The Apache Pow Wow

Friday, December 5, 2008

News

• Law passes to protect sick students
• OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM
• Cyclists in danger on Texas roads
• Financial aid scams make their way to TJC
• East Texans donate during holidays despite economy

Campus Viewpoint

• Campus Viewpoint: Thinking Green and Clean

News

• Police academy takes only the most determined candidates
• Students represent 30 percent of Plasma donations
• National gun sales hit record high in recent months
• News In Brief
• Student governing body tackles issues
• Web site offers new study options for students

Police Reports

• Crime Watch - Dec. 9
• Crime Watch - Dec. 12

News

• East Texans hold peace rally in Downtown Square
• TJC Winter Weather procedures.
• Fire on the square

Sports

• Twenty players voted to make All-Conference Team
• Top high school tennis player passes up Division I school to improve game
• Women soccer team gives to community
• Old tennis center, courts to be renovated
• One loss Red Raiders to possibly be left out of BCS bowls
• Accidental gun shot is no longer laughing a matter

Student Life

• Leadership class grants child's parade wish this year
• Bookstores provide end of semester cash for books
• Students find ways to handle end of year stress
• Facilities to be upgraded across campus
• Students are forced out for the holidays
• Organization receives funds for events on campus
• Background checks not required for dorm residents
• Students beware credit card theft during holiday season
• Students to study abroad in Costa Rica
• Freshman Belles recall memories as they prepare for final performance

Arts & Entertainment

• The beginning of the end of "Lost":
• Theatre alumni credit TJC as beginning of their careers
• Video game industry survives horror of troubled economy
• The Bell Tower Art Journal gets a new look with color pages

Opinion

• State tuition needs overhaul
• America needs Christmas bailout in struggling economy

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