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The University Daily Kansan
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Deaths shake University of Georgia
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Memorial service held for 11 students
ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia student newspaper usually is filled on Monday mornings with stories of overzealous weekend partying or sports results. But this semester, death has pushed it all off the front page.
Since January, 11 young students on this campus of 30,000 have died of various causes — a heart attack, cancer, a drug overdose, a wreck on the way home for Easter and a fraternity prank gone wrong.
"This is not a tally sheet. Each one of these people is the most important thing."
The campus has been shaken by so much death among those so young. Three weeks ago, the death toll was eight, and school officials scheduled a memorial service at sunset yesterday. Since the scheduling, three more
Rick Rose
Assistant vice president
"It's profoundly sad," said Rick Rose, an assistant vice president whose job is to offer the university's condolences to parents and friends of students who die.
students have died.
The University of Georgia never has lost more than eight students in one term. Any more than three in a semester is out of the ordinary.
At yesterday's service, the chapel bell, usually silent except for victorious football Saturdays and late-night student pranks, was to toll once for each lost life. "This is not a talot声" Dose
"This is not a tally sheet," Rose
The idea, administrators said,
was to get the campus to think of
the deaths as more than just a
number.
said. "Each one of these people is the most important thing."
"I still can't get over it," said Travis Denison, a member of the university's student government whose friend Chris Moseley was killed in a car accident March 11.
As the toll climbed late in the semester, he said, students opened the campus paper every Monday almost expecting to read about another death.
"Every weekend they were dying." he said. "It's so hard to believe."
The students left behind mourning families across the state, from the beaches of St. Simons Island to the suburbs of Atlanta
Only one of the deaths received much attention outside this college town: Ben Grantham, a 20-year-old student from St. Simons Island, was killed in a late March car crash that authorities say
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was a fraternity initiation prank. Grantham was riding in the cargo hold of an Alpha Tau Omega brother's sport-utility vehicle, handcuffed and possibly blindfolded, when the vehicle flipped and hit a tree, police said.
The most recent death was that of Katie Elizabeth Turner, a first-year graduate student from Columbus who died April 22 of lymphoma — the second student to die that weekend.
"All these students, they don't realize this of course, but we kind of think of them as more than just numbers." Rose said. "More than just names on a transcript. We get attached to them in ways they don't even realize."
Castro leads largest May Day march in years
The Associated Press
HAVANA — Fidel Castro took an active role in May Day festivities for the first time in years yesterday, marching in the parade and ending a speech with a cell phone call to Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who is fighting to bring his son, Elian, home to Cuba.
Castro grasped a Cuban flag and led hundreds of thousands of people through the streets of Havana.
The 73-year-old leader guided the crowd from Havana's Plaza of the Revolution to the U.S. Interests Section almost two miles away.
"Fidel! Fidel!" chanted the crowd, obviously delighted by his participation in the annual march that traditionally involves workers.
Earlier, Castro gave a speech before a crowd of hundreds of thousands. He praised the Cuban people for their tenacity during the fight to bring 6-year-old Elian home.
Despite his years, the graying leader walked briskly to the U.S. Interests Section. Castro spoke with Elian's grandmothers outside the American mission.
Although May Day marches in Cuba regularly draw hundreds of thousands of people, this one appeared to be the largest in years. The turnout reflected the importance the communist government has placed on its battle to bring Ellan back.
During his speech, Castro accused a Cuban-American terrorist mob of fighting to keep Elian in the United States.
Castro said he was not convinced that an appeals court in Atlanta, which has set a May 11 hearing, will rule in favor of Elian's father. Father and son are staying in the United States pending the hearing on a request by their Miami relatives for a political asylum hearing for the boy.
After the speech, Castro spoke by telephone with Juan Gonzalez as the crowd looked on.
"It is Juan Miguel," Castro said.
"On behalf of the children, of all the companions there, he sends a special greeting for all of our people." The crowd roared approval. Many in the crowd wore pictures of a smiling Ellian with his father pinned to their shirts.
It was Castro's first speech at a May Day celebration in years. During recent May 1 gatherings, Castro has presided over marches but has left the podium to labor
Castro: Enaded a speech with a cell phone call to Juan Miguel Gonzalez
leaders and other top officials.
Eilan's case has absorbed Cubans and their government since Nov. 25, when the boy was found floating on an inner tube off the Florida coast following a boating accident that killed his mother and 10 others.
The castaway found himself at the center of an international custody battle. His Miami relatives are fighting to keep him in the United States, while his father is demanding to take the boy back to Cuba.
Elian was reunited with his father in Washington last week after a raid of the Miami relatives' home. Armed agents whisked the boy away and flew him to his dad. The raid has been criticized by the Miami relatives and many of their supporters in South Florida's Cuban-American community, as well as by conservative members of Congress.
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