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From women in the draft to a new era of college basketball, TCU and its faculty, students and alumni are in the news. Check out the latest roundup of newsworthy Frogs.

INSTITUTIONAL

Best colleges in Texas
Oct. 28, 2021
Huron Daily Tribune
While every student wants to get the best education they possibly can, there are myriad other considerations to take into account: location, size, diversity, areas of focus, study abroad opportunities—the list goes on. No. 6 Texas Christian University: Acceptance rate: 47% (1150-1350 SAT); Net Price: $37,509.

Fort Worth grabs life by the horns as No. 5 city to live after college
Oct. 27, 2021  
CultureMap Fort Worth
Before graduation rolls around, college students often find themselves wondering where to start their after-school journeys. To help with this homework, real estate website Point2 has developed a list of the best places for life after college, and Fort Worth ropes the No. 5 ranking. The website looked at an array of factors to come up with its ranking, such as population growth, business growth, median age, household income growth, poverty rate and housing availability and prices. Point2 considered only the 86 places that host the country’s 100 most successful colleges and universities, as rated by U.S. News & World Report. Fort Worth — of course, home to prestigious Texas Christian University — was noted in Point2's study among America’s top 10 most dynamic college towns.

Methodist Children's Home rolls out new house tailored to serve youth
Oct. 27, 202
Waco Tribune-Herald‎
Eight youth at Methodist Children’s Home moved into the new Legacy House, designed to support their development and help them feel at home. The homes were built to focus on Trust-Based Relational Intervention ®, which is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention designed to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. Their research was done through the home’s more than decadelong partnership with the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU.

Fort Worth TX medical school starting residency program
Oct. 26, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Fort Worth’s first medical school to award M.D. degrees is launching a residency program that aims to combat the region’s doctor shortage. The TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine is partnering with Texas Health Resources to establish a graduate medical education program at hospitals in Fort Worth, Hurst-Euless-Bedford and Denton. By July 2022, the program plans to enroll 50 residents, scaling up to more than 110 residents per class by July 2024.

TCU Neeley School of Business wins major GCEC award for third straight year Oct. 25, 2021 
Dallas Innovates
The TCU Neeley Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation received top honors at last week’s Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Awards for best entrepreneurship programs—becoming the first university to receive a major GCEC award three years in a row. The institute won the 2021 Exceptional Activities in Entrepreneurship Across Disciplines Award “for its exemplary excellence in creating, advancing and enabling entrepreneurial education opportunities to a diverse set of stakeholders across campus.”

FACULTY

American women may soon enter the draft 
Oct. 29, 2021
Glimpse from the Globe
Currently making its way through Congress, the annual defense bill proposes the inclusion of women in the national military draft. Academics and politicians argue in favor of this inclusion because of its perceived benefits for a more unified national identity and military expansion. Kara Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict and Society in 20th-Century America, said, “The mere fact that women would have to register would signal a national recognition that everyone is expected to serve if needed and that everyone’s service is valued equally.”

Sitting Bull’s legacy in Native American history
Oct. 29, 2021
KELO-TV
The second version of the Ghost Dance, a dance believed to protect practitioners from death, was started by Native American Wovoka in 1889, according to history publications. "Lakota participants added vestments known as ghost shirts to the ceremonies and songs brought by the emissaries. They believed these white muslin shirts, decorated with a variety of symbols, protected them from danger, including bullets,” Professor Todd M. Kerstetter wrote in a report published by the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.

American College of Emergency Physicians announces new president-elect and board of directors
Oct. 28, 2021
JEMS Journal of Emergency Medical Services
The American College of Emergency Physicians welcomes its new board of directors and board officers, as voted by the ACEP Council during ACEP21, the world’s largest emergency medicine conference. Dr. Heidi C. Knowles is an assistant professor of emergency medicine with TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine in Fort Worth.

'The cost of being female': Women in the military pay more to keep their uniforms up to date
Oct. 29, 2021
USA Today 
The military does not provide allowances to replace some required pieces for women, such as dress pumps, hand bags and swimsuits, according to a recent government report. Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict and Society in 20th-Century America, said the senators’ proposal highlights an attempt to “conscientiously not see the male body as the norm any longer.” It marks an official rethinking of the importance of diversity — both between men and women, but also between people with different body types more generally, Vuic said.

ALUMNI

Bus driver didn’t stop Fort Worth native from finding route to success
Oct. 31, 2021
Fort Worth Report
Cristian ArguetaSoto ’21 is the newest staffer at Fort Worth Report. His father, Alberto Argueta, 49, is a landscape worker at TCU while his mother, Veronica Argueta, 45, works there as a housekeeper. Cristian learned hard work from an early age, but he never thought he’d make it to college. After he made it to TCU, he still didn’t think he could make it through four years. Fortunately, he almost immediately met Jean Marie Brown, assistant journalism professor and director of student media. She hired him as a photographer at TCU 360 the first semester of his first year and became his adviser, mentor and boss all four years.

