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editorial
Though the signing makes sense on
the field, does that even matter?
On March 19, the Dallas Cowboys
signed defensive end Greg Hardy to a
one-year, $11.3 million deal.
From a football perspective, the
signing seems to make perfect sense.
The Cowboys ranked 26th in
opponent passing yards last season, and
Hardy, a pass-rushing phenom, has 27
sacks since 2012.
Off the football field though, the
signing doesn’t make as much sense.
Last July, Hardy was arrested
and charged with assaulting and
threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend,
Nicole Holder. He sat out most of the
2014-15 season as a result while his
case was ongoing.
The charges were eventually dropped
in February after Holder received a
financial settlement from Hardy, but the
NFL is now conducting its own investigation into whether Hardy violated the
league’s personal conduct code.
If a violation is found, Hardy could
face heavy fines and/or suspensions, but
the Cowboys signed him anyway.
When the signing was first announced,
WFAA sportscaster Dale Hansen used
his “Hansen Unplugged” segment to
chastise the signing.
Similarly, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings
called the signing a “shot in the gut.”
"I'm a big Cowboys fan,” Rawlings
said. “I love them to death and I want
them to beat the Eagles every time they
play."
"But at some point, being a sports fan
gets trumped by being a father, husband,
wanting to do what's right for women,
so this is not a good thing. I don't think
I'm going to be buying Hardy jerseys any
time soon."
Fans of TCU sports should follow the
lead set out by Rawlings and Hansen.
Success on the field too often seems
to overshadow off-the-field issues. As
long as a player helps a fan’s team win,
who cares how he lives his life?
Or so it seems to go.
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Cowboys signing
perpetuates
issues TCU
looks to end
Many fans and even some of the
organizations themselves say they want
their respective teams to win at all costs,
but do they really mean that?
The TCU football team confronted
that very question with former Frog
DeVonte’ Fields last year, but the “loss of
talent” that resulted from Fields’ off-field
incident and subsequent dismissal didn’t
seem to hurt them too bad.
Fields, like Hardy, was a pass-rushing phenom, but TCU’s defensive line
seemed just fine during the now-Big 12
champions’ Peach Bowl crushing of Ole
Miss.
Even if it had, even if Fields leaving
somehow crippled TCU’s defensive
line to the point where the Frogs went
winless this season, would having him on
the team be worth it?
No player is worth that price.
People can have second chances in
life. We all make mistakes and have the
right to learn and grow from them.
In football, however, especially
at the professional level, there are
thousands of prospects itching for the
opportunity to get a roster spot and
prove themselves.
Why look for excuses to hand out
second chances when plenty of players
who have done nothing wrong are still
looking for their first chances?
If we truly wnt to take a stand against
domestic violence and sexual assault,
like Student Government Association’s
“Not On My Campus” video suggests,
we have to stop handing out second
chances as if they’re deserved rather
than earned.
Thirty-one NFL teams, including
Hardy's former Carolina Panthers, made
the right call and decided Hardy hadn't
earned his second chance quite yet. But
it only takes one for the vicious cycle to
continue.
"America's Team" made a big mistake
signing Greg Hardy. Maybe not from a
football perspective, but certainly from a
moral one.
By Jordan Ray for the editorial board
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NEW JERSEY SEN. BOB
MENENDEZ INDICTED ON
CORRUPTION CHARGES
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen.
Bob Menendez was indicted on
corruption charges Wednesday,
accused of using his office to
improperly benefit a Florida eye
doctor and political donor. The
indictment charged the New Jersey
Democrat with 14 counts, including
bribery and conspiracy, over his ties
to Dr. Salomon Melgen, a wealthy
doctor and the politician’s longtime
friend.
Melgen also was charged in the
case.
CRIME
INMATE OVERPOWERS
GUARD, ESCAPES FROM
EASTERN ILLINOIS JAIL
KANKAKEE, Ill. (AP) -- A
convicted murderer awaiting
sentencing escaped from a jail
in eastern Illinois Wednesday
after beating a guard into unconsciousness, taking his keys and
uniform and speeding off in his
SUV. Kamron T. Taylor, who has a
history of escape attempts, fled
from the Jerome Combs Detention
Center in Kankakee at about 3
a.m. He somehow escaped from
his cell, hid inside the facility and
then beat and choked the guard
who was making rounds, said
Kankakee County Sheriff Timothy
Bukowski.
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‘Back to Class’ event raises $1 million for TCU Veterans
ARKANSAS GOVERNOR
URGES CHANGES TO RELIGIOUSOBJECTIONS BILL
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POLITICS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson
backed away Wednesday from his
promise to sign a controversial
religious-objections bill, bowing
to pressure from critics, including
some of the state’s biggest
employers, who say the legislation
is anti-gay. The Republican
governor said he wants the
Legislature either to recall the bill
from his desk or pass a follow-up
measure that would make the
proposal more closely mirror a
federal religious-freedom law.
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By Mimi Teel
[email protected]
Serena Williams earns 700th win to
reach Miami Open semis
By Steven Wine
ASSOCIATED PRESS
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) — Serena
Williams abused her racket, scolded
herself and even made angry faces at
the sun.
