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Outside
World
Suspicious Taliban
center searched
Osama bin Laden may have been
doing research on chemical, bio
logical or nuclear weapons at more
than 40 sites inside Afghanistan,
Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. war
commander, said Nov. 27.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon ordered
airstrikes on an Afghan compound
southeast of Kandahar after receiv
ing information that was being used
by senior leaders of the T aliban, Al-
Qaeda and another alleged terrorist
group. Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld said.
“We'll perform the tests that need
to be performed at every possible
facility,” Franks said. He did not
say whether any conclusive evidence
had been found.
Schools sued for
displaying Ten
Commadments
A civil-liberties group sued four
counties Nov. 27 for posting the
Ten Commandments in court
houses, extending a campaign that
brought down the religious text
from government buildings in other
Kentucky towns.
The American Civil Liberties
Union of Kentucky filed separate
federal lawsuits against Garrard,
Grayson, Mercer and Rowan coun
ties.
Named as defendants are the
counties and their j udge-executives.
The ACLU and a handful of resi
dents in each county are plaintiffs.
The suits contend the courthouse
postings represent an endorsement
of religion in violation of the U.S.
Constitution. Garrard County also
was singled out for posting the com
mandments in the county-owned
hospital.
In each suit, the ACLU asks for a
court order to force the counties to
take down the commandments in
government buildings. The organi
zation is not asking for damages but
wants the defendants to pay its at
torneys’ fees.
Judge dismisses
Columbine suits
A judge is allowing only one Col
umbine High victims' lawsuit
against sheriff and school officials
to proceed.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock
dismissed the other claims Nov.
27, ruling that authorities re
sponded reasonably to an “unprec
edented and rapidly evolving vio
lent situation.”
“Holding police officers liable in
hindsight for every injurious conse
quence of their actions would para
lyze the functions of law enforce
ment,” he wrote in another of the
nine decisions.
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
shot and killed 12 students and a
teacher and wounded more than
two dozen others before taking their
own lives April 20, 1999, at the
high school near Littleton, Colo.
The remaining lawsuit was filed
by relatives of teacher Dave Sand
ers, who bled to death before rescu
ers reached him several hours after
the massacre.
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Recycling
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much of the computer wiring in
the buildings, and Dan Millspaugh
of the art department, who sal
vaged 300 pounds ofbrass fixtures
to use for casting in his sculpture
classes.
“We have been trying to get
something like this done for a
long time, and now other institu
tions are contacting us to see how
it was done,” said Patzig.
Some of the salvaged metal will
be used by UNCA art students to
construct new bike racks, while
art students who can’t afford new
metal will be able to use the brass
as well, said Millspaugh.
“The idea of recycling the dorms
makes great sense,” said
Millspaugh.
“Why fill the landfill with good
materials when it is all reusable? In
this time of non-existent budgets
and shrinking resources, it only
makes sense to recycle,” said
Millspaugh.
The recycling saved money, fuel
and landfill space, according to
Randy Williams, construction
projects coordinator at UNCA.
“The benefits of this project are
tremendous,” said Williams. “The
state of North Carolina has done a
good thing here.”
Plants from the buildings have been
moved to other campus locations,
brush has been mulched for campus
use, and trees that were unable to be
saved were milled for lumber to be
used on other campus projects, ac
cording to the news release.
“This was a real victory for students
who want to make careers out of
environmental change,” said Star-
ling.
The project was based, in part, on a
program set forth by LEED, or Lead
ership in Energy and Environmental
Design, according to Braese.
American South General Contrac
tors, Inc. of Sanford, N.C. is the
general contractor for the construc
tion project, and their willingness to
cooperate with a project like this was
necessary in seeing the project to
fruition, said Baxley.
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All re-usable parts were removed from Craig Hall.
Fires
continued from page 1
Asheville Citiz^n-Times.
Three large fires were burning in
North Carolina and Tennessee.
One in Cook County, TN; one in
the Great Smoky Mountain Na
tional Park in Swain County, N.C,
Carolina; and one in Hot Springs
in Madison County, N.C.
The fires in Swain and Madison
Counties were contained on
Nov.20, but not before setting sev
eral thousand acres ablaze.
The fire in Madison County
burned 2,943 acres before it was
contained.
These fires and many more are
said to have started as a result of
arson.
There is a $5,000 reward being
offered for any information that
will aid in the arrest and conviction
of the arsonist, according to the
Asheville Citizen-Times.
The fires themselves, however,
have not been the only danger that
has come of this.
The smoke that choked the re
gion posed a threat to people as
well.
Smoke from the Madison fire
drifted into Buncombe County on
Nov. 15, and lingered for several
days. Emergency workers fielded
dc'/;ens of calls from residents want
ing to know where the fire was,
convinced that something big was
burning in Buncombe , according
to t\\e Asheville Citizen-Times.
