Features

Summer 2002

Conversations with a tide pool

Willis Hewatt’s 1930s examination of a swath of Monterey Bay has become a significant baseline study that tells us we are changing our planet in dangerous ways.

Summer 2002

Monterey Memory

Joan Hewatt Swaim ’56 remembers dad Willis Hewatt spending his summers in trunks and rubber boots, scouring the tide pools for interesting life.

Summer 2002

Through a fissure

“There are good things to see in the tide pools and there are exciting and interesting thoughts to be generated from the seeing. Every new eye applied to the peep hole … may fish in some new beauty and some new pattern, and the world of the human mind must be enriched by such fishing.” — John Steinbeck

Summer 2002

Recollections of Ol’ South

For 40 years, Ol’ South Pancake House on University Drive has been serving up German pancakes slathered in large dollops of memories.

Summer 2002

The oxygen of terrorism

Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, warns that supporting military regimes and dictators is a costly, and risky, endeavor.

Spring 2002

Special collections

Cool stuff you probably didn’t know was in the library

Spring 2002

Something about Mary

Just who was Mary Couts Burnett?

Spring 2002

Through the years

Highlights of the Mary Couts Burnett Library

Spring 2002

After the fall

With the events of Sept. 11 a half a year behind us, and the war on terrorism expanding, The TCU Magazine asked nine students to talk about how the most infamous day of their generation has changed their lives.

Spring 2002

The First Amendment: Religion’s safe haven

When 300 clergy gathered for Brite Divinity School’s annual Minister’s Week, religion professor Ron Flowers, a nationally recognized scholar on the separation of church and state, urged the group to protect religion by discouraging “faith-based” government initiatives.