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John Billingsley, a sophomore accounting major, shops Tuesday in the TCU Bookstore for a Valentine’s Day card to send to his mother.

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Judy Prater, an employee at TCU Florist,
adds filler to a Valentine’s Day flower arrangement.

Music school lacks room, students say
No plans for change set

By Melissa Christensen
Staff Reporter

TCU music students and instructors said practice space is inadequate and the only major solution is long-term planning and construction.
Only nine practice rooms are available in Ed Landreth Hall for the 169 undergraduate music majors and the several hundred students in large ensembles who are not music majors. Eight practice rooms are available in the Walsh Center for Performing Arts, but they are exclusive to piano students.TCU music faculty members said the ratio of students to practice rooms is embarrassingly low.

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Art to art
NEO-TEN exhibit teaches class to present work

By Bethany McCormack
Staff Reporter

A group of 10 studio art majors got first-hand experience in the world of art Tuesday night at the opening of the art exhibit NEO-TEN.
The exhibit, planned and produced by the students, featured sculpture, photography and paintings from the students’ portfolios.

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Teachers work toward tenure
Assistant professors balance research, service to obtain goal

By Jillanne Johnson
Staff Reporter

Students aren’t the only people on campus who must focus on classes, research, committee meetings and workshops to build a résumé that will earn them top jobs.
Assistant professors spend their first years on campus learning to balance the demands of their appointment in order to fill a résumé that will gain them tenure and promotion to associate professor. The process can be tough, said Ed Kolesar, chairman of the Faculty Senate Tenure, Promotions and Grievance committee.

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Toy Story
Retro toys make comeback

By Julie Ann Matonis
Staff Reporter

Katie Rainey and her brother threw the critter around the room when they were children. They rolled it into a ball and used its long white tail as a slingshot.
It was not their pet cat or dog they were tossing. It was not even a real animal, just a furry stuffed creature called a Popple.

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Sororities’ philanthropy hours improve

By LaNasha Houze
Staff Reporter

According to Service Census 2000, volunteer services among sororities in the Panhellenic Council improved last year, but many non-Greek students on campus are still unaware of sororities’ community contributions.
According to the census, sororities raised $77,557 last year through philanthropic donations and performed 15,417 hours of community service.

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Music in the air
Practice rooms desperately needed

There’s music in the air, but it’s only because TCU’s music majors are practicing outside in front of Ed Landreth Hall.
It’s been said that practice makes perfect, and for music majors, practice is everything. And time to practice is precious. Music majors are being forced to choose — spend hours looking for an appropriate space to practice, or settle for practicing in their dorm rooms with the window open, hoping not to frustrate everyone else who lives in the hall.

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Scholarships need to grow with tuition
Graduating students deserve monetary compensation along with diplomas

Inflation is a natural and essential part of the American economy. It’s inevitable that prices will slowly rise as the value of the dollar gradually dwindles. In the past couple of decades inflation has run particularly rampant among universities, especially private schools.
However, it seems to me that certain aspects of the education system fail to follow inflation trends.

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Bush’s tax cut only for the rich
National debt may never be paid off under new proposal

To members of Congress, all I have to say is this: Don’t do it.
I know it is tempting. This isn’t 1981 again, you tell yourself. We have surpluses as far as the eye can see. Surely those Reagan-era budget deficits won’t happen again, you say.
Control yourself.

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2001 Football Schedule
Big 12 Conference teams like Texas, Nebraska and 2000 National Champions Oklahoma are renowned for having some of the hardest schedules in collegiate football. But TCU head football coach Gary Patterson said he believes the Frogs’ 2001 schedule is not to be overlooked.

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Golfer takes top ESPY awards

By Chris Gibson
Senior Reporter

Winning awards in the sports arena may not be that out of the ordinary for golfers like Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus, but for the first time, golf took center stage on one of the biggest nights in sports.
Monday night, Woods took home the ESPY for pro golfer of the year. He also won for championship performance of the year, come-from-behind performance of the year and Male athlete of the year.

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How It All Began

Ten thousand roses of all colors will be delivered by TCU Florist on Valentine’s Day, said Melissa Ward, an employee at the University Drive flower shop.
Ward said February is the florist’s busiest time of the year, followed by Mother’s Day. According to Hallmark’s holiday statistics, Valentine’s Day is the second largest holiday for sending greeting cards.
But this holiday of romance — when a dozen roses from the TCU Florist cost $79.95 — holds no historical significance other than coincidence.

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Love at first sight

Jan was a shy freshman and Mick was the senior class president who won awards and was also a trumpet player in the marching band.
But they would each catch the other’s attention and begin a relationship that’s as strong as ever more than 40 years later.
Jan and Mick are better known in this community as Chancellor and Mrs. Ferrari, yet few people know about the love story behind their marriage.
Jan Ferrari said her future husband stood out on the campus of the high school they both attended in Monongahela, Pa.
“He was everything in high school,” she said. “Everyone knew of Mickey in high school, and he was pretty cute, I have to admit.”

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Love In Any Language
Around the world, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in different ways

Overpriced flowers, booked restaurants and dozens of limos on the streets. Just another typical Valentine’s Day in Jamaica, Peru or any number of nations around the world.
The flights of fancy and rampant consumerism that surround the romantic holiday are not as native to the United States as it seems. In countries all over the world, the holiday is recognized or ignored in its own special way.
Jamaica celebrates Valentine’s Day much the same way that the United States does, said Kerine Miller, a freshman broadcast journalism major.
“Valentine’s Day is celebrated pretty much like up here,” Miller said. “Everybody wears red and white if they’re really mushy. I think the culture is becoming more couple oriented now.”

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Do us all a favor:
Wipe out Valentine’s Day

Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: There’s nothing quite as pointless as Valentine’s Day, except maybe toilet paper with designs.
That’s right. This holiday, brought to you by Hallmark and the people who gave us decorated paper to wipe our asses with, is nothing more than a commercialized day of making out.
People who have make-out partners revel the fact that they’re “gettin’ some,” while the rest of the single population say things like, “Valentine’s Day is stupid,” and “Let’s have girls’ night and rent movies.”

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