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WEATHER FORECAST | High 61 Low 38 Partly Campus cloudy Honor society to request House funds The House of Student Inside Representatives will introduce TUESDAY a bill to help fund part of a Frogs make up for loss FEBRUARY 3, 1998 convention for members of with 22-0 win over UTA. TCU's pre-med/pre-dental Texas Christian University honor society at the House's See page 5 95th Year • Number 69 first business meeting at 5 p.m. today in Student Center, Room 222. Bill 98-1 requests $1,500 to help Alpha Epsilon Delta host 4 the Biennial National Convention in March at the International fraternities go dry' Radisson Plaza Hotel in Fort Worth. The House will also contin- TCU chapters join brothers in banning alcohol in houses by 2000 ue to recruit students for its nine committees, which By Kristina Jorgenson campuses, recommended unani- mixers at non-alcoholic facilities this issue. the personalities of people who join include Academic Affairs, STAFF REPORTER mously that each member fraternity month. A Harvard study of almost 18,000 Greek organizations. Brant said. Dining Services, Elections In an attempt to shed their adopt the policy to establish dry "We wanted to take a proactive undergraduates on 140 campuses They are students who generally and Regulations, Merchant "Animal House" image and promote chapters by 2000. step and prove to ourselves and shows 44 percent of college students attend more social events. Relations, Permanent the ideals fraternities were founded Miller said recent interest in this everyone else that we don't need binge drink and 19 percent frequent- TCU's FIJI president Bill Vassar, Improvements, Student on — brotherhood, scholarship and topic results partly from the 1997 alcohol to have a good time," Horsch ly binge drink. a junior political science major, said Concerns, Technology leadership development — fraterni- alcohol-related said. Binge drink- his chapter is Advancement and University ties across the nation have initiated deaths of frater- Miller said ing is defined as working on Relations. The House is look- programs to make their houses dry nity students at the trend to five or more ways to soften Q ing for both voting and non- by July 1, 2000, said Robert Miller, Louisiana State associate frater- drinks by a male the transition to voting members to serve on executive vice president of the inter- University and nities with alco- or four or more a dry chapter. the committees. national Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity. the Mas- hol is a recent drinks by a He said the Phi Kappa Sigma is the most sachusetts one. beginning female at one fraternity's out- recent international fraternity to Institute of about 15 to 20 sitting. look toward this Nation adopt a policy that would make all Technology. years ago. Freque n t move has been chapter houses dry by 2000. "It's some- "(Older alum- binge drinkers positive. Twp men guilty in Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Nu and body's life," ni) realize the binge three or "The whole Schwarzenegger case FIJI are other international fraterni- he said. Phi Delta Theta fraternity more times Delta Tau Delta fraternity Phi Kappa Sigma SANTA MONICA, Calif. ties established on the TCU campus "There's means more within a two- experience is (AP) — Two photographers that have already installed programs someone who lost a life because of than being able to consume alcohol week period. so much more than having alcohol were convicted Monday of to remove alcohol from their houses alcohol. That's an issue that needs to in the chapter house." he said. Fraternity men are more likely to involved." Vassar said. "My defini- false imprisonment stemming by the same year. be dealt with.... In today's society, Jonathan Brant, executive vice binge drink than non-fraternity men. tion of a fraternity does not have from a run-in with actor By going "dry," fraternity mem- binge drinking is a serious issue." president of the National according to the study. anything to do with partying or alco- Arnold Schwarzenegger and bers will no longer be allowed to At TCU, the Delta Tau Delta fra- Interfraternity Conference, said fra- Seventy-five percent of fraternity hol." his wife Maria Shriver. serve or comsume alcohol in their ternity has forbidden the use of alco- ternities were established with men binge drink, while the numbers Miller said he has noticed most of Photographers Giles chapter houses, even if the members hol at any fraternity-sponsored visions of scholarship, leadership fall to 45 percent for non-affiliated the dissension about the dry policy Harrison and Andrew O'Brien involved are 21 years old. events for the month of February. development and a lifelong commit- men. The highest