THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 14 TCU DAILY GREEK 6 Fraternity chapter receives national recognition for overall quality Est. 1902 SKIFF WWW.DAILYSKIFF.COM Professional BMX rider Terry Adams puts on a riding demonstration for Red Bull in front of the Mary Couts Burnett Library on Wednsday. MATT COFFELT / MULTIMEDIA EDITOR WHEELIN’ ACADEMICS 2 CAMPUS 3 Foreign journalist visits University uses stimulus U.S. to cover midterm money for research, elections work-study 2 Thursday, September 16, 2010 www.dailyskiff.com SPEAKER American politics a global concern By Alex Collins ternational Studies, also brings seem to be favoring Republicans Staff Reporter the visiting journalists to schools as a result of feelings of economic they have a partnership with, like instability, he said. The global community is con- the university. “To see (America) having its cerned with domestic American confidence knocked, I think, is politics because of the nation’s “To see (America) having quite interesting,” Doyle said. status as a world power, a reporter its confidence knocked, He said he thought the impor- for The Economist told a univer- tance of this mid-term election sity reporting class Wednesday. I think, is quite interest- stemmed from the fact that it Mark Doyle, who covers ing to see.” would be the first since the elec- American politics for The Econo- tion of President Barack Obama. mist, said he left his headquarters Mark Doyle For the stories he has been writ- in London to learn more about Reporter for The Economist ing, Doyle said he had to follow reporting on the U.S. He arrived one particular candidate from in Washington, D.C. in July to district to district in order to get begin reporting on the congres- Director of the Schief- the information he was looking sional elections. fer School of Journalism John for. Doyle said journalists must Vice Chancellor for Govern- Lumpkin wrote in an e-mail that chase the candidates they need in ment Affairs Larry Lauer said the in the last year, one journalist order to get information. university brought Doyle in as from Poland, two from Sweden “The job of the journalist is to part of the Transatlantic Media and another from Germany have listen to these people,” he said. Network. The initiative allows visited the school. Visiting congressional elec- journalists from other countries Doyle told the class he has tions also allows for hands-on to visit the United States for a pe- been traveling across the coun- experience and interaction with riod of time to learn more about try writing profiles about the voters, Doyle added. He said he American politics, Lauer said. congressional candidates run- thought following the candi- MARSHALL DOIG / NEWS EDITOR Lauer said the Transatlantic ning for the mid-term elections. dates he reports on will provide Reporter Mark Doyle speaks to the university reporting class Wednesday. Doyle is Media Network, established by Although each election differs him with a better perspective on visiting the U.S. to learn more about reporting on American politics for The Economist the Center for Strategic and In- from the next, American voters American politics. newspaper in London. CRIME Two accused of stealing campus property By Amelia Wenzel and Carter Babb Craigslist, and that’s what really degree felony. Staff Reporters cracked the case open,” Ham said. According to the Arlington Police “After that, we were able to match Department, Ansari, a former stu- Two North Texas men have been (Ansari’s) driver’s license with the dent at the University of Texas at Ar- accused of stealing over $100,000 in pictures on the video and get an ar- lington, was arrested on July 7 after computers and musical instruments rest warrant.” being stopped for a traffic violation from campus after He said it is typical for investiga- on Cooper Street when police found TCU Police said one tors to check online websites, such as warrants for his arrest from the com- of the items was spot- eBay and Craigslist, for any possible plaint filed by TCU Police. He was ted on the Craigslist leads on stolen items. charged with Theft $20,000-$100,000 website. and Theft $50-$500, a Class C misde- Umair Khan, 24, “Detective Lawson was able meanor. of 900 Mulder Drive Kristin Sullivan, assistant vice to track one of the instru- president for media relations at UTA, in Arlington, and Khan Azim Ansari, 21, of ments through Craigslist, said that Ansari was an undeclared 3609 Mackenzie Lane and that’s what really major enrolled at UTA from fall 2007 in Richardson, were to spring 2010. each charged with cracked the case open. After Ham said both Khan and Ansari two counts of theft, that, we were able to match were fully cooperating