WEDNESDAY TODAY NOVEMBER 17,1999 With two games 97th Year • Number 47 remaining on the schedule, the Horned Frogs are in an intense High 79 Western Athletic Low 56 Conference scramble for bowl Fair game appearances. 0 page 9 Fort Worth, Texas Serving Texas Christian University since 1902 www.skiff.tcu.edu House moves to support safer intersection By Tealy Dippel olution to support changing the STAFF REPORTER Stop sign, speed bump suggested for University-Bowie crossing finals schedule foi Spring 2000 was The House of Student put aside and used as an informa- Representatives unanimously passed intersection." before the hit-and-run accident bump be installed, was amended to general concern for the student tional handout and not as a piece of a resolution Tuesday encouraging Tokio Sasaki, a freshman psy- with concerns about the dangers include a school /.one as possible injured and for others who cross legislation. TCU administrators to create a safer chology major from Tokyo, Japan, of the intersection, Segui said, but solutions to help make the intersec- the intersection. House members were encour- intersection at South University was hit by a car at the intersection it was too late to draft legislation tion more safe for those crossing. The "Anytime House passes a bill or aged to use the handout as a source Drive and Bowie Street, where a and carried almost 30 feet on South for that week's House meeting. resolution is proof thai students care resolution, it shows it has the of information on (he subject TCU student was seriously injured in University. Sasaki was hit the following about one another and the communi- emphatic support of the student because the Academic Affairs a hit-and-run Nov. 9. "Since we belong to the student Monday. ty, he said. body," he said. Committee has decided to research Carlo Capua, chairman of the body, we have the power to get some- "Tokio's accident should be a mes- "We took a student concern and The resolution will go to the the topic further and acquire more Permanent Improvements Committee, thing started before something else sage to the school and the student passed the resolution as a unified administration today, and Alexander student input before deciding to and Richard Segui, a town representa- dramatic happens, and we don't want body that something needs to be done voice to make a safer campus," said he hopes the administration can propose possible changes. tive, submitted the resolution to House someone to die before it does," Segui about the intersection." Segui said. Capua said. take the resolution to the city of Fort hoping to help prevent another acci- said. Capua said the resolution, which SGA President Ben Alexander Worth. Tealy Dippel dent at what they called "a hazardous Segui went to Capua a few days suggests that a stop sign and a speed said the resolution came out of a In other House business, the res- tuttppel9deha u r< u tdu F>U* ♦ THE FUTURE OF TCU ♦ BRIEFS a series of articles focusing on the changing faces oj the university CAMPUS Focus on Community Commission to convene for first meeting today The Commission on the University expands education, business to Future of TCU convenes for the first time at ll:30 a.m. become more prominent in community today in the Student Center leri Petersen Ballroom. SENIOR REPORTER The Commission is a year- With the Sept. 13 announcement of the establish long planning effort aimed at ment of an education center at the Alliance determining what TCU must Development north of Fort Worth. TCU moved flg- do to become one of the top beyond the confines of University Drive. Like the 50 private universities in the University of North Texas, Texas Wesleyan country. University and the University of Texas at Arlington, Commission Chairman TCU is taking education into the Fort Worth com- Bob Schieffer. a 1959 TCU munity. IN-DEPTH graduate and moderator of Established in 1873, TCU had nearh a 20-year REPORT CBS News" "Face the head start on the three other universities But TCU Nation", will address the was the last of the four to establish an education lite "We've got to 452-member group at the away from the main campus. go bc\und ihe kickoff lunch buffet. Texas Wesleyan moved Us law school to a down- coitiiiiunily Io Chancellor Michael R. town campus in 1997. UNT has a Heallh Sciences reach a higher Ferrari and Board of Trustees Center in Fort Worth and a campus in soulh Dallas level of visibility Chairman John Roach will UTA opened a north Fort Worth campus earlier this and prestige. To also outline the goals of the year. gam prestige in Commission during the wel- According to this year's college rankings in