Tuesday, April 2, 2002


STATE NEWS
Not to be outdone by Playboy Magazine’s offer that Enron women shed their threads, Playgirl Magazine on Monday invited the men of Enron to do the same.
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Intercultural Banquet honors campus leaders

UT may need policy change on faculty-student relations


WEDNESDAY
High: 54; Low: 42; Mostly cloudy, 30 percent chance of rain

THURSDAY
High: 63; Low: 46; Partly cloudy


1792 — The U.S. Congress authorized the first U.S. mint in Philadelphia, Pa.

1902 — The first motion picture theater opened in Los Angeles. The Electric Theatre charged a dime to see an hour’s entertainment.

1951 — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. They were executed in June 1953.

CAMPUS AND LOCAL

Application numbers reflect
visibility

Student interest in university
continues to rise
By David Reese
Staff Reporter

The admissions department expects the number of applications to hit an all-time high of 6,000 within the next few weeks as a result of the increase of TCU’s visibility, said Ben Alexander, director of admissions marketing.
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Delta Gammas follow local philanthropy move
Residents of assisted living community to be relocated
By Kelly Maria Howard
Staff Reporter

Nineteen residents of the Lewis House, a part of the Lighthouse for the Blind of Fort Worth, are looking for a new place to live, said Elissa M. Winder, Delta Gamma president and a junior speech communication major.
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Opening celebration
David Dunai/SKIFF REPORTER
Kaveh Nezafati, SGA chairman of the Permanent Improvements Committee, SGA President Chelsea Hudson, SGA Advisor Larry Markley, Chancellor Michael Ferrari, Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs and Scott Sullivan, dean of College of Fine Arts, participate in a ribbon cutting Monday to open the new atrium outside the Moudy Building.

 

ACU community mourns loss of five students killed in car wreck during break
By Angela K. Brown
Associated Press

ABILENE — The roommate of two of five Abilene Christian University students killed in a wreck says he’s having a hard time believing his friends won’t return from Easter break.
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Houston home to many of nation’s largest companies

Board members have no children in public schools

Man confesses, pleads not guilty to murder charges

Playgirl Magazine extends offer to men of Enron

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL

U.S. takes al Qaeda leader into custody
By John J. Lumpkin
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Pakistani authorities have handed over to the United States a man considered the biggest catch yet in the war on terrorism: Abu Zubaydah, a senior al Qaeda leader believed to be leading an attempt to reconstitute the group in Pakistan, officials said.
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Queen Mother Elizabeth passes away at age 101

Bush comments on Palestinian and Israeli attacks

Bush hosts White House Egg Roll for children

Synagogue destroyed, Jews targeted in France

New program aims to fight childhood obesity

Demonstrators protest war exercises in Puerto Rico


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