Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 15, 2000)
Tuesday, Februar NATION Lay, February 15. 2<XX> THE BATTALION Page 11 ibutTornado hits Georgia, killing 22 anna AMILLA, Ga. (AP) — Tornadoes descended on Georgia early Monday, ripping people from |rbeds and piling up mobile homes, t least 22 people were killed and more than 100 -.--J 6 hurt. \S (AP) A 2,000-xM) ozens of houses and mobile homes in the south- in downtown DallasGeorgia town of Camilla were flattened, their ibute I hursday to for-LLi anc j s ijj n g mangled and strewn across yards \ s coach loml ai:, in( | S ( ree ts. lay trom leukemia. ■^|| y 0U hggrj was a roai - ( woo-woo-woo,” said ( owboysplayersand^gy j ones ^ mobile home south ofCamilla ill co-host the pub!,. va | thrown on its side. isda\ at the MortonH®j e sa j ( j f reec j 14-year-old son, who was Mtined under a washing machine, and they crawled mt a window. ■‘All 1 could see was that everything was demol ished. People were hollering and crying ‘Where's my Ihijd?’ ” he said. ■The tornadoes struck shortly after midnight as f line of thunderstorms rumbled through the Southeast, scarring property from Arkansas to Area of greatest damage ALABAMA TENN. iony Center. )llow a private bunaltt toon funeral service fis Is at Highland Pari Church, where Landr r 43 years, died Saturday at Bay Jical Center surround family Atlanta O 100 miles 100 km s.c. ALA. GEORGIA lirgia. Authorities in Camilla and surrounding Mitchell [mty said two separate twisters cut a 1.5-mile- 10-mile-long path through the county, w ,i hit the impoverished and the affluent,” said i <, Li| McQueen, a Red Cross volunteer who was work- kcmia since May. coached the Cowboi-J their birth in I960r:| hi the team on Feb.2S,j is tired, a downtowipi rew an estimated .Nl L his tenure l andn at a temporary morgue near Camilla, o fiv C Super Pov.i- jFourteen people died in Mitchell County, a pri- m "*70 games the W^y rural area dotted with cotton and peanut cry . Under Landry ■ ms ’ c ^tcken processing plants, textile factories a winning record w a sta t e prison. tsons ■Go\. Roy Barnes, who flew over the area to as- Bsthe damage, declared Mitchell and three other Igjiiuies disaster areas. The twisters were the deadliest in Georgia since iorts in Brief lamed Bl^ e of the V A&M freshma King was nan 6 Big 12 Rookii a panel a who hg 12 basket- 1936, when 203 people were killed by tornadoes in Gainesville, northeast of Atlanta. The winds snatched up the trailer where Janet and James Madeiras and their son Travis, 12, had been sleeping, tossing them out and knocking the trailer on top of them. James Madeiras, 60, said they had just seconds to react. “The moment I heard it, the bed dropped down and the walls came tum bling down on top of us,” he said. “1 was saying, ‘Oh my God!' and started dig ging,” Janet Madeiras said. “When I got outside and looked around, every thing was gone. You could hear moaning and cry ing.” The family escaped without major injuries and moved into a shelter with several neighbors. Families of the injured and missing jammed phone lines and scrambled into hospitals to find their loved ones. There were so many injuries, people were sent to hospitals as far away as Tallahassee, Fla. Mitchell County Hospital, with only 33 beds, was swamped with more than 120 injured people early Monday. Area affected by tornadoes .1 V GEORGIA 25 miles 25 km Albany • \ Dougherjy Baker v^x : 'Mitchell Worth ■ i Tift •Bainbridge Thomasville i Grady j / Cook Valdosta 1 | Thomas FLORIDA QTallahasse Sources: AccuWeather; Compiled from AP wire reports APAWm. J. Gastello The storms had knocked out power, and the small staff of doctors and nurses worked under backup power from a generator, trying to treat the wounded and find other hospitals to handle the overflow. At Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, a lost 4-year-old girl was at first too terrified to tell doctors her name. Her mother had not been found Monday af ternoon. A preliminary assessment found 198 structures destroyed and more than 160 damaged, said Ed Tynes, supervisor of a Red Cross shelter in the gym nasium of the Mitchell County Middle School. More than 5,000 people were without power. KK cored a eshman l points 74-69 jer the of Saturday. 