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the skiff x 360 . volume 114 . issue 23 . www.tcu360.com . all tcu. all the time. february 25 . 2016 ski x 360 THE SKIFF BY TCU360 N W E S inside: travel section #DEARWORLD Students, faculty and staff share personal messages through photo portraits pg. 24 INSIDE : FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO SPEAK AT 14TH ANNUAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES CONFERENCE PGS. 12-13 2 skiff x 360 · www.tcu360.com all tcu. all the time. february 25 · 2016 republican campaigning riff ram, instagram! Trump to appear at Fort Worth Convention Center By Joey McReynolds open at 10 a.m. The convention center’s [email protected] arena has a maximum capacity of 14,000, according to its website. Republican presidential candidate One of Trump’s rivals, Sen. Marco Donald Trump is scheduled to appear Rubio, R-Florida, has scheduled a rally at noon Friday at the Fort Worth Friday morning at Klyde Warren Park in Convention Center according to his Dallas. It is set for 9 a.m. website. Texans along with voters in 14 other Doors for the rally are expected to states go to the polls March 1. @TCU_ATHLETICS ALL THEY DO IS WIN Baseball began its season last Friday and Coach Schlossnagle became the all-time winningest baseball coach in TCU history. To see your picture featured, hashtag your photo #skiffx360. The Skiff by TCU360 TCU Box 298050 Fort Worth, TX 76129 [email protected] Phone (817) 257-3600, Fax (817) 257-7133 Skiff Editor: Jocelyn Sitton Associate Editor: Victoria Knox Design Editor: Malia Buthe Multimedia Editor: Abbie Maynard and Evan Watson Student Publications Adviser: Robert Bohlerx skiff x 360 Business Manager: Leah Griffinskiff 360 THE SKIFF BY TCU360 THE SKIFF BY TCU360 Advertising Manager: Abigail Yonker JAE C. 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Liability for misprints due to our error is limited to the cost of the advertising. february 25 · 2016 all tcu. all the time. skiff x 360 · www.tcu360.com 3 events calendar Steve Jobs Movie Viewing ΑΧΩ ΔΖ Smoothie King Benefit Day sa27u Where: Brown-Lupton th25u Where: Smoothie King University Union Auditorium u When: 7 a.m. u When: 10 p.m. u Cost: The cost of a smoothie! u Cost: Free ΑΔΠ ΓΦΒ Day Hike in Dinosaur Valley Billy Bob’s presents sa27u Where: Rec Center f26Ronnie Milsap u When: All day starting at 8 a.m. ΑΓΔ ΚΑΘ u Where: 2520 Rodeo Plaza u Cost: $10 ARE YOU SPRING BREAK READY? u When: 10:30 p.m. u Cost: $16-30 ΑΟΠ ΚΚΓ Whether you’re spring breaking in the mountains or on the beach, it’s a perfect ΧΩ time to update your wardrobe with everything Greek! ΠΒΦ ΔΔΔ TCU and Greek Licensed ΣΚ SororitiesFraternitiesBid Day Gifts Big/Little GiftsInitiation Gifts TCU Underground Showcases ΔΓ ZTAZ f26u Where: Sid Richardson u When: 7 p.m. u Cost: Free Billy Bob’s presents 2912 Pulido Street, Fort Worth, TX 76107 sa27Granger Smith (817) 735-9361 www.brownbagetc.com u Where: 2520 Rodeo Plaza u When: 10:30 p.m. u Cost: $16-20 Monday-Friday: 10am-5:30pm Saturday: 10am-3pm Sunday: Closed Jimmy Tatro Live at TCU f26u Where: Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom Pop Culture Night-Satire u When: 10 p.m. w02u Where: Moudy South u Cost: Free u When: 6:30 p.m. u Cost: Free 4 skiff x 360 · www.tcu360.com all tcu. all the time. february 25 · 2016 entertainment Comedian Jimmy Tatro drops back into school By Kat Matthews Ups 2” and “22 Jump Street,” in which he co-starred [email protected] opposite Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum. He was also in “Blue Mountain State: The Rise of Thadland,” The college dropout is coming back to school. a spin-off of the popular show “Blue Mountain Jimmy Tatro, a YouTube comedian-turned-celebrity, State.” is set to perform his stand-up comedy set “Memoirs Tatro is starring alongside Gary Busey in the of a College Dropout” Friday in the Brown Lupton upcoming film “Camp Manna.” The film is centered University Union Ballroom. around Tatro’s character, a counselor at a Christian Tatro’s routine focuses on his collegiate summer camp, as he does whatever it takes to help experiences, including parties and encounters