FEBRUARY 23, 2017 . VOLUME 115 . ISSUE 22 . TCU360.COM SPORTS, PAGE 5 T HE PATTERSON NOT SURPRISED SKIFF BY LT’S SUCCESS. A STUDENT MEDIA PUBLICATION OF TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY FORT WORTH, TEXAS ANN LOUDEN SAYS FAREWELL PAGE 3 ACTORS IN NURSING KEEPING TRADITION Nursing school aquires African Student Organization actors to help train students. discusses importance of the Dashiki. PAGE 2 PAGE 4 2 February 23, 2017 · The Skif · tcu360.com STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS TCU a cappella groups sweep top two spots By RACHEL TIEDE on the angles of everything STAFF WRITER and come out even better than we were this time,” TCU a cappella groups Hartley said. The Horned Tones and Sabrina Harb founded License to Trill won the License to Trill after top two spots Saturday her father’s death. The night in the International group partnered with the Championship of LUNGevity Foundation Collegiate A Cappella PHOTO BY RACHEL TIEDE February 1 to host a 5k and Southwest Quarterfnal Jackson Grosskopf is lifed into the air during a performance by The free concert to raise money The Skif competition, earning a Horned Tones at the ICCA Quarterfinal Competition Saturday, February for lung cancer research place in the semifnal 18, 2017. in honor of Harb’s father. TCU Box 298050 competition. When asked what she Fort Worth, TX 76129 It was the frst time any and “Brother” by teams also took home thinks he’d be saying about [email protected] TCU group advanced to NEEDTOBREATHE. special awards. Katlin Hess their win, she said, “I think Phone (817) 257-3600 semifnals. “We’ve had rehearsals of License to Trill won he’d be super proud. I Fax (817) 257-7133 “It is so surreal what until 11 p.m., 11:30 p.m., Outstanding Soloist. Nick hope.” just happened,” License midnight, multiple times a Ruiz of The Horned Tones The other teams Editor HANK KILGORE to Trill member Kameron week for the last three, four won Outstanding Vocal that competed were the Reyes said. “It’s the frst months,” Horned Tones Percussionist, and Jackson Green Tones from the time any TCU group is member Joseph Hartley Grosskopf of The Horned University of North Texas, Associate Editor Advertising Manager moving on to semifnals, said. “I’m so happy.” Tones won Outstanding Here Comes Treble from Molly Jenkins Emily Rhine and now we have two.” License to Trill Choreography. TCU, OneSound from The Horned Tones performed “Nothing Left to Semifnals is March 11 Collin College, RISE Design Editor Business Manager earned frst place with Say” by Imagine Dragons, at UCLA. from the University Zoe Zabel Leah Grifin a mashup of “The Sky’s “Don’t Let Me Down” by Hartley said the Horned of Texas-Arlington the Limit” by Jason The Chainsmokers and Toads will get ready to and Unaccompanied Director of Student Media Derulo and “Forever” “Ride or Die” by Brayton compete by working on the from Northern Arizona Jean Marie Brown by Chris Brown, “Hold Bowman. “nitty gritty details.” University. On” by Michael Bublé Members of the two “We’re going to focus Chair, Department of Journalism Uche Onyebadi, Ph. D ACADEMICS Distribution: Newspapers are available free on Actors allow student nurses to be independent campus and surrounding locations, limit one per person. Additional copies are $.50 and are By MICHELLE ROSS instructors. to do,” Franklin said. available at the Skif ofice. STAFF WRITER Professional actress “Student’s don’t have any Paulie Killgore was hired authority on the patient.” The Skif is an oficial student publication Nursing students will to act as a family member. Junior nursing major of Texas Christian University, produced by students soon be working with “I’ve worked on stage, Crysta Coomer said, “the of TCU and sponsored by the something more lively TV, flms, commercials, simulation labs are really TCU Department of Journalism. than mannequins. modeling and in improv,” fun and it’s a lot easier to It operates under the policies Finding real patients Killgore said. “I’ve never learn in them compared of the Student Media Committee.. can be tough so TCU done a real scenario for to the hospitals.” will simulate hospital training purposes.” “We try to use live The Skif is published Thursdays during fall situations using actors Killgore said she played actors in every simulation, and spring semesters except finals week and holidays. as patients and family a wife who was visiting but mannequins are members. her husband in the sometimes used when COPYRIGHT All rights for the entire contents of this According to the hospital. 