• SPORTS: FROGS WITHOUT STARTING QUARTERBACK, PAGE 6 | • EDUCATION: ALTERNATIVES TO THE BOOKSTORE, PAGE 12 Tuesday, January 15,2002 ^ ■«> TCU DAILY SKIFF iBT In its 100th year of service to Texas Christian University • Vol. 99 • Issue 56 • Fort Worth, Texas • www.skiff.tcu.edu 1 I II Today'sNews THE PULSE University enforcing payment policy The Supreme Court was closed briefly Monday after discovery of an envelope containing white powder. BY ANGIK CHANG those raised costs, the university in- 18 since this is the first semester in The powder was not anthrax, a court VSKOCIATE kWTOR creases tuition the following year." many years that the policy has been spokeswoman said. Financial Services has received Campbell said the decision to en- enforced. Wilson said that although The Pulse on Page 2 approximately 1,900 payments since force the policy was passed by the TCU has become lax on enforcing NATIONAL NEWS Jan. 4 from students after it threat- TCU administration late fall 2001. the payment policy over the years, ened to drop students from classes "During fall term, we began en- she cannot remember when the pol- EAST MOLINE, 111. — Presi- as a result of the enforcement of the forcing holds on accounts more rig- icy was last fully enforced. dent Bush renewed his push Mon- payment policy reenacted this se- orously," Campbell said. "The "TCU's goal is not to drop stu- day for expanded trade as a cure mester, said TCU Controller Cheryl process made it clear that a number dents from classes," Wilson said. for recession, undeterred by a Wilson. of students were making payments "We just want to encourage them to fainting incident that left him with Carol Campbell, vice chancellor only when holds were on accounts be prompt with their financial obli- a scraped cheek and bruised lip. He for finance and business, said the and that is why holds are being used gations to the university. In the past vowed anew to oppose, repeal or policy is being enforced to prevent this spring to encourage students to weeks we have received numerous delay the tax cuts enacted last year. adding to the general cost of the uni- make payments." phone calls from people who want See Page 5 versity—the university's operating Wilson said Financial Services to work with financial services to get earnings and expenditures — when has handled a large number of pay- their bills taken care of, and the students do not pay money owed to ments during the past weeks after numbers of students with holds on the university. The university's gen- several notices were put on FrogNet their accounts have fallen dramati- OnCampus eral cost, which has increased over and sent to students that still have cally." the years when the policy has not holds on their accounts. There are John Singleton, director of inter- 39 Middle Eastern been enforced, does not affect any approximately 200 students that still national services, said the late notice students re-enroll for TCU debt, but does affect raises in have holds on their accounts, she of the enforcement of the payment classes at U. Arizona tuition, she said. said. policy given by TCU made it diffi- TUCSON, Ariz. (U-W1RE) - "(The process) is like shoplift- Wilson said payment of the mini- cult for him to contact international Thirty-nine of the 68 Middle DmUDunei/STAFT REPORTER ing," Campbell said. "The money mum balance for this semester was students before winter break. Inter- Eastern students who withdrew Courtney Ratliff, a senior social work major; Bethanne Elliot, a senior history major and Dolly Pierson. a recep- that is not received raises total cost to be made by Jan. 4, but a two-week national students have different tionist, go through some paperwork in the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, last semester from classes at the of the university. In order to cover grace period was granted until Jan. (More on PAYMENT, page 5) University of Arizona have re- enrolled for the spring, said university spokeswoman Sharon Kha. T\icker The students, mostly from Plans for parking garage on indefinite hold the United Arab Emirates, withdrew in mid-September •} ^m \ due to fears and concerns about BY KELLY MORRIS ' ** . y-w ir*"* Center the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, STAFh KKl'OHTKII ■ said Nasser Alnuaimi, president Despite ongoing parking concerns, a 450- to iff r«i» ,!