Greek Chapters Select Council Leaders Missile Defense Accord Unlikely

f\ TCU Daily Neighborly concerns Muggles & magic Despite the protest of some neighbors, Fort Worth The Harry Potter craze that has swept through City Council unanimously passed a zoning America remains strong and has even found a change for a new baseball stadium. place in the hearts of college students. See Sports, page 10. NowSKIFF in its 100th year of service to TCU See Trends, page 6. Thursday, November 15, 2001 Fort Worth, Texas Greek chapters select council leaders Election Results By Sam Eaton named the new treasurer. For the first time, Sigma Phi Ep- of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs Tom 2002 IFC Officers STAFF REPORTER All officers elected Wednesday to silon voted as a full member of IFC, Sullivan said. Bailey, a junior Pi Beta 2002 Panhellenic Officers Although the fraternities of Interfra- the Panhellenic Council will be new current IFC President Kyle Gore said. Phi, ran unopposed for the presidency. President Bryan Perkins President Krista Bailey temity Council elected two experi- to their leadership roles. Sig Eps were given first awarded Sean Cleland, a Phi Kappa Sigma Vice President Mike Cothran VP of Recruitment Lisa Andersen enced officers for 2002, both the IFC Krista Bailey was elected 2002 full membership with IFC last Feb- member, was elected director of VP of Rush: Austin Dickson VP of Management Rebecca Hensley and the sororities of Panhellenic Coun- Panhellenic president during elec- ruary after being granted their full service. He said it was important for Treasurer. Travis Adams Director of Finance: Emily Marriott cil will have plenty of fresh faces. tions Monday and Wednesday. charter, according to a Skiff article the men's organization to maintain a Dir. of Scholarship: Mickey Rozzell Director of Marketing: Erin Kems Bryan Perkins, who is serving as IFC and Panhellenic both conduct on Feb. 13, 2001. good image in the community and Director of Service: Sean Cleland Dir of Counselors: Bethany Watson the director of public relations, was their elections in the same way, with Bailey plans to initiate programs on campus. Dir of Public Relations: Matt Singer Drector of Internal RetSans MeWa Brcwn elected president of IFC, and current each chapter getting one vote. There are that help merge Panhellenic chapters Cleland said his mother influences Secretary: Scott Jones Director of Service: Ashley Lucas Director of Programming and Schol- 10 fraternities and 10 sororities, with 10 with the black sororities of the Na- arship Travis Adams has been votes counted for each position. tional Panhellenic Council, Director SEE GREEK, PAGE 5 COLLEGE BRIERS FRIENDSHIP FEAST Three Pakistani OU Missile defense students detained NORMAN, Okla. (U-WIRE) — A federal law enforcement accord unlikely agency has detained three Pak- istani University of Oklahoma By Sandra Sobieraj dampen the open-air picnic but ASSOCIATED PRESS students, including the presi- Bush remained eager for "an in- dent of the Pakistani Student CRAWFORD — As talks be- formal chance to break bread and Association. tween President Bush and Russian to cover new ground and to im- Which agency arrested the President Vladimir Putin shifted to prove relations that are already three was not disclosed, but a Bush's Texas ranch. White House good," Fleischer said. source said the students were officials said Wednesday that an Both leaders affirmed Tuesday picked up Thursday because of accord on anti-missile defenses is they had too many nuclear immigration irregularities. not in the cards for this summit. weapons. Both spoke of slashing Electrical engineering junior "Don't look for anything of that their arsenals of long-range war- Mohammad Yaseen Haider, nature," White House press secre- heads to about one-third the cur- business senior Nabeel Khalid tary Ari Fleischer told reporters on rent size. Bush prefers an informal and computer engineering sen- the second day of talks between arrangement; Putin prefers a tra- ior Mohammad Imran Shaikh Bush and Putin. ditional arms control accord. were all roommates at 207-B "This is one stop along the road. But both also are signaling they Wadsack Drive in Kraettli We'll make other stops after Craw- are flexible, giving every indica- Apartments, an OU complex ford but each stop is built on the pos- tion that procedure will not block south of Lindsey Street. itive results of the earlier meetings." their intent to do away with thou- Neighbors saw three law en- On this stop, at the president's sands of nuclear weapons. forcement agents searching the rural, 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Bush, who took the first step at Ranch, Bush was focused on apartment last week for about a White House news conference building his budding personal re- an hour. after meeting with Putin for three lationship with Putin. The agents also searched the hours in the Oval Office, said his