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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (134211)	3/6/2001 5:53:19 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573901

I just want to become as "educated" as you, point up the sources of these "black markets" that are so common - as you claim. Columbine timeline By The Denver Post April 16 - A timeline of events: APRIL 20, 1999: Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold storm Columbine High School shooting four guns and carrying dozens of pipe bombs. They kill 12 classmates, one teacher and then themselves. They also wound 23 others in the worst school shooting in U.S. history. APRIL 21: Jefferson County schools Superintendent Jane Hammond closes all district schools. Clement Park, just north of the Columbine, becomes the unofficial gathering place for mourners. Gov. Bill Owens declares a state of emergency. The Legislature abandons three gun-related bills, the Colorado Avalanche cancel the first of two playoff games, and the NRA announces it will drastically scale back its Denver convention next week. APRIL 22: Authorities find a powerful 20-pound propane-tank bomb Harris and Klebold had planted in the school's kitchen. Officials later say if it had gone off, hundreds of people would have been killed. APRIL 25: 70,000 mourners crowd a movie theater parking lot near Columbine for a communitywide memorial service attended by Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper; Gov. Owens and his wife; evangelist Billy Graham's son and Christian performing artists Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith. APRIL 26: Officials learn three guns used in the massacre at Columbine High School were bought last year by Dylan Klebold's girlfriend shortly after her 18th birthday. APRIL 29: The last of the funerals for those killed is held. APRIL 30: Brian Rohrbough, whose son, Daniel, was murdered, takes down crosses erected at Clement Park for Harris and Klebold, saying it's inappropriate to honor the killers alongside the victims. MAY 1: An estimated 12,000 placard-waving people rally at the state Capitol against gun violence and protest the National Rifle Association's annual meeting four blocks away. MAY 2: A remembrance service for Columbine students, staff and parents is held at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. MAY 3: Mark E. Manes, 22, surrenders to Jefferson County authorities to face a felony charge of selling a handgun to a minor. He admits selling a TEC-DC9 semiautomatic handgun to Harris and Klebold for $500 in January, but denies any knowledge of their plans for the massacre. Columbine students head back to school for the first time since the massacre, finishing out the school year at nearby Chatfield High. MAY 20: President Bill and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton meet with Columbine victims and families. Later in the day, they commemorate the one-month anniversary of the rampage before a crowd of 2.200 at Dakota Ridge High School. In Conyers, Ga., a 15-year-old student carries two guns into his suburban Atlanta high school and opens fire on his schoolmates. Six were wounded, none killed. MAY 22: Columbine seniors graduate. There is moment of silence for the graduates that had been killed on April 20. MAY 26: The SHOUTS center - Students Helping Others Unite Together Socially - opens in the Ascot Theater on West Bowles Avenue. An owner of a video arcade at Denver International Airport removes five violent games in response to the Columbine massacre. MAY 27: The family of victim Isaiah Shoels files a $250 million wrongful-death lawsuit against the parents of the two killers. May 28: Jefferson County District Court Judge Henry Nieto seals the autopsy reports of the 13 Columbine High victims and the two killers. JUNE 1: Students return to Columbine to retrieve their belongings. JUNE 2: Victim families receive letters of remorse from Klebold's parents. JUNE 3: Work begins to repair Columbine High for the start of classes in August. JUNE 4: Robyn Anderson admits on "Good Morning America" she bought three of the four guns used by Harris and Klebold, but denies knowledge of their deadly plan. JUNE 15: Parents of slain Columbine students announce their desire to keep the school library closed forever. The library was the scene of most of the carnage; Harris and Klebold killed 10 students and themselves there. JUNE 16: Authorities say the surveillance videotape recorded in Columbine High's cafeteria on April 20, enhanced by the FBI, doesn't substantiate the theory of a third gunman. JUNE 17: Prosecutors file charges against Philip Joseph Duran, 22, who worked with the gunmen at a Blackjack Pizza store and introduced them to friend Mark Manes, who sold them the TEC-DC9. Duran is charged with unlawfully providing a handgun to minors and possessing a dangerous or illegal weapon. JUNE 22: Rashad Williams, 15, a San Francisco high school track star, gives Columbine shooting victim Lance Kirklin $18,000 he raised during a running event. JULY 2: The Healing Fund announces it will distribute $50,000 each to the families of the 12 students and one teacher slaying victims, and $150,000 to the families of five severely injured students. Twenty-five others injured in the attack will receive $10,000. Another $1.1 million will go for outreach and other direct services for Columbine students and faculty, including $150,000 already given to establish a youth center and $50,000 given to the Colorado Office of Victim Assistance. Ballistics tests confirm that "friendly fire" from police officers did not harm anyone at Columbine, authorities say <Rest of timeline was deleted>

