The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been placed under a severe thunderstorm watch until 2 a.m., said Jason Dunn, a forecaster for the National Weather Service. Storms are currently moving down southern Oklahoma all the way down to Mineral Wells in Palo Pinto County and may enter the Metroplex area in the next few hours, Dunn said. (0) comments
How would you like karaoke with the Jonas Brothers and have Simba from "The Lion King" in the audience? That is exactly what some senior interior design students are creating for a competition hosted by Disney Elizabeth Tamez, an adjunct instructor in the department of design merchandising and textiles, said the 18th annual ImagiNations national design competition in which students create a new Disney attraction is a great opportunity for students to be exposed to a national-level competition and to work together creatively on ideas that they normally would not get a chance to develop. (0) comments
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid needs to be updated because it is no longer an effective way to assess financial need and distribute monetary aid, the university's chief financial aid officer said. Michael Scott, director of financial aid, said the FAFSA does provide good information to universities about identifying needy families, but it does not accurately predict how much a family can realistically contribute toward tuition. (0) comments
A proposed bill that would allow students, faculty and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus is facing opposition from a university official who visited Austin to sway the Texas Legislature from passing the bill. Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he opposed the bill before the Public Safety Committee of the Texas House of Representatives on Monday. (5) comments
Physical Plant is facing delays in installing bike racks the Student Government Association funded last semester because of construction and compatibility issues, a Physical Plant official said. Hollis Dyer, superintendent of maintenance at Physical Plant, said there were reasonable explanations behind the absent bike racks, many of which were placed near their intended locations because of the inability to physically make room for them in walkways, Dyer said. (0) comments
College students like to carry technology with them. They are replacing desktops with laptops, CD players with MP3 players and maps with GPS systems. Knowing that most students have cell phones, some universities have started eliminating landlines from dormitories, and TCU may join them in the future. (1) comment
Bob Schieffer, 1959 alumnus and moderator of CBS' "Face the Nation," will discuss Barack Obama's presidency, the economic crisis and the future of journalism in the fifth annual Schieffer Symposium hosted by the university. Schieffer, who recently interviewed Obama on "Face the Nation," said even though Obama had made appearances on news shows all week, there wasn't a shortage of issues to talk about. (1) comment
Joey Parr, a senior double majoring in radio-TV-film and political science, is in no rush to enter the workforce after his graduation in May. Parr said that through Teach for America he will instead teach elementary school students in the school with the second lowest performance in Louisiana. (1) comment
The Office of Residential Services and Living Learning Communities will start a new program this fall designed by a group of students to help strengthen the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student body as well as educate others on campus, a university official said. (3) comments
Despite an uproar over a potential crippling computer worm around the country, TCU and its computers will not be affected, a university official said. The worm, called Conficker, is a program that attacks a loophole in the Microsoft Windows operating system and currently has infected more than 12 million personal computers since its conception in November, according to a Microsoft blog. (0) comments
The Daily Skiff advertising staff won four awards at the 37th annual College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers Inc. convention, which took place March 25 to 29 in Charlotte, N.C. The CNBAM represents more than 150 school newspapers nationwide. The advertising staff placed first for best training program among all newspapers, as well as best advertisement rate card/media kit in Division 2, which includes publications that publish fewer than 40,000 copies a week. (0) comments
ArtOrg, the student run organization that promotes its members' work and encourages them to enter local, national and international exhibitions, is hosting its first show this weekend, the organization's president said. Simone Riford, a junior painting major and president of ArtOrg, said the goal of the ArtOrg exhibit this weekend is to support member's work as well as the organization itself. (0) comments
As pop star Lady Gaga says in her song, just dance. That was junior modern dance major Summer McGowan's goal as coordinator of her Project Junior Giveback program, Just Dance. McGowan recently met with about 65 students at Oakhurst Elementary School in Fort Worth to teach first graders the art of movement through dance. (0) comments
The university Marching Band will receive national recognition after being selected as one of five college bands nationwide to have a prerecorded performance played at the College Band Directors National Association conference in Austin this week, a university official said. (0) comments
The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program has ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth area fifth in the nation of cities with the highest number of energy efficient commercial buildings in 2008. Although no buildings on campus were classified as commercial buildings, the university strives to stay on the leading edge of energy efficiency, a physical plant official said. (1) comment
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