The TCU Rangers worked to help the community and increase Horned Frog spirit, as kids from the Safe Haven-Martin Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Fort Worth caught passes and tackled SuperFrog...

The 2010 midterm elections were an obvious example that voters were not happy with the direction of the country and did not see the change in Washington that they envisioned two years earlier. Voters were still concerned about the unemployment rate, and they have now put Republicans into office in hopes that they will adequately deal with unemployment issues.

As a result of these elections, I expect three main things will happen.

Swimming & Diving

The TCU women's swimming & diving team lost to San Diego State on Saturday 123-173. Sophomore Sabine Rasch set a university record in the 100-freestyle, finishing the freestyle with a time of 50.75. Senior Maria Paula Alvarez also competed strong for the Frogs individually with a win in both the 500-freestyle and the 1000-freestyle. TCU is now 1-1, 1-1 while SDSU leads the Mountain West Conference 5-0, and are 6-0 overall. The women's team will be back in the water Nov. 11 at home against Colorado State.

In celebration of Veterans Day, a joint committee representing veterans from all military branches has coordinated several events this week, including a wreath-laying ceremony.

Senior strategic communications major John Harvey said the theme of this year's celebration is "Reflections of service and sacrifice" of not only the veterans memorialized in Veterans Plaza in front of Reed Hall, but also the more than 200 veterans who are attending TCU.

Student Government Association elections are live on my.tcu.edu today.

Candidates will be available for questions at SGA's GrillFest by the Founders Statue from 11-1 p.m. today.

At GrillFest, SGA will provide free hot dogs to the student body in an attempt to promote the elections and get the student body involved, SGA Elections and Regulations Chair Lizzy Caudill said.

Last year's election brought in a little over 2,000 voters, according to the total votes from the 2010 ballots.

The voting polls opened at 7 a.m. this morning and will end tomorrow at noon.

On the night of Nov. 2, a group of TCU students went to KXAS NBC Channel 5 as volunteers to enter elections results into the system, myself included. Many of us were nervous and unsure of what to do. But we eventually found a rhythm and without thinking about it, we became a part of the democratic process.

We saw what happened behind the scenes during an election and heard what the people who run the elections had to say. We typed, phoned and updated from 6 p.m. to midnight and left laughing and talking about how great it had been.