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (134211)	3/6/2001 5:58:35 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573901

I just want to become as "educated" as you, ____________________________________________________________ columbine high school Tales of bullying outlined By Stacie Oulton Denver Post Staff Writer Dec. 2, 2000 - GOLDEN - Student "jocks" at Columbine High School were not disciplined following assaults, taunting and bullying, a small group of parents and students told an investigator. The investigator, Regina Huerter, told the Governor's Columbine Review Commission on Friday that the parents also told her top-level school administrators failed to respond when contacted about the cases. The commission, a blue-ribbon panel appointed by Gov. Bill Owens to make recommendations about school safety and other issues in the wake of the Columbine shootings, plans at least two more hearings. An attorney for the Jefferson County school district said Huerter never asked Principal Frank DeAngelis about specific cases even though she interviewed him for three hours for her final report. Given that, and the fact that administrators were named in the report while students and parents remained anonymous, school district attorney Bill Kowalski told the commission those school administrators will want to testify before the panel. DeAngelis did not attend Friday's hearing and couldn't be reached for comment. Teachers testified that they worried the investigator's report had the feel of a "witch hunt" to blame the school and bullying for the shootings on April 20, 1999. Commission members said they don't see bullying as the cause of the shootings, merely a potential underlying problem in all schools that needs to be addressed. Commissioner Robert Wintersmith also said that if DeAngelis had directly acknowledged that bullying had occurred at the school in his testimony, the commission would not have focused on it as much as it had. Huerter, the director of the juvenile diversion program in the Denver district attorney's office, was hired by the commission to talk with parents and students who were afraid to testify publicly in front of the commission about bullying. "What is not in doubt is that bullying occurred at Columbine, that in some instances the school administration reacted appropriately, and in other instances the school administration's reaction is unclear or altogether unknown," Huerter told the commission. Huerter acknowledged she, the parents or students who talked to her didn't always know what discipline was meted out because that information is kept private under federal education laws. She also found that few of the people she spoke with reported incidents to school officials. "When there was a grave issue, there were rules enforced. There is a question about how much the administration knew was going on" in less serious cases, she said. "The policy (for discipline) is there. I'm not sure the practice follows those policies." She also said bullying at Columbine was no different than at other schools, that it stemmed from one or two jocks and five or so of their "minions" beginning in 1996 and that there was a distinction even by those bullied between specific jocks, who were seen as bullies, and athletes, who were students participating in sports. Kowalski agreed that from 1996 and 1998 was "when it was well-acknowledged there was a notorious bully in the school." That bully left enough of a bad taste among the student body that younger students carried that experience with them through the rest of high school and continued to believe other jocks following him got away with wreaking havoc. "There is a large rest of the story" about those cases, said Sally Blanchard, the school district's south area administrator. "I am limited (in what I can say). I'd love to say what happened." Blanchard noted that Huerter's report was based on talking to 15 current and past students in a school population that amounted to more than 3,000 since 1996. Huerter's report found: Killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were "often" harassed by the jocks because they were loners and didn't have the protection in numbers of the so-called Trench Coat Mafia, a group they didn't belong to. A jock who admitted ethnically intimidating a Jewish student continued to do so for a year and a half after the jock was arrested. The Jewish student said the school administration treated him like a liar when he reported the continuing torment. It was only resolved after the father forced a meeting with the jock and school administration, and he crafted an agreement between his son and the jock. School officials gave strong endorsements to a football player for admittance to a university even though he had a long history of harassing an ex-girlfriend, who had to obtain a restraining order against the boy in 1999. The university's president said he was told by Columbine staff that the restraining order was dropped because of a lack of evidence. Blanchard said incidents involving that student were still under investigation and that the staff endorsements weren't "that glowing." Kowalski said the boy was never prosecuted. Copyright 2000 The Denver Post. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.