WEATHER FORECAST High 60s Low 40s Rain with a chance Students given coupons of scattered for not cheating thunderstorms COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — University of Maryland students will get dis- Inside counts at local shops if they Students savor FRIDAY promise not to cheat. Honest. FEBRUARY 28, 1997 "Cheating here is huge," said sunny weather Meryle Freiberg, education See page 5 Texas Christian University chairwoman for the Student 94th Year • Number 82 Honor Council, which oversees academic integrity among the 33,000 students on the flagship campus of the state university system. Freiberg, encouraging stu- dents to sign pledges at a booth Menedis heads south in the Student Union, said. The council is offering 5,000 discount cards this week to stu- Artist Diploma student to play in Colombia dents who sign pledges against By Christine Menedis said. "I've never been able to play to open more doors for experience cheating. The idea of the cards SKIFF STAFF out of the country before. This is and for international culture that is is to get students thinking about First-year artist diploma student my debut with a professional so important," he said. integrity, Freiberg said. Christine Menedis is taking off for orchestra." Gutierrez said this is an exciting Colombia this weekend, but it's Gutierrez, one of the principal time for fine arts at TCU. Scandals not affecting not because she's taking an early guest conductors of the Orchestra "This is only the first concert of Clinton, poll shows Spring Break. Sinfonica del Valle. was asked to a whole series of programs," he WASHINGTON (AP) — The 16-year-old pianist will conduct the orchestra's concert for said. President Clinton is drawing accompany German Gutierrez, the an international women's sympo- Gutierrez said Menedis' perfor- high marks for his job perfor- conductor of the TCU Symphony sium in Cali, Colombia. Gutierrez mance will be a demanding one. mance despite swirling ques- Orchestra and the director of the agreed to conduct on the condition She will play two piano concertos. tions over campaign financing, TCU-Latin America Cultural that he could bring the soloist with Clara Schumann's only piano con- Whitewater and his personal Center, to Colombia for a special him. That is when he chose certo and Mozart's piano concerto life, a new poll says. performance with Orchestra Menedis to perform for him. No. 21.i during three different Ann* Dnbkky SKIFF STAFF The Pew Research Center Sinfonica del Valle. "One of the things I feel I Christine Menedis, a freshman artist diploma student will perform with survey found people are hear- "I'm very excited." Menedis should do for our students is to try Please see MENEDIS, Page 5 the Orchestra Sinfonica del Valle this weekend in Colombia. ing a drumbeat of negative news about the president but, so far, it doesn't seem to matter. Overall, 60 percent approved of the way Clinton is handling his job, a record in Pew polls and up one point from one taken the week before his sec- ond-term inauguration. Thirty- two percent disapproved, also up one point. The new survey was taken from Thursday to Sunday, amid continuing revelations about Democratic money raising but before the release of documents showing Clinton's direct involvement in offering big donors White House access. Sweepstakes to God: You may be a winner! TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — American Family Publishers found God in Sumter County. And he may be very, very rich. A sweepstakes notice arrived at the Bushnell Assembly of God earlier this month announcing God, of Bushnell, Fla., was a finalist for the $11 million top prize. "I always thought he lived Left, formally dressed guests arrived recently at the Fort Worth Zoo with the opening of the Penguin here but I didn't actually know," Island exhibit. Biology professor Gary Ferguson does pioneering research to perfect husbandry in pan- said Bill Brack, pastor of the SPECIAL TO THE SKIFF ther chameleons (above). See related stories, page 4. church about 60 miles north of Tampa. "Now I do. He's got a P.O. box here." "God, we've been searching Hand, athletic department disagree about travel plans for you," American Family wrote in the letter, as first By Kimberly Campbell was able to buy airline tickets for the they hadn't found Ihe bus solution. "They say they're (athletic depart- game starts al 6 p.m. reported by the local weekly SKIFF STAFF band. Showgirls and cheerleaders, but "We looked for an alternative and ment) doing this for band to get the The proposed travel arrangements newspaper, the Sumter County The TCU band and Showgirls will they would have to return on standby, were thrilled to find the tour bus." he band back for school." Storer