HOW DOES TCU COMPARE? PERSPECTIVE - PAGE 10 TCU DAILY SKIFF THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1994 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, TEXAS 92NDYEAR,NO. TCU Press IRA truce art book wins award called path BY NATALIE GARDNER TCU DAILY SKIFF to peace Decorating Texas: Decorative Painting in the Lone Star State, TCU professor attributes 1850-1950, by Buie Harwood, has been awarded a certificate of com- mendation from the American Asso- cease-fire to "exhaustion" ciation for State and Local History. The book, published by the TCU BY DENA RAINS Press in 1993, is a study of decora- TCU DAILY SKIFF tive painting using stenciling, in-fill painting, and freehand murals and The temporary cease-fire called by the Irish Repub- landscapes in residential, religious lican Army Wednesday is an "extraordinarily positive" and commercial structures scattered step toward a permanent peace agreement in Northern across the state of Texas. Ireland that may take years to settle, said TCU political The author will be presented the science professor Donald Jackson. certificate at the association's 54th The IRA declared the cease-fire Wednesday, and annual meeting. Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, in Northern Ireland now waits to see if the long-sought Omaha. Neb. truce will hold and bring talks to end a quarter-century "We are. of course, very proud to of sectarian bloodshed. do the book," said Judy Alter, direc- A permanent peace treaty will require greater coop- tor of the TCU Press. "It fits in very eration between Ireland and North Ireland, civil rights nice with some other studies in that guarantees lor North Ireland Protestants and a possible area that we've done." merger of the two areas. Jackson said. Decorating Texas focuses on "The IRA has been under pressure to do it (the cease- more than 60 structures, most still fire) for several months," he said. standing. In her book. Harwood doc- Jackson, who has done research on civil rights viola- uments and illustrates this "people's tions concerning Northern Ireland, attributed the cease- art" with color and black-and-white fire to pure exhaustion on both sides photographs, reproductions of "Probably it's a matter of the number of years gone design patterns and descriptive text. by." he said. The people who started the movement as Appendixes include an inventory of youths in the '60s are now in their 50s and are growing some 350 Texas structures with inte- tired of fighting. rior or exterior decorative painting The IRA founders got their inspiration from the U.S. and a comprehensive list of artists. Civil Rights movement in the '60s. Jackson said. In Harwood examines decoration order to gain more rights for the Catholics in the pri- found in the modest rural German marily Protestant Northern Ireland, they adopted the and Czech settlements of Central civil disobedience methods used in the I nited States, Texas, luxurious office buildings he said. along the Gulf Coast, expensive TCU Daily Skiff/ Tina Fitzgerald Northern Ireland is ruled by England while the pre- homes in urban areas such as Dallas, Marriott Food Service employee Elizabeth Drake whips up a cappuccino at the Expresso Roma, the new dominantly Catholic Ireland is independent. expresso bar in the Student Center. See Book, page 3 See Truce, page 3 Neeley School tops Religion prof gains insight in China BY MISSY EVANS said. "The first thing 1 saw was a disco in tourism accenting religion, and ihe other TCU DAILY SKIFF a high-rise hotel, and there was Asian half was spent in academic meetings w nh in Journal ranking MTV on the television." our Chinese counterparts." Andrew Fort, associate professor of Fort and 24 other religion and philoso- Fort said the Education in a Global religion, saw the Great Cultural Revolu- phy professors toured China with the Citi- Society is a wonderful program and will BY GINGER RICHARDSON school developed the Center for tion of China firsthand, in the form of the zen Ambassadors Program. The group help TCU become more multicultural. TCU DAILY SKIFF Productive Communications in Asian version of MTV. was led by the associate director of the "TCU has made a commitment lo inter- May 1987. Fort spent two weeks in China this past American Academy of Religion, of which nationalizing the Faculty, and the students When it comes to making it in "The CPC is really a resource June as part of TCU's Education in a Fort is a member. will really benefit from this," he said. the real world, graduates of the center to help students improve Global Society program. "We flew into Shanghai, then went to The trip was beneficial lo Fort, who M.J. Neeley School of Business' their oral and written communica- "I now have a very different view of Kufu and ended our trip in Beijing." Fort MBA program have it made, tions skills," said Peggy Conway, China than the one I grew up with." he said. "Half of our time was spent on Sir Fort page 3 Andrew Fort according to the Wall Street Jour- admissions director for the MBA nal. program. In its May 25 article, "Texas B- The center utilizes consultants Schools: How the Grads Rate," from the business community to Artworks from UTA and UNT the Journal says, "Texas Chris- help graduate students with their tian University's M.J. Neeley interpersonal and presentational School of Business makes the top skills. on display at Moudy Building five for one reason: communica- The CPC is one reason the tions." Princeton Review: Student major at the University of Texas at Arlington. Communications has been an Access Guide to the Best Business BY MISSY EVANS The plywood structure hangs from the ceiling integral par* of the graduate pro- Schools ranked the M.J. Neeley TCU DAILY SKIFF gram for the past six years, said School of Business as "the top and is colored with charcoal briquets. program director Rob Rhodes. MBA program in the United "Pink Thing" and "Wendell" are the newest "It shows my love of construction things." "For a long time, business States for developing effective sculptures on display in the Moudy building's McGinney said. "It is symbolic of the world, schools focused on the core con- communication skills." north hall. because there is order in the way it is con- cepts such as marketing, account- While communications may be "Pink Thing" was constructed by Craig structed; yet it is dirty." ing and finance," he said. "As a important to the MBA program, Rentzel, a graduate student in art at the Univer- Both of the sculptures are part of the twelfth result, schools became indistin- officials of the school say other sity of North Texas in Denton. Rentzel said the annual An in the Metroplex exhibit, which is guishable from one another; we factors contribute to its success as sculpture is a symbol of male power. housed in the Moudy art gallery. decided to integrate communica- well. "The steel cage symbolizes the wall men build The exhibit contains 26 pieces by 20 local tions into our program." Unique program features such around themselves to appear tough, and the insu- artists. Ronald Watson, chairman of the art Rhodes said the school does not as Student Enterprises, the Educa- lation symbolizes their internal protection," he department, said. TCU will be represented in the offer a course on communication, tional Investment Fund (a student said. exhibit by four people. but rather has the expectation that run investment portfolio) and the The structure also has 1,000 watts of light Patty Southerland, a first year graduate s'tu- communications and interper- summer internship program are a inside that make it glow like lava when it is dent in art at TCU; Christopher Tribble. also a sonal skills will be emphasized few of the reasons for the school's plugged in. first year graduate student, Elizabeth Leal, a throughout the program. continued success, Conway said. "There are some holes in the insulation which recent graduate of TCU; and Thad Duhigg. an To help professors and students serve to draw you into the light psychologi- art professor at TCU, have artwork featured in the Metroplex exhibit. TCU Daily Skiff/ Layne Smith with their interpersonal skills, the See Neeley, page 3 cally," Rentzel said. The other sculpture, "Wendell," was con- "Wendell" is one of the new artworks structed by Jonathan McGinney, a senior art See Art, page 3 being displayed in the Moudy Building. NEWS DIGEST Scout leader charged in shooting Rapper Dr. Dre sentenced Faster-than-light illusion spotted None hurt in oil tanker wreck Mine explosion kills 79 NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts LOS ANGELES (AP) — Grammy-win- NEW YORK (AP) — A group of GALVESTON. 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