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-OR-
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-OR-
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graduate student) during the term of office (unless fewer credits are required to graduate);
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point ratio (3.00 if a graduate student) in the semester immediately prior to the appointment, the semester
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equivalent;
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004. Applicants will be interviewed during the Student Media Board Meeting
beginning at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 25, 2004, in room 221F Reed McDonald.
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Monday, March 8, 2004
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THE BATTALIO
Militants pledge revenge afta
14 Palestinians killed in raid
By Ibrahim Barzak
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deadliest raid
BUREIJ REFUGEE CAMP,
Gaza Strip — Israeli troops car
ried out their deadliest raid in
Gaza in 17 months on Sunday,
part of a surge of bloodshed
ahead of a possible Israeli with
drawal from the coastal strip.
Fourteen Palestinians were
killed and 81 wounded in more
than six hours of lighting on the
edge of the Bureij refugee camp.
The battle pitted Palestinians
armed with assault rifles, anti
tank missiles and grenade launch
ers against Israeli troops firing
from helicopters, tanks and
rooftop sniper positions. Children
chased tanks, throwing stones.
Among the dead were three
boys, ages 8. 12 and 15.
The Israeli military said the
purpose of the raid was to put
Palestinian militants on the
defensive and prevent them
from carrying out attacks on
Israelis. However, residents of
Bureij said soldiers did not try
to make arrests or search for
arms caches.
The Palestinian Authority
denounced the raid as “state ter
rorism,” and urged the interna
tional community to intervene.
Palestinians said Israeli sol
diers were trying to draw out
militants in what appeared to be
a new tactic.
Armed groups routinely
exhort their members over
mosque loudspeakers to con-
Israeli troops traded heavy
gunfire with Palestinians in a raid
near the Bureij refuge camp
killing 14 Palestinians in the
deadliest confrontation in Gaza
in 17 months.
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After the battle, a militant
leader took the highly unusual
step of appealing to his forces
not to fall into the trap again.
“The Palestinian people are
now uniting in the trenches of
resistance,” said Islamic Jihad
leader Mohammed al-Hindi.
“but we also call on the sons of
the resistance not to be dragged
into battles forced upon us by
chasing the Israelis out.
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19 Palestinians were killed in®
Israeli operation in the
Younis refugee camp.
The dead — 10 militants anl
four civilians — were given
joint funeral. Tens of thousand
of Palestinians marched in tk
streets, and masked Hamas mi
itants pledged revenge. Hamas
has carried out dozens of suicid
bombings against Israelis durini
41 months of conflict.
NEWS IN BRIEF
State may close facility
for mentally retarded
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A San Antonio facility for the
mentally retarded could face closure after state investi
gators confirmed several health and safety violations.
In the past four years, the Texas Department of
Human Services, which licenses and oversees resi
dential facilities for the mentally retarded,
received more than 400 complaints about Skyvie*
Living Center of San Antonio.
After state investigators confirmed severalofthe
violations, the Department of Human Services in
September 2002 refused to renew Skyview's
license, department spokeswoman
Patterson said.
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