TCU Daily Skiff

Friday, March 1, 2002

Global
Alliance with ELTE the right step

This week TCU established strategic ties with one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, Hungary’s Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE).
The relationship will provide classroom facilities for TCU in Budapest and will expand the variety of courses offered in the coming years including possible post-graduate and research opportunities.
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Opinions from around the country

The study of black history shouldn’t end with the month that celebrates it. It is commonplace for Americans to remind each other of that around Feb. 28, and in many ways Americans of every race already do acknowledge that truth. While VH1 may focus on black musicians in February, it doesn’t ignore them the rest of the year.
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U.S. government commits terrorist acts, uses violence
By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff

Since the Great Depression, that point when the people of America stopped believing in capitalism, the government started spending billions of our dollars on a war machine, which must be used to recoup any value.
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Skiff lacks student response, controversy
By Jeff Dennis
Skiff Staff

I am a copy editor for the TCU Daily Skiff. It almost sounds like an important position. I get a lot of, “Oh you’re an editor!” from my friends.
Well, my title may say editor, but it’s pretty clear that the only thing I am editor of is the newsprint itself. It’s unbelievably exciting. I get to watch for misspelled words and try to keep commas where they belong. So when you complain about how the Skiff didn’t spell something right, you could probably blame that on one of the copy editors, such as myself.
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Student remembers why he never goes to fraternity parties after hosting one
Corinne Purtill is a columnist for The Stanford Daily at Stanford University.

I came home on Friday night to find a horde of tube-topped girls pushing their way into my house like a rebel army storming the palace gates. The bass rattled the windows of the house across the street, and through the windows I saw a throng of people under an eerie red light gyrating like souls in some forgotten circle of Dante’s hell.
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