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Alumnus believes new ring design won’t help tradition

Well, disappointment is a mild description of my reaction to your new class ring. When you look to schools like Texas A&M with their long traditions, we have nothing to compare.

Just when I thought this school had finally seen the light and revised the square antique TCU ring, you have gone and screwed things up. The idea of all students having the same ring is a wonderful idea, but what on earth ever possessed you to design a new ring.

When I was preparing to graduate in 1995, many of us chose to go with what was described as an antique TCU ring — the square ring.

Why not stick with tradition? Why not choose a ring with some history and legacy?

Instead you have chosen to simply abandon our heritage — our Horned Frog culture — for something new.

What happens when future classes tire of this new design? Does it too find its way to the scrap heap?

We find more and more the idea of a disposable culture, one that simply reinvents itself whenever convenient. I guess this attitude has now found its way to TCU.

Why don’t we simply pull down the statues of our founders lest their memory may hamper TCU’s chameleon-like identity? We should preserve our legacy. We should preserve those things that not only separate us from the other schools but those things that tie us to our past.

God help me if anything should ever happen to my class ring, as I will never wear one of those.

— Steven T. Schammel
Class of 1995