JANUARY 28, 2021 . VOLUME 119 . ISSUE 15 . TCU360.COM PAGE 12 T HE 20 YEARS LATER, GARY PATTERSON HAS MADE TCU FOOTBALL SKIFF A WINNER A STUDENT MEDIA PUBLICATION OF TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FORT WORTH, TEXAS WELCOME BACK, HORNED FROGS! PHOTO BY HEESOO YANG LAWSUIT FINE ARTS JUDGE WON’T DENY TCU STUDENTS STRUGGLE WITH OFFICIALS WERE INDIFFERENT THE HIDDEN COSTS BEHIND TO DISCRIMINATION THEIR DEGREE PAGE 10 PAGE 4 2 January, 28, 2021 · The Skiff · tcu360.com CAMPUS NEWS TCU expands campus COVID-19 testing sites By BENTON MCDONALD EXECUTIVE EDITOR, TCU360 TCU students, faculty and staff will have more ways to be tested for COVID-19 on-campus The Skiff this spring. Curative will continue TCU Box 298050 operating the testing Fort Worth, TX 76129 site located across the [email protected] street from the Brown– Phone (817) 257-3600 Lupton University Union, Fax (817) 257-7133 which is open to the TCU community and the Editor ALEXANDRA LANG general public. 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Use code “Frogs15” at checkout to get 15% o your purchase. CHECK OUT OUR INSTAGRAM! @SAVILINODESIGN 4 January 28, 2021 · The Skiff · tcu360.com COMMUNITY Fine arts students struggle with the hidden costs behind their degree By HALEY CABRERA turns her back to the Lewis also caught the LINE EDITOR, TCU360 audience, finalizing her disease when she was performance as the music young. The theater is silent. abruptly ceases. “I booked my first real Pitch black darkness fills “And that’s what it’s show at the age of nine at the space. going to all come to.” our community theatre,” Those seated in the The crowd erupts Lewis said. crowded hall wait with into applause, and the She was cast as Little bated breath for the next ballerina pivots to face Inez from the production dancer to take the stage. them. She bows with “Hairspray.” A woman’s voice, the brightest smile on “After that show, I got monotone and strong, her face, a smile people bit by the show bug and booms out of the only beam when they are have loved [performing] speakers, “Number doing something they ever since,” she said. 576, Lyvia Baldner, truly love. For fellow musical ‘Introduction.’” According to Dr. theatre major Alicia The set comes to Harry Parker, chair of Nolley, her dream did PHOTO COURTESY OF COLLIN PITTMAN life, royal blue lights the TCU Department of not begin until her early Theatre TCU students rehearse with masks and social distancing in preparation for the university’s virtual shining in the back, Theatre, Baldner has “the teenage years. When she fall musical. One student is visible attending the rehearsal via Zoom. creating an atmosphere disease for which there is was in middle school, she of tranquility. Adorned in no cure.” began to attend a musical art, both digital and Nolley wholeheartedly off and on for years,” a black dress, a girl, then Where it began theatre program taught traditional, which carried agrees. Nolley said. “I always high school senior Lyvia TCU’s fine arts by a former Broadway her through her college “The arts don’t get the knew I was really lucky Baldner, slowly makes students hail from all actress. decision making process. same funding that some in that my mom supports her way into the center of over the United States Here, Nolley found Now, Kirsch is things like sports do, my dreams and did the spotlight. and 23 other countries. others who believed pursuing a BFA in especially in Texas,” said everything in her power The music crackles to Each student carries a in her abilities and painting, and she has the Nolley. to help me achieve them, life. unique love for the arts, motivated her to do her capability to create the Because of this, Nolley but it is a weight to know “If you are aware of a and each tells a story of best. She was able to things she wants with her explained that students that she has given up a state for which you call what it is like to want perform with self-confi- very own hands. Reality and families, like her lot for me.” ‘is…’” to perform and create dence she did not possess sets in own, are forced to pay Lewis also said her Baldner begins to for audiences of all as a child. Like most other a lot more and donate mother contributed glide across the stage, demographics. Nolley even hobbies and passions, out-of-pocket to arts greatly to her success while the voice of writer Although Parker may remembers when the fine arts programs programs in order for in the arts as she was Alan Watts consumes the refer to it as a disease, Broadway star personally and those that pursue them to stay alive. growing up. theater. She turns and he knows deep down his told her that there was them struggle to find “The older I got, the “If I wanted to do it, moves with the words, students have “a passion a possibility that one the funds necessary for more expensive my dance she was going to find a letting them overcome for theatre and the arts” day Nolley could have a the constant transac- education got… It seemed way to make it happen,” her. that can be traced back to future in the industry. tions that come with that there always was a Lewis said. “On the contrary, it a time before they were “I think her support them. Whether it be new additional fee that Unfortunately, not takes nothing to have Horned Frogs. really helped my self-con- low exposure or lower would sneak its way into all students are able to something…” Baldner, now a fidence and pushed me to popularity, students of our expenses,” Baldner rely on parental aid for The peaceful music sophomore ballet and pursue this as more than the arts experience what added. out-of-pocket costs. paired with the philo- strategic communica- a hobby,” Nolley said. it is like to struggle for Other students said Kirsch has been sophical teachings of tions double major at Even though most fine what they love.