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The city beat: Fort Worth, Texas

By Haeven Gibbons
Published Apr 29, 2022
This is the first of an ongoing series of articles examining issues facing Fort Worth. The stories were reported and written by students in JOUR 30204. Working in teams, students explore issues through the Fault Lines of class, generation, geography, gender, sexual orientation and race.
Longhorns walk the street during a cattle drive demonstration at the Fort Worth Stockyards Thursday, March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Keeping Funky Town under control: What’s the Fort Worth Crime Control and Prevention District?

By TCU 360 Staff
Published Apr 29, 2022
The CCPD was initially established in 1995 to combat local crime— record crime rates across the city in the late '80s and early '90s were the driving force of the CCPD — but over the last 25 years, it has become an integral part of city spending. This story is part of "The City Beat," an ongoing series that explores issues facing Fort Worth.
Patrons enjoy watching their creations float in the river Saturday, April 16, 2022 in Fort Worth, TX. (Photo: Derek Lytle)

Fort Worth Water Lantern Festival tradition uplifts spirits

By Derek Lytle
Published Apr 21, 2022
Lights filled the water and hearts of Fort Worth residents last weekend as many traveled to the city for a popular spring tradition.
A Race and Reconciliation sign was set up next to the Founders Statues.

Second Annual Reconciliation Day event to recognize TCU’s hidden figures

By Summer Kloer
Published Apr 19, 2022
Second annual Reconciliation Day plans to acknowledge TCU's history with racism and slavery and celebrate steps toward reconciliation.
Frog Alley parking in Fort Worth, Texas on April 9, 2022. (TCU 360/Brooke Gianopulos)

Visitor side of Frog Alley garage is open for students during storms

By Brooke Gianopulos
Published Apr 19, 2022
Parking concerns from students include the lack of covered parking, lots close to campus and parking tickets.
Students over the years work on their projects for the zoo enrichment course. (Photo courtesy of Dr. Tory Bennett)

Art and science collide in TCU zoo enrichment course

By Sara Littlejohn
Published Apr 18, 2022
Both ecology and art students combine their passions as part of a zoo enrichment course offered every other year at TCU.
A Froggie 5-0 cart transports a student across campus late at night. (Photo courtesy of Riley Garlinghouse)

Froggie 5-0 considers, tests new changes in preparation for the fall

By Trevor Matthews
Published Apr 18, 2022
Students may not be able to use Froggie 5-0 for a convenient trip across campus starting in the fall of 2022.
In this Dec. 12, 2016 photo illustration, a person types on a laptop in Florida. Riviera Beach, Fla., agreed to pay $600,000 in ransom to hackers who took over its computer system, the latest in thousands of attacks worldwide aimed at extorting money from governments and businesses. Spokeswoman Rose Anne Brown said Wednesday, June 19, 2019, that the city of 35,000 residents has been working with outside security consultants, who recommended the ransom be paid. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Don’t press send: Cyber ‘sextortion’ of students becoming more common at TCU

By JD Pells
Published Apr 18, 2022
TCU Police are reporting an uptick in cyber blackmail cases among students.
Four students came together to start their own NIL consulting agency, LMRS Partners. From left to right: (Austin Tito Martinez, Bethany Reed, Laura LaBoon, Gavin Spencer) (Courtesy of: LMRS Partners)

Four students bring their NIL business to TCU

By Micah Pearce
Published Apr 18, 2022
A group project blossomed into a new startup in the NIL business leading to multiple partnerships with TCU athletes.
Ukrainian artists Vasfie Abdurafeeva and Anna Andriets stand in front of their work at a festival at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden.

Creating to cope: Local Ukrainian potters use their works to help their homeland, cope with the war

By Haeven Gibbons
Published Apr 13, 2022
They watched from Flower Mound as major cities crumpled into ruins and millions of Ukrainians became refugees. They didn't just want to standby.
You Gotta See This: Member’s of TCU’s Men’s Basketball team pose with Student Frog Club t-shirts in support of the club.

New Student Frog Club gives students exclusive access to athletics

By Madyson Buchanan
Published Apr 12, 2022
Student Frog Club, revived in 2021, gives students extra opportunities to interact with TCU athletics.
NYPD gather at the Sunset Park subway station entrance, Tuesday, April 12, 2022. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

What We’re Reading: Brooklyn subway station shooting, abortion bill in Oklahoma

By Siena Dancsecs
Published Apr 12, 2022
Biden is taking emergency measures to address gas prices, Oklahoma governor signs legislation making abortions criminal and more.