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woman walking a ferret. River."
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asked her why she was walking her to her chest and storm
ferret. She responed by whipping PETER SCI
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because he was an escape artist.
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piece of sourdough bread, she told
me a story about how once the win- One fall night lat
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and her ferret managed to slip out. strolled down to th
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ne friends. We
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- I'm sure you
d sat down to
es coming from
the adjacent path. We sat in silence
waiting to see what was going on.
From the path came several guys
leading someone with a black hood
over his head. They were hissing and
making all sorts of eerie noises. One
came up to us and told us to make
hissing noises to help them out.
"We're hazing a pledge," he said.
They knelt him down facing the val-
ley and ripped the hood from the
pledge's head.
"Where areyou?" theyasked.
"Garcia's grave, sir!"
"Who are you?"
"Garcia's pledge, sir!"
The tirade continued as we
watched in awed silence.
The hissing men offered the
pledge some him quiet encourage-
ment as they plodded through the
ritual, raw terror tripping his words.
Suddenly, they replaced the hood,
stood up the pledge and walked off,
still hissing.
We satinbewilderedsilence,shocked
by the glimpse into ahidden world.
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Katie McMahon, co-chair of University Students
Against Cancer, takes part ina cancer research fund-
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CRIME NOTES
Laundry stolen
WHERE: Parker House,
Baits I Residence Hall
WHEN: Yesterday at about
1:55 a.m.
WHAT: Clothingvalued
at $65 was stolen from a
student while the student
was doing laundry, the
Department of Public Safe-
ty reported. Police have no
suspects.
Vending
machine
damaged
WHERE: Alice Lloyd
Residence Hall
WHEN: Sunday at about
10:10 p.m.
WHAT: A vending
machine was kicked in and
cracked, police reported,
causing $75 in damage.
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Water leaks
through ceiling
WHERE: Herbert H. Dow
Building
WHEN: Sunday at about
7 p.m.
WHAT: During an experi-
ment, a student reported
water leaking on the floor.
Ceiling tiles were damaged,
totaling about $300 in
damage, DPS reported.
Car damaged
during valet
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Medical Center
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8:15 p.m.
WHAT: A visitor's 1997
Ford Taurus suffered dam-
age to the steering column
after the car was parked by
valet. The damage totals
about $200, DPS reported.
Lecture on
Asian images
and religion
WHAT: A lecture about
what the contents of religious
statues can tell us about local
religion in China
WHO: Prof. James Robson,
Stern Faculty Fellow in the
Institute for the Humanities
WHEN: Today from noon to
1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Room 2022 202 S.
Thayer St.
WinterFest
2007
WHAT: An organizational
fair showcasing more than
150 student groups giving
them mid-year opportunities
for recruitment and adver-
tisement.
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Leadership
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p.m.
WHERE: Second floor,
Michigan Union
Public speaking
forum in the
Union
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participants gain confidence
and learn how to deliver a
prepared speech
WHO: Discover Your Voice
WHEN: Today from 6:30 to
8 p.m.
WHERE: Pond Room,
Michigan Union
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Researchers in Scotland
have genetically modified
hens to produce pharma-
ceutical drugs in the whites of
their eggs. The antibody miR24,
which is used for treating
malignant melanoma, and other
protein-based pharmaceuticals
can be produced at high levels
in these hens, NPR reported.
China vowed yesterday
to address the country's
growing gender imbal-
ance by improving protection
of infant girls by increasing
the punishment of those who
perform abortions based on the
sex of the baby, according to
MSNBC.
AIDS Healthcare Foun-
dation, a nonprofit AIDS
organization, sued Pfizer
Inc. for using ads that encour-
age the use of Viagra as a party
drug, Reuters reported.
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Trial expected to
be most macabre in
Canadian history
NEW WESTMINSTER, Brit-
ish Columbia (AP) - A Canadian
pig farmer confessed to killing 49
women and was caught before he
could reach his goal of making it an
even 50, prosecutors told jurors at
the start of his murder trial yester-
day.
