upcoming events at TCU

2/23: 'Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters': A Talk by Courtney Martin

TCU Women's Studies program hosts this talk at 5pm on Monday, February 23 in the BLUU ballroom. Award-winning author Courtney E. Martin will explore how young women today have come to dangerously define success as 'effortless perfection.' Drawing on her critically-acclaimed book--Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters--she will discuss how disordered eating, food and fitness obsession, and anxiety disorders have become normalized among today's college women.

3/2: T. Boone Pickens Town Hall Meeting

TCU’s Energy Club is hosting a town hall meeting with T. Boone Pickens, famous oil tycoon, entrepreneur, philanthropist and author on Monday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m. in TCU’s Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom. T. Boone Pickens will discuss "The Pickens Plan – Ending our Dependence on Foreign Oil," followed by a Q&A session and book signing opportunity. The first 200 students to arrive with TCU ID will receive a signed copy of T. Boone Pickens' book, The First Billion is the Hardest. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP required, limited seating: OfficialEventsrsvp@tcu.edu or call 817-257-5976.