•.... • , of the Muslim Students Associ- 600-spot parking garage has been put on hold lacks fund- ation. indefinitely, said Carol Campbell, vice chan- |VHMN ->*' "V71 "Another thing is that their cellor for finance and business. r < ^■MpB&l '^■■■■■■^■^'■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■l "The parking garage was discussed at the families do not have the same November Board of Trustees meeting, but the ing picture of things over there," he Board deferred any further action on it at this said. BY BRANDON ORTIZ time," Campbell said. "Personally, I would be STAFF REPORTER Alnuaimi, a civil engineer- surprised to see it back on the agenda again ing graduate student, said many this academic year." The William E. and Jean Jones Tucker Technology Center will not students' families overseas do Campbell said one of the reasons the Board have an endowment to cover oper- not think it is safe for the stu- deferred the project was because of the $5.5 ating costs when its doors open in dents to remain in the United million to $7.5 million price tag of the pro- April if the university does not raise States. posed parking garage. $6.5 million, administrators said. "I dropped my classes be- "The relatively high cost at a time when the These costs will be taken up by cause my wife was very afraid," endowment has lost market value was a major the university's general operating said Jumaa Al-maskari, a me- consideration," she said. budget if an endowment does not chanical engineering junior. Campbell said the endowment was its high- exist, placing pressure on the est during March 2000 at $ I billion. As of Sept. "One of the reasons was an- school's financial resources, said 30, the most recent quarterly figures available, thrax. So I went home, and my Bronson Davis, vice chancellor of the endowment was about $ 850 million, down family said I did not have to re- university advancement. 15 percent, she said. turn." Davis said operating and depreci- Campbell said the garage would also require While Al-maskari said he ation costs of new facilities and in- an annual operating cost of nearly $1,000 a never experienced any hostility "S^j gjjJJ^ . 1 ^mn,,^^ terest on the growing debt—used to parking space or $450,000 to $550,000 a year. from the students at the Uni- finance TCU's expansion during the To help pay the cost, Don Mills, vice chan- versity of Arizona, he did not 1990s—has led to "significant cellor for student affairs, said there is a possi- jumps in our budget." plan on returning until Imam bility that the garage could be incorporated "You're looking at the costs of Omar Shahin, director of the Is- into the Berry Street Initiative, a Fort Worth 1 \ adding electricity, new systems, lamic Center of Tucson, paid restoration project of the Berry Street area. more buildings, more people to his family a visit in the UAE. "One of the things we hope is that we can clean them," said Davis. "(Shahin) came to my father work out some kind of arrangement (with Fort Davis said the university's oper- and told him that I can go back, Worth), but that's quite a way's away," Mills ating budget is projected to grow that it was safe to go back," Al- said. $10 million to $15 million a year maskari said. But Campbell said it was not only the • over the next 10 years. The added - Arizona Daily Wildcat garage's cost that worried the Board. costs of operating the Tucker Tech- "Most of the better campuses across the nology Center contributes to these country are trying to preserve green space and increases, Davis said. a pedestrian-friendly environment by locating Larger increases in tuition and parking on the perimeter and providing shuttle housing fees may be necessary be- InsideSkiff service to the center of campus," she said. cause income from the university's According to the TCU Parking Plan pub- The Pulse endowment has decreased because lished Nov. 9, 2001 by the Facilities Depart- of the current economic recession, Campus Lines ment of the Physical Plant, 7,218 parking spots * Davis said. Opinion were available on campus. "Tuition will probably be in- TCU Police Chief Steve McGee said 143 of International Digest 4 - ♦ creased more this year than the av- those spots were lost over the holiday break as Sports 6^7 erage of the '90s," he said. construction began on the Sarah and Steve Etc. 11 ) Davis said depreciation costs Smith Entrepreneurs Hall just north of the M.J. have grown from about $4 million Features 12 Neeley School of Business building. F 2 . * to $19 million within the last While additional parking will not be added nmaikmntnn REPORTER decade. Depreciation costs occur this semester, McGee said students should be Commuters will face parking problems this semester due to construction of the Sarah and Steve Smith Entrepreneurs Hall north of the M.J. Neeley School of Business. Approximately 143 spots were lost. (More on TUCKER, page 9) the Weather (More on PARKING, page 5) TODAY High: 62; Low: 45; Sunny, slight wind from the southeast Work out facility open, Rickel Bldg. construction WEDNESDAY High: 66; Low: 40; Partly cloudy, chance of rain in the afternoon not all services offered displaces tenants, offices BY KAMI LEWIS "It's about a 15-minute drive to where HI \jnuo ?!o|kJr m, BY COLLEEN CASEY "We don't mind being in the STAFF HEPORTKH 1 play now, and it can be pretty incon- STAFf HF.POHTKK trailer," Kintigh said.