DTC Presents The Supreme Leader
Oct. 30, 2021  
Focus Daily News
The Supreme Leader is the first live production produced by Dallas Theater Center at their historic, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home theater since March 1, 2020. The world premiere performances run Oct. 28-Nov. 21 at the Kalita Humphreys Theater. The production is especially significant for Oscar Seung ’09, who plays Kim Jong-Un. Seung was born in Switzerland, but raised in Arlington, and studied opera at TCU. 

On court with Cameron Norrie: Rachel Johnson meets the Indian Wells champion
Oct. 29, 2021
The Times 
Two weeks ago, British tennis ace Cameron Norrie won the ‘fifth grand slam’ in California and is now ranked 16th in the world. Alongside Emma Raducanu he’s the new Brit star of the game. So can he handle Rachel Johnson – on and off court?

Fort Worth leaders ignored illegal booze, gambling as money ended up in city coffers on 'Hell's Half Acre'
Oct. 27, 2021
MSN
Aside from prostitution, heavy boozing and gambling rounded out the trio of vices that helped define the wild west behavior within Fort Worth’s long gone, but infamous “Hells Half Acre." Richard Selcer (Ph.D. ’80) is a TCU historian and author of the book Hell’s Half Acre. “Nobody took baths,” explained Selcer. “There was no air conditioning. Nobody used deodorant. Very few people brushed their teeth and those were the kind of people who were there.”

Tonya Veasey relaunches PR firm; now focused on diversity, equity & inclusion
Oct. 25, 2021
Fort Worth Business Press
Ignited by the rise of social injustice across America, communications strategist Tonya Veasey (MBA ’12) is relaunching her award-winning public relations firm OCG+, formerly Open Channels Group, aimed at creating social impact strategies and programs for corporations, nonprofits and government agencies that resonate with marginalized communities, Veasey said in an announcement. "I see a future where corporations and organizations can collaborate to create sustainable public-private partnerships that have a real impact in our communities, and I believe the work we do at OCG+ can guide them to that place,” she said.

STUDENTS

Where I live: For TCU student, home is where her sisters are 
Oct. 31, 2021
Fort Worth Report
Grace Morison, 19, lives at the Kappa Alpha Theta House at TCU. Morison is a sophomore student from Santa Barbara, California. "Home is where I’m surrounded by the people I love," she writes in this first-person article. "This year, I’m a sophomore at Texas Christian University and living in the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house. It’s hard to describe the dynamic of my living situation because despite being called a 'house,' it feels much more like an all-girls dorm than anything else. But I wouldn’t want it any other way."

A colorful closet: TCU student runs company helping visually impaired pick colored clothes
Oct. 26, 2021
Fort Worth Report
Jakayla Dixon helps her aunt, Cynthia, who is visually impaired, with doctor’s appointments or grocery shopping. Through these experiences, Dixon saw the way her aunt struggled with picking out colors for her clothes. At the age of 15, Dixon started her own company called Feel the Color, which creates embroidered fabric tags with braille and alphabet lettering for visually impaired people so they can feel the color of their clothing. “So I carried that innovation out for two years in high school under this umbrella until I graduated high school,” Dixon said. “When I went into my first year of college at Texas Christian University, that’s really when I started taking the initiative, and a lot of things started to take place.”

ATHLETICS

TCU football: Ex coach Gary Patterson helping for Baylor game 
Nov. 2, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Gary Patterson showed up to work on Nov. 1. TCU and its longtime football coach parted ways the previous day, but multiple people told the Star-Telegram that Patterson went to the football offices Monday — and not to pack his bags. Instead, Patterson met with a few of his assistants about the game plan he’d put together for Saturday’s game against No. 14 Baylor. “He wants to be helpful with the transition. Showed great class,” TCUathletic director Jeremiah Donati said in a text message. “I expect that will always be the case with him. He loves TCU.”

TCU parts ways with Gary Patterson, who led the Horned Frogs back to prominence
Nov. 1, 2021 
The Washington Post
Gary Patterson, the second-longest-tenured head coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision, has parted ways with TCU. Patterson, 61, was honored with a statue on TCU’s campus in 2016 after helping return a long-downtrodden team to a place among college football’s top programs, but his Horned Frogs had been on a multiyear slide.

TCU basketball: Jamie Dixon talks new era of sport, transfers
Oct. 20, 2021
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Jamie Dixon ’87 coached one transfer during his 17 seasons at Pittsburgh as Ben Howland’s top assistant and later its head coach. This year’s TCU basketball roster features seven transfers who have been added since the end of last season. “It’s a new era,” Dixon said from the Big 12 media days at Kansas City’s T-Mobile Center. “It’s a new time. Now I’ve embraced it. Certainly we did this summer. You just try to improve yourselves. We certainly did with the transfers.”

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