with the in- according to docu- (Ansari’s) driver’s license with vestigation. ments from the Tar- Khan is out on a combined bail of rant County District the pictures on the video $30,000. Ansari was released from Clerk’s office. and get an arrest warrant. ” Tarrant County Jail on two separate Ansari TCU Police Sgt. $5,000 bonds while awaiting trial. Kelly Ham said 14 Ap- Kelly Ham ple iMac computer monitors and 26 TCU Police Sergeant musical instruments, ranging from a $400 guitar to a $29,000 bassoon, Items stolen: were stolen from campus. In all, While some property has been more than $100,000 worth of proper- recovered it was difficult track- ty was stolen from several buildings ing several of the items due to around campus. being resold to numerous buy- 14 Ham said the string of crimes ers on Craigslist, Ham said. Apple iMac computer monitors started in December of last year and According to the Tarrant County continued until June. He said and court appearance bond, Khan was ar- Detective Vicki Lawson were able to rested Aug. 16 at the Tarrant County 26 identify Khan and Ansari from sur- Jail in a walk-through with his at- musical instruments, ranging from a veillance video recorded in April. torney. He was charged with Theft $400 guitar to a $29,000 bassoon “Detective Lawson was able to $1,500-$20,000, a state jail felony, track one of the instruments through and Theft $20,000-$100,000, a third- More than $100,000 worth of property www.dailyskiff.com Thursday, September 16, 2010 3 CAMPUS DALLAS CRIME Stimulus money adds funds Officers involved in on-camera for research, work-study beating face criminal charges By Jeff Carlton duty and also face internal investigations, Associated Press Brown said. The FBI has started a civil rights investi- DALLAS (AP) — Three Dallas police of- gation, Brown said. The chief also said he ficers, including one who was fired, will face planned to meet with several community criminal charges for their alleged roles in the groups later Wednesday. beating of a suspect, which was caught on J.J. Koch, Randolph’s attorney, said his client video by dashboard cameras, the police chief was fired because he had not completed his pro- said Wednesday. bationary period. Andrew Collins, 28, suffered bruising and blood clots earlier this month after being struck “This won’t be tolerated. This by officers, who hit him about seven times with their fists and batons. The alleged beating lasted is not indicative of the Dallas about 14 seconds following a chase. Police Department. No one inci- The video, which the department distributed dent defines our character.” to reporters, shows one of the officers moving the dashboard camera so that it does not film the incident. David Brown “This won’t be tolerated,” police Chief Da- Dallas Police Chief vid Brown said. “This is not indicative of the Dallas Police Department. No one incident Randolph is “considered an at-will employee defines our character.” and they don’t have the appeals rights that other Of the 22 officers who responded to the officers have,” Koch said. “Right now, it’s simply scene, one was black, Brown said. At least two a matter of waiting for the criminal process and By Kaileigh Kurtin position, was employed full time to perform were Hispanic, and the rest were white. Brown waiting for the completion of the investigation Staff Writer a variety of jobs such as running reactions to said there is no indication that race was a fac- and we’ll address issues as they come up.” develop the field of metal phosphonates, ac- tor and no racial slurs were heard on the radio Bauer did not immediately return a message The university received nearly $500,000 cording to the website. transmissions or recordings. left by The Associated Press. Duetsch answered in stimulus funding last year to help sup- “My favorite part of the project is working Officers Kevin Randolph and Paul Bauer will the phone at his home but hung up after con- port part-time student employment and with x-ray diffraction for structural determi- face misdemeanor charges of assault and official firming he was a police officer. chemistry research, according to a U.S. nation,” Lesikar wrote in an e-mail. “As for oppression, Brown said. The two men, along Collins’ father and pastor did not immedi- government website. the accomplishments, we have synthesized with Officer Henry Duetsch, also each face a ately respond to phone messages left by the AP. According to Recovery.gov, the Federal several ketiminate ligands as well as phos- felony charge of tampering with or fabricating Collins has an extensive criminal record that in- Work-Study program, which funds part-time phonic acid complexes with main group and physical evidence.