recorded binge from alumni who graduated one to were accused of boxing in the In December, the National Delts president Corey Horsch, a ment to service, and those visions drinkers for men came from those five years ago. Those alumni remem- couple's Mercedes-Benz with Interfraternity Conference, repre- junior business major, said the chap- have recently been lost. who live in the fraternity house, with ber alcohol as a bigger part of their their car in an effort to video- senting 66 international men's frater- ter will replace a theme party with a Brant said alcohol is a collegiate 86 percent of them binge drinking. fraternity experience. tape them outside their son's nities with 400,000 students on 800 philanthropy project and will hold problem, not solely a fraternity Part of that research may be due to preschool on May 1. Please see GREEK, Page 4 "The judge said he found Schwarzenegger and Shriver incredibly credible," said Charles Lindner, O'Brien's Suspect in Behind the scenes attorney. "Who am I to tell the Terminator he's wrong?" . >»*» x >(08». •:•:>-''<'v> >•:«•:«■«. Superior Court Judge Robert Altman convicted the sexual assault men on two counts of false imprisonment. Harrison also was convicted of one count of reckless driving. still at large The men face a maximum two years in jail for the false imprisonment convictions and Off-campus attack prompts Harrison faces 90 days for reckless driving. They are to be sentenced Feb. 23. need for increased safety Both men will appeal, Lindner said. awareness, police say Shriver testified that she was terrified while driving her By Ellen Miller son to school and fearful for STAFF REPORTER her husband, who was recov- Police have made no arrests in connection with an ering from heart surgery. She aggravated sexual assault against a TCU student that was pregnant at the time. took place in the early morning hours Wednesday "You're like a caged ani- within a few blocks of the TCU campus. mal. Both of these men (were) The woman was sleeping in her apartment when running across the street. My she was awakened at gunpoint and sexually assault- son was sitting in the car ed by the suspect, according to a Fort Worth police bewildered," Shriver said. report. The photographers, work- Detective Don Hanlon of the Fort Worth Police ing for Splash news and photo Department said the suspect entered through a win- agency, were accused of fol- dow and left through the front door before dawn on lowing the couple from their Jan. 28. home and forcing the family's car to stop so they could take He said the suspect is a black male, 20 to 30 years pictures. old, about 5' 10" tall, weighing between 160 and 170 pounds and was armed with a revolver at the time of the incident. World According to the police report, the man held the gun to the woman's head and threatened to kill her if Quake shakes she made any noise. The report said the man stole Mexico's coast several items from the woman, including her purse. Kristina D'Aun Botqu*i | MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Officers said they believe the man may still be in Michael Newberry (left), a senior theater major, and work in the University Theatre Monday on the set of the strong earthquake shook the the area. Megan Burst, a freshman business management major, upcoming presentation of "Romeo and Juliet." Pacific Coast of Mexico on They have asked local merchants if they can iden- Monday. Immediate reports tify the suspect by a composite that has not been offi- cited minor damage but no cially released. injuries from the offshore quake "The investigation is ongoing," Hanlon said. A moment to reflect The tremor was felt strong- He said it is important to lock doors and windows ly in Oaxaci state, with a pre- at night. February provides opportunities to learn about black history and culture liminary reading of 6.4, Steve McGee, chief of Campus Police, said the according to the National campus police department is "doing everything pos- By Julie Redwlne "It's a good time (for other students) to King Jr.. Malcolm X, Rosa Parks. Seismological Service in sible to protect TCU students." STAFF REPORTER experience a culture other than their own." Thurgood Marshall, WEB. Du Bois. Mexico City. Campus Police officers have met with Fort Worth Black History Month may be a time for Carter G. Woodson. an author, teacher Maya Angelou. Bill Cosby. Muhammad The U.S. Geological Survey police and are working closely with Hanlon on this some to celebrate their heritage, but it's a and education administrator from Virginia, Ali, Booker T. Washington and George in Golden, Colo., put the pre- case, McGee said. chance when everyone can leam about the founded The Association for the Study of Washington Carver. liminary magnitude at 6.1.