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College Fire Blamed On Smoking; Victims Drunk 

Fire Accidentally Started in Couch, Investigators Say
Jump to full article: WLWT-5 (Cincinnatti, OH), 2005-04-15

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Smoking materials accidentally ignited a couch and started the fire that killed three Miami University students in an off-campus house last Sunday, a fire investigators' report said.

The three victims were drunk, all with blood-alcohol levels more than double Ohio's legal limit for driving, Butler County Coroner Richard Burkhardt said Friday.

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Kenney hands Chretien an issue / Sex Case Goes To Supreme Court 

Jump to full article: CNEWS, 2000-10-31
Author: RICHARD CLEROUX / CNEWS Politics

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A strange legal case dealing with gays, premarital sex, drinking and smoking in a small British Columbia university is going all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada next week.

The highest court's ruling could have a major impact on the rights of students in public universities and private institutions across Canada. The British Columbia College of Teachers is fighting Trinity Western University, a "Christian" university in Langley, B.C. which demands an awesome degree of control over its 2,700 students. . .

If the university loses, it will mean TWU students will be able to go out for drinks with their friends on the weekend, smoke cigarettes, play poker, rent a porn movie or read a dirty magazine, and who knows, even smoke dope, or have sex occasionally. . . before they are married.

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