In the end, as usual, she took out
her frustration on the ball.
The seven-time Key Biscayne
champion overcame her annoyance
and shaky play Wednesday for her
700th career victory, beating Sabine
Lisicki 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-3 to reach the
semifinals of the Miami Open.
Williams won despite an
unreliable serve, a poor second set
and 51 unforced errors. She looked
flatfooted and listless at times, and
seemed especially vexed when
playing on the side looking into the
sun.
“It’s always tough on that side,”
she said. “You just don’t see. You just
have to adjust.”
She did, earning her 16th
consecutive victory on Key Biscayne,
where she’s the two-time defending
champion.
“I know today wasn’t my best day,”
she said. “I just told myself, I’m not
serving the way I normally serve and
hitting the way I normally would hit,
so at this point all I can do is just
fight and try to give 200 percent
instead of 100 percent.”
Two-time champion Andy Murray
advanced to the men’s semifinals
by rallying past unseeded Dominic
Thiem 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. Murray’s
opponent Friday will be the winner
of the quarterfinal Wednesday night
between No. 8 Tomas Berdych and
unseeded Juan Monaco.
Williams improved her career
record to 700-120, making her the
eighth woman in the Open Era
to reach the milestone. She was
presented with a cake on the court,
similar to the honor Murray received
following his 500th victory Tuesday.
“I think my destiny was to play
tennis,” Williams said. “I saw a picture
where I was in a stroller on the tennis
court.”
The No. 1-seeded Williams
withdrew before the Indian Wells
semifinal earlier this month with a
right knee injury, but she has won
19 consecutive matches this year.
Her opponent Thursday will be the
winner of the match Wednesday
night between unseeded American
Sloane Stephens and No. 3 Simona
Halep.
For much of her quarterfinal,
Williams trailed in fist pumps
and points, and her frustration
quickly showed. After losing three
consecutive games to fall behind 4-3
in the first set, the Floridian pounded
the court with her racket and drew
jeers in the stadium she considers
her home court.
Williams won the first set only
because Lisicki wobbled in the
tiebreaker, hitting three shots into
the net before double-faulting on the
final point.
Williams played even worse in the
second set, losing six games in a row,
but then began to grunt louder and
hit harder, with positive results. She
earned the only break of the final set
in the second game and held from
there, serving out the match at love.
“Come on!” she shouted when it
ended, as if already gearing up for
the semifinal.
Tournament officials then rolled
out the cake, with pink, green and
purple frosting. What’s her favorite
kind?
“Vanilla,” she said.
It wasn’t really Williams’ day, but
she won anyway.
The third floor of the Brown-Lupton
University Union was networking
grounds for people of all ages on
Thursday, all in attendance for different
reasons.
Kim Gore, Dean Andrew
Schoolmaster’s assistant, said about 225
names were on the final list of attendees
at AddRan College of Liberal Arts’s “Back
to Class” event Thursday night in the
BLUU.
“I was invited by a friend and wanted
to see if it was interesting,” said Helina
Medina, who planned to attend Dr.
Michael Bachmann’s “Honey, I’m
Home: Hacking the Internet of Things”
lecture and Dr. Kiril Tochkov’s “Borders,
Globalization and Economic Integration”
lecture.
Barbara Dennis came to “Back to
Class” to support her son, Dr. Mark
Dennis, who, fresh off of a plane from
a workshop in Chicago, gave a religion
lecture entitled “What is Freedom?”
Barbara Dennis said she was excited
to be a part of the event.
Tom McDonald, a TCU graduate
of 1965 and 1967, was also excited.
McDonald worked for Alcon Lab for 40
years before retiring. He said he was
invited to “Back to Class” by the TCU
History Department. McDonald said he
was interested in hearing Dr. Tochkov’s
economics lecture.
Brian Treger, from TCU’s graduating
class of 2000, said he was invited by his
old professor Dr. Ralph Carter, whom
he’s maintained a relationship with since
graduation. Treger currently works in
the Wells Fargo Wealth Management
department and was eager to hear Dr.
Carter’s “Is a New Cold War Inevitable?
The Curse of Mutual Misperception”
lecture as well as Dr. Tochkov’s
economics lecture.
Many AddRan faculty members were
in attendance as well.
MIMI TEEL / TCU 360
LECTURE FOR EVERYONE Guests networked and socialized throughout the night at “Back
to Class.”
TCU Spanish professor Regan Boxwell
said faculty in the foreign language
department received an email inviting
and encouraging them to attend the
event.
Guests mingled over dinner catered
by Sodexo, which came complete
with shredded pork, popcorn chicken,
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environment
Cedar Creek Reservoir reaches full capacity
Julia Sanders
COMMUNITY@THE 109.ORG
The cup isn’t quite overflowing, but
it’s close enough for a county in its fifth
year of drought.
The Tarrant Regional Water
District’s Cedar Creek Reservoir is
full for the first time in three years,
according to Bob Carl of the National
Weather Service.
After the recent winter weather,
Cedar Creek Reservoir rose about 3 feet
to reach full capacity, Carl said. Cedar
Creek is Tarrant County’s only reservoir
to have met capacity this winter.
