Skip to Main Content
78° Fort Worth
All TCU. All the time.

TCU 360

TCU 360

All TCU. All the time.

TCU 360

Group addresses civil rights concerns

Published Sep 7, 2007

Would anyone notice if you went missing?The TCU chapter of Amnesty International held a weeklong event starting Sept. 4 to raise awareness for people who are imprisoned for their beliefs.

Dani Folks, vice president of Amnesty International, said the term coined for these prisoners are "prisoners of conscience."

"Amnesty International is the biggest civil rights organization in the world," Folks said.

Amy Gardner, the organization's secretary and treasurer, said people's rights are being abused every day.

Transitions easier with help

Transitions easier with help

Published Sep 7, 2007

New environments, new friends and a new life. That is what college offers students. It isn't always easy to move from one part of life to another, essentially leaving everything you've known behind to begin anew.In order to help students adjust, universities and even high schools are implementing freshman camps to help new students get a feel for their new home.

"On the first day of a new school year, incoming high school freshmen can feel like fish in a big pond," Jocelyn Delgado wrote in her recent Dallas Morning News article.

All Aboard

All Aboard

Published Sep 6, 2007

No car? No money? No problem.The Fort Worth Transportation Authority is making it easier for students to get away from campus. The T's partnership with TCU has provided students, faculty and staff with...

Students weigh in on Saturday’s Horned Frog-Longhorn faceoff

Published Sep 6, 2007

As the anticipation continues to build for Saturday's game between the Horned Frogs and the Texas Longhorns, students campuswide are sounding off with their opinions of who will come out victorious in...

Hazing victim recalls incident, shares with students

Published Sep 6, 2007

One man who experienced hazing in college told his story to students to raise awareness during National Hazing Prevention Week.In his speech titled "Hazed and Confused," Erle Morring recalled his fraternity experience and the subsequent deaths of two of his fraternity's pledges.

As a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity at Auburn University, Morring said he was hazed on a regular basis. Morring said he holds these hazing rituals responsible for his friends' deaths and tells his story to college campuses.

For RAs, respect integral for creating bonds with residents

Published Sep 6, 2007

"DJ, congratulations on your new appointment as Resident Assistant to Milton Daniel Hall." Those words afforded me such excitement that only my fellow RA colleagues and past RAs can best articulate. Knowing that all your hard work, academically and socially, paid off by being elected to serve as an RA for TCU is not only a privilege, but also a life-changing experience. It creates a pathway to discovering yourself while maintaining a fine balance between embracing the extreme personalities and ethnic differences of students while implementing policies that are set by TCU.

Healthy living taught in dorms

Published Sep 6, 2007

A group of juniors have begun visiting residence halls in hopes of teaching students about healthy eating.Juniors in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics worked with Sodexho, TCU's food service provider, to modify the company's Balance, Mind, Body and Soul program. The students are presenting the revised version of Sodexho's program at several residence halls this semester.

Erin Strong, a senior nutrition major, said she revised the presentation and taught it to about 15 juniors in the dietetics program. Then, the students made additional modifications to it, Strong said.

Christmas concert in New York invites choir to fifth performance

Published Sep 6, 2007

The choir is continuing a tradition of traveling to New York City and showcasing its talents at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, the largest independent symphonic pops orchestra in the U.S..The choir...

Reading constructive alternative to daily channel surfingv

Published Sep 6, 2007

Near the beginning of the Earth's history, the first cell arose from the primordial ooze; oxygen-breathing bacteria took more than a billion additional years to evolve. Eventually, fish began to swim and grow eyes and jaws. They pulled themselves onto swamps as amphibians, and after awhile, mammals came to be: their brains growing larger, larger, larger. Finally, life evolved beautifully self-aware humans. So do we, after all this effort, allow our minds to be sucked into sitcoms instead of books?The answer, unfortunately, is "yes."

Women’s rugby team in founding stages

Published Sep 6, 2007

Two students are working to make their dream of a women's rugby team at TCU become a reality. Though freshmen Kayla Bankhead and Erin House have proposed the idea, the team is not official yet.

Bankhead said in order to have a team, there must be at least 10 non-freshman students signed up. Once the team is created, Bankhead and House plan on finding a coach and preparing for their first season.

Bankhead said it will most likely be a year before the team competes in an actual game.

Going green not just new fad

Published Sep 6, 2007

Over the years, student consciousness toward the environment has fluctuated from low, to very low and back up to mediocre. It has never been something to brag about, especially since January when a national survey of 100 universities rated TCU as having a "D" in its recycling practices.Until this sub-par grade was issued, very few visible changes have been made to campus. Recently the Styrofoam cups in The Main have been replaced with biodegradable cups and organic straws.

Horns’ O to challenge Frogs’ D

Published Sep 6, 2007

Here's a position-by-position breakdown of Saturday's game against the University of Texas Longhorns: QUARTERBACK (Probable Starter)TCU: Andy Dalton, redshirt freshmanTexas: Colt McCoy, sophomoreAdvantage:...