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7-Year-Old Brings Gun to School Aidid ARCHIVES In Section 2 6 \ssociated Collegiate Press Four-Star All-American Newspaper and a National Pacemaker Snipes demolishes ARCHIV ES box office with "" ... ~~ 1namson Demolition Man page B5 page B1 FREE TUESDAY Aidid 7-year-old brings gun to school • ·, Issues saw the gun either di dl-not been calling to find out what gun to show his friends and not think it was real or d i d 1not had happened. to cause harm to other A 7 -year-old boy carries really care, the teacher said'. A spokesperson for the students, he was only The teacher added most of school did say, however, "this suspended for a day, a teacher call for his father's starter pistol to the students were not scared was an isolated incident and said. because they knew he wasn ' t the authorities have already Another teacher added the taken care of the matter." reasQn many students probably elementary school. An anonymous source within were not scared of the gun, is the s chool said her biggest because they are so used to peace teacher who wished to remain BY NATALIE TRIEFLER concern was that if the gun had seeing guns and violence on Staff Reporter anonymous said. "I think it scared been loaded and a student had T.V., that a small pistol didn ' t BY RUNCIE TATNALL The student told a teacher, When a 7-year-old Newark been killed, "that is a life that even phase them. Staff Report er who then took the boy and the boy left for school last week, more of the you can't bring back, even if it "That's what is so scary As the United States doubled gun to the principal ' s office. he remembered his lunch box, was an accident." about this generation," she its military effort in Somalia, When the teacher brought his pencils, notebooks and his teachers than the Because the boy brought the said. warlord Gen. Farrah Aidid father's unloaded starter pistol. the gun to the principal's issued a call for peace Saturday, The second-grader at West office, she said she realized it students." according to media sources. was real when she noticed the Aidid proposed a cease-fire serial number. with U .S. and U.N. forces "I think it scared more of the Saturday, while speaking from a • See editorial, A14 teachers than the children," Millions call for hidden radio station, The she said. "Most of the kids going to hun them. Philadelphia Inquirer reported thought it was fake." Although Principal David Sunday. Park Elementary School was "It didn't scare me because McCarthy refused to comment Aidid also agreed to an caught with the gun after a he sits at my table and he's end to breast cancer on the incident, he held an investigation into his student saw the weapon fall always good," a classmate Open House Thursday for involvement in the June 5 attack out of the boy's bag as he was said. concerned parents who had that left 24 Pakistani U .N. getting out his lunch box, a Most of the children who The president is presented with a peacekeepers dead. The investigation will l>c petition straight from the masses. headed by an Africa n BY LARA D'ONOFRIO putting pressure on hi s office to commission, set up by Robert Someday, I'm Gonna Own This Town! Staff Reporter address the problem in the state. Oakley, an American diplomat Nearly three million women In response, Biden set up the dispatched Saturday by diagnosed with breast cancer Breast Health Education President Clinton. signed a petition presented to Committee last May to help Oakley will also work to President Clinton Oct. 8, urging inform young women about the restart peace talks with Somalian him to implement a national disease. clan leaders . strategy to end the disease. "Our goal is to visit all public Saturday, President Clinton The women who signed the high schools and speak to all said the United States should not petition represent the 2.6 million have a defining role in finding n women diagnosed with the political solution to the turmoil disease. in Somalia, the Inquirer Because October is national "Our goal is to ... reported. breast cancer awareness month, Despite that, he sent an different organizations are speak to all girls additional 5,3 00 troops as well striving to reach the public as as 100 tanks to bolster a U.S. well as policy makers in an on ... breast force now totaling 20,000 in the attempt to promote breast cancer area, the Inquirer said. research cancer." The new force includes I ,700 Self-Help for Women with Army ground troops and 3,600 Breast or Ovarian Cancer -Spokesperson for Sen. Joseph Blden Marines to be stationed offshore. (SHARE), an organization