Posts Tagged ‘students’
Over Exposure
StaticHollywood stars often take a drubbing for their liberal views, but they don’t all lean left. Take North Texan Janine Turner, for instance. She earned fame in Northern Exposure and other TV shows before ditching Hollywood and ...
Not Optional
Telling your boss isn’t enough: Suspected child abuse must be reported to the state.LINDA LABEAU
As the Fort Worth school district struggles with its latest scandal — this one involving Dunbar High School — it’s apparent that some officials in the district are unclear on the concept of what they are required to do wh...
Pinched by the Principal
Dunbar’s Doug Williams is under investigation for “disciplining” and taking pictures of male students.BETTY BRINK
As controversy continued to build this week over the actions of Dunbar High School’s Doug Williams in pinching and photographing male students, some local officials and observers have begun to question the initial response of...
Gallery
UNT Art GalleryGallery
This UNT art exhibit focuses on work by current and former communication design students. The juried selection includes 123 works of graphic design, advertising, illustration, photography, and copywriting, including the New Yor...
Good Luck to 1919
John Q. ReaderTo the editor: I enjoyed reading Jimmy Fowler’s story on 1919 Hemphill (“Evolving at 1919,” Oct. 12, 2011). It’s a unique place for music, films, causes, and so forth — an island of blue in this area’s sea of red. W...
Milk of Aggie Kindness
StaticGov. Rick Perry, the guy who routinely tells Washington to shove it, refuses federal money out of principle, fantasizes about seceding from the union, and never met a death row inmate he didn’t want to help into the hereafter...
Best Of 2011
Faces and Phases/2011GAYLE REAVES
Take a look at the cover of this, our biggest issue of the year. It was done by two students from the Art Institute of Fort Worth, each working separately on half of a portrait, neither able to see what the other was doing. The...
School Bullies
The Fort Worth district’s culture of intimidation goes far beyond the classroom.BETTY BRINK
Last month, Fort Worth schools trustees voted to broaden the district’s antidiscrimination policy to include “gender identity and expression” for students. The change is designed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and tra...
Purple Piano Texas
The annual TCU workshop/festival featured some of the best playing you’ll hear all year.LEONARD EUREKA
For 30 years now, one of the most ambitious and popular extracurricular programs at Texas Christian University has been the annual Piano Texas International Academy and Festival. Every year, the intensive month-long music camp ...
Backsliding
Fort Worth schools just lost a lot of ground.Eddie Griffin
For a while there, things were looking good for education in this country — and even in Fort Worth.