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TENNIS TEAM ROLLS AT CLAY COURT CHAMPIONSHIPS - PAGE 7 TCU DAILY SKIFF UESDAY, OCTOBER 3,1995 93RD YEAR, NO. 23 Retired prof in ICU after wreck on 1-20 BY DENA RAINS 5 (p.m.), 1 held his said. TCU DAILY SKIFF hand and said '1 The driver of the love you' and he "T,his morning, other vehicle was A retired sociology professor is in said '1 love you, when I went to see him taken to John Peter the trauma intensive care unit at Har- too' and then he Smith Hospital fol- ris Methodist Hospital following an was gone. He was at 8, he knew who I was, lowing the accident, automobile accident he was involved just out of it." but he couldn't really she said. in over the weekend. "He's in a lot of put it all together. Jean Giles-Sims, Eugene McCluney, who still pain," she said, When I went back at 5 an associate profes- teaches one class a week at TCU, suf- "and a lot of (p.m.), I held his hand sor of sociology, said fered fractures in his right leg. ankle trauma." Mr. McCluney's and fourth vertebrae, said his daughter, Mr. McCluney and said 'I love you' Monday night class Erinn McCluney. He is also being was traveling east- and he said 'I love you, was cancelled yes- treated for fluid in his lungs, she said. bound on Inter- too' and then he was terday because of his He is not experiencing paralysis or state 20 past the gone. He was just out of absence. The sociol- head injuries, she said. However, he is Hulen Street exit it." ogy department will very incoherent and agitated. Hospital when he was ERINN MCCLUNEY, probably look for a workers have had to restrain Mr. struck by another replacement to teach McCluney's arms to keep him from vehicle. The other daughter of professor the course, although inadvertently pulling out his oxygen vehicle had been plans are still up in tubes, she said. travelling west- the air. she said. "This morning, when 1 went to see bound on 1-20 but crossed the 720-foot "It's clear that (Mr. McCluney's him at 8, he knew who 1 was. but he median and entered the on-coming health) is very upsetting to the mem- couldn't really put it all together," Ms. lane of traffic, striking Mr. bers of the (sociology) department." McCluney said. "When 1 went back at McCluney's vehicle, Ms. McCluney Giles-Sims said. Students attacked Friday Suspect ticketed after two assaulted on campus BY SARAH DUNCAN major, said a red Ford Tempo cut minute I was sitting on my butt, miss- TCU DAILY SKIFF their car off. so they passed it. But the ing my fake tooth." Stanton said. "It car tailgated them back to the Worth all happened so quickly, so unex- Two TCU students were assaulted Hills area of campus. pectedly. It ruined a wonderful within minutes of each other early According to TCU Campus Police night" Friday morning by two suspects in a reports, the occupants of the Tempo "The motive for (Stanton's red Ford Tempo. also stopped to yell at junior theater assault) was nothing other than plain One student's false tooth was major Timothy Stanton. who was meanness." McGee said. knocked out and the other student's walking back to his fraternity house After assaulting Stanton. the black TCU Dally Skiff/ Mimi Mayer nose broken when they were with his girlfriend. male suspect got back in the Tempo Members of Epsilon Lambda Alpha, a hispanic co-ed fraternity, audition Monday night punched by occupants of the Tempo, Stanton thought the occupants of to catch up with Benziger and his in the Student Center Ballroom for the variety show which will be held at 8 p.m. Fri- according to TCU Campus Police the Tempo were fraternity brothers, roommate Both drivers stopped their day in Ed Landreth Auditorium. reports and Fort Worth Police officer so he yelled to them and held out his cars, and the occupants of the Tempo Matt Welch. hand, said TCU Campus Police Chief got out of their car Brian L. Taber, the driver of the Steve McGee. Benziger said the black male came Tempo, was issued an assault by con- The passenger in the Tempo, a to the passenger side of the car and tact ticket Monday, Welch said. black male, shouted an obscenin ai began yelling at him. Parents' Weekend to feature The incident began as TCU stu- Stanton. then got out of the car and "1 told him. 