Job Hunting
Economic slowdown may affect employment search
By David Dunai
Staff Reporter

Seniors graduating in 2002 will have a tougher time finding jobs than graduates have in previous years because of the economic slow down, Carolyn Ulrickson, director of Career Services, said Wednesday.

Ulrickson said this difficulty does not mean that employment opportunities are not available and that Career Services will continue to help students find the job that would suit them the best.

Doug Brown, assistant director of the Graduate Career Service Center at the M.J. Neeley School of Business, said big employers have been impacted by the economic slowdown.

Currently, big companies work on keeping their employees instead of hiring new ones and they focus more on internships as an option for newcomers, Brown said.

“There is a sense of wait-and-see attitude among companies, but there are signs that yield for some optimism that the economy would start to go up,” Brown said.
full story

TCU PD flyers to notify students susceptible to theft
By Anthony Kirchner
Staff Reporter

Students who leave valuables such as compact discs, cell phones and backpacks in their vehicles may find a flyer on their windshield from the TCU Police this semester, Officer Pam Christian with Crime Prevention at TCU, said.
full story

Magazine lists TCU 14th best college value
By David Reese
Staff Reporter

TCU officials say a recent national ranking that lists the university as one of the, “15 great schools at great prices” is right on the money.
full story

Faculty debate over CUE proposal continues
Limited faculty input, balance of disciplines top issues of concern

By Brandon Ortiz
Staff Reporter

Amid controversy surrounding the proposed Common Undergraduate Experience, one of the architects of the document said he will send an e-mail response addressing concerns to all faculty Thursday or Friday.
full story

Scaly Skin
Prevent chapped flaky
skin with a few precautions
By Karen Uhlenhuth
Knight Ridder Newspapers

Think of yourself as a humidifier — a chapped, flaking, scaly, itching humidifier. Because in effect, come January and cold temperatures and forced-air heat, that’s what you become.
Consider the physics. Your body is 60 percent water, more or less. The humidity of indoor winter air tends to hover closer to 30, and easily can plummet into the single digits, depending on how cold it is outside and where you set your thermostat.
full story

Five quick ways to protect your skin:

• Use a humidifier to increase the amount of water in the air in your home or work place.
• Limit your showers to no more than 15 minutes and use lukewarm water.
• Apply a moisturizer to your skin while it’s still wet after you’ve showered or washed your hands.
• Seek out moisturizing products that contain alpha or poly hydroxy acids, and humectants such as vitamin B-5.
• Drink lots of water, and eat plenty of oily fish such as tuna and salmon.
  — Knight Ridder Newspapers

credits
TCU Daily Skiff © 2002