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Respect, rankings contested by coach

Respect, rankings contested by coach

Published Sep 12, 2007

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Last season, head coach Gary Patterson questioned the respect given to TCU when it defeated Texas Tech. Tuesday, Patterson questioned respect again, only this time it followed a loss to the Texas Longhorns and subsequent drop from the top 25 rankings.

Lowering student-to-faculty ratio key, chancellor says

Lowering student-to-faculty ratio key, chancellor says

Published Sep 12, 2007

The university has hired 20 faculty members this fall, contributing to the almost 60 new faculty and instructional positions that have been added during the past three years, Chancellor Victor Boschini said at the Honors Convocation on Tuesday.Boschini said the current student-to-faculty ratio is 14 to 1.

"We are committed to further lowering this key measure of educational excellence to 13-to-1 in the future," he said.

Hall of Fame disc golfer to oversee campus course design

Published Sep 12, 2007

Lace up your walking shoes and polish your Frisbees because a disc golf course on campus has already been staked. Student Government Association President Jace Thompson said the course is waiting on approval from the Physical Plant and administration, but after that he hopes the course will be ready.

"The course has been staked out and played so the only issue now is approval," Thompson said. "The students might have to take it to the Board of Trustees but they're willing to do that to get this course running."

Non-profit finances students in need

Published Sep 12, 2007

For the past 19 years, a private foundation has been helping non-traditional students by rewarding them a monthly allowance in the form of a unique scholarship.According to financial aid representatives, the terms of the scholarship are simple: the gift is to be given to a non-traditional student with financial need. However, some non-traditional students agree it's not the terms of the scholarship that has them asking questions, but rather why the scholarship is not advertised publicly.

Students should limit activities, take time to relax

Published Sep 12, 2007

Joining and getting involved too much in college can become more of a hassle than not sometimes. College students generally feel the urgent need to get involved in their school or university in order to belong, to be accepted and to find people with whom friendships and relationships can occur and blossom. Through time, however, these once helpful and genial activities can quickly turn time-consuming and stressful. Yet, college students everywhere still feel determined to be as involved as possible as well as keeping themselves consistently busy.

Displaced freshmen inhabit study rooms

Displaced freshmen inhabit study rooms

Published Sep 12, 2007

While some students study in their living space, usually in dorm rooms, some TCU students are living in designated study rooms.Some male students were placed in study rooms because of an increase in applications,...

New shop to provide subs, beer

Published Sep 12, 2007

Starting in November, students 21 and older can walk up to the window of a new South University Drive restaurant and order a frozen daiquiri to-go. Buffalo Bros. Pizza Wings and Subs is scheduled to open Nov. 1 at 3015 S. University Drive next door to Dutch's Burgers and Beer. The restaurant will fill the old Texadelphia store lot.

Jon Bonnell, a co-owner of the restaurant, said the restaurant has a beer and wine license that allows alcohol to be served on or off the premises.

Voting glitch an amateur error

Published Sep 11, 2007

Technology is of good use only when prepared, organized people are behind it. The Mr. and Ms. TCU voting that was scheduled to be available on my.tcu.edu on Thursday did not start working until Monday.

Natalie Boone, assistant director of the Student Government Association, said the initial reason for the delay was that not all of the photographs of the nominees were available by Thursday. Then, SGA decided to hold off voting Friday because of the number of students traveling to Austin, Boone said.

Volleyball: Squad to face Colorado State

Published Sep 11, 2007

The volleyball team will look to continue its winning ways Wednesday when it travels to Fort Collins, Colo. to face Colorado State in its conference opener.The squad won its eighth consecutive match when it downed Denver in the finals of the Molten/LaQuinta Invitational Saturday, hosted by TCU.

The Horned Frogs are 10-1 in the early stages of the season and prepare for a Colorado State team coming off of a tournament victory of its own at the Hilton Classic on Saturday in Fort Collins, Colo.

Coach: Team to work on unity heading into conference games

Published Sep 11, 2007

After a heartbreaking 1-0 double overtime loss to the Rice Owls, Horned Frogs' soccer returns home for a 7 p.m. match against the UT-San Antonio Roadrunners. With the first conference game less than a month away, the team is primarily focused on building team unity and preparing for conference, head coach Dan Abdalla said.

"We are using these games as preparation to teach the team how to win once we get into conference," Abdalla said.

Frogs stumble against UT

Frogs stumble against UT

Published Sep 11, 2007

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Owner a part of history at local student hangout

Owner a part of history at local student hangout

Published Sep 11, 2007

Not everyone famous in the TCU microcosm needs to wear a tie to work.Known only as "Dave" by patrons of The University Pub, Dave Mitchell, 55, has been a regular face behind those wooden doors for more than eight years, with father-like wisdom and a third-eye that watches over all who enter.

Dry rot covers the wooden door outside his office. A faded sign in red and white paint reads, "The University Pub, Hours Mon-Sat 4 P.M.-2 A.M."