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WEATHER FORECAST Pul High 75 jy Low 46 House to vote on Clear and funding request cool The House of Student Representatives will debate and vote Tuesday on a bill to Inside help fund a TCU organiza- Putting learning back in TUESDAY tion's trip to its national con- OCTOBER 14, 1997 ference at the House meeting perspective. in Sid W. Richardson Lecture Texas Christian University Hall 1. See page 3 95th Year • Number 28 Bill 97-22 requests $1,520 for airfare, hotel, food and transportation for the TCU chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America to attend its national conference Former prof A work in progress Former trustee dies, in Nashville. The House will also intro- duce a bill to allocate funds to is praised for gifts send two representatives of Phi dies at age 90 Alpha Theta, the honor society for history students, to its bian- By Krtstina D'Aun Bosquez Bob Parrott. a former pastor at the nual national convention in Chemistry research earned STAFF REPORTER First United Methodist Church of Albuquerque. Orvil Wayne Crisman, a former Longview. where Crisman was a The bill asks for $681.64 for awards, respect for Bartlett member of the Board of Trustees member, said that Crisman had been airline, hotel and transportation and an honorary member of the homehound for a few months. costs and convention fees. board, died at "He was a greal philanthropist. his home in He gave a lot of money to TCU, A resolution to encourage Former TCU chemistry Longview, Texas A&M (University), the the university to replace dot research professor Paul Bartlett Texas, on fa^ Crisman Preparatory School and the matrix printers in the Tandy died in his sleep Saturday out- r PMfCS PHOTO EDITOR Friday. He was '*' » Longview Public Library." Parrott Hall and Mary Couts Burnett side Boston. He was 90. 80. said. Library computer labs with Bartlett served as the Robert A sewer renovation project continues Crisman was , K Crisman. who earned a bache- new laser printers will also be A. Welch research professor in Monday near the Worth Hills campus on I born on Nov. lor's degree from Texas A&M, introduced and voted on. TCU's chemistry department Bellaire Drive North. Will Stallworth, director 13, 1916. in graduated in 1938 as a second lieu- from 1974 to 1985. of the physical plant, said the project is an ini- Mansfield. La., tenant in the U.S. Army Reserve William Smith, a professor of tiative of the city of Fort Worth, which is t.Tlfc Paul Bartlett to Minnie OWayn. Crisman Corps of Engineers. Colleges chemistry, said Bartlett was the chemistry professor updating sewers to comply with federal _, , , honorary trustee D a g n e I I He married Ruby Keeling in second professor in Texas to Environmental Protection Agency regula- Crisman and Guy Crisman. His 1939. Until her death 47 years later, Use of "date-rape' win the Welch award, which is the American equivalent tions. Stallworth said the sewer line runs family moved to Beaumont where they were actively involved in char- drug may be rising of the Nobel Peace Prize. under several Worth Hills residence halls and (U-WIRE) WACO — The the physical plant. he graduated from Overton High ities together. popularity of a pill notorious Please see BARTLETT, Page 5 School in 1934. Please see TRUSTEE, Page 4 for its connection with date rape seems to be on the rise, police say. Rohypnol, an illegal tran- Repairs quilizer also known as Reaching "roofies" and "roaches," has become a topic for discussion following what may have been greater leave staff the state's third death linked to the so-called date-rape drug. Police are still investigating heights crowded the death of an El Paso 16- year-old who died of an over- Pete Wright demolition dose in which police suspect that Rohypnol may have been Starpoint School student leads to shared offices involved. Charles Mitchell leapfrogs over fellow student Reed According to an Associated By Jeff Meddaugh Press story, police say they Wilkerson on Monday. STAFF REPORTER Students learned rhyth- have seen increasing evidence Movers and office staff competed mic dance, gymnastics that Rohypnol abuse is on the for limited walking and standing rise, noting the seizure of about and stretch exercises space Oct. 3 as they unpacked and 1,700 pills so far this year in El from a traveling troupe of scl up business in whal was once Paso, up from just 53 in 1996. young Danish gymnasts Controller Larry Calloway's office. Federal authorities have seized that visited the school Stacked chairs and marked boxes even more of the pills. Florida Monday. Kathleen also cluttered both sides of the hall- and Texas are the two states Spencer, the principal of way outside Sadler Hall Room 103 with the highest incidence of Starpoint, said the gym- as curious students and passers-by Rohypnol