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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2011 Volume 108 • Issue 76 TCU DAILY ENTERTAINMENT 2 Find out how TCU alum- nus Tim Halperin fared on ‘American Idol.’ Est. 1902 SKIFF www.DaIlyskIff.com FRESH CHANGES Dining Services moves toward more in-house food preparation, page 2 Lawrence Davis serves food at the Cook House station in Market Square on Wednesday evening. The selection was barbecue-smoked chicken with potatoes. REBECCA PHILP / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER STUDENT LIFE 3 FROG FEATURE 7 Students mix feathers and Union Grounds employ- hair with new business. ee helps keeps students awake. 2 Thursday, February 24, 2011 www.dailyskiff.com ENTERTAINMENT DINING Halperin advances to top 40 Market Square cooks up fresh changes Staff Report nations began to establish the on the show to increase local By Landon Haaf top 24. However, viewers must viewership and support for the Staff Reporter As judges narrow the num- tune in Thursday night to see if live shows and public voting. ber of remaining “American Halperin made the cut. Each person on the team Market Square is mak- Idol” contestants, TCU grad As the suspense of Halperin’s will have a different assign- ing an effort to enhance the Tim Halperin took the stage “Idol” journey continues to ment including campaigning dining experience for TCU Wednesday night in Las Vegas rise, campus support for Hal- through social media, sending students by preparing more to compete for his spot in the perin has grown. e-mails to alumni and orga- foods in-house rather than show’s top 24. To support Halperin’s run nizing “Idol” watching parties, buying canned versions Halperin accompanied on American Idol, Chancellor’s she said. If Halperin continues from Sysco, Executive Chef “Idol” contestant Julie Zorilla Associate for External Rela- to advance, the team would Charlie Guajardo said. vocally and on the keyboard, tions Ann Louden has worked ratchet up its advertisement, To improve food for stu- singing The Beatles’ “Some- to gather students, faculty and she said. dents, foods such as the thing” on The Beatles’ “LOVE” staff members close to Hal- Members of the group in- hummus, mashed potatoes, stage at the Mirage Hotel. perin to form what she called clude Honors College Dean marinara sauce and salsa In the show’s first hour, the “Team Tim.” Ron Pitcock, Neeley School will now be made on-site at 60 contestants were narrowed Louden said the team will of Business Senior Associate Market Square, he said. to 40, and in the second, elimi- advertise Halperin’s presence Dean Bill Moncrief and Col- “What we’re trying to do lege of Education Dean Mary is veer away from constitu- Patton, she said. tional cooking,” Guajardo Halperin was a Chancellor’s said. “We’re trying to make Scholar at TCU and gradu- homemade, fresh foods for ated in May 2010 with a degree the students.” in marketing. He returned to Freshman business major campus in the fall of 2010 to Erin Terry said she has been participate in TCU’s “Frogs a fan of Market Square, lo- for the Cure” by recording the cated in the Brown-Lupton song “We Fight Back” and cre- University Union, since she ating a music video of the song. got to TCU and that she had Halperin also is scheduled noticed the improvements. to appear on Thursday’s show, She said she enjoyed Market COURTESY OF TIM HALPERIN which airs from 7-9 p.m. on lo- Square even more with the Tim Halperin advanced to the American Idol top 40 Wednesday. cal Fox Channel 4. new options, such as stir fry and homemade foods. “I’m pleased to hear that REBECCA PHILP / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER they are starting to make Senior lead Maria Castro experiments with different display presen- foods in-house,” Terry said. tations of several desserts and baked goods. “It makes the BLUU seem less like a cafeteria.” Guajardo said TCU part- matter of fact, we’re going to he said. Both programs pro- nered with Sodexo, a food implement more [changes].” mote the cleanliness and service and facilities man- Sodexo’s District Marketing safety of dining facilities agement company, to oper- Coordinator Kelly Raw said through classes and certifi- ate Market Square. the effort toward homemade, cation, he said. Sodexo employees, in- higher quality food was a re- Freshman biology major cluding Guajardo, meet sult of the change in manage- Tanner Campbell said he with the TCU Dining Ser- ment in October 2010. Ste- was generally pleased with vices committee every phen Miller, a 25-year Sodexo the food in Market Square week to discuss potential employee, became the general and that he planned to pur- changes. The move toward manager in October and im- chase the same unlimited in-house preparation, how- mediately saw things