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Texas Ave. at SW Pkwy College Station • 696-6976 Monday - Saturday 10-7 Free Alterations • Gift Certificates Layaway • Free Gift Wrap Fashion is our Profession A ocessories • Clothing • Shoes ld% Off with Student I.D. 4.0 & Go Tutoring Located at 700 E. University Drive, next to Sidepockets, behind the Golden Corral. 7-9 pm Sun Oct-29 ECOIM 202 Pract. Test Professor Allen Sunday tickets go on sale for all classes at 5 pm. Tickets for all classes go on sale a half hour before the first class each day. Foranv Questions call 846-TUTOR (846-8886) Located on the Centerpole Bus Route. Look for our schedules in the Battalion on Mondays and Thursdays. Five die as commuter train slams into school bus □ Federal investigators are looking into reports of a malfunctioning signal light that may have caused the crash. FOX RIVER GROVE, Ill. (AP) — A com muter train ripped apart a school bus stopped on the tracks Wednesday as young sters in the back rushed forward in terror at the sight of 620 tons of steel bearing down on them. Five students were killed and about 30 injured. Federal investigators said late Wednes day they were looking into reports of ;i mat functioning signal light that may have led to the fatal crash. The town’s police chief happened to witness the crash because he was checking out recent reports of problems with the signal. Some witnesses said the bus was trying to cross the tracks about 7:20 a.m. when it got caught at a red light behind a car and couldn’t make it all the way across. But oth ers said there was no car ahead and the dri ver could have moved forward. The signal light that may have malfunc tioned is supposed to turn green when a train is approaching to let vehicles clear the track, said John Goglia of the National Transportation Safety Board. The bus was taking the youngsters to 1,400-student Cary-Grove High School in Cary. The Chicago-bound express train was traveling between 50 and 60 mph and sheared the body of the bus off the chassis, spinning it around 180 degrees. “From then on out, all you heard was screaming,” said Andrea Arens, 19, who was waiting for another train in this bed room community nearly 40 miles north west of Chicago, in a fast-growing com muter corridor at the edge of the city's suburban sprawl. Shamburger: Formal sentencing to be held Friday Continued from Page 1 sentence for anyone.” Losch pointed to Shamburger’s decision to turn himself over to police, when he could have con tinued to kill more people, as a sign that he knew his actions were wrong and would not com mit them again. “There are people in our so ciety who are habitual offend ers,” he said. “In spite of pun ishment, they still commit crimes. Surely, they’re more blameworthy than people like Ron Shamburger, who have never been seriously punished in their lives.” Vanessa Muldrow, Brazos County assistant district attor ney, said Shamburger’s confes- . sion and surrender were calcu lated moves and his several thefts proved he would be a continuous threat t< “What Ron Shan shown to us is an pattern of violence, said. “The answer 1 one (whether Sh would pose a futurt society) is clearly a defendant is a threat Bill Turner, Brazos trict attorney, said th arguments about Shi society, burger has escal ating Muldrow question imburger threat to ves This County dis- ie defense’s imburger’s character and morals were not rel evant to his punishment. “Does being good in the Boy Scouts reduce somebody’s respon sibility and blameworthiness in this society?” he said. The prosecution’s arguments won out, resulting in a death penalty sentence. Shamburger’s formal sentenc ing Friday 8 a.m. by 361st Dis I riet Judge Carolyn Ruffino. Handgun Continued from Page 1 under the law to prohibit handguns. “What you have is a conflict of rights,” he said. "Individuals and businesses have the right to restrict who can and can’t be on their property.” Burdett said criminals may read the signs prohibiting handguns, too. “If someone wants to steal some money, they know where the pickings are easiest," he said. “I think people should wait and see first how this works out.” Wiatt said there are many places where concealed handguns cannot be taken, in cluding businesses in which over 50 per cent of total sales are alcohol purchases, schools of any kind, sporting facilities and correctional institutes. Ogden said most people will not carry weapons with them wherever they go, just in certain situations. “A lot of Texans want the permit so that they can carry the concealed handgun with them in their cars,” he said. Burdett said the right to carry a weapon is not a license to use it in all situations, "A gun is a tool,” he said. "But the most important tool for protecting society is be tween your ears." Wiatt said police officers will act differ ently once the law takes effect, but he is try ing to teach them not to overreact in routine situations like traffic stops. "They’re thinking, ‘Now everybody has a gun,”' he said. “We’re trying to educate them,' Permit holders must also learn to deal with officers, Wiatt said. “If a police officer stops you and he asks for your driver’s license, you are obliged to show your license," he said. Wiatt said people with permits should act responsibly and not consider themselves above the law. "That licensee has the responsibility to train,” he said. “And be aware that streii and fear and anger is going to lead to the possibility of bad decisions." Anyone with a permit who uses a handgun for self defense must still appear before a grand jury to justify their actions, Wiatt said. 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