Dining services employees pulled peanut butter sandwich crackers off the shelf at Bistro Burnett on Wednesday morning because of a previous recall on the crackers issued by Kellogg Co., a university official said. Frank Horak, manager of retail units for Dining Services said he took the Austin brand crackers off the shelf as a precaution after someone phoned in the tip. (0) comments
More than 500 students and alumni will receive reimbursements from the university-provided health insurer Aetna after New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo found that the claims system had not been receiving the frequent updates it needed. The reimbursements for the 517 TCU students and health care providers will total more than $34,000, but this amount represents a small portion of the total claims for the university, said Marilyn Hallam, coordinator of the Brown-Lupton Health Center office. (1) comment
Students who download music illegally no longer have to fear being taken to court, but they are now much more likely to get caught and receive minor punishments from the university, a university official said. Brooke Scogin, assistant dean of Campus Life, said that to enforce its new policy the Recording Industry Association of America has dramatically increased the number of reports it issues notifying Internet service providers of Internet piracy. (2) comments
The Asian Studies program's guest speaker described the practice of meditation with an example the 115 audience members could relate to Wednesday afternoon in the Geren/Beck Room in the Brown-Lupton University Union. "You are in the mountains, or a particular place of nature that you enjoy, or a sacred place, and suddenly you feel totally in tune. (0) 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
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
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
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
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
Budget restraints will cause the nation's first student-run nonprofit advertising agency, RealWorld, to close at the end of the semester unless the university raises $100,000 for the program, a university official said. Claudia Butts, director of RealWorld, said the university funded RealWorld through a three-year TCU "Vision In Action" grant of $350,000 that expires May 31. (3) comments
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