Slater hired for dean post
Communication position filled after more than 2-year vacancy
By Jacque Petersell
Staff Reporter

The College of Communication will have a new dean during the spring 2002 semester, Provost William Koehler said Tuesday.
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Computer help desk moving to library
By Jordan Blum
Staff Reporter

The User Services computer help desk is moving into the Mary Couts Burnett Library to be combined with the library reference desk next semester in a remodeling and construction project.
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Anthrax fears lead to mail handling policy
By James Zwilling
Staff Reporter

Recent anthrax scares across the United States prompted TCU Mailing Services to send an e-mail to faculty and staff Tuesday outlining procedures for handling suspicious mail.
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Brite hopes grant will help recruiting
By Heather Christie
Staff Reporter

Brite Divinity School is opting for a $30,000 grant to focus recruiting efforts on high school students interested in exploring theological education and ministry
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U.S. bombs start fires at Red Cross warehouses in Kabul
By Kathy Gannon
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. strikes set Red Cross warehouses afire near Afghanistan’s capital Tuesday, sending workers scrambling to salvage desperately needed relief goods during a bombardment that could be heard 30 miles away.
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U.S. House votes to increase grant funding
By Andrew S. Holbrook
Harvard Crimson

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (U-WIRE) — Maximum awards to undergraduates through the federal government’s Pell grant program would increase by $250 to $4,000 per year under a provision passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Faking anthrax scares a federal offense
By Karen Gullo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Declaring the threat of bioterrorism is no joking matter, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday those who fake anthrax or other terrorist scares will face federal prosecution. He announced the indictment of one such man in Connecticut.
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Attacks affecting college plans
By Joann Loviglio
Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Sixteen-year-old Bennett “Beano” Zylber is starting to think about college. He is not sure about a major — psychology, maybe — but he is certain of this: He is staying close to home.
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Dodge Intrepid to be used as new police car
By Ed Garsten
Associated Press

DETROIT — When hapless TV police officers Gunther Toody and Frances Muldoon patrolled in Car 54, it was in a Dodge DeSoto. When the men in blue chased the Blues Brothers, it was in a Dodge Monaco.
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Proposition 6 grants governor new power
Associated Press

AUSTIN — Florida and its election nightmare were on the minds of lawmakers when they drafted and approved Proposition 6 for voter consideration.
The constitutional amendment on the Nov. 6 ballot would require the governor to call a special session of the Legislature to appoint presidential electors if he thought it were reasonably likely that they would not be selected in time for the federal certification deadline.
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