U.S. the community. come session. News & World Report. TCU ranks higher than the sou need The Commission's 17 task other three universities in graduation rale. SAT/ACT community forces will have their initial scores, freshman retention rate and alumni eontrihu support." meetings at 2:30 p.m. today tion rate. — Wll 1 1AM II to begin discussing TCU's Ranked in the second lier in the U.S. News report, KOEHLER, most pressing issues for the TCU made a good showing nationally. Nevertheless, provost and X A LJ 1 1 VJJC/JLX tJ/~\.J.l_J Sarah Kirshberg/SKIFF STAFF coming century. with several high-quality schools in the area from Morgan Landry, a freshman English major, stands in the hunger jail during lunch hours Tuesday in the vice chancellor In addition to the launch of which to choose, local students need go<gc \ reasons Student Center Lounge. To help raise money and awareness for Hunger Week, money could be donat- for academic the Commission, the TCU affairs Board of Trustees will also ed to keep an individual in the jail or bail him or her out. The event will also be held today. See COMMISSX Page 4 hold its fall meeting this week. The trustee commit- tees will meet Thursday, and the official meeting of the House meetings see entire board will be at 9 a.m. Meningitis cases Friday. The agenda was not avail- growth in attendance able because the meetings are closed to the public, but sev- unknown to TCU eral key issues — including Increase in numbers due to hard work and plans for a new student center coughing and sneezing. motivated representatives, officials say and recreational facility — But vaccine for "In the early phases of the will be discussed. disease available disease, it can act like anything By Tealy Dippel dance up in House is .il\\.i\s ,i from a cold to a sore throat." STAFF REPORTER challenge, hut he said he is also Duke engineering prof to at health center Terrell said. "That's the hard Attendance at meetings of the impressed by the turnoul this speak on design's evolution By Kris Gutierrez thing about it. Early on. it's a House of Student Representatives semester. Henry Petroski, professor STAFF REPORTER very difficult disease to diag- is higher this semester than in pre- "I think we have some strong of engineering at Duke Although meningococcal nose." vious ones, and executive mem- leaders who have come in and University, will be the fea- meningitis strikes 2,800 Meningitis is a potentially bers said the increase is due to a joined House ami are interested in tured speaker at the TCU Americans each year. Dr. John deadly disease. During the combination of hard work and (he projects we are working on," Engineering Lecture at 7:30 Terrell, director of the Brown 1998-99 academic year, 83 motivated representatives. he said. p.m. Wednesday in Dan Lupton Health Center, said the cases of meningitis were report- This fall, there was a 90 percent Alexander said it is important Rogers Hall, Room 341. disease hasn't been a recent ed on college campuses nation- turnout rate at House's first lew to make sure Ihe projects House Petroski's topic will be problem at TCU. wide. Of those 83, six people Tuesday-evening meetings. works on are the ones students are "Design and Failure." He will "I've been here over 25 years, died. House Parliamentarian Zuberi concerned about so representa- cite examples from ancient and I've never seen a case Meningitis symptoms Williams said he thinks the atten- tives stay interested and feel like history to modern times of reported." he said. include vomiting, high fever, dance increase is a result of the they are making a difference how failure influences the Meningitis, an extremely severe headaches, a stiff neck, administration of Student SGA Secretary Heather evolution of design. contagious disease, comes in drowsiness and joint pain. Government Association Windham said some of the prob- A reception will be held at two forms, viral and bacterial. It "Once it's well established, President Ben Alexander. lems plaguing House attendance in 7 p.m. in the Tandy Building enters the body through the you can crash and burn fast." "This semester, we have had the previous years have been lime Atrium. nose and throat and spreads Terrell said. "You can die with- most-attended House meetings commitment and undei-iepiesenta- quickly. In both cases, viral and in a matter ol hours." Photo illuatralior, by David Dunai/PHOTO EDITOR since I've been at TCU. and it's tion of town reps, oil campus Brite Divinity School to host bacterial, symptoms are diffi- According to the American Members of the TCU community can because of Ben's administration members of House and Greek reps.