Missing lights don’t dim mood
Despite absence of some lights, many attend Tree Lighting
By Sam Eaton
Staff Reporter

Sadler lawn was full of holiday spirit Thursday night at the annual Holiday Tree Lighting, despite being held a day late and not having the traditional lights circling the columns on the front of Sadler Hall.
The lighting was originally scheduled for Wednesday night, but canceled classes moved the lighting to Thursday night.
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SGA fees will not increase
By Kristin Delorantis
Staff Reporter

The House of Student Representatives will not raise fees for incoming students and subsequent classes as a result of the online referendum voted on by only 105 members of the student body Thursday, Student Government Association President Brian Wood said.
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Official: garage to begin construction
By Jordan Blum
Staff Reporter

Despite denials from the chancellor, University architect Larry Garrison said the chances are “very good” the Building Committee of the Board of Trustees will approve a measure in December to allow construction of a parking garage on campus to begin in early January.
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New facility means one less parking lot
By Jordan Blum
Staff Reporter

Students will lose all 143 parking spaces in the Dan Rogers parking lot at the beginning of next semester as construction begins on the Sarah and Steve Smith Entrepreneurs Hall, said university architect Larry Garrison.
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Students propose wellness center
Sarah McClellan
Staff Reporter

Members of Intercom and other campus organizations think a wellness center will help prevent emotional, health, and drug or alcohol related problems on campus, said Angie Taylor, director of the Alcohol and Drug Education center.
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Nontraditionals find a niche
Student organization hopes to grow, provide support
By Jill Sutton
Staff Reporter

The newly-formed nontraditional student organization now has 25 members, but is still seeking to reach more single parents on campus, said Mary Cunningham, a TCU student and mother, who started the group last month.
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Event to raise funds for Afghan
By Heather Christie
Staff Reporter

The plight of Afghan women and children has inspired a seminar class to host a fundraiser next week.
Students in the seminar class “Women Around the Globe” developed an interest in Afghan women since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because the media has shown that women have no rights under Taliban rule, sociology professor Jean Giles-Sims said.
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Self-study survey results to be released before the fall semester ends
By Piper Huddleston
Staff Reporter

Information from the surveys sent out by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools re-accreditation self-study committee is currently being organized and will be ready before the end of the semester, Alan Shepard, director of the self-study, said Thursday.
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U.S. offers visas for aid against terror
By Karen Gullo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Seeking to gain improved cooperation, the Justice Department on Thursday offered foreigners a fast track to American citizenship if they give investigators useful information about terrorists.
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Enron Corp. on the brink of bankruptcy
By Kristen Hays
Associated Press

HOUSTON — The slick financing that helped turn Enron Corp. into a mighty power-brokering dynamo became its Achilles’ heel, leaving the energy trader teetering toward bankruptcy after a smaller rival abandoned plans to buy it.
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Suspected anthrax hoaxer one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives
By Karen Gullo
Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Clayton Lee Waagner, one of the FBI’s most-wanted fugitives, is a suspect in a string of anthrax hoax letters sent to abortion clinics, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Thursday.
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