Features

Spring 1999

Diversity

Amid all our differences are opportunities to work together.

Spring 1999

Starting the Ferrari

Michael R. Ferrari is TCU’s ninth chancellor. … Officially.

Spring 1999

Home sweet housing

Tom Brown and Pete Wright halls are gone, replaced by a “residential community” that is the new standard in student housing. But a look inside reveals that life, whether in 88-year-old Jarvis or in TCU’s newest housing addition, is still one very good time.

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 ultimately 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.