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Tuesday, October 2, 2007 | The Red & Black
UGA TODAY
► Seminar Know Your
Status. Sponsored by the Career *
Center. Part of the International
Students Career Preparation
Series. For international students
only. Immigration attorney Bonnie
Youn delivers the lecture.
3 to 5 p.m. Memorial Ballroom.
Contact: 706-542-3375
► Odum School Ice Cream
Social: Sponsored by the
President’s Office. The
University community is invited to
celebrate the launch of the Odum
School with an ice cream social.
4 p.m. Ecology Courtyard.
Contact: 706-542-6013,
anlsaj@uga.edu
► Heartsaver “Save a Life”
CPR Training: Sponsored by
University Health Center.
General CPR training for stu
dents, faculty and staff. Class
size limited; register in advance
at 706-542-8695. 5 to 8 p.m.
University Health Center
► Lecture: Art Historian Oleg
Grabar. This lecture was made
possible through the generous
support of Shouky and Doris
Shaheen 5:30 p.m. 117 Visual
Arts Building. Contact:
706-542-1511, artinfo@uga.edu
► Orgullo Hispano: Part of
Hispanic Heritage Month.
Successful Latinos talk about
their take on Latino pride and
their connection to their own heri
tage as they discuss their strug
gles, achievements and journey
from their native countries to the
U.S. 7 to 9 p.m. Student Learning
Center. Contact: kablooy@uga.
edu
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CLARIFICATION
The story “Class sizes
rise, faculty decline” in
Monday’s edition
should have said the
position senior vice
president for academic
affairs and provost was
an expansion of the
duties of the former
position vice president
for academic affairs.
Editor-in-Chief:
Juanita Cousins
(706) 433-3027
jcousins@randb.com
Managing Editor:
Matthew Grayson
(706) 433-3026
mgrayson@randb.com
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Memphis football player shot, killed
MEMPHIS, Tenn. A
University of Memphis
football player was fatally
shot on campus in what
police believe was a tar
geted attack, and classes
were canceled Monday as
a precaution.
Taylor Bradford, 21,
apparently was shot near a
university housing complex
at about 9:45 p.m. Sunday,
and then crashed the car
he was driving into a tree a
short distance away on
campus, officials said.
“We found him with a
bullet wound to the body
and the ambulance took
him to the hospital where
he was pronounced
(dead),” said Roger
Prewitt, a Memphis Police
inspector.
Detectives investigating
the shooting received
reports of gunfire being
heard in a parking lot of
the housing complex about
200 yards from where
Bradford was found, police
Man with explosives arrested near U.S. Embassy
VIENNA, Austria A Bosnian
who tried to eijter the U.S.
Embassy in Vienna with a back
pack filled with explosives, nails
and Islamic literature was arrest
ed Monday after the bag set off a
metal detector and the man fled
on foot, authorities said.
Police sealed off the neighbor
hood as a precaution and shut
down or rerouted nearby bus and
tram lines. Officers patrolled the
area with bomb-sniffing dogs.
The suspect was described as a
42-year-old native of Bosnia-
Herzegovina who lives in the prov
ince of Lower Austria, which encir
cles most of the capital. Police said
they made the arrest a short dis
tance from the embassy in a neigh
borhood where security is tight.
AU searching for missing
peacekeepers after attack
EL FASHER, Sudan African
peacekeepers searched for more
than 20 members of their force still
missing and feared wandering the
wilderness of Darfur Monday after
rebels overran their base in an
The Wire
spokeswoman Monique
Martin said.
Homicide detectives
were unsure of a motive for
the shooting and had no
suspects, she said. “That’s
all still under investiga
tion.”
University President
Shirley Raines said wit
nesses told police they saw
more than one person leav
ing the scene who could
have been involved.
In an e-mail alert to fac
ulty, staff and students at
3:40 a.m. Monday, officials
wrote “the initial investi
gation indicates this was
an act directed specifically
toward the victim and was
not a random act of vio
lence.”
The university decided
to cancel classes Monday,
although police believe the
person or persons involved
in the shooting left the
campus immediately.
Associated Press
NEWS BRIEFS
unprecedented attack that
stunned the international force.
The attack Sunday on the
Haskanita base in northern Darfur
illustrated the region’s chaos
ahead of peace talks later this
month —and the dangers that
could face a bigger United Nations
force due to start deploying in
coming weeks.
A Nigerian army spokesman
said the deadliest attack on
peacekeepers in Darfur could
prompt his country which leads
the current African Union mission
to reconsider its commitment
to trying to calm the continent’s
hotspots. That also could prove
catastrophic for the bigger, joint
AU-U.N. force largely African
that is due to be deployed in
Darfur later this month and
assume responsibility for the area
on Dec. 31.
State Department spokesman
Tom Casey told reporters “there
is no reason for any forces, wheth
er they are aligned with the gov-
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MIKE BROWN Associated Press
▲ University of Memphis football players, including linebacker Quinton
McCrary, right, visit a memorial at the site in Memphis, Tenn., Monday,
where teammate Taylor Bradford’s car hit a tree after he was shot
Sunday evening. Bradford, 21, was pronounced dead in a hospital.
emment or the rebels, to be
attacking AU peacekeepers.”
Judge grants Federiine
custody of young sons
LOS ANGELES A judge on
Monday ordered Britney Spears
to turn over cus
tody of her two ~~ T
young sons to ex
husband Kevin
Federiine this
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Gordon ruled
Federiine wiU take
custody of Sean _ “
Preston, 2, and SPEARS
Jayden James, 1,
beginning Wednesday “until fur
ther order of the court.”
Warmer weather ‘wiped
out’ pumpkin production
BUFFALO, W.Va.— There’s
trouble brewing in the pumpkin
patch.
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Scorching weather and lack of
rain this summer wiped out some
pumpkin crops from western New
York to Illinois, leaving fields dot
ted with undersized fruit. Other
fields got too much rain and their
crops rotted.
Pumpkin production is predict
ed to be down for the second
straight year. U.S. Department of
Agriculture figures show a slight
production decrease from 2005 to
2006 in what the department esti
mates is a SIOO million-a-year
industry.
“If you’ve got to have them for
your 5-year-olds, I certainly would
not wait a long time to get them,”
said Steve Bogash, a Penn State
University horticulture educator
who works with about 1,600
Pennsylvania vegetable growers.
A lack of rain in July and Aug
ust seems to have hurt the most.
Hot, dry weather causes pump
kins to produce too many male
blossoms and too few female ones.
Farmers also can blame drought
for lighter weights because of a
lack of water.
Associated Press