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Two to three nursing for asthma and heart After an hour in the students at a time are troubles, she rummaged do commercials and TV simulation lab, students Liability for misprints due to our error is limited to the challenged to take the through cabinets and took shows,” but there are no receive feedback from cost of the advertising. concepts they’ve learned fake pills, even after the qualifcations needed to their peers who watched in class and apply skills students asked her what be hired because we have them on TV. The Skif to the patient, said she was taking. community members too, Franklin said Circulation: 2000 Ashley Franklin, assistant “The pills were actually Franklin said. student feedback on the Subscriptions: 817-257-6274 nursing professor. vitamin B-12,” Killgore The lab experience simulation labs has been Rates are $30 per semester. She said the actors said. allows students to try very positive, but it can receive a one-page Franklin said 20 things they couldn’t in the take awhile for students Moudy Building South description of the scene. actors are cast in hospitals, Franklin said. to realize they too have News Room, Room 212 They wear a walkie various scenarios in the “The hospital nurses to perform like actors for 2805 S. University Drive, Fort Worth, TX 76109 talkie in their ear to hear simulation labs. tell the students where to their classmates. cues given from the lab “Some of the actors step, what to say and what February 23, 2017 · The Skif · tcu360.com 3 FEATURE Ann Louden says farewell to TCU By MAKENZIE STALLO held over a dozen titles sharing stories of their is also starting her own STAFF WRITER and brought numerous time working with Frogs non-proft consulting new programs to campus for the Cure and praising frm. Her frst client is Ann Louden walked including the Center for Louden for all she has the Gladney Center for through her storage unit, Connection Culture and done. Adoption. dropping of boxes. many alumni programs. TCU senior Connor Louden said the It’s flled with the “I think if I could Roe said he was happy Gladney Center is close countless fles that say I feel proud about they get to graduate to her heart because it’s catalogue three decades of anything it’s creating together. “There is such a through the center that work at TCU. new programs,” Louden legacy left here,” he said. she adopted her daughter. “You open a fle said. “Every one of those Melanie Wilson, CEO “I would not have drawer and there’s a fle programs I’ve been of Cancer Care Services a family without the for everything I’ve ever involved in has brought told Ann: “My life is Gladney Center,” she done,” Louden said. “I me a lot of pleasure.” defnitely better because said. “My life is forever was wallowing in emotion “I want to have you entered it.” changed because of by walking into a storage touched lives so that Musician and TCU them.” unit.” people experience the alum Tim Halperin said She said although she Each fle details a power of being engaged in Louden is “excellent in is excited for her move, it project: where it took higher education and also everything she does.” was bittersweet to decide place, the organization fnd their own place as a Halperin who provided to leave TCU. details and – what’s most volunteer.” the music for the frst PHOTO COURTESY OF VICTORIA RENEAU “If I was going to do important to Louden – Frogs for the Cure three Frogs for the Cure Ann Louden at a Frogs for the Cure Video shoot. this, I might as well go the people involved. and History with music videos said he was really big, and New York “That’s what’s made Cancer proud to be part of this initiative has grown and “I had the opportunity City has always been a this place so important to Louden is probably TCU experience. the amount of student to develop those new dream of mine,” Louden me,” Louden said. “The most recognized for her “After the frst couple and staf engagement. skills and really fgure out said. people I’ve met have work with Frogs for the of times I was around the “We started with four what I was capable of,” Legacy become friends, they’ve Cure. cancer survivors in this or fve people, and I look said Reneau.