“It’s a really big deal,” Carl said. “It’s
been quite some time since we’ve had
a reservoir completely full, and on
average the lakes have done nothing
but decline.”
The last time Cedar Creek Lake was
full was early 2012, Carl said.
Dean Minchillo of the Tarrant
Regional Water District said that the
Cedar Creek Reservoir provides 30
percent of Tarrant County’s water
supply.
The other six lakes that contribute
to Tarrant County’s water supply rose
as well, Minchillo said, but not nearly as
much as Cedar Creek. The other lakes
remain under capacity by 2 to 24 feet.
Carl said last week’s precipitation
mainly benefited the eastern side of Fort
Worth where the Cedar Creek Reservoir
is located.
“There’s a pretty distinct line down
Fort Worth that separates what areas
are getting under 10 inches and what
areas are getting 10 to 20,” said Carl.
The National Weather Service
forecasts more rain for later this week,
Carl said. However, Carl said the rain is
projected to again mainly benefit the
eastern side of Dallas-Fort Worth.
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CEDAR CREEK The last time Cedar Creek Lake was at full capacity was in 2012.
food
Restaurant Review: Righteous Foods
By Kaitlin Helm
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The outdoor sign advertising fresh
coffee all day was my first indication that
Righteous Foods was going to be good.
In hindsight, I should have realized
this sooner, since the name of the
restaurant does have the word
“righteous” in the title. Turns out,
“righteous” is just scratching the surface
of this West 7th Street treasure.
Tucked away from the more
well-known areas of West 7th near
Boland Street, Righteous Foods is a
hidden gem. In fact, it’s so good that I
almost didn’t want to tell anyone else
about it. But alas, a restaurant of this
caliber deserves to be known.
Here are three reasons why you
should check it out:
The Mission
The Righteous Foods philosophy is all
about nourishment: “Good for the body.
Good for the soul. Great to taste. That’s
what Eating Righteously is all about,”
according to their website. And the
restaurant makes good on its promise.
With no preservatives, no processed
food and no lack of flavor, I felt healthier
just breathing the air inside. Featuring
organic ingredients, seasonal offerings
and a medley of beverages to help you
“detox”, Righteous Foods encourages
healthy bodies and lifestyles.
The Atmosphere
Quaint wooden tables, fresh greenery
and light pouring in from numerous
windows made me feel like I’d stumbled
into The Secret Garden à la 2015. The
upbeat background music paled next
to the cheerful attitude of my waitress.
Service was prompt and personal, and it
left me feeling less like a customer and
more like a welcomed friend.
The Acai Bowl
The acai bowl was emphatically
recommended by a hostess at Righteous
Foods. Far be it for me to question the
suggestion. Less than 10 minutes later,
I knew I made the right choice. Topped
with a colorful array of blueberries,
strawberries and blackberries, as well as
their house granola, the acai bowl was
refreshing and tangy. Each purple bite
was perfectly punctuated by the sweet
burst of a berry and the satisfying crunch
of granola. The dish alone could have
been enough to convince me to come
back again.
I left Righteous Foods with a full
stomach: not the ‘pop the top button
of your pants’ kind, but the ‘wow, I feel
good’ kind. The restaurant’s website was
right: Righteous Foods served up a dining
experience that was “a healthy dose
of friggin’ awesome” and, dare I say it,
righteously good.
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RIGHTEOUS FOODS The restaraunt is tucked away West 7th near Boland Street.
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New program enacted to reduce number of stray animals
Taylor Thompson
COMMUNITY@THE 109.ORG
The city of Fort Worth is trying to
corral stray animals off the streets and
back to pet owners.
‘Fence Them In – It’s the Law’ is an
education and outreach campaign
targeted at “high bite and stray activity”
problem areas in Fort Worth.
Director of the campaign Scott
Bennett said the main focus is educating
pet owners how to responsibly take
care of their animals.
“This is our first attempt to address
the issue at the source, which is the pet
owners,” Bennett said.
According to the campaigns informal
report, the program will deal with
more than fencing regulations. It will
seek to inform the community about
vaccination as well as license and leash
laws.
“I applaud the efforts to target pet
owners and hold them responsible for
their actions,” Sal Espino, District 2 city
councilman, said.
Bennett said the idea was sparked
more than a year ago when more than
12,000 stray dogs were removed from
public streets.
The Animal Care & Control Division
(ACC) of Code Compliance partnered
with the Fort Worth Police Department
and the United States Postal Service for
the outreach program.
“The post office is a great asset for
us because they can report areas and
neighborhoods where strays are a
serious problem,” Bennet said.
According to the campaign, there
are 10 zip codes throughout the city
that the ACC have deemed “high stray
and bite activity” areas, most of them
in the eastern and northern parts of
the city.
The campaign will use marketing
tactics, such as postcards, door
hangers and billboards, to spread the
information throughout the targeted
areas.
“This is a great campaign and we are
excited to see how it turns out,” Mayor
Betsy Price said.
