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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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their vehicles from all the designated 12th Man
lots Sept. 21 for the Oklahoma State game.
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Please mefce sure you have removed your vehicle
from any designated 12th Man lot by
6:30 p.m.. Sept 28
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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.
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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.
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