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Tuesday, November 13, 2001
Editorial

Speak Up
Show students care by voting

A common complaint around campus is that TCU students are apathetic. They don’t get involved, don’t take a stand on issues and just don’t care.
It is easy to see why students are accused of apathy. When the Student Government Association provided students an opportunity to give feedback to the organization on Constituency Day in October with an online survey, only 410 residential students and 171 commuter students responded.

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Some issues have long lives
by John Araujo
Skiff Staff

Presented below is a multitude of meanderings presented for your mental manipulation. Enjoy!
2000 Election
It was one year ago last week that the 2000 Presidential Election ended in a virtual tie. You can bet that Florida will do its very best to ensure that they are not in the public eye like that ever again (and they thought the Elián Gonzalez thing was bad).

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Generation gap is worse
This is not the first time the nation has been at war
Emily Dupuis is a columnist for The Bona Venture at St. Bonaventure University.

The college-age generation is getting a bad rap.
Writers from older generations — survivors of the Great Depression, World War II and the Vietnam conflict — have deemed the late-teen to early-adult age bracket unpatriotic and even ungrateful for the sacrifices of those before.

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Anorexic sites merit censorship
Laura Parcells is a columnist for the Cavalier Daily at Univ. of Virginia

No one ever claimed that the Internet wouldn’t cause problems. A dangerous new trend has begun to emerge on the World Wide Web: An estimated 400 Web sites have materialized that proclaim themselves to be “pro-Ana” — pro-anorexia.
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