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THE BATTALION
Tuesday, February 29J
Leapers of the world unite
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CONTRACT RENEWAL
ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
For Fall 2000 — Spring 2001
NEW YORK (AP) — For parents debating a name for their
Feb. 29 newborn, the I lonor Society of Leap Year Day Babies
has some suggestions: Leaporah, Leapton. Leaplfey, perhaps. Or
for a Nordic touch. Leap Ericson.
With or without such bouncy names,
any baby bom on Tuesday will stand apart
even from others with the distinction of a
Leap Year Day birthday. This is the first
Leap Day in 400 years to start a century.
To mark the occasion. Leap Day parties
are planned across the United States and
overseas, promoted by “Leaper” Websites
that have linked people whose birthdays
come only once every four years.
“We get a lot of people e-mailing us
who’ve never met anyone else bom on Leap
Year Day,” said Raenell Dawn, co-founder
of the Honor Society. “They’re pretty
thrilled to find they’re not alone.”
"We get a lot of
people e-mailing us
who've never met
anyone else bom
on Leap Year Day.
— Raenell Dawn
cofounder of the Honor Society
Statistically, one of every 1,461 people is a leaper. There
are an estimated 200,000 in the United States and 4.1 mil
lion worldwide.
Leapers from more than 30 countries have joined the
Honor Society of Leap Year Day Ba
bies, which is approaching a member
ship of 1,300.
Among them is J.N. Oleap Fernando, a
professor from Sri Lanka, who proposed
that other parents emulate his own by giv
ing their Leap Day babies names that reflect
the special date.
Raenell Dawn, bom on Leap Year
Day in 1960 (and thus celebrating her
10th birthday Tuesday), endorsed this
campaign on the Honor Society Website.
She also lobbies for her own favorite
cause: persuading calendar publishers to
designate the quadrennial Feb. 29s as
Woman
guides
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The most vigorously promoted party, a four-day event that got
a head start Saturday, is in the small fanning town of Anthony, strad
dling the Texas-New' Mexico state line. Thousands of people, in
cluding dozens of genuine “leapers,” are expected at the festivities
in what has been proclaimed the Leap Year Capital of the World.
Leap Year Day.
“I’ve written hundreds of letters, and I’ve never heard back
from any of them,” she said from her home in Salem, Ore.
“You’d think they’d get the hang of it, since it’s a date that cel
ebrates the calendar.”
ALL current on-campus residents are if
required to renew or cancel their housing :■
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Fall 2000 — Spring 2001 academic year. ■:
Truck hits house, student injured
March 1 (8:00 a.m.) - March 2 (5:00 p.m.)
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‘Presented By ‘Business Student CouncU
Got a QUARTER?
Hot Dogs, Cotton Candy,
Drinks, Popcorn, Sno-cones,
all for a Quarter
* Live Band
* 30 Foot Inflatable Slide
& Much More!!!
Many Booths to choose from
‘Wednesday, March 1st
Outside ‘Wefiner llam-3pm
Proceeds earned by BSC Cabinet Booth
will go to the Bonfire Relief Fund.
DONNA, Texas (AP)—A Monterrey
Tech student was in fair condition Mon
day after a tmck slammed into his family’s
home, knocking him into another room.
Carlos Omar Garza, 23, was asleep in
the front bedroom of his father’s home
near Donna when the tmck slammed into
a wall early Sunday morning.
The truck hit Garza so hard it
knocked him down the hallway into his
father’s rear bedroom. He suffered a frac
tured skull, broken ribs and a punctured
lung. He was in fair condition in the in
tensive care unit of Knapp Medical Cen
ter in Weslaco on Monday.
Garza’s father, Tony Garza, said he
planted an oak tree about 15 years ago near
a ditch in front of his house to prevent such
an accident, but the tmck missed the tree.
“It flew across the ditch,” Tony
Garza said. “There’s no sign it ever even
hit the ditch.”
After he heard the crash, Tony
Garza went to the front of his house,
which was cluttered with pieces of
"[The driver] left a
beer bottle and a
pager. You could
smell the beer. He
was drunk as a
skunk."
Tony Garza
father
sheet rock and insulation, and looked
under the truck for his son.
Tony Garza heard moaning in his back
bedroom, where he found his son under
wood and sheet rock. Carlos Garza had hit
a dresser so hard that he knocked it across
the room.
Tony Garza said the truck’s driver ran
off when he first walked into the front
room where the tmck had come in.
“He left a beer bottle and a pager,” he
said. “You could smell the beer. He was
dmnk as a skunk.”
The damage to the house included
cracks along the hall and around the house.
The tmck also destroyed a wall separating
two bedrooms.
Tony Garza sustained minor cuts from
sifting through the debris. His wife and a
friend of Carlos Garza’s, who were also in
the house, were not hurt.
Carlos Garza is studying international
business at Monterrey Tech, but was vis
iting his parents for the weekend.
Department of Public Safety personnel
were investigating the case, but did not re
turn phone calls from die Associated Press
on Monday afternoon.
W1LMER, Texas (AP)-
injured with her infant daugtaet /jz» YP(
Katherine Stafford didn't knowwlKti tV I O'
she was in the darkness of early
day as she dialed 911 on herd
phone, water swirling into herovtr-
turned gold 1999Acura.
But she and her 7-week-old dans),
ter needed help soon. After
asleep at the wheel, Stafford's v™™
jumped off a highway embankments! ff a ; UV \ u\, ^
Hipped into a creek running
Wilmer, 16 miles south of Dallas.
Can you find me? I’m in a car.
Stafford said in the 911 calltoik
Texas Department of Public
dispatcher.
“Where are you?” replied thefc
patcher. "What’s going on?”
Said Stafford: “My car’s swirlinj
through the creek. I broke my leg.
have a baby with me ... I’m inaditci
... I don’t know.”
The disoriented Corpus Chrisli
resident was unable to tell dispatch
ers where she was on the dark, rur
al stretch of Interstate 45. Insteai
she listened for the blaring of sir®
and directed emergency crews to
her location.
Officer Dick Roth of the
Police Department was first to locate
the car around 4 a.m. — about tw
hours after the accident occurred,
He descended into the creek, still
swollen from recent storms,
out a rear window and plucked out the,
infant, still strapped in her child restraint
“She was not hysterical at all. Slit'
staved in control of herself,” Roth none of their an
said of Stafford, who was
minutes later when ambulance ani
fire crews arrived.
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On this day we will have our semi-annual clearance Sale.
We will close until 2:00 pm
Then the savings begin.... from 2-10
2:00 - 4:00 60% off
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8:00 - 10:00 75% off
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