All's Faire page Todd's 'toons page3 Spring football page TCU DAILY SKIFF Friday, April 22, 1988 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 85th Year, No. 107 Air Force wins first national competition Cadet 1st Lt. Dean Clothier, special By Diane Wooldridge ton Hotel, Clothier said. participated and completed success- man and Lendrick Robinson. James Hoffman, Matt Rose, Wade units commander for both teams. "Parades and ceremonies for diffe- fully in the physical training test and Mike Kendrick and Dean Clothier Scott, Michael von Hoffman, Darren Staff Writer rent interest groups are their primary 5-mile run," said Jeff Bell, awards and Barker, Ted Blakeslee, Bret Cock- The cadets in Color Guard and the Ribbons were presented to 21 function," Clothier said. decorations officer. erham, Nguyen Le, Mike Kendric, TCU's Air Force ROTC Color Sabre team are volunteers who are cadets for physical fitness training, Guard and Sabre team won first place highly motivated, Clothier said. The Color Guard placed fourth at Angela Perein, Michael Von Hoff- Angela Julie, Sally Landurm, Shawn and 11 cadets received ribbons for Blankenship, Michael Carroll. in a national competition at the Air Current Cadet Col. Travis Willis is their first competition at Tulane Uni- man, Bret Cockerham and Pat Bruton outstanding academic progress. Scho- Force Academy in Colorado Springs, a pilot candidate and will graduate versity in March, Clothier said. received the award. John Cartwright, Ann Christian- larship ribbons were presented to 15 son. John Dorland, Jon McGinnis, Colo., this weekend. this semester. "The AFROTC Superior Perform- cadets, and six received ribbons for At the pass and review ceremony, Angela Pereira, Debbie Vuillemont, Air Force ROTC cadets received The change of command will offi- honors were given to A-Flight for the ance Award is given to 5 percent of distinctive general military course. Bill Venable, Scott Vaughn, Scott awards and had their final semester cially take place after the graduating semester and to C-Flight for the the corps annually to ensure recogni- Recipients are the following; Loller, Alissa Mulqueen. seniors are commissioned on May 6, tion of achievements which are excep- pass and review ceremony Thursday, month in recognition for overall ex- Allen Wilson, Christopher Wil- Kathy Luken, Jeff Grayson, Andrea said Cadet Maj. Debbie Halev. tional when compared to achieve- with Cadet Tom Miller being named cellence in drill and ceremony, Haley liams, Pat Bruton, Aly Gomez, Mark Diggle, Amy Drake, Andrew Wright. ments and abilities of contempor- Cadet Colonel for next year. The Color Guard will be presenting said. St. John, Matt Scott, Andy Miller, Teresa Oh, Tom Miller, Angela Pow- aries," Bell said. "This was the first competition ever colors Sunday for the Speaker of the "The Project Warrior is awarded to Mark Jenkins, Travis Willis, Paul er, Matt Murray and Jacque Fab- that I can find in TCU history," said House Jim Wright at the Worthing- the top member of each class who Recipients were Michael von Hoff- Cavins. rygel. Graduates Occult anticipate objects ceremony By Sonya Arvie found Staff Writer Baccalaureate-Commencement for By Leanora Minai the May 1988 graduating class of TCU Staff Writer will be Saturday, May 7, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. in Daniel Meyer Coliseum, said Occult-like items have been left John Hillis, assistant director of alum- across the TCU campus during the ni and special programs. last several years. Chancellor Bill Tucker will be pres- Psychics, an occultist, victims and a iding at the graduation, Hillis said. student link the discoveries - which An organ recital in Robert Carr have included a knife, a doll, dis- Chapel will be given at 2:15 p.m. by torted pictures, a notecard with a Guillermo Martinez, a graduating murder victim's name printed on it senior and Fulbright Scholar to Ger- and penny and gauze formations - to many 1988-89. voodoo, pranks or death threats. The name of degree recipients will "It looks like to me that you have be called in order by Dean Michael some sort of voodoo going on," said D. McCracken of the Addran College Carolyn Gailbraith, Dallas psychic and board member of the North Texas of Arts and Sciences; Dean H. Kirk Parapsychology Association. Downey of the M.J. Neeley School of She said neither she nor the para- Business; Interim Dean Douglas N. psychology association believes in or Hastad of the School of Education; practices witchcraft or voodoo. Dean George T. Tade of the School of (Catherine Daniel, a sophomore Fine Arts and Dean Patricia D. computer science major, said, "This Scearse of the Harris College of looks like the works of voodoo, but it Nursing. could also be a prank because