Student Charged in Friend's Death Apartment
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WEATHER FORECAST High 80 Low 60 cloudy with a chance of World t-storms Tourist loses life throwing melon Inside NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — WEDNESDAY A British tourist trying to show The state of off his aim hy throwing a melon Christianity at TCU. OCTOBER 16, 1996 from a second-floor balcony Texas Christian University into a municipal trash container See page 6 94th Year • Number 29 lost his balance and fell to his death. Police in the southern Cypriot resort of Ayia Napa confirmed that Stephen John Pepperell, 39, fell to his death Monday from the balcony of an Student charged in friend's death apartment. Authorities declined to give further details. By Klmberly Wilson dent occurred, said Mark Krey, Fort Worth. Russel said Halbert was moved lot of things," Russel said. 3KIFF STAFF public information officer for the The involuntary manslaughter out of the intensive care unit Halbert was driving on Park Hill Official!* sign agreement Fort Worth Police Department. charge against Halbert is a second- Monday. He said the university Drive early Monday morning when A TCU senior was charged with The maximum legal blood alco- degree felony which carries a sen- does plan to have a hearing with his vehicle left the roadway and to combat drugs involuntary manslaughter Tuesday hol level for someone driving in tence between two and 20 years in Halbert and some sort of discipli- went up a guy wire attached to the MEXICO CITY (AP) — alter blood tests found he was the state of Texas is .10. jail and/or a fine not to exceed nary action against Halbert is "very telephone pole. Texas and Mexican officials legally intoxicated when his Blazer Tiffany Youngs, a 20-year-old $10,000. likely." The Rev. John Butler said a pri- signed an unprecedented agree- hit a telephone pole and Hipped senior speech communications Mike Russel, assistant dean of Russel said university officials vate family funeral for Youngs will ment Tuesday to combat illegal over Monday, killing another stu- major, was riding with Halbert campus life, said the university will have to see wheiher Halbert be held in her Oklahoma home- drug trafficking — especially dent. when the accident occurred. She does not yet have a response to the stays in Fort Worth and whether his town. Butler said there will also be money laundering — across Konrad Halbert, a senior speech was pronounced dead on arrival incident because it is waiting for lawyers will allow him to speak to a campus memorial service for their common border. communications major, had a early Monday morning at Harris Halbert to recover from his injuries university officials. Youngs, but a date has not been lei The accord signed by Texas blood alcohol of . I l when the acci- Methodist Hospital in downtown before contacting him. "What happens will depend on a for the service Attorney General Dan Morales and Francisco J. Molina Ruiz, head of the drug-fighting insti- tute at the Mexican Attorney General's Office, mainly con- Player arrested centrates on exchanging infor- mation. (iirl rescued on DWI charge from oncoming train TOKYO (AP) — A waiting By Ernie Moran ther. passenger leaped to rescue an SKIFF STAFF "I've been treated fine." he said. unconscious high school girl Tarrant County Sheriff's Lt. John from an approaching subway A TCU football player was dis- Dalton said Johnson was stopped by train after she fell to the tracks missed from the team Monday for a patrol deputy at 3:01 a.m. Sunday from a station platform. the rest of the season after being in the 3500 block of State Loop 287 arrested under suspicion of driving North in Fort Worth. The 17-year-old girl, while intoxicated early Sunday Dalton said Johnson was pulled Rumiko Machida, was waiting morning. over because he was "driving errati- for the train Monday when she TCU head coach Pat Sullivan suddenly felt dizzy. She had cally," changing lanes without sig- announced that Daryl Johnson, a naling and speeding up and slowing studied late the previous night junior pre-major from Port Arthur, down between 40 and 55 mph. She fell off the platform and was kicked off the team. Johnson failed a roadside intoxi- onto the track, suffering head Johnson, listed as a sophomore on cation test and was arrested, Dalton injuries, a police spokesman in the team's roster, had been redshirt- said. The car was released to three Osaka, 250 miles west of ed and had two years of eligibility other people who were in the car Tokyo, said Tuesday. left, and whom the deputy had deter- "He violated athletic department mined were not drunk, Dalton said. policies with whatever act (he com- Johnson, a sophomore defensive Nation mitted)," Sullivan