Full-time Neeley MBA students will join MBA students from across the country in competing in the first Neeley Sales and Marketing Strategy Competition sponsored by Sony Electronics on March 28 and 29.
Students from 15 schools, including TCU, Harvard, Pepperdine and Rice will participate in the competition, according to a Neeley press release.
Each team of four will be composed of students from different universities and will have five hours to work on the case.
In the afternoon, the teams will present their recommendations to a panel of Sony executives. Executives will also conduct interviews with students interested in working for the company.
Sony will award prizes totaling over $12,000. The competition will be held in Smith Hall.
For more information, visit www.neeleyMBAbusinesscase.com.
Now that Spring Break is over students can get back to making their parents proud by achieving high grades and working toward graduating from TCU.
For those interested in gaining some knowledge in math and science, Astronaut George “Pinky” Nelson will speak from 7 to 8 p.m. today at Amon Carter lecture hall in Palko Hall.
Nelson is a veteran of three space flights, including Challenger, Columbia and Discovery. He will speak on the importance of science and mathematics education and how colleges can prepare teachers at universities to be better prepared to teach. Nelson is being hosted by TCU’s Andrews Institute for Mathematics, Sciences and Technology Education.
Bring out the rain boots, umbrellas and giant winter coats. It seems the weather is shifting back over to winter today.
According to the Weather Channel’s Web site, Fort Worth is in for some showers, snow and strong winds all day long.
Expect showers all morning up until 2 p.m., with temperatures in the high 20’s and low 30’s. From then on up until around 7 p.m., snow will chime in with the rain with temperatures in the lower to mid 20’s and winds reaching up to 17 mph. From approximately 6:30 p.m. and on through tomorrow morning, expect snow with some rain showers.
With those weather predictions, students will be keeping warm and out of the rain.
As mild as the winter has been in North Texas, meteorologists say snow could be a possibility this evening. Although accumulation is unlikely, there is a 40 percent chance of snow in Fort Worth later tonight. The cancellation of school is not entirely out of the question, but with roads so warm from the balmy weather, students shouldn’t put their hopes in class being called off.
TCU’s theater department has begun the search for a new scenic designer.
Students will have a chance to meet John Raley, the second candidate for the position, at 3:30 p.m. in the design class and at 4:30 p.m. in Ed Landreth Hall, room B7 today.
There will be response sheets for students to fill out at the meetings.
The theater deparment encourages its theater students to help with the search process in selecting a new scenic designer. Students can do so by going to meet Raley today, and other candidates that will visit TCU in the near future.
Raley is currently a visiting assistant professor in theater at LSU. He earned a BA degree in technical theater and design from the University of Maryland, as well as an MFA in scenic and lighting design from NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts.
A fire alarm in Reed Hall sent students spending their lunchtime in Deco Deli and Edens outside about 1 p.m. The alarms went off for nearly 10 minutes before students and faculty were allowed back into the building.
Smoke from the vent-a-hood in the kitchen was to blame.
Members of the SMU wellness department will visit the TCU campus today to see the school’s kinesiology labs and facilities.
SMU is planning to build a new education building and are thinking about putting in some labs, however, they are in the very early stages of development, said Lynn Jacobs, associate professor of wellness for SMU.
Jacobs, along with the director of wellness Peter Gifford, will be given a tour of TCU’s Exercise Physiology lab by TCU professor of kinesiology and department chair Joel Mitchell, said Elizabeth Pettijohn, administrative assistant for the kinesiology department.
The same architect who designed many TCU and SMU buildings will also design the proposed education building for SMU.
Hahnfeld Hoffer Stanford architecture firm has worked on several buildings at TCU, where they served as architect-of-record for Tucker Technology Center and Smith Entrepreneurial Hall, according to the firm’s Web site. The firm was also associate architect for the TCU Recreation Center.
The beef at TCU’s dining facilities is not among 143 million pounds recalled by a California company after an order from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the marketing manager for Dining Services said.
Ligia Abato, marketing manager for Dining Services, said TCU does not receive meat from the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., which was recalled Sunday because of concerns that cattle were not properly inspected. The amount of beef available in dining facilities has remained the same, Abato said.
“Our meat forces are secure and have been handled properly,” Abato said. “Everything here is a quality product.”
Anthony Owens, director of media relations for Sodexho USA, said Westland/Hallmark is not an approved supplier for the company. Owens said some Sodexho cafeterias in K-12 schools that receive meat from the National School Lunch program may have been affected, but it was difficult to get an exact number of schools affected because it would have to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. No universities participate in the National School Lunch program, Owens said.
Owens said Sodexho was aware that there was a chance the company’s K-12 school cafeterias had Westland/Hallmark beef and the company issued a hold on the product Jan. 31.
Two former employees of Westfield/Hallmark have been charged with animal cruelty after a undercover video made by the Humane Society of the United States showed workers kicking and shocking animals too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse on their own.
Veronika Terrian, senior history major and coordinator for student advocacy group People for Animal Well-Being, said factory conditions at farms can lead to unhealthier products. She said consumers can cut back on meat intake or choose other options such as free-range and hormone free meats, as well as voice their opinions to lawmakers to let meat companies know change is needed.
“As Americans, our greatest voting power is with our dollar,” Terrian said. “We can show these industries that we do not approve of their processes.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
TCU is the winner of the 2007 Community Service Award in Corporate from Susan G. Komen for the Cure for its ongoing commitment to the foundation, said the chair of a committee dedicated to raising breast cancer awareness.
Ann Louden, chair of the “Frogs For the Cure” committee and herself a breast cancer survivor, and Super Frog accepted the award for TCU in a Feb. 7 ceremony.
“We thank you for honoring our efforts, and we challenge you to plan your own ‘Frogs for the Cure,’ ” Louden said in her acceptance speech. “You can’t have Super Frog, but you most certainly can have the plan.”
“The fact that TCU has been involved has been important to me because it’s something I’ve been through,” Louden said. “But it will continue to be important because it will continue to impact many more people.”
Louden said the award was for TCU’s ongoing support of the Tarrent County affiliate of Susan G. Komen. For example, when a tornado caused destruction in downtown Fort Worth in 2000, TCU opened its campus for the foundation’s annual Race for the Cure to insure that the event still took place.
Louden said she estimated about 20 TCU representatives attended the ceremony, many of them wearing pink “Frogs For the Cure” t-shirts. Staff from the TCU Bookstore also came and distributed merchandise at the event. Nancy Brinker, the founder of the Komen Foundation, was the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
The first “Frogs for the Cure” event was held in Fall 2005, Louden said. Since then, Louden said that TCU has raised $40,000 for the Komen foundation.
Why is Valentine’s Day celebrated? Well, it’s not just all about the flowers, the candy and the cards. According to the Catholic faith, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in honor of the martyr Saint Valentine.
Nobody really knows what the real legend is, however, there are several stories many people believe.
According to the Greeting Card Association, about 1 billion cards are sold and sent in America every year. The oldest Valentine card is currently on display at the British Museum.
Valentine’s Day will be celebrated today in America, Australia, France, Canada, Mexico and the United Kingdom.
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