Tuesday, March 5, 2002


Information meeting today on traveling in Europe

NY officials deem proposed Giuliani library unlawful


WEDNESDAY
High: 68; Low: 50; Mostly cloudy

THURSDAY
High: 72; Low: 55; Mostly cloudy


1770 — Boston Massacre occurs in when Patriots protested the occupation of their city by British Troops.

1927 — Jack Cassidy is born.

1936 — Michael Landon is born.

1937 — Fred “The Hammer” Williamson is born.

 

CAMPUS AND LOCAL

International student group forms alumni organization
By David Dunai
Staff Reporter

After planning for more than a year, TCU alumni with international backgrounds laid the foundations of the TCU International Student Association Alumni organization, said Patricia Endara-Zosso after the first meeting of the organization Sunday.
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Presentation deals with
dangers of ‘club drugs’

By Colleen Casey
Staff Reporter

While answering questions in the Student Center lounge Monday, Fort Worth Police officer Joe Pena said he thinks informing students on club drugs is relevant to the TCU campus.
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Daníela Munguia/SKIFF STAFF
Kylie Page, a senior speech communications major, and Brian Coughlin, a senior studio art major, view Mike Penrod’s paintings Monday at the Second Annual Exhibition of the TCU Honor Society of Artists & Designers in the J.M. Moudy Exhibition Hall. The exhibition will continue through March 8 and is open to the public.

Social work finds new
permanent location in Bass
By Colleen Casey
Staff Reporter
Tracy Dietz, chairwoman of the social work department, said she’s excited her office won’t shake when the wind blows as it has the past ten years.

The social work department will move into the Bass Building this summer into the area where the engineering department is currently located. Engineering will move into the completed Tucker Technology Center, said Rhonda Keen-Payne, dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences.
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U. of Okla. professor appointed director of School of Music
By Raul Martinez IV
Staff Reporter

Richard Gipson’s love for music began at age eight with jazz and marching band drummers.
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Dallas, Houston considered for Democratic convention

New UT endowment largest in school, nation’s history

Woman accused of ruining fellow students’ artwork

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
 

Switzerland to join United Nations after 57 years
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS
Associated Press

GENEVA — European countries on Monday applauded a decision by Switzerland to join the United Nations after 57 years on the sidelines — a decision that Swiss opponents feared would threaten the country’s centuries-old tradition of neutrality.
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Goodwin pulls out of Pulitzer judging
No replacement named for historian’s withdraw
By Diego Ibarguen
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who recently admitted copying passages from other works in one of her best-selling books, has withdrawn from judging the Pulitzer Prizes next month.
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Psychiatrist says Yates was threat to self
By Pam Easton
Associated Press

HOUSTON — Andrea Yates was a mere “shell,” a threat to herself and her children, in the weeks before she drowned them in the bathtub, a psychiatrist testified Monday.
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DFW will be one of 15 airports getting federal security screeners this spring
By Jonathan D. Salant
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Newly trained federal employees could start checking passengers and luggage this spring, Transportation Department officials said Monday in announcing that they will start hiring more than 30,000 security screeners.
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