It takes a fat penguin to break the ice. That's the first step to finding love, said David Coleman, the "Dating Doctor" and inspiration for the movie "Hitch." And for some of the nearly 1,000 students who came to hear him speak Monday night at the Brown-Lupton University Union ballroom, that was appropriate advice only five days before Valentine's Day. (0) comments
With the recent closing of anonymous college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com, a new forum for anonymous posting has taken root. CollegeACB.com, or the College Anonymous Confession Board, is now supporting all campuses previously supported by JuicyCampus, said Peter Frank, owner of CollegeACB and freshman student at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. (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
A severe storm may hit the Metroplex on Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service issued a warning around 3 p.m. Monday. The warning said scattered thunderstorms are probable for Tuesday afternoon followed by another storm system. (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
Guest speaker Chris St. Pierre's speech felt more like going to the movies than attending a lecture. St. Pierre told a classroom of about 40 students in Moudy Building South on Monday night how much effort is required in the post-production process of marketing movies. (0) comments
A study abroad program that will include field trips, hiking to waterfalls, traveling to historic sites and studying at a West African university is in the works, a university professor said. Komla Aggor, professor of Spanish and program director of the trip, said he knew when he came to the university two years ago that he wanted to establish a study abroad program in Ghana to expose students to culture that are often misunderstood or misrepresented. (0) comments
The anonymous college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com, which stirred controvery at campuses across the country, shut down Thursday after a year and a half of operation, according to a press release from the company's founder. Matt Ivester, founder of JuicyCampus, wrote in the release Wednesday that the Web site's "exponential growth outpaced our ability to muster the resources needed to survive this economic downturn, and as a result, we are closing down the site as of Feb. (0) comments
A program connecting students with disabilities to federal sector employers nationwide will come to campus for the first time Friday, a career services official said. Kimshi Hickman, associate director of employer relations for Career Services, said a representative for The Workforce Recruitment Program will interview students with learning, mental and physical disabilities who want to enter the federal workforce. (0) comments
Business students competed in a case study involving ways to improve coffee conglomorate Starbucks as part of the Neeley School of Business' Leadership Week. Greg Hamre, competition participant and junior finance major, said each group was required to come into the competition as if they were a consulting team for Starbucks. (4) comments
Chandler Mallams, a junior deaf education major, said she had no idea what to do with all of the prom dresses she and her four sisters had accumulated over years, so she decided to give them away. The university's chapter of the National Student Speech Language Hearing Association is hosting a prom dress drive, said Mallams, who is also vice president of deaf habilitation for the organization. (0) comments
Hinduism, Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, Jainism,Buddhism: you name it, Dr. Alejandro Chaoul has studied it. Chaoul is an assistant professor at the John P. McGovern Center for Health, Humanities and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. (2) comments
A radio-TV-film alumnus will share with students his experience editing movie trailers, as well as the transition from college to entering the entertainment industry. Chris St. Pierre will be speaking at 8:30 p.m. Monday in Moudy South 164. St. Pierre said he works for MOJO, a post-production advertising company that edits trailers for movies such as "Watchmen," "Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," the "Harry Potter" movie series, "300" and "I am Legend. (0) comments
The Student Government Association House of Student Representatives overwhelmingly voted Tuesday night to uphold a presidential veto against the bill that would end the runoff system of SGA elections. The final vote count was 28 in favor of the veto and 7 opposed, with three representatives abstaining from voting. (0) comments
The doctor is in. The love doctor, that is. David Coleman, otherwise known as "The Dating Doctor," said he will give students advice Sunday in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom for a sure-fire way not to screw up Valentine's Day. He said the reason Valentine's Day appears in red on most calendars is not to symbolize romance or love. (1) comment
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