Howdy!
The Department of Student Activities
is now accepting nominations for
The Margaret Rudder Service Award
Recognizes and awards students who significantly impact
their community through volunteerism and as a result, are
also impacted by that contribution
Awards up to $500 will be presented during Parent’s Weekend
on Sunday, April 13, 2003
GtvEm, AgglesIC.
Information and nomination forms will be
available February 3 at vsc.tamu.edu or in
Student Activities. Please contact
862-1491 or email serve@tamu.edu with
any questions.
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Friday, February 21, 2003
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Duncan Career Fair
Wednesday, Feb 19
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Duncan Dining Halt
Open to all students, all majors
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Monday, February 17, 2003
WORLD
THE BATTALION
War protests sweep world
Mass marches in London, Berlin, Rome
By Robert Barr
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — Millions of protesters — many of
them marching in the capitals of America’s tradi
tional allies — demonstrated this weekend against
possible U.S. plans to attack Iraq.
In a global outpouring of anti-war sentiment,
Rome claimed the biggest turnout — 1 million
according to police, while organizers claimed three
times that figure.
In London, at least 750,000 people demonstrated
in what police called the city’s largest demonstration
ever. In Spain, several million people turned out at
anti-war rallies in about 55 cities and towns across
the country, with more than 500,000 each attending
rallies in Madrid and Barcelona.
Spanish police gauged the Madrid turnout at
660,000. Organizers claimed nearly 2 million peo
ple gathered across the nation in one of the biggest
demonstrations since the 1975 death of dictator
Gen. Francisco Franco.
More than 70,000 people marched in Amsterdam
in the largest Netherlands demonstration since anti
nuclear rallies of the 1980s.
Berlin had up to half-a-million people on the
streets, and Paris was estihiated to have had about
100,000.
In New York, rally organizers estimated the
crowd at up to 500,000 people. City police provided
no estimate of the crowd, which stretched 20 blocks
deep and two blocks wide.
“Peace! Peace! Peace!” Archbishop Desmond
Tutu of South Africa said while leading an ecu
menical service near U.N. headquarters. “Let
America listen to the rest of the world — and the
rest of the world is saying, ’Give the inspectors
time.’”
In Los Angeles, thousands of chanting marchers
filled Hollywood Boulevard from curb to curb for
four blocks. Organizers estimated the crowd at
100,000, although police put it at 30,000.
London’s marchers hoped — in the words of
keynote speaker the Rev. Jesse Jackson — to “turn
up the heat” on Prime Minister Tony Blair, President
Bush’s staunchest European ally for his tough Iraq
policy.
Rome protesters showed their disagreement with
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s support for
Bush, while demonstrators in Paris and Berlin
backed the skeptical stances of their governments.
“What I would say to Mr. Blair is stop toadying
up to the Americans and listen to your own people,
us, for once,” said Elsie Hinks, 77, who marched in
London with her husband, Sidney, a retired Church
of England priest.
Tommaso Palladini, 56, who traveled from Milan
to Rome, said, “You don’t fight terrorism with a
preventive war. You fight terrorism by creating more
justice in the world.”
Several dozen marchers from Genoa held up pic
tures of Iraqi artists.
“We’re carrying these photos to show the other
face of the Iraqi people that the TV doesn’t show,”
said Giovanna Marenzana, 38.
Some leaders in German Chancellor Gerhard
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Florida State University student Kelsey Fowler fills in
the last part of her sign that reads "Make Love not
War" during an anti-war rally in a park on Saturdayin
Tallahassee, Fla.
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ment participated in
the Berlin protest,
which turned the
tree-lined boulevard
between the
Brandenburg Gate
and the 19th-century
Victory Column into
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loons emblazoned
with “No war in
Iraq” and demonstra
tors swaying to live
music. Police esti
mated the crowd at
between 300,000 and
500,000.
In the Paris crowd
at the Place Denfert-
Rochereau, a large
American flag bore
the black inscription,
“Leave us alone.”
In southern
France, about 10,000
people demonstrated
in Toulouse against
the United States,
chanting: “They
bomb, they exploit,
they pollute, enough
of this barbarity.”
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London 750,000
Madrid. Spain 660,
Berlin 300,000-500
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