Volume 126, No. 101 Monday, March 20, 2017 OPINION Something to give a dam(n) about PAGE 6 The Florida Coast Guard. PHOTO VIA HANS HILLEWAERT WIKIPEDIA COMMONS CREATIVE LICENSE SPORTS Search suspended for Women knocked out of postseason missing CSU student PAGE 5 By Julia Rentsch Andrew Dillman, jumped into not told of the dangerous con- have been notifi ed. @julia_rentsch the water to help him while the ditions. The University said in a the charter captain assisted the Davis contacted the United statement that they were very Authorities have ceased to four other swimmers. States Coast Guard to report concerned to hear of what hap- search for the Colorado State Captain Todd Davis at- the incident and request assis- pened in Florida. University student who went tempted to toss Dillman a per- tance. “Our hope and our thoughts missing after being swept away sonal fl otation device, but the After three days of search- go out to the family and friends by a current in the Pass-A- wind caught it and blew it in the ing the Pinellas County Sher- of the two missing men as the Grille channel near the Gulf of opposite direction. i ’s O ce announced they search continues,” CSU spokes- Mexico. Authorities believe the men changed focus from a search- man Mike Hooker wrote in an CSU students were on were caught in the fast-moving and-rescue mission to a recov- email to the Collegian. “We spring break March 13-17. On current pulling them toward ery operation, which ended hope for the safety of rescue Tuesday, March 14, 15 CSU stu- the Gulf of Mexico and were Sunday. crews as they continue the dents were on a charter boat o not wearing personal fl otation The United States Coast search, and we will work to of- of Shell Key in Pinellas County, devices. Authorities also re- Guard and the Florida Fish and fer whatever support we can to Florida when fi ve of them de- ported that alcohol may have Wildlife Commission assisted the students and families in- cided to go swimming. been involved, as it was on deputies in these rescue e orts volved.” A&C One of the swimmers was board the vessel and there were with no success. If you know any CSU stu- Jie Luo, a senior business ma- many empty bottles. 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But date Saddam Waheed got o due to documentation issues ter that night.” people – the people who sup- that made me happy and so his third plane at Denver In- with his and his wife’s visas. But Waheed woke up one ported him while he was barred I want to make her see all of ternational Airport after 40 First, Waheed said the em- morning to good news: his fa- from the U.S. that.” hours of travel, his fi rst words bassy lost his wife’s DS-2019 ther told him that he heard that “The people in Colorado Erin Douglas can be to describe the last two months form, the basic document used the new order was unlikely to are really great,” Waheed said. reached at [email protected] were: “It was like Mission Im- in the administration of the ex- include Iraq. And, after sever- possible.” change visitor program. Then al weeks of trial and error with Waheed, who is studying he said she was issued the in- the embassy, Waheed fi nally hydrology engineering at CSU, correct visa, a J1 instead of a obtained visas for himself and found himself barred from the J2, so he had to send it back. Fi- his new wife, Maryam Alobaidy. United States after traveling nally Waheed’s visa was issued “(When we got the visas) I home to Iraq on a family trip in with a misspelling in his last felt like a dream existed now,” late January. President Donald name, so he had to send back Waheed said. “I felt alive from Trump’s travel ban by execu- his own for a correction. the dead.” tive order temporarily barred “I don’t know if that mis- Though Waheed was able green card or visa holders from take was (intentional),” Wa- to gain entry back into the entering the U.S. if they were heed said. “I don’t know if they United States to fi nish his de- coming from one of seven Mus- meant that.” gree, he said he would not re- lim nations – Iraq included. While Waheed was work- turn to see his family until after In the weeks following the ing to correct his visas during graduation – he does not want executive order Waheed said the restraining order, the Pres- to risk it. every new action taken by the ident’s administration was “I don’t advise any Iraqi President was like a bullet, but working to reinstate the trav- students here to do what I did, every fi ght against it was like a el ban. When news broke that because it is hard,” Waheed breath of fresh air.