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.

V-Day Events at TCU

V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls and raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues. 2008 marked V-Day’s 10 year anniversary. To recognize the occasion, V-Day included two additions to the original play: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings on Violence Against Women and Girls, and the V-Day documentary Until The Violence Stops.

To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women. In an effort to end violence, the V-Day movement has crafted internationally-focused educational, media, and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

This year's events will be happening on February 9-14. Details about V-Day at TCU are available here. No, I'm not giving extra credit for attending these events, but I do strongly encourage you to consider attending some of the very interesting events!

some sample public space analyses

As I'm hunting down an example of this essay from a previous semester, below are some links to several Public Space Analysis posts written by students at another university. These aren't necessarily good examples, but they show how people have approached such an activity:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

And I'll let you know when I've posted a full sample essay on eCollege.