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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
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
While the Faculty Senate is investigating a new course retake policy, the accounting department is implementing its own. Starting in the fall, the accounting department of the Neeley School of Business will implement its new course retake policy, which will not allow students to retake lower level accounting classes after they have taken upper level accounting courses, said Lynn Cole, assistant dean of undergraduate academics. (0) comments
Increasing the visibility of the College of Communication is a top priority, every dean candidate for the college said, agreeing that the college has the potential to be one of the best communication schools in the nation. The candidates were given 30 minutes to discuss their plans for the College of Communication and 30 minutes for a question-and-answer session during their visits to campus over the past week, said John Tisdale, chairman of the dean search committee and associate professor of journalism. (0) comments
Bob Schieffer can soon add rock star to his resume after he performs with his band "Honky Tonk Confidential" during the launch of The Campaign for TCU on Thursday. Schieffer, moderator of CBS' "Face the Nation," and other donors are contributing to The Campaign for TCU, a fundraising event expected to raise $250 million by 2012 to support a wide variety of efforts, such as increasing scholarship support, strengthening academic programs and continuing to increase endowment, Chancellor Victor Boschini said. (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
One hundred fifty-five million dollars down, $95 million to go. The Campaign for TCU kicked off the public portion of its fundraising effort Thursday night with a presentation in Ed Landreth Auditorium followed by a reception on the lawn between the Brown-Lupton Student Center and the unfinished Brown-Lupton University Union. (1) comment
About 3,500 students who have federal loans will soon feel the effects of the currently unpredictable federal and private loan market as early as this summer, a financial aid officer said. Some lenders have dropped out of the loan market, causing students to seek different lenders for next fall, said Mike Scott, director of scholarships and financial aid. (0) comments
When Danielle Boyd wore a shirt that said "Save Darfur," someone asked her if "Darfur" was a band. "Times like those just encourage me to keep doing what I'm doing," said Boyd, vice president of a student anti-genocide coalition. Members of the TCU chapter of Students Taking Action Now: Darfur have organized a camp out on Sadler Lawn to confront what they call a "lack of awareness" about the conflict in Darfur, the sophomore education major said. (0) comments
The founder of college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com said Tuesday that he would turn over users' identities if lawfully subpoenaed. JuicyCampus is currently under investigation by the attorneys general of New Jersey and Connecticut for not enforcing its terms of use by deleting offensive content, but the site's founder, Matt Ivester, said policing the content is not his legal responsibility. (0) comments
Bob Schieffer will ask panelists at the fourth annual Schieffer Symposium today to answer the question, "Is campaign '08 about the right stuff?" Schieffer, moderator of CBS' "Face the Nation" and a TCU graduate, will moderate the discussion between Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and chairman of the Freedom Forum; Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs and lead political correspondent for NBC News and regular panelist on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews"; Robert Novak, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and commentator for Fox News and Bloomberg News; and Roger Mudd, former correspondent for CBS News and NBC News. (0) comments
Off-seasons may not be the most exciting time for football, but new marketing campaigns for spring football are attempting to change the stigma. The athletic marketing department collaborated with Fort Worth-based Concussion Advertising LLC to launch the "Next Season is Now" marketing campaign Friday for the spring football season. (2) comments
Sarah Marshall, a senior advertising/public relations major, was eating dinner with her boyfriend about three weeks ago when a friend came up and asked if they were OK. It was one of many calls and Facebook messages she has been receiving for almost the last month. (0) comments
Today is the last day for student organizations to apply for $200 to finance alcohol-free or alcohol-awareness events in honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, the assistant director of the Alcohol and Drug Education Center said. Yvonne Giovanis, assistant director of prevention services, said this is the center's first year doing this. (0) comments
Students interested in starting a business will not have to go far to find a start. Fortune Small Business recently ranked Fort Worth the ninth-best place in the nation to "live and launch" a business. David Minor, director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center, said this designation will attract students to Neeley's entrepreneurship program. (2) comments
Beginning Monday, a Jewish student organization on campus will host a series of events in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom Hashoah, which falls on May 2 this year. The organization, TCU Hillel, will create a Holocaust mini-museum in the Brown-Lupton Student Center that the public can visit Monday through Wednesday, said Belle Marco, TCU Hillel president. (0) comments
Mozart, Vivaldi or Bach's compositions often grace Ed Landreth Hall, but for the first time Saturday, the cello ensemble will perform original compositions by faculty. "Symphony for Violoncelli" and "Anxieties of the Heart" will echo through the music hall along with the sounds of classical compositions, said Jesus Castro-Balbi, founder and director of the TCU Cello Ensemble. (0) comments
Raving applause echoed Wednesday in Ed Landreth Auditorium as alumnus Bob Schieffer walked on stage dressed in purple from head to toe for the fourth annual Schieffer School of Journalism Symposium. Schieffer, a 1959 graduate and moderator of CBS' "Face the Nation," sat down with a panel containing "311 years of experience" to discuss the presidential campaign at the symposium, titled "Is Campaign '08 the Right Stuff?" Panelists included Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and chairman of the Freedom Forum; Robert Novak, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and commentator for Fox News and Bloomberg News; and Roger Mudd, former CBS and NBC News correspondent. (0) comments
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