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Holocaust Remembrance Day This NEWS FEATURES SPORTS A long-time public relations Religion professor Andy The baseball team has a series professor calls it quits. Fort pushes students to against Air Force this weekend. TUESDAY “mentally migrate.” PAGE 6 PAGE 8 TCU EST. 1902 DAILY FRIDAY,SKIFF APRIL 4, 2008 Vol. 105 Issue 97 www.dailyskiff.com Accounting department toughens course retake policy By MICHelle AndeRson allow students to retake lower calculated into a student’s ment,” Ferrandino said. ed to prevent that,” Lanier Jared Meadows, a junior Staff Reporter level accounting classes after GPA and credit is given once The accounting department said. finance and accounting major, While the Faculty Senate they have taken upper level for a course that is retaken, is the only one to set rules Melissa Stewart, a sopho- disagreed. is investigating a new course accounting courses, said Lynn said Blaise Ferrandino, Fac- apart from the university’s more accounting major, said “My initial reaction is this retake policy, the accounting Cole, assistant dean of under- ulty Senate Academic Excel- policy so far, Cole said. she doesn’t think the policy won’t affect too many peo- department is implementing graduate academics. lence Committee chair. T he ch a nge i s me a nt to get a is necessary. ple, but I’m for it because its own. The university’s policy Ferrandino said he doesn’t fair representation of grades, “It’s kind of a useless rule it rewards people who did Starting in the fall, the allows students to repeat any think the accounting depart- said Danny Lanier, assistant because retaking two lower well the first time around,” accounting department of grade, and there is no limit to ment is trumping the TCU’s professor of accounting. level classes isn’t going to Meadows said. “It gives the Neeley School of Business how many times a class can policy. “People were retaking help your GPA that much,” those who retake classes an will implement its new course be retaken. The last attempt “Colleges often have rules classes just for the sake of Stewart said. “I would rather unfair advantage and pads retake policy, which will not at the course is the only grade specific to their own depart- GPA-padding and we want- go by the university policy.” their GPA.” Group to camp out GiVE me TWO steps for Darfur support By ANNA HODGES Staff Reporter FOR YOUR INFO When Danielle Boyd Camp Out wore a shirt that said “Save Darfur,” someone asked her for Hope if “Darfur” was a band. Who: STAND “Times like those just When: 5 p.m. Saturday to encourage me to keep doing 8 a.m. Sunday what I’m doing,” said Boyd, Where: Sadler Lawn vice president of a student Contact: [email protected] anti-genocide coalition. Members of the TCU chapter of Students Taking will sign petitions and write Action Now: Darfur have letters to members of Con- organized a camp out on gress in support of send- Sadler Lawn to confront ing aid to the peacekeeping what they call a “lack of mission in Darfur, Boyd awareness” about the con- said. flict in Darfur, the soph- “We wanted to give peo- omore education major ple the idea of what it feels said. like to live outside in a refu- Students will pitch tents gee camp,” Boyd said. “But and stay overnight Satur- we still had to make it fun day beginning at 5 p.m. to get people to come.” on Sadler Lawn, where they See DARFUR, page 2 Center to help fund Matt MedanicH / Staff Photographer Bob Schieffer and head football coach Gary Patterson put on a show during the Campaign for TCU reception Thursday in a tent near Frog Fountain. Schieffer’s band, Honky Tonk Confidential, entertained crowds as the university’s fundraising event carried on through the evening. alcohol-free events By YUSI CHenG Giovanis said. “They just Funding campaign begins public portion in style Staff Reporter don’t call them that. So Today is the last day for we are here to offer them By ROB CRabtRee Ed Landreth Auditorium followed by “We wanted to thank our current student organizations to funds for doing that.” Staff Reporter a reception on the lawn between the donors and encourage some new donors apply for $200 to finance She said the center has One hundred fifty-five million dollars Brown-Lupton Student Center and the to pitch in,” Boschini said. alcohol-free or alcohol- received applications from down, $95 million to go. unfinished Brown-Lupton University Don Whelan, vice chancellor for uni- awareness events in hon- eight organizations, and The Campaign for TCU kicked off the Union. versity advancement, said the overall or of Alcohol Awareness five other organizations public portion of its fundraising effort Chancellor Victor Boschini said the fundraising goal for the campaign is Month, the