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Nobel Prize winner visits honors students

Published Oct 15, 2010

People must question the information they encounter, Nobel Prize winner Harry Kroto told students and faculty crowded in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom Thursday night.

"Without evidence, anything goes," Kroto said.

Young people must look at the evidence to determine truth for themselves. Science is importance because it teaches people to challenge what they know, he said.

University needs to do more than declare itself “green”

Published Oct 15, 2010

By the end of October, the Environmental Protection Agency will have completed a proposal requiring states to meet a new national standard for ozone levels in the air. The standard of 85 parts-per-billion of ozone chemicals in the air could be lowered up to 30 percent.

The Dallas-Fort Worth area has been breaking that standard for quite some time. What is surprising is the lack of action taken to try and improve not only the region's emission levels, but also the university's commitment to living green.

Week 7 of the Skiffs college Pick Em poll

Week 7 of the Skiff’s college Pick ‘Em poll

Published Oct 14, 2010

Every week, Chancellor Victor Boschini and several student leaders pick who they think will win top upcoming college football games in the Daily Skiff college football pick 'em challenge. TCU head twirler Skyler Mathis started in the poll two weeks late and her cumulative score is an average of all the rankings during those first two weeks. Last week, each participant missed the upset of Miami vs. Florida State. TCU News Now sports director Chris Blake and the Daily Skiff sports editor Madison Pelletier have the lead with the highest cumulative score at 23-7.

Cycling rally to promote air quality awareness Saturday

Published Oct 14, 2010

Cyclists will take off from Sundance Square on Saturday for the Clean Air Bike Rally, an 8.5 mile bike ride through downtown Fort Worth and Trinity Trails with the aim of raising awareness about the need for air quality improvement in Fort Worth.

This is the first year the route has included trails and streets. Hunter said event coordinators want to encourage biking for recreation and transportation and show cyclists that downtown streets are bicycle-friendly.

BYU game one of the most anticipated games each season

Published Oct 14, 2010

Since the TCU's arrival in the Mountain West Conference, its rivalry with BYU has quickly grown into one of the most anticipated games of each season for the Horned Frogs.

Although the last two match-ups between the two ended in lopsided victories for the Frogs who won 32-7 in 2008 in Fort Worth before beating the Cougars 38-7 last season in Provo, Utah, with the conference championship at stake most years, the rivalry has quickly grown in intensity.

TCU even went as far as to place a BYU helmet on one of its tackling dummmies to motivate players for the game in 2008.

The Purple Poll Results

Published Oct 14, 2010

Purple Poll

Do you think that the health care reform should have done more?

Jacob Broom

Junior finance and accounting major

"No, because it has just added to the budget deficit."

Scott Summers

Senior entrepreneurial management major

"I think [it] did enough because there was not enough reason to change the health care industry as it was."

Matt Saxon

Sophomore neuroscience major

Halftime video to feature chancellor’s dance moves and 1400 volunteers

Published Oct 14, 2010

Spectators at Saturday's Frogs for the Cure football game will see the provost in a kilt and the chancellor's dance moves in a video shown during halftime, Frogs for the Cure chairwoman Ann Louden said.

The video will feature 1,400 people in 40 campus groups and organizations, 400 pink beach balls and one helicopter, Louden said. The video is centered around a song written by alumnus Tim Halperin and will aim to inspire the community in the fight against breast cancer.

Progress begins with American citizens, not politicians

Progress begins with American citizens, not politicians

Published Oct 14, 2010

Election season is now in full swing and the promises of what the federal government will or will not do are flying in as thick and fast as the political smears. Liberal candidates say that if they are...

EPA to complete proposal to reduce ozone levels

EPA to complete proposal to reduce ozone levels

Published Oct 14, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will finalize a proposal by the end of October that would require states to increase efforts to reduce ozone levels, a spokesperson for the organization said.

Dave Bary said states would have to meet a new national air quality standard for ozone levels in the air. The current standard of 85 parts per billion of ozone chemicals in the air could be lowered by nearly 30 percent.

Sports Weekend Preview

Sports Weekend Preview

Published Oct 14, 2010

WOMEN'S SOCCER

The TCU women's soccer team will take on Utah Saturday at home. Junior forward Jordan Calhoun was recently named Athlete of the Week by the TCU Athletics Department as she became TCU's all-time leading goal scorer against UNLV. TCU is 1-1-0 in conference play and 7-6-1 overall.

Soccer vs. Utah

Day: Saturday, Oct. 16

Time: 10 a.m.

Where: Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium

WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL

Legalization more effective than War on Drugs

Legalization more effective than War on Drugs

Published Oct 14, 2010

How are a hard-line conservative and a drug dealer the same? After all, one wants to keep drugs illegal and the other...wants to keep drugs illegal. "What?" you say. "How can that be? Drug dealers want...

Friend: Student lived to serve others

Published Oct 14, 2010

If one thing was agreed upon by friends and family about 21-year-old Stephen Scherer, it was that he lived to serve others. Friends, family, employers from the TCU Police Department and professors filled...