TCU Daily Skiff

Thursday, February 14, 2002

Neglected
No faculty added to art education

Twenty-five: The number of additional faculty positions requested by seven TCU colleges and schools.
Fourteen: The number of positions granted.
Eighteen: The number of years the art education department has been waiting for the approval of just one faculty position.
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Opinions from around the country

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on one of the most controversial pieces of legislation in recent times. While the Shays-Meehan campaign finance reform bill has necessary provisions to prevent the deleterious effects of large campaign contributions on the integrity of the political process, the bill prohibits free speech and therefore the House should not pass it.
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Individual views of Americans differ from opinions of media
By Tom Daniels
Skiff Staff

After watching the news and listening to reports of what is wrong in America today according to the major networks, it often becomes frustrating to hear the slant that is put on the news and the bias the anchors often let show in their reporting.After watching the news and listening to reports of what is wrong in America today according to the major networks, it often becomes frustrating to hear the slant that is put on the news and the bias the anchors often let show in their reporting.
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Martin Luther King questionable luminary
Lance Turlington is a columnist for the Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma.

On Martin Luther King Day, I read a King biography, “I May Not Get There With You,” by Michael Dyson. It was interesting, but disturbing. I followed it with “Pillar of Fire” by Taylor Branch, a Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights author. These books celebrate King as a passionate and persuasive leader. They also make me reluctant to celebrate Martin Luther King Day as an appropriate federal holiday.
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University should reduce the price of parking to compensate for lack of parking spaces on campus
By Samuel Rose
Skiff Staff

Please, someone, a little bargain for our money!
TCU, a school that prides itself on preparing leaders for a changing world and boasts about its business school, needs to apply some good business practices in addressing its parking issues.
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