that meal plan next year. Camp- ever, is one change that will could be improved, Raw said. bell said he did not know not go away, Guajardo said. about the employees’ clean- “It is something that “I’m pleased to hear liness training requirements but that he was pleased to should have been done be- that they are start- fore,” Guajardo said. “As a hear about them. ing to make foods “It’s definitely a good in-house. It makes thing,” Campbell said. “It makes me more comfort- the BLUU seem less able seeing the food pre- like a cafeteria.” pared or knowing it is pre- pared here.” Erin Terry Guajardo said other recent Freshman business major changes in Market Square included smoking brisket and chicken on-site. He said Guajardo said Sodexo also he also had a list of all the goes to great lengths to ensure food Market Square pre- a clean, safe environment. pares and that he was in the Every employee in Mar- process of deciding which ket Square is certified under foods were feasible options a Food and Drug Admin- to be prepared in-house. istration program called Guajardo said students HACCP (Hazard Analysis and customers would see & Critical Control Points), more foods being prepared and goes through a pro- in-house and that new op- gram specific to Market tions would likely be of- Square called “Pride Stride,” fered in the near future. www.dailyskiff.com Thursday, February 24, 2011 3 CAMPUS POLITICAL Business offers students a new look US ends defense of anti-gay marriage law By Natalie Smith Briana Wucinski, a sopho- group, seven feathers costing By Nancy Benac ately welcomed by gay rights As well, the social land- Staff Reporter more strategic communica- $20, but can range depending and Pete Yost organizations and vilified scape has changed. tion major, said she found on the quality of the feather, Associated Press by those on the other side. Since the law was passed Three members of Alpha out about Frog Featherheads she said. Although color Some Democrats in Con- in 1996, five states and the Delta Pi sorority are giving at a sorority meeting where dyed feathers cost one dollar President Barack Obama gress praised the decision, District of Columbia have TCU students the opportu- Torgerson came in to talk more, she said she thought it ordered his administration while it drew criticism from approved gay marriage, and nity to accessorize their hair about the business. She had was a good way to add a little on Wednesday to stop de- some Republicans and the others allow civil unions. with colorful feathers with- an appointment Feb. 14 and color to any hairstyle. fending the constitutional- office of their leader, House An Associated Press-Na- out emptying their pockets. has received many compli- Blakely, a biology major, ity of a federal law that bans Speaker John Boehner, all tional Constitution Center Sophomore Erica Torg- ments on her feather acces- said there is a process when recognition of gay marriage, surely a preview of coming Poll conducted last August erson and her two business sories, she said. it comes to putting the exten- a policy reversal that could political debate over the lat- found 52 percent of Ameri- partners, juniors Kiran Ru- “They are really easy to sions in the hair. They first have major implications est development in the long- cans saying the federal gov- pani and Katie Blakely creat- style.” Wucinski said. “I can take a round crimp bead and for the rights and benefits running national conversa- ernment should give legal ed Frog Featherheads, a new blow dry, straighten and curl slide it over a few strands of of gay couples and reignite tion about gay rights. recognition to marriages business that uses feathers to them without any kind of hair. They then add a feather an emotional debate for the The outcome of that de- between couples of the give students a unique look damage to the feather or my to the hair and crimp down 2012 presidential campaign. bate could have enormous same sex. and act as a great conversa- hair.” the bead, without damaging Obama still is “grappling” impact because federal laws Thirty states have con- tion starter, Torgerson said. Rupani, a neuroscience ma- or tearing the hair, she said. with his personal views on and regulations confer more stitutional amendments Their business was origi- jor, said the hair extensions Rupani said that they had whether gays should be al- than a thousand rights or banning gay marriage. nally run out of their soror- could be straightened, curled over 30 clients since they lowed to marry but has long benefits on those who are Same-sex marriage is legal ity dorm room, but when or even washed without com- began and have made over opposed the federal law as married, most involving in Connecticut, Iowa, Mas- they found out that running ing out of the hair and last up $400.