Robert William Pickton, 56,
has been charged with killing 26
women, mostly prostitutes and
drug addicts who vanished from
Vancouver's impoverished Down-
town Eastside neighborhood in the
1990s.
Prosecutor Derrill Prevett
stunned the courtroom by saying
that Pickton told investigators,
including an undercover officer
planted in his jail cell, that he had
slain 49 women.
"I was going to do one more and
make it an even 50," Prevett quoted
Pickton as telling investigators. "I
made my own grave by being slop-
py."
Pickton told one officer that he
would be "nailed to the cross" and
described himself as a mass mur-
derer who deserved to be on death
row, Prevett claimed.
Pickton has pleaded not guilty
to six counts of first degree murder
in what is expected to be the most
macabre and lengthy murder trial
in Canadian history. The other 20
counts are expected to be heard at
a later trial. If convicted, he faces
life in prison. Canada abolished the
death penalty in 1976.
Defense lawyer Peter Ritchie
told jurors that Pickton did not kill
or participate in the murders of
the six women covered in the first
trial.
Ritchie asked the jury to pay
closeattentiontoPickton'sdemean-
or in the videotapes with his inter-
rogators, in particular his level of
sophistication. He asked the jury
to listen closely to details regard-
ing Pickton's relationship with his
brother, David.
The brothers reared pigs on the
family's 17-acre farm outside Van-
couver, where investigators say the
Picktons threw drunken raves with
prostitutes and drugs. After Robert
Pickton's arrest in February 2002,
health officials issued a tainted
meat advisory to neighbors who
may have bought pork from his
farm, concerned that it may have
contained human remains.
David Pickton, who has not
been accused in the murders, told
The Associated Press in December
that he intended to raise cattle on
the property, now surrounded by
townhouses.
Ritchie did not address Pickton's
alleged murder confessions in his
opening statement.
"This case will unfold slowly;
this case is complicated," he said.
The first trial covers the mur-
ders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona
Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda
Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie
Frey.
Before the opening statements,
British Columbia Supreme Court
Justice James Williams warned the
seven male and five female jurors
that some of the evidence and wit-
ness testimony would be horrific.
"Some of the evidence to which
you will be exposed to during the
trial will be shocking and is likely
to be upsetting. I must ask each of
you to deal with that the best you
can," he said.
Some of those shocking details
came immediately.
Prevett said the government
would prove that Pickton mur-
dered six women, butchered their *
remains and then disposed of them.
He told the jury that as a successful
pig farmer, Pickton had the exper-
tise, equipment means to dispose of
the victims' remains.
The prosecution is expected to
call about 240 witnesses, including
relatives of the victims.
When police first went out to
investigate at the farm in 2002,
they found two skulls in a bucket
inside a freezer in Pickton's mobile
home, Prevett said.
DNA testing would later iden-
tify the skulls as those belonging to
Abotsway and Joesbury, two miss-
ing sex workers from Vancouver's
Downtown Eastside.
He said both skulls had wounds
caused by 22-caliber bullets. He 0
said investigators found a Smith
& Wesson rifle on a shelf in the
laundry room of Pickton's mobile
home.
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takes credit for
downed copter
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - An al-
Qaida-linked coalition of Iraqi
Sunni insurgents claimed yes-
terday that its fighters shot down
an American military helicopter,
an Army Black Hawk, in a crash
that killed 12 U.S. soldiers. The
U.S. military has said the cause of
the crash has not yet been deter-
mined.
The insurgent coalition, the
Islamic State in Iraq, posted the
claim on an Islamic website, say-
ing that "the lions of Iraq's Islamic
state managed to down a Black
Hawk on Saturday, which was fol-
lowed by a clash with the Crusad-
ers, and that led to the destruction
of two Humvees and the annihila-
tion of those inside, thanks be to
God."
The posting's authenticity could
not be independently verified, but
it appeared on a website used as a
clearing house for militant state-
ments.