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BRACHMAN HALL One of the many feral cats living near Brachman Hall on TCU’s campus.
education
FWAFA officials reflect five years after expansion
By Tiffany Pittman
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In 2010, an expansion almost doubled
the size of the existing building, said
Principal Craig Shreckengast. The
new building has a typical academic
structure, differing from the existing
church structure.
Shreckengast said the project allowed
for real science labs to be added. Before
this, students were not able to do as
many complex experiments.
Marketing director Laura Kinkade
said a new gym for physical education
was built because no sports are offered
at FWAFA.
In addition to new classrooms for
academics, each artistic department
has seen growth, said Stephen Madrid,
director of fine arts.
Another dance room was added for
ease of rehearsal scheduling. Before the
expansion, dance classes were held in
a room near the auditorium and on the
stage.
The stage rehearsals would often
conflict with the theater department.
The expansion allows for each
department to practice more easily.
The new dance room includes an
office for both dance instructors, Sheyna
Ferraro and Shelly Torres.
“Prior to expansion, the desks were
out in the open and nothing was secure,”
Ferraro said.
“The new room has high ceilings with
high windows, allowing for natural light
to come into the room,” she said. “The
light stimulates positive energy from the
students.”
Kinkade said new choir rooms were
added for the Texas Boys Choir, the
Singing Girls of Texas and the Children’s
Choir of Texas.
The extra rooms allow the choirs to
have rehearsals simultaneously, rather
than rotating spaces.
For theater, the added enrollment
allows for additional shows to be
produced, said Roger Drummond,
technical theater director.
Off to the side of the stage, the
Dorothy Shaw Bell Choir room was
converted into a shop. Drummond said
for him, this was the most significant
advantage of the expansion.
The shop allows for a place to store
supplies, tools and pieces of sets that can
be recycled for other productions.
Downstairs between the new building
and old building is where visual arts take
place.
Before the expansion there was only
one art room, said art instructor Sean
Ibañez.
“Now the department has two rooms,
but space is still tricky,” he said.
If another expansion were to occur,
Ibañez said he would like additional
space for storage.
Kinkade said, as a faculty member and a
parent, that fine arts are important because
they teach discipline and structure.
“Some benefits of having an artistic
background are being more articulate,
thinking out-of-the-box and being a
team player,” Madrid said.
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EXPANSION The 2010 construction project allowed the school to accommodate increased enrollment.
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Assistant professor finds evidence of Texas’ robust liberal tradition
By Tori Whitley
Assistant history professor tackles the
state's identity of 'cowboy conservatism.'
Modern day Texas is portrayed in a
particular political light.
“Texas has this image of being
characterized by cowboy conservatism,” assistant professor of history, Max
Krochmal, said. “It never changes over
time. Certainly, it’s a red state today.”
In actuality, Texas’ history has more
blue than you would think.
“In fact, Texas has a robust liberal and
progressive tradition really going back to
the 19th century,” Krochmal said.
For the past eight years, he has been
researching this “robust liberal tradition”
in preparation for his book, “Blue Texas:
Labor, Civil Rights and the Making of the
Multiracial Democratic Coalition.”
The book is scheduled to be published
by spring of 2016.
It is about the liberal Democratic
history of Texas through the eyes of
the African-American and MexicanAmerican civil rights movements in the
1940s through the 1960s.
These movements, Krochmal said,
were born from the Democratic Party.
However, the party’s values at this
time weren’t what we think of in regards
to democrats today.
While the Republican Party retreated
into the shadows, the democrats had
almost all of the political control.
Throughout the 20th century, the party
started to split.
There were the conservative
democrats:
Krochmal said they were known as
“the party of white supremacy--a party
that was committed to maintaining what
they called the traditional, southern
way of life.” What we think of as Jim
Crow segregation was actually invented
around the late 1890s and 1900s, rather
than being an old-age thing.
“And the Democratic Party was the
vehicle for much of that change. All
these kinds of barriers for blacks and
poor whites voting, they all happened
under the democratic administration,”
Krochmal said.
And there were the liberal democrats:
“Gradually, more a liberal wing of the
Democratic Party came to be a gathering
of civil rights activists,” Krochmal said.
“There were African-Americans, there
were Mexican-Americans, there were
whites for union leaders, as well as sort
of independent liberals.”
“Blue Texas” examines these civil
rights movements – of African-Americans
and Mexican-Americans – and analyzes
how they started to work together
towards a common goal.
Krochmal said the importance of
these movements in Texas is that they
consisted of people in the community
involving themselves in political
discussion.
“The same people who were going
and sitting in at the lunch counters are
also the people leading the fight for
better job opportunities,” he said, “and
the people who are organizing the
precincts and ultimately participating in
the state-wide coalition.”
And it was community people
who did not have much in common
culturally.
“One of the key points that I’m
making is that coming together was not
natural or foreordained,” Krochmal said.
“In fact it was fraught with peril and
danger at every turn.”
“And it takes them years of relationship building and experimentation
before they really come together in
common cause.”
How Krochmal discovers the blue in
Texas
Research for the book was collected
in several ways.
Krochmal examined published
records from various activists and
organizations throughout Texas.
