Alcohol awareness to be promoted
By Erin LaMourie
Staff Reporter

After being issued an alcohol violation citation, Daniel Herron, a senior political science major, was required to attend an alcohol awareness course. Herron said he now understands more about his alcohol limits, but he doubts other students are aware of the effects alcohol has on a body.
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Breaking Tradition
Single mother starts organization for nontraditional students
By Jill Sutton
Staff Reporter

Mary Cunningham, a 31-year-old single mother with a 5-year-old daughter, said she has been looking for an organization at TCU that fits her needs as both a student and a parent.
After posting a message on TCU Announce last week, Cunningham has found at least 18 other nontraditional students who desire the same kinship.
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ROTC finishes fourth and sixth in Ranger Challenge
By Sam Eaton
Staff Reporter

TCU Army ROTC teams placed fourth and sixth at the annual Ranger Challenge competition Friday and Saturday at Fort Hood in Killeen.
Thirty teams from ROTC battalions in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico competed. Teams from Texas A&Mtook first and second place in the competition.
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U.S. warplanes shift focus to Taliban troops
By Robert Burns
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Shifting the focus of U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan from fixed military targets to Taliban troops is a logical progression toward the goal of destroying the Taliban and the al-Qaeda terrorist network they harbor, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.
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Anthrax suspected in two postal deaths
Officials worried more infections will crop up in Washington, D.C.
By David Espo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Anthrax probably killed two postal workers from a facility that delivers mail to Congress and left two more hospitalized, officials said Monday as the nation suffered fresh casualties in the bioterrorism war.
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US demands swift Israeli withdrawal
By Barry Schweid
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States demanded the immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces Monday from Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank and deplored their killing of “numerous” Palestinian civilians during the weekend.
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War hits home
Young adults face a conflict they have only read about — and fear they
may see it up close
By Christopher Newton
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — They learned of war at a safe distance, through textbooks and television, during the twilight of the Soviet Empire.
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Serious crime rates continue to decline
By Jennifer Loven
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Americans were victims of slightly fewer serious crimes reported to police last year: rape, robbery and assault remained near already low levels, and the murder rate hit its lowest point in 35 years.
The FBI’s fin
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Minorities speak out at redistricting trial
By Connie Mabin
Associated Press

AUSTIN — There should be more opportunity for black and Hispanic Texans to elect candidates of their choice to Congress, several attorneys representing minorities told a federal panel Monday.
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Rumsfeld: leaker disregards soldiers lives, federal law
By Matt Kelley
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld denounced the person who revealed to news media information about special forces operations in Afghanistan as a lawbreaker who showed “disregard for the lives of the people involved in that operation.”
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