use. nasts were In Fort Worth wondered about the bustling activi- Without a woman knowing, as part of Imagination ty or sidestepped I moving crew. roofies can be dropped into her Celebration, a program of Large Ryder trucks parked drink at bars and parties, leav- the Fort Worth behind the mail room were emptied ing her physically weakened, Independent School as men in blue lifted the heavy con- open to suggestions and possi- District that brings artists tents onto carts and dollies. Even bly without memory of events from all over the world to when the doors to Sadler Hall's ele- after the drug took effect. Fort Worth to demon- vators opened, movers inside hur- —The Lariat strate visual and perform- riedly piled oul desks and chairs and Baylor University ing arts. Spencer said the headed down the hallway to the gymnasts visited office. Missouri death may Starpoint on Monday Indeed, it was a busier day than have involved alcohol since Fort Worth schools usual for the first floor of the (U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, were closed for Columbus administration building. Mo. — A 19-year-old visiting Day. "They worked with This particular move came as a the University of Missouri died the children, and they preliminary phase of TCU's long- early Oct. 4 after attending a were wonderful," Spencer lime plans lo tear down Pete Wright dance celebrating Agriculture said of the gymnasts. Hall, which I oused CampusLink Week. Inconclusive autopsy and several other offices on the first reports said alcohol might have r PMrct PHOTO EDrroR caused the death of Kevin Ball Please see MOVE, Page 4 of Kansas City. Ball, a construction worker, was in town visiting his broth- er Kristofer Ball, who attends Money matters Block that ball Missouri. Complete autopsy results, which will reveal blood Student-run finance group learns tricks of the investment trade alcohol levels, will be released later this week, according to By Mitch Youngblood science, is the EIF adviser for the semester, and seniors are the only the Boone County, Mo., STAFF REPORTER summer and fall semesters, and Larry undergraduates allowed into the EIF. Medical Examiner's Office. A select group of TCU students are Lockwood, a professor of finance and The rest of the group's students are "The only thing abnormal learning the ups and downs of the decision science, is the EIF adviser pursuing their masters' degrees in was the amount of blood in the stock market by managing an invest- for the spring. business administration, and many of stomach, possibly from alco- ment fund worth $1.5 million. "This is a totally student-manned whom have previous work experience hol," said Capl. Chuck Eighteen students each semester fund." Lockwood said. "We do have a in the business world. Isaacson of the university's are chosen to participate in the faculty adviser, but the adviser does Applicants must go through an police department. Educational Investment Fund, or EIF. not tell the students what to do. This intensive screening process to be According to police reports, The group is overseen by one of two fund has performed very well involved in the program. Prospective Ball was on a shuttle bus faculty advisers whose roles are lim- because of the dedication the students members are interviewed by current returning to campus from the ited to dispensing advice. Stan Block, have." Barnwarming Dance at a professor of finance and decision Only 18 slots are available per Please see INVEST, Page 5 Midway Exposition Center. When the bus pulled into the parking lot next to the Physics Building, the driver discovered Educator urges 'revolution of mind' Ball was unconscious in one of the seats. Lecturer in Houston series discusses problems facing urban schools She notified a police officer in the lot. By Patricia Gonzalez Bookworm Community Center. administrators. Although identifications SKIFF STAFF Thomas, a former Dallas teacher Woods said during an interview were checked at the door. Ball, Students, parents, educators and and administrator who has written Tuesday that although much is being who was under the legal drink- others were urged Thursday to help three books on educating multicul- done, there is still much to do to ing age, also drank five to six with the problems facing urban tural students, said the lecture series help the plight of urban schools. beers at the dance. The dance schools at the second annual JoAnn is named for a longtime Fort Worth Woods has developed a curricu- was sponsored by the Houston Lecture Series. Independent School District and lum designed for education students Agricultural Steering Cornell Thomas, an associate pro- TCU educator who died in 1995. wishing to teach in urban environ- Committee, a group of agricul- fessor of educational foundations S.

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