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MONDAY
WEDNESDAY
Crossroads: The Future of Hip
Hop Culture
Amanda Diva, renowned Spoken Word
Poet will join Dr. Finnic Coleman,
Assistant Professor of English, and
members of A&M’s Hip Hop Society to
discuss the future of Hip Hop Culture.
Ms. Diva has been featured on HBO’s
Def Poetry Jam and will also give a
performance of her work. Crossroads
forums examine the future of American
Culture. 5:30 to 7:00 pm, Rudder 701
Religions of Peace
in a World at War C* HI
Learn the viewpoints of different
religious traditions during this session
of Kaffeehaus Dialogues.
7:00 to 8:30 pm, J.Wayne Stark
Gallery Co-sponsored by Honors
Student Council
THURSDAY
Space Exploration
& Research
Space?Yeah, we’ve got that. Free pizza?
Yup, we’ve got that too. Panel Discus
sion. 7:00 to 8:30 pm, Rudder 701
National Scholarships
Presentation
All students welcome! Learn
the ins-&-outs of national scholarship
opportunities. 5:30 to 6:30 pm
MSC 203
FRIDAY
TUESDAY
Callaloo Presents: The Role oj
Ebonics in the Production of
American English
Presented by linguist Salikoko
Mufwene 7:30 to 9:00 pm, J. Wayne
Stark Gallery
Chemistry Cave Art
University Distinguished
Lecture with Dr. Marvin Rowe
Free, ticketed event. 7:30 to 9:00 pm.
Bush Presidential Conference Center
Contact MSC Box Office at 845-1234.
Honors Open House
Drop in lor coffee & donuts & chat
with your Honors Advisor. Register
for a $200 scholarship!
8:00 to 1 1:00am, 101 Academic
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registration questions before it begins
on Thursday! 5:30 to 7:00 pm
101 Academic Building
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Parent’s Weekend Concerts
The campus band, concert
band, and symphonic band
will give their last perfor
mance of the year!
7:30 to 10:00 pm, Rudder Theater
SATURDAY
Parents Weekend Brunch
Picasso at the Lapine-Agile
Discover what transpires when
Einstein and Picasso chat at a bar in
this aclaimed comedy by Steve Martin!
8:00 to 10:00pm, Rudder Forum
Show runs through April 17th.
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Monday, April 7, 2003
THE BATTAl
POW Lynch reunites with fam
By Colleen Barry
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LANDSTUHL, Germany —
After everything she’s been
through — an Iraqi ambush, a
daring rescue and several sur
geries — Pfc. Jessica Lynch had
nothing but smiles for her fami
ly during a long-awaited reunion
in the hospital Sunday.
Her parents, Deadra and
Gregory; two siblings and a
cousin paid Lynch two brief vis
its after arriving early Sunday
from West Virginia, said U.S.
military officials at the
Landstuhl Regional Medical
Center in southwestern
Germany.
“Lynch had a big smile on
her face when her parents
arrived,” the hospital said in a
statement.
Lynch, a 19-year-old supply
clerk, was in stable condition in
intensive care, where she was
being treated for a head wound,
an injury to her spine and frac
tures to her right arm, both legs,
and her right foot and ankle.
The hospital also said gun
shots may have caused fractures
to her upper right arm and lower
left leg. The hospital command
er, Col. David Rubenstein, pre
viously said no entry or exit
wounds consistent with gunshot
wounds had been found.
“The medical staff says, after
LYNCH
more closely examining those
wounds, there is a possibility
they were caused by a low
velocity, small caliber weapon,”
the statement said, stressing that
treatment would have been the
same no matter what the cause.
Lynch underwent back sur
gery Thursday to correct a
slipped verte
bra that was
putting pres
sure on her
spinal cord.
Since then,
she has under
gone several
more surger
ies to stabilize
the fractures, the hospital said.
Doctors have said the prog
nosis for Lynch’s full recovery
was excellent.
Lynch was rescued Tuesday
from a hospital in the southern
Iraqi city of Nasiriyah by a team
of Navy SEALs, Marine com
mandos, Air Force pilots and
Army Rangers.