1 points, King tAJ reshman record d by current University jard Lute tatett vei 'hen he was aO of Texas tog eason. points also broker fshman record oT the late Vernon Si outhwestern Loujsp 1977-78 season[ as 10-of-19 frorp st Colorado incluCp three-point range# t six rebounds.P d three steals. | also solid fromtliep going 10-for-ll, I s made 56 three# ason to break the If ecord. ads the Big 12 if i with a 16.3 scl which ranks sew NCE tinned fromPaf ng a game, and the rl t did not stop himil nishment. It took a ome angry peopleI | | 3. Barkley, Karl Malt® — they would all hart I bars at some point if hey committed were! irshly. There is one? ce between NBA star ioo! players beside.® 1 ;y. Very large fines at inishment for over-a? •A players, and jail® ver crosses the havior on the court 1 f hich is why it never on’s mind, either. ambling industry notes arge national increase Gambling’s boom Legalized gambling has grown from a relatively small industry in a handful of outposts to a thriving pastime found across the country. Here is a look at the growth of gambling since 1973. The information excludes pari-mutuel gambling. 1999 nh M| States with lotteries and authorized ™ casinos i States with authorized casinos LJ States with lotteries 1973 States with lotteries and authorized casinos States with authorized casinos States with lotteries ds are being taughB 1 puree: National Gambling Impact Study Commission win, nothing seems? | em. | :y are watching the? id shove their way K ip on television,they but think thesamed irk for them, essages are causing* n the system. The I yessive behavior aw ence is getting fuzzi lying elbow and mis and if someone doe* ntly draw a new iin* ly will players like :s suffer the conse- iolence, but sowiln self. AP Two Columbine students killed LITTLETON, Colo. (AP)—Two Columbine High sweethearts were found dead early Monday after a shooting at a sandwich shop within sight of their school, compounding the heartbreak in the com munity that suffered the worst school shooting in U.S. history. The bodies ofNicholas Kunselman, 15, and Stephanie Hart, 16, were discovered inside the Subway shop where Kunselman worked. Investigators did not disclose a motive but Riled out murder-suicide. Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesperson Steve Davis said the cause of death had not been determined, and he said he did not know whether a weapon had been found. Investigators were reviewing a videotape from a surveillance camera inside the restaurant. “I hope it wasjust a robbery,” said one of Kunselman’s co-work- ers. JJ. 1 lodack, 22. “I've had more than enough of this. This stuff needs to stop.” The shooting was the latest in a string of tragedies that have hit the Denver suburb since teen-age gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher at Columbine on April 20 and then committed suicide. Classes remained in session Monday, but at least 100 students stayed away. Students said some of those who did attend could be seen crying in the hallways. At least 25 counselors were kept busy most of the day, said Betty Fitzpatrick, health services director for the school district. “It reminds me of everything. It’s just like flashbacks” said Nathan Vanderau, an 18-year-old senior who knew some of the vic tims of last year’s shooting as well as Monday’s victims and is in counseling. Among the other incidents that have added to the unease in the community: • In October, the mother of a student partially paralyzed in the massacre shot herself to death. • On Feb. 1, the body of an 11-year-old boy was found in a trash bin within blocks of the school. No arrests have been made. • Last week, a Florida man pleaded guilty in Denver to sending a Columbine student an Internet message threatening to finish the massacre. The threat prompted officials to close the school for the Christmas holidays two days early. Fie faces up to five years in prison. Friends said Hart enjoyed sports but was quiet and didn’t go out much except to stop by the sub