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
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
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
With an all-new lineup and fresh activities, this year's Experience India will be an event to remember, said the organization's president. What makes this year's event different from previous ones is that other countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh will also be represented in the celebration, said DJ Perera, president of Students for Asian-Indian Culture Awareness. (1) comment
It may be up to alumni and local advertising agencies to keep the student-run RealWorld advertising agency open for years to come. Allen Wallach, a member of the RealWorld Advisory Board and Chief Executive Officer of Concussion High Impact Communications who has worked as both an adviser and collaborative client with RealWorld, said he is prepared to help support the development of top-tier communication graduates, but only if the university is going to maintain some level of support. (1) comment
A warrant has been issued for a man suspected of burglarizing a car Monday night, a university police official said. Vicki Lawson, a detective with the TCU Police Department, said that although two other passengers were detained Monday, a warrant was filed only for the driver of the car in which the stolen property was found. (0) comments
The peanut butter sandwich crackers removed from Bistro Burnett on Wednesday morning were the only products on campus that needed to be taken off the shelves, a university Dining Services official said. Kellogg Co. recalled its Austin brand peanut butter sandwich crackers on Jan. 16 as a precautionary measure before the Food and Drug Administration found salmonella in one of the packages, according to a Kellogg press release. (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
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
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