The spring semester might see the creation of a new campus-wide service initiative. HOPS (Helping Other People Serve) is an extension of the efforts started by the TCU LEAPS project and will focus on continued service throughout the year to several service sites, a university official said. (0) comments
University officials want to raise the number of students registered to receive campus alerts through text messages, a university official said. The number of students enrolled in the TCU ALERT system fluctuates as new students enroll each year, but about 78 percent of faculty and staff and 69 percent of students have registered their cell phone numbers, Lisa Albert, director of communications, wrote in an e-mail. (1) comment
Updated kitchens in Annie Richardson Bass Hall brought a refreshing shift to the nutrition department. Renovations this summer transformed the outdated kitchens in Bass into improved working and teaching spaces, said Anne VanBeber, nutritional sciences department chair. (1) comment
A Facebook event urging students to wear all-black to the Nov. 14 football game against the University of Utah - TCU's Pink Out game in support of breast cancer research - has generated debate on campus about what is the appropriate way to show school spirit. (13) comments
Frog failures can now be shared among the Horned Frog community through frogmylife.com, a Web site designed to anonymously relate daily mishaps, the site's creator said. Brandon Corcoran, a sophomore finance and entrepreneurial management major and creator of frogmylife. (1) comment
The Interfraternity Council approved a proposal to add an extra day to the formal recruitment process, which will give potential members more time to learn about each fraternity next fall, the IFC president said. IFC president Evan Berlin said members voted on Oct. (0) comments
Professor of choral music Ron Shirey, who brought national attention to the university's choir program, died of a heart attack Sunday. "He is known around the country as one of the finest university choir directors who was currently working," said Scott Sullivan, dean of the College of Fine Arts. (4) comments
Rusty Mahmood graduated from college with a business degree thinking he would work in an office, but he didn't expect to find himself working on NBC's "The Office," where he is the show's assistant director. Mahmood spoke to film-TV-digital media students Monday night with his wife Kara Harshbarger, a university alumna and film director and writer. (0) comments
University graduate student Mary Cassaro said her parents taught her the importance of smart saving skills early on. Around age 12, years before higher education was on her mind, she said money earned from the occasional baby-sitting job allowed her to begin a bank account of her own. (0) comments
Members of the TCU Environmental Club worked together this semester to revitalize the group after it nearly died out last year. The club lacked leadership after its president left to study abroad, said Macy Zander, senior environmental science and political science major. (0) comments
Iranian American academic Haleh Esfandiari went on a routine trip to Iran in 2006 to visit her mother. On her way to the airport on Dec. 30 that year, she was robbed and lost both of her passports. Little did she know that when requesting new travel documents she would be barred from leaving Iran and imprisoned for months. (1) comment
Staffs of the TCU Daily Skiff newspaper, the DailySkiff.com Web site, and Image Magazine received four national awards in design and multimedia storytelling from the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers. The awards were announced at the ACP/CMA 88th National College Media Convention held in Austin from Oct. (0) comments
Even as she was sitting outside Fort Hood Army Base waiting for the lockdown to end Thursday night, university alumna Stacey Uhorchak said that she and her husband had always felt safe living at the base. "I love Fort Hood," Uhorchak said. "We have always felt very safe and very taken care of. (2) comments
With the Frogs on the road at San Diego State University, students looking for excitement over the weekend won't have to look far. The university's Programming Council will be holding a campout in the Campus Commons on Friday night. Activities include making s'mores at 8 p. (0) comments
Members of the Student Government Association House of Student Representatives passed a resolution to increase attendance at the university's home football games during Tuesday's meeting, said. Brent Folan, a freshman pre-business major, and Matt Dietrichson, a junior political science major, co-authored the bill after learning that attendance plays a factor in which universities are chosen to attend a Bowl Championship Series game, Folan said. (1) comment
A memorial celebration for Don Punchatz, illustrator and adjunct professor of graphic design who died Oct. 22, will be held Saturday, Nov. 7. The celebration will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the PepsiCo Recital Hall. The funeral will be open to the public, said Lewis Glaser, associate professor of graphic design. (1) comment
In an effort to find a compromise between the Pink Out vs. Black Out controversy for the Nov. 14 Utah home game, the Interfraternity Council has voted to order 3,000 black towels with pink ribbons attached, said Evan Berlin, IFC president. A Facebook event urging students to wear all black during the same game as TCU's fifth annual Pink Out game in support of breast cancer research and awareness, has sparked controversy across campus. (3) comments
Students learned how environmentalism and feminism related to each other during a panel discussion on ecofeminism Tuesday night. The panel discussion, co-sponsored by the TCU Women's Network and the Latina sorority Sigma Lambda Alpha, addressed questions about environmental sustainability and the role of women in sustainability. (0) comments
The Brown-Lupton University Union Auditorium will be filled with sounds of Bollywood music and the smell of South Asian foods this Saturday evening. The Students for Asian Intercultural Awareness plans to hold a Mela carnival Saturday to educate students about South Asian customs. (0) comments
Due to the frequency and sensitivity with which the fire alarms are activated, students have been ignoring the alarms in the GrandMarc apartment complex, a Grandmarc official said. Although the GrandMarc has only actually had the alarms go off four times this semester, instances like the one on Oct. (1) comment
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