He examined papers of activists
as well as correspondence between
them to collect information on
their involvement in the civil rights
movements.
“They are all just little snippets of
letters that they wrote to each other,
minutes of a meeting,” Krochmal said.
“One of the key points that
I’m making is that coming
together was not natural
or foreordained. In fact
it was fraught with peril
and danger at every turn.
And it takes them years of
relationship building and
experimentation before
they really come together
in common cause.”
MAX KROCHMAL
ASSISTANT HISTORY PROFESSOR
“All of these different activities that
allowed me to reconstruct the way that
these different activists were interested
in building their base of their respective
groups.”
He also examined “big chucks of
evidence” to support these correspondences such as newspapers from the
time period.
But the search for “Blue Texas” goes
a little deeper than meeting minutes. It’s
on a more personal level.
“I do a lot of oral interviews,”
Krochmal said. “I find people who are
involved in these movements, or in some
cases that are children or relatives, the
oldest people I can find, and I go and I
talk to them about their lives.”
Krochmal has done more than a
hundred interviews for the book. Some
of them may not even make it into the
book at all, he said.
All of the interviews have been
broken up into topics relating to the
Mexican and African-American civil
rights movements in Texas and shared
at Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral
History Project.
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Interviewees were asked various
questions regarding topics from their or
their family members’ involvement with
civil rights movements to their views on
racism and segregation in general.
Brenda Fields when asked about how
people can be involved in contemporary
activism, replied:
“You have to give back. Freedom ain’t
free.”
Bob Ray Sanders, one of the first
black reporters from the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram, talked about the effect
of the mass media on the civil rights
movements as well as his experience
working as a black reporter in Fort
Worth.
Krochmal said he hopes that “Blue
Texas” can be relatable to different
kinds of people and shed a particular
light on the civil rights movement
through the Texan prospective.
“This book helps to explain the
dramatic transformation and changes
of the civil rights activists and the
unfinished business,” Krochmal said.
“The great inequality that we still
have.”
Texas Civil Rights History
The NAACP
The Order Sons of America
The NAACP was
formed in 1909.
The first chapter in
Texas was
established in
1915 in El Palso.
COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA
1900
This organization
was one of the
first statewide,
Mexican-American
civil rights groups
in Texas.
COURTESY OF LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS
1910
1920
COURTESY OF TEJANO HISTORY CURRICULUM PROJECT
1930
James Byrd Jr.
Hispanics, blacks and
whites protested against the
slow pace of desegregation
and Governor John Connally's
opposition to pending civil
rights bills in Washington, D.C.
COURTESY OF TEXAS ARCHIVE OF THE MOVING IMAGE
1940
COURTESY OF LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS
1950
1960
COURTESY OF PBS
The “oldest and
largest continually
active Latino political
association in the
United States,”
according to the
Texas State Historical
Association.
League of United Latin
American Citizens
March on Austin
It “fought against
overcrowding and the use
of dilapidated buildings
as schools,” according to
the Texas State Historical
Association.
COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
The goal of the
meeting was to
address land loss,
lynchings, ethnic
subordination,
educational
inequalities and
other issues.
The Congreso Mexicanista
The School Improvement League
The murder of James Byrd
Jr. by white supremacists, who
dragged his body through the
street behind a pick up truck,
led to the passage of a Texas
hate crime law.
AP IMAGE
1970
1980
COURTESY OF BORDERZINE
This was an
organization
devoted to securing
equal rights for
Hispanic Americans,
according to the
Texas State Historial
Association.
American G.I. Forum of Texas
1990
Three hundred
Mexican-Americans met
at the Capestre Hall in
Crystal City to establish
the Raza Unida Party.
It offered solutions to
inequalities address by
LULAC and the G.I. Forum.
Raza Unida Party
2000
AP IMAGE
In Texas
all voters are
required to have
a valid form of
photo identification to cast
their ballots in
elections.
Voter ID Law
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get your facts straight
about TCU sports
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The ITA ranking for the men’s tennis
team as of March 31. The Frogs come in
behind Big 12 rivals OU (No. 1),
Baylor (No. 2) and Texas (No.9).
17
The ITA women’s ranking for the Frog’s
this week. TCU comes in behind other
Big 12 competition, No. 7 Baylor and No.
13 Oklahoma State.
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WOMEN’S TENNIS Senior Simona Parajova hits the ball in Friday’s match against Oklahoma State. The Frogs lost 4-2.
sports calendar
Baseball at Texas Tech
6:30 in Lubbock
Men’s Tennis v. Texas
The long jump distance for senior
Ramone Bailey in section B at the Texas
Relays. This jump puts Bailey at No. 7 on
the NCAA West Qualifying List.
Tech
5:30 p.m in Fort Worth
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Baseball at Texas Tech
2 p.m. in Lubbock
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Baseball at Texas Tech
2 p.m. in Lubbock
The overall record for TCU equestrian
this season. The Frogs are also 2-4 in Big
12 Competition, with wins over Oklahoma State and Kansas State.
Men’s Tennis v. USF
1 p.m. in For Worth
Track at the Baylor
Invitational
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Baseball at
Abilene Christian
6:30 p.m. in Abilene
Baseball v. Dallas Baptist
6:30 in Fort Worth
The overall record for TCU sand volleyball in its inaugural season. The Frogs
fell to No. 1 Hawaii, No. 2 Pepperdine,
No. 3 USC, among the other top 20
teams.
