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Awareness Committee • MSC Committee for Awareness of Mexican-American Culture • MSC Conversations # MSC Current Issues Awareness Committee # MSC E.L. Miller Science and Technology Committee • MSC ICONS • MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness • MSC Wiley Lecture Series • MSC Abbott Family Leadership Conference • MSC Aggie Leaders of Tomorrow Page 6B Memorial Student Center Upcoming Events Dornith Doherty: Works from 1990 to 1996 February 5 - March 28 Visual Arts Gallery MSC 289 Presented by MSC Visual Arts Committee Lunchbox Concert Thursday, March 1 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Rudder Fountain Presented by MSC Town Hall The Big One Thursday, March 1 7:00 p.m. Biochemistry Room 107 Presented by MSC Film Society and Democratic Socialists of Texas A&M The Oral Tradition of Women Friday, March 2 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sterling C. Evans Library Presented by MSC Leadership Enrichment, Action and Develop ment (LEAD) Lunchbox Concert Friday, March 2 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Sbisa Presented by MSC Town Hall The Cider House Rules Friday, March 2 7:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre Presented by MSC Film Society Class Sales Monday, March 5 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. MSC Main Hallway Presented by Class Councils Play Anything, Say Anything Monday, March 5 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Rudder Fountain Presented by MSC Town Hall Godspell Tuesday, March 6 7:30 p.m. Rudder Auditorium Presented by MSC OPAS t Women’s Leadership in Science and Technology Wednesday, March 7 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Zachry 102 Presented by MSC LEAD Godspell Wednesday, March 7 7:30 p.m. Rudder Auditorium Presented by MSC OPAS 15 Minutes: Free Screening Wednesday, March 7 * 8:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Rudder Theatre Presented by MSC Film Society Lunchbox Concert Thursday, March 8 Noon - 1:00 p.m. Rudder Fountain Presented by MSC Town Hall Anime Showing Thursday, March 8 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Halbouty 101 Presented by MSC Cepheid Variable Committee Spotlight MSC Leadership Enrichment, Action and Development MSC LEAD exists to sponsor programs that provide leadership opportunities for committee members, the Texas A&M com munity of service, and national and international students. Major Committee Programs Playday Real World Aggie Women’s Leadership Forum Student Conference on National Affairs (SCONA) http://lead.tamu.edu MSC Information http://www.msc.tamu.edu (979) 845-1515 50 th Anniversary Information http://www.msc.tamu.edu/50msc 3SI/VI • uonBanpa sajnjjiv^ iiBisy 3SI\! • aajjiuniKO sjjy l^nsjA 3SIA • II^H u ^ox WORLD Thursday, y THE BATTALION UK train accident leav 'da|; March 13 dead, 70 more i GREAT HECK, England (AP) — With a high-speed passenger train bearing down on his Land Rover stuck on the train tracks, the frantic motorist called an emergency num ber, but it was too late. “The train’s coming!” he shouted into his mobile phone —just before it hit. In a bizarre wreck that left at least 13 dead and more than 70 injured, the passenger train smashed into the Land Rover and a trailer it was tow ing — which themselves had tum bled down an embankment and onto the tracks from a roadway above — then plowed into an oncoming freight train on a parallel track. “The carriage roof was torn off and I was flung down the length of the corridor,” said passenger Laurie Gunson of the northern city of York, one of dozens of dazed survivors of Wednesday’s crash outside the vil lage of Great Heck, about 200 miles north of London. Rescuers were met with a chaotic scene. Sheared-off undercarriages and mangled rail cars were strewn across a muddy field, and crews had to use cranes to pry open the twisted cars. Coal carried by the freight train was scattered about in heaps. The last survivor was pulled out five hours after the early-morning crash, but as night fell, bodies were still being retrieved from the wreck age, and police said the death toll could rise. Work crews brought in generators and lights to work through the freez ing night. The smell of diesel fuel hung in the air. “It is a tremendous tragedy, and a huge mess,” said Police Superinten dent Tony Thompson. It could take weeks to reopen the rail line, he said. Prime Minister Tony Blair promised lawmakers “the fullest possible inquiry” into the crash, Britain’s fourth fatal train wreck in 3 1/2 years and the latest blow to its troubled rail system. After a full day, it was still not cer tain how many people had been on the train. Thompson, the police su perintendent, said 144 passengers had booked