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Students discuss religious topics in a small group. (Photo courtesy of tcuwesley.org)
Wednesday nights at TCU’s Methodist campus ministry provide religious exploration and fellowship
By Boots Giblin, Staff Writer
Published Mar 27, 2024
Students at the Wesley said they found community on Wednesday nights.

    A final goodbye for Brachman

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    Brachman Hall got the farewell it deserved before being torn down this May. 

    The main lobby of the residence hall was filled with alumni and current residents Saturday, reminiscing about the place they called home.

    Brachman Hall Director Jeff Alexander said roughly 140 alumni and 30 current students signed up for the event and by the looks of it, almost everyone showed up.

    Those who came back had a full plate on their agenda. They had a chance to tour the building, write down some of their favorite memories and leave their handprint on the wall.

    “It just has so much history, you can see it just looking around right now,” Alexander said.

    “They tried a lot to reach out to former Brachman residents and bring them back one last time, tying them in with the modern Brachman and bringing it full circle,” said Danny Kolzow, a senior nursing major and current RA.

    Current Brachman Hall residents, past residents, alumni, resident assistants and faculty members all showed up to get one last look at the storied residence hall.

    One alumni, Craig Taylor, class of 1987, said he has some fond memories of the residence hall he called home during his sophomore year at school. He said his favorite involved some neighbors bending the rules a bit.

    “The guy that lived above me was fracturing the rules a bit,” Taylor said. “He had a dog.”

    This isn’t the first time someone on campus has snuck in a pet but this resident had an interesting way of hiding his furry friend.

    “Every night we would see a basket getting lowered by a rope,” Taylor said. “The dog’s name was Rupert and Rupert would jump out of the basket, do his business and hop back up.”

    “It has become a home for me the last three years,” Kolzow said. “It would be cool to come back one day and show it to my kids or just come back and just look over it again but I do realize that its better for TCU as a whole to be taken down.”

    Many of the alumni who came back Saturday did just that.

    Full families were in attendance with mothers and fathers showing their children around the place they called home.

    “When you invest a year of your life living somewhere you grow some emotional attachment too it,” Taylor said.