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BASEBALL Sophomore Tyler Alexander reads the signal from the
catcher during the Oklahoma game. The Frogs won 4-3 in 10 innings.
TCU Women’s Golf team’s score at the
LSU Tiger Golf Classic. The Frogs took
thirds place overall coming behind LSU
and MIssissippi State.
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Men's basketball season undone by free throws
By Traug Keller
[email protected]
Jan. 24 in Morgantown, West Virginia,
is a time and place TCU Basketball
would not like to revisit.
TCU was 1-4 in Big 12 play and had
suffered an overtime loss to Baylor one
week earlier. Then, there was plenty of
time to turn the season around.
What could have been a marquee
win for head coach Trent Johnson and
his program quickly turned into a bad
dream, as TCU went 50 percent from
the free throw line in both the final four
minutes of regulation and in overtime.
The nightmares at the line would haunt
TCU the rest of the season.
The Horned Frogs played six games
against NCAA Tournament teams that
were decided by 10 points or less.
In those six games, TCU’s free throw
percentage, with less than four minutes
left to play, was 61 percent.
To give some perspective, the number
one free throw shooting team in the
country this past season was Illinois.
They shot 79.4 percent on the season.
TCU ranked 342nd out of 345 in free
throw percentage as they finished the
season shooting 61.5 percent from the
foul line.
It’s no secret that the Frogs had an
abysmal year at the line. Johnson, a
man who has been involved in college
basketball since 1974, offered little on
the subject in an interview via the Fort
Worth Star Telegram.
“A lot of people want to give expert
advice — I think it’s comical, because
if there were any free-throw gurus out
there with great advice, Shaquille O’Neal
would shoot a pretty good percentage,”
said Johnson. “All we do as coaches is
we shoot them, put them in situations
where they’re tired and fatigued, and we
shoot them, make sure they concentrate
— elbow up, follow through, all those
things. But it is what it is.”
The lone bright spot at the free
throw line was senior point guard, Kyan
Anderson. Anderson went 120 of 138
from the line this season, which was
good for 87 percent.
The next best free throw shooter on
the team that saw regular game minutes
was Trey Zeigler, who shot 62 percent on
the year.
The Frogs’ struggles from the charity
stripe weren’t due to a lack of a larger
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GAME TIME The TCU men’s basketball team huddles before a game.
sample size, TCU was 12th in the country
for free throw attempts.
Anderson attributed the struggles
to the mental aspect of the game in
an interview with the Fort Worth Star
Telegram.
“It’s really just a confidence thing,
stepping up and knocking them down,”
said the senior point guard.
Regardless if it is a confidence issue
or mechanical one, the Frogs would be
well served to figure it out soon. TCU has
a record of 6-48 in conference play since
joining the Big 12.
That same West Virginia team made
it to the Sweet Sixteen before getting
bounced by No. 1 Kentucky in the men’s
college basketball national tournament.
The next season marks a new chapter
for TCU basketball. The men and women
will have a new arena to call home
and there won’t be a single player on
the men’s team that experienced the
Mountain West conference.
Maybe the nightmare will end for the
Horned Frog men next year.
football
Football announces 2014 season award winners
By Sydney Ringdahl
[email protected]
The TCU football program
announced its team awards from
last season and honored the 2014
senior class during Saturday night’s
banquet.
The seniors finished their careers
with a 34-17 record while winning the
2014 Big 12 championship and the
Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.
The TCU football program presented
12 awards at the team banquet.
Junior Trevone Boykin won Offensive
Most Valuable Player for the second
straight season. The team also voted
Boykin the Dan Rogers Most Valuable
Player.
Special Teams Most Valuable Player
was awarded to junior Jaden Oberkrom
for the third straight season. Senior Paul
Dawson won Defensive Most Valuable
Player.
Redshirt freshman L.J. Collier won
Defensive Scout Team Most Valuable
Player.
The Offensive Scout Team Most
Valuable Player was awarded to
redshirt freshman Foster Sawyer.
Davey O’Brien Fightin’est Frog Award
was given to seniors Sam Carter and
Marcus Mallet. Carter also won the Abe
Martin Leadership award.
Junior B.J. Catalon won the Grassy
Hinton Most Conscientious Award.
The Y.Q. McCammon Outstanding
Squadman award was presented to
redshirt freshman Michael Downing.
Junior Josh Doctson received the
Ralph Lowe Sportsmanship Award.
Senior Geoff Hooker won the
G. Malcolm Louden Academic
Achievement Award.
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FROGS Several of the team’s graduating seniors and QB Trevon Boykin.
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administration
Tuition rising at a higher rate than room and board
By Bradley Amus
[email protected]
With tuition set to surpass $40,000
for the 2015 fall semester, room and
board continues to suppress large
price increases.
