tl20010426-000 "Of Thursday wvinicthetowerlight.com � Published twice-weekly by students of Towson University 4/26/01 Fire at Tower B investigated TU employees bring 'Horror' Tigers fall in conference semis 17 Towson falls in final tune-up 18 Departments News 3 Campus briefs 6 Police Blotter 6 A&E 9 The High Road 10 In a Theater Near You.10 Wrasslin' Weekly, 14 Sports 17 Op/Ed 22 Towson protesters hit roadblock Group traveling to Summit to protest FTAA stopped at Canadian border Kali Schumitz The Towerlight Twenty-four hours after three Towson students left campus in a rented 15-passenger van, the friendliest border in the world, between Canada and the United States, rejected them for the sec-ond time. ""If you want to get shot with rubber bullets and tear gas, we can accommodate that here,"" a U.S. border patrol officer told them. Paul LaBarbera, Matt Warfield and a Towson student known by the action name of Chief Chirpa, a code name among activists, were part of a group of 15, known as La Resistance, traveling to Quebec City to attend the anti-global-ization protests at the Summit of the Americas. The group first traveled to Burlington, Vt., where they joined a caravan of about 500 activists headed to the Akwesasne Mohawk reserva-tion. The caravan joined organ-izers from the Mohawk commu-nity and was treated to a tradi-tional fish fry before attempting to cross the Canadian border. The caravan had an ""all or none"" policy, so after group pressure failed to convince immigration officers to allow activists with criminal records to enter the country, the majori-ty of the group turned back and headed their separate ways. La Resistance and another group of activists tried to cross the border again at another location where border officers searched through their van. ""Normally they only search every 25th car, but they were searching every car,"" said Chirpa, a junior graphic design See SUMMIT, page 7 Kali Schunuts/The Towel-light Protesters gathered Saturday in Baltimore to speak out against the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement that was proposed at the Summit of the Americas. A Towson protest group had its entry to Canada blocked. No. 10 Tigers prepare for turf war Adam S. Reisinger The Towerlight For the Tigers, there's no downplaying the magnitude of the matchup between No. 4 Johns Hopkins and Towson Saturday at Minnegan Stadium. ""This [will be] definitely the biggest game I've played in my life,"" senior goaltender John Horrigan said of the game, which has so many subplots it's hard to keep track. First, there's the matchup between two Top 10 teams who are bitter crosstown rivals and feature � players who grew up competing against each other.� Additionally, there are the memories of last year's game in which Towson, with 10 players out serving a one-game suspen-sion, lost to Hopkins by a goal. Then there's the fact that Towson Head Coach Tony Seaman spent eight seasons at the Blue Jays' helm before being fired in 1998. Add to that the fact that as the final regular season home game, Saturday will be Senior Day for the No. 10 Tigers, even though Towson's six seniors could play up to two more games at home after it. All that makes for one of the most intriguing rnatchups in recent Towson history, one that senior faceoff specialist Justin Berry has looked forward to. ""The Hopkins game, to me has always been a big one,"" Berry said. ""I played against them as a freshman and played Eat Homewood Field] in front of a lot of people. It's a big game and a lot of fun. As a kid, you dream of playing against big teams like Hopkins or Syracuse."" The Tigers (10-2) are on an eight-game win streak, the sec-ond- longest in team history and Seaman is focusing on the game between the lines and the task at hand, choosing to put the spot-light on the current teams, not what happened in the past. ""It wasn't the kids who play on this IJHU] team who fired me and it wasn't their coach,"" he said. ""It was some administra-tors and some disgruntled See HOPKINS, page 19 Chris Henry/The Towerlight Senior midfielder Justin Berry Today High 65 Low 43 Friday High 77 Low 47 Saturday High 73 Low 43 Sunday High 74 Low 49 "
