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; The Ladies Of Alpta Delta Pi Woul4 like to wish 3II the fraternities .' < Good Luck during Spring Recruitment!!! Page 6 NATION Wednesday, January 24,2001 Wedn. THE BATTALION Neighbors discuss inmates 5 stay in Colorado V: Pizzaworksi 209 A University 268-DAVE 3505 A Longmire 696-DAVE Dozen Peproni Rolls 1 * *9.99 919 Harvey Rd. 764-DAVE 2002 E. 29th St. 822-DAVE WOODLAND PARK, Colo. (AP) — One Texas fugitive went to Bible study while others talked about smoking pot or went to a Colorado Springs bar, residents say. Police on Monday captured four of the seven con victs who broke out of a Texas prison nearly six weeks ago. They may have been living in this quiet mountain town for three weeks. A fifth inmate killed himself after he was sur rounded by authorities. Two others are still at large. Dave Hansen, 41, a carpenter and resident of the Coachlight RV park where the seven lived in a motor home, said he attended Bible classes at the park with Larry Harper, 37, the fugitive who killed himself. “He seemed like a pretty nice guy,” Hansen said. “He told us he had turned himself over to God. You’d have no clue this guy was involved in the mess he was in.” Hansen said he thinks he knows why Harper at tended Bible classes. “1 think he probably felt so guilty about what he did. He knew the end was com ing ... He killed himself and now he’s going to hell.” Harper was convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Mark Murray, 18, who also lives at the park. said one of the seven seemed excited when he was asked if he smoked pot. “He said, ’1 haven’t had that in a long time,’" Murray said. He did not say which fugitive he spoke to. Sam Guadagnoli, owner of America’s Beach Club bar in Colorado Springs, said some of the fugitives went to the club on Thursday night. The men were on the club’s door surveillance tapes and bar managers remembered seeing them, he said. The men produced identification to enter, he said. ■See news as it happens. Report on the issues that matter to our campus. ■Learn the Journalism field. ■Gain valuable experience for any career. ■Earn extra cash THE is looking for reporters Pick up your application at 014 Reed McDonald, or call Brady at 845-3313 for information. —News in Brief— Illinois changes death penalty case procedures SPRINGFIELD, III. (AP) — The Illinois Supreme Court has set new rules to improve the state’s capital punishment system, which in the past quarter centu ry has released more death row inmates than it has executed. For example, the lead lawyer on each side must have at least five years of criminal litigation experience; previously none was required. And judges who might preside over capital cas es must attend regional training seminars every two years. Illinois has been the center of attention in the death penal ty debate since Gov. George Ryan halted all executions in definitely nearly a year ago. Ryan, a first-term Republi can, made the decision be cause the state had released 13 death row inmates who had been wrongly convicted while executing just 12 others since capital punishment was rein stated in 1977. Under the new rules, prose cutors will have to make a “good faith-effort” to notify de fense attorneys of evidence that could help the defense, and they must let defendants know more quickly if they in tend to seek the death penalty. www-busops.tamu.edu ;T' V '" Thank ya 7 . .. Photo By Mary We would like to thank all the students for their participation at our table during the MSC Open House.Thanks to your Input, future Aggies will have a great new paint scheme to go with their 22 new buses! If you have not voted, there le still time! Vote on-line at www-busops.ptts.tamu.edu. Look for the final results soon! Moving With You. Moving Forward Adoption and the Internet Online hopefuls are not happy with results NEW YORK (AP) — In the emo tion-charged realm of adoption, the Internet has proved both a blessing and a curse. Thanks to online listings thou sands of parents have adopted chil dren they otherwise might never have found. In the wrong hands, the Internet is a near-perfect tool for preying on vulnerable couples yearn ing for the child of their dreams. “There’s bad and good in every thing, even on the Internet,” said Trennia Tennant of DeLand, Fla., proud mother of three girls found on an adoption Website. “You just have to make sure of who you’re dealing with.” The seamy side of Internet adop tion has been spotlighted this month as couples from Britain and Califor nia battle for custody of twins they found through the same Internet ser vice. The Britons paid $ 12,000 to the San Diego-based broker; the Ameri cans $6,000. Though the case has roused trans- Atlantic outrage, it is not an isolated example. Harlan Tenenbaum, director of a Delaware adoption agency and chair man of the American Bar Associa tion’s adoption committee, said in creasing numbers of private, for-profit brokers use the Internet to drum up business. A favorite venue, he said, are chat lines on which couples discuss their interest in adopting. These facilitators are unregulated, un licensed, essentially uncontrollable." - Allan Hazlett President of American Academy of Adoption Attorneys Idowr “One couple was on line for 37 minutes and received six solicita tions,” Tenenbaum said. “It’s not al ways a bidding war, but it lends itself to bidding.” Allan Hazlett of Topeka, Kan., president of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, said brokers also email solicitations to couples who post information about themselves in hopes of attract ing interest from birth mothers con templating adoption. “These facilitators are unregu lated, unlicensed, essentially un controllable,” Hazlett said. “They’ll send an email, or call a couple, say ing, T can get you a birth mother in a week or two.’ “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t true. But that’s what they're counting on: people so ant; ious to adopt, they’ll jump at some thing like that.” Manipulative adoption brokets are nothing new; baby-sellin« schemes flourished in the past without high-tech help. But thelD j ternet has spread the reach of Ilf greedy and complicated the task off regulators. “The Internet puts some distanct between the unscrupulous individiu 1 a&m and the people who respond,” sak Cindy Freidmutter, executive direc tor of the Evan B. Donaldson Adop lion Institute in New York. ‘'Whet you meet people face-to-face in yoir community, it’s harder to getawaj with this kind of stuff than whenyoi meet them on the Internet.” Enforcement is greatly compli cated by the hodgepodge of adoptk laws “There’s no consistency amor:; Iper B< any of the 50 states,” Hazlett saic coach “It’s like a patchwork quilt.” The largest Internet adoption sit: is run by the National Adoption Cen ter in Philadelphia, which haspostec photographs of children since 1991 Its site features “special needs children in foster care — a of them are black or Hispanic, G are school-age, many have emofrai- her an al or physical problems. Seating is limited. Sign up today! \bu’re invited to the TIAA-CREF Financial Education Seminar. TA There iosity of Jin lick at things Th and w W1 with 1 bigges ever gi y mui add. 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