said. "I can't end, had three tackles against the comment on that (what the act University of Texas-El Paso in was)." TCU's.18-0 victory Saturday. He More Americans Sullivan did not make any further started the game in place of injured now overweight statements. junior Chance McCarty. BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. Johnson said he had been treated (AP) — Flab is now the norm. fairly but would not comment fur- Please see DWI, Page 2 For the first time, overweight people outnumber normal-size ones in the United States, according to the latest govern- TCU to upgrade ment statistics. released Tuesday. The reasons are not entirely computer network clear. Katherine Flegal of the National Center for Health By Ellena Fortner the middle of reading e-mail during Statistics in Hyattsville, Md., SKIFF STAFF the upgrade who outlined the data, said "1 was in the middle of the mes- many small reductions in phys- The window of opportunity for sage and the machine just quit on ical activity might be to blame. using the TCU computer network me," she said. "I have not had any- will be closed this weekend. more problems, though." Windows95 is being installed on Delta, which is switching over to William Thorn** Buro«tU SKIFF STAFF TCU computers, which will force the computer that used to house James Hersch, an acoustic guitarist, performs Tuesday in the Student Center lounge. Hersch, State the network to close for most of the Gamma, is mainly for interactive a national touring musician, played his second show at TCU. weekend, said Joshua Harmon, a use, like e-mail and accessing the Girl receives unusual User Services consultant. Internet. punishment for cursing "Hopefully, with Win95 we will Harmon said, "The new machine not have to run applications, like should be immensely more powerful LORENZO (AP) — Microsoft and Lotus, off of the net- for what Delta-users need. Students LaTosha Pringler was easy House passes commuter bill work," Harmon said. are going to see a huge increase in enough to spot when you The Gamma network, used by time." rounded the comer in this liny faculty and staff, was recently Delta will be unavailable from 5 Reps allocate $ 1,400 but disagree on usefulness of lounge town: A 16-year-old girl sitting upgraded and Delta, used by stu- p.m. Friday until noon Sunday. A in a chalk box drawn on a dents, is being improved this week- message about the shutdown has By Rob Sherwln printer, office furniture and lockers downtown sidewalk counting SKIFF STAFF end, Harmon said. been posted on the opening screen at no cost to students cars as they passed. Although only 1,171 faculty of the Delta network. Amy Smeltzer. House adminis- The unusual sight Tuesday members connect to Gamma and "During this time, Windows 6.0, The House of Student trative assistant and the bill's co- was the result of some unusual over 5,000 students connect to VMS accounts, student e-mail Representatives passed a bill author, said she was happy to see the court-imposed punishmenl. Delta, the different tasks that are accounts and all 'U-drives' will be Tuesday that will help fund a new bill pass Municipal Judge J.R. performed on the networks made inactive," the message says. commuter student lounge on cam- "I think it will help provide a Peterson ordered LaTosha to Gamma a priority for upgrading. The new machine will be an pus. The House also passed two House News community, and that's the most tally passing cars in her spiral Harmon said. Alpha server 2100 with 512 other bills, one to help send six stu- important thing." she said "I think it notebook from Tuesday "Gamma is basically used as a megabytes of RAM, 20 gigabytes of dents to the Regional Assembly of will allow commuter students to get through Thursday as punish- file service with a lot more intensity disk space and a 64-bit 2(H) mega- the Christian Church, and another to additional $1,650, to know one another." ment for cursing at Joyce by the faculty and acts as a virtual hertz central processing unit. amend TCU's Election Code. According lo the bill, the lounge Renee Godelia. a freshman Arthur, the Lorenzo High drive," Harmon said. The current information traffic The commuter student lounge will be located in the Rickel speech communication major, said School nurse. Gamma was upgraded last month, jams are caused because the current bill, which passed by a vote of 37- Building and will give students a she opposed the bill because she and. as with most upgrades, it closed system forces applications to be 16, will allocate $1,400 to the pro- "place where they can spend time thinks it is unnecessary. down many applications for a few loaded onto the network. ject from the House Permanent between classes, meet other com- "All the things that the bill was hours.