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Heading for a Wedding? Compass College Ministries would like to invite all engaged couples and those just thinking about getting engaged to join us for a 6-week seminar on how to build a lasting marriage. ilu . Aj. I Jo I JO .JO rJO t JO rJO .JO Monday evenings beginning October 15th Rudder Tower Room 302, 7:00 pm Sign up by October 12th $75 per couple For registration information please call 779-2434 Registration Includes: ^ Seminar Notebook • PREPARE Evaluation & Reading • Marriage Enrichment Material MSC L.T. Jordan Institute for International Awareness, Muslim Student’s Association, and MSC Current Issues Awareness presents.... Islam and the Media with special guest speaker: Osama Abdullah Thursday, September 27 6:30 pm @ MSC Rm #201 Please contact the Jordan office at 845-8770 for more information LEARN Tip ROLL THE MEDIA HAS PLAYED IN THE PORTRAYAL OF I SI. AM, and the Islamic perspective of the recent terrorists attacks. Persons with disabilites, please call (979) 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. Food 100 Lucky Students Will Be Selected To Have FREE BBQ At The President’s Home With Ray and Sally Bowen TViesday, October 9, 2001 6:00 p.m. Registration deadline: Students sign up at: September 27, 2001 For more info call the http ://re v-tamu.edu/freehbq/ Office of University Relations Entertainment By 845-6817 Voices of ( Rain site: MSC 224 ) Praise State Page 10 THE BATTALION Wednesday, September 26, Death toll rises to /ednesday^ in bridge collapse PORT ISABEL (AP) — Officials on Tuesday identified the last of the eight victims killed when a tug boat struck the Queen Isabella Causeway and cars plummeted into the water some 85 feet below after portions of the bridge collapsed. Recovery workers identified the final victim as Julio Mireles, 22, of Los Fresnos. Mireles’ body was found inside his Mazda sports car when the vehicle was pulled from the water Monday. His identify was not released until Tuesday because officials wanted to notify family members. Another body also was retrieved Monday and one was recovered Sunday, more than a week after four barges loaded with steel coils and guid ed by a tugboat slammed into the South Texas bridge on Sept. 15. The two were retrieved from a Ford sport utili ty vehicle that was pulled from the water in two sections a day apart. The victims were identified as Barry Welch, 53, and his wife Chealsa Welch, 23. Two more unoccupied vehicles were expected to be retrieved from the bay, but the primary goal of retrieving victims has been achieved, said Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Adrian Rivera. “Our personnel are relieved that these vehicles have been located and we hope this brings some closure to the families that were involved in the tragic incident,” Rivera said. State officials said a joint investigation of the accident is ongoing. The Coast Guard, mean while, is conducting a marine safety investiga tion and has a hearing scheduled for Oct. 9 in Corpus Christi. ith er e to # terrorists .mericans. forefront lie allowed to During the weekend, demolition ci removed tons of concrete and other debris delayed recovery work until Monday. Repairs to the 2.37-mile-long bridge - only vehicular link between the mainland South Padre Island and the longest bridge inli — could take four months and cost $5 milliot Gov. Rick Perry asked the federal fought since Business Administration on Monday to acMect the safet > the Economic Injury Disaster Loan prograi businesses in Cameron County affected by collapse. Hotels, restaurants and retail shops were hit when the bridge collapse cut short the te season. Perry said. Businesses that can not meet financial tions or pay operating expenses because collapse are eligible. Loan amounts would based on need. The accident comes amid a call for a sec causeway to the island. The Brownsville City Commission wass uled to vote Tuesday evening on a resol against a proposed causeway at Holly B< north of Port Isabel. The resolution calls for a look at altems such as ferries, a sister bridge near the Isabella Causeway or a bridge at the i causeway site, south of the current bridge, to a negative economic impact on Brownsville Meanwhile, a draft of a plan for a set bridge between the island and Holly Beach be presented Thursday at a Texas Transport Commission meeting in Austin. THOMAS CAMPBEL eem to gain atching CN1 i occur whic f threatening eporting troi ite could con s well. In Kosovo, ur planes lea his proved t< Kosovo ai eason to do a nemies to kn iient of our s< Banned rave ends in arrests NEWS IN BRIEF As war loo Secretary of S hat no civ iliai Sixth-grader held in bomb threat )e allowed to ravel on our s lives because i WACO (AP) - An 11-yeari Iott f. able to HEMPSTEAD (AP) — Dozens of arrests on drug and trespass charges followed a weekend rave party that had been held despite a court order banning it. A prosecutor on Monday filed a