Friday, March 9, 2001

1) World news roundup
2) Campus events

SPORTS IN BRIEF

WEATHER FORECAST

Today: Cloudy with a mixture of light snow and rain. High 42.
And then, the waters parted…

Tonight: Partly cloudy. Low 29.
A path opened across the sea

Saturday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 40s.
And the weary travelers embarked on their journey to the land of milk and honey: Cancun.

Sunday: Partly cloudy. Highs in the mid 50s.
Let the exodus begin…

TODAY’S SHARPLES MENU

Lunch: Beef with broccoli, jasmine rice, *three bean casserole, eggplant creole, veggie blend, fortune cookies
**Wrap bar

Dinner: Tandoori chicken, oven-roasted potatoes, *tabbouleh, baby carrots, peas
**Pizza bar

NEWS REPORT

1) World news roundup

The House of Representatives passed a major component of President Bush’s $1.6 trillion tax cut plan yesterday in a 230-198 vote. The bill calls for cuts in income tax rates to the tune of $958 billion over the next 10 years and now will go before the closely-divided Senate. The House vote was largely along party lines, with 10 Democrats and no Republicans crossing over.

A video made by school shooting supect Andrew Williams just a month before Monday’s violence shows the student complaining about Santee High School and his peers. Williams made the tape for his friends in Knoxville, Maryland, where he moved from recently. Meanwhile, an email was sent to students at Santee threatening to complete “what Andy had started.” In response, school officials beefed up campus security and held a school-wide meeting to discuss the issue, while police are investigating the email’s source.

Cenus results for New Jersey, Mississippi, Virginia, and Wisconsin were released yesterday as the first of 2000’s count. These initial tabulations showed that hundreds of thousands of Americans choose to define themselves as multiracial, an option that had never previously been offered before. Unfortunately, an accurate comparison cannot be made between this past year’s Census and 1990 the latest count provided 63 racial choices while the previous Census had only 5.

2) Campus events

SPORTS UPDATE