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Two men’s basketball players dismissed
Multiple failed drug tests contributed to expulsion, sources say

By Matt Stiver
Skiff Staff

Failed drug tests led to the dismissal of Edwin “Greedy” Daniels and Myron Anthony from the TCU men’s basketball team, sources close to the team said Monday.
Head coach Billy Tubbs refused to comment Monday on allegations drugs were involved and that the final decision was made outside the men’s basketball office.

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Student featured in, honored by USA Today
Evans named to 2001 academic team

By Alisha Brown
Staff Reporter

To add to her list of achievements, senior Marshawn Evans was named to the USA Today 2001 All-USA College Academic Team Thursday.
USA Today chose from over 700 applicants across the country and nominated 20 with the honor of being on their first Academic Team. There were also second and honorable mention teams. Along with the recognition, Evans also received a $2,500 cash reward and was featured in USA Today.

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Student, 20, dies after car accident
Memorial service planned for Thursday

By Ram Luthra
Staff Reporter

After being in a coma for eight days, Ana Catalina Calderon, 20, died Saturday at Harris Methodist Hospital from injuries suffered in a car accident more than a week ago.
TCU is planning a memorial service for Calderon, an international student from Colombia, for 4 p.m. Thursday at the Robert Carr Chapel.

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Opportunity knocks for students at Career Night
75 employers will be available at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum for one-on-one consultation

By Julie Ann Matonis
Staff Reporter

With résumés in hand and dollar signs in their eyes, some students will be on their way to a professional career after shaking hands and making some one-on-one contact Wednesday.
An estimated 75 employers will be in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum from 4 to 7 p.m. for Career Night, an employment opportunity for students interested in internships, summer positions and full-time jobs.

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‘Rembrandt and the Jews’ focuses on
interpretations of biblical prints by artist

By Kelly Marino
Staff Reporter

The department of art and art history and the Nancy Quarles Stuck Art Institute Lecture Fund presented a free lecture Monday by Shelley Perlove, a professor of art history at the Univesity of Michigan at Dearborn. The speech, titled “Rembrandt and the Jews,” focused on interpretations of various biblical prints by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn.
Babette Bohn, an assistant art history professor, said the fund enables the art department to present one or two lectures a year on interesting topics, so the department picked a subject that pertains to art history and religion.

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Career Services
Take time to prepare for future

For upperclassmen who still have no idea what they are going to do with their lives after graduation, there is stillone chance left.
Career Night is designed to help college students hook up with prospective employers.Since TCU is taking a step in the right direction to help students obtain a job, then it seems only fair that students also take a step forward to aid in their future.

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Stop defending former president
Democrats need to jump on the Clinton-bashing bandwagon

Hell has frozen over and Satan is offering free sled rides.
Pigs can not only fly, but do mean flips in the air.
Monkeys can fly, too, and they are flying out of my rear right now.
If I missed anything, then please insert your favorite cliché here _________.

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Cloning may be ‘God’s will’
Government needs to embrace coming of genetic engineering, not stifle it

Time magazine reported last week that a consensus of biotechnology specialists concluded that within a few years — possibly even a few months — scientists will announce the cloning of the first human being.
In fact, a well-known infertility specialist from the University of Kentucky, Panayiotis Zavos, and Italian researcher Severino Antinori announced their collaboration to create the first human clone just last month.

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Letter to the editor
Rise above commercialism; love yourself during Valentine’s

I would like to respond to the article from Laura Head, “Do us all a favor.”
I do understand where Head is coming from. Valentine’s Day can seem like a big gimmick for the card and candy industry, and can be a downer for those not experiencing “l’amour” in their lives.

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Baseball team sweeps series with Hawaii-Hilo

By Brandon Ortiz
Skiff Staff

The Frogs, for the time being, are in first place.
With the team only three games into Western Athletic Conference play, head coach Lance Brown does not put much stock into it.
“After three games that doesn’t mean a whole lot,” Brown said.
The Frogs (7-5) beat Hawaii-Hilo Monday (3-11, 2-4), 12-0, to sweep the three-game series and start WAC play at 3-0.

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Negro League Baseball
artifacts put on display
History, narrative speaks volumes, allows students to get certain respect for black heritage, some say

By Rusty Simmons
Editor In Chief

Four tables of Negro League Baseball artifacts spoke volumes about its history, a short film, “Kings on the Hill: Baseball’s Forgotten Men,” had an articulate narrator and those running the food stand vocalized their intentions to sell baseball-related snacks for a dollar.
But the orations of Arthur Young resonated over the noise of the Student Center Lounge Monday as Programming Council and University Ministries sponsored a Negro League Baseball exhibit.

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Morals should be team priority

It’s getting to be that time of the year.
It’s going to start warming up a little around North Central Texas, which usually means March Madness.
It’s mid-February, and conference races are heating up all over the nation. TCU, on the strength of wins over Fresno State and Nevada, is trying to play itself back into NCAA Tournament contention.
Much like a loss to Rice damages those hopes, head coach Billy Tubbs took a step toward burying his team’s hopes under Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. Before Saturday’s blowout win at home against Nevada, Tubbs dismissed junior guard and crowd favorite Greedy Daniels and senior forward Myron Anthony from the team.

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Difficult roads ahead for Frogs

By John Weyand
Staff Reporter

The rest of the season is going to be tough with or without two of the Frogs’ top scorers, head coach Billy Tubbs said.
Tubbs said definite differences exist in the team’s rotation due to the dismissal of junior guard Greedy Daniels and senior forward Myron Anthony. Tubbs said however that the overall style of TCU basketball will not change.
“On offense and defense, there are no adjustments,” Tubbs said. “We’re still an up-tempo team. Our game plan is set no matter who we have.”
Tubbs said the continued look of the Frogs involves the experience of the team’s former second-stringers.
“The guys that were filling in had playing time,” Tubbs said. “They’re ready to step in.”

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Bizzare, primitive and still going after 500 years

Story by Reagan Duplisea
Photos by Yvette Herrera

Almost 500 years ago, a new style of art was developing in Western Europe. A style which its contemporaries criticized as bizarre, primitive and unadherent to the established “rules” of what art was expected to be. Today, the art of the Baroque period is revered for its contributions to the art world, from St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican to Caravaggio’s “The Cardsharps” at Fort Worth’s very own Kimbell Art Museum.

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Coldplay, “Parachutes”
Review by Jack Bullion