Lots of activity scheduled for spring semester

Fort Worth, TX

12/21/2007

TCU's spring semester will be full of activity. Here's a sneak peek at some of the spring semester events and openings:

New facilities
The final two new residence halls in the Campus Commons, the Teresa and Luther King Hall and the Mary and Robert Wright Hall, will open in January. Combined, the halls will house more than 300 students. More than 300 students are currently living in two other new residence halls, the Amon G. Carter Hall and the Kellye Wright Samuelson Hall,  also located in the Commons.

The TCU Barnes & Noble Bookstore will open Jan. 7. A weeklong grand opening celebration for the campus and the community is slated for Jan. 28.


Events
MARCH
A Conversation With Seymour Hersh on Foreign Policy
TCU's Center for Civic Literacy presents American Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh

Tuesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m., Ed Landreth Auditorium
Contact at 817-257-5004 for ticket information

State of the Black Church Summit and Awards Banquet
Honoring Jeremiah Wright, Chicago pastor to Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey. Brad Braxton of Vanderbilt University is the speaker

Friday and Saturday, March 28 & 29 (awards banquet at 6:30 p.m. on the 29th)
Contact 817-257-7140 for ticket information

The Four Freshmen
Legendary jazz harmony group will make an appearance during the TCU Jazz Festival. The nostalgic sound of the famed 1950s vocal group is still alive in the touring quartet’s popular stage show, reprising all the original hits.

Friday, March 28 in Ed Landreth Auditorium
Tickets are $20 and available at the door


APRIL
Schieffer Symposium
Schieffer School of Journalism presents the fourth annual Schieffer Symposium featuring Bob Schieffer, 1959 TCU graduate and moderator of Face the Nation; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent; Robert Novak, Chicago Sun-Times columnist; Roger Mudd, former CBS News weekend anchor; and Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today

Wednesday, April 2 in Ed Landreth Auditorium
Ticket information will be available soon. For other questions, contact 817-257-7808

Benefit concert for TCU's School of Music
Featuring world-renowned mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade

Tuesday, April 8 in Ed Landreth Auditorium
Tickets range in price from $30 to $75 and will be sold online at www.music.tcu.edu or by phone at 817-257-6349


Ishmael Beah: Memoirs of a Soldier Boy
A former child soldier in Sierra Leone and author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Soldier Boy

Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center
Contact at 817-257-5004 for ticket information