The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 02, 2000, Image 14

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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 02, 2000, Image 14

Newspaper Page TextHE^ AGS! U i 5S tt I IS Did you know.. THE MAJORITY OF ACCIE9 DRINK ? OR FEWER DRINKS PER WEEK *39 ie w S'A o\ ENT Data from June. 1998 CORE survey on a random sample of 861 students fiitp://sculik tajnu.cdti/.idcp NATION Page 14 THE BATTALION ruesday,li Lj^May 2. 2000 U. of Georgia holds memoria service for 11 student death ATHENS, Ga, (AP) —The Univer sity of Georgia student newspaper is usually filled on Monday mornings with stories of overzealous weekend partying or sports results. But this se mester, death has pushed it all off the front page. Since January, 11 young students on this campus of 30,000 have died of various causes — a heart attack, can cer, a drug overdose, a wreck on the way home for Easter and a fraternity prank gone wrong. The campus has been shak en by so much death among an assistant vice president whose job is to offer the university’s condolences to parents and friends of students w ho die. The University of Georgia has has never lost more than eight students in “Every weekend they were dying. It's so hard to believe.” — Travis Denison member of the university's student government those so young. Three weeks ago, the death toll was eight, and school offi cials scheduled a memorial service at sunset Monday. Since then, three more students have died. “It’s profoundly sad,” said Rick Rose, one term. Any more than three in a se mester is out of the ordinary. At Monday’*; sen ice, the chapel bell, usually silent except for victorious foot ball Saturdays and late-night student pranks, was to toll once for each lost life. American Discovery Trail spans continent Coast to coast discovery The American Discovery Trail, a footpath of more than 6,300 miles that connects the coasts, celebrates its grand opening this year. The ADT spans the nation by linking 200 existing trails that take hikers and bikers through forests, mountains, towns and cities in 15 states. Point Reyes National / Seashore San Francisco Des Moines Chicago Iowa Illinois Washington D.C. Carson City Nevada Moab Utah Kansas City Kansas Missouri Cape Henlopen State Park Delaware The idea, administrators said, get the campus to think ofthedeai more than just a number. ‘ “This is not a tally sheet,”Rose; “Each one of these people is thi important thing,”- Rose said he has lostci the times he has called his; son, who attends c M i I ledgevi 1 le, just to tell tin loves him. “I still can’t get overit Travis Denison, a memben university’s student govern whose friend Chris Moseley killed in a ear accident Mart As the toll climbed late in 11 mester, he said, students opened m as A&M sophe iturday’s 7-2 loss campus paper every Monday at expecting to read about another "Every weekend they weredv he said. “It’s so hard to believe.' 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The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current, May 02, 2000, Image 14

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