'Listen we don't dent Robert Benziger and his room- punched him in the face, knocking want any problems.'" Benziger said. mate were driving back to campus out a fake tooth, according to TCU Benziger then said Taber, the dri- campus talent in variety show from Whataburger around 2:30 a.m., Campus Police reports. ver of the Tempo, ran around to the Benziger said. "One minute I was walking back Benziger, a senior accounting to the (fraternity) house, and the next Me Assault, page 5 BY MARGARET MAXEY ents' Weekend, which has the theme Three students and three TCU TCU DAILY SKIFF "Hollywood Magic at TCU." staff members will be judging the "We're making you feel like you auditions. Paap said. Auditions for the Parents' Week- are part of Hollywood for the week- "We've never sold out the variety end Variety Show are today from 7 end," said Heidi Paap, chairwoman show, but we're very close to selling p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Student Center of Parents' Weekend. out this year." Paap said. Jury reaches verdict in Simpson case; Ballroom. Over 20 acts are auditioning for Comedian Brad Lowery is the Auditions were also held last this year's show, said Paap. a junior show's master of ceremonies. He night for the show, which will be speech communication major. She has appeared on MTV's "Half Hour decision to be revealed at noon today held at 8 p.m. Friday. Oct. 6 in Ed said eight to nine acts will be in the Comedy Hour" and other comedy Landreth Auditorium. show. The show will be no longer were looking at the critical issue of The variety show is a part of Par- than two hours. Paap said. Me Variety, page 2 BY MICHAEL FLEEMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS whether Simpson had enough time to Judge Lance [to referred to her as kill ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson Juror No. 1 because she occupies LOS ANGELES —After less than and her friend Ronald Goldman. Seat No. 1 in the jury box. three hours of deliberation, jurors Park, who picked Simpson up for Park testified both at the prelimi- today reached a verdict in O.J. Simp- a trip to the airport to catch a red-eye nary hearing and at the trial on March Walsh performing arts center receives son murder case, but the decision was flight to Chicago, was considered 28. The jury asked for the March 28 sealed until Tuesday. one of the most important timeline testimony, but the defense asked that Jurors, who have been sequestered witnesses, joining houseguest Brian cross-examination, concluded the grant from Houston Endowment Inc. since Jan. 11, were in the jury room "Kato" Kaelin, the last person known next day. be included in the reading. only a few hours when they returned to see Simpson before the June 12, The judge agreed. and chair of the department. versity's Next Frontier fund-raising to the courtroom to listen again to the 1994, knife murders. Park said he arrived at Simpson's BY SHANNON LOCKE testimony of the limousine driver Their testimony created a 78- house at 10:22 p.m. the night of the TCU DAILY SKIFF "We lack enough practice rooms campaign at Houston's Ritz Carlton and have no rehearsal facilities for Hotel Thursday night. who took Simpson to the airport minute window of opportunity for murders and didn't see Simpson's Chancellor William Tucker the choir." he said. "The new facility Houston Endowment Inc. was shortly after the killings. Simpson, who contends he was at Bronco parked outside when he was announced Thursday that Houston will give us 10 added practice rooms incorporated in 1937 with funds But on a break following 75 min- home preparing for the Chicago trip searching the curb for street num- Endowment Inc. has approved a plus rehearsal rooms for the choir donated by Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs utes of recitation by the court but presented no alibi testimony. bers $750,000 grant toward the construc- and band. It will also help cut down Jones, according to a press release reporter, jurors sent the judge a note The request for the reading was Park testified that at 10:55 p.m. he tion and furnishing of the F. Howard the overuse of Ed Landreth." from the Office of Communications. saying they had heard enough, then signed by the forewoman, Juror No. saw a large, shadowy figure of an and Mary D. Walsh Center for the The new center will provide addi- This organization is a foundation requested that verdict forms be pro- 230, a 51-year-old divorced black African-American person at the front Performing Arts, according to a press tional facilities to match the pro- located in Houston that has made a vided to them. woman who works as a vendor. The door of Simpson's Rockingham release from the Office of Communi- grams in place, Tucker said.