SPORTS OPINION The Horned Frogs prepare for the fast- Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween are a few of the holi- Good, but paced attack of Tulane. Page 8 days in which Americana make their hellies bigger. Page 3 not good enough DAILY SKIFF Page 5 TCU 100 years of service to Texas Christian University Vol. 100 • Issue 39 • Fort Worth, Texas wu w.skiff.tcu.edu Wednesday, November 6, 2002 Staff Assembly group advises raising pay of DECISION, hourly workers The group wants to ensure that all university employees receive a living wage However, economic Professors conditions may make it difficult to implement its recommendation. surprised by Bi W\\ JOHNSON rtei Stall Assembly members magnitude called on the executive commit- tee Tuesday to push for higher pa] despite Chancellor Michael of GOP win Ferrari's remarks that new fund- ing is not like!) due to rough economic limes The Texas Republican Party contin- Karen Baker, chairwoman of the ued its electoral dominance Tuesday Staff Assembly, s.ud the executive by leading every race for statewide committee will meet on Fridav to office. Victory was expected despite consider the proposals and feed- back from the meeting Then, the ballot counting problems in Tarrant committee will develop ,i letter to County. the chancellor with recommenda- tions concerning salary and bene- BY BRANDON ORTIZ fit adjustments, she said Bakei Editor in Chief s.ud she hopes the proposal will reach Ferrari by mid-November. FORT WORTH — As Republi- cans were on the verge of winning every statewide office and reclaim- "// <•■ neither ethical nor ing the legislature for the first time responsible to pas wages since Reconstruction Tuesday, some that keep people working in political science professors were sur- poverty." prised by the GOP's margin of vic- tory. - Tara Pope Gov. Rick Perry defeated chal- Staff Assembly Secretary lenger Tony Sanchez in a landslide, while Republican David Dewhurst Ferrari s.ud although new won the lieutenant governor's race funding is not likely, it's still im- against former Comptroller John portant to do financial studies in Sharp, whom polls showed as the an effort to continue moving l"i Democrats' lone hope to reclaim a ward as a university. But as prom- statewide office. Former Dallas ised, he said, the university will mayor Ron Kirk was barely leading increase retirement contributions in Dallas in his U.S. Senate bid for hourK employees front 10.5 against Republican John Cornyn. to 11.5 percent, which will make "If he can't carry his own county, retirement contributions equal lor it is not encouraging," political sci- all staff beginning ne\t scat ence professor Donald Jackson said Tara Pope. Stall Assembls MC retars. s.ud her proposal calls lor Tuesday before the votes were an increase m entry-level wages counted. "There is nothing in the from SS an hour to $9 an hour with current data encouraging for the De- a minimum SI raise (at older em mocrats. If Tony Sanchez can't carry ployees whose wages were not the ticket, I don't know who can." raised at the same time as enlrs A jubilant Perry, who moved up to level workers. Despite limited the governor's office after George W. available funds, some staff are still Bush resigned to become president, concerned that man) TCI em declared victory before a crowd of ployees aren't being paid enough supporters at the Austin Convention to live above poverty levels Center. The songs "Celebration" and According to a studs con "God Bless Texas" rang out. ducted hs the national Universal "The victory is not in the electing LI/ueUer/URT .h,hn I). Smmom/KRT Living Wage organization, the es- of a governor," Perry said. "It's the Clockwise from top left: 1. John Northern, resident of precinct 1095, cast his general election ballot Tuesday at St. Stephen Presbytenan Church at 2600 Menda 2 Republican timated living wage in me Ion Texas dream of opportunity, pros- Gov, Jeb Bush leaves his polling place, precinct 608 in Miami, Fla., with wife Columba, after casting his ballot Tuesday 3. Republican Senate candidate and winner Elizabeth Dole Worth/Arlington area is Sit).50 casts her vote Tuesday morning 4. Before voting, losing-North Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Erskine Bowles held an impromptu press conference. perity that knows no geographic an hour based on renting .1 one boundaries and includes every bedroom apartment Texan." Pope said mans employees do Sanchez, Kirk and Sharp, a His- not receive a living wage. The panic, black and Caucasian, respec- RESULTS Republicans gain control of starting salary tor housekeepers tively, were part of a "Dream Team' and groundskeepcis is SX an hour. Democrats hoped would lead the she said. s ticket to victory