Features

Spring 1999

These four walls

Dorm life is a bit like the ultimate Rube Goldberg project: “Contestants, you are given a bed, a dresser, two clothespins, six textbooks, some ramen noodles, StainStick and a stranger. Create a life.”

Spring 1999

Gathering your belongings

Problem solving is just one of the important things learned during dorm life.

Spring 1999

Season in the Sun

We waited impatiently for Fran to finish answering questions from the press. Finally, we rushed him, yelling, crying, jumping up and down. Fran exclaimed in mock horror, “What have I done?” More than you know, my friend. More than you know.

Winter 1998

He’s cooking

Chancellor Ferrari can sift and measure and strain like Chef Boyardee, but untimately we are the ones who determine how tasty TCU will be.

Winter 1998

Grizzley bear

David Tice ’76 (MBA ’77) is among Wall Street’s best at predicting stock market downturns. No bull about it, he says, a severe bear market is about to take a bite out of America’s assets.

Winter 1998

Medicine men

For a thousand years, South American healers have enlisted a certain weed to cure coughs, colds, even tuberculosis. Now, a small group of researchers — led by UC-Irvine Associate Prof. Edward Robinson Jr. ’84 and TCU Chemistry Prof. Manfred Reinecke — believe that something in wira wira may help defeat the virus that causes AIDS.

Winter 1998

Staying after

We ask the questions around here. And Faculty Senate Chair Sherrie Reynolds gives us answers.

Fall 1998

More coffee, Maxine

Dennis Franchione could use a hand, inheriting a program that went bust under Pat Sullivan. Sportswriter Dan Jenkins ’53 — armed with a cup of joe and a mindful of memories — recalls how great the Frogs used to be. And could be again.

Fall 1998

Atomic rage

The recent Indian and Pakistani Nuclear tests were sober reminders that amid the euphoria surrounding the end of the Cold War, we still live in the shadow of awesome weapons of mass destruction. We have the capacity to destroy the entire human civilization. Indeed, after the Indian and Pakistani respective nuclear tests in May, the scientific community moved the doomsday clock to 11:51, twelve being the ground zero hour. If there is a silver lining in recent nuclear tests by India and Pakistan, it is bringing the issue of nuclear proliferation to the center stage of public debate and discourse once again.

Fall 1998

Two-minute warning

The SWC died. The WAC split. Now, some say a leaner, meaner Division I-A could form as early as 2000 — possibly leaving the Purple on the sidelines. Uh, TCU begs to differ.