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Patterson: Defense prepped for Air Force’s offense

Published Oct 19, 2010

For most football teams, a defense prepares all week for the opposing offense, but head football coach Gary Patterson said he has been preparing his defense for Air Force's offense all season. Air Force...

Confidence matters little without a diploma

Confidence matters little without a diploma

Published Oct 19, 2010

"Waiting for Superman," the award-winning documentary that recently hit limited theatres nationwide, speaks on the touchy subject of public education in the United States. Specifically, the movie touches...

Intramural, club sports lack proper practice space

Intramural, club sports lack proper practice space

Published Oct 19, 2010

Once, an intramural softball player hit a foul ball. But instead of just hitting the ball into foul territory, the player also struck a practicing rugby player, a campus recreation director said.

Cristie Carpenter, associate director of campus recreation, said club sports have faced issues with limited practice space and a limited budget.

Carpenter coordinates practice facilities for the teams and said this scenario was not the first space issue club sports teams have faced while trying to all fit into the intramural field for practices.

Yankees need to step up to avoid failure

Yankees need to step up to avoid failure

Published Oct 19, 2010

After defeating the Yankees in Game 3 of the ALCS the Rangers have the advantage.

In Game 4 the Yankees will send troubled starter A.J. Burnett (10-15 5.26 ERA) to the mound. Burnett was part of the massive offseason shopping spree the Yankees had two years ago. Burnett was given a five-year, $82.5 million deal. So far he has been not been playing up to his ability. This creates a major problem for the Yankees rotation. If the Yankees lose Game 4 then they will be one game away from elimination.

Cowboys constant failure due to penalties

Cowboys’ constant failure due to penalties

Published Oct 19, 2010

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The reason that the Dallas Cowboys are terrible this season is due to penalties. In the Cowboys' loss to the Minnesota Vikings Sunday, the Cowboys were flagged...

Immigration stance key to gubernatorial race

Immigration stance key to gubernatorial race

Published Oct 19, 2010

The Washington Post recently reported that the Obama administration has announced that in the past year it has deported a record number of illegal immigrants. The number deported has reached more than 392,000 with half of them being convicted criminals. These are very high numbers and it is a great start to fixing the illegal immigration problem. The main problem, however, is still the number of people coming into the country illegally.

Free workshop to help students and alumni break into job market

Published Oct 19, 2010

Students and alumni can learn how to tap into the unadvertised job market in a free Nothing But Networking workshop 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center, a student affairs director said.

Susan Nethery, associate director of student affairs programs and marketing, said online registration through the Career Services website is preferred and future attendees may register until the event begins. Close to 200 participants had registered as of Tuesday morning.

Rangers attitude key to season success

Rangers’ attitude key to season success

Published Oct 19, 2010

As a lifelong Texas Rangers fan, I've come to expect the worst in any situation involving my team, be it spring training, opening day, midseason or September.

On the few occasions that the Rangers have made the playoffs in the past 20 years, I dared to hope, but pessimism was still there. I suppose that goes for any Rangers fan, and let's face it: The franchise hasn't given its fans much to cheer about for the last 50 years.

Manners Matter

Published Oct 19, 2010

We've all made this mistake at some point. We accidently let the door shut on someone, or we offend someone with something we said with no intentional malice. Hopefully, if you are a proper human being, you eventually recognize your error and try to fix it.

There are a few things, however, that go unnoticed as being rude, especially on the college campus level. Here are a few:

Changing passwords help prevent phishing

Changing passwords help prevent phishing

Published Oct 19, 2010

The university's requirements for creative and frequently changing passwords are used to prevent phishing and other information insecurity, an information security engineer said.

Barbara McClellan, information security administrator, said that in the past, many students were phished through their university e-mail account.

Phishing is the criminal activity of attaining private information, such as passwords and user names.

According to the university's password change website, students are required to change their passwords every 120 days.

Student hit by car on Berry Street Saturday

Published Oct 19, 2010

Early Saturday morning, the Fort Worth Police Department was dispatched to a major automobile accident involving a TCU student on West Berry Street.

Two officers arrived at the scene to find that Charles Wilkins McLaughlin, 22, had been struck by a tan sedan in front of The Aardvark, according to the incident report from the Fort Worth Police Department.

According to the incident report, the driver, Tyler Wayne Wilt, 25, walked to the bar to pick up his father and to drive him back home.

Halftime show promotes breast cancer awareness

Halftime show promotes breast cancer awareness

Published Oct 18, 2010

The TCU community and Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Fort Worth Affiliate brought together purple and pink in the sixth annual Frogs for the Cure event.

Breast cancer survivors, students, faculty, staff members and alumni gathered at last Saturday's game against Brigham Young University to spread breast cancer awareness across the TCU and Fort Worth communities. Before the game, breast cancer survivors were invited to a pre-game tailgate sponsored by TCU and Komen for the Cure.