TCU Daily Skiff

Thursday, March 7, 2002

CARRY ON
New degree a positive step

Students in the kinesiology department and the university as a whole have everything to gain if a new specialized degree in athletic training is added to TCU’s curriculum.
Adding an individually accredited athletic training program would offer students an opportunity to focus on a more specific career path. Students would benefit not only from the tailored programming, but also from the increased value of a specialized degree.
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Opinions from around the country
This editorial comes from The Daily Texan at the University of Texas-Austin.

Due to an unsuccessful attempt at obtaining meaningful records from the past three meetings of the University of Texas Task Force on Free Speech and Assembly, The Daily Texan has filed a Freedom of Information request for those documents.
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Deregulation seems good, but consider motives first
By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff

We Americans are pretty confused right now. We allow corporations to contribute money to our political system. Hello, when did corporations get the right to vote or be counted?
Corporations do not exist. There is no Lockheed Martin running around. What exists is a private tyranny of top fascistic authorities, executed by increasingly richer executives while increasingly poorer workers are forced to deal with the realities that exist in today’s modern world.
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Police officers not all heroes; should not be exempt from law
By Samuel Rose
Skiff Staff

Heroes, yes (well, sometimes). Gods? Absolutely not.
Unfortunately that is the new status given to police officers throughout America in the post Sept. 11 fallout. My regular readers may notice that somehow each of my articles makes some reference to Sept. 11. But unfortunately, as Alan Jackson sang, it really was “The Day the World Stopped Turning.” It is also turning into the day that people stopped acting like rational beings.
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Teen mags schway in a so-right-now sorta way
Kate MacDonald is a columnist for the Badger Herald at the University of Wisconsin.

A rogue issue of the teen-age girl’s stalwart magazine, “Seventeen,” found its way into our office this week. It was just sitting there on the desk as if planted by some renegade prom committee. I tried to walk away, but I was forced to succumb to my curiosity after seeing the huge boldface headline, “Is that my butt?”
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