Limit put on free printouts on campus
Students allocated 200 free pages for school printers

By Chrissy Braden
Staff Reporter

Beginning this semester, students will have to monitor the number of pages they print out from campus printers.
A charge of 8 cents will be added to their send-home bills after they reach the new 200-page limit. The new policy applies to TCU’s 33 computer labs, including the Mary Couts Burnett Library, Student Center Reading Room and all department labs.

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Renovations block off 28 parking spaces
Relocation of 200 Waits women may ease problem

By Julie Ann Matonis
Staff Reporter

The sight of metal fences and construction crews is as familiar to the TCU campus as student complaints about parking, but one may actually alleviate the other.
The renovation of Waits Hall actually improves the parking situation on Main Campus despite the inconvenience, said TCU Police Chief Steve McGee.

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Village People
Brite Divinity students move into newest campus apartment complex

By Maliha Suleman
staff reporter

Vivian Crowson loves her new two-bedroom apartment in The Leibrock Village. The smell of fresh paint and clean carpets fills the corridors of Leibrock.
Crowson, a Brite Divinity School student, lived in the Bellaire North Apartments before she moved to Leibrock.
“It’s like a mansion compared to Bellaire because it isn’t as dark and cramped,” said Crowson, who’s smiling despite the unpacking yet to be done.

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Banquet held to honor King

By LaNasha Houze
staff reporter

As the price for the autographed Dallas Stars pendant continued to grow at an auction, the anthology of the black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” rested at the minimum bid.

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Public image
University needs to protect name

TCU is getting just what it wanted ... publicity. Trouble is, it’s probably not the kind of publicity the university wanted.
Former head coach Dennis Franchione and former linebackers coach Mark Parks were formally accused of racial discrimination and harassment Nov. 15 — just two weeks before they accepted coaching positions at the University of Alabama.

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Media must re-define credibility
Skiff looks to student input for success in spring semester

Screen writer and film director Ron Shelton says life is made of defining moments, in which a person either defines the moment or is defined by the moment.
In the months following November’s presidential election, the media have been forced to be redefined.

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New editor encourages discussion, debate
Broader scope of thinking to highlight opinion page for spring

Newspapers have a long history in America as conveyers of information and as watchdogs of the U.S. government. They have an even longer history as tools of persuasion.
Still today, editorial pages of newspapers continue to be one of the most important elements in successful publications.

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New Year brings new goals
Features editor shares 2001 plans

By now we’ve all realized that last year’s big celebration of the new millennium was in actuality a celebration of just another year. People across the world toasted to a new millennium Dec. 31, 1999, just like some did for the year 999.

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Former coaches accused of discrimination
Complaint filed by two football players names Fran, Parks

By Victor Drabicky
SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
Despite head coach Dennis Franchione’s departure from TCU more than six weeks ago, the impact of his tenure is more evident than ever. Two weeks before Franchione and part of his coaching staff left for Alabama, he and ex-TCU linebackers coach Mark Parks were formally accused of racial discrimination and harassment by two TCU football players.
Both coaches deny the allegations.

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Frogs’ losses set up must-win situation

Schedule strength has been at the forefront of TCU athletics throughout this academic year. It started in August when the Horned Frog football team started its season which ultimately resulted in a loss in the GMAC Mobile Alabama Bowl.
The knock on the TCU football team through its rise and fall in the Bowl Championship Series rankings was its lack of schedule strength in the non-conference capacity.

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Patterson names new coaching staff

By John Weyand
SKIFF STAFF

When TCU head coach Gary Patterson arrived back on campus Monday, he realized he had eight new neighbors.
The offices around Patterson’s were filled with moving boxes, trophies and the men he had hired as the new TCU football coaching staff.

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Sarah Kirschberg/PHOTO EDITOR
Freshman Collin Sandifer works on his butterfly technique during practice last week. Both men’s and women’s swimming team’s finished their spring training sessions in Colorado over the Winter Break. The men’s team competes against Florida Jan. 20, while the women’s team swims at Southern Methodist today.