Gov. Rick Perry will make a booksigning appearance on campus at 6:30 p.m. today.
Perry is promoting his new book “On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For,” which is centered around the Boy Scouts of America’s progam. So far, the bookstore has sold under 100 books.
The book focuses on the values of Scouting in America and the right to asemble, said Andrea McCormick, a department manager.
Perry uses personal experiences in his book to explain his point of view.
The booksigning will be upstairs in the reading room.
Strong winds and have rain damaged several parts of the DFW area.
Damage can be seen on the TCU campus as well. A tree on the corner of Cantey and Cockrell was split in half. The branches of the tree are still in the front yard of the home and are blocking the majority of the road on Cockrell. The branches also bent the road signs and damaged part of the lamp post.
More damages were reported outside of Foster Hall, where branches and debris from another tree on campus broke off and landed on a bicycle rack.
Students can expect to see trucks from the TCU Physical Plant transporting tree branches off campus for most of the day.
Today’s weather is expected to reach a high of 80 degrees, sunny most of the day with partly cloudy skies, according to weather.com Web site.
Throughout the year, almost every month seems to have some sort of national holiday — Martin Luther King Day, National Black History Month, etc.
The month of April not only has April Fool’s Day, but also National Alcohol Screening Day.
TCU will be celebrating National Alcohol Screening Day at 10 a.m. today in the Student Center lobby. The event will run until 2 p.m.
According to the TCU Web site, the program is used to help students assess drinking behaviors and attitudes. Students will be able to find out if alcohol is hindering their success in work, school, social situations and life itself.
For more information, students can contact the TCU Alcohol and Drug Education Center or visit the TCU Web site.
Horned Frogs fans can start marking their calendars. TCU’s complete football schedule for the upcoming 2008 season was released yesterday afternoon.
This season’s non-conference opponents include Stephen F. Austin, Stanford, SMU and Oklahoma. The official season opens with a conference game Aug. 30 at New Mexico kicking off at 5 p.m.
2008 TCU Football Schedule
Aug. 30 - at New Mexico*, 5 p.m. (VERSUS)
Sept. 6 - Stephen F. Austin, 6 p.m.
Sept. 13 - Stanford, 6 p.m. (The Mtn.)
Sept. 20 - at SMU, TBA (TBA)
Sept. 27 - at Oklahoma, TBA (TBA)
Oct. 4 - San Diego State*, 5 p.m. (The Mtn.)
Oct. 11 - at Colorado State*, 2:30 p.m. (CBS College Sports Network)
Oct. 16 - BYU*, 7 p.m. (VERSUS)
Oct. 25 - Wyoming*, 5 p.m. (The Mtn.)
Nov. 1 - at UNLV*, 7 p.m. (CBS College Sports Network)
Nov. 6 - at Utah*, 7 p.m. (CBS College Sports Network)
Nov. 22 - Air Force*, 2:30 p.m. (VERSUS)
*Mountain West Conference game
All times Central
Schedule from GoFrogs.com
Tonight kicked off the start of Greek Week with music, laughter, banner making and skits. More than 500 Greeks were in attendance from every fraternity and sorority on campus.
The week’s activities include a tailgate party tomorrow at the Baylor-TCU baseball game, Greek Olympics on Thursday and Greeks in the Streets, a community service day, on Friday.
The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright will no longer be attending, but the awards ceremony honoring him will go on as scheduled.
The 4th Annual State of the Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet will be held March 29 at 6:30 p.m. at Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas, according to the Brite Divinity School Web site. The theme will be “Saving Our Souls Without Losing Our Minds: Redeeming the Social Teachings of the Black Church.”
Dr. Brad Braxton, a professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School, will be the keynote speaker, said an assistant to event organizer Stacey Floyd-Thomas who asked not to be identified.
Friendship-West will also host a National Studies Forum Friday afternoon, an event for black studies programs from around the country to meet and discuss issues in the black community, Floyd-Thomas’s assistant said.
Saturday, a luncheon panel discussion will be held at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Floyd-Thomas’s assistant said. Tickets for the forum and panel are each $15 and free to Brite Students, the assistant said.
Tickets to the awards ceremony are $125 or $1,000 for an eight-person table.
In a March 26 interview with the Skiff, the Rev. Rickey Hill, executive pastor for Friendship-West, said Brite always knew the door was open for his church to move the ceremony if TCU backed out.
“Not only were the doors closed at TCU, they were closed all over Fort Worth,” Hill said. “I’m ashamed of that, being from Fort Worth.”
Floyd-Thomas and other Brite administrators would not return calls asking for comment.
Today, Dr. Barbara Gerner de Garcia will visit the TCU campus.
Gerner de Garcia specializes in teaching hearing impaired Latino students at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. For 17 years, she has worked in Boston public schools, done extensive research and successfully published several works.
The Green Honors Chair speaker will lecture on “Teaching Latino Deaf/Hard of Hearing Students: Identifying and Meeting Unique Learning Needs.”
Gerner de Garcia will be on campus today at 3 p.m. in the Palko Building Lecture Hall, Room 130.
For more information students can log on to the TCU Web site, or find additional information on the TCU Daily Skiff Web site.
An incident between a religious demonstrator and TCU Police on Monday afternoon was settled without any arrests.
“Brother Rick” said he utilizes freedom of speech zones at college campuses to give an evangelical message to students. He said the police interference was over approved freedom of speech areas.
According to the TCU Student Handbook, “Demonstrations are limited to appropriate public forums — locations that, by tradtion or university policy, can be reserved and are available for public assembly and speech.”
TCU Police supervisors could not be reached for comment.
Several events will be held at TCU this week at to promote facts abouts Islam and support tolerance for the religion.
A “mythbusters” session will take place in the Student Center room 205 at 3 p.m. today. On Tuesday, a luncheon will be held, in which students will be encouraged to practice tolerance towards the religion.
In response to recent media reports on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory remarks behind the pulpit, the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago issued a statement Saturday defending Wright, who became pastor of the church in 1972 and retired this year.
“It is an indictment on Dr. Wright’s ministerial legacy to present his global ministry within a 15- or 30-second sound bite,” said the Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, in the statement.
In widely disseminated video clips of past sermons, Wright calls on blacks to condemn the United States for alleged racism and suggests government-sponsored terrorism led to the 9/11 attacks.
During his tenure as pastor of the church, Wright helped develop social welfare programs, including health care, a church library, prison ministries and scholarships, according to the statement.
In a separate statement Monday, the Rev. John H. Thomas, United Church of Christ general minister and president, criticized attacks against Wright. He said the intention of media personalities is to wound a presidential candidate and caricaturize a congregation.
“Are we to pretend all is well because much is, in fact, better than it used to be?” Thomas said in the statement. “Is it racist to name the racial divides that continue to afflict our nation, and to do so loudly?”
The Brite Divinity School, an independent institution located on the TCU campus, has recently come under fire for affirming its decision to honor Wright at a banquet March 29.
Calls to the Trinity United Church of Christ seeking comment on the award were not returned.
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