Announcements of campus events, public meetings and other general campus information should be brought to the TCU Daily Skiff office at Moudy Building South, Room 291, mailed to TCU Box 298050 or e-mailed to skiffletters@tcu.edu. Deadline for receiving announcements is 2 p.m. the day before they are to run. The Skiff reserves the right to edit submissions for style, taste and space available.
 
Air Force ROTC offers open-enrollment during the spring semester for college freshman and sophomore students interested in becoming commissioned officers in the U.S. Air Force. Once enrolled in the AFROTC courses, eligible students may apply for two- or three-year scholarships that could pay up to $15,000 an academic year beginning in the Fall 2000 semester. There are no service requirements for the AFROTC freshman and sophomore courses. For more information, call 257-7461 or e-mail (J.Aleman@tcu.edu).
 
National Security Education Program (NSEP) scholarships for U.S. undergraduates to study abroad during Summer 2000 through Spring 2001 are available. The deadline is Feb. 7. For applications, call the NSEP office at 1-800-618-NSEP or e-mail (nsep@iie.org).
 
SHARE! High School Exchange Program needs families to host high school exchange students for the spring semester of the 1999/2000 school year. Families are able to review student applications and select the student they feel will best match their own interests. For more information, call Sharon George at (915) 533-5808 or the Education Resource Development Trust Southwest Regional Office at 1-800-414-3738.
 
TCU Bookstore will start purchasing books Thursday, the first day of dead days. This year the bookstore will offer a new service, Online Textbook Reservations. Students have two options: to reserve books and prepay with a credit card or to reserve books without prepaying. When students who have prepaid pick up their books, 5 percent of the total cost will be returned. For more information, call the TCU Bookstore at 257-7844.
 
Finals for the fall semester will be held Monday, Dec. 13 to Friday, Dec. 17. For a schedule of dates and times check out the TCU web page at (http://www.reg.tcu.edu/reg/calendar.htm).

 
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Academia Nuts By John P. Araujo AcademiaNuts@aol.com
 

 
Lex By Phil Flickinger
 

 

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