GRANDFATHER CLAUS Celebrity Fascination

NEWS FEATURES SPORTS The Jazz Ensemble is fund- Guitar fanatics and fi rst-timers alike After a Tuesday washout, the raising for a summer trip had a groovy time at the Dallas baseball team prepares to face to Italy. International Guitar Festival. Texas Tech. TOMORROW PAGE 5 PAGE 8 TCU WEDNESDAY April 25, 2007 Vol. 104 Issue 108 EST. 1902 DAILYWWW.DAILYSKIFF SKIFF.COM Nursing clinical sign-ups cause schedule diffi culties By AUNDREA EICHMAN Whitney Huffaker , a junior frustration that clinical sign-ups to arrange work and/or child- programs has increased. The information Mangan Staff Reporter nursing major . cause students, and she is hop- care issues after the posting on Weeks said this issue said she would like to see go The system in which required “They see this as giving ing to fi nd solutions to improve the clinical days and times,” should not impact any stu- along with the section number nursing clinical sign-ups are everyone a fair opportunity,” the process of fi nalizing clinical Weeks said. dent’s graduation. is when and where the clinical being conducted is making it Huffaker said, “When, in actu- spaces. Weeks said enrollments This allows for students to Stephanie Mangan , a junior will be and who the instructor diffi cult to register for classes ality, they are just making it in the nursing program have fi nalize schedule arrangements nursing major , said that there will be. and plan work schedules, nurs- impossible for you to make made clinical spaces in hos- over the summer, she said. are six section groups available She said she understands the ing students said. your schedule for the follow- pitals scarce and that it takes TCU is one of many schools for students to sign up for clini- way it works because the teach- The problem with signing up ing semester, since you don’t until the end of the semester to in the area that vie for clinical cals. ers do not know their sched- for clinicals is that students do know what time you will be in fi nalize specifi c days for each spaces, Weeks said, and clini- “When you blindly pick a ules or the hospital schedules not know the days of the week clinical and/or which day.” clinical section. cal spaces have become scarcer section, there is no informa- at the time of registration. their clinical will be held when Susan Weeks , a nursing pro- “The primary impact on stu- over the past three to four years tion going along with it,” Man- they register for classes, said fessor , said she realizes the dents is that they may need because enrollment in nursing gan said. See CLINICALS, page 2 Symposium questions GRANDFATHER CLAUS celebrity fascination By ASHLEIGH WHALEY Staff Reporter Students and faculty want to know why America is obsessed with celebrities. “Why is America obsessed with celebrities” is the question of the day and the title of today’s Search- light Sympo- sium from 5 to 7 p.m. in Smith Hall 104. S t u d e n t s RICHARD ALLEN will hear about celebrity obsession from guest speakers Rich- ard Allen, a BILLY WESSELS / Photo Editor radio-TV-film (LEFT) Howard Payne, 82, and Crystal Gauthier, senior accounting major, use the computer in the Jarvis Hall offi ce. Payne has been working as an offi ce attendant for more than 20 years. (RIGHT) Howard and his professor, and wife, Mildred, prepare for an event at the Kelly Alumni Center. The two have been married for 58 years. Howard and Mildred met at the university and have volunteered at Frog Camp. Adam Schiffer, a political sci- By SONYA CISNEROS side of Fort Worth , Payne has ADAM SCHIFFER ence assistant Staff Reporter seen the city at its best and professor, and can participate Howard Payne’s offi ce isn’t worst. in an open-question forum, one fi lled with accolades and Growing up during the Great said John Wood, founder of awards on the wall. Depression , Payne said much of the biannual event that started There are a few plaques and his time was spent making do in 2006. a TCU baseball cap decorating with what he’d been given. Allen, who has worked as a the bookshelf, along with a He said his family was for- contributing writer for numer- bright blue lunch box. tunate in that his father’s job ous soap operas, including The offi ce is fi tting for an 82- provided them with maybe a “Days of our Lives” and “One year-old who knows that peo- little more than most. Life to Live,” said he will offer ple matter most. He said people were hun- a creative perspective to accom- To some, the title of offi ce gry back then and recalled his pany Schiffer’s scholarly view. assistant hardly encompass- mother always giving passers- “It’s important to realize es what Payne has contribut- by a