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Friday Feb.21, 2003
• Freshmen retention rates,
Vol.XLIX Number 17
• Playwright shares muse,
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Students march in global rally Pietro expected to meet other friends, but they never came. "I met up with Mike and David and we meshed in with the crowds, stunned at the diversity," Di Pietro said. "I met Temple students through Mike, and people from the Wayne Unitarian Church by being near them." While chanting for peace, Di Pietro noticed the diversity of the crowd. "Whenever you go somewhere interesting, you always notice how many different types of people are there," she said. "I have never been with so many different types of people before in my whole life." Di Pietro overheard protestors talking on cell phones in languages that she did not recognize.
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Wearing two pairs of pants, two pairs of socks, three shirts, a heavy winter coat and a scarf but no gloves, senior Renee Di Pietro marched the streets of Philadelphia rallying for peace. The Philadelphia rally was part of the largest global peace rally in world history, which sprawled from San Francisco to Rome on Saturday, Feb. 15. "To know that the rest of the world was doing the same and that we were together working to reassure and support their voices to their governments by pressuring for a peaceful resolution was soul touching," Di Pietro said. At the rally with Di Pietro were David Chiles, coordinator of service learning resources, and junior Mike Pallouci. Di
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Thousands of protesters carried signs as they gathered in Philadelphiato participate in a worldwide rally for peace. The protest, held on Saturday Feb. I5, turned out to be the largest worldwide anti-war protest ever.
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Cabrini digs out of record snow storm
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Left:Seniors Kristen McGuigan,Arnber Graham and Ashley Graham dig out a car after largest snow storm since 1996.Top right:Amanda Brown, sophomore, and Connor Carew, Temple freshman, play in the snow on Sunday night. Bottom right: Resident cars are plowed in and buried on Monday afternoon.
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