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Media priorities need major shift

Media priorities need major shift

Published Apr 28, 2006

I turn on TV news every day, only to cringe and switch the channel in disgust. I am extremely insulted by the top stories of the hour being about Tom Cruise's new baby or another celebrity trial. I'm sorry, news channels, but that is just not breaking news no matter how urgent your anchors make it sound.There is so much else going wrong in the world today that needs our attention - but so much of it is being ignored.

Club fight results in police injuries, more investigation

Published Apr 28, 2006

Police are still investigating the early morning bar brawl at Stone Canyon Saloon that occurred Friday, said Lt. Dean Sullivan, the Fort Worth Police Department public information officer.Sullivan said no arrests were made, and there is no mention in the official reports he had read that Taser stun guns were used.

However, Sullivan said, "The entire incident is under review."

According to the police report, officers came at the request of an off-duty officer who was working part time at the club, to help him break up a fight.

Four years of changes, memories to remember

Published Apr 28, 2006

As the semester winds down and I realize it's nearly time to move into the real world, you can frequently see me with a dazed look on my face.I don't know yet what I'll be doing after college. I have some job prospects, and I'm getting married. But when all is said and done, the future is a huge blank, a huge question mark.

For the first time in 17 years, I'll be out of school. For good.

Cartoonist gives thanks, ‘grad-itude’

Published Apr 28, 2006

I love history. I love that it connects the past and the present because life is a kind of continuum. Last year was someone's graduation, this year is my graduation and next year will be someone else's.Each day is the best or the worst ever to someone on earth, but it's easy to think only of our own big days. All the rest of the calendar is simply "the space in between" in our own eyes, but each one is someone else's big day.

Class gets firsthand lesson in investing

Published Apr 28, 2006

A student-run financial fund began with a $600,000 donation, one professor and five students, and is now worth $1.5 million.The Educational Investment Fund is a class offered in the School of Business, which offers selected students the opportunity to administer and manage an equity portfolio for the William C. Conner Foundation.

Stanley Block, professor of finance, said around 18 students manage a portfolio for this private foundation and then provide returns to TCU and the Baylor School of Medicine, the foundation's two beneficiaries.

PC to host garage sale

Published Apr 28, 2006

It's time to empty those piggy banks and start shopping today at Programming Council's garage sale in front of Frog Fountain.Kit Lipscomb, a member of Programming Council, said the organization will host Frog Market in an effort to make it TCU's largest garage sale with live music and free food.

The event is open to anyone who would like to come and will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., said Lipscomb, a sophomore international communication and Spanish major.

TCU contributes to junk mail

Published Apr 28, 2006

No one really likes junk mail.E-mail, snail mail, you name it; everyone hates having to sort through piles of useless crap that only serve to irritate the reader. Buy this now, sign up here now, call this number ... it's all the same, and it's all ridiculous.

So why is TCU exacerbating the problem?

As reported by the Skiff two days ago, TCU administration provided student's e-mail addresses to K Reed and Company, a Dallas-based merchandising firm responsible for the promotion of the new GrandMarc hall.

Habitat program helps families afford houses

Published Apr 28, 2006

Gwen and Jonna Thompson didn't know if they could afford another mortgage, so a Habitat for Humanity home was not just a home. It was an answer to prayer.Gwen Thompson, a Fort Worth resident who became a Habitat for Humanity homeowner in 2001, said Habitat for Humanity provided an opportunity for a fresh start.

"We needed affordable decent housing, and Habitat gave it to us," Thompson said, "and we are very grateful for it."

Thompson said the house was built by a group of volunteers from Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Bedford.

Eyewitness to history

Published Apr 28, 2006

She was bundle of joy, arriving into the world on the 4th of March. She was perfect and healthy. The second daughter of her parents, baby Annie was exactly what parents hope for. One-hundred and eleven years ago.

Today, Anne Langston Christopher is the 39th oldest documented person in the world and the great-grandmother of my husband. What's more, she's still healthy.

Christopher was born on a plantation in South Carolina 30 years after the Civil War. She was 17 when the Titanic sunk and in her 30s and 40s during the Great Depression.

Education complex building to begin

Education complex building to begin

Published Apr 28, 2006

A ceremonial ground-breaking event for the new education building will take place at noon today, but actual construction won't begin until June 1, said Chancellor Victor Boschini.Education students are taking their finals early so the Bailey Building can be cleared out by mid-May, said Sam Deitz, dean of the School of Education. Faculty and staff offices will be relocated to the basement of Tucker Technology Center starting May 3, he said.

Faceoff

Faceoff

Published Apr 28, 2006

The scenario is classic: full count, bases loaded, two outs, bottom of the ninth. The pitcher glances at the catcher and nods his head from behind the glove he holds clasped to his face. The hitter then glances over at the first base coach, who gives him a series of quick signals before the throw comes. The man on the mound confidently cocks his arm and blazes the ball right down the gut - seconds before the batter starts into his swing, powerfully ripping his bat through the zone, waiting for the contact to come.

Support group roles discussed by athletics

Published Apr 28, 2006

National trends and more stringent NCAA recruitment policies have left TCU athletics administrators discussing the future of team support groups like the Purple Hearts and Diamond Darlings, said Marc Evans, director of athletics compliance.Evans said the NCAA has changed rules over the last two years to restrict how support groups can deal with recruits, and as a result, some schools, like the University of Alabama and Florida State University, have disbanded groups like the Purple Hearts.