Cover Story: Bleed Purple, Live Green Taking out the trash has become the mission of every Horned Frog as students, faculty and administrators look for ways to conserve natural resources. A spoon made from potato is an excellent start in TCU’s quest to become clean and green.
Ring Bearers
Got a favorite tree? Then join The Great Tree Ring and help preserve our tall green friends.
The Campaign for TCU
It was an unforgettable evening as the university kicked off the public phase of the $250 million fundraising effort.
Alma Matters
Politics is the topic of the latest Schieffer Symposium ... two new deans named ... construction update ...Summer 2008 in pictures ... and more.
Letters
Readers say goodbye to the Student Center, defend Athletics Marketing, discuss current events and more.
Academe
Education hosts Math & Science Trail ... Grads-to-be gobble up Gourmet Foods course ... Advertising students win national competition ... and more.
Mem´ries Sweet
In March and April, TCU and Brite Divinity School found themselves in the middle of a flap tied to the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. Brite was to present its Black Church Leader Award to retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago. But controversy ensued after Wright, former pastor to presidential candidate Barack Obama, made some questionable comments just a week prior. The event was moved off campus and the award presented privately to Wright the following month. The whole ordeal made national news. But such hullabaloo is nothing new to us Horned Frogs. Here’s a smattering of TCU “to-dos” through the years.
Riff Ram
First Person conversation with new basketball coach Jim Christian ... baseball's unexpected ace Tyler Lockwood ... track's Virgil Hodge gears up for the Olympics ... and more.
AlumNews
Susan Rieff '78 worked to protect our environment long before it came in vogue.
Notables
Terry Stuart Forst '92 (RM); Trey Cook '84; Diana Vela '05 (PhD); George Stephens '42; Mike Wuller '83
Back Cover
Leave it to Bob Schieffer ’59 and his retro alternative country band Honky Tonk Confidential to bring the house — er, tent — down at the April kickoff of The Campaign for TCU. The speak-song “Fort Worth-Dallas,” which Schieffer wrote, concluded a night of serious revelry.
Purspectives
We need to remember that even a cup of joe leaves an environmental footprint.
Recollections
Magazine readers recall the jobs they had as Horned Frogs
Comrades True
Skiff reporter Ellis Amburn '54 was present for the creation of the Brown-Lupton Student Center.