This holiday season students may be surprised to find there will be no Christmas tree on the steps of Sadler Hall. The traditional tree at Sadler during Holidays at TCU will be relocated to the Campus Commons. Brad Thompson, student activities coordinator, said the 6,000 pound, 46-foot tree will be lifted by a 168,000-pound crane up and over the Brown-Lupton University Union Auditorium to place it in the BLUU Plaza on Nov. (7) comments
Christmas tree? Check. Light show in Texas? Check. Reindeer? Check. Ice Rink in Texas? Check. This year for the university's celebration of the holiday season, the Student Government Association will have an artificial ice rink in the Campus Commons to add to the festivities. (0) comments
The sisters of Pi Beta Phi raised $2,000 for impoverished Ugandan women with their first ever BeadforLife party Friday at the Brown-Lupton University Union, said a student who helped organize the event. Items sold at the event included various styles of necklaces, bracelets, earrings, beads and jewelry bags. (0) comments
Four Democratic primary candidates for Texas governor will kick off their 2010 campaigns today with a debate at the university. The TCU Democrats and the Tarrant County Young Democrats worked together to present the first Gubernatorial Candidates Forum for the election. (0) comments
"Let your voice reconstruct our campus" is the theme for the third annual Improve TCU Day Wednesday, a member of the Student Relations Committee said. "The purpose of Improve TCU Day is to get ideas and reveal resources to strengthen the relationship between the student body and the student government," said Myra Mills, senior music education major and chairwoman of the Student Relations Committee. (0) comments
Ethan Casey and Fawad Butt gave two main reasons for the current Pakistani situation: lack of education and poverty. In a Tuesday lecture called "Pakistan: The Human Dimension," American journalist Ethan Casey and collaborator Fawad Butt provided insight into the human element between the West and Pakistan. (0) comments
Author and journalist Ethan Casey and his collaborator Fawad Butt will focus on stripping misconceptions about the Pakistani people during a two-day stay at TCU. Casey's Web site, ethancasey.com, lists a biography stocked with international experience. This past summer, Casey said he traveled in India and Pakistan and will call upon his experiences there, as well as some background information, to address the university in his lecture, titled "Pakistan: the Human Dimension," at 7 p. (0) comments
The TCU student publications committee selected the spring 2010 Daily Skiff editor-in-chief and advertising manager Friday. Senior news-editorial journalism major Julieta Chiquillo was selected as the new editor-in-chief for the Daily Skiff. Chiquillo is currently the managing editor for the Daily Skiff and has worked in the newsroom for two and a half years. (1) comment
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Froglinks Man. The masked superhero Froglinks Man debuted at the Homecoming football game Oct. 31 against University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was one of the Alumni Association's marketing tactics for its new Web site, which launched Oct. (0) comments
The theme throughout the dedication ceremony Friday of the John V. Roach Honors College was what sets the college and its students apart. A banjo interlude, a speech delivered in Spanish and several skits showcasing students' individual skills got the message across. (0) comments
The board of trustees voted to raise tuition to $30,000 a year for the 2010-11 school year, about a 30 percent tuition increase during the past five years. During the 2006-07 school year students paid $22,980. Chancellor Victor Boschini said the 6.2 percent increase over the tuition in 2009-2010 will go to increasing financial aid and the number of professors on campus. (3) comments
A record number of early action undergraduate admissions applications were submitted for this month, an admissions official said. Nov. 1 marked the first deadline for prospective students to submit their application for the 2010-2011 school year. This year, the university received 5,705 early action applications. (0) comments
Three Democratic candidates for Texas governor told their audience of about 50 people on campus Wednesday that schoolchildren should not be forced into a mold, with two of them expressing criticism about standardized testing. Candidate Tom Schieffer, Hank Gilbert and Felix Alvarado met in the first Gubernatorial Candidates Forum of the 2010 election at the Brown-Lupton University Union ballroom. (1) comment
The university's Tom Brown-Pete Wright apartments have experienced a recent increase in student misconduct. The incidents included students removing trash cans from the trash rooms, stealing toilet paper from the Tom Brown-Pete Wright common bathrooms, stealing cleaning supplies from housekeeping and urinating in the laundry room. (0) comments
Department of Film-TV-Digital Media students have had more opportunities to meet film industry professionals because of a large, anonymous donation made to FTDM for a student experience fund. Elizabeth Selzer , regional director of development for the university, said the two purposes of the fund are to bring film industry experts and FTDM alumni to the university and to send FTDM students to film festivals and workshops. (0) comments
For Fort Worth native Liz Johnston, owner of the eco-friendly wares store The Greener Good, educating the community motivated her to open a retail location to accompany a growing online business, she said. So far, the flagship location, which opened Nov. 11, embodies the "it's all good" attitude that is the company's slogan. (0) comments
A new $90,000 walkway completed in September is making walking from the Worth Hills area to the Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium safer and more convenient for students, a university official said. The walkway, which begins near the driveway leading to the former location of Pond Street Grill, passes over a creek and ends in the parking lot of the stadium. (0) comments
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