Winter 1998
He’s cooking
Chancellor Ferrari can sift and measure and strain like Chef Boyardee, but ultimately we are the ones who determine how tasty TCU will be.
Features
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.
Summer 1998
Top frog
Chancellor-elect Michael R. Ferrari — who puts the pedal to the metal on July 1 — knows where he’s been… and he knows where he’s going, too.
Summer 1998
Practicing medicine
I will impart this Art by precept, by lecture and by every mode of teaching. . . according to The Law of Medicine. –Hippocratic Oath
Spring 1998
25 years after Title IX
A quarter century since the enactment of Title IX, the civil rights legislation calling for equal athletic opportunities for men and women student athletes, it is clear that Lady Frogs have come a long way — but the finish line is still a ways off.