contempt motion against representatives of the event’s promoters, including a Hempstead lawyer, for violating a restraining order issued by a state district judge. Waller County Judge Glenn Taylor, who has a private law practice in Hempstead, had rep resented the promoters last week in a hearing on the court order to stop the party. About 70 people were arrest ed in connection with drug pos session and criminal trespass at the party Saturday that drew as many as 10,000 people to a rural area south of Brookshire, 35 miles west of Houston. District Attorney Sherry Robinson said the event, sched uled to start about 2 p.m. Saturday and go all night, went ahead as advertised despite the order she had obtained. She requested Judge Jon Delaney, who issued the order, to assess damages against the defendants including costs of policing the event. Waller County Sheriff Randy Smith said about 150 officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and nearby juris dictions joined in the effort, including undercover drug work. Smith said the drug arrests were chiefly for the popular underground drug Ecstasy and the criminal trespass charges stemmed from illegal parking on private property. Most of those charged had posted bail by late Monday afternoon, he said. Prosecutors have said that previous rave parties are used to enhance the effects of the popu lar club drug Ecstasy. Parking was so scarce for the party on wooded land south of Interstate 10 West near the Brazos River that many people left their cars along the freeway service road up to five miles from the site. Robinson said the gathering, promoted by Cool World and CAN Inc., was held on land owned by A-Star Investments. girl accused of making a threat to her school haste placed in juvenile detent: - officials said. The sixth-grader was disrgtf with making a false report, a misdemeanor watching the r Our soldier firefighters in given an oath to protect our eign or domes I soldiers have i Bobby Campos, assist^7.dmericmscar the blanket of indebted to so the sacrifice tf live in freedon 862-PARK RT.T.S. would Me to flunk everyone for their cooperation their vehicles from all the designated 12th Man lots Sept. 21 for the Oklahoma State game. * DOIT FOIGH WOm 1 NOTRE MNE 6 Please mefce sure you have removed your vehicle from any designated 12th Man lot by 6:30 p.m.. Sept 28 THAN for t o if m but tor of the McLennan Juvenile Probation Depatent The girl called West W School’s office about l:30p,m Monday, said Robert Hart ^ , Independent School 0* « | f' r “P sl ’y superintendent. Officials te dna movemeni Caller ID to determine u 1 student called from herhort Hart said. The school wasrt Im the world, v evacuated. Hart said the girl will expelled for the rest of school year. West is about miles north of Waco. the benefit of i Afghanistar year before Ru nay prove to h or not Afghani: nedia should r lelp the Afgha Reporters tl Hake for a sec looking for the EL PASO, Texas — Ownerslf >Mrch. they m of the Sun Bowl will transferorders. Our the University of Texas at i El Paso County relinquishes Sup Bowl to UTEP Paso under an agreeme: civilians, but r; reached by the El Paso Commissioners Court and ft University of Texas Board of Regents. The parities agreed to allow UTEP to receive thesft dium in exchange for the ur? versity providing the countywi ; 0mbat camen 10 full scholarships every yef ■ght if the situ a check for $1,600 - ft* : ombat earner; appraised value of the stadiw issured that nc — and a guarantee that theSifbe released, an Bowl football game r>n their orders ivilians there, racted or divei 'eporters’ lives The militar; ombat earner; place and that local schools*! i e | ev j s j on new , Our numbei ng conflict is i ^hile saving a; Possible. This' foe full cooper have access to the stadium. “We've been waiting for a tlement for a long time and this a pretty exciting moment," $ County Judge Dolores Briote “This is a win-win situation,es# dally for the families of El Paso Specially the i The agreement, which erf more than a year of legal i# gling, must receive approi* from the UT Board of Rege and then be signed by a jut before it is finalized. If approved, the county rf UTEP will develop scholars^ criteria and the first 10 schol? ships will be awarded fort!* spring 2002 semester. The controversy over the Su' Bowl began in August 20$ ^rip on Monda\ when UTEP asked the for permission to build a $9r lion sports training center aft stood the $3 million and repairs trip. For a whil vas intended fght-heartedly 'augh, yet theCi spend about improvements the stadium. The stadium was built wf taxpayer money in 1961 af; has been leased to UTEP county for $1 a year ever sind The county asked to use stadium a few days each year exchange for approving thectf struction, but UTEP refused. While our t much that we < ompelled in a ® uotbeableto; Corps ovi In response seem to ha under the impre somic would fia a hit at the Trig! hilitary personn or Bravos to bt
