Spring Break
The closing of two campus dining locations will cause employee layoffs, but future jobs at the university are possible for the workers, the general manager to Dining Services said. Meetings with Edens and Deco Deli workers will take place during Spring Break to determine which of the 11 employees will fill four open positions at The Main, said Rick Flores, the general manager to Dining Services. (0) comments
With Spring Break days away, some minors may be hoping to have lady luck on their side as they partake in underage drinking. Some students under 21 still drink - many by using fake IDs. A 20-year-old sophomore communication studies major, who wished to remain anonymous, said she has been using a fake ID for more than three years and has only had trouble with it twice. (1) comment
TCU's luck with adverse weather near holiday breaks is becoming a trend. There were ice storms before dead days in fall 2005, severe winds before finals in spring 2006 and the day before Spring Break, some late season wintry weather is moving through the metroplex. (0) comments
About a month and a half after Tim Halperin created a song about why he wanted his room renovated, he said he got a grand room makeover prize he couldn't be more happy about. The sophomore prebusiness major participated in a room renovators competition last year through efrog2010. (0) comments
A late-season cold front carrying a frozen wintry mix blew through the Metroplex area causing the campus to close, and the front is expected to finish passing through by this afternoon. The National Weather Service predicted 3 to 5 inches of snowfall from Thursday afternoon through this morning. (0) comments
By Alexandria Bruton Staff Reporter As the university continues working toward becoming a more eco-friendly campus, it will face some challenges, university officials said. Last spring the university signed the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment. (0) comments
Changes to a teaching certification program in the College of Education will give students more flexibility as they enter the workforce, an associate professor in the program said. With the new EC-6 program, certified students will be qualified to teach grade levels from early childhood to sixth grade, rather than through only the fourth grade with the former EC-4 program. (0) comments
A feminist sociologist will be speaking about the extent of her research as well as the misconceptions and stereotypes of feminism Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center . Karen Steele, the women's studies program director , said speaker Monica Casper will intertwine the responsibilities, obstacles and experiences of being a woman, mother and feminist in her speech, "Body Politics: Private Talks of a Public Feminist. (0) comments
The Bank of America Foundation donated a $20,000 grant that will benefit the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic, the chairman of the Communication Sciences and Disorders Department said. Christopher Watts, chair of the department of communication sciences and disorders, said the money will be used to offset costs in providing speech and hearing therapy. (0) comments
The university decreased the percentage of students admitted this academic year, dropping its acceptance rate from 63 percent in 2006 to 49 percent in 2007, the dean of admissions said. Ray Brown, dean of admissions, said the decrease in the acceptance rate is a reflection of the increase in applications and expects the acceptance rate to decrease again next fall. (0) comments
After six weeks of searching and interviewing, the College of Communication's dean-search committee has narrowed the field of more than 65 applicants down to four final candidates. Provost Nowell Donovan announced Wednesday in an e-mail that the committee had selected Maria Marron of Central Michigan University, Howard Sypher of Purdue University, Judy VanSlyke Turk of Virginia Commonwealth University and David Whillock of TCU. (1) comment
The Neeley School of Business moved up seven spots in BusinessWeek's third annual ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs. The Neeley School now ranks 32 out of more than 550 accredited business schools in the nation. Last year, Neeley ranked 39. Bill Moncrief, senior associate dean at Neeley, said the school's ranking rose because in past years, administrators were too busy to provide BusinessWeek with thorough information. (0) comments
Residential Services is sponsoring the first diversity poster competition on campus to encourage students to visually express how they perceive diversity and what it means to them. Ashanti Williams, the hall director for Brachman, Martin Moore, and Wiggins halls, said the competition is designed to get students to visualize and think about diversity on a broader spectrum. (0) comments
Traveling and spending time outdoors led Ian Dalziel to apply to the Navy; however, after learning that a lazy eye would keep him from being enlisted, a keen curiosity for the Earth led him in another direction. Dalziel, a research professor at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin, presented his lecture "Is There a Supercontinent Cycle in Earth History: Paleontology over the Last Billion Years" Monday night at the Sid Richardson Building. (0) comments
TCU Police detained two men and one woman on suspicion of motor vehicle burglary Monday night, but no arrests were made, a TCU Police official said. Sgt. Alvin Allcon said TCU police stopped and searched a maroon Ford sedan after a suspected burglary in the parking lot of the Bayard H. (1) comment
Congress' decision to remove its financial aid advisory panel will harm TCU's financial aid programs, a financial aid director said. Deep in the fine print of a bill regarding the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act is a new rule that will eliminate the 20-year-old Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance in three years. (0) comments
Going to Iraq will be judged by history as possibly the worst mistake an American president has made, an investigative journalist said Tuesday. Seymour Hersh, an investigative reporter and author, told students and community members that President Bush is the most radical president the nation has had because of his goal to spread democracy. (1) comment
After encouraging students to participate in early voting last week, one student political group still had work to do Tuesday. About 12 volunteers from the TCU Students for Barack Obama walked to Paschal High School on Tuesday to encourage people who voted during the day to return in the evening to participate in party caucuses. (0) comments
Prison is the last place most people would expect Neeley School of Business graduates to end up, but it is exactly where Andrew Kramer, a 2007 graduate of the Neeley MBA program, wanted to be. Kramer works as a grant writer for the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, which aims to help prison inmates change their lives for the better through education and a passion for entrepreneurship. (3) comments
Connections will be a mandatory program for incoming freshmen next year in an effort to improve freshman retention rates, said an assistant dean of Student Development Services. According to the 2007 TCU Fact Book, the university lost more than 15 percent of freshman students. (0) comments
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