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CAMPUS NEWS
Angels play their way to big yNona News Brief
tournament victory and
their second NCAA bid
Angels will face
Randolph Macon
College tonight In their
first-round game.
TIFFANY ADAMS
Managing Editor
The Meredith Angels
won the North Carolina -
Georgia basketball tourna
ment in Decatur, Ga., this
past weekend, defeating
both Agnes Scott College
and Peace College.
Meredith beat Agnes
Scott in Friday's tourna
ment game 86-43.
Hatchell said, "We
jimiped on them early and
led throughout the game
with a half-time score of
46-25. We coasted, through
the second half, and every
one got to play."
Leading scorers for
Meredith in the Agnes
Scott game were Tracy
Sumner with 18 points,
Beth Vernon with 13
points, and Amber Scott
with 13 points.
Meredith beat local rival
for the second game of the
tournament. The Angels led
Peace early on with a half-
time score of 46-30.
Leading scorers for the
final game were Tracy
Sumner with 20 points,
Beth Vernon and Amber
Scott with 14 points each,
and Ruth Stephenson and
Tina Harkness with 10
points each.
In addition to wiiming
the tournament, for the sec*
ond time in three years the
team came home with a
National Collegiate
Athletic Association
(NCAA) bid to the
Division III National
Basketball Tournament.
The NCAA is a voluntary
association of approximate
ly 1,200 colleges, universi
ties, atfiletic conferences
and sporte oi^anizations.
Ei^teen first-round
games are scheduled for
March 5 and 16 second-
round games for March 8.
Second-round winners will
advance to one of four sec
tional sites scheduled for
Winners of the four sec
tional games will advance
to the finals held on March
21 and March 22. All
games, except the fmals,
will be played on the cam
puses of competing institu
tions. The fmals will be
played at Hulbert Arena,
Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology in Terre Haute,
Ind.
Meredith will play in a
first-round game tonight
against Randolph Macon
College at Randolph
Macon at 7 p.m.
Good
Angels!
ANDREA
(illXIKIN
Staff Reporter
• Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed, the al Qaeda
leader who is believed to
be the top planner of the
Sept. 11 attacks, was arrest
ed by U.S. officials. The
capture of Mohammed was
a real breakthrough in the
war on terrorism.
Mohammed can be linked
to every al Qaeda attack in
the last five years,
e Iraq has said this week
that it will not continue
destroying missiles if the
U.S. keeps pushing for mil
itary action against them.
Iraqi General al-Saadi said
that Iraq has meet Hans
Blix’s deadline by destroy
ing 10 missiles,
e Jacques Chirac, presi
dent of France, visited
Algeria this week, maridng
the first visit they have had
by a French president since
gaining independence fi-om
France in 1962. Chirac
gave Algeria’s President
Abdeliziz Bouteflika the
silver seal of the last ruler
of the Algerians, which
was taken by French forces
in 1830.
e Two suspected mem
bers of the Italian the Red
Brigades were caught this
week. Desdemona Lioce,
who has been hiding from
officials since 1995, and a
partner were caught on a
train when they pulled a
pistol on the train worker
who was checking identifi
cation papers. The fight left
one Italian policeman killed
and another injured.
• Turkey may reconsider
tfie vote to let U.S. troops
into their country. The
request for U.S. military
space in Turicey was turned
down earlier this week.
Recep tayyip Erdogan,
leader of the ruling Justice
and Development Party,
said, "If deeiiied necessary,
this step [a second motion]
will be taken."
e Police are staging a
reconstruction of the last
day of the American artist
Margaret Muller, who was
killed while jogging in
London. Muller, 27, was
killed in Victoria Paik on
Feb. 3. The police hope the
reconstruction will help
retrace the steps leading up
to the murder and possibly
help find Muller's killer.
Peace College on Saturday March 14 and March 15.
Meredith Herald
Editor in Chief. Christy Sadler
sadlerc@meredith.edu
Managing Editor. Tiffany Adams
News Editor. LaDonna Logue
Features Editor. Maigaret Ann Cooney
Copy Editor. Hassie Hughes
Business Manager. Aundrea Hildreth
Advertising Manager Jennifer Glaser
Foragn Con«spondent Joni Smith
Copy Desk Lori Anderson
Cartoonist Merrily SUickland
Photographer. Julie Stansbury
Faculty Adviser Dr. Rebecca Duncan
Staff Reporters Jenna Austin, Rebecca Barringer, Elizabeth Evans. Andrea Gillikin,
Katelyn Gonlon, Julie Holl«tian, Kasey Overton, Lindsay Saunders, Julie Stansbury
and Jessie Willson
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