Tuesday, March 5, 2002


Announcements of campus events, public meetings and other general campus information should be brought to the TCU Daily Skiff office at Moudy Building South, Room 291, mailed to TCU Box 298050 or e-mailed to (skiffletters@tcu.edu). Deadline for receiving announcements is 2 p.m. the day before they are to run. The Skiff reserves the right to edit submissions for style, taste and space available.

• Art Slam will be on display through Friday in the Moudy Building Exhibition Hall. Art Slam is the 2nd Annual Exhibition of the TCU Honor Society of Artists and Designers.

• The Young Democrats Society will meet 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in Reed Hall. Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Jim Wright will speak about the upcoming election and will answer questions.

• KinoMonda film series will present the French film “The Dream Life of Angels” 7 p.m. Wednesday in Sid W. Richardson Building, Lecture Hall 1. For more information call (817) 257-7292.

• RTVF film series will present “Destination Tokyo” 7 p.m. Thursday in Moudy Building South, Room 164. The 1943 film stars Cary Grant, John Garfield and Alan Hale. For more information call (817) 257-7630.

• International Women’s Day Luncheon will be 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday in the Student Center, Room 205. The event is part of Women’s Symposium. Seating is limited and tickets are $10 per person. For more information call (817) 257- 7855.

• The Family Weekend Team is forming now. Meetings are 9 p.m. every Wednesday in the Student Center, Room 202. Come help plan the weekend, which will be Sept. 20-22. For more information, call (817) 257-5233.

• Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training workshop will be 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 11 and 12 and March 15 and 16. The location is to be announced. The workshop is free for faculty and staff and $100 for outside participants. Call (817) 257-7863 to reserve a space.

 


Compiled by Anthony Kirchner, Staff Reporter

Feb. 25
An unknown suspect threw a rock through one of the main front doors to the Pond Street Grill shattering it.

Feb. 27
Suspect was asking students for money. Police located suspect’s vehicle from the descriptions of several previous complainants, driving westbound on Main Drive. The vehicle failed to stop at the stop sign on Main Drive and police attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle. Suspect proceeded eastbound on Cantey Street while accelerating. Pursuit ended at 3100 West Cantey as suspect turned left through red light at 2700 University Drive and continued traveling northbound on University Drive.

Police were dispatched to Leibrock Village in regards to the smell of marijuana reported by the apartment manager. The four juvenile suspects were not students and were given criminal trespass warnings. Contraband including traces of marijuana and a bong pipe were found and taken by the Fort Worth police.

Police were notified that the passenger window of a vehicle was broken out in the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum parking lot. The owner reported to police that his compact disc player and compact disc box with approximately 82 compact discs missing from his vehicle.

A man called TCU police from his cell phone to report that his car had been egged by unknown female suspects and that he was holding them on the scene at the Student Center. He reported that they were driving a white Chevy Suburban. The man informed officers on the scene that the suspects had driven away from the scene by driving across campus grass and landscaping. The officer witnessed the damage to TCU landscaping.

The man stated that he tried holding on to one of the suspects by the shirt until she yelled “rape” and he then released her.

Mar. 1
A woman reported that she found someone had scratched a swastika on the hood of her vehicle at the Princeton House Apartments. She told police she had no idea who could have done this to her vehicle.

Six TCU students were found by Fort Worth police passing around what is reported to be a pipe of some sort on North Drive. When TCU police arrived, the suspects were being frisked by Fort Worth police. A pipe with a green leafy residue was found and none of the students admitted ownership of the pipe. Fort Worth police released the students to be handled by university officials. The report will be turned over to the Dean of Campus Life for action.

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