Master’s now earned online

By Jillanne Johnson
Staff Reporter

Members of the TCU Staff Assembly discussed Tuesday the different programs the university offers through distance learning said Leo Munson, associate vice chancellor for academic support.
Distance learning, as defined by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, is any means of electronic communications between faculty and students away from the main campus, Munson said.
Distance learning is providing students with opportunities they may never have otherwise, said Kathleen Baldwin, director of graduate studies for the Harris School of Nursing.
TCU is now offering a Master of Liberal Arts and a Clinical Nurse Specialist master’s degree earned through online courses.
“This program is designed so someone who doesn’t have an option to go back to school can go back and improve,” Baldwin said. “If you don’t give this opportunity, you are inhibiting people’s chances to continue their education.”

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Disregarding His Disability

Speaker talks about living with Down syndrome

By Jennifer Koesling
Staff Reporter

Chris Burke, the actor who played Corky on “Life Goes On,” said Tuesday he has lived an interesting life because he thrust himself into acting and teaching despite what some people thought about his disability.
“When people say I can’t do something, I try even harder,” Burke said to an audience of TCU students, faculty, staff and families of Rise School students in recollection of a line he once had to memorize as an actor. Burke said it was this mentality that became his life strategy.

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Need the sweep
Time for women to leave legacy

Twenty wins in collegiate basketball is often seen as the magic number in terms of getting recognized as a possible at-large contender.
Call it a minor miracle, but both the men’s and women’s basketball teams have managed to post 20-win seasons. It’s the first 20-win season in the history of women’s basketball at TCU.

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Americans are too desensitized
School shootings should not seem like an everyday occurrence

By Jordan Blum
Skiff Staff

It seemed school shootings had become passé in the eyes of the viewing public, but apparently they’re coming back in vogue in a retro sort of way.
It’s happened recently with bellbottoms, the Volkswagen Beetle and with disco music. In a similar fashion, a 15-year-old high school freshman apparently felt the urge to bring back the trendiest crime of the past few years back into the national spotlight.

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Going commando not worth freedom

By Brandon Ortiz
Skiff Staff

The life of a columnist is not easy. Even if it doesn’t seem that way.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist Molly Ivins once wrote: “As any newspaper reporter can tell you, all newspaper columnists work maybe two hours a day and spend the rest of their time drinking martinis and misbehaving.”

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U.S. policy contradicts itself, supports killing

By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff

George W. Bush has bombed Iraq, which makes him the third consecutive president to do so and this the fourth presidential term that the Neo Babylonian empire has unjustifiably attacked the ancient home of the Babylonian empire.
Let’s take a long, slow walk back through the events of 1989-90 — the year Vanilla Ice lit up the charts with “Ice, Ice, Baby,” Ollie North was pardoned and slap bracelets were tragically falling out of style. Look at it as a multiple choice test. Which of these actually occurred?

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Macha’s homer sends Frogs past Texas

By Brandon Ortiz
Skiff Staff

Texas-Austin head baseball coach Augie Garrido might want to ask TCU head coach Lance Brown for his playbook back.
The Frogs keep beating him with it.

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Women bouncing strong into tournament; men may need luck
Commentary

By Danny Horne
Skiff Staff

Schedule strength, ranking in the rating percentage index (RPI), tough road wins and key losses. It’s time for every prospective NCAA Tournament team to pull out the résumé. It’s the tournament or burst for all those bubble teams teetering on the brink of elimination.
Well, not quite yet.

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Women enter as favorites

By Kelly Morris
Associate Sports Editor

For the first time in its history, the TCU women’s basketball team will enter the Western Athletic Conference Tournament as conference champions.
But after finishing the season Saturday with a 87-79 loss to Southern Methodist, head coach Jeff Mittie said the team could be doing a little better.

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Frogs to take on Hawaii

By Matt Stiver
Skiff Staff

The TCU men’s basketball players will enter the Western Athletic Conference Tournament confident in themselves and their ability to emerge as champions.
“We’re playing our best basketball right now, and it couldn’t come at a better time,” sophomore forward Bingo Merriex said.

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Desperately seeking Joe Dirt

By Yvette Herrera
Skiff Staff

A trash-eating 8-year old is abandoned by his parents at a Grand Canyon tourist stop and discovers life on his own. Now, grown up and working as a janitor, Joe Dirt (David Spade) has only one dream — to find the parents he lost or that lost him.
Joe’s mullet hairdo and acid-washed jeans only add to the humor in the movie. Although he befriends an odd, but amazing cast of characters, Joe still manages to tell a funny but touching story of his life.

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