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State University MONDAY April 19, 2004 PITCHIN'AWIN: WINDY The Falcons sweep Ball HIGH: 79 I LOW: 43 State this weekend; www.bgnews.com PAGE 8 independent student press VOLUME 98 ISSUE 133 Wright, Kaminski win election By Miranda Bond Unable to beat last year's total same potential in leading, I just Current USG President losh soon as 1 can." BEPORTER of 1,586 votes, this year's election don't think it's their time," he kontak, was on site to hear the According to Kaminski, the A mere 20 voles allowed Alex yielded a total of 1,200. Out of said. "1 think one ticket made this results. Endorsing the duo plan to get in touch with stu- Wright and running mate Sara this number 1,191 voted for election and I think another Wright/Kaininski ticket, Kontak dent organizations right away BG NEWS Kaminski to squeak by candi- president. ticket won it." feels they have what it takes to and also want to begin focusing dates Jeff Nolish and Dan Burke Stacy But accord- get the job done. on voter registration. ONLINE to take this year's election for Blade and lack ng to Nolish, "I have a lot of confidence in But Kaminski can't help but president and vice president of Pence received le along with the ability of Alex and Sara to run enjoy their success for a moment EXCLUSIVE the Undergraduate Student 67 votes, running mate an effective administration," he before going to work for the Government Nolish and Dan Burke, said. University once again as USG More than 50 people gathered Burke received can't be disap- Wright and Kaminski take vice president. Checkout in front of the Union Friday to 552 votes and pointed with office today, being sworn in just "Winning is a great feeling, we hear the election results. Wright and their cam- before tonight's USG banquet. put a lot of hard work into the www.bgnews.ee The announcement brought Kaminski paigning But rest isn't on the docket for past three weeks," she said. both surprise and relief to received 572. efforts. the president-elect. for complete USf Wright. Disappoin- "I think Dan "I m going to talk to the cur- USG RESULTS 'RlGnTRNTJ "Twenty votes. Trial's a little ted with the and I gave it all rent USG piesidcnt for the next Wright Kaminski: election results. slimmer than I thought it would results, presi- SARA KAMINSKI we could," he three days," Wright said after be but I'm very excited, very dential candi- said. "We did- Friday's announcement. "I'm 572 votes happy and just thrilled," Wright date Jeff Nolish doesn't feel that n't eat enough, we didn't sleep going to sit down with our USG Nolish Burke: said. "I am relieved that it's over. Wright and Kaminski have what enough—we put everything we advisors and the current admin- It's a long campaign and I'm cer- it takes to make changes that had into the campaign. When istration with some transitional 552 votes I tainly very excited that it ended count at the University. you give it all you have, you can't meetings and I'm going to start Blade/Pence: in my favor." "1 think Alex and Sara have the be upset at that effort." working for the student body as 67 votes Columbine: GREEK WEEK five years later 2004 By Cindy Brovsky focus on today and looking at THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the positive and the future." UTTLETON, Colo. — Sean The attack at Columbine Graves knows exactly how he remains the deadliest school will observe tomorrow's fifth shooting in U.S. history. anniversary of the Columbine Harris and Klebold killed a High massacre: He will rise teacher and 12 of their class- early, head to the school mates — two outside of the before the crowds and find suburban Denver school and the exact spot where he fell 10 more huddled under after he was shot four times tables and chairs in the library and paralyzed from the waist — then killed themselves on down. April 20,1999. He'll look down at the grass More than 20 students where he lay injured and were wounded, including rubbed blood on his face to Graves and two others who make the killers, Eric Harris were partially paralyzed. and Dylan Klebold, think he Some survivors have was dead. He will place a cigar healed, moving on to college on the ground where his or careers. But others haw friend, Daniel Rohrbough, struggled — one lost her died a few feet away. mother to suicide, while oth- "Watching my friend die is ers have had their families still traumatic, but it is in the break up or plunge into finan- past," said the soft-spoken Graves, now 20. "I'm not try- ing to be mean. I just have io SURVIV0R.PAGE2 Trying to erase the past at Columbine After the shootings, the community of Littleton made New student many physical changes to entrance: remodeled and Columbine High School in an attempt to erase the landscaped with 13 memory of the trees, one for each victim OW library: torn out torai»»th«ce*ngof the cafWeria. below it: a mural of the canopy of an aspen forest hangs from the celling Columbine High School Imide DraMng it Kfwnjtc ► Carpeting replaced ► Alarm sounds changed and new dies put down » Forbidden to serve the food Ben Swinger BG News ► Additional cameras throughout Mrved *• <*8y °* *• shooting RACING AROUND: Sorority members prepare their runners before the first race on Saturday (upper left). Members of Beta Theta Pi work to raise the building and outside ►> Halls repainted the sign, signaling the beginning of the races (right). Sigma Kappa sorority sisters kick oft the first race (lower left). The Beta 500—which SOURCES J*Nr«xi Corty Sr-rffi C*». Jrf««x> County PuMc Scnooa i produced winners Sigma Phi Epsilon and Kappa Kappa Gamma— is the first event of Greek Week, sponsored by the Office of Greek Affairs. Civil war sub marine crew buried, Hunley remembered By Bruce Smith final resting place Saturday. mile and half took the crew of the and cannons rumbled across the Commission member Randy they don't deserve so high an IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS In what has been called the last Hunley, which sank outside marsh. Burbage said it was a testimony honor," said Ronald Wilson, the CHARLESTON, S.C. — Confederate funeral, the coffins Charleston Harbor, to their final "These men taught us and they to the crew that so many people commander in chief of the Sons Thousands of men in of the crew members, draped in resting place in Magnolia will teach future generations the had come to pay tribute to "eight of Confederate Veterans "It is our Confederate gray and Union blue Confederate flags, were first taken Cemetery, about five miles north. meaning of words like honor," Americans who died for a cause duty to respect and remember and women in black hoop skirts to Charleston's Battery and It took the column more than an said state Sen. Glenn McConneU, they believed in so long ago." these individuals" and veils escorted the crew of the placed in a semicircle, a wreath hour to file into the cemetery. the chairman of the South "There are some who have Fourteen Southern governors Confederate submarine H.L. set in front of each. After horse-drawn caissons Carolina Hunley Commission. scoffed at our efforts to pay trib- were invited to the ceremony, but Hunley, the first sub in history to Then, a column of the uni- brought the coffins to the breezy, "Their spirit will live beyond the ute to these men saying that sink an enemy warship, to their formed re-enactors stretching a oak-shrouded plot, rifles crackled horizon of time." because they were Confederates, SOLDIERS, PAGE 2 FOUR-DAY FORECAST TUESD*¥ WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY PM. High: 62' Scattered High: 64* Few High: 68' Partly High: 61* The four-day forecast is taken Cloudy Low: 45* from weather.com ■p* Showers Low: 47* T-storms Low: 51* Showers Low: 44* FOR Ail THE NEWS VISIT VAVW.B6NEWS.COM 2 Monday. April 19,2004 WWW.BGNEWS.COM "It's been very emotional. My father died when I was a little girl and I knew almost nothing about father's family when I Victims: staying was a child... For me it's finding my family." EMMABUSBEYOITMAN angry isn't an option Hunley crew members SURVIVOR. FROM PAGE 1 wife he couldn't handle the stress pened," he said. "It was just of their son's problems straight and simple evil — just u.il crisis. Soon afterward, his mother lost evil." Graves spent two years in gruel- her job and a grandmother died of Graves, Rohrbough and Kirklin ing rehabilitation and hasn't used breast cancer.