Drilling for Chesapeake Energy Corporation's master development plan could begin sometime before the end of the calendar year, a university official said in an e-mail. Brian Gutierrez, vice chancellor for finance and administration, wrote in an e-mail that the university views the plan as a positive agreement between campus, Chesapeake and the community. (0) comments
Brite Divinity School's new Episcopal Studies Program will be geared toward those who are seeking ordination from the national Episcopal Church, which leans toward ordination of women and acceptance of gays, said the Rev. Fred Barber, acting director of the Episcopal Studies Program. (6) comments
Members of the veterans' committee discussed forming groups designed to address specific issues facing student veterans at the committee's first meeting Tuesday. Forrest Lane, director of student organizations and facilitator of the veterans' committee, said the purpose of the meeting was to funnel the 26 members into focus groups to address the issues facing veterans on campus, including the complexity of veteran benefits, housing requirements, how to identify veterans from the general population and training faculty and staff to better understand issues with veterans in the academia. (0) comments
Reporters are sometimes asked to share their opinions, but a student reporter may be on the hook for giving his. Brian Smith, a senior broadcast journalism major, was told this week that he is no longer allowed to use camera equipment owned by the MountainWest Sports Network to appear on the channel after he made what the university's Athletics Media Relations department considered to be a critical comment about Frogs' starting quarterback Andy Dalton on the network. (9) comments
The summer Preston Swincher turned 22, his parents were out of town and he decided to throw a house party with a "few" friends to celebrate his birthday. By the time his parents arrived home the next day, Swincher had the house back to normal, and his mother even noted how the house was cleaner than it was when they left, while his dad asked, "So, how was the party?" In order to avoid making the same mistake again, Swincher asked his father the inevitable question. (0) comments
Braving rain and wind gusts of more than 30 mph, about 30 students, faculty and staff waving signs, rainbow banners and ribbons marched today from the Bass Building to the Campus Commons in encouragement of the LGBTQ community and its supporters. Many of the marchers wore color bandannas around their heads and over their mouths to honor "The Day of Silence." (6) comments
President Barack Obama's proposed 2010 budget would create mandatory funding and increases for Pell grants and replace subsidized loans made by private banks with direct government lending, a university official said. If the budget passes as written, students would no longer go to private banks for student loans, said Mike Scott, director of scholarships and student financial aid. (3) comments
The bill that would expand concealed handgun-carry laws to Texas college campuses was revised last week by the House Public Safety Committee to allow private colleges to override the legislation and establish rules to continue campus gun bans, said state Rep. (5) comments
The TCU Facebook Fan Page, "TCU - Texas Christian University," is quickly becoming an active online tribute to the university. Launched April 2, it has accumulated close to 2,000 fans. The page, which is updated several times daily, runs updates on everything from sports scores to photos of new buildings and videos of speeches given on campus. (0) comments
Charge it. That's often a term you'd expect to hear at the mall, but what about at the Office of Financial Services? As studies show an increase in the number of college students using credit cards to pay for college expenses, the university has seen the opposite, following the implementation of a 2. (0) comments
The RealWorld advertising agency will officially close its doors at the end of this month after a final attempt was made to raise money to keep the organization open, the director of the program said. Director Claudia Butts said there was an overwhelming amount of support from the community and the programs' beneficiaries, but none of them were capable of contributing the $100,000 needed to keep the operation going, Butts said. (1) comment
Women on campus will be able to buy cookies, brownies and other bakery items for 75 cents, while men will have to pay $1 if they want a bite at a campus bake sale, a member of the TCU Women's Network said. Megan O'Brien, president of the TCU Women's Network and senior art history major, said the Women's Network and Women's Studies Program will be hosting a bake sale to illustrate the gap between women's and men's wages on Thursday. (5) comments
Dining Services is developing a value menu that it hopes will attract more students to on-campus eateries, a Dining Services official said. The 1873 Café & Sports Grill will be the only location offering the new value menu, said Legia Abato, marketing manager of Dining Services. (0) comments
It won't be Friday and there won't any be cold beer, but the Zac Brown Band will be singing about it. To celebrate the end of the semester, the Programming Council arranged for the popular country music group to put on a free concert for students, said Kennedy Stewart, Programming Council chair and sophomore advertising/public relations major. (0) comments
A silent march in support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning students and their supporters is scheduled for Friday at 11:45 a.m. Darron Turner, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, said he will attend the march as an administrator to support the students and to make sure there are no problems. (1) comment
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