Show me the money
Flat-rate tuition may cause problems with athletic scholarships, recruiting

Editor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of stories examining the impact comprehensive tuition will have on the university.

By Carrie Woodall
Staff Reporter

The TCU athletic department may have to change the way scholarships are distributed for athletes because the flat-rate tuition causes coaches to be less flexible in their spending, said Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for internal relations.
Assistant baseball coach Donnie Watson said that because decisions concerning the distribution of scholarships has not yet been determined for the flat rate, some coaches are having problems telling their recruits how much money TCU will offer them to play.

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Staff assembly elections begin

By Jillanne Johnson
Staff Reporter
The conclusion of the Staff Assembly’s second year was best summarized by former Speaker of the House Jim Wright during Tuesday’s meeting, members of the assembly said.
“It is springtime, and there are signs of new life all over campus,” Wright said.
This was the last business meeting for members who were elected to serve a two-year term when the assembly began in 1999. Elections for the 2001-2002 representatives are underway.

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Infection not expected to affect U.S.
Marriott sets ‘high standards’ on beef served to university

By Chrissy Braden
Staff Reporter

Recent scares in mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease have left people less concerned with where the beef is and more concerned about where the beef is coming from.
Rick Flores, general manager of Sodexho Marriott Services, said Marriott keeps high standards for its products, and recent beef scares in Europe are unlikely at TCU or in the United States.
“We have vendors that we have to use because our company mandates that, and we inspect the places where all of these things are coming from,” Flores said. “We, as a company, are strict on who we order from and how it’s produced.”

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Alumni chapter cleans roads
Program brings exposure to university, aids community

By Jessica Cervantez
Staff Reporter

The Permian Basin Alumni Chapter is doing its part to help keep Texas’ roads clean by participating Saturday in the adopt a highway program.

Judy Clark, assistant director of Alumni Relations who works with the Permian Basin Alumni Chapter, said the group adopts a two-mile portion of a Texas highway between Midland and Odessa twice a year.

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Price is right for one student
$32,000 package includes car

By Melissa Christensen
Staff Reporter

If you see a tent pitched in Marisa Schenke’s living room, don’t fret too much. Her roommate told her she could put it there.
Schenke, a junior advertising/public relations major, and her friends will be celebrating the $32,000 prize package, including the three-person Coleman tent she won from “The Price is Right” game show during Spring Break. The episode airs at 10 a.m. April 16 on CBS.
Schenke said she asked her roommate, Lauren Wylie, to look into getting tickets for the show because Wylie’s sister lives in the Los Angeles area.
Along with five of their friends, the roommates decorated themselves in purple and arrived at the CBS studio around 4:30 a.m.

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Tuition trouble
Flat rate cuts athletics scholarships

Members of the TCU athletic department, coaches and athletes are among the newest group of people stepped on by the new flat-rate tuition plan the university will enact in the fall.
According to Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for internal relations, the athletic department faces changes in the way athletes’ scholarships are distributed based on the changes in tuition.
These challenges are likely to be temporary and can even be expected during a transition period, but TCU’s solution to the problem will unfortunately create only a larger problem.

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Bush an environmentalist phony
President damages nation’s health by going back on word to clean up

By Jordan Blum

Mmm ... arsenic. The poisonous element isn’t usually on the forefront of our minds, but it may be soon as we continue to swallow unsafe drinking water.
The Environmental Protection Agency is fighting to reduce the arsenic

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Chinese air attack, holding hostages grounds for war

By Robert Davis

The recent downing of a U.S. Naval EP-3 surveillance aircraft and its crew of 24 American men and women by Chinese communist military forces is nothing short of an act of war. The aircraft was over international waters, and it was certainly not in a position to provoke armed aggression on the part of the Chinese communists.
Instead, the Chinese communist F-8 fighters intercepted it and warned the EP-3 crew that they were “extremely likely” to open fire on their plane, according to Taiwanese military intelligence sources. Furthermore, despite what the Chinese government claims, it seems quite logical that one of the F-8 fighters actually initiated the collision with the EP-3.

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Disease could have been prevented
Precautions still need to be taken despite local cows not being infected

By Hemi Ahluwalia

Mad-cow disease.These are the three words that brought the European meat industry down to its knees. The disease is believed to cause a brain-wasting illness in humans and so far it has claimed the lives of more than 80 people in Great Britain and at least two in France.
Mad-cow disease was first identified in Great Britain in 1986 and has cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue.
So what can we do to protect ourselves?

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Tailback awaits results of MRI
Hayes-Stoker injured in scrimmage

By Rusty Simmons
Editor In Chief

Junior tailback Andrew Hayes-Stoker was on the sidelines at football practice Tuesday, but other than the brace on his knee, there were no signs of how much practice time he will miss.
Hayes-Stoker was injured on the first play of Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage at Amon Carter Stadium, and he underwent an MRI Monday. Head coach Gary Patterson said the results of the test still have not been released.

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Baseball team loses fourth-straight game, not yet time to panic

By Danny Horne

There’s an old saying around baseball that good pitching will beat good hitting.
That was never more true for TCU this season than it was this weekend. The top-ranked Rice Owls came to Fort Worth and shut down what was considered a rather potent offense.
The Owls pitching staff made the TCU offense look quite meek. The Horned Frogs managed just four earned runs and hit just .187 in a three-game sweep.

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Lucky Drawers
Superstitions can motivate athletes, bring them luck

By Yvette Herrera
Features Editor

TCU football player Robert Dominguez listens to a heavy metal song by Metallica right before he enters the field. He has had the compact disc since the eighth grade, and if he doesn’t hear “Enter Sandman,” he said, it won’t be a good game.
From wearing the same undershirt in a football game to spitting on a baseball bat, athletes have superstitions that motivate them and bring them luck.
“Good things happen to a person when you do certain things that are familiar to you,” Dominguez said. “I’m a very superstitious person even outside of football.”

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Baseball team’s bats stall in loss to
Oklahoma, Frogs’ record falls to 20-13

By Kelly Morris
Sports Editor

Before the TCU baseball team played against Oklahoma at the L. Dale Mitchell Park in Norman, Okla. Tuesday night, it was looking to erase the memory of being swept last weekend in its three-game series against top-ranked Rice.
But after losing to the Sooners, 9-5, TCU is now in the midst of a four-game losing streak, its longest of the season.
Freshman pitcher Clayton Jerome started the game for the Frogs. In the first inning, Oklahoma jumped out to a 4-0 lead. The Frogs got two doubles in the third inning from sophomores Walter Olmstead and Mike Settle to score their first run. Junior catcher Jonathan Marshall followed with his second home run of the season and picked up his second and third RBIs to cut the lead to 4-3.

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All Access
B.B. King, The Roots and Phish frontman Anastasio join forces for an unprecedented updated performance of King’s blues class “Rock Me Baby.”

By Yvette Herrera

Fifteen artists. One show. Audiences in the Dallas/Fort Worth area will be invited to see the backstage madness, sound checks and rehearsals that lie in the heart of every concert.
Beginning Friday Cinemark IMAX Theatre, located at the intersection of Webb Chapel Road and LBJ Freeway in Dallas, presents “All Access: Front-Row. Backstage. Live!” The show features legendary artists such as Carlos Santana, the Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Al Green, George Clinton and B.B. King. Other contemporary artists include Sheryl Crow, Moby, Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty, Mary J. Blige, Kid Rock, Macy Gray, The Roots, Trey Anastasio from Phish and Cheb Mami.
Four of the 15 artists in “All Access” won 2001 Grammy Awards. Nine others were nominated for a Grammy.

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