Student Media has been a part of Texas Christian University since Sept. 19, 1902, when Ed S. McKinney published the first edition of The Skiff. For more than 120 years, Horned Frogs from across campus have brought campus news, sports and feature stories to newsstands and, eventually, computers and cell phones. The Skiff became just.
Two nearly 90-year-old stories came together in a polychrome sandstone retaining wall. Wearing a small, forgotten commemorative plaque, it faced the athletic field on the landmarked former W.C. Stripling High School campus in Fort Worth’s Arlington Heights. Wall and plaque were inseparable from each other and from