by energizing mi- i Mart on l U>. page 2) nority voters. Senate, hold on to House But the GOP continued its statewide dominance that stretches As ballots were stilling being count- And the Republicans success- decide within a da\ or two whether back to 1994. ed, Republicans guaranteed control fully defended open seats in New to seek a new term as leader ■ Perry had 58 percent, or in the Senate with a win in Missouri Hampshire, where Rep. John Su- In a marquee governor's race, the 2,113,295 votes, and Sanchez had 40 and were holding the House. nunu triumphed, and in a slung president's brother. Jeb, coasted to percent, or 1,458,189 votes, with 78 a new term in Florida. Democrats picked up governor- of Southern states, the presi- percent of the estimated total vote Democrats ships in four Midwestern states. dent's home counted. Perry was leading in every won governot state of Texas "/ think I pin a hit <>/ it on region of the state except South ships in Penn \—... i ,1 fan among them. Texas. that this is a pmsident who Republicans s\ Ivania, ■ With 78 percent of the total es- WASHINGTON — With has had ver) high approval Michigan. easily turned timated vote tabulated, Cornyn had three Senate races yet to be Illinois and back a Democ- ratings." 55 percent, or 1,995,303 votes and settled. Republicans had 50 Wisconsin, a ratic challenge - Terry McAuliffe Kirk had 43 percent, or 1,572,964 seats, enough to guarantee con- string of Mid- votes. Minor candidates combined trol on the basis of Vice Presi- in the House, Democratic Party chairman western stales for 2 percent. dent Dick Cheney's fashioning a long in GOP ■ With more than half of the es- tie-breaking vote. majority for a fifth straight elec- hands But Rep. Robert Ehrlich timated votes counted, Dewhurst had The GOP seized one Senate tion. The trend pointed toward became the first Republican 1,444,998 votes, or 52 percent, to seat in Georgia, where Rep. single-digit GOP gains — and a elected governor of Maryland in Democrat John Sharp's 1,282,288 Saxby Chambliss defeated Max possible turnover in Democratic more than three decades, and rhatH/lwllUttfftfnhill >jnltnuin votes, or 46 percent. Two minor Ron Km (D) Cleland, and another in Missouri, leadership. Democratic incumbents fell in Vice Chancellor for Finance Carol Democratic officials said Rep. Campbell spoke about the endowment party candidates each had 1 percent. With 7H psraeal of prednrts reporting. where former Rep. Jim Talent (More on TEXAS GOP, page 2) ousted Jean Carnahan. Dick Gephardt of Missouri would 'Morton ELECTION,p^tJJ Tuesday at the Staff Assembly meeting I860 — Abraham Lincoln was elected The Pulse/Campus Lines 2 % WEDNESDAY the 16th president of the United States. Opinion 3 High: 59; Low: 41; Sunny a Decision 2002 National Digest 4 1917 — Led by Bolshevik Party leader Check out the Skiff Friday for a THURSDAY Vladimir Lenin, leftist revolutionaries voter's guide of the upcoming SGA International Digest 4 launched a coup d'etat against Russia's in- High: 61; Low: 47; Sunny elections. We will publish candidate's effectual Provisional Government. The Bol- Features 5 FRIDAY sheviks and their allies occupied government answers to questions facing the cam- buildings and within two days had formed a pus, and endorse each position. Etc. 7 High: 62; Low: 50; Partly Cloudy I 3 new government with Lenin as its head. Sports www.skiff.tcu.edu Page 2 Wednesday, November 6, 2002 THE PULSE www.skiff.tcu.edu election to the 1990 gubernatorial Campus Lines TEXAS GOP contest between Republican Clay- from page 1 ton Williams and Democrat Ann Academic coach of year awarded Your bulletin board Richards. The two candidates for campus events ■ Republicans were leading spent $53.4 million in a race noted races for comptroller and agricul- tor its mudslinging. Williams, a to Drenner at reception Tuesday ■ The Eta Psi chapter of Alpha ture, land and railroad commit wealthy oilman, was hindered by Phi Alpha is sponsoring the first sioners. frequent snafus, such as refusing BY BILL MORRISON Teed the Need Food Drive ■ In legislative races. Republi- to shake Richards hand and mak- with students from the Greek," Dren- someone to turn to for help." Stall Reportei ner said. "I like how they try to en- Candidates were nominated by each Wednesday in Ed Landreth Hall. cans were close to taking control of ing a joke about rape in front of Biology professor Ray Drenner fraternity and sorority and then the win- This will be TCL"s first stepshow the state House of Representatiu-s reporters. hance scholarship." that will include high school and was the first-ever academic coach of This was the first year the Pi Phi's have ners were chosen by a joint IFC and tor the first time 'n 130 years.