TCU Daily Skiff

Wednesday, April 3, 2002

Renew
Bank One tower remains a city eyesore

It’s been two years since a tornado hit downtown Fort Worth and an empty reminder stands amid the skyline.
This week, workers began replacing the plywood covering the Bank One tower with fire-resistant materials, most likely metal. Instead, the city should be focusing on greater effort toward demolition. After an asbestos discovery in December, demolition plans were put on hold. Now, financial difficulties remain a stumbling block.
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Opinions from around the country
This editorial comes from the Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan.

Some parents of elementary and middle school students in the East Pennsylvania school system and in Florida’s Citrus County district have recently received unpleasant news via the U.S. postal service: Letters from their children’s schools informing them their children are overweight.
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From politics to rock bands, reality often hidden
By Tim Dragga
Skiff Staff

President Bush’s “war-shtick” got old months ago.
It’s hard for me to take all this fear-preaching, demagoguery and belt-tightening seriously when we’re also discussing tax cuts while refusing to up the CAFE (corporate average fuel emissions) standards and pursue energy routes that will leave us less dependent on irreplaceable fossil fuels (and thus the Middle East).
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Life for the not-quite 21 can have its benefits
By Jeff Dennis
Skiff Staff

I’ve been under 21 for more than 20 years now, but it never seemed liked a very big deal until the last few years, when everyone I know is heading out to 21-and-up bars on Saturday nights.
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Day at the range, ‘the rush’ turn pacifist soft on gun control issues
Greg Macleery is a columnist for the Kentucky Kernel at the University of Kentucky.

Adrenaline made me a hypocrite. I have always proclaimed myself a pacifist. My friends accuse me of having liberal views, almost to the point of socialist, and in nearly 30 years never had I held a gun in my hand, in fact I’ve chastised those who had — until last week.
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