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POLICE BEAT
Criminal Mischief
Cain Hall - Someone damaged a third
[ floor door by kicking it several times.
McKenzie Terminal Parking Area En-
| trance - A Stanley ticket spinner was dam-
Commons Game Room - The money
compartments on four video games were
pried open.
Parking Area 51 - The victim's 1976
Chevrolet pickup truck was entered and the
steering column and ignition switch dam
aged. Three other vehicles were discovered
with similar damage.
Rudder Tower Fountain - Someone
poured soap in the fountain.
Southside Parking Garage - Victim re
ported the convertible top on he '93 Pontiac
Sunbird was cut, paint chipped, and side
molding pulled off.
Parking Area 20 - Someone damaged
the victim's 1986 Mazda pickup truck by de
flating the tires, smashing the AM/FM cas
sette radio, destroying the driver's door lock,
windshield wiper control knob, turn signal
indicator, parking brake handle and wind-
! shield wiper arm.
Langford Architecture Center - The sus
pended ceiling in room 403 was damaged by
someone who entered room 402 and crawled
across the top of it.
University Drive - Someone struck the
patrol vehicle being driven by a security offi
cer as he passed under the overpass at Well
born and University Drive. Three individuals
were apprehended.
Dormitory 3 - A water balloon struck
and broke a second floor window.
Hensel Terrace Apartments - The vic
tim's vehicle was struck by two eggs that
were thrown from a passing vehicle.
Driving While Intoxicated
Wellborn Road - Officer stopped a mo
torist for failing to stop for two red lights.
The operator was found to be intoxicated and
was transported to the Brazos County Jail.
Church Street - Officer observed the op
erator of a vehicle strike a parked vehicle on
University Drive.
Owned Apartments would have to pay $300
for pest control.
College Avenue Apartments - The vic
tim had received several threatening phone
calls.
Rudder Hall - The victim received a
threatening telephone call from an unknown
male.
Aston Hall - The victim was the recipi
ent of an obscene phone call.
Credit Card Abuse
Puryear Hall - An acquaintance has
been using the victim's telephone calling card
without authorization.
Felony Theft
Harassment
Hensel Terrace Apartments -The victim
received several annoying telephone calls
from an individual claiming to be a pest con
trol contractor for the University. The caller
claimed all residents of the University-
Parking Area 20 - The victim's 1977
CMC Sierra pickup truck was stolen from the
parking lot. The vehicle was later located be
hind North gate.
Parking Area 11 .- A 1990 Yamaha YSR
50 (TLP# 617-M3X) was stolen from the mo
torcycle parking area.
Medical Science Building - An original
framed photograph of Abraham Lincoln was
stolen.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A former Austin businessman
ays crack cocaine turned him into a vagabond
iccused of swindling cash from local residents
tiy posing as a University of Texas baseball
layer.
John David Shockley said that within a year
of his first crack cocaine cigarette he ended up
living on the street where he fed his voracious
appetite for the drug.
Shockley, 25, faces charges of misdemeanor
iheft, felony credit card abuse and misde
meanor criminal trespassing following his ar-
lestDec. 16.
Austin police say the theft charge stems
from allegations that Shockley conned people
by telling them he was a Longhorn baseball
player who needed money because his car had
been towed.
A felony burglary of a vehicle charge was
added and now Shockley is being held at the
Travis County Correctional Complex in lieu of
$6,500 bail on the four charges.
In a jail interview published Wednesday,
Shockley told the Austin American-Statesman
he doesn't want to be released.
"There's nothing for me to do on the out
side," he said. "I need to be here. I want to go
to a substance abuse program. I'm not a crimi
nal when I don't do drugs."
Shockley said when graduated from UT in
1989, he and a friend started their own com
pany exporting clothes to Japan. His self-confi
dence dropped when the two-year contract
was not renewed, and he accepted a marketing
associate position in another state but longed
for home and searched for something to cure
his blues.
He said he started using crack as an "es
cape."
"I thought I could handle it," Shockley said.
"I've always worked hard and played hard,
but I've never been driven like a slave until I
tried crack."
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Texans travel to D.C.
for inaugural bash
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Thousands of Texans flocked Wednesday to
Capitol Hill, for the s\yeaxing-in of President Clinton, braving huge
crowds and brisk temperatures as they struggled for a glimpse of
the nation's 42nd president.
The Texans spoke of their feeling that a new mood has overtaken
the American psyche.
"I haven't felt this good since John Kennedy was elected presi
dent. There's so much hope in my heart," said Houstonian Nancy
Molleda, an exuberant supporter who has known Clinton for 20
vears.
"It's absolutely, divinely wonderful," said Ms. Molleda, as she
fortified herself with coffee and doughnuts before the swearing-in
ceremony and parade.
Fort Worth resident Becky Healy and four friends who worked in
Clinton's North Texas campaign said the festivities were well worth
the 28-hour drive they made.
"I think that (Clinton) had a great speech, gave a lot of hope for
everyone," she said.
Fellow traveler Cindy McGill also was overjoyed. "You just get
ij chill bumps, you're part of history."
Houston economist Carol Bennett said the high point of her trip
was "the spirit that something can be done to turn things around in
America. There's been so mucn cynicism."
"There's so much work to be done, but at least we're moving in
the right direction;" she said.
Ms. Bennett and her friends didn't have tickets to the swearing-
in, but weren't disappointed. ‘
"We just wanted to be here," she said. There's something about
being in a crowd with hundreds of thousands of people feeling the
same way we do."
Senators question
school finance plan
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Senate Education
Committee members questioned
Wednesday whether their chair
man's school funding proposal
would pass muster with other law
makers and a Texas Supreme Court
that's demanded reform.
Sen. Bill Ratliff, who last week
took over as Education head, said
such questions are natural since the
Supreme Court has three times
thrown out school funding laws.
"All we can do is take our best
shot," Ratliff, R-Mount Pleasant,
said. "If they don't like this one. I'd
like to see what they have to offer."
Ratliff said the committee may
vote Friday.
Questions at a Wednesday hear
ing included whether the plan
would allow unconstitutional fund
ing disparities among school dis
tricts, and if the elimination of some
special funding allotments would
doom the measure in the House.
Ratliff's measure would continue
the current "Robin Hood" system of
school funding, in which some local
school property tax money is redis
tributed within single or multi
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