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The common thread that connects us all
Jazz Band: Karan Chavis
Tuesday, January 16, 2001
Rudder Fountain, Noon -1 PM
MSC Town Hall
Unity March
Wednesday, January 17, 2001
Rudder Fountain, 11:30 AM. - 1:30 PM.
Reception following in Wayne Stark Qallery
A Slice of Rice, Frijoles & Greens
A fun-filled mix of stories that give vivid insights
into the multicultural experience!
Thursday, January 18, 2001
Rudder Theatre, 7:00 PM.
MSC Asian Cultures Education Committee and the
Southwestern Black Student Leadership
Conference
Speaker: Jane Elliott
Come hear the teacher who helped a
group of elementary school students
understand racism in her riveting assignment,
Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes.
Wednesday, January 24, 2001
Bush Presidential Center, 6:00 PM.
Beta Xi Chi Multicultural Fraternity
Film: Remember the Titans
Friday, January 26, 2001
Rudder Theater, 7:00 PM.
MSC Film Society
Million Family March Discussion
Texas A&M and Prairie View A & M Students
Review the October March
Monday, January 29, 2001
MSC 206, 7:30 PM.
MSC Black Awareness Committee
A World of Faith
Discussion of World Religions
Tuesday, January 30, 2001
MSC Forsyth Center Gallery, 7:00 PM.
MSC L.T. Jordan Institute and
MSC Current Issues Awareness
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Tuesday, January 16,2
El Salvador quake survivor
fights kidney, heart failure
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador
(AP) — For two days and a night, the
young musician lay beneath 15 feet
of cinderblocks and mud while res
cuers worked desperately to pull him
to safety.
But the elation when Sergio
Moreno was finally freed turned to
agony on Monday when heart and
kidney failure left him fighting for
his life.
“After so much joy when we saw
him pulled out, we are again living in
anguish,” said his mother, Leticia del
Carmen de Moreno, weeping in the
hospital.
Moreno, 22, is the keyboard
player for the popular Salvadoran
merengue band Grupo Algodon. But
he recently decided to return to col
lege to study computers, and had
bought a humble, two-story house in
the Las Colinas neighborhood of
Santa Tecla, just outside the capital
where he would study.
Saturday morning, Moreno was
painting his new home when an
earthquake sent the hillside above
crashing down on top of him.
Moreno was trapped in darkness
in the bathroom, with cinderblocks
pinning his legs. The ironwork of a
balcony shielded his upper body.
He had a cellular phone with him
and dialed a friend. He got through,
and within an hour, rescuers were
cutting through concrete to open a
pathway.
It was tough work, and with the
earth still trembling, the rescuers
knew they could be crushed at any
moment. But Johnny “Cannibal”
Ramos and Manuel Guzman were
not going to abandon Moreno.
“We made a pact: No matter what
the risks, we weren’t going to leave
until we got him out,” Guzman said.
Digging mostly with their hands,
the two rescue workers tunneled
down 15 feet and opened a small hole
to where Moreno lay. They pushed in
a garden hose, and told Moreno to
put it in his mouth.
Then they attached the hose to an
oxygen tank so the young man
could breathe.
Ramos eventually made the hole
bigger and told Moreno to stick his
arm through it. Ramos inserted an
IV tube to provide medicine and
nourishment.
Slowly the work progressed. Af
tershocks closed the hole even as the
tt
The rescue of Sergio
was such a joy.
But then the compli
cations began.”
. — Juan Moreno
Sergio Moreno's father
rescuers opened it, and Moreno be
came more and more frightened.
“You stayed here to watch me
die,” he told Ramos.
“No, I stayed to get you out of
here,” the rescuer assured him.
Finally, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday — 31
hours after the earthquake — the res
cuers pulled Moreno from the rubble.
“It was an incredible joy,” Ramos
said. “We were all crying and hug
ging each other.”
But out in the open, Moreno look
a turn for the worse. The cin
derblocks had cut off circulation to
his legs, and when his blood began
flowing again his body rejected it.
His heart stopped and paramedics
got it started again.
His kidneys shut down, and they
gave him dialysis.
Moreno’s parents, an unemployed
couple from the small port of Acajut-
la, 55 miles to the southwest, had
rushed to the capital to be near their
son. They wept in the hospital
ing room
“The rescue of Sergio was such
joy,” said his father, Juan Morent
"But then the complications began
When he arrived at the
Moreno fell into a coma.
His mother talked to him.b.
his only response was to squeej
her hand, and then he could do
even do that.
“Sergio my love, we’re herewt
you. We won’t leave you for as®
moment,” she told him, crying.
On Monday, Moreno lay in it:
sive care with a neck brace andait^
pirator and a web of tubes snafc
into his arms and torso.
Doctors were preparing to ampt
tate his left leg.
The attending nurse, who
hospital regulations preventedL
from giving her name, said Morea:
heart was unstable but that hist
neys might start functioning wii!
the shock passed.
She said whether he could s.
vive was “a question for God.”
Guzman, the rescuer, retuns
home to find his wife had left
angry that he had abandoned
family during his 40 straight
of work.
So he went to the hospital to
how Moreno was holding up.
His fatigues caked in mud at:!
surgical mask at his chin, he
into tears when he saw Moreno!
ents in the waiting room.
“Just seeing you moves
Guzman said, shaking hands «i
Moreno’s father.
The father tearfully thanked
for his efforts, and Guzman re:
ed: “Don’t thank me. Thank Cod'
Moreno's mother, motionlei
the waiting room, said there
nothing they could do any more.
“The only thing we can
wait,” she said, “and accept.”
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