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COUSER RECALLS HIS OWN 'FIELD OF DREAMS' - PAGE 4 TCU DAILY SKIFF WiDMSDW "EXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 92XD YEAR, XO. 100 House approves $200,000 budget without debate BY DENA RAINS There was no debate on the budget. ensemble, drama players, chair rental, set longer hours for the House and will be voted on at next Tues- TCU DAILY SKIFF House parliamentarian Nathan Digby up, refreshments and publicity. university book- day's meeting. said it was a House rule that any legislation Uniting Campus Ministries President store also passed. The first bill asks for $ 1,056 to fund a trip The House of Representatives passed its that begins in committee, like the budget, Sarah Hughes said her group petitioned the The resolution asks by Delta Sigma Pi, the business fraternity, fiscal 1995-96 budget at Tuesday's meet- could not be amended on the floor. If rep- House for funding this year because Uni- the bookstore to to its Grand Chapter Congress. The funding ing. resentatives want the legislation to be versity Ministries, who usually funds the open at 7:30 a.m. would be used for registration fees ($400), The budget of $200,000 is split among changed, they must request the it be sent service, had experienced budget cuts and instead of 8 a.m. so hotel accommodations ($256) and air fare House operating costs, the Permanent back to its appropriate committee, where it could not afford to fund the service this year. that students with 8 ($400). Improvements Committee, officer salaries. will be amended. The service will take place 6:30 a.m. a.m. classes can buy The second bill introduced asks for $600 Programming Council, alcohol awareness In other business, a bill to fund the Easter Easter morning in front of Sadler Hall, needed supplies to buy lighting for the fine art displays in the campaigns, sports clubs, the O.D. Wyatt Sunrise Service passed, giving Uniting Hughes said. without being late for class. main cafeteria. The bill was authored by the Program and Hunger Week. Campus Ministries S935 to pay for a brass In other business, a resolution to request Two new bills were presented to the Permanent Improvements Committee. cable TV Program promotes awareness company ^ ■ still not Volunteers selected to see campus from different BY KRISTAL GRIFFITH TCU DAILY SKIFF point of view The wires that will eventually give each dormitory room cable televi- sion, computer services and phone BY CHRISTI GIFFORD lines could be installed by fall semes- TCU DAILY SKIFF ter; but the company that will install Ten to 15 people will ride in the wires has not been chosen, said wheelchairs for four hours today for David Edmondson, assistant vice a handicap awareness program called chancellor for Information Services. "Walk a Mile in My Shoes," spon- sored by the Permanent Improve- ments Committee in the House of Student Representatives. Steven Wheelock. a sophomore chemistry major and chairman of the The university's selection com- committee, said many students were mittee received proposals from sev- concerned that some building on eral companies March 3, but no campus were not totally accessible to company has been chosen to com- students with disabilities, according plete the cable and wire installation, to a survey given by academic ser- and none of the companies have been vices. eliminated from consideration. A diverse group of students and Edmondson said the committee administrators will get in the chairs at had many questions when they met to 12:45 p.m. and go about their normal read over the proposals from the var- routines in the wheelchairs, Whee- ious companies. lock said. "We put together a large number of The participants were chosen so about 90 questions," Edmondson they could visit various places on said. "We sent them back to the com- campus to learn about the accessibil- panies to respond." ity problems that people with dis- As soon as the answers to the com- abilities face everyday, he said. mittee's questions are received, A social work class, the House, members of the committee will meet several committees of House and a and begin choosing the best company TCU Daily Skiff/ Rebecca Newitt graduate student assisted in today's for TCU to do business with, Jennifer Tonkins, a sophomore fashion design major, registers Tuesday as Pat Gresham enters her class schedule list- program, Wheelock said. ings into the computer system. Pam DeVaney. a sophomore social see Cable, page 2 work major and member of the com- munity intervention class that is helping with the Handicap Aware- ness Day. said that her class had Faculty gives more to