students' computers. After Putin's afternoon arrival, proposal to set a new U.S. ceiling he and his wife were being treated In September, Haider, presi- of 1,700 to 2,200 long-range war- to what one aide called "a finger- dent of the Pakistani Student heads over the next decade was lickin' Texas dinner" of gua- "fully consistent with American Association, said three men at- camole, peppered beef, smoked tacked him because he is Arab. security." catfish and pecan pie. Two were OU students, and Gray skies threatened to President David Boren ex- SEE BUSH, PACE 7 pelled one and brought student-code violation charges against the other. The FBI would not confirm if it or the Immigration and Naturalization Service were in- volved in the students' arrests. "We're not commenting on any aspect of the investiga- tion," said FBI spokesman Gary Johnson. On Tuesday, Boren released a statement concerning the arrests. "Details about the facts have not been released to us by law David Dunai/SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER enforcement agencies, so we Sherley Hall residents gather for an all-hall dinner Wednesday night. Students and faculty dine together on food don't know enough to com- catered from Boston Market. ment at this time," he said. "It is important to remember that the vast majority of our in- ternational students are out- standing citizens of the Faculty demand on rise in key areas university community who By Kristina lodice a 14-1 student-to-faculty ratio. She strain on our program," Cooper said. have the same concerns and COPY DESK CHIEF still had trouble getting into the There are simply too many stu- values as Oklahomans and When a prospective student asks lower-level radio-TV-film classes. dents and not enough faculty, Americans." about the student-to-faculty ratio, The last time the department Hungerford said. Two other men who lived in admissions personnel and TCU lit- added a new faculty member was The problem is an example found Kraettli Apartments, University erature all say 15-to-l— but that before department chairman Roger in many of the schools and depart- College senior Hussein Al-Attas number is an average of the entire Cooper came to TCU. The only fac- ments across campus: the struggle and Mukkaram Ali have been un- university and does not reflect the ulty changes in the last decade have between balancing a growing stu- der arrest since the week after the differences between different been associated with normal dent population with a limited num- Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because schools and departments. turnover, he said. ber of faculty. of their friendship with suspected When Ashley Hungerford, a sen- "We've gone from about 80 to 160 Provost William Koehler said terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who ior radio-TV-film major, first ar- (students) in the last 10 years and about 30 faculty positions have been Chuck Kennedv/KRT is also a former Norman resident. rived to TCU more than three years through all that time we had no in- — Oklahoma Daily WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and ago, she was told the university had crease in faculty. It really put a lot of SEE FACULTY, PAGE S President George W Bush walk to a news conference Tuesday. A&M officials openly denounce Number of alumni gifts not expected to increase By Jill Sutton geted $4.4 million in revenue this long the economic downturn will STAFF REPORTER year from the Annual Fund, and if last before any conclusions are plans to build off-campus bonfire TCU alumni giving has been giving drops significantly, it would drawn about this year's Annual steadily increasing since 1997, but have a serious impact on the uni- Fund budget. By Brandie Liffick to trust what they tell us." Burning (KTFB). was formed last with the economy down, this year's versity budget. "At this point we do not think it THE BATTALION As a result of the 1999 Aggie Bon- fall in response to Bowen's decision. goal of 32 percent alumni partici- "While we would not be able to will affect the Annual Fund," said COLLEGE STATION (U-WIRE) fire collapse, which killed 11 students KTFB announced that they were pation might be in jeopardy, said fix it for this year, it would change Ferrari. "As of right now, it is mov- Rumors of a possible off-campus and one former student, Texas A&M planning an off-campus Bonfire. Michelle Amos, director of the the approach to next year's budget- ing as planned." Texas A&M University Bonfire built President Dr. Ray M. Bowen an- University officials, the Student Annual Fund. ing process," Amos said. "Since the Ferrari said TCU is not the only by residents of Hotard Hall were in- nounced that Bonfire would be post- Senate and other student organiza- "We are still waiting to see the needs remain the same, the addi- university struggling with these vestigated by the Department of poned until November 2002.

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