Sharp shooting and TCU cowboy boots are two things that led President Obama to nationally recognize the university's rifle team.

Members of the university rifle team joined 32 other schools Monday on the South Lawn of the White House for a celebration of 2009-10 NCAA Championship teams and, of course, they wore their TCU cowboy boots.

Ross Bailey, associate director of athletics, said the TCU rifle team was one of two teams the president individually recognized.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said the event was a once in a lifetime experience.

The university chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity will be held to higher standards after receiving national recognition as the fraternity's top undergraduate chapter for 2010, the chapter's president said.

TCU Pi Kappa Phi President and senior entrepreneurial management major McCall Grimes said it felt good to be recognized after all the hard work the chapter put in during the year.

Federal government spending of another $50 billion makes some people quiver. President Barack Obama recently proposed a $50 billion plan to improve roads and other infrastructure in the U.S. The plan has many Republicans screaming "stimulus" again while Obama and other Democrats want to make it clear: This plan is not a stimulus.

CNN's Jack Cafferty said the plan would include rebuilding 150,000 miles of roads, 4,000 miles of rails and 150 miles of airport runways.

The study rooms on the first floor of the Brown-Lupton University Union were repurposed as office spaces this year for two fraternity and sorority life advisers and three student activities advisers, a student affairs official said.

The change was made in order to attract student leaders to the area, Executive Director for Student Affairs Administration Mike Russel said.

Scott Dieste, a junior biology major, said he preferred the Student Organizations area before the change because the offices provided students with a quiet place to study.

After a record-setting 2009 campaign in which the volleyball team made its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, a returning player said the team goal is to prove last season was not a fluke.

"Our goal would be to prove to everyone that last year wasn't just a one-time thing," junior setter Megan Munce said. "It's something that we can do consistently and that we hope to do."

Head coach Prentice Lewis said she feels the team will work hard to achieve its goals.

In the first 48 hours after it launched, more than one million users had opened accounts on Ping.

Ping, a social networking service built into Apple iTunes, was introduced last week, along with several other new and updated products.

Tim Halperin, a May 2010 TCU graduate, said he has used social networking sites to promote his music. His songs are available for download on iTunes, however, he is not considered an artist on Ping.

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The university's Vision in Action (VIA) Strategic Plan Update Committee will hold its second town hall meeting today in order to inform and gain feedback from students and faculty about the committee's work.

Provost Nowell Donovan said the meetings, the first of which was held Monday, were intended to get people talking about the VIA and ways to improve the campus.

"The main part of a provost's job is to listen and formulate solutions," Donovan said. "It's meant to help faculty and students and the administration; it's meant to help everyone just do a better job."