fund than ever before decided their semester's project would be to do something aboul the accessibility issue. endowed scholarships for students in honor of BY JILL MELCHER ing effort. That number exceeded the previous percent participation by the end of April when "We wanted to see how inaccessi- TCU DAILY SKIFF level of 24 percent. the campus campaign concludes. other students or professors," Key said. ble the campus really is," she said. "We have had one faculty member give The size of gifts from the faculty and staff A scholarship in honor of Elizabeth Proffer The class wanted to sponsor a TCU faculty and staff set a new high for $25,000," Roby Key, assistant vice chancellor varies, he said. and two funds in the history department honor- wheelchair day, but when they found monetary giving this spring by donating over for university advancement said. "We have a lot "Some faculty and staff can't afford to give," ing Paul Boiler and Donald Worcester are out about House's plans, they offered $1 million to the Next Frontier Campus Cam- of $1,000 gifts and $100 gifts—there's a wide Key said. "But they can still wear the campaign examples of the types of special projects that to help the House instead, DeVaney paign. range of gifts." pin on their lapels and speak with people about exist. Key said. said. As of April 7, faculty and staff gave A $1.5 million, 100 percent participation it and support it in other ways." The flexibility enables departments to Gregor Esch, a junior journalism $1,118,982 to the university's campaign. goal was set by the campus campaign cuiumit- Key said most of the money is given either address areas of need and makes it easy for major and Ron Trull, a representative Thirty-four percent of faculty and staff par- tee, he said. to the annual fund or for special projects. of the American Disabilities Act ticipated in the 5-year, $100-million fund-rais- Key said the committee hopes to exceed 50 "Most of the departments are setting up see Fund, page 2 from Austin, will speak at noon in the Student Center Lounge. Esch, who uses an electric wheel- chair, will speak about his routine Simpson lawyer to give insights on trial, legal issues and what he has to go through on a daily basis, Wheelock said. Beth Gargano, a spokesperson for Der- file celebrities in criminal cases such as prize 28 — the youngest one in the school's history. Trull will talk about accessibility BY MICHA CORTESE on a state and national level. Whee- TCU DAILY SKIFF showitz, said the lawyer does not prepare his fighter Mike Tyson, investment banker Michael Dershowitz has taught courses in criminal speeches ahead of time. He will speak on the Milken, tele-evangelist Jim Bakker, Penthouse law, psychiatry and law, constitutional litiga- lock said. Alan M. Dershowitz, a member of O.J. most current legal issues, she said. magazine, U.S. senators Mike Gravel and Alan tion, civil liberties and violence, comparative At 4:45 p.m.. the wheelchair volun- Simpson's defense team, will share his insights Fortune magazine described Dershowitz as Cranston and real estate magnate Leona Helm- criminal law, legal ethics and human rights. teers will meet in the Student Center on the Simpson murder trial and other legal an "impassioned libertarian" that has "put up sley. Dershowitz is the featured guest of the Fort to participate in a 15-minute question issues at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Ed Landreth for the best defense for a Dickensian lineup of Dershowitz was first in his class at Yale Law Worth Speakers Forum, which is being co- and answer period. The riders will fill Auditorium. suspects," according to a press release from the School and was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law sponsored by BankOne, the Fort Worth Star- out a questionnaire and discuss what Tickets for the speech, "Hate, Speech, Polit- TCU Office of Communications. Journal. Telegram, 570 KL1F-AM and TCU. their day was like, he said. ical Correctness and Censorship," are available Dershowitz is also a Harvard Law School He was appointed to the Harvard Law fac- at the university's information desk. professor who has defended several high-pro- ulty at age 25 and became a full professor at age see Lawyer, page 2 see View, page 5 NEWS DIGEST Mother convicted in hoax Hillary Clinton dogged by family Barbara Bush in biker magazine Tuition fraud leads to expulsion Teen gets bomb info on Internet WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clin- HOUSTON (AP) — Maybe Barbara Bush NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Yale CAPE G1RARDEAU, Mo. 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