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Monday, June 30, 2003 THE BATTALII! Full Moan Relieve You'gE /3 . were w>olf !j-&S8m rv— ftc.£fP IT 5oOa), You /'lost have Doaje ^ Pfcrr/ ^iOoD HlD/yob ^ oup 5 EX RET X Didai'J W/^VE 4 CEuE/ BuT /T5 /OoT LIKE IT LMS ^ Cl^RK ICE/OT/ SUPER/^^^ . “rMiAjL-/ - The S^ajs uerem'T Tf / 'That oBViouSj brRMeLuna Katharine Hepburn dies at 91 T/ie African Queen star was epitome ofck DoDE.CLEA/O 5P/T OFF /1a)D ^'VE us B^K FHI5SEE ! <1 OH 6o&, TSi^Y OLSEa) • www.rdeluna.com By Donna Tommelleo THE ASSOCIATED PRESS #17 ‘‘When Things Go Wrong, Pm the One Who Pays” (for those who noticed last Thursday's little screw-up) By t,Flows HOWCY, AOS! SEWER PRIN CESS HERE/ HOW’RE CLASSES/ I KNOW MANiy OF YOU ARE WONDERING WHY I'M ALWAYS WALKING AROUND NAKED. ■ LAST WEEKS COMIC WAS *16, HOT *IS YOU HWESPONS- IPLE NUTCASE! IF YOU EVER ~ r THE HE/i>ER WRONG VH fU TURN YOU INTO AND I'D OLADLY YOU, EXCEPT THAT TODAY I HAVE TO TEACH OUR LITTLE CREATOR, IVAN FLORES, A LESSON FOR BEINO AN IDIOT/ SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE NCTICED LAST WEEK'S THURS' DAY COMIC WAS TITLED WRONO/ THAT'S-VS/ „ ACCEPT ASU! ^ HEPBURN Baylor Continued from page 1 recently stolen money from his stepson and that Dennehy had told Baylor coaches he was scared. Waco police apparently are investigating reports that Dennehy was threatened by a teammate and that he recently argued with at least two players, the newspaper reported. Men’s basketball coach Dave Bliss did not return telephone calls Sunday.to Tfie Associated Press. In a news conference Saturday; Bliss said the cainpus was “in tremendous disbelief’ and that players have cooperated with police. William Richard Guinn said Sunday that his son, Baylor player R.T. Guinn, had no comment because Bliss told the team not to speak to reporters. Kevin Henry, a former Baylor basketball player and now a grad student who supervised student ath letes last year, said Dennehy’s teammates were upset over the disappearance. “This is a guy you practice with, lift weights with, eat meals with ... so it’s got to be tough on them. That’s your brother,” said Henry, a fonner University of New Mexico player who showed Dennehy around that campus during a recruiting trip in 2000. One of his fonner roommates and longtime friends said Dennehy has never been the sort to dis appear for days on end without calling someone, or the sort to put himself in danger with gambling, gangs or drugs. “I just remember Pat as being always to himself. He wasn’t like a person who would cause trouble for no reason,” said Senque Carey, who played basket ball with Dennehy at the University of New Mexico before Dennehy transferred to Baylor his junior year. At a news conference Sunday in Albuquerque, N.M., Dennehy’s girlfriend, 20-year-old Jessica De La Rosa, said she last spoke with him June 11. She said she couldn’t discuss whether Dennehy had expressed concern for his safety or whether he was having problems with teammates or anyone else. Dennehy grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and played for Wilcox High School in Santa Clara and St. Francis High School in Mountain View. Before transferring to Baylor, Dennehy played two years at the University of New Mexico, where his sophomore season was clouded by problems. In an argument during a game in 2002, Dennehy shoved a teammate, kicked over a chair and stalked off to the locker room. He didn’t return to the game. UNM coach Fran Fraschilla declined to disci pline him, and the team doctor said Dennehy was being treated for “a confidential medical condition.” Dennehy sat out last season after transferring to Baylor and was expected to compete for playing time this fall. Chicago Continued from page 1 the scene, and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office con firmed that a 12th person was dead on arrival at hospital. Some of the injured were in critical con dition. Hours after the collapse, plas tic cups still lined the porch’s rail ings that hung from the third floor walls, serving as a reminder of just how fast the floor fell. Most of the people at the party were friends in their early 20s, many of them graduates of New Trier High School in Chicago’s northern suburbs, said Fina Cannon. She had been in the apartment’s kitchen, looking out at the porch when it gave way. “All of a sudden 1 saw all these heads going down,” Cannon said. “The floor just dropped out from underneath them. They all went down in uni son.” A lot of people were on the third-floor porch at the time, and others on the second-floor porch below it, Cannon told Chicago television station CLTV. The medical examiner’s office eight names of victims Sunday: John Jackson, 22, of Kansas City, Mo.; Katherine Sheriff, 23, of Chicago; Eileen Lupton, 22, of Lake Forest; Henry Wischerath, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y.; Shea Fitzgerald, 19, of Winnetka; Muhammed Hameeduddin, 25, of Chicago; Margaret Haynie, 25, of Evansville, Ind.; Sam Farmer, 21, of Winnetka. “It was simply a case of too many people in a small space,” Joyce said. He urged people to be careful about safety, particu larly with the upcoming July 4 holiday. City Building Commissioner Norma Reyes said the city had talked with