with his cabin win the camp games. the police. Tatro joins TCU’s growing list of celebrity guests, Tatro attended the University of Arizona and was including Rainn Wilson and Demetri Martin, brought a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He dropped to campus by student organization theEnd. out his junior year and started his YouTube channel TheEnd brings in celebrities and hosts on-campus with his friend and creative partner, Christian Pierce. movie screenings to provide students safe As of February, LifeAccordingToJimmy (LATJ), has on-campus weekend activities to detract from nearly 2.5 million subscribers. off-campus partying. LATJ features raunchy subjects like drug-use and Students can register to attend at Eventbrite. sexual promiscuity. Select videos require age verifi- Students are required to bring their ticket and TCU cation to view. student ID to get into the event. Students can reserve The channel is listed at number 92 on New Media an additional ticket to bring one non-TCU student Rockstars Top 100 YouTube Channels. Its celebrity guest. guest list includes Emily Osment, Riff Raff, Liliana The event will be held in the Brown-Lupton CHRIS PIZZELLO / ASSOCIATED PRESS Mumy and Angela Kinsey. University Union Ballroom Friday. Doors open at GUEST APPEARANCE Youtube celebrity Jimmy Tatro will be Tatro has appeared in movies such as “Grown 9:30 p.m. on campus Friday. literary icon Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author, dies at 89 By Kendal Weaver and Hillel Italie the novel inspired a generation of young lawyers, was ASSOCIATED PRESS assigned in high schools all over the country and was a popular choice for citywide, or nationwide, reading Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child’s-eye programs. view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, “To By 2015, its sales were reported by HarperCollins Kill a Mockingbird,” became standard reading for to be more than 40 million worldwide, making it one millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, of the most widely read American novels of the 20th has died. She was 89. century. When the Library of Congress did a survey in Lee died peacefully Friday, publisher HarperCollins 1991 on books that have affected people’s lives, “To said in a statement. It did not give any other details Kill a Mockingbird” was second only to the Bible. about how she died. Lee herself became more mysterious as her book “The world knows Harper Lee was a brilliant became more famous. At first, she dutifully promoted writer but what many don’t know is that she was an ROB CARR / ASSOCIATED PRESS her work. She spoke frequently to the press, wrote extraordinary woman of great joyfulness, humility and LOOKING BACK Harper Lee smiles during a ceremony honoring about herself and gave speeches, once to a class of kindness. She lived her life the way she wanted to — the four new members of the Alabama Academy of Honor. cadets at West Point. in private — surrounded by books and the people who But she began declining interviews in the late loved her,” Michael Morrison, head of HarperCollins a Depression-era Southern town. A black man has 1960s and, until late in her life, firmly avoided U.S. general books group, said in the statement. been wrongly accused of raping a white woman, making any public comment at all about her novel For most of her life, Lee divided her time between and Scout’s father, the resolute lawyer Atticus Finch, or her career. Other than a few magazine pieces for New York City, where she wrote the novel in the defends him despite threats and the scorn of many. Vogue and McCall’s in the 1960s and a review of 1950s, and her hometown of Monroeville, which The book quickly became a best-seller, won the a 19th-century Alabama history book in 1983, she inspired the book’s fictional Maycomb. Pulitzer Prize and was made into a memorable movie published no other book until stunning the world “To Kill a Mockingbird,” published in 1960, is in 1962, with Gregory Peck winning an Oscar for his in 2015 by permitting “Go Set a Watchman” to be the story of a girl nicknamed Scout growing up in portrayal of Atticus.