Residential Services will announce the groups accepted in the create-your-own Living Learning Community program by Monday, allowing students to create themed living areas on campus. Living Learning Communities, wings in which upperclassmen who share common interests or values can live together, were implemented at the beginning of the 2008-09 school year. (0) comments
The Center for International Studies has announced a new approach for evaluating merit-based scholarship applications for study abroad to be implemented next fall, a university official said. Jane Kucko, director of the Center for International Studies, said the new application will include sections in which students explain how they plan to immerse themselves in the culture while abroad and how they plan to share their experience upon returning to campus. (0) comments
Mary Evelyn Tucker is one of the most outstanding theologians and environmentalists in the United States and her reputation is what drew Brite Divinity School to get her here, a university professor said. Toni Craven, professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite, said Tucker will speak at the lecture titled, "Reconnecting Humans to Earth Community: Imaging a New Way into the Future," a part of the school's Roman Catholic Lectureship series. (0) comments
The student body president vetoed a controversial bill Tuesday that would remove the runoff system from Student Government Association elections. The bill, which passed in the House of Student Representatives with minimal objection, lacked the specificity needed to prevent future Judicial Board hearings during election season, she 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
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
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 new student organization that gives student musicians the opportunity to demonstrate their musical talent is testing the idea that nothing good ever happens after midnight. Living Out a United Dream helps market students involved with different musical arts to the community, said LOUD creator Mike Vosters, a sophomore marketing major. (0) comments
Students will receive special access to a new DVD lending Web site before it is made available to the general public, a founder of the DVD lending Web site said. Tim Jackson, founder of LendAround, said the Web site is currently a private, pre-release version but will be made available to the TCU community before going mainstream. (0) comments
Cynthia Montes arrived at the university eight years ago as a first-generation college student. She did not know where to go, how to study or anything about college life. Then Montes found the Student Support Services program, aimed at transitioning first-generation students to college life. (0) comments
Nicholas Jackson, a sophomore English major, said he maintains a part-time job to pay for his phone bill, car insurance and to get a little spending money, but often feels overwhelmed by the joint responsibility. "I find it harder to find energy to commit to hours of studying," Jackson said. (24) comments
Q: Do you think the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will pass through the Senate unchanged and reconcile the House version and will President Barack Obama have the bill signed by Presidents Day, as was his goal?
A: It's feasible...
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Mary Evelyn Tucker of Yale University had no problem reconciling science and religion, and as people continue to better understand science, she said, their idea of the divine will be enlarged. Tucker, a senior lecturer and research scholar at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, spoke Wednesday night to an almost-full Ed Landreth Hall, as a guest of the Brite Divinity School. (0) comments
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