assistant direc- have requested applica- Thursday night with a presentation in goal of the evening was two-fold. See CAMPAIGN, page 2 tor of the Alcohol and Drug tion forms. Education Center said. She said the criteria for Yvonne Giovanis, assis- the funds will be based tant director of preven- on the goals of the orga- tion services, said this is nizations, such as raising the center’s first year doing alcohol awareness and Students to honor Holocaust Remembrance Day this. Instead of the Alcohol educating students about and Drug Education Center alcohol and alcohol relat- By Talia Sampson ever attempted to create a mini- and escaped and rebuilt his hosting all the events every ed issues, or providing Staff Reporter museum. life.” FOR YOUR INFO year, the center wants to alcohol-free and alterna- Beginning Monday, a Jewish “We have never tried anything Marco said she hopes the Holocaust see how student organiza- tive social opportunities student organization on cam- of this magnitude before, and mini-museum will educate mini-museum tions will help raise alco- for students. pus will host a series of events by doing so, we hope to show people about more than just hol awareness on campus, She said the events the in honor of Holocaust Remem- the horrors of what happened the death counts of the Holo- When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. she said. student organizations are Monday brance Day, also known as Yom in such a way that visitors will caust. “Many organizations hosting don’t have to be Hashoah, which falls on May 2 leave with an understanding of “Six million is just a number Noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday have alcohol-free events,” See AWARENESS, page 2 this year. why such events should never on the paper. It’s hard to grasp 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday The organization, TCU Hillel, occur again,” Barkman wrote how big it really was,” Marco Where: Brown-Lupton Student will create a Holocaust mini- in an e-mail. said, giving the estimated num- Center room 207 museum in the Brown-Lupton Marco, a sophomore physics ber of Jews killed in the Holo- Admission: Free CLARIFICATION Student Center that the pub- major who moved to Fort Worth caust. Matt Ivester, the founder of JuicyCampus.com, lic can visit Monday through from Israel three years ago, said Claire Sanders, an instructor of told the Skiff on Wednesday that he would comply Wednesday, said Belle Marco, remembering the Holocaust has history who specializes in mod- Sanders wrote: “Teaching TCU Hillel president. special significance to her. ern Europe, wrote in an e-mail the Holocaust involves not with a lawful subpoena seeking user information. Arnold Barkman, an associ- “My grandfather survived the that teaching the Holocaust can only explaining the enormous The site stores user IP addresses, which could poten- ate professor of accounting and Holocaust in Romania,” Marco be a challenge “in a world where number of lives lost, but also tially be used to track user identities, but it doesn’t Hillel’s faculty adviser, said this said. “He was relatively young violence has become more or explaining the fact that the hold user identity information. is the first time the group has when he was in the Holocaust less commonplace.” See HOLOCAUST, page 2 WEATHER PECULIAR FACT TODAY’S HEADLINES CONTACT US TODAY: Morning storms, 65/46 MINNEAPOLIS — A woman bit a pit bull on NEWS: Faculty duo to perform at cello concert, page 2 Send your questions, the nose after trying to pull the dog off her TOMORROW: Sunny, 72/51 compliments, complaints Labrador retriever. OPINION: AIDS awareness important to students, page 3 and hot tips to the staff at SUNDAY: Sunny, 81/56 — Associated Press SPORTS: Equestrian team to face A&M, page 6 [email protected] 3HOWERS COLXv PXP 2 NEWS TCU Daily Skiff Friday, April 4, 2008 CAMPAIGN From page 1 STRONG-ARMED Faculty duo makes $250 million. “Currently we’ve raised $155 mil- debut at cello concert lion,” Whelan said. “We’re not quite halfway through the campaign.” By BIBEK BHANDARI FOR YOUR INFO Whelan said the total fundraising Staff Reporter figure was reached after assessing Mozart, Vivaldi or Bach’s com- TCU Cello TCU’s potential needs and looking at positions often grace Ed Landreth Ensemble the university’s fundraising history. Hall, but for the first time Satur- When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday “Knowing what we know now, we day, the cello ensemble will per- feel we have the ability to raise $250 form original compositions by Where: Ed Landreth Auditorium million,” Whelan said. “Our poten- faculty. tial needs are higher than that, so “Symphony for Violoncelli” and piano together.
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