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SPORTS: FROGS DEFEAT UAB, PAGE 8 I • WINTER GAMES: FOCUS ON OLYMPIC HISTORY, PAGE 5 Wednesday, February 13, 2002 TCU DAILY SKIFF In its 100th year of service to Texas Christian University • Vol. 99 • Issue 72 • Fort Worth, Texas • www.skiff.tcu.edu Today'sNews Parking crunch seen by committee INTERNATIONAL NEWS Receipts from parking fines BY ANTHONY KIRCHNER park illegally. The traffic regulations and the offender must bring the ticket to the TCU Spring 2001: $197,000 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Staff Reporter appeals committee will be the ones to hear Police Department and fill out a form. The U.S. military insisted "I realize I'm guilty, but..." students complaints if they are ticketed. Karl Kruse, a sophomore political sci- Fall 2001: $179,700 Tuesday that Afghans mistakenly Fred Oberkircher, chairman of the traffic The committee consists of 10 faculty, 10 ence major, is a student on the appeals com- Spring 2002: $23,000 captured in a special forces raid regulations and appeals committee, said he staff and five students who hear approxi- mittee. Kruse said he coordinated a parking last month were not abused and, Money collected from parking fines goes into general hears students say this almost weekly in mately 40 appeals a week, Oberkircher said. forum last fall in which over 300 parking in fact, were in better shape when The TCU Police Department does not directly receive the traffic appeals meetings. In addition to hearing appeals, the com- freed than when captured. surveys were collected. While there are 7,218 parking spots avail- mittee also make recommendations about Newt Digest on Page 4 "I always hear students who are appealing able on campus, according to the TCU Park- on-campus parking. their tickets say "there's no parking at TCU,'" Citation Tally NATIONAL NEWS ing Plan published Nov. 9, 2001 by the "The appeals process is the only oppor- Kruse said. "But I know differently." August 2000 - July 2001: 13,076 Facilities Department of the Physical Plant, tunity students have to express their Kruse said there is plenty of parking at NEW ORLEANS — Mardi many students find those spots inconvenient thoughts on the parking issue," Oberkircher TCU. "There are always parking spaces Gras revelers who filled the and instead may choose to park illegally. Po- said. "My guess would be that out of 1,000 (adjacent to) the stadium," Kruse said. August 2001 present 7,282 citations have streets of New Orleans' French lice records indicate 4,185 commuter parking appeals, 100 are found not guilty," Oberkircher and Kruse said the appeals been issued Quarter added a patriotic twist to permits were issued for the 2001-2002 school Oberkircher said. committee is often more lenient with com- the debauchery Tuesday, mixing year, while there are only 1,697 spaces avail- He said the review committee is lenient muter students. red, white and blue with the tra- able to them on the east side of campus. on violators the committee feels made an "Commuter students are the most disen- Appeals Tally ditional purple, green and gold of TCU Police Chief Steve McGee said 143 honest mistake or did not understand the franchised group when it comes to parking," September 2000 - July 2001: 1,023 appeals Carnival. parking spots were lost over the holiday parking regulations. Oberkircher said. "My dream is to get com- Newt Digest on Page 4 break as construction began on the Sarah Oberkircher, a professor of design mer- muters off the streets and onto university lots." August 2001 - present: 650 appeals and Steve Smith Entrepreneurs Hall. chandising and textiles, has been a part of _d As a result, the parking crunch has in- this committee for four years. Anthony Kirchner Photo In Dnnieln Mimguui/SKIFF STAFF OnCampus creased and students may be tempted to TCU Police said in order to appeal a ticket, a.l.kurrinert&.sttw'enl.UH.ethi Hyperfrogs sponsors Sexual Responsibly Week Safe sex at TCU is the focus Brite to add of Sexual Responsibility Week, which started Monday, said Nick Dance department needs faculty Whitesell, chair for the peer edu- Korean cation division of Hyperfrogs. Hyperfrogs, a peer education and spirit organization, sponsor- ing this week's events, is trying Studies to promote safe sex and absti- nence through various activities, Whitesell said. Program This is the fifth year TCU has participated in Sexual Responsibility Week. Asian Christianity Events of the week include student surveys, a 'Sex Feud' program to begin game and a condom count that next fall the Hyperfrogs are doing to help promote sexual safety and responsibility. BY M MM 1 KING A student survey can be filled Maff Keiiinn-r out today in the Student Center The Brite Divinity School will and pamphlets can be picked up add a Korean Studies Program