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Tuesday,
November 20, 2001 News |
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| CAMPUS AND LOCAL | ||
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Blown
transformer displaces students Approximately
120 sorority members either spent Monday night in a hotel or were
headed home early for the holidays after power outages forced evacuations
of some residence halls. |
Rising
insurance costs may force staff cancellations Just
after she finished emptying the trash cans on “her floor,”
a residential services employee with more than 20 years of experience
at TCU fought the urge to pitch the white, 8-by-11 envelope marked
“confidential” right into the garbage. |
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FrogNet
overloaded Junior
accounting and finance major Whitney Merriman was unable to register
for classes for three hours Nov. 9. When she finally was able to
log on, all her classes were full. Merriman did not notify anyone
of her difficulties. |
Endowment
losses force TCU’s
endowment, which is valued at about $900 million, has decreased
approximately eight percent as a result of rising inflation and
deprecations in the stock markets due in part to the Sept. 11 attacks,
said Chancellor Michael Ferrari. The 8 percent loss mirrors the
overall loss of the stock market. |
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| NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL | ||
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Bush
signs aviation safety bill WASHINGTON —
President Bush signed legislation Monday to put the nation's airport
baggage screeners on the federal payroll, part of an effort to enhance
airline safety and reassure passengers the skies are safe 10 weeks
after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. |
$25
million bounty offered on bin Laden WASHINGTON —
The Pentagon hopes Afghans motivated by the Taliban's collapse and
millions in U.S. reward money will find Osama bin Laden's hideout
so U.S. troops won't have to hunt cave-to-cave for him, Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday. |
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