Tuition jumped up 5.5 percent
to $38,510 back in 2013 for the
2013-2014 schoolyear. This trend
is set to continue into next year, as
tuition will increase another 5.5% to
$40,630.
TCU Housing and Residence Life,
meanwhile, has kept the price for
room and board as low as possible.
“It’s very much on purpose,” said
Director of Housing and Residence
Life Craig Allen.
On average, room and board
for next year should cost students
$11,800. This is an increase of $420
from this year. Of course, this can
change significantly, based on the
different meal plans and living
options.
“I think it is important, as tuition
does go up we try to keep our
increases to 3% or less per year,”
Allen said.
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EXPENSES ON THE RISE A tuition increase of 5 percent is expected for the next school year.
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TCU App Club promotes community and knowledge
By Monica Dziak
[email protected]
A student’s class project has
turned into a club for students from
various majors to unite and learn.
The TCU App Club holds meetings
where students learn how to create
useful apps.
Having members from different
majors promotes creativity and the
community aspect of the club, said
Cedric James, assistant director of
TCU’s IdeaFactory and one of the
club’s sponsors.
James said the club’s teamwork
stands out the most to him. He said
students of different backgrounds all
work together in one group.
“It’s usually the other way
around—creative people stay
together, designers stay together,
engineers stay together. But we bring
them together; if there’s a cool idea,
we all jump together,” James said.
Dillon Burns, a founder of the
club and TCU alumnus, said app
programming connects different
people, ideas and specialties.
“It’s a really neat experience to see
all different majors come together to
work for a common interest,” Burns
said. “We were able to see really
neat ideas—people were using their
degrees in even health sciences to
create apps for the club.”
Jared Russell, a junior strategic
communication major and App Club
member, is proof that anyone from
any major is valuable to the club.
“I’m always coming up with cool
ideas,” Russell said. “I thought this
club would be a great place to bring
some of my ideas to life.”
The club also involves a teaching
aspect.
Michael Giba, vice president of
the club and computer science and
finance double major, said the club’s
mission is to help everyone learn
MONICA DZIAK / TCU 360
INVENTORS The App Club holds meetings every two to three weeks on Mondays in Rees-Jones.
what it takes to make an app.
“I used to struggle with vocalizing
some of the more abstract concepts that
pertain to programming, but the App
Club has helped me learn to explain
them in more simple terms,” Giba said.
James said he sees the club
members’ passion for learning.
“Technology is the way of the
future and students in the club really
see that. They are open to learning
anything about initial stages or just
the basics of app development,”
James said.
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Fill in the grid so that every 3x3
box, row. and column contains
the digits 1 through 9 without
repeating numbers.
This solution to this sudoku can
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mashed potatoes and a variety of
drinks.
Toward the end of the reception,
which began at 6 p.m., all of the guests
were called into one classroom.
Chancellor Victor Boschini welcomed
guests and thanked sponsors and
donors.
Following Boschini’s address, Dean
Schoolmaster welcomed guests and
explained the purpose of “Back to
Class”. He also announced that the
fundraiser was a success, raising over
$1 million.
Schoolmaster also took the
opportunity to announce that negotiations were finalized last week to
welcome TCU’s first Benjamin Schmidt
professor. He said that Dr. Kara Vuic
will be joining TCU’s staff from High
Point University in North Carolina in
the fall of 2015.
“It’s nice to be able to close those
loops,” said Dean Schoolmaster.
Dean Schoolmaster said that the
proceeds from last night’s event would
be used in programmatic planning to
support TCU veterans starting next fall.
“We’re continuing with this theme
[of TCU veteran support] and we
think that it is a wonderful thing
to do,” said Schoolmaster. “As you
probably know, many of our veterans
that come back after having served
never had the opportunity to go to
college, and transitioning is really
problematic. You’re going from
military life to all of this freedom…
and we have a lot of it.”
He said the goal is to do more to
help TCU veterans be successful in
transitioning from military life to their
new life.
Dean Schoolmaster ended his
speech by introducing the professors
that would be lecturing throughout
the night and thanking attendees for
supporting liberal arts.
When the bell rang to signal the
start of the first round of classes at
7:00 p.m., guests sauntered through
the hallway to their lectures of
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student government association
tcu trivia
What color is TCU’s official brick color?
a) TCU Purple
c) TCU Buff
b) TCU Sand
d) TCU Sunrise
*The answer can be found in today’s Marketplace ads
ACROSS
  1 Nile wader
  6 Return to sender?
10 Up for something
14Utopian
15 Sainted pope after Sixtus III
16 Wind quintet member
17 Coin first minted in 1964
19 Golden calf, e.g.
20Dot-dot-dot
21 Thought aloud
22Busy
23 Elvis’s “What’d I Say” vis-à-vis
“Viva Las Vegas”
25 “Danced” like a bee
27Impeach
29 Hunter of wallabies and
kangaroos
30Hutches
31 Crazy place?
35 Woven piece
36 Tabloid nickname of the ’80s
37 Münster Mrs.
38 Company with a lot of bean
counters?
