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THE BATTALION
I'hursday, Marchi;
Florida pileup, three killed
WELLBORN, Lla. (AP) — Blinding smoke from a near
by forest lire caused a massive traffic pileup on a north Flori
da interstate Wednesday, killing three people and injuring 21
others, officials said.
Twenty-two vehicles were involved in the crash, includ
ing a tractor-trailer carrying acid, said Lt. Ken Knowles,
spokesman for the Florida Highway Patrol. The acid was con
tained within the truck and never posed a danger, he said.
Knowles blamed the pileup on a blaze in Osceola National
Park about 10 miles away.
“The low visibility was a result of the forest lire,”
Knowles said.
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The injured, including a
Hamilton County sheriff's
deputy, were taken to hospi
tals. Rhonda Sherrod of
Shands 1 fospital said her facil
ity had treated 14 victims, with
injuries ranging from minor to
critical. Three of the more se
riously injured were airlifted to
other hospitals, she said.
The accident occurred on Interstate 10 shortly before 8
a.m. Officials closed 17 miles of the highway from Lake City
to Live Oak, which is about 75 miles east ofTallahassee.
Because of so much twisted wreckage, it took several hours
for authorities to determine how many vehicles were involved.
At least live trucks could be seen jackknifed in the wreckage.
Murel McDonald, Suwanee County emergency services
manager, said when he arrived at the scene, smoke from the
forest lire blanketed the ground. The 7,000-acre fire was in
tentionally set, officials have said.
McDonald said he has requested satellite imagery from
the state to determine the precise cause of the crash.
Erik Gebauer, of Melbourne, Fla., said he was driving a
Mustang that slid under a tractor trailer.
“I don’t understand how 1 lived through that,” said Gebauer,
his voice shaking. “All I can remember was pushing that freak
ing door. I felt death right behind me. I can’t believe I made it.”
The injured deputy, Michael Vickers, is believed to be in
good condition, said Sharon Wetherington, Jennings city clerk.
“1 just talked to his mother and everything seems fine,”
Wetherington said. “He’s alert, he’s talking and everything
seems fine.”
Man shoots firefighters, 4 dea
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fire
lighters responding to a house lire
Wednesday were ambushed by an off-
duty Memphis firefighter who stepped
out of the garage and began shooting,
authorities said. Two firelighters and a
sheriff’s deputy were killed, and a
woman was found dead in the garage.
The suspected gunman, Fred
Williams, was wounded and was un
dergoing surgery. Police Director Wal
ter E. Crews said.
Williams had just returned to work
as a firefighter this week after an ex
tended leave on disability. Crews said.
The suspect did not work at the same
station as the men who were killed, but
J.C. Fleming, deputy director of the Fire
Department, said they probably knew
each other from working the same shift.
“We don't expect this. We’re here to
light fires,” Fire Chief H.J. Pickett said.
“You want to say it’s part of the job, but
it’s not.”
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Williams did not live in the house,
and his relationship to the woman found
dead in the garage was unclear. Crews
said. Authorities also were uncertain how
the woman was killed and whether the
lire was set to cover up her death.
Firefighters were called to the home
just before l p.m. When they arrived,
witnesses said, a man came out of the
garage tiring a shotgun and shouting,
“Get away! Get away!”
Firefighters Lt. Javier Lerma and Pvt.
William Blakemore were killed. Sher
iff’s Deputy Rupert Peete was shot in his
patrol ear as he responded to the report
of the shooting, authorities said. I lis ear
crashed through a fence and ended up
next to the house.
Memphis police officers then arrived
and tried to get the gunman to put down
his weapon. When he refused, “one of
our officers got into a gun battle and the
suspect was shot,” Crews said.
Before firelighters arrived,neii
reported seeing smoke coming lion
house and alerted the suspect,but
everything was fine, according
thorities. Soon after, deputies an
lighters arrived and were ambuski es
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effect, we had 10 participating hotels,” Ferguson said. “Now there areover.%
not just in Texas. There is definitely success in numbers."
Ferguson also said the trend is spreading. Baylor University, Texas Tech U®
sity, the University of Texas (Austin) and Southwest Texas University haveallpa-
similar resolutions regarding drowsy student driving.
Two weeks after spring break. Ferguson w ill travel to Texas LutheranUnivef
to help pass the bill through their Student Senate.
During the fall of 1999, 10 college students in Texas alone were lostdu:
drowsy driving.
“With spring break almost here, we want students to be aware that there is an
portunity to avoid dangerous driving,” Ferguson said.
Emily Jackson, a senior and English and political science major, said she would J
initely take advantage of the program if she were in a desperate situation
“There have been times when I have been traveling and my eyes got so heavylw
hardly keep them open,” Jackson said. “I have had to pull over and sleep in my
fore. If tliere were a place to sleep, other than my ear, I would take advantage off
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Language Institute (ELI) course, but
he is not aware of any program like this
for faculty.
Geoff Ashley, a student worker at
the ELI and senior management major,
said the ELI provides classes for inter
national students who want to become
proficient in
English. “I’ve
never experi
enced a faculty
member taking
these classes,
but we do have
a lot of grad stu
dents,” Ashley
said.
Executive
Associate Dean
of the Texas En
gineering Ex
tension Service
at A&M Dr.
George Peter-
members’ English proficiency.
"We are careful with all teaclim:
signments we give the new faculty.W
we get complaints we do try to
with the aid of overheads, etc.,”F
Even with these measures in prat
some students have voiced problems
derstanding professors.
“There are students that express
ficulty with communication in theeb
room, some of which results ffomu
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engineering and hard
sciences:
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Vice President of Academic Affairs for MU
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son said he does not feel that there is a
problem with faculty English proficien
cy in A&M’s engineering department.
“I don’t believe we have a problem
with the English proficiency of profes
sors in the department of engineering, or
with the faculty’s ability to communi
cate,” Peterson said. “One of the things
we value is [the faculty’s] ability to
communicate.”
Peterson also said that faculty candi
dates are interviewed, and their commu
nication ski 11s are evaluated, but they are
not tested for English proficiency.
When asked if any students have
voiced complaints about non-native
English speaking faculty in the physics
department at A&M, Ford said, “I have
been aware of faculty for which com
munication skills were a problem, but
never an insurmountable one.”
Ford said his department is very careful
in their hiring of faculty, especially with tem
porary professors, and the department is def
initely concerned with potential faculty
— if the students will just meettb
hal fway, it will be a good experience
Lehmkuhle said that MU stuck
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problems with faculty proficiency
English at MU during testimony ini
state legislature.
“Students testified that the
English proficiency problem] tendstol
in mathematics, engineering and It
sciences,” Lehmkuhle said.
Lehmkuhle also said he is anxious 1
receive the results of a Web-based
vey sent to 6,000 students to see iffe
reports are confirmed.
“We base internal policy on stuk
feedback, and based on the resultoti
survey, we’ll have an ideaoftheprobl
and what disciplines it concerns
Lehmkuhle said. “Obviously, we to
some situations that are in
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situations must be changed.”
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