tl20081016-01 "Now on TheTowerlight.com: View Video Word on the Street and comment on articles... Breaking out Kristofer Marsh/The Towerlight Sean Johnson, a senior electronic media and film major, performs with breakdance troupe The Regulators during the sum-mer at Baltimore�s Inner Harbor. Johnson also works on campus as programming director for Internet radio station XTSR. Suspect arrested for rape of student Johnson draws crowds at the Inner Harbor, on campus Nick DiMarco Senior Editor A suspect has been arrested by Baltimore County Police for the rape of a female Towson student. The sexual assault took place on Monday, Oct. 6. near the Donnybrook Apartments on Knollwood Road. Ian Alexander Murphy, 24, of the 1,000-block of Cedarcroft Road, was apprehended at 6 p.m. Sunday while walking down the street at the corner of York Road and Walker Avenue, according to a report. Murphy is charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and kidnapping. The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was unloading groceries from her car when she was attacked, according to a report. Murphy was arrested without incident and faces life with parole for his actions if convicted. Past criminal charges against Murphy include first-degree burglary, third-degree burglary, theft, disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property. Baltimore County Police spokesman corporal Michael Hill said the com-munity played an integral role in Murphy�s arrest. �We got information through concerned citizens and through other information through the investigation� we had information on where he was going to be at a particular time,� Hill said. �The public is the best crime prevention tool�Just that presence of the communities is helping a lot. People are not afraid to call when they see something suspicious.� Hill said the Metro Crime Stoppers hotline yielded multiple tips as to Murphy�s whereabouts the night he was arrested. Metro Crime Stoppers is an organization that pro-vides anonymous tips from people who have any infor-mation regarding crimes that take place. After hearing of the criminal activity near her apart-ment, Towson junior Laura Clark is considering moving out when her lease at the Donnybrook Apartments is complete. �I�m actually really relieved that they caught him because at times when I came home at night I�d be real-ly scared to even walk into my apartment,� she said. �I�m more aware of my surroundings now.� Residents are relieved that an arrest has been made because of other possible crimes. �He could�ve very well done something else,� Mike Borzatti, a junior economics major, said. �If it were a guy walking down the road, he could�ve beaten him up or mugged him or something, or he could�ve bro-ken into one of these cars. Who knows what else he could�ve done.� Tyler Waldman Associate Arts Editor Baltimore�s Inner Harbor is known for a lot of things. Crab cakes, boats, tourist traps� breakdancing? Nestled between the National Aquarium�s ambient music and natural sounds on one side of the water and the occasional gospel choir performance on the other is a boom box blasting Daft Punk, Michael Jackson or whatever can be danced to. Several Towson students, including senior electronic media and film major Sean Johnson, have gained recognition and earned hundreds of dollars in tips by breakdancing downtown. Johnson, who performs under the nick-name �Blak Majik,� has been breakdancing for four years. He said he started breaking when a friend, Danny �Atomic Goofball� Nguyen introduced him to the culture. �He told me where I could go to meet people to break and just pretty much he got me into the culture,� he said. �I learned the basics from him and took it from there.� Johnson said his interest in music and art drew him into the breakdancing, or b-boy, scene. As he honed his talent and started learning things he didn�t think he could do before, Johnson became immersed in the b-boy culture. �It�s not just like break-dancing is breakdancing,� he said. �There�s actually a culture behind hip-hop, and just being a part of that kind of pulls you in the more you get involved with it. And after that it becomes like a way of life.� He traces the history back to the origins of hip-hop and its four elements - the DJ, the rapper, the breakdanc-ers and the graffiti artists - as opposed to the gang-influenced music that later became popular. �The whole idea behind hip-hop was to be a positive thing as opposed to the gangs that were overtaking the boroughs in New York, which was the negative side,� he said. Johnson has more than one of those ele-ments covered. In addi-tion to dancing, he is the programming director for XTSR, the student-run Internet radio station. He is an experienced DJ,and said he first joined the station to gain more experience and run his own show. Today, he can occasionally be found working the turntables outside the Media Center or on the Speaker�s Circle with XTSR. Johnson also became involved with Towson�s Groove Crew, an SGA-affiliated group that practices Tuesday and Wednesday evenings on the stage at Paws. I like dancing, and more than anything else, it�s because I want to try to be better than I was the day before. Sean Johnson Senior, EMF major � See BREAK, page 14 Oct. 16, 2008 Thursday www.thetowerlight.com FREE Published by Baltimore Student Media for the Towson University Community The Towerlight Fillmore joins the Towson University Police force News, page 6 Towson volleyball falls to UMBC on the road Sports, page 23 "