the building’s owner, who was in Canada. She said the city had “no indication of any structural problems or insufficiencies with the porch,” and she did not know how old the porch was. “Thus far, there is no evi dence of any criminal activity whatsoever,” Police Chief Terry Hillard said. OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. — Katharine Hepburn, an icon of feminist strength and spirit who brought a chiseled beauty and patrician bearing to such films as “The Philadelphia Story” and “The African Queen,” died Sunday. She was 96. Hepburn died Sunday at 2:50 p.m. at her home in Old Saybrook, said Cynthia McFadden, a friend of Hepburn and executor of her estate. Hepburn, who had been in declining health in recent years, died of old age and was surrounded by family, McFadden said. “It’s been a sad day, but a cel ebration of her life as well,” she said. The lights will dim on Broadway at 8 p.m. Tuesday in her honor, said Patricia Armetta- Haubner, a spokeswoman for the League of American Theaters and Producers. “I think every actress in the world looked up to her with a kind of reverence and a sense of ’oh boy, if only I could be like her,”’ actress Elizabeth Taylor said in a statement. During her 60-year career, she won a record four Academy Awards and was nominated 12 times, which stood as a record until Meryl Streep surpassed her nomination total in 2003. Her Oscars were for “Morning Glory,” 1933; “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” 1967; “A Lion in Winter,” 1968; and “On Golden Pond,” 1981. Despite her success, Hepburn always felt she could have done more. “I could have accomplished three times what I’ve accom plished,” she once said. “I haven’t realized my full potential. It’s disgusting.” But, she said, “Life’s what’s important. Walking, houses, fam ily. Birth and pain and joy — and then death. Acting’s just waiting for the custard pie. That’s all.” Hepburn, the product of a wealthy, freethinking New England family, was forthright in her opinions and unconventional in her conduct. She dressed for comfort, usu ally in slacks and sweater, with her red hair caught up in a top- knot. She married only once, briefly, and her name was linked to Howard Hughes and other famous men, but the great love of her life was Spencer Tracy. They made nine films together and remained close companions until Tracy’s death in 1967. Her Broadway role in “Warrior’s Husband” brought a movie offer from RKO, and she went to Hollywood at $1,500 a week to star opposite John Barrymore in the 1932 film “A Bill of Divorcement.” The lean, athletic actress with the well-bred manner became an instant star. The voice Tallulah Bankhead once likened to “nickels dropping in a slot machine” became one of Hollywood’s most-imitated. Hepburn’s third movie, “Morning Glory,” brought her first Oscar. A string of parts fol lowed — Jo in “Little Women,” the ill-fated queen in “Mary of Scotland,” the rich would-be actress in “Stage Door,” the mad cap socialite of “Bringing Up Baby,” the shy rich girl in “Holiday.” Then a theater chain owner branded her and other stars “box-office poison” and her film career waned. Undaunted, Hepburn acquired the rights to a comedy about a spoiled heiress, and, after it was rewritten for her, took it to the New York stage. “The Philadelphia Story” was a hit. She returned to Hollywood for the 1940 film version, which fea tured James Stewart Grant. Once again she was an star, with a contract at “Woman of the Year,”“ the Flame,” “Sea of Gras “Dragon Seed,” ‘‘WithoutLos “State of the Union,” “Pal a Mike” and “Adam’s Ril Her first film with Tracy« “Woman of the Year," in Legend has it that when the) ® she commented, “I’m afraid little big for you, Mr. Tracy reply: “Don’t worry, I’llcu down to size.” One critic compared thi “the high-strung thoroughl®! and the steady workhorse." Tracy never divorced hisri; who outlived him by 15 yen Hepburn, though she led a PI tribute to Tracy in 1986, m mentioned their private relalio ship. “I have had 20yearsofperfi companionship with a n among men,” she said in “He is a rock and a protectk Fve never regretted it.” In er interview, she discussed fts special screen magic, sayingite represented “the peifa American couple.” “The ideal American certainly Spencer — sports lor ing, man’s man, strong-lodi: big sort of head, boar neck aitds forth. And I think I represent woman. 1 needle him, and It tate him, and I try to get aroin! him, and if he put a big paw and put it on my head, he col squash me. And I thinkthatislk romantic ideal picture of the mtl( and female in this country,” After leaving MGM in 11 Hepburn divided her time between the stage - sk appeared in Shaw’s "Tie Millionairess” and Shakes)® “As You Like It”—and film, Sk coolly braved a jungle for'f African Queen” and did her® balloon flying in the low-tmfe “Oily Oily Oxen Free.” Asf Rang By Mic THE ASSOC Truce Continued from page 1 Africana Continued from page 1 interdisciplinary courses have been developed espe cially for Africana Studies: Africana Studies 201, 302 and 481. Students in the minor must take Africana Studies 302 and 481, Blackwelder said. The remainder of the 18 hours may be selected from Africana Studies 201 and other courses already offered in departments