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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Escalating violence in Mexico led the university to issue a travel alert advising spring breakers of the potential dangers in traveling to the country, a university official said. Lt. Ramiro Abad, head of the campus police patrol division, said the university received the travel alert from the U. (1) comment
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
The current economic situation is causing universities across the country to prepare for possible enrollment decreases in their liberal arts departments, but the university's program is not following that pattern, a university official said. Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said enrollment in liberal arts classes has increased. (0) comments
Programming Council and the Student Filmmakers Association are hosting a red carpet event that will showcase student-produced films on Friday. Jason Knutzen, senior radio-TV-film major and president of the Student Filmmakers Association, said the event is a premiere of the projects that students have been working on for the past three semesters. (0) comments
The School of Music and Opera Studio will bring a little piece of Italy to Fort Worth this weekend with a performance of L'Ormindo, a 17th-century baroque comedy. Ten students and one guest artist will perform in the opera, said associate professor Richard Estes, director of the studio and of L'Ormindo. (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
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
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