shop to see Kunselman. He had worked at the sub shop for only a month but had won the manag er’s confidence and often was assigned to close the restaurant at 10 p.m., Flodack said. A Subway employee driving past the store noticed a light inside the store about 1 a.m. Since the business was supposed to be closed, the woman stopped, went inside and discovered the bodies. As investigators worked inside the shop about two blocks from the high school, Columbine students and relatives of the victims gathered in the parking lot, placing bouquets just outside police lines. They also wrote chalk memorial messages. “Every week, there’s something that happens here,” said Daniel Baker, who brought three friends to deliver flowers. “This is sup posed to be a nonnal community.” Courtney Scott, an 18-year-old cousin of Hart, placed a heart- shaped bouquet of flowers with a banner reading, “1 love you” out side the shop. She said Hart was not at Columbine the day of last year’s shooting. News of another shooting in Littleton resonated in the Statehouse in Denver, where the House debated gun restrictions that were draft ed in part because of the Columbine massacre. “It’s horrifying to me,” said House Minority Leader Ken Gor don, a Denver Democrat who sponsored some of the measures. “We are not getting it done. We are not protecting the people of the state.” Melissa JohnsM' 1 senior English Don’t Forget Us For pp Lunch & Late Night Pizza by the Slice Value Meals 1 Large 1 Topping $ 6.99 10 p.m. - Close Cheese & Drink *2.25 I Topping & Drink *2.50 Speciality & Drink *2.75 Add a Slice *1.25 College Station 764-7272 Bryan 268-7272 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. M-F at Northgate Location Only TAMU/Northgate 846-3600 Open till 2 a.m. on Thursday 3 a.m. on Friday and Saturday www.unitedflight.com LEARN TO NOW* UNITED FLIGHT SYSTEMS Easily awarded student loans now available. You can learn to fly for as little as $50. 00 per month. Located next to campus at Easterwood Airport. Discount Discovery Flight (with presentation of coupon) ■ Student Loans ■ Aviation Career Tracks ■ Private thru advanced training Aircraft rental, Pilot Shop F.A.A. approved 141 school VA Eligible Benefits United Flight Systems, Inc. Easterwood Airport College Station, TX 409 260-6322 Finding The Balance 8th Annual Women in Science and Engineering Professional & Career Development Conference When: 19 February 2000 Where: Memorial Student Center Time: 8:30-4:30 For More Information Nancy Magnussen 845-7363 nancy@science.tamu.edu DEADLINE: 17 February! Keynote Speaker: Dr. Karan Watson Speakers: Glenda Humiston, Undersecretary USDA Kathryn Kaiser, DynaMedix Corporadon Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon Helene Dillard, Cornell University Nancy Algert, The Center for Counseling & Conflict Resolution Carol Dudley, Dow Chemical Topics: Looking Backwards in Time Balance: Do We Ever Really Have IE Finding the Balance in an Ever Changing Workplace Striving For a Healthy Equilibrium Many Parts Can Reach A Goal Everything I Learned About Being A Woman In Science Working Strategically — Multitasking in a Chaotic Environment Supported by: College of Science, Veterinary Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture & Life Sciences, and Geosciences, Office of the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost for Graduate Studies •hlJ'A Citlifis, Dif WiDIt Memorial Student ack Awareness Coni Presents: TJ AT? a aa r f e otAKAMd t e Rudder The Thursday, February Wfit 7:30 PM (Dress: Afrocentric or Casual!) dmissioniZ (.‘an Goods or $1.00 at entrance PhrMordlhformation Contact: UMSCTACat 845-1515 fnns contact: LaSondra Carroll Wail: Inc072a@acs.taniu.edu 15 to inform us of your e (3) -working dap prior he best of our abilities HOLD THE WINNING HAND WITH CO-OP! POSITIONS AVAILABLE FOE SUMMER AND FALLS ATTEND AN ORIENTATION NOW! DATE TIME LOCATION WED., FEB. 16 12:30 P.M. 502 RUDDER THURS., FEB. 17 2:00 P.M. 502 RUDDER MON., FEB, 21 1:00 P.M, 502 RUDDER THURS., FEB. 24 4:00 P.M. 402 RUDDER EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, 209 KOLDUS, 845-7725 Co CO-OPWEBTAMU.EDU