that focus on specific topics in Africana Studies. Africana Studies 201 is an introductory course that examines African diaspora, includ ing the diverse experiences of Africans and blacks and Africans in Europe, South America and the Caribbean. Course 302 is known as a gateway course, Blackwelder said. It focuses on the methodologies of Africana Studies and explores topics such as Afrocentrism, post-colonial studies and black femi nist literature. The upper level course, 481, is described as a capstone seminar centered on a topic in Africana Studies. Blackwelder said that during the fall, the col lege will conduct a search for a coordinator for the program. “We expect that the first courses in the minor will be offered in the Spring of 2004,” she said. Current students said they look forward to the new minor offer. “The opportunity to indulge in an area such as this can add a great amount of diversity to your life,” said Stacy Haralson, a junior business major. “It is not often that you are offered the chance to study the ways of another culture so closely.” Hours later, Fatah issued a statement saying it would halt all military operations in accor dance with an Egyptian initiative calling for a six-month truce. Israeli officials said they fear the truce will be used by militants to regroup for more attacks against Israel. The government wants the Palestinian Authority to dismantle militant groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, as required by the road map plan. “We are not holding our breath,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Gideon Meir said. “We here in Israel fully support the road map, and we want it to be implemented chapter and verse.” Rantisi reiterated a list of demands — although not preconditions — for the suspen sion of attacks. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have said they want Israel to halt all military strikes, including targeted killings of wanted militants such as a recent attack on Rantisi. The groups also want a release of Palestinian prisoners. “We consider ourselves free from this initia tive if the Israeli enemy does not implement all the conditions,” Rantisi said. Before Fatah declared its cease-fire, its Central Committee met to try to defuse its cri sis over the truce. Key members of the group — led by Arafat and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas — were upset at being kept out of negotiations. Talks with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the main political rivals of Fatah, were largely han dled by Marwan Barghouti, a Fatah leader jailed by Israel. Fatah members angered by the back-cl talks had insisted Sunday that the to the document be changed and that the U,S, backed “road map” be mentioned, according# officials close to the dispute. Such an add would be unacceptable to Hamas and Isli Jihad, which have rejected the plan. Over the weekend, the three main gn held talks with 10 smaller factions on joi the truce. In one snag, the Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine, a radical PL0 faci told Palestinian officials Sunday that whi would not join a declaration, it would notvi« late a truce. In Jerusalem, meanwhile, U.S. Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice held talk Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Arif Sharon, a day after meeting with Abbas talking to both sides about implementation the road map. Israel Army Radio said Rice and Sharondis cussed details of Israel’s troop pullback easing of restrictions, including a release# Palestinian prisoners and the possible rebuild ing of the Palestinians’ international airport southern Gaza. Israeli troops destroyed the way in 2001. During Saturday’s meeting, Rice invite! Abbas to the White House in the coming day and he accepted, a senior Palestinian said, speaking on condition of anonymity, ft White House did not immediately confirm tfe invitation. Abbas would be the first Palestinian leader# three years at the White House. President boycotted Arafat, saying he is tainted by while Sharon has met repeatedly with the president Why bother with parking when you can walk to TAMU? Huge 1 & 2 bedroom floor plans - Conveniently located only 2 blocks from TAMU a Del Sol 696-3455 www.rent.net/direct/casadelsol Texas A&M Uni vers Church ity Dr St ... Stasney © Cross St Casa Del Sol Come check out our original and unique Graduation Announcements at •^‘■sSslSss^ Texas A&M University Order today and receive them in approximately 1 week! We have our own unique design licensed by A&M. 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To charge by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express, call 845-2611. HOUSTON Rangers didi chance this tirr Rafael Pali for his 509th i and Alex R( tiebreaking, U Texas rallied t ry over the on Sunday. After fail in the bases load- in the seventh loss Saturday came through t series against winning note. “This is a s said. “If we ca ning series, rhythm and mi we will be m starts with go( had that tonighi got in trouble, kept us in the g The Astros : Silver Boot tro] the winner of t between the stE second straight took this year’; leads the all-tiir “We did soi today,” Ranger? 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