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About 4,000 more Muslim men among at least 15,000 thought to have been captured in the fall of Srebrenica reached friendly territory in Tuzla after eluding rebel Serbs on a hazardous six-day, 60-mile trek through forests and over mountains. (A Bosnian army spokesman said some received help from the special army units.) "It was a desperate run, but we knew we would be killed or worse, otherwise," Azem Alkanovic, a 38-year-old policeman, told the Associated Press. "There were dozens and dozens of dead bodies on my trail. If you found a wounded...
...however, not all bad. Residents generally seemed to appreciate the spacious singles and the kitchen facilities in each room. Everyone liked the continental breakfasts catered in our funky common room during reading period. And the quick walk to the Quad for dinner (instead of the trek to the heinous Union and its interminable line) was a delight...
...bring Band-Aids. You don't want to have to trek a couple of blocks to UHS because you cut your finger. Note: when your international roommate asks if you have a plaster, don't chip off part of the wall and offer it to them--find a Band...
...congenial society,as it turned out, was not to be solved by tryingto meet people in the house. At least, not for me.The atmosphere at North simply did not suit me; itwas a quiet and studious house when I knew it.Many of my neighbors spent their Friday nightswatching "Star Trek" reruns, playing foosball, orstudying in the dining halls. This isn't for me, Iwould think. Then there were people in the housewho did go out--but feverishly, with missionlikeimportance. Not really me, either...
Koernke's passion, however, was science. He devoured science fiction (even today, the Star Trek books and the German Perry Rodan series, about a band of heroic warriors who take over the solar system, dominate his home bookcase) and, says science teacher William Eisenbeiser, devised elaborate schemes to build everything from a spaceship to a machine that would extract oil from shale. According to the Dexter Leader of April 24, 1975, Koernke won several science-fair prizes, one for a "communications antenna" that "is now being sold to nasa." Despite grades that several of his teachers recall as unspectacular...