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Special: Coach: Top 4 shooters ready for championship

Published Feb 3, 2006

In a game where the scores are big and the targets are small, TCU's rifle team has started the season in record fashion. The women's goals are quite precise: each bull's-eye they shoot at is roughly the...

Special: Men’s tennis team has high hopes for season

Published Feb 3, 2006

The TCU men's tennis team said it is beginning the 2006 season with high expectations."I believe we have a great squad," head coach Joey Riv‚ said .

Last weekend, the team proved just how good they could be by defeating No. 36-ranked Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.

"It was a great start to win last weekend in the first match of the season," Riv‚ said. "I am very pleased, but there is a lot of room for improvement."

The Horned Frogs welcome three newcomers to the team: freshmen Andrei Mlendea, Kriegler Brink and Cosmin Cotet.

Special: Team to add depth, diversity, coach says

Published Feb 3, 2006

The track and field team may be sticking with its guns in the 2006 spring season, but it is also looking to make some noise in nontraditional areas.Head coach Darryl Anderson said while the team will ride...

Controversial Moments in Film History

Published Feb 3, 2006

1915: "The Birth of a Nation"Director D.W. Griffith's portrait of the Reconstruction (and, in turn, the Ku Klux Klan) era has enraged as many viewers as it has captivated.

1967: "Guess Who's Coming

to Dinner"

Starring Sydney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, this film was the first film to deal with interracial relationships. It revolved around Poitier's impending marriage to Hepburn and Tracy's daughter, played by Katharine Houghton.

1969: "Midnight Cowboy"

Cowboys Consternation

Published Feb 3, 2006

When the Los Angeles Times first reviewed "Brokeback Mountain," a film that chronicles a friendship and love story between two cowboys, it praised the film but posed the question, "Will it play in Plano?"The more apt question might have been, "Will it play in Fort Worth?"

In a city where the tip of a white Stetson is synonymous with, "Howdy ma'am," and boots are more common than Manolos, the fate of a gay cowboy movie seemed doomed from the start.

Commercialism usurping games

Published Feb 3, 2006

With Superbowl XL just around the corner, people all over the nation are gearing up for one of America's most accepted and adored cultural pastimes - commercial watching.No joke. When it comes to television, nothing is more inundated with advertisements and selling points than the Big Game. It has gotten to the point that people are loading couches and drinking beers not to watch football, but manipulative attempts by advertisers at brainwashing Americans into buying junk like a Half-Pounder Fatty McCheese or UltraMega Light Super Beer.

Leadership class plans auction

Leadership class plans auction

Published Feb 2, 2006

A silent art auction and reception will be held Friday to raise scholarship funds for Samuel's Heart, a leadership program that seeks to provide scholarships to educate children ages 6-13 in the arts, said Marcy Paul, program coordinator.Paul said she became interested in starting Samuel's Heart after taking classes at Arts Fifth Avenue with art instructor Jo Dufo, who works with socially and economically disadvantaged children.

Paul said she knew she had to get involved when she saw the artwork Dofu brought out of her students.

King dies, leaves her own legacy

Published Feb 2, 2006

Coretta Scott King not only carried on her husband's legacy but proved to be a leader in her own right, members of the TCU community said Tuesday.The 78-year-old "first lady of the civil rights movement" died in her sleep Tuesday night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Doctors said the cause of death was respiratory failure.

Tracy Syler-Jones, director of communications, remembered King as someone with strength and endurance.

Wireless Internet available in dorms

Published Feb 2, 2006

Newly installed wireless Internet allows students in all main-campus dorms to surf the Net, no strings attached.The Student Government Association passed a bill last semester, allocating $7,500 to the installation of wireless Internet, said former House Rep. Justin Brown.

Bill Senter, manager of Technical Services, said the university paid an additional $2,700 to cover what SGA could not.

Brown, who helped write the bill, said he noticed a need for wireless access before he was enrolled at TCU.

Take charge, role model says

Take charge, role model says

Published Feb 2, 2006

In order to get ahead in the business world, students should have tenacity, believe in themselves and be frugal with their money, a leading businesswoman said Wednesday night at a meeting hosted by the CEO Club.Nancy Tartaglino Richards, the founder and chairwoman of three different companies, told about 60 students how she worked her way to become the owner of the fourth largest woman-owned business in Texas.

Sequel more unbalanced than original

Published Feb 2, 2006

"Big Momma's House 2" is a bland, formulaic comedy for the masses. Though I was not amused, the only thing keeping me from an early nap was the laughter from the rest of the audience. We quickly find out that Malcolm Turner, played by Martin Lawrence, has been busy since the original film. He's married main squeeze Sherrie, played by Nia Long, and given up undercover work.

When Turner hears his partner has been killed in action, he is forced to take drastic measures.

Lady Frogs to play equally-matched team

Lady Frogs to play equally-matched team

Published Feb 2, 2006

The Lady Frogs may find themselves looking in the mirror Thursday evening when they face the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (12-6, 4-3), a team head coach Jeff Mittie said is similar in some ways to TCU. "They're more like we are in that they attack off of the dribble," Mittie said. "They run a lot of motion offense ... they put the ball on the floor."

The Rebels penetrating attack is led by senior guard Sheena Moore, who leads the team in both points (13.2) and assists (3.6) per game. Mittie said Moore is the central figure in UNLV's ability to break down defenses.