based Military forces in the in New York City, gained Somalian capi tal of Mogadishu recognition in Washington by girls on proper health care and now control all main roads and filing the petition. breast cancer," the senator's have surrounded allied bases A Spokeswoman of SHARE, spokesperson said. there. said the organization hopes She said the committee has not The mission will allow the Clinton will put more funding yet visited private schools and allied forces already in the ci.ty toward breast cancer research. universities, but plans to when it to free the forces pinned down Delaware has the highest becomes more organized. by Aidid loyalists as well as S:c~ breast cancer mortality rate. The Local physicians, nurses and up patrol s and checkpoin..ts disease is also the leading cause county council women, along downtown, The New York Tim~s of death for minority women in with Lt. Governor Ruth Ann said. the state, said a spokesperson in Minner, are some of the 25 By last Sunday, 17 U.S, Sen. Joe Biden's, D-De, office members in Biden's committee. servicemen have been killed jn who requested anonymity. Committee member Diana Somalia as well as one Bid en's spokesperson said Dickson Whitmer, a breast confirmed prisoner, Michael ).. local groups and physicians were see BREAST CANCER page A4 see SOMALIA page A3' No Vacancy BY MELANIE MANNARINO Staff Reporter Come May at UD, and 'Happy There was no room at the inn, or at any of the other local motels, Graduation' may not be the most hotels and motor lodges Jennifer Young called. often spoke two words. Young, who graduated from the university last May, said she waited too long to make reservations for her parents on graduation weekend. Her parents ended up staying 45 minutes away at a hotel in New Jersey, Young said. "It was a nightmare," she said. " I didn't even think about it until late February, early March. I was calling everywhere. It was horrible." Robin Wolfe, general manager's assistant for the Holiday Inn in Newark, agreed booking a hotel room on short notice can be a problem. "A lot of students fail to make reservations until right before graduation," Wolfe said. "But by February, we're almost completely booked." UDHISTORY CONTENTS INSIDE REVIEW KEEPING TABS On Oct. 12, 1968, Campus Flash .. A2 Section 2.......... B 1 He walks into a classroom as if he Weekly World News I Delaware Police Reports .. A2 Feature Forum .. B2 were an actor walking upon a stage. • that when Jud•·c congressional BackFlash ........ A2 The Question ...B2 James P. Crowley's voice projects to James Slater of : candidate Harris IMPACT.. ........A2 Sports .............. BS the back of the room, mesmerizing Goleta, Calif. found ' McDowell speaks to ProfFiles .......... A4 Footballloses ....... B4 and at the same time startling a handicapped students in India update ......... A3 Classifieds ............ B7 WEATHER students. On A4. woman's van in his Harrington D-E. He Editorial .............. A14 Comics ........... B4 The next few days look to be a Porsche 's parking says the urban crisis definite preview of the season to Vegetarians no longer have to search In Review & Opinion .. high and low for a meatless meal. Satori lot, he let the air out and law and order • Post on knowing real friends come. Temperatu res will remain of its tires. "My are the same First in the high 50s and low 60s, with Natural Food Restaurant on Main Street • Smith on Sexually Repressed Girl Offers a complete variety of all heart bleeds," the McDowell State problem. • Wherry on Somalia early rain today. The sun should judge sneered. come up later in the day. vegetari~n dishes. On BJ. SLATER 1\2 • THE REVIEW. October 1 2, 1993 Back Flash A look at UD The UD freshman CAMPUS FLASH happenings humbling of 1940 BROADWAY STAR TO and~ bealie 10 class. to }Dtie>, 10 diJnr PERFORM AT UD By every day . It reminds me of tb: pathetic claa:tfrs in AnmaliiOU'Ie trying 10 rush When New York Post Rob a ftalemity. entertainment writer Clive I also have a l1ll'd time ax:qJiing am Barns, a man known not to Wherry people telling me who I have 10 respect, heave praise too often, calls wlue I C31 walk liXI what I can wea-. s~eone " the greatest," you SOOild a university docire ifI C31't wea­ know the guy must be pretty Every year, like :l faithful religious my high~ letler ja:ket, <n: that I wea­ darn good. pilgrimage, in:cming freshrrrn make tre wiJhpiJeanla~of~? So when he referred to Tony jwmey 10 a small Delaw.re t.own 10 sptnl I drn 't think~ . Award winner Mandy Patinkin tbm:xt fwr yea'S atreir lives.
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