tickets, but there could have been more, or fewer actually aboard. Police said the driver of the Land Rover had called Britain’s equivalent of 911 just before the crash. “While the operator was speaking to him we heard him shout: ‘The train’s com ing!’ and then there was a bang,” a police spokesman said. The driver, who was not identi fied, was being interviewed by po lice. “He’s completely devastated knowing what happened as a result of his vehicle going onto the tracks,” said Thompson. Investigators were photographing the wreckage from all angles, and searching for a data recorder that had been aboard the freight train. They were also checking the condition of guardrails on the M62 highway above, from which the Land Rover plunged. “We believe there were crash bar riers in the area and our examiners will look at all aspects of this incident,” said Detective Superintendent Nick Bracken of British Transport Police. Carole Hutchinson, 45, who works near the crash site, said the weather was bitter Wednesday morning. “It was snowing badly, although it wasn’t settling, it was heavy and not far off a blizzard.” Someone had placed a bouquet of daffodils, wrapped in pink paper, on the brick-and-stone bridge above the tracks. Passengers described screaming and shouting as the passenger train, traveling at 120 mph, careered off the tracks and the lights went out. “I held onto the table in front of me and then there was a huge impact. My o 150 mi 0 150 km vfer the past two ks. Bus irations Elided out i T- rts, hats feizza in nt of the N „' iiter in hoj Indents' atte 'T" dly passec i. Bus Ope carriage was on its side, inform stu year-old student Janine Thai they v “The man opposite me wav $ fee incre with blood. The window:: y took par was smashed and the frani. hrith, the s out and hit him. His wife a tcchnica to him was covered in his: completed At the crash site, the T was a I re a train’s engine was pointing :-lions ma jackknifed at a 45-degree, e ly get an\ freight train was partial!) Students ; with its front end completi Issues that track and lying on its side. Vole ot th< into the back garden of a ta ^ g ’ s l The track is part of theT f~ suc h mainline from London to E^ s r s - This in Scotland. Four people® ins wert on that line at Hatfield, agyudent R north of London, on Oct. l7S 1 ^ rease rail broke and a passengerep,. , uc cn . railed. ot t ‘ iese * That accident led to speeCf!-! 'T V1 1 lions and disraplion fcSKfy’, 11 Britain’s rail network dew 1a . emergency program of n cracked rails. ifuture of The railway confirmedtef the locomotives involved id' day’s crash had also beenorcil two locomotives on the teijj crashed at Hatfield. en into coi Madurese refugees await evac Indonesian security forces control riots SAMPIT, Indonesia (AP) — Thousands of Madurese refugees huddled under plastic sheeting Wednesday, waiting to flee a deadly rampage by Dayaks whose campaign to drive them from parts of Borneo has been largely successful. With most Madurese settlers in Central Kalimantan province either gone or waiting to go, Indonesians began asking whether their government's weak response might spur similar violence elsewhere. “Whoever wants to create trouble now knows that they can and will get away with it,” said political ana lyst Dede Oetomo. After 11 days of what critics called a woefully inad equate response to the Dayak rampage that killed at least 469 people, Indonesian security forces patrolled Borneo island Wednesday with orders to shoot rioters on sight. “We are now taking tougher action against rioters and other troublemakers,” said regional deputy police chief Col. Muhamad Jatmiko. ccc Police said they confisadP" dreds of machetes, spearsaf homemade weapons,, about 125 people. In Sampit, where manyjP~x n Fel killings occurred, constant rain added to the misenl 1 brate estimated 25,000 refugees living under plastic This in the partly flooded grounds of a police station, ifficially re< “We have lost everything,” said SamsudinA)J s hj n a ton refugee. “We are now just waiting to die.” i^g j.^ t a Health workers said at least six refugees haddiei». ern | iicnl the crisis began and diarrhea was spreading, esdf, , L among children. lf ecl creat The Indonesian Red Cross said it had sentsupp! 0 an S ei w medicine and blood to Sampit. idit. Made up of hundreds of different ethnic gronpfp 11 a P 0 H 1 tered across 13,000 islands, Indonesia has alongPnied the g of tribal warfare. ffine in sev< The unrest was quelled by force under the \ind Bill Clii dictatorship of former President Suharto that eifor the man 1998. Bierican p< orical revis ipbraided a: irin *4hpL hero: 01111 ■ y%:l The least J legacy. case of Geoi ome rev was not muc believe he w §|se people ton. 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