The commandos found her
after an Iraqi lawyer saw Lynch
being slapped by a security
guard in the hospital, and alerted
U.S. forces.
While troops engaged the
Iraqis in another part of the
city, the rescue team persuaded
an Iraqi doctor to lead them to
Lynch, who had been held
since her unit was ambushed a
week earlier.
By Chris Kahn
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BLACKSBURG, Va. —
Virginia Tech reinstated its affir
mative action policy Sunday,
despite assertions from the attor
ney general’s office that some of
its diversity programs are uncon
stitutional.
The school's Board of Visitors
voted 8-5 to rescind a March 10
ban on preferences for racial
minorities and other underrepre
sented groups in hiring, admis
sions and scholarships.
The vote came after a four-
hour meeting punctuated by out
bursts from a crowd of about 250
people, most supporters of affir
mative action. The board called
Sunday’s special meeting after
weeks of protest over its resolu
tion in closed session to disman
tle affinnative action.
“We love diversity as much as
you do,” Vice Rector William
Latham said to a choais of hiss
ing from the crowd. “But we
have to do it within the frame
work of the law, and you only
have to do it politically.”
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The commandos who
cued Lynch also uneurtk
bodies from a nearby hurt
eight of which were idemii:
members of Lynch’s urn;
507th Maintenance Coir;
based in El Paso, Texas.
The ninth was a soldier
a forward support groups
Army’s 3rd Infantry Dhj
The remains of all ninei
been transported back u
United States.
Lynch’s parents leamj
the deaths of other membt
her unit just before departi|
Germany. Among them
Lynch’s friend and fi
roommate, Pfc. Lori Pies
who became the first Aim
servicewoman killed initie
"Our hearts are really:
dened for her other troops
hers and the other fani
Lynch’s father managed It
before choking up.
Piestewa, 23, was a me
of the Hopi Tribe, whosei
vat ion is near the
Reservation community
City, Ariz. She had a 4
son and a 3-year-old da
“Our prayers are
Lynch family," said
Taylor Jr., chairman of the
Tribe. "We thank God
survived her ordeal. Her
speaks volumes of her cha
and we wish her a coni
speedy recovery."
returr
lengthened
Virginia Tech officials restore
affirmative action policy
By Blak
THE BA
NEWS IN BRIEF
NBC correspond
dies of clot in Ira
The board also created a com
mittee on Sunday to review
Tech’s diversity programs and
make sure they don’t violate the
Constitution.
Attorney General Jerry
Kilgore will continue examining
diversity policies at Tech and
other schools, spokesman Tim
Murtaugh said. “If they have pro
grams that continue to be based
on race, then yes, they are” acting
illegally, he said. “That would be
unfortunate.”
Several board members
lamented that their earlier deci
sion came too quickly, and that
they should have waited for guid
ance from the U.S. Supreme
Court to rule on affirmative action
policies at the University of
Michigan.
Others said they changed their
mind after realizing there were
other interpretations of federal
law that may allow the school to
continue its diversity policies.
The university had reviewed
its diversity program at the
request of Attorney General Jerry
Kilgore, who warned Virginia
schools that race-conscious poli
cies violate federal law.
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correspondent David Bli
who had been reporting or
war from the Iraqi desert,
Sunday from a blood clot
network said. He was 39.
The co-anchor of the wee
"Today'' show was traveling
troops about 25 miles soif
Baghdad when he sudden!
lapsed.
He was airlifted to a is
field medical unit, where frt
pronounced dead from a:
monary embolism, a newt*
representative said. Shesai;
death was not combat relaii
Bloom, a native of Ed
Minn., had been on assignu
in Iraq for several weeks,ief
ing from the middle of dt
sand storms and while cols
of military vehicles runi
toward Baghdad.
Bloom had been the
anchor of the weekend "Is
show since March 2000. Hi
joining the "Today" show!
Bloom was a White House
respondent for NBC. Heh
there in 1997, during the Cl
administration.
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