CAMPUS BRIEFS: Monday, February 24, 1997

Men force student to withdraw $1,100 check University Police Capt. John Richardson explained that the two perpetrators approached the student at approximately 11 a.m. Friday, stated they had a gun and demanded money. When the student replied that he was not carrying any money, the two men walked the student to Houston Hall, where he has an account at the University of Pennsylvania Student Federal Credit Union. The men forced the student to withdraw a $1,100 check, which they later cashed at The Book Store. Richardson said they then took a taxicab back to 30th and Market streets, where they spent $245 at several stores. Both suspects were described as black men. One had brown eyes and an African accent, and wore a green puffy jacket and black pants. The other wore a dark blue jacket and jeans. University Police detectives and investigators from the Philadelphia Police Department's Southwest Detectives Bureau are investigating the incident. In an unrelated incident at 41st and Pine streets Friday at noon, a male University student was threatened at gunpoint after a dispute with a driver whose car almost hit him, Richardson said. The student was not injured in the incident. -- Scott Lanman