Minority applications increase
Programs spread word about campus, increase diversity

By Carrie Woodall
Staff Reporter

Minority admissions applications for fall 2001 have greatly increased from last year which may result in a higher ethnic diversity on campus, Ray Brown, dean of admissions, said.
The number of minority applications increased from 787 to 1,030. Last year, about 13 percent of the incoming class were minority students. Nearly 18 percent of the incoming students that have been accepted for next fall are minority students.

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Tenure requirements evaluated
SGA pushes for incentives for faculty to work with students

By Jonathan Sampson
Staff Reporter

Members of the Student Government Association said faculty’s tenure requirements need to include stronger incentives for involvement with students, but some faculty members said there isn’t an easy answer.
Academic Affairs Chairman Brian Casebolt said the largest tenure requirements are currently publishing and teaching, with nothing else. His committee wants to compose a piece of legislation on the issue to bring to the administration before the end of this semester.

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Perkins dies at 60 due to surgical complications
Foundation set up to collect instruments, continue professor’s love of music

By Jillanne Johnson
Staff Reporter

Funeral services were held Monday for Linda J. Perkins, who was an Intensive English Program faculty member since January 2000.
Perkins, 60, died Wednesday in Fort Worth due to complications during a surgical operation, according to an e-mail from the Perkins family.
Cathy Hutchison, a professor in the Intensive English Program, said Perkins was always excited to teach, especially at TCU. Hutchison said Perkins went home to celebrate with her daughter, who lived next door to Perkins, after she was hired at TCU.

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Business students turn out to volunteer
Six local charities benefit, despite low turnout of Neeley school students

By Melissa Christensen
Staff Reporter

In an effort to break their reputation as paper-pushers, about 75 M.J. Neeley Business School students volunteered for six Fort Worth charities Saturday.
Isa Peña, a senior finance and management major, said the day was also a response to students who mentioned that in interviews, future employers asked about community involvement.

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Registration Rumblings

Radio-TV-film students must get permits to register

By Kelly Marino
Staff Reporter

As radio-TV-film majors begin registering for classes this week, they will have to deal with more than just the FrogNet online registration system.
Due to the increasing amount of students in the program and the limited amount of classes, radio-TV-film majors must now have an adviser personally review their transcripts and give them permits for each upper-level division course they take in the department.

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Neeley school re-opens courses to advertising/public relations

By Julie Ann Matonis
Staff Reporter

Due to concerns over the value of the advertising/public relations degree, the M.J. Neeley School of Business and the College of Communications have agreed to continue making upper-division business courses available for about 150 junior and senior advertising/public relations majors, said Maggie Thomas, associate professor of journalism.

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Major problems
RTVF policy hinders registration

In the old days, before FrogNet and online registration, students could be seen standing in line at the Registrar’s Office, hoping that when their turn arrived, there would still be space left in the most coveted classes.
This year, four semesters after the successful implementation of online registration, students are once again standing in line to register for classes.
This time, it’s the 260 students who currently classify themselves as radio-TV-film majors who are fighting registration hassles. It’s a song they’ve been singing now for three semesters.
An institution which affords students the opportunity to register online should also be an institution which allows all students to have the same experience.

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Successful acts
Officers’ deeds should not be ignored

They take a lot of criticism from the student body, because apparently it’s their fault when the driver of an illegally parked car gets a ticket.
They take the brunt of the concerns regarding pedestrian safety, because apparently it’s their fault if a student doesn’t look both ways before crossing University Drive.
They take a barrage of phone calls offering blame when a crime occurs on campus, because apparently the very rare occurrences are no one else’s fault.
And the TCU Police Department takes it all in stride as the staff goes about its daily business of serving and protecting the students, faculty and staff of TCU. The good things the TCU Police Department does are often overlooked, but last week, its actions could not be ignored.

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Newsrooms need different beliefs
One political view leads to a story bias when reporting events

By John Araujo

It is said in the news business that the only marketable commodity journalists possess is credibility. If a media outlet has a reputation for objective, unbiased reporting, then most readers will be likely to follow that outlet’s reporting. If, however, a media outlet is known as a “liberal rag,” then only liberals will read it.
Is there a liberal bias in the media? For some people, that is a bit like asking if the Pope is Catholic. However, it is a legitimate question to ask, because it affects the media’s credibility. If you believe that there is a liberal bias in the media, then you are more likely to shrug off what is reported. As a result, this belief will affect your ability to be updated and informed on current events.

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Letter to the Editor
Health center protects students’ rights by medical confidentiality

Regarding the Skiff’s April 6 editorial concerning the TCU Health Center’s refusal to make information concerning prescriptions public, I am thankful that Dr. Burton Schwartz and his colleagues have enough compassion for their patients to not make this information available to the Skiff, which claims that problems such as allergies and depression “plague the student body.”
If the Health Center is expected to release the number of allergy and depression prescriptions, as the editorial suggests, where do they draw the line? Should they also be expected to freely announce how many students were diagnosed with a disease like AIDS last week? What about birth-control medicine? How many students got diagnosed with STDs during the week after Spring Break? The students who depend on the Health Center for its primary purpose, medical care, shouldn’t have to worry about seeing themselves as a statistic in the pages of the campus newspaper. Hopefully, Schwartz will keep fighting to protect his patients.
— Wes Warnock
TCU alumnus

Ingram secures 300th victory
Win adds to tennis coach’s award list

By John Weyand
STaff Reporter

With a 6-1 victory against Houston Saturday, the women’s tennis team gave head coach Roland Ingram perhaps one of his best presents — his 300th victory as a Horned Frog.
Ingram said Monday he couldn’t believe he had accrued that amount of victories.
“I didn’t realize it was that many,” Ingram said. “Actually, I thought it was much more. When you’ve been coaching as long as I have, they just all run together.”

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Tennis team defeats Rice
Frogs close in on No. 1 spot

By Ram Luthra
Staff Reporter

The No. 2-ranked men’s tennis team heard that top-ranked UCLA lost its first match of the season moments before its own match against conference-rival Rice on Saturday.
“It was great news to us that UCLA lost,” senior Esteban Carril said. “The team was very excited about the possibility of being No. 1, but we also tried to not get too excited and to concentrate on Rice.”

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Frogs win at Texas Relays
Weekend performance key for track teams’ season

By Sam Eaton
Skiff Staff

For the men’s and women’s track and field teams the 74th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relay in Austin last weekend was as much about tradition as it was about performance.
The men’s team took top honors Saturday, being named the Most Outstanding team for the second straight year.
The annual meet hosted 65 colleges from around the country and gave the men’s team, a chance to once again prove itself on a national level.And senior Kim Collins led the charge, being named the relay’s Most Outstanding male athlete.

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Defense compiles eight sacks, limits offense
Dunbar, Printers emerge as fan favorites; tailbacks vie for position after Tomlinson’s departure

By Rusty Simmons
Editor In Chief

Freshman punter John Braziel spent more time with his right shoe off Saturday than he expected going into the Frogs’ third intrasquad scrimmage of the spring.
Braziel, who removes his right shoe and sock before he punts, had to kick five times Saturday as the defense compiled eight sacks and limited the offense to three touchdowns in front of more than 300 fans at Amon Carter Stadium.

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In the Army Now

Photos by Tim Cox — Quotes Compiled by Jennifer Koesling

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