The Towerlight, September 20, 2001

tl20010920-000 "Thursday www.thetowerlight.com 0 11 I 1 ler Published twice-weekly by students of Towson University 9/20/01 Students speak out with chalk 3 Auto art abound in 'First Wheels' 9 Tigers run past Retrievers, 3-0 17 M. tennis loses to Lafayette 4-3 , 111111060i 18 Depuiments News 3 Campus briefs 4 Nation 6 Police Blotter 6 A&E 9 Comics & Comics 14 The High Road 15 Sports 17 East Break 19 Punt, Pass and Pick...19 Op/Ed. 22 Carjacking causes concern University Police say Sunday's attempt was first in 11 years Carrie Oleynik The Towerlight A faculty member was about to enter her car, in faculty park-ing Lot #5 at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, when three men approached her and attempted a carjacking. After a struggle in the lot behind Linthicum Hall, the three suspects fled and the fac-ulty member got into her car, drove home and immediately called the police. Cpl. Scott Rouch said that the University police tried to make students, faculty and staff aware of the attack by sending a campus-wide e-mail and post-ing 300 fliers around campus. All three suspects are described to be black males in. their early 20s, anywhere from 5 feet 10 inches to 6 feet 2 inches in height and clean-shaven. One suspect was reported as having a tight black scarf on his head and another suspect was reported to be wearing dark shorts and white tennis shoes. Rouch said that in response to the incident, the University Police have placed more per-sonnel and bike officers on patrol and increased the amount of officers who work overtime. ""This is the first attempted carjacking in 11 years, so I would say that it's an isolated incident,"" he said. ""But we're not relaxing because of that. In fact, we're increasing our pres-ence around campus and taking more security measures."" Although no weapons were seen or implied during Sunday's incident, an armed carjacking was recently report-ed on Willow Avenue, two blocks from the Northeast cor-ner of campus. See CARJACK, page 4 Tigers return to the field Saturday Sad assgsaikeThe Tawarlight The Tigers (1-1) will take the field at 1 p.m. Saturday in Minnegan Stadium to battle Holy Cross. This will be Towson's first game since being forced to cancel last week's contest against Yale. Today High 75 Low 59 Friday High 78 Low 57 Saturday High 76 Low 57 Sunday High 75 Low 56 "