THIS EDITION Volume 21, No. 2 February 27, 2003

Front Page Space Pioneer Budget cuts hit Texas colleges DART backs out of student passes Annual chili cookoff scheduled for March 3 Forensics team brings home 4 awards from TIFA in Houston Viewpoints A considerate nation? Reality gone bad Where'd the money go? Friendship: A Life Decision Robin Hood not being used to improve academic environment In Memory: Diane Clemons Campus Life Plastic recycling program still unlikely prospect on campus Different day, different war District judge talks law with Bach's class July's Mexico trip is muy campechana Health Fair free to all students NLC students asked to help Africa University COPS: Catalog of Police Stats Students called to war get reimbursed Arts & Entertainment Two's company, three's a crowd Gale less than powerful Profiles Student Profile: Bogan Dean Worley Faculty Profile: John Hitt Sports Teamwork is key to successfl baseball season, coach says Who's on first? Basketball tourney Feb. 26-28 Variety Eyes of change

Forty years ago, former North Lake art student Melvin Korelitz created a revolutionary work of science for NASA.

Space shuttle Columbia debris continues to be found across North Texas as NASA officials struggle to discover the cause of their first re-entry failure in 41 years of manned space flights.

Preliminary analysis indicates superheated air breached the outer skin of the ship, but how it did so is unclear, leading to a host of theories as to what could have happened 200,000 feet above the earth on the morning of Feb. 1 that led the Columbia, traveling at 18 times the speed of sound, to be torn apart, killing all seven astronauts onboard. More...

Budget cuts hit Texas colleges

DCCCD loses $7.4 million; North Lake College slashes $606,600

The threat and consequences of operating the budget at a multi-billion-dollar deficit has been hanging over Texas for some time. On Jan. 23, the results struck Dallas County Community College District.More...

Semester pass offered instead of discount pass, but not to North Lake students

College students who depend on Dallas Area Rapid Transit will notice something new this spring.
DART has replaced it’s student discount passes with a college semester pass which gives the student access to all DART buses and trains. Unfortunately this will not be available at North Lake.The original student discount passes available since December 1995 were for college students and students in vocational institutions, but because of low participation from colleges and schools, the pass was cancelled. None of the DCCCD campuses are going to participate in the college campus semester pass after February.More...

This year’s Chili Cookoff competition will be held March 3 at noon in front of the cafeteria, where brave chili makers will meet to present the best ever bowl of Texas Red.

Contestants will compete for unbelievable prizes that include tickets to the Las Colinas Symphony, overnight stays at Courtyard Marriott and Marriott Residence Inn, four tickets to “Disney on Ice,” and gift certificates to bd’s Mongolian barbecue.More...

The North Lake College Forensics Team attended the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association Tournament in Houston Jan. 31-Feb. 2. The team competed against Rice University, University of Texas-Austin, Texas Tech University, Oklahoma University, West Texas A&M University and 15 other colleges and universities.

Amy Lamb brought home an award for first place in Novice Program of Oral Interpretation.More...