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Students get a chance to help area high schoolers experience college life for a day.
The Minority High School Conference, in conjunction with College Student for a Day, pairs TCU students with Fort Worth area high schoolers to show them what a typical college school day is like. The event will take place on Sunday Feb.22 and Monday Feb.23.
According to Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services, the program is designed to help area kids piece together their future in hopes of encouraging them to pursue higher education.
The student-volunteers, who will spend the day mentoring, are required to participate in a brief training session prior to interacting with the high school students. There is one more training session tomorrow, Feb. 17. If interested, contact Amie Lewis as soon as possible at a.lewis@tcu.edu.
The Geology Department will host world renowned geologist Dr. Ian Dalziel next week as the Green Honors Chair.
Dr. Ian Dalziel is a research professor at the Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is known for his work in the Andes mountains and his work on the Antarctic tectonic plate.
Dr. Hanson, chairman of the geology department said Dr. Dalziel is an authority on global tectonic evolution of the earth as well as the geology of Antarctica.
Dr. Dalziel will be giving three lectures next week. His first lecture titled “A Geologist in Antarctica” is Monday, Feb. 9 at 12:00 p.m. in Sid Richardson 217. Hanson said this lecture will discuss Dr. Dalziel’s experiences in Antarctica and the challenging conditions he overcame.
The second lecture takes place Monday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. in Sid Richardson lecture hall 3. It is titled, “There a Supercontinent Cycle in Earth History: Paleontology over the Last Billion Years” and Dr. Dalziel will discuss the revolution of the earth.
Dr. Dalziel will then give a final lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 2:00 p.m. in Sid Richardson lecture hall 1. The lecture is titled “Geological Controls on the Antarctic Ice Sheet and Its Future.” Dr. Dalziel will talk about the future of Antarctic ice sheets and its effect on climate change.
The lectures are free to the public. For more information about the event you can visit www.geo.tcu.edu.
Icy weather conditions caused 239 school closings in the Dallas/Fort Worth area Wednesday, according to nbcdfw.com. TCU canceled classes for the second day in a row.
As of 3 p.m. Wednesday the recorded high temperature was 34 F and the low was 19 F, according to the National Weather Service Web site. Temperatures were expected to rise into the upper 30s before dropping into the 20s Wednesday night, creating possible icy conditions for Thursday, according to site.
Randy Felts, a TCU Police representative, said there were no reported weather-related accidents to TCU Police as of 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Bun Hor, a Fort Worth Police representative, said the Fort Worth Police Department responded to 485 accidents from 6 p.m. Tuesday to 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The National Weather Service issued no active watches, warning or advisories for Tarrant County as of 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Thursday’s weather should be warmer, with a high near 51 F melting most of the ice, according to the National Weather Service Web site.
Programming Council will be hosting Movies at The Union which will feature “High School Musical 3″ Friday, Jan. 16. The movie will be played at both 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in the Union Auditorium.
“High School Musical 3″ has not been released on DVD and is no longer showing in theaters. The movie is set to be released on DVD Feb. 17, 2009. All students who want to see the movie before it is released to the general public are welcome to watch.
This event is just one of many events sponsored by Programming Council and it is free for all students. Other upcoming events Programming Council has planned are “Inauguration Watching Party” on Tuesday, Jan. 20, and a Nelo concert on Wednesday, Jan. 21.
The Mary Couts Burnett Library will be adding a nursing and health sciences subject librarian to its ongoing liaison program next Tuesday.
Tracy Hull, associate dean of the library, said the liaison program has subject librarians who are available for library instruction, who buy books, materials, and make recommendations for electronic sources, and who provide specialized references to students in their subject area. Hull said there are currently subject librarians for science, business, arts and humanities, music, and the Divinity School.
Hull said she has worked on revamping the program within the last year in order to make it a much more reference-based model. She said the goal of the program is to provide students with timely and in-depth assistance from librarians who know the collection as well as the subject area. The librarians have backgrounds in their disciplines either from related past jobs and/or a Bachelor’s or a Master’s degree in the subject, Hull said.
Call the Mary Couts Burnett Library reference desk at (817) 257-7117 to find out more information or to make an appointment with a subject librarian.
Dr. Donald Jackson will discuss “Civil Rights in an Era of Change.” Jackson is a Herman Brown Professor of Political Science who specializes in civil rights and the U.S. Constitution.
The event is open to the entire TCU community but spaces are limited. Contact ISS if you are interested in attending.
ISS’s mission is to advocate and promote diversity, inclusiveness, and cultural awareness throughout the TCU community.
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An accident occurred at the intersection of W. Berry Steet and University Drive on Friday involving a TCU student and a non-student.
The student said his car was hit in the intersection when the non-student ran a red light. Both the student’s Toyota 4 Runner and the non-student’s Mitsubishi Lancer were damaged, but neither driver was injured.
Fort Worth police officer Eli Reyes said four witnesses claimed the non-student was at fault for the accident.
The student is not going to press charges, the non-student said.
Jackie Rodriguez contributed to this report.
This week marks the first week for registration for the first wave of intramural sports at the recreation center:
Registration for Men’s, women’s and co-recreational softball lasts until 6 p.m. Tuesday. The season begins Sept. 7. Each team that registers must pay $35 to participate. Last season, 50 teams signed up and played within their particular division. Campus recreation invites all students out to participate and surpass last year’s number of teams. Each team requires 10 players on the softball field at once.
Team Tennis registration is going on currently, until 6 p.m. Sept. 9. Team Tennis will be played only on Mondays over at the Friedman Tennis Center. The cost is also $35 per team and the season begins Sept. 15. Anyone can participate in the according men’s, women’s or co-recreation teams. There will also be a mandatory captain’s meeting on Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. in the URC room 048.
Dodge Ball is the newest featured sport that campus recreation is making into a intramural league. Registration lasts until Sept. 9th. The games will be played in the Recreation Gym and must require six players on each team to participate. The games in the gym will begin on Sept. 14th. A captain’s meeting for dodge ball will be mandatory on Sept. 11 at 6:30 p.m. in the URC room 048.
Two radio-TV-film students leaped into the professional field this summer when they, among 13 other teens representing Dallas, created a film to compete in Samsung Mobile Fresh Films, a filmmaking program exclusively for teens.
Junior Brittney Dubose and freshman Sasha Hairford contributed to the 10-minute film named “Saturday” and are awaiting the results of the final vote-off against two other teams. Voting ends Wednesday.
Hairford said her experience confirmed her decision to declare a radio-TV-film major.
“It turned my life around,” she said. “It really secured my passion for film-making.”
The winning team will get a trip to Los Angeles, Apple laptops and a premiere at the American Film Institute’s AFI Fest.
The real Charlie Wilson will speak at this year’s annual Jim Wright Symposium.
The former U.S. congressman from Texas, and the subject of the Oscar-nominated movie, Charlie Wilson’s War, will speak about his participation in the CIA’s largest and most expensive covert operation during the Cold War.
Prior to the Wright Symposium, Wilson’s documentary “The True Story of Charlie Wilson” will be screened and followed by a discussion led by Ralph Carter, TCU political science professor and department chair, at the Palko building.
The documentary screening and discussions will be held Sept. 2 at the Palko building, room 130, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and the Wright Symposium at the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom the next day at noon.
Admission for the Wright Symposium is by invitation only. For tickets of the documentary showing, visit TCU Extended Education. Tickets are $25.
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