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Friday, February 28, 2003
NATION
THE BATTALIOS
‘Mister Rogers’
dies of cancer at 74
By Todd Spangler
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH — A televi
sion icon who put on a zip-up
cardigan and sneakers each day
and gently invited millions of
children to be his neighbor, Fred
Rogers never wavered in the
mission he considered his min
istry: to use “Mister Rogers’
Neighborhood” as a way to per
suade young
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love them
selves and
others.
Early
Thursday,
Rogers died
following a
bout with
stomach can
cer at his Pittsburgh home, leav
ing friends, colleagues and gen
erations of people who grew up
watching him in mourning. He
was 74.
For more than three decades,
his low-key, low-tech public tel
evision show refused to follow
its louder, more animated com
petition, sticking to the format
Rogers developed, presenting
him as one adult in an increas
ingly busy world who always
had time to talk to children
about their feelings and listen to
them,
“What a loss to the world.
He talked to kids at the ages of 4
to 6 about feelings. That’s the
age when they begin to realize
they have an effect on their
world,” said Dr. T. Berry
Brazelton, an author and child
development specialist.
An ordained Presbyterian
minister, Rogers produced the
show at Pittsburgh public televi
sion station WQED beginning in
1966, going national two years
later. The final episode, which
was taped in December 2000,
aired in August 2001, though
PBS affiliates continued
broadcast old episodes.
Composing his own so
for the show, Rogers ope
each episode in a set mads
look like a comfortable In
room, singing, “It’s a beaut!
day in the neighborhood." 0»
of his sweaters hangs in
Smithsonian Institution.
He would talk to vieweisini
slow, quiet voice about Ihti
feelings and introduce ttiem;
other characters and guest
including cellist Yo-Yo
trumpeter Wynton Marsalis
Then, he would take his aiii
ence on a magical trolley tii
into the Neighborhood of Mali
Believe, where puppet create.
— including X the Owl, Kit
Friday XIII and Daniel
Tiger — would interact wit
each others and adults.
Rogers did much of the pup
pet work.
On Thursday, staff at Ft
Communications Inc., u
produced the show, brousk
bouquets of flowers left
WQED and placed themonili
set next to King Friday’s castli
“He was not an actor. Peop;
would ask us, ’What is 1
Rogers really like?’ The is
was. he was the same,” sail
family spokesman Dan
Newell, who played ft
McFeely on the show.
The show won four Emm;!
plus one for lifetime achieii
ment. Rogers received
Peabody Award in 1993 andl*
Presidential Medal ofFreedot
in July 2002.
In April 2002, Preside!
Bush invited Rogers to
launch a reading program.Wlie
Rogers entered the rooms
introduction, spontaneon
applause erupted.
Rogers hushed the
asking for 10 seconds of siba
to “think about anyonewhote
loved you and wanted
for you.”
Tech students to pay $401
extra in tuition per semester
By Betsy Blaney
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LUBBOCK, Texas — Texas
Tech University students will pay
about $400 more in tuition and
fees after the university’s Board
of Regents approved the increas
es Thursday as a
way to help deal
with the state’s
budget shortfall.
The 19 percent
Overall increase in
tuition and fees is to
help offset a reduc
tion in state funding
that stems from the
$9.9 billion short
fall legislators are
dealing with in
Austin.
Some of the fee
increases at the uni
versity will go
into effect for the
would instead go to classnxf
and faculty needs and the ne*
fees will be set to maintaint!<
current level of services,
said.
“We spent a lot of time on if
issue,” Regent Carin
“It’s not something thatweffl
to do. If we get some helpouH
the Legislaiw
u
Ifs not something
that we want to do. If
we get some help out
of the
Legislature, we’re go
ing to relook at the
ees.
— Carin Barth
Texas Tech regent
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relook at ll>
fees. It’s
something takf
lightly.”
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the fee increas
depends
less-than
jected b
deficit, re
said.
Students«
not notice a nfi
ative cht
s e r v ices
M i c h a (
summer session with the remain
der starting in the fall, Tech
spokeswoman Cindy Rugeley
said.
The increases at the universi
ty’s Health Sciences Center will
be implemented beginning in the
fall, she said.
The university has already put
in place a flexible hiring freeze,
eliminated state-funded travel
outside Texas and is taking a
close look at energy costs.
Tech needs to come up with
$14 million in cuts for the current
budget year. The regents vote
unanimously on the increases.
The largest jump will be in
fees, which now are subsidized
by state funds. Those state dollars
Shonrock, vice president for#
dent affairs, has said.
The largest proposed increZ
are in the information ted
fee and the library fee. For
dents taking 15 hours a semesli'
the library fee would inerts
from $75 to $225 and the
nology fee would increase
$150 to $210. Other feesl^
increased slightly include meJ
ical services and student reef
ation center fees.
A new student business sen 1 '
es fee will be $7 an hour.
Tuition would increase
$44 per hour to $46 per hourf-
instate students and from 0-
per hour to $313 per hour forou 1
of-state residents.
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