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The Fort Worth Police Department, along with the Arlington and Grand Prairie police departments, are in the beginning stage of creating a program to deter underage drinking and driving, specifically for this time of year, a Fort Worth police sergeant said. (0) comments
Amanj Noori speaks Kurdish and Tony Lehew only English, yet they communicate. Lehew is Noori's conversation partner at TCU who meets with him every week outside class to help him improve his speaking skills. Noori is a student from the Institute of Engineering and Drafting in Shaqlawa, a town in northern Iraq, who is now in the Intensive English Program at TCU, a program for non-native English speakers to improve their writing and communication skills. (32) comments
According to the city of Fort Worth, $33 million has been set aside to improve the layout of neighborhood streets as part of a bond program, with several projects slated for the TCU area. However, whether the bond passes will be up to residents. The Fort Worth City Council will allow voters to decide the outcome of a $150 million bond proposal May 10. (0) comments
A big play requires big ideas. Two freshman TCU students decided to put their big ideas into action in the form of an energy club. Ken Morgan, director of operations at the TCU Energy Institute, said the idea for the club was brought to him by Ben Voigt, a freshman real estate and finance major, and Justin LaPoten, a freshman finance major. (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
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
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
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
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
A Fort Worth gangbanger pops his trunk, pitches a pudgy plastic bag packed with white powder onto the pavement and signals for the buyer in the adjacent vehicle. Almost immediately, the rival gang members open fire. The gunshots appear as bright firecrackers, bursting from the barrels of dueling guns. (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
The Initiation Burgess said gang members are initiated in one of three ways. First, they can be "jumped in," or beaten. Second, they might be "blessed in" - their father or brother is an original gangster in the particular gang. And the third initiation - "sexed in" - requires a prospective female member to roll dice and have sex with the corresponding number of male gang members. (0) comments
Misidentifying Bangers Ferrell said he teaches a class on juvenile delinquency. "The real issue for researchers and police and politicians is to define what is a gang and be able to define who's in a gang," he said. "It's really a contentious issue. "In fact, by many of the conventional definitions of gangs, fraternities would be gangs, which clearly they're not gangs. (1) comment
From a background of war and torture, Ishmael Beah brought a message of hope and humanization to a crowd of almost 500 riveted listeners Thursday evening. "Hope is a form of strength," he assured the audience in the Student Center Ballroom. "When you dehumanize somebody else, you reverse, and you dehumanize yourself. (0) comments
An April 11 story, "Academic programs to benefit from public campaign," should have noted that the four academic units in the story are not the only ones that will benefit from the Campaign for TCU. (0) comments
About 1,300 Horned Frogs are scheduled to walk across the stage at this year's spring commencement, a university official said. Margaret Kelly, executive director for community projects, said the spring commencement ceremony is broken up into two parts, a morning ceremony and an afternoon ceremony. (0) comments
With the May 10 graduation fast approaching, getting a job is on the minds of many outgoing seniors. Although it may be competitive for those getting ready to graduate, it could be even worse for December graduates, said a member of University Career Services. (0) comments
Senior dance majors' last concert before graduation continues this weekend. Students from The School for Classical and Contemporary Dance are putting on the senior studios concert "Here. Dance. Now," which started Wednesday and ends Saturday, said Elizabeth Gillaspy, associate professor of ballet. (0) comments
Don't forget TCU; there are plenty of ways to stay connected to the university after graduation day, a chancellor of alumni relations said. "Once a person walks across the stage and completes their limited term as a student, they become an alum, and that lasts a lifetime," said Kristi Hoban, associate vice chancellor of alumni relations and a 1975 TCU graduate. (0) comments
Students graduating in May will find fewer options to pay off loans, a financial aid officer said. Loan debts will be more difficult to pay off for some students than it has been in the past because of the current credit crunch in the student loan market, said Melet Leafgreen, assistant director of scholarships and financial aid. (0) comments
Not so "top secret" are the achievements of one cadet. June Lietz, a senior radio-TV-film and history major, spent last summer around top-secret activity, but her internship for the Army Science Board, a problem-solving board made up of civilians, wasn't too covert. (0) comments
I, Name Here, having been appointed to the rank of 2nd Lt. in the United States Air Force, do solemnly swear ... Word for word, nine TCU cadets of aerospace studies, Air Force ROTC, will recite the oath of office, binding words that tie them to their new career. (0) comments
Ishmael Beah had a different childhood. He learned how to use a gun when he was 13, like many child soldiers who are still forced to join battles in the jungles of Africa. Beah, a human rights activist and best-selling author of "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier," will speak today as part of an event sponsored by the TCU Center for Civic Literacy and the Amon G. (0) comments
A broken gas line from a construction accident resulted in two separate evacuations from the Brown-Lupton Student Center and Reed Hall, and disrupted classes Wednesday. Larry Markley, director of the Student Center, said he called the Physical Plant after staff members began to smell natural gas leaking into Suite 111 at the north end of the building. (0) comments
In response to calls for a communication-studies doctoral program throughout North Texas, the College of Communication is working to create a proposal for a program of its own. Chris Sawyer, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Communication Studies, said there is a large number of people asking for a Ph. (0) comments
The Undergraduate Council has approved the Certificate in International Studies program which, if it earns university approval, would give students an opportunity to further their study-abroad experience, said the director of the Center for International Studies. (0) comments
Rivalry and harmonious beauty brought two of the most famous classical composers together 232 years ago, and their operas will be performed this weekend on campus. The School of Music will perform "Mozart versus Salieri" Friday and Saturday in Ed Landreth Auditorium, said Richard Estes, TCU opera studio director. (0) comments
While standing on a mountaintop surrounded by mountain peaks with no artificial light in view, Tony Burgess experienced a revelation. The environmental scientist still identifies this instant as the moment he found his passion for nature. "Times like those keep me coming back for more," he says. (0) comments
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