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Volume 27, Issue 1, July 29, 2004

News Briefs

Tour de “Lance”?
Lance Armstrong rode to victory Sunday, July 25, as he won his sixth Tour de France, just eight years after being given a 50 percent chance of overcoming testicular cancer that spread to his lungs and brain.

Armstrong has secured himself as one of the greatest athletes in history, the only rider in the 101-year Tour de France history to win the race six consecutive times. Four other riders in history have won five times, but Armstrong has set a new record.

Retired Metro employee returns to fill vacant position
After retiring one year ago as vice president of Student Services, Yolanda Ortega-Ericksen has returned to serve as interim associate vice president.

The position was left vacant when Joanna Duenas resigned June 16 after Student Government members raised questions about a master’s degree she claimed to have obtained from UCD.

Administrators at UCD said there was no record of her earning any degree, that she in fact attended the college from 1998 to 2003 during which time she earned 113 credits, seven credits shy of a bachelor’s degree.

Plane Crash in Fort Collins kills three people
A twin-engine airplane crashed on the streets of a Fort Collins subdivision Saturday, July 24, minutes after takeoff from the Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport.

The plane was headed for Omaha where the pilot and two passengers had planned to meet a fourth friend and drive to Iowa to take part in the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.

The plane, a Beech Baron 58-P built in 1980, was reported to have had engine and mechanical problems in the past.

Friends and family have identified the victims as Bill Neal, 58, Leo Joseph Schuster, 50, and Scott Nelson, 38.