Holiday Tree Lighting to be held at 9 p.m. today

Jons Grille to reopen Monday, future unclear

SAT scores still stuck in New Jersey post offices

University crime stats to be online
By James Zwilling
Staff Reporter

A new program by the U.S. Department of Education will enable students considering any of the nation’s 6,269 colleges, universities and career schools to view college crime statistics online at (http://op.ed.gov/security).
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Olympic Torch Relay to cross TCU campus
By Heather Christie
Staff Reporter

For TCU swim coach Richard Sybesma, carrying the Olympic Torch across campus Wednesday Dec. 12 approximately between 8:58 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. has special meaning because he is running in memory of an former TCU swimmer.
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Picking up pieces of so many lives
AIDS Memorial Quilt panels to be displayed in Student Center ballroom
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

Kathryne McDorman, director of the honors program, lost a close friend to AIDS. She and another friend wanted to do something special to remember the loss of their friend, she said.
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Forum focuses on the importance of organ donation
By Jill Sutton
Staff Reporter

There are 66,067 patients waiting for transplants across the nation and one organ and tissue donor can provide up to seven life saving organs, according to statistics from LifeGift, an organ donation organization.
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$20B aid package approved
By Alan Fram
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House blocked a Democratic effort Wednesday to add billions to what President Bush wants for national security and aid to New York and moved toward approving a bipartisan $20 billion anti-terrorism package.
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No guarantees for visa renewals
Problems will keep some international students in U.S. for winter break
By Noah Bond
The Daily Universe (Brigham Young U.)

PROVO, Utah (U-WIRE) — There is no telling when Edlira Bozgo can safely visit her homeland in Albania.
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Airstrikes damage Taliban base
Planes dropping leaflets to deliver several messages, information
By Matt Kelley
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Leaflets dropped by American planes over Afghanistan are starting to persuade some Taliban troops to give up their fight, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
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CIA officer killed in northern Afghanistan
By John L. Lumpkin
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Rioting prisoners killed CIA officer Johnny “Mike” Spann at Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan, the agency said Wednesday. He was the first American killed in action inside the country since U.S. bombing began seven weeks earlier.
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Female university presidents paid less than male colleagues
By Stephanie Harris
Brown Daily Herald (Brown U.)

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (U-WIRE) — Female college presidents earn less money and face more challenges than their male counterparts, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education.
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N. Alliance rejects idea of international security force
By Tony Czuczka
Associated Press

KOENIGSWINTER, Germany — The northern alliance on Wednesday rejected an international force to keep security in post-Taliban Afghanistan, saying the alliance’s own troops were sufficient.
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U.S. gov’t purchases smallpox vaccine
By Lauea Meckler
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration signed a contract Wednesday to buy 155 million doses of smallpox vaccine from a British firm, preparing for the possibility terrorists would try to spread the deadly virus.
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Dynegy calls off Enron deal
By Kristen Hays
Associated Press

HOUSTON — Enron Corp. teetered toward bankruptcy Wednesday after its smaller rival, Dynegy Inc., called off its planned $8.4 billion acquisition of the energy giant.
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