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Graduation guaranteed, but maybe not in four years. Provost Nowell Donovan said that the flat-rate tuition implemented in 2001 has had limited success because many students are not taking advantage of the system and still graduating in more than four years. (0) comments

Facebook's initiative to compile users' opinions and to help establish the future terms of use can be considered unusual in the business world, a media law professor said. Chip Stewart, associate professor in the Schieffer School of Journalism, said it's unusual for any company to negotiate with its users what the legal relationship between them is going to be. (0) comments

Nonprofit visits campus to raise awareness about widows' plight

When Taryn Davis found out her husband lost his life in the Iraq war in 2007, she was a 21-year-old student at the University of Texas at Austin, and her life's dreams had been shattered. Davis founded The American Widow Project in the wake of her husband's death just a few months after he was killed. (0) comments

Oil mogul: Foreign oil dependency worsening crisis

A billionaire energy tycoon told about 800 people Monday afternoon in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom that if the country does not begin using its own resources, the current crisis will only get worse. T. Boone Pickens, chairman of hedge fund BP Capital Management and author of "The First Billion is the Hardest," said that in two years the United States could be paying $200 to $300 a barrel for foreign oil if it doesn't cut foreign oil dependency. (0) comments

The Student Government Association House of Student Representatives unanimously approved a resolution on Tuesday to support a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender resource center on campus. Su Harz, a junior social work major who introduced the resolution to the House, said the purpose of the resolution is to show that LGBT students have the support of SGA in seeking needed resources. (0) comments

Technology Resources uses chat service to help students

Instant messaging and chat rooms have switched from entertaining students to answering their technological queries. Bryan Lucas, executive director of Technology Resources said customer service came up with the idea and implemented a chat room program last February. (0) comments

Proposed meal plan changes for 2009-2010: -Residential Services will add a new feature called Campus Cash. Campus Cash will be similar to Frog Bucks, but the card will not be pre-paid and students will only be able to use Campus Cash at on-campus locations like 1873 Sports Bar & Grill, The Corner Store and Sub Connection. (0) comments

Horned Frogs are common in Fort Worth, but they've been known to migrate to places like France, Japan, Ecuador - and now Singapore. Sonny Lim, the director of International Relations for Nanyang Technological University visited campus Wednesday to finalize the exchange program agreement between the Singapore-based university and TCU, giving students interested in study abroad programs another opportunity to experience life outside Texas. (0) comments

Alumna discovers orchid species in South America

Inside an unassuming red brick warehouse downtown, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas houses more than a million rare, dried botanical specimens. Among the millions of botanical species are some discovered by TCU students. Rebecca Repasky is one of these students. (0) comments

Do you ever get the feeling you are being followed? With new advances in technology and tracking devices, you very well may be. Google launched Latitude last month, which uses laptop and cell phone data to show one's location to friends. Sam Altman, a Stanford University student, developed a company called Loopt in 2006. (1) comment

Live music, hotdogs and bright blue shirts. That was the setting at the second annual Improve TCU Day campaign Feb. 18. Justin Brown, senior psychology major, chairman of the Student Relations Committee and coordinator of Improve TCU Day, said Student Government Association representatives received more than 1,000 ideas from students on potential ways to improve their college experience. (0) comments



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