cup of coffee and fried-egg that the media can manipu- ed to TCU for more than two sandwich. late you if you’re not aware,” decades. “Those were the days,” he Allen said. “Manipulation by Jodi Norman , a former TCU said with a smile that never the media would be less per- student , has an especially close left his face. vasive if people were more relationship with Payne — one After spending three years media literate.” that spans 20 years. in the service, Payne enrolled People aren’t attracted to Payne is a father fi gure that at TCU. a dramatic event as much as offers direction, example and With a twinkle in his eye and they’re attracted to the person- support to many students, she a mischievous grin, Payne said ality involved, Allen said. said. it was at TCU where he met his “The media builds up what “If there was an ambassador wife, Mildred. we know about certain per- of TCU, it would be him,” Nor- Payne began the memory of STEPHEN SPILLMAN / Staff Photographer sonalities,” he said. “They man said. Howard Payne celebrates his 80th birthday two years ago. Howard and his wife have not missed a TCU graduation take people who are already Born and raised in the south See HOWARD, page 2 in almost 40 years. He said TCU keeps him and his wife young. famous and create celebrities out of them by offering more and more information about their personal lives.” FOR YOUR INFO From a political angle, Week’s events to raise awareness of Darfur genocide GLOBAL DAYS EVENTS: America’s obsession is affect- By AUNDREA EICHMAN Nathan Kaspar , a junior Staff Reporter • Documentary Screening ing how people look at poli- criminal justice major, said Sid Richardson ticians by making them into The TCU community is par- the Build-a-Camp event will today, 7:30 p.m. celebrities, Schiffer said. ticipating in Global Days for challenge students to create a • 5K Walk/Run “The press has taken over as Darfur to raise awareness about small refugee camp meant to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. the key decision-maker in choos- the genocide occurring in Dar- raise awareness about the geno- $10 minimum donation ing party nominees,” Schiffer fur, a professor said. cide occurring in Darfur. Kas- • Darfur Victims Memorial Sadler Lawn said. “It’s important to take a Global Days is a worldwide par said building started at 8 Saturday, Noon to 6 p.m. look at our nation’s priorities campaign to raise awareness a.m Tuesday. • Documentary Screening particularly rendered by major and is all about education “This week of events is a step Student Center Lounge news organizations.” and action, said Cecil Van de in the process of making a dif- Sunday, 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Searchlight Symposiums Voorde , an assistant criminal ference,” Kaspar said. $5 minimum donation encourage students to take a justice professor. Van de Voorde said one tent The events will close at 5:30 look at issues rarely discussed “I want people to wake up, built is a refugee hut fi lled with p.m. Sunday on Sadler Lawn in class and give an “interde- pay attention and start acting,” posters and fl iers for information with a moment of silence and partmental exchange,” Wood BILLY WESSELS / Photo Editor said Van de Voorde , who is silent prayer. said.�� Global Days aims to raise Darfur awareness through refugee huts on campus. managing this week’s events. See DARFUR, page 2 �� WEATHER PECULIAR FACT TODAY’S HEADLINES CONTACT US TODAY: Partly Cloudy, 74/53 VANCOUVER, British Columbia — A Canadian FEATURES: Dallas’ guitar festival rocks, page 5 Send your questions, man was arrested after walking around naked THURSDAY: Partly Cloudy, 72/54 OPINION: Building credit is smart, page 3 compliments, complaints with a swastika taped to his body to mark Adolf and hot tips to the staff at FRIDAY: Partly Cloudy, 78/57 Hitler’s bithday, police said Friday. — Reuters SPORTS: Frogs are facing the Red Raiders, page 8 [email protected] 2 NEWS TCU Daily Skiff Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Darfur, small grave sites said she has always been students live in a global “Adequate spaces are held for each DARFUR and wooden crosses. involved in human rights community and should CLINICALS student in the clinical courses they From page 1 “We either choose to and humanitarian law. raise awareness, Gam- From page 1 need,” Weeks said. ignore it,” Kaspar said, “This conflict is some- mie said. The upper divisions clinical courses and the other will repre- “Or we do not even thing I have taken to Global Days for Dar- Mangan said that she would at least are two days a week and are available sent a medical unit.

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