they left A reception honoring the May 1988 it to be found." graduating classes of TCU will be Lovie Bradley, housekeeper on the Saturday, May 7, from 3:30 until 5 third floor of Moudy Building South, p. m. in the Student Center Ballroom said she found a "death threat card" in Lynn Beall, a senior deaf education her locked closet. major, said she is excited about gra- Russell Gray, assistant director of duation and is ready to get out of facility services, said, "Anything school. that's written on the walls or trash on the floor, regardless of what pattern "After I graduate, I plan to have it's arranged in, is to be cleaned up more interviews and get a summer and thrown away like the trash." job until I find a full-time job with a TCU Daily skiff Rub Bobbin: Finer points - Stephanie Woods, chairperson of the Ballet Depart ment, gives Michelle Tyer points in dance. At least six discoveries have been school disrtict," Beall said. made in the last several years: ■In November, a photograph of a woman's face that had been cut out ol a magazine was found propped up at Under-enrollment an angle in Bradley s cart, where she Minorities encounter bias keeps her cleaning materials for the third floor of Moudy Building South. Red horns outlined in yellow had cancels Soviet class been drawn on the woman's face, and Editor's note: This is the final of a As a result, he said things that may have been ignored like racial epithets the woman's eyes had been colored four-part series concerning the </tiali save money for the chance to go on or jokes are seen differently. By Suzanne Dean red. On the back side of the picture ty of experiences for American minor- such a trip. Even an increased awareness has was a photo cut-out with a knife going ities and international students at Staff Writer "I am really disappointed that not increased the degree to which through the upper cheek and out the TCU. The Soviet Union may have to we couldn't find enough people those incidents are being reported. other side of the head. Drops of blood do without TCU students de- out of 6,000 to go," Laughlin said. Like other violent crimes against indi- were drawn dripping from the knife. By Yvonne Webb scending on their country, at least "I know it's a lot of money, but a lot viduals, most incidents of racial vio- ■Last year, a card referring to a 1985 Staff Writer (or this summer. of people from this school can lence go unreported. murder was found in a janitor's closet Four out of five blacks reported ex- Not enough students have en- afford it." Erhlich said even if students in Moudy Building South. periencing some racial discrimina- rolled in this summer's study- "It frustrates me that there's a wanted to report the incidents, many ■In February, four pennies were tion, according to a University of travel class to the Soviet Union, waiting list for the art history tour colleges and universities do not have found by Theresa Baladran, house- Michigan survey of blacks at 16 pre- and the trip might have to be can- of the Greek Isles, but people mechanisms in place to deal with keeper on the second floor of Moudy dominantly white colleges around the celed unless they do, said John aren't interested in going to a those complaints. He said many col- South. They had been lined up in country. Loud, associate professor of Rus- country so politically different leges and universities were caught uH front of an office on the second floor of Twenty-five percent of all minor- sian and I ..itin and coordinator of from our country," she said. the building, and pieces of yellow and ities in America including those on guard. the course. "I was all psyched Loud said the trip would be Rule number 18 of the TCU stu- white gauze had been placed above college campuses will be subjected to up to go," Ix>ud said. "But we will more than a tourist's vacation, be- dent code of conduct said students and below the pennies. some form of ethnic violence each just have to keep trying." cause the students would get to will be disciplined for "verbal or ■The day after those pennies were year, said Howard Erhlich, research The class, offered for graduate meet the Soviets and see the in- physical harassment of any university found, a lump of white powder with | director for the National Institute and undergraduate credit, will side of some operations. official or any other individual be- circle of six pieces of gauze was disco- Against Prejudice and Violence. said. "I get the feeling they don't want take the students to I^eningrad and "It (the trip) is such a timely cause of race, sex, religion, national vered by Baladran outside her utility Erhlich said subtle racism is racism to hear that they are racist." Moscow where they will meet thing to do," Loud said.