Campus News: Alma Matters

Spring 1999

Stream of thought

The Danube River may be known for its romance, but its ecology also holds a few real-world lessons.

Spring 1999

Spring 1999: Alma Matters

El Frogs TCU and the State of San Luis in Argentina signed an agreement in late fall to establish a graduate scholarship at TCU for scholars from the South American state. Up to 20 students may come to campus each year for the next five years. At the signing ceremory, from left to right, are

Spring 1999

“Positive Perseverance”

Though none has taken place on campus, six rapes in the last year prompted a candlelight vigil and a reward to nab the perpetrator.

Spring 1999

Technology @ tcu

Even in concept, the William E. and Jean Jones Tucker Technology Center isn’t complete, so the drawings of the much-needed facility may change, but what you see is close to what the TCU community will receive as early as 2002.

Spring 1999

Downloading the language

For non-native English speakers, the latest learning lab on campus is helping out in some high-tech ways.

Winter 1998

Winter 1998: Alma Matters

Home sweet housing Tom Brown Residence Hall will be razed in January, but the soon-to-be displaced juniors and seniors were given first choice to move into the first phase of the new Tom Brown/Pete Wright Residential Community. Some 213 students will begin moving in Jan. 13. Each apartment includes a refrigerator with ice maker, dishwasher,

Winter 1998

To boldly go

Acclaimed Jewish author Chaim Potok — whose appearance was the first sign of TCU’s new Jewish Studies Program — told a packed Ed Landreth Auditorium that it’s okay to split the Star Trek infinitive so long as we discover the infinite worlds around us and in us.

Winter 1998

Clinton’s class

Bill might be better off had he forgone a Cabinet meeting or two for a certain class in Beasley Hall this fall.

Winter 1998

Meandering

When my professor Jim Corder died, I wrote his obituary for the TCU Daily Skiff. I don’t think he would have liked it. The personal essay was his genre. So this is what I should have written.

Winter 1998

Message in a bottle

Water, water, everywhere, and lots of it to drink. The trick for 16 graphic design students from TCU and Mexico was making sure the agua was packaged to sell on both sides of the border.