Flat-rate allows for fewer penalties
Students won’t face fines for dropping classes with policy

By Carrie Woodall
Staff Reporter

Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of stories on how examining the impact comprehensive tuition will have on the university.
Students might take advantage of the flat-rate tuition policy by enrolling for more hours than they plan on taking and then dropping those classes, thus hurting other students in the registration process, Ray Brown, dean of admissions, said Wednesday.

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Options add up for alumni
E-mail, Rickel use offered

By Melissa Christensen
Staff Reporter

As graduating senior Jon Hilley checks his TCU box, he grumbles about the fliers he received from the Alumni Association promoting the purchase of senior bricks.
“They should send out information on alumni chapters instead of these ‘buy-a-brick’ letters,” Hilley, a finance and management major, said.
Director of Alumni Relations Kristi Hoban said in the past, graduating seniors have disregarded that information because they were bombarded with graduation information. She said a “Keep In Touch” brochure with information on how to be involved in the association is sent to graduates’ permanent addresses six months after graduation.

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Engineering for the Future
Student wins Goldwater honor

By Jessica Cervantez
Staff Reporter

Ben Ludington, a sophomore engineering major, was one of 302 undergraduates nationwide selected this week to receive the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship Award for his work in engineering and high GPA in the 2001-2002 school year.
Ludington will receive $7,500 for two years to apply toward the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board.
This award was established by the U.S. Congress in 1986 to honor Senator Barry M. Goldwater, who served as a soldier and statesman for 56 years, to encourage excellence in the fields of science and mathematical academic study and research for highly qualified students.
Ludington said he spends a lot of time in the labs and enjoys the research he does.
“It is a great honor to be win the award,” he said. “I am very lucky to have my name considered with such people.”

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Blinded by cash
Officials overlook flat-rate harms

Before TCU decided to institute flat-rate tuition, officials did a little research.
They commissioned a marketing firm to research what it was that attracted prospective students to the university. Those surveyed were asked to rank the factors which influenced their decision to come to TCU. They said the size of the student population was most important. Price was fourth on the list.
Although the response surprised some, it gave the administration the green light they were looking for to drastically change the way they charged for tuition.

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Never forget our nation’s holocausts

By John Sargent
Skiff Staff

Police killings, torturing women and children, racial discrimination, religious persecution, ethnic cleansing, genocide, concentration camps, lynching, hangings, prisoners held without trial or even being charged and any other form of brutality that you can think of comes to mind when we think about the issue of human rights.
In response to the fact that this is Holocaust Remembrance Week I wanted to remind everyone about our own holocausts.

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Being oblivious isn’t that bad
Capri pants, Jack balls, ankle socks continue in trendy (stupid) list

By Laura Head
Managing Editor

With summer approaching faster than one of those stupid scooters, college students nationwide are preparing themselves for yet another three months of crappy internships, crappy pay and, basically, the same crap as last summer: antenna toppers, capri pants and ankle socks.
The only difference is I’ve finally realized this crap is trendy.

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Writers’ strike means more than losing fall television line-up

By Jack Bullion
Skiff Staff

There are dark clouds building on our entertainment horizon. Many people have heard ominous news about some sort of writersÕ strike thatÕs supposed to go down sometime in May. And many more simply wonder what all the fuss is about. From afar it may just seem like one of those disputes eccentric Hollywood types like to air out in public. Why is this thing taking up space in our nationÕs newspapers? Why should we care? What on earth is at stake for the Joe Average here?

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Frogs’ spring season improves as team moves to No. 17 in rankings

By Colleen Casey
Skiff Staff

At the end of the tournament portion of the spring season, head women’s golf coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said the team feels fortunate to be playing as well as they are.
The Frogs have quickly climbed to No. 17 in the MasterCard Collegiate Golf Rankings after a less than productive fall season.

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Men’s tennis falls short against SMU
Frogs fall behind early in doubles, snap 14-match home winning streak

By Matt Stiver
Skiff Staff

The third time was not the charm for the No. 2 men’s tennis team Wednesday against No. 8 Southern Methodist.
As they have done in the previous two meetings against the Frogs, SMU won two of the three doubles matches and held on for a 4-3 victory at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

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Color added to the red brick of downtown

By Yvette Herrera
Skiff Staff

The streets of downtown Fort Worth will be sizzling this weekend as 400,000 people converge to eat, view art and listen to jazz, rock or a little blues music — all entertainment provided by the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival that begins today.
Stephen King, director of the festivals and events division, has been working with the festival since 1995 and said regular patrons of the event might feel less crowded since the event management team designed the festival to be a little different.

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Photo by Yvette Herrera - Skiff Staff

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