Ain't a damn thing funny about sexual harassment on campus, but since no TCU students were physically threatened or harmed last Sunday during a rash of perverted prank calls, we feel we can giggle about it.

On Jan. 18, according to a TCU Police Department e-mail alert, 62 students found themselves on the line with a guy who identified himself as David Andrews, executive vice-president for Foley's. Seems that the suit was calling to offer young, eager folks paid modeling jobs. The conversations started to get weird only after Andrews began asking "personal sexual questions." (Apparently, Mr. Big Time Department Store Veep can't tell bra size by voice -- amateur.)

Now not too long ago, when Static was full of school spirit and bad cafeteria food, a prank like this would have largely gone unchecked. But today, separating the dangerous from the merely sophomoric is tougher than ever. (Foley's, of course, doesn't employ anyone named David Andrews, let alone give him a fancy title and the liberty to call college students on school nights.) Still, some sage advice Static received years ago probably holds true: Get caller ID.

Maybe that Cowtown Inn "tearing down party" Mayor Mike promised the angry folks out on the East Side two weeks ago will happen after all. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency just OK'd a test run of the city's less-expensive (but still $1-million-plus) plan to rid the Handley area of the asbestos-laden motel that's been sitting vacant in the neighborhood for 15 years. The inn of broken promises, the mayor promised, would be dust by July. Well, maybe. EPA planning officer David Bond told Static a July goal is possible if air quality results look good after a couple of structures are demolished as a test. Because the city-proposed method has never been used on such a large scale, the July date was chosen to reduce the danger to kids at a nearby school, Moncrief said. But that still leaves the question of the safety of the homeowners who live directly across the street from the test structures. Without a safety plan for them, Bond said, the deal is off. No plan yet, city environmental guru Brian Boerner said, but one's coming. Some Eastside folks are still cautious. "We've heard this before," Meadowbrook activist Wanda Conlin said.