrat who is suffering from brain cancer and was rushed to a hospital from a Senate luncheon after the swearing-in. "My prayers are with him and his family and (Kennedy's wife) Vicki," Obama said. Later, fellow Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said Kennedy was laughing and joking at the hospital and itching to get back to work. On the inaugural parade route, Obama and his wife, Michelle, climbed out of the heavily armored presidential limousine and walked a few blocks along famed Pennsylvania Avenue, waving to adoring crowds under the watchful eyes of security agents. Obama wove a thread of personal responsibility and accountability through his inaugural address, an 18minute sermon on civic duty. A liberal Democrat proposing billions of dollars in new spending, Obama nonetheless spoke of the limits of govern- BARACK OBAMA, RIGHT, JOINED BY HIS W I F E MICHELLE, second from right, and daughters Sasha, second from left, and Malia, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol.Tuesday. AP photo ment. "It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours," he said. "It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate." Obama's 10-year-old daughter, Malia, aimed a camera at her father as he spoke. Michelle leaned onto the edge of her seat, body tensed and brow knitted. 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Blacks especially powered candidate claiming his camthe jubilation that was thick paign is about the voters to a president promising to put the in the chilly air. Even though Obama didn't give the topic nation in the people's hands. of race, his or others, much Unlike most predecessors, treatment in either his camObama takes office with his paign nor his inaugural, blacks agenda in many ways set for poured into Washington from him. all over to watch firsthand as An economy that seems one of their own at last shatmore foreboding than at any inauguration since Franklin D. tered a painful racial barrier. Roosevelt took office in 1933, "It almost leaves me speechwith some 11 million people less," said 69-year-old Tony now out of work, and trillions Avelino, who traveled from of dollars of stock market Brea, Calif. "This situation is investments lost. Two wars, so emotional it's basically an one in Iraq that most of the unreal experience," added 56country has long wanted over year-old Cleveland Wesley, on and another in Afghanistan the Mall from Houston with that is spiraling downward his wife as the sun rose. and needs an overhaul. The Many others also see continuing fear that another in Obama fresh reason for calamitous terrorist attack is optimism at a time of great not out of the question. national insecurity. Or a More inspirational than chance for rest from the eight prescriptive, Obama's inauacrimonious years of the Bush gural address only glancpresidency. Or even a turn ingly mentioned a series of toward modernity, as a counpromises from his campaign: try hurtling into new ways of to get the U.S. out of Iraq, communicating, connecting stabilize Afghanistan, create and conducting business chose jobs, "restore science to its a man more comfortable in rightful place," boost the use that world than any leader of alternative energy, address before him. climate change, transform Excitement over Obama's schools, manage government young, camera-ready famspending wisely and oversee a ily and the thought of Malia more bipartisan, less-divisive Obama and her sister. 7-yearapproach to policy-making. old Sasha, turning the stately White House into a children's To a world eager for his playroom also figured promileadership to replace Bush's, nently in the day. Obama had welcome words: "We are ready to lead once Among the feverishly dismore." cussed questions: What would His ascension to the White fashion-forward Michelle House was cheered around the Obama be wearing when the world as a sign that America first couple arrived at their will be more embracing, first evening ball to dance to more open to change. "To the pop singer Beyonce crooning Muslim world," Obama said, the old blues classic "At Last"? "we seek a new way forward, The shimmering gold brocade based on mutual interest and sheath dress and matching mutual respect." coat that she chose for the daytime sparked immediate Still, he bluntly warned, watercooler discussion, espe"To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, cially when she paired the outfit with green gloves against or blame their society's ills the cold. on the West - know that your people will judge you on what In a country nearly evenly you can build, not what you divided between Democrats destroy." and Republicans, it was The day began well before notable that protests were dawn as people made their nearly unseen, a remarkable way downtown to secure spots shift from the two Bush inaufrom which to witness history, gurations that were marked and it was extending well past by boisterous demonstramidnight through a swirl of tions. One group of about 20 10 official inaugural balls and people from a Baptist church many more unofficial galas. in Kansas demonstrated with anti-gay slogans. The drama exceeded even the breathless buildup of With his White House camrecent days' nearly nonstop paign and landslide November discussion on TV, blogs, podvictory built in part on his casts and text messages. Not rhetorical gifts, Obama sought only heavily policed and barto provide reassurance for the ricaded Washington but much future while compelling listenof the country virtually halted ers to sacrifice. He articulated in its tracks - even, albeit eloquently the deeper effect briefly, inside the casinos of on the American psyche of the Las Vegas. problems of war and recession: "a nagging fear that America's The nation has celebrated decline is inevitable, and that 55 inaugurations, but none the next generation must lower like the one that made a presiits sights." dent out of the son of Kenya and Kansas, a man whoroseto Not so, said Obama. But he America's highest office largely cautioned that the effort will untested at executive leaderrequire all citizens, no matter ship, his political experience party, age, skin color, or staencompassing only four years tus, to get to work. in the U.S. Senate and eight "The time has come to set in the state legislature of his aside childish things," he said, home state of Illinois. invoking the Bible. |