TCU Daily Skiff

Friday, April 19, 2002

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New evaluation forms offer fewer choices

The “not applicable” response is no longer an option on teacher evaluation forms. Students filling out forms this semester have no middle ground with multiple choice. If you don’t agree or disagree with the statements, you’ve still got to make a decision: leave it blank or put an obligatory response.
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Opinions from around the country
This editorial comes from the Minnesota Daily at the University of Minnesota.

In his administration’s most recent misdirected policy change, President Bush proposed banning some international students from studying in certain fields in the United States.
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Business as usual drives international relations
By Chris Dobson
Skiff Staff

So apparently a coup came to naught and George W. wants to “unsign” a document, which even my spell checker can’t fathom. These two events are connected and you shall soon see how.
The International Criminal Court has been a plan for a few years now since Bill Clinton signed the United States into it during the days before he left office.
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Students shouldn’t be responsible to tattle on cheaters for Code
By Jenny Specht
Skiff Staff

I did it, I’m guilty.
I cheated on a test.
I’m not sure what the statute of limitations on cheating is, but punish me now for my transgression. It was in seventh grade music class, and this albatross has been hanging around my neck for eight years now, ruining my testing karma and popping up as a pang of guilt in my head at the oddest of times.
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Genes won’t be ruined by kissing cousins
Commentary by Randy Woock

Yee-haw! The entertainment potential of family reunions just raised itself to a whole new height. You no longer need to look outside your clan for a marriage partner, and your new in-laws can be as familiar to you as your aunt and uncle. Hell, they can actually be your aunt and uncle!
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