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Baylor
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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
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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
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the Flame,” “Sea of Gras
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Africana
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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
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