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pfTAggieland Depot"Cf| Greek Cross Stitch www.aggieland-depot.com * l | ^^Cul|pepper^Plaz^j69^^^2 #1 College Sk! « Bean! Week SMI 20 Mountains & 5 Resorts for the Price of 1 Brock, Vail, BeamCreek, ArapahoeBasin a Keystone wn l-lLSki MO The Peace Corps is search of graduates with Agriculture, Environment and Health backgrounds for 2-year projects in one of our 70 host nations. Talk to Peace Corps Recruiter James Barta at the following times: • Wednesday, Oct. 8, 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. Info Meeting, MSC Room 230 M • Thursday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Career Fair, MSC Flagroom ♦ Thursday, Oct. 9, 7 to 8:15 p.m. MSC, Room 229 Visit the TAMU Career Center 209 Koldus Building to pick up a Peace Corps Catalog. Tuesday, October 7, 2003 THE BATTALIA) www.peacecorps.gov • 800.424.8580 1 -QOO-7’’5«*-9-‘*53 # IN THE AFTERNOON! Radio News from the newsroom of THE BATTALION campus and community news l:57 p.m. Monday through Friday on KAMU-FM 90.9 College Station / Bryan HEALTH d WfeLUffiSS FAIR 2003: LETS BEAT THE HELL OUTTA STRESS! Tuesday. October 7 10:00 am • 3:00 pm MSC Flagroom, Walkway, & Rudder Fountain Area & # FREE Health Screenings & Information! Lots of Games! FREE Massages! Creativity Center! FREE Prizes! FREE HIV Testing Sponsored bv the Student Counseling Service & Student Health Services For more Information, please call 847-8910 Are you planning to apply to medical or dental school for Fall 2005 admission? The Office of Professional School Advising WANTS YOU To Attend a BASICS WORKSHOP!! We will discuss deadlines, letters of evaluation, BCAT/DAT, essays, timelines and what the applications address. Oct. 7, 2003 Oct. 15, 2003 Nov. 11, 2003 Nov. 17, 2003 Dec. 4, 2003 Tuesday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Thursday 1:00 pm 3:00 pm 10:30 am 2:00 pm 12:00 pm Seating is limited so please contact OPSA at 847-8938 or come by room 205 of the Academic Building to register. Splish splash Students walk in the rain with their umbrellas between classes on South campus Monday morning during a huge downpour. The weather damaged many areas around Bryan-College Station Sunday and Monday. Five teens killed in TX car crasfi TEXAS Austin , Teenage tragedy Five teens have died from injuries they received after a head-on accident with an oncoming Ford pickup. A sixth passenger remained in good condition Monday at a hospital in Austin. Austin Driver swerved to miss ice chest that had fallen on U.S. 183 near Texas 21 —♦ Mendoz«r x (183) CALDWELL SOURCE: Associated Press MENDOZA, Texas (AP) - Five teenagers have died from injuries they received after a head-on accident caused when the driver of the teens’ car swerved to avoid an ice chest on the roadway. Two teens died Sunday after the accident Saturday. Three teens died shortly after the accident. Four of the students attended Hays High School. They were identified as Dana Jackson, 15; Ashley Blackwell, 15; Kenneth Bullard, 15; and Debra Green, 18. Former student David Anthony Galindo, 19, was also killed. A sixth passenger, a 13-year- old girl, remained in stable con dition in an area hospital Monday. A woman driving the pickup suffered a broken leg. The teens were traveling in) a Toyota on U.S. 183 near' Texas 21 when the driver swerved to miss an ice chest that had fallen from a boat trailer. The Toyota collided head- on with an oncoming Ford pickup and caught fire. Hays schools officials thei? will meet Monday evening: discuss bringing counselors» the schools to help students cope with the loss. Mendoza is about 20 miles southeast of Austin. Tlhis past week I Lubbock didi X as well as me I hoped. The Tex ootball team gave nd it Mild’ve been (Grse had hose last :ouple of osses toward he end zone dih less than talfa minute i eft in the P foprth quarter found their mark. Wednesday, the another shot at the L Granted it's not Kyi il’snot football, but College Station and next to Kyle Field at lite Coliseum. An nay things have gor point in the football perhaps it’s for the t will be volleyball th The Aggies will s | Yell leader Jonathan Lus i during (lie Texas A&M > > Business Career Fair < >> October 7, 8, & 9 << Officials declare winner in Chechnyan election By Jim Heintz THE ASSOCIATED PRESS » Receptions Appointee wins Chechen election October 6 | 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Cafe Eccell October 7 | 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Fox & Hound October 8 | 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. | Hilton * Texas A&M University GROZNY, Russia — The Kremlin’s hand-picked man to lead Chechnya was declared the winner Monday in the region’s presidential vote, a widely expected outcome praised by President Vladimir Putin as a sign of hope to end the bloody insurgency here born of nearly a decade of war. Akhmad Kadyrov, acting president of Chechnya and pre viously the leading Muslim cleric in this Caucasus province, received 81.1 percent of the vote with more than 77 percent of votes counted, said regional election commission chairman Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov. Turnout was 85 percent, he said. Putin, not surprisingly, applauded Sunday’s election, which came after a March refer endum on a new constitution for Chechnya that reaffirmed its status as part of Russia. “The very fact of such a high turnout shows that people have hope — hope for a better life, for positive changes in the life of the republic,” Putin said at a Cabinet meeting. Stanislav Ilyasov, Russia’s minister for Chechen affairs, said Russian and Chechen offi cials would sign a treaty outlin ing the local authorities’ sphere of control by the end of the year. Chechnya “will engage in the rehabilitation of its facilities on its own and manage its own resources,” Ilyasov said Monday, according to ITAR-Tass news agency. There must also be elec tions for a parliament. The results were seen as a foregone conclusion after two candidates rating higher than Kadyrov in early opinion polls didn’t appear on the ballot — one withdrawing to become an adviser to Putin and the other barred from running by the Chechen Supreme Court. Six virtually unknown candidates ran against Kadyrov, who was once allied with the rebels. Akhmad Kadyrov, the acting Chechen president by Kremlin orders, was declared the winner of a widely criticized presidential election Monday. 0 150 12! 0 fM km RUSSIA Chechnya "X \ 2qarr)enskoye • # Black \ 9 r °zr Sea GEO ‘turkey >ari^. AZE. SOURCES: Associated Press; ESRI of Speaking to Rossiya state television outside his home in the Chechen village Tsentoroi on Monday, Kadyrov said he felt “an enormous bur den of responsibility for the republic and for the people who trusted me.” A pro-rebel Web site, kavkazcenter.com, quoted Aslan Maskhadov, the separatist leader elected president of, Chechnya in 1997 who is now' denounced by Russian authori ties as a terrorist, as calling the election “a criminal action by the occupation forces” that was “doomed to failure.” Fighting between rebels and federal forces was lighter during the vote, with Russian war planes and artillery taking the last 24 hours off, a pro-Moscow official in the Chechen adminis tration said Monday. One sol dier was killed and eight wounded in 14 attacks on army positions, and an armored per sonnel carrier hit a mine near the, town of Bamut, killing one soldier and wounding four. Human rights advocates questioned the fairness of a vote held during a war and said the election was heavily tilted in favor of Kadyrov, whose per-,) sonal security service is widely! feared and accused of kidnap-' pings and killings. TAMU F spor The discount i (The box office Broadway !