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Dining
services to offer Super Bowl catering services
Dining
Services is offering Super Bowl food packages for Sunday. There
are three packages available with prices ranging from $4.99 to $5.99
a person and individual food items which cost between $9.95 to $40.
The individual food items include a 16-inch pizza with bread sticks,
a six-foot super sub and 40 chicken wings with ranch dressing.
A
super order for 10 students can be purchased for $125 or $12.50
a person. The order includes four pizzas, a six-foot sub, 120 chicken
wings, chips and soda.
The
deadline for ordering is 5 p.m. today. To place an order, call (817)
257-7999. Orders require a minimum of five people, and the cost
can be spilt between students and charged to their dining plans.
Delivery is limited to on campus only.
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Kelly Morris
Search
continues for two escaped convicts
MONTAGUE
(AP)— As the search continued Wednesday for two convicted killers
and two murder suspects on the lam, some crime victim advocacy groups
urged law officers to find out why Texas had more than 100 jail
breaks in the past 12 months.
Since
the four inmates broke out of the Montague County Jail on Monday
night, more than 200 law enforcement officers from numerous local
jurisdictions, the Texas Rangers and FBI were helping search on
the ground and by helicopter.
Authorities
have been alerted in Oklahoma, Missouri, Oregon, Washington, Alaska
and other states where the escapees have relatives and friends.
Groups
concerned about Texas jailbreaks say that unless the state solves
the problem, even more criminals will escape because they are becoming
more brazen and feed off one another’s successes.
The
Texas Commission on Jail Standards listed more than 100 separate
escapes in 2001, including five Grayson County Jail inmates who
tunneled their way out, setting up a standoff three days later with
law officers in Montague County, where the latest inmates escaped.
Curtis
Allen Gambill of Terral, Okla., and Joshua Luke Bagwell of Waurika,
Okla., were serving life sentences for killing a 16-year-old Oklahoma
cheerleader Heather Rose Rich in Montague County in 1996.
Chrystal
Gale Soto, 22, and Charles William Jordan, 30, both of Bowie, are
charged with two counts of capital murder in the November deaths
of James Christmas, 76, and Ullain Christmas, 79.
Texas
A&M University student still missing
COLLEGE
STATION (AP) — Hundreds of volunteers canvassed roads between
Midland and College Station on Wednesday, optimistic they would
find a Texas A&M University student who vanished four days ago.
Midland
native Catherine Page Price, an 18-year-old freshman at A&M,
was last seen by her roommate at 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Authorities
said Price left her dormitory and planned to drive her blue 1998
Ford Explorer to visit her brother, a junior at Texas A&M, and
then attend a Bible study group.
Bob
Wiatt, director of security with the Texas A&M University Police
Department, said Price’s roommate came home about 9:30 p.m.
and tried to contact Price at both places, only to discover that
she never showed up.
Jennifer
Sise, director of youth ministry at First Presbyterian Church in
Midland, said hundreds
of volunteers had been dispatched from Midland and College Station
on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
They
were driving every possible route between the two towns, about 350
miles apart, distributing fliers and notifying local police departments
about Price along the way, she said.
Sise
said a volunteer command post in College Station was coordinating
the search.
Wiatt
said he did not believe foul play was involved.
Student
files lawsuit for free speech restriction
LUBBOCK
— A West Texas high school student has filed a lawsuit against
the district’s superintendent alleging he tried to keep the
16-year-old from writing letters to the local newspaper.
The
conflict began shortly after Sept. 11, when Justin Latimer wrote
a letter to the editor of the Crosby County News and Chronicle voicing
his disappointment that plans were canceled for the school band
to play “Amazing Grace.”
Latimer
claims in a lawsuit filed last week that after the letter appeared,
superintendent Larry Morris told him he could not write other letters
to the editor without permission from Morris or the band director.
Latimer
was called out of class to meet with Morris and the band director,
the lawsuit said. Morris told Latimer that the letter had hurt the
school, the band and Morris personally, the lawsuit said.
Morris
was out of town Wednesday and could not be reached for comment.
Latimer
argues that his letters to the editor are a form of free speech
protected by the Constitution.
An
attorney representing Latimer, Stephen Crampton of Tupelo, Miss.,
said he’s asking the judge for a temporary order preventing
Morris fromrestraining Latimer’s speech.
Student
dies in dormitory bathroom after giving birth
EAU
CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A 19-year-old student died after giving
birth in a dormitory bathroom as other students came and went, believing
she was only sick, officials at the University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire said Wednesday. The baby survived but was in critical condition.
Karen
Marie Hubbard wasn’t breathing when a resident assistant found
her in a bathroom stall Tuesday night, said Charles Major, director
of housing and residence. She was pronounced dead at an Eau Claire
hospital.
Major
said emergency medical technicians found the newborn girl when they
removed Hubbard from the bathroom stall.
The
baby was listed in critical condition Wednesday at St. Joseph’s
Hospital in Marshfield, spokeswoman Carla David said. David said
she couldn’t reveal whether the baby was born full-term.
“From
everything we understand, her roommate did not know she was pregnant.
We’re not sure whether the girl herself knew she was pregnant,”
Major said.
Major
said other students in the all-women dorm were coming and going
in the bathroom, heard noises and asked Hubbard if she was OK. She
reportedly replied that she thought she was just sick, he said.
Hubbard
was a freshman prepharmacy major from Withee, a small town about
40 miles east of Eau Claire, Major said.
Student
newspaper prints apology for racist cartoon
COLLEGE
STATION (U-WIRE) - The public uproar over a cartoon called racist
published in the Jan. 14 edition of The Battalion, subsided after
the Texas A&M University student newspaper printed an apology.
The
African-American Student Coalition went ahead with planned protests
outside The Battalion, and said the long-overdue apology on Monday
was only the first step in correcting what they consider to be the
publication’s pattern of insensitivity toward minorities.
“The
Battalion, in its obstinance, made a huge miscalculation by refusing
to apologize for so long,” said Bereket Bisrat, spokesperson
for the African-American Student Coalition and a sophomore international
studies major.
Bisrat
said black students welcomed the apology, but were disappointed
that it only came after mounting pressure on The Battalion staff
from students, administrators and the media.
In
a note to readers published Monday, Editor in Chief Mariano Castillo
said the cartoon was insensitive and should not have run. The cartoon
portrayed a black mother, wearing an apron and curlers, scolding
her son for receiving a bad grade, saying “If you ain’t
careful, you gonna end up doing airport security.”
“The
Uncartoonist,” the pen name of the student who drew the cartoon,
will continue to work at The Battalion, Castillo said, but his often
controversial work will have to avoid the ethnic and religious stereotypes
that may overshadow the intended message and have caused controversy
in the past.
Castillo
met Monday afternoon with A&M President Dr. Ray M. Bowen, AASC
officers and representatives from the Houston and Bryan-College
Station chapters of the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.
Bowen
has said that The Battalion enjoys First Amendment protections and
that University administrators cannot interfere in editorial decisions.
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