Spring 2008

The following are excerpts from a fall Media Writing/Editing II class project, created under the direction of adjunct professor Gayle Reaves, editor of the Fort Worth Weekly.

The university charted its first official master plan in 1991, imagining what the campus of the 21st century would be like. Challenges then are similar to today: finding a front door for TCU, deciding where to put parking and enhancing the physical beauty of the campus. Seventeen years and three chancellors later, that vision — and a lot more — is taking shape.

Kansas City area guitarist landed a gig playing the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

Waters dyed purple to celebrate the campus mainstay since 1969.

During one-year appointment, chancellor and the association will contend with federal budget deficit, growing student financial need and an increasingly competitive global economy.

It’s the best finish ever in program history as three team members received All-American honors.

Students support Project Vote Smart, a non-partisan research organization distributing information about candidates.

Loaded with video, the site features students, faculty and administrators talking about the first-year experience.

A holiday break is just what the rifle team needed to line up a historic season.

New three-tiered meal plan Students will choose from three new all-you-can-eat meal plans – known as “Frog Pass” or “Frog Passport” – in August when the new Brown-Lupton University Union is finished. Ranging from silver, gold or platinum, the plans will cost between $1,799 to $2,099, said Craig Allen, director of Residential Services. Each plan