The pressure of the cosmetic industry.
Why do we let it affect us? Due to the strong commercial advertising from many beauty companies, many women have very low self-esteem. The media expects bodily perfection, which is near impossible for women to attain and that does not go over well for many of them. Girls resort to “solutions” such as choosing to not eat, overwork themselves at the gym, buying the best of the best makeup, etc. Dove’s Campaign For Real Beauty is one solution to this problem that has already been put in place. We could localize the target audience to just TCU female students, and perhaps start an educational seminar or at least play the videos that Dove has already created that many girls have not seen before. This was my topic for Paper 2, and I feel very educated in this to make this my top choice for the collaborative proposal topic.
Parking at TCU.
This is definitely a problem for the entire TCU body, including both students and faculty/staff. Parking tickets are given out constantly, and the high rates of such little mistakes are very frustrating. TCU keeps building more dorms and other buildings, but these new entities are taking parking lots away, but nothing else is being created in replace of them. There are two very small lots for all of main campus parking that are always full, and freshman parking is about a 15-minute walk away from some dorms, such as mine in Clark. I think the solution to this needs to be a parking garage. Due to the fact that we are a small school placed in the middle of Fort Worth, we can’t exactly expand outward, we can only expand upward. I understand that there are risks such as rape and other sort of violence that is generally associated with parking garages, but there could easily be some sort of escort service, similar to Froggie 5-0. One thing for sure though is the fact that this does need to change, and soon.
The plus/minus system.
In cases, the plus/minus system can be a good thing, but it also messes up the GPA scale. The most noticeable thing that many students at TCU don’t like about this system is the fact that there is only an A-, not an A+, therefore not balancing the GPA scale. In the schools defense, professors try and make a more accurate depiction of students’ grades, but something needs to change. There should either be an A+ added to this category, or just take the plus/minus system away entirely, as it is affecting TCU students and their GPA.
food for thought. 
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