The smoke had the potential to
cause many people health prob
lems.
Everyone- from healthy people to
those with poor lung functions-
could experience some minor to
more serious problems if the smoke'
persists, according to an article in
the Citizen-Times. I
“Anytime the air quality is
decresaed by a pollutant (not just
smoke), people with dicreased abil
ity to use their lungs, such as those
with emphysema, could experience
problems like experiencing a tight
ness in the chest,” said Dr. Scott
Langford, who works in the Mis-
sion-St. Joseph’s emergency room,
in an interview with the Citizen-
Times.
The weather’s front that moved
in during the Thanksgiving holi
day dispersed the smoke from the
Asheville area.
Thefts
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patrol, also. It’s not like an officer
hadn’t come through there, it’s
just that we have so many build
ings that we lock at night,” said
Adam.s.
The thief managed to enter and
leave Owen Hall when public
safety officers were elsewhere, said
Adams.
“We really hadn’t done anything
different there, because that’s just
our standard procedure,” said
Adams.
When a theft occurs in a certain
part of campus, public safety takes
additional steps to make sure it
does not happen again, said
Adams.
There will probably not be any
change in the hours that Owen
stays open, but it may become
more difficult for people to get
access to particular areas at night,
said Adams.
“The building is locked at night,
but there are people who have
building passes in order to go in
there and work at night,” said
Adams. “Those people are in there
and sometimes a door gets propped
open, sometimes people that aren’t
really supposed to be in there get
in.”
“There are security concerns
there,” said Adams.
The Blue Banner Weather
Seven Day Forecast
THURSDAY
-ii ^ Rain / Showers
' •' High: 63 Low: 49
Local Almanac Last Week
FRIDAY
Morning Rain
High: 57 Low: 41
tiy SATURDAY
Partly Cloudy
' High: 59 Low: 35
Uy SUNDAY
Partly Cloudy
High: 56 Low: 33
MONDAY
Partly Cloudy
High: 57 Low: 32
TUESDAY
Partly Cloudy
High: 54 Low: 32
(j,- WEDNESDAY
Mostly Cloudy
High: 58 Low: 34
Day
High Low Normals Precip
Wednesday
56
25
58/35
0.00"
Thursday
60
23
57/34
0.00"
Friday
57
34
57/34
0.71”
Saturday
62
51
57/34
0.33”
Sunday
71
46
56/34
0.16"
Monday
72
38
56/33
Trace
Tuesday
72
48
56/33
0.06"
Precipitation for the week 1.26"
Normal precipitation for the week .... 0.84"
Departure from normal for the week . . -1-0.42"
Precipitation for the year 31.99"
Normal precipitation for year to date . 43.71"
Departure from normal for the year . . -11.72"
* Precipitation includes snow converted to rainfall
Nov. 29, 2
Temps Last Wi
Local High / Low Temps Ul
North Carolina Recreational Forecast
An area of low pressure with an associated cold front will move through
the state today and early Friday, producing cloudy skies and a 70 to 80
percent chance of rain. High pressure will take control this weekend,
resulting in partly cloudy skies and seasonable temperatures. A weak
trough of low pressure will move through the state early next week, but no precipitation
is expected. Clouds will increase by the middle of next week in advance of a cold front
that will bring precipitation late next week. High temperatures will be in the 50s and
60s. Low temperatures will fall in the 30s and 40s.
Lst Qtr
12/7
Day
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
Thu
7:20
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
4:44 p.m.
5:54 a.m.
Fri
7:21
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
5:23 p.m.
6:57 a.m.
Sat
7:21
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
6:09 p.m.
8:02 a.m.
Sun
7:22
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
7:03 p.m.
9:06 a.m.
Mon
7:23
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
8:04 p.m.
10:07 a.m.
Tue
7:24
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
9:10 p.m.
11:01 a.m.
Wed
7:25
a.m.
5:17
p.m.
10:19 p.m.
11:49 a.m.
New
12/14
1st Qtr
12/22
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National Weather Summary This Week
, A strong area of low pressure will move through the northeastern United
^ States to end this week, bringing a combination of rain and snow. A cold
front extending out of this low will bring showers and a few thunder-
storms along with breezy conditions down the Atlantic seaboard. A
weak cold front will move through the Great Lakes states this weekend,
creating a few snow showers. A strong cold front will move into the Pacific Coast states
this weekend, bringing rain in the lower elevations with snow in the higher inland ele
vations. A second cold front will move into the Pacific Northwest by the middle of next
week, producing another round of inclement weather. This front will move into the east
ern United States by the end of next week.
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Weather Triv
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erally flow around hi;,
and low pressure system
Answer: Counterclockwise
low; clockwise around a hii
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