40 Keeping in the loop, in a way
41Waits
42
Visitors in “A Christmas Carol”
43 Eponymous Soviet minister of
foreign affairs
46 It’s all a plot
47 Doesn’t just tell
48 Soap star Deborah
50 Symbol of strength
53 What a chemist brings to the
table?
54 Signaling remembrance, in a
way
56 Certain sausage, informally
57 Cause for pacing?
58 Liberian president and Peace
Nobelist ___ Johnson Sirleaf
59 Many a surfer’s locale,
informally
60 Six crayons in a Crayola 64
box
61 Witherspoon of “Wild”
DOWN
  1Up
  2 May 15, e.g.
  3 Southern city that calls itself
“America’s First Settlement”
(1559)
  4 Give two thumbs down
  5 Oxford university, informally
  6 “Family Ties” mom
  7 Give up
  8Tricks
  9 It may be coming down the
pipeline
10 Acting rashly
11 Talent show judge alongside
Jackson and Cowell
12 Bull or cow
13 Tried to catch some fish
18 “My man!”
22 Azalea with the 2014 #1 hit
“Fancy”
24 Occasion for a much-hyped
performance
26 ___ mundi
27 Biblical source of the line “It is
more blessed to give than to
receive”
28Layer
29
University of Oregon team
1¢, for a penny
32 “Poetics” author
33 It might start “Don’t get me
started …”
34 38-Across containers
36 ___ chop
39Smithereens
40 Cell need
42 Small beam?
43 What’s left of TV news?
44 John who wrote “Pal Joey”
45 Subway train designation
46 Flip response?
49 Turned brown, say
51 ___ Straw Poll
52 Rapper Big Daddy ___
54 Real-life figure portrayed in
movies by Jason Robards,
Jon Voight and Bill Murray, in
brief
55 Draft classification
31
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found at: www.tcu360.com/ihavetocheat
solution from 03/26
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RESOLUTION SGA representative Ryker Thompson presents an honorary reso-
lution to former Mexican president Vicente Fox. Fox received the resolution for
his contribution to the Fox Forum of World Leaders at TCU.
choice.
After the first 25-minute class,
guests walked back into the hall
and conversations arose about the
thought-provoking topics they’d just
heard about.
“We’re continuing with this
theme [of TCU veteran
support] and we think that
it is a wonderful thing to
do.”
ANDREW SCHOOLMASTER
DEAN OF ADDRAN
Holly McFarland, wife of American
History professor Dr. Todd Kerstetter,
attended Dr. Stacie McCormmick and
Dr. Molly Scudder’s lecture entitled
“Feeling Another’s Pain: Rethinking
Our Practices of Empathy” and said she
really enjoyed it.
Throughout the hall, guests ate TCU
decorated cupcakes and other desserts
and discussed their experiences in
their first lectures. Guests also listened
to recommendations for a second class
to attend.
When the 10-minute break was
over, the bell for the second class rang.
Each professor thanked guests
for attending “Back to Class” and
supporting the AddRan College at the
end of their presentation.
Guests said they were impressed
with the lectures.
Mark Irons, a pastor with a Bachelor
of Arts in religion studies from TCU,
attended Dr. Dennis’s religion lecture
and Dr. Bachmann’s criminal justice
lecture.
“I really liked them both. One talked
about freedom and one talked about
how we’re giving all away,” Irons said.
Jimmy Philip’s wife is a desk
assistant at TCU. He described
Dr. Bachmann’s lecture and Dr.
Tochkov’s lecture as “very good” and
“interesting.”
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technology
‘eCollege’ to be replaced by summer 2017
By Donald Griffin
[email protected]
“eCollege” will soon be a thing of
the past.
TCU has narrowed its search for
a Learning Management System
to two platforms, Blackboard and
Desire2Learn (D2L).
“We’ve had feedback, from faculty
specifically, that it’s time for change,”
Assistant Provost of Educational
Technology and Faculty Development
Romy Hughes said.
TCU has used Pearson’s Learning
Studio system since 1999.
“Pearson is out of the learning
management system game,” Hughes
said. “We need something to evolve
with the Academy of Tomorrow and
where we’re moving to at TCU.”
Michigan State University, St. Cloud
State University and the University
of Arizona are among the universities who already use D2L. Gonzaga
University, Ohio University and Texas
Tech University use the Blackboard
platform.
Despite Blackboard’s popularity
among universities nationwide, Hughes
reports that D2L is the frontrunner
for TCU. The university was specifically looking at accessibility features,
improved calendar and help desk
options and a more user-friendly
dashboard.
“D2L has 98 percent of what TCU is
looking for in a platform,” Hughes said.
“Blackboard is popular, but had 84
percent.”
These percentages were based on
a 214-item questionnaire called the
Review Request for Information (RFI)
document. These questions were used
to assess whether or not a system had
the features that TCU was looking for.
Donald Griffin / TCU 360
NEW SYSTEM Romy Hughes discusses TCU’s progress in the search for a new Learning
Management System.
TCU will begin usability tests for the
two finalists in April, said Hughes. The
committee will then make their recommendation to the provost in June.
“The pilot will be fall 2016,” Hughes
said. “There will be a time period
where we have two platforms while we
transition [the new platform] in.”
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