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Show your dedication to your engineering profession by accepting the “Obligation of the Engineer” and wearing your stainless steal ring. The Semi-Annual Order of the Engineer Ceremony is being conducted April 28th. The deadline for registration is April 21st, so register soon in Zachry 204. For more details, contact Chris Mooney at 694-3477. Debriefjiv Pagel Tuesday • April 15, Blacks march against racial crimes ► State PHILADELPHIA (AP) — White residents came out onto their front steps Monday and turned their backs on about 500 blacks who marched through the working-class neighborhood in a protest against racial violence. Hundreds of police kept watch on the mostly white Grays Ferry section, where racial tensions have been running high since the beat ing of a black family by a mob of whites and the killing of a white teen-ager during a robbery. Angry words flew between some of the marchers and the onlookers, but there was no violence, and ► This day in history Today is Tuesday, April 15, the 105th day of 1997. There are 260 days left in the year. On this date: In 1817, the first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn. In 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated. Irul861, three days after the attack on Fort Sumter, S.C., President Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops. In 1865, President Lincoln died, several hours after he was shot at Ford’s Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson became the nation’s 17th president. In 1912, the British luxury liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,500 people died. In 1945, during World Warll, British and Canadian troops liberated the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. In 1947, Jackie Robinson, modern baseball’s first black major-league player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. (The Dodgers de feated the Boston Braves, 5-3.) In 1959, Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived in Washing ton, D.C., to begin a goodwill tour of the United States. In 1986, the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a dis cotheque in Berlin on April 5; Libya says 37 people, mostly civilians, were killed. In 1989, 95 people died in a crush of soccer fans there were no arrests. “They’re turning their backs on the reality that Philadelphia has to become a city of brotherly love,” said Rasheeda Ali, who marched through the narrow streets of the rowhouse neighborhood with a baby in her arms. “They’re turning their backs on brotherly love.” “Grays Ferry Residents Marching in Unity,” one banner proclaimed. Others held signs that read “Bring good to the hood.” “They walk by here, they stroll, they want to start trouble,” said white resident Michael McBride. Angry at the turned backs, many of the marchers shouted taunts. “White trash!” one black man yelled. “God loves us all, white trash!” The march and service were in response to the Feb. 23 beating of Annette Williams, her son and nephew by a mob of white men outside a Roman Catholic Church social hall. Eight men have been charged with ethnic intimidation. A month later, two black men shot and killed a Christopher Brinkman, the 16-year-old son of a white police officer, during a drug store robbery that police said was not racially motivated. Two black men were charged. at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. In 1990, actress Greta Garbo died in New York at age 84. Ten years ago: A jury in Northampton, Mass., found Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 other protesters innocent of charges stemming from a demonstration against CIA re cruiters at the University of Massachusetts. Five years ago: Russia's deeply divided Congress of Pea pie’s Deputies formally endorsed President Boris Yeltsin’s economic reforms. Countries barred Libyan jets from their airspace and ordered diplomats to go home because of Libya’s refusal to turn over suspects in the bombing of Pan Am Right 103. Hotel magnate Leona Helmsley began serv ing a prison sentence for tax evasion (she was released from prison after 18 months). One year ago: President Clinton began a weeklong, round-the-world trip, heading for a three-day visit to Japan after a brief stopover in Cheju, South Korea. Fu neral services were held in Pescadero, Calif., for Jes sica Dubroff, the 7-year-old girl who died trying to be come the youngest person to fly across America. ► Today's birthdays Actor Michael Ansara is 75. Country singer Roy Clark is 64. Actress Claudia Cardinale is 58. Rock singer-gui tarist Dave Edmunds is 53. Actress Amy Wright is 47. Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 38. Singer Samantha Fox is 31. Rock musician Ed O’Brien (Ra diohead) is 29. ► Weather Today Tonight Tomorrow Partly cloudy. Partly cloudy. Partly cloudy. Highs & Lows Today’s Expected High 75°F Tonight’s Expected Low 46°F Tomorrow’s Expected High 77°F Tomorrow Night’s Expected Low 50°F Information courtesy of TAMSCAM Alsobrook named Bush Library directoi College Station (AP) —DavidE.( sobrook, acting director of the B.? Presidential Materials Project,i« been named director of the $82ri lion George Bush PresidentialLiliiai Alsobrook, 51, was a supewT archivist at the Carter Libraryinii;l lanta for 10 years before comin^r the Bush complex on the Texas® University campus in 1993, the J tional Archives said Monday. Scheduled for a Novemberd cation, the Bush library and musM include a 2.6-ton chunk of the Be ■ Wall and a restored World fe bomber as well as 38 million pad of official and personal papers. Man executed for! 22-year-old crime HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Almost3 years after a disabled 62-yeai-; Houston woman was bludgeoned death with a frying pan, the manta victed of killing her was headedtoa Texas death chamber Mondayeverntj Billy Joe Woods, 50, who is sixty seniority among the state’s 456co| demned inmates, faced lethal injects for the October 1975 beating and ing of Mabel Ehatt after breakingri her apartment. Woods, who was 29 atthetimel the murder, was the first personsa tenced to death in Harris Countyii der the law that reinstated thedei penalty in Texas. While the average time ondea row before execution in Texas nine years, Woods, with nearly^ years and nine months on di row, becomes the longest-serwj Texas inmate to head to thee chamber gurney. Woods’ case languished ii courts while judges wrestled appeals that primarily concei whether testimony from a psyclij trist should have been allowedi! his trial. Defense lawyersarguedi?’ successfully that Woods was gw insufficient warnings that info® tion he gave the psychiatrist cots be used against him during the?/ ishment phase of his trial. | Final appeals were rejected.;! week. Woods, a lOth-grade dropouts parently climbed up a trellis tog# ■ woman's second-floor apartr® pulled himself through a wind# dence showed he sexually ass# the woman and crushed her he# with a frying pan. Woods becomes the fifth Texas/ mate to be executed this year and® third this month. ■fcv The Class of 1997 joins Dr. Southerland to wish the Class of 1997 ie best of luck! 1 I I I Come to the ream Social at Dr. Southerland’s Residence I on Friday, April 25 from 4pm - 6pm Tickets required, may be picked up from | the MSC Box Office at 843-1234 Love music? Come to the Browsing Library Record Sale!! Hundreds to choose from ~ You name the style of music, and we've got it! Great for DJ's, collectors, and everyone] The Browsing Library... 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