said. will have the band leave at 8 a.m. Times. travel to Las Vegas to support the and the TCU administration won't said. "The rumors that have been "They are doing this to spite the band." Sunday morning, travel to New The message was centered women's and men's basketball teams, allow that. started are a shame." Windegger disagreed and said the Mexico, have two hours in a hotel for between two round seals but only after heated debate. The TCU administration is liable Windegger gave the example lhal if band wouldn't be going at all if it the drivers and spirit group to rest and requesting God to "come for- The band has argued that it should for the students returning home safe- a band member or Showgirl had a weren'l for the athletic department. then leave al midnight to arrive in Las ward." be able to travel by plane, but the ly, he said. wreck while returning home from the He said the tickets had been pur- Vegas at 8 p.m. Monday. If God were to win, the letter Athletic Department argues that the He said the administration won't airport at 3 a.m., unattended, because chased and would be exchanged for However, the athletic department stated, "What an incredible for- only way the band and Showgirls can allow this because the students would the flight was the only one available. vouchers to use for future athletic has found another driver in tune there would be for God! attend is by bus. be returning in staggered groups, for TCU would be liable and could department business. Albuquerque, which would allow the Could you imagine the looks The basketball teams and staff are which there was not adequate super- potentially be sued. Storer said the entire purpose of the bus to drive straight trough to Las you'd get from your neighbors? funded through the Western Athletic vision. The cheerleaders, however, Anthony Storer, a graduate assis- band going to Las Vegas is to support Vegas without the hotel stop so the But don't just sit there, God." Conference budget, and the TCU ath- will be able to travel by plane because tant with the band, said the group TCU basketball, but if the band goes band and Showgirls could arrive at 6 letic department is footing the bill so they have enough faculty to travel found out that its plane tickets were by bus it will miss the women's first p.m Blood sample of that the band, Showgirls and cheer- with them. being sold and the members would be game on Monday. The band members thought they trooper found leaders can travel to Las Vegas to sup- Windegger said he was in support traveling to Las Vegas by bus. However, the women's game will would be leaving by plane Monday RUSK (AP) — The blood port them. of the band and Showgirls traveling to He said the band doesn't mind begin al either 12:30 p.m. or 6 p.m., morning and found oul Wednesday Frank Windegger, TCU athletic Las Vegas from the beginning and that making the trip by bus. but he doesn't and the band and Showgirls may be sample taken from an off-duty Please see BAND, Page 10 Texas trooper suspected of director, said the athletic department they wouldn't have been able to go if agree with the logic behind it. able to arrive in lime to play if the drunken driving has surfaced more than two weeks after it Starpoint School celebrates disappeared. The sample is key evidence 30 years of special education in the case against Texas Psi Chi convention to be£in Department of Public Safety By Adrla Johnson serve as an on-campus training site trooper Joe Don Abernathy, By Kimberly Wilson good," Powell said, "and I also like of the foremost experimental cogni- SKIFF STAFF for TCU students studying educa- who has been suspended with SKIFF STAFF attending the graduate sympo- tive psychologists alive today. When Todd Dolginoff entered tion, especially special education." pay. Psychology students from across siums." "He is so genuine that you forget Starpoint School, dyslexia had Most Starpoint students are The vial was mailed to the the United States will descend upon The group has honored a leading that he's famous," he said. "He already made reading and writing enrolled from the first to third DPS lab in Garland. Rush campus today and Saturday for the psychologist as a speaker at the doesn't seek rewards and recogni- impossible tasks. Today, the Dallas grades, when their individual dis- police chief Larry Robertson eighth annual convention for the past three years. tion." attorney Ityi the school was a foun- abilities are tackled. Usually by the said he wasn't sure whether convention This year's honoree and featured Robinson said Sternberg dation for his success and a source fourth grade the child is ready to alcohol could be detected from of Psi Chi, speaker is Robert Sternberg, the immerses himself in his field.