On a roll

Four TU students and a pair of faculty advisers are doing much more than riding buses these days--they're riding to the aid of an entire public transit system. [more]

Indoor downpour

TU completes voluntary fire-safety upgrade

It's easy to overlook the importance of building sprinkler systems or fire alarms until there's a fire. Now TU's nearly 3,400 resident students and staff have an extra measure of protection from a potentially deadly threat.[more...]

So they said...

Quotes worth noting from contemporary and historic sources

"Problems worthy

    of attack

prove their worth

    by hitting back."

Piet Hein (1905-1996), Danish poet and scientist

Participate in democracy: vote

Register next week, see Diebold voting machine demo 

The statistics are disheartening: Only 43.6 percent of U.S. 18-24 year-olds are registered voters, and less than 18.5 percent of registered 18-24 year-olds voted in the last national election. TU's Campus Life staff hopes to alter that trend by offering a hassle-free opportunity to register and...[more...]

Recent Media Highlights

Concussions can have major impact on teens

Northeast Booster , September 22

Terry O'Brien, Department of Athletics, was one of the coaches and/or trainers consulted by reporter Jeff Seidel for his feature story about sports-related head injuries. O'Brien said concussions are understood much better now, which has created new ways to deal with the subject. "Everyone's more attuned to it now and become more aware of it," he said. "I think probably the most significant improvement is understanding that the concussion can have a longer than what was commonly accepted consequence."

Editorial: Question Time

The Washington Post , September 20

The Post  took President George W. Bush to task for a dearth of solo press conferences, particularly during an election year. It cited statistics provided by Martha Joynt Kumar, Department of Political Science, showing that between January 1 and August 27 of the election year, President George H. W. Bush held 56 short Q&A's with reporters, President Bill Clinton held 85 and the incumbent president held just 33. "Democratic nominee John Kerry 'seems content to follow Mr. Bush's model on the campaign trail,'" it added.

John Hinckley: The Judge Should Have Just Said 'No'

USA Today Magazine , September

Richard Vatz, Department of Mass Communication and Communication Studies, wrote that U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman's ruling that would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley may take short, unsupervised trips around Washington, D.C.,"will not be vindicated if Hinckley does not commit any violence during his release. The point is that the possibility of his being violent should be more of a concern than the desire to support Hinckley's 'therapeutic' needs."