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Vai k)/ ig the articipantstoj -port. overview o[ things that , taken) hot) ’ Cook said •g was made; ough the stai aney out the; J. “When w; led the chan; am page' ■vas talked of student s fine,’" V; have had; the long | lot of ‘yes' 's really fot ure.)” stioned the >rum, due to: e nothing tudent co een very 01 ig to take c to Food rovements what the id. ire you n«c ng for STIs, birth contr testing. ownload a NEl icmtai h EWS E BATTALION 7A Thursday, September 16, 2004 though; Scott s Take aim THE BATTALION eshman communication major Geoff Grzymkowski plays pool in the asement of the MSC Wednesday afternoon. The basement of the MSC fers Hullabaloo dining, bowling, pool tables and Dance Dance Revolution. lasses resume in Beslan, 2 I or j site of deadly school siege By Sergei (irits THE ASSOCIATED PRESS entree BESLAN, Russia — School pened again on Wednesday, he boys of Beslan wore dark its, the girls — as they do in Russia—had lacy white bows in ■eirhair. Their day with a min- Be of silence to remember the 3B8 people who died after they lere taken hostage by heavily armed militants on the first day of school two weeks ago. I The children showed up at Be seven remaining schools in Bis quiet industrial town deep in southern Russia, shepherded /nervous parents, relatives and , police wearing camouflage. But the students from School No. lid not return to their classrooms, ^leirbmlding was largely destroyed the spasms of violence — explo- ns and gunbattles — during the ■max of the three days of horror iring which militants held more ,200 people hostage, did not turn to their classrooms. Many ofthe survivors and their jmilies were sent to recuperate Black Sea sanatoriums in the Isort cities of the so-called Rus sian Riviera — places like Sochi Were Russian President Vladimir •Putin vacations. I The traumatized city was to I turn its children to school a day earlier, but that was delayed J give the military, police and bomb-sniffing dogs additional time to search the buildings for ^plosives and weapons. On Wednesday, police hold ing rifles stood guard outside school entrances as a trickle of students arrived. Only one in four children turned up, the state-controlled Rossiya television station re ported, but officials expected the numbers to increase gradually. “We have mixed feelings. We are afraid, but it’s necessary to start school and we hope that things will turn for the better,” said parent Mila Kiyanova. Soslan Sikoyev, the region’s acting regional interior minister, said authorities were taking extra security measures, including daily armed patrols of schools and 24- hour surveillance. There was also a proposal to have regular inspec tions at schools and kindergartens. “1 was scared during the ter rorist act at School No. 1,” said Kaitar Koloyev, who attends fourth grade elsewhere in Beslan. “My friends were scared too, but I tried to calm them, asking them to not be afraid and telling them that everything will be all right.” The siege ended in explo sions and gunfire, sending terri fied children - some naked and bloodied — running from their ruined school building. Authori ties say all the hostage-takers were killed, except one suspect ed attacker, who was detained. “Our little Beslan is a very friendly town. 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