to its regarding issues of sex, sexually curriculum in the fall of 2002, said transmitted diseases, birth control Leo Perdue, president of Brite. and relationships, said Megan Perdue said the program was Halpenny, a freshman premajor made possible by a grant from the and Hyperfrogs member. Word Christian Church Disciples of magnets are given out to students Christ. who fill out a survey. "They gave us a three year grant There will also be a condom to get the program started.'' Perdue count on today in the Student said. "This will give us time to de- Center lounge where students can guess how many condoms velop resources and an endowment are in a jar for a chance to win a to continue the program after those gift certificate. three years." —Kelly Howard Timothy Lee, currently a visit- Sjiecuil to the Skiff ing assistant professor at the Uni- Dancers practice a routine at January auditions for fall admittance into the ballet and modem dance department. versity of California Los Angeles, Dartmouth College sees a will head the new program, Perdue surge in pink eye cases said. Lee arrives at TCU this sum- BY COLLEEN CASEY Shelton said the larger number of dancers au- The audition also was held to award the de- HANOVER, N.H. (U-WIRE) - Staff Reporter ditioning is a reason why her department is in partment's two Nordan Fine Arts scholarships, mer and will begin teaching in Au- Along with the season's usual The department of ballet and modern dance need of more faculty to support growing interest. worth $7,000 a year, Shelton said. gust as an assistant professor of aches, pains, sniffles and coughs, cannot accept any more students to match an Shelton said the Board of Trustees approved Keitha Manning, a ballet instructor, said the history of Christianity and Asian early February has brought a increase in interest without adding more in- 13 additional faculty members for the univer- turnout at the audition was surprising. studies, he said. slightly more exotic affliction to structors, said Ellen Shelton, department sity at a recent meeting and he hopes some fac- "I was dumbfounded, especially given such "He will teach traditional mate- Hanover, N.H. — a surge in ulty will be given to her department. quality dancers auditioning." Manning said. rial along with his specialty, Asian cases of viral conjunctivitis, more chairwoman. "We could have easily given out 10 scholar- Christianity," Perdue said. commonly known as "pink eye " Shelton said about 90 dancers from 20 states "It was great to have such wonderfully strong auditioned for admittance into the ballet and dancers make (the trip) here," Shelton said. "It ships if we had the money. The program is designed to aid Over Winter Carnival, people who want to build churches Dartmouth College Health modern dance department in January. This was really tells us that our graduates are going out "This really says how well known our (bal- (More on KOREAN, page 6) Services at Dick's House saw about a 14 percent increase, she said. and spreading the word about our program." (More on DANCE, page 6) between 15-20 incidents of pink eye, and the preceding weekend brought about 10 cases. —The Dartmouth Burning rubber scent forces brief Kenneth Lay refuses to testify to evacuation of science building Congress about Enron scandal InsideSkiff BY BRANDON ORTIZ The Pulse/Campus Lines 2 Stall Mtpiul.-! A smoky, burning rubber scent of unknown origins led Opinion to a 30-minute evacuation of the Sid W. Richardson Build- National Digest ing Tuesday afternoon, observers said. International Digest "We're not sure where it came from," said Rex Helms, Features a supervisor in the Physical Plant and member of the Etc. Emergency Response Team. Sports Dozens of students stood outside of the building Tues- day afternoon after a fire alarm was pulled on the first floor, Helms said. Firefighters said they were notified at about 2:15 p.m. r Classes resumed after 2:45 p.m. and the building was theWeathe KRT Campus declared safe. Helms said. THURSDAY Former Enron executive Kenneth Lay appears before a Senate Committee As of Tuesday afternoon, firefighters, observers and Tuesday where he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not testify bringing crit- High: 58; Low: 36; Partly physical plant employees did not know where the smell icism from members of the committee. cloudy and windy came from. Joe Robinson, an engineer for the Fort Worth Fire De- BY MARCY GORDON instruction," he said. FRIDAY partment, said the smell appeared to be from an electrical Wialed l'„.~ In a brief statement. Lay ex- High: 56; Low: 31; Partly cloudy problem. He described it as "a very minor problem." WASHINGTON —Kenneth pressed a "profound sadness" "It might have come through a vent in the computer Lay, the presidential pal who about what had happened to room," Robinson said.