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National News Grievers seek answers for teacher shooting by Mark Long Associated Press West Palm Beach, Fla. — Scores of grieving children, parents and col leagues brought flowers and notes Sat urday to the middle school where a pop ular English teacher was fatally shot on the last day of classes. In a courtroom across town, a judge ordered that 13-year-old Nathaniel Brazill remain in custody while agrand jury con siders what charges should be brought against him in Barry Grunow’s death. State Attorney Barry Krischer, known to back zero tolerance attitudes in deal ing with juvenile crime, said he decided to charge the teen-ager as an adult, the Miami Herald reported in its Sunday edi tions. ‘ ’It shouldn’t be so easy for juveniles to get a gun,” Krischer told the news paper, “’just because they have no im pulse control.” The seventh-grader had been sent home by an assistant principal Friday around 1 p.m. for throwing water bal loons in class. According to police, he rode his bicycle back to school about two hours later with a semi-automatic pistol in his pocket. The pistol—a compact, 5-inch mod el called a Raven — was loaded with four bullets he had stolen from his grandfa ther’s dresser drawer a week before, Po lice Chief William Smith said. Brazill was trying to talk to two girls in Grunow’s class. When the teacher told him to leave, police say, he pulled out the gun and shot Grunow in the head. Grunow, 35, was the father of two and had worked at the school for seven years. Police say the boy rode away on his bicycle, but flagged down a police offi cer about a quarter of a mile from the school and surrendered. He told investi gators he liked Grunow. "Everybody’s talking about the gun, but we need to try to figure out what made him do that,” said Corey Jackson, a pastor and neighbor of Brazill’s. Early Saturday, Brazill, wearing a two-piece khaki jail uniform, his wrists shackled, appeared before Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Joige LaBar ga and a courtroom packed with cameras and reporters. His parents were distraught, but the boy’s expression was obstructed from view. He was flanked by two public de fenders, who said they are still working on how to best represent their client. "It is too premature, we need to spend more time with our client,” said lawyer Damon Amedeo. Brazill is being held at the Palm Beach Regional Juvenile Detention Center in West Palm Beach. The grand jury has to review the case by June 17. Curtains were drawn Saturday at the home of Brazill’s parents. An elderly man answered the door and said the family was not yet ready to comment. ‘ ’As far as I know, he was real good,” said Jackson, Brazill’s neighbor. "They were supposed to go to church with us last night. We’re still in shock.” Outside Lake Worth Middle School, a memorial of flowers and posters cov ered a 40-foot section of the school’s fence. Parents and children hugged, cried and tried to console one another. Many of the messages were addressed to ‘ ’Shaggy,” a nickname given to Grunow because of his hair. Students, parents and school officials said he was well-liked and known for un conventional methods, like reading J.RR Tolkien’s ‘ ’The Hobbit” aloud in class with different voices for the characters. Students said he regularly joined them in pickup basketball games after school. At least 200 people stopped at the school Saturday to speak with grief coun selors, who also planned to be there Sun day. "I know how my children are tak ing this, and I just don’t have the answers,” Beverly Hart said. Her 12-year-old daughter Amber should have been in Grunow’s class, but her mother asked her to stay home. It’s a practice Hart has followed the past few years with all her children on the last day of classes out of concern that kids are ■ likely to bring weapons or fight, she said Garbage FROM PAGE 1 She even spotted a car bumper — in a dorm hallway. Her current posting at a private school in Denver is more sedate. The 1,400 stu dents in campus housing are more apt to abandon clothing or small electronics, she says. But not much gets left. Resi dent assistants visit every student to nudge the cleanup. Leaving anything behind draws a $25 penalty. Spring exodus turns many campus es into giant grab-bags. Lily Piper, the housing coordinator at Furman University in Greenville, S.C., knows a good deal. She spotted a student throwing out a bookshelf. “What’s wrong with this?” Piper asked. The student lamented: No room in her car. The shelf joined Piper’s growing pile: carpeting, a wheeled cart, a slab of cork board — all so her husband can spruce up his fourth-grade classroom. With 2,300 students in 14 dorms, Furman posted two 20-foot trash recep tacles on campus. One sits behind Piper’s office. “We keep an eye out,” she says. With bins in each dorm, Furman also collects for charity, as do many schools. San Jose State University, large ly a commuter school where many stu dents travel on two wheels, has an auc tion every summer of bicycles abandoned in spring. Besides charity, recycling is a pop ular cure for an often costly headache. A decade ago, the University ol Michigan paid some $26,000 to dump student leftovers in landfill. Now, with 9,400 students in dorms, the school push es recycling with a convert’s zeal. This year, the landfill fee was $16,000. Before school ended in late April, bins popped up in dorms across the Ann Arbor campus. Some 225 campus stafl relayed the castoffs to a food bank, a women’s shelter and Purple Heart, an agency aiding military veterans. Lumbei from dismantled loft beds attractec builders and do-it-yourselfers in the com munity — and students hankering tc make their own beds. Total donated: 5,500 pounds of clothes; 1,417 pounds of shoes; 956 pounds of food; 262 pounds of pillows, rugs and towels; 120 pounds of toiletries. Plus 32 pounds of metal hangers to be sold for scrap. Matt Epstein packed one last time at Bates College as his May 29 gradua tion approached. The 22-year-old planned to leave nothing but the campus, and Maine, behind. His sister, a sophomore up the road at Colby College, inherits a small re frigerator. His parents will cart the skis and bicycle. Everything else — books, clothes, stereo, computer — gets crammed into his Jetta. Including that green oval rleft three years ago by a roommate. State Briefs ■ Spence recover ing quickly from transplant (AP )• — Rep. Floyd Spence, R S.C., was released from a Baltimore hospital Tuesday, four days after he underwent a kidney transplant. Spence planned to stay in a local hotel before heading back to . South Carolina later this week, spokesman Craig Metz said. The 72-year-old congressman, who underwent a rare double lung transplant 12 years ago, re ceived the new kidney Friday from his 46-year-old son, David, of Co lumbia. ■ Misspelled racial vandalism being investigated York (AP) — Investigators are try ing to determine who spray paint ed a misspelled racial slur on a black family’s home here. Collie Douglas said he had just bought the home and hadn’t yet moved in when he discovered the words Sunday. Douglas said some one had spray painted the words ‘niger niger’ on his home. Douglas and some family mem bers worked on Monday to remove some trees that partially blocked a view of his home, hoping that a clear sight line would deter future vandalism. ■ Celebrity reads to Columbia children (AP)—Supennodel Kathy Ireland Tuesday told a group of Camden Primary School students that they could explore the world by reading books. Ireland and children’s author Rosemary Wells read to the chil dren at the Governor’s Mansion is looking for outgoing personalities and smiling faces for our waitstaff Apply in person between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. ^Hiring Day and Night Waitstaff. ^.No Phone Calls Please. ^We're willing to schedule around summer classes. 5590 Forest Drive i Spend This Weekend at Myrtle Beach! USC Student, Faculty & Staff Special Rate 11 20% Coupon ! off Room Rate I I Ocean Boulevard & 11th Avenue South | Myrtle Beach, South Carolina 29577 I 1-800-331-4656 , L_ — — — — — — — — — _ _ _I