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AddRan to fill Scharbauer Hall later this month

Published Dec 2, 2009

Eight AddRan College of Liberal Arts departments, along with the AddRan dean's office, will be moving into the new Scharbauer Hall in late December.

Andrew Schoolmaster, the dean of AddRan College, said the John V. Roach Honors College and the departments of political science, modern languages and literatures, Spanish and Hispanic studies, philosophy, economics, sociology and anthropology and criminal justice will move into Scharbauer Hall Dec. 28 and 29.

Focusing on fluffy bills a waste of time

Published Dec 2, 2009

Congress has been busy since President Barack Obama was elected. Members have had to address the stimulus plan and health care, two of the most important facets of Obama's goals while in office. But the...

Patterson to make contract extension annoucement

Patterson to make contract extension annoucement

Published Dec 2, 2009

Any speculation about the university's head football coach Gary Patterson resigning and taking a job at another university could be proved incorrect this morning.

Patterson and the university have agreed to a contract extension and an official announcement is expected Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Web site.



According to the Sports Illustrated Web site, Patterson's contract could be extended by at least 2 years and include raises for his assistant coaches.

Frog football not only success story this year

Published Dec 2, 2009

A Horned Frog team set a record for wins and is making an appearance in national postseason play, and this time we're not talking football.The national waves coming from TCU are not only coming from Amon...

Sob story not Frogs’ style

Published Dec 2, 2009

Last holiday season Mack Brown, head coach of the Texas Longhorns, got more air time than Santa Claus. You couldn't turn on a TV, open a newspaper or listen to the radio without having to listen to the...

Lambert kiss was a freedom of expression

Published Dec 1, 2009

People were shocked at Adam Lambert's so called "controversial" performance at the American Music Awards last weekend. The flashy performance included a same-sex kiss (Lambert is openly gay), and a few seconds where oral sex was simulated with one of the dancers and a middle finger. Lambert admitted he got "carried away" when he was performing, and because of the late hour (late enough to avoid any FCC fines, according to RollingStone.com) he didn't think it was a big deal.

Speaker gives insight into homeless life

Published Dec 1, 2009

Life doesn't wait for anyone.

That's what Liz Murray, a woman who went from sleeping on the streets of New York to graduating from Harvard University, told students Monday afternoon.



Both of Murray's parents were drug addicts and she was raised on welfare.



"In my neighborhood, we celebrated 12 holidays a year - the first of the month when the welfare check came in," Murray said. "The mailman was a local celebrity."

Event to bring about AIDS awareness

Published Dec 1, 2009

Student organizer and sophomore international communications major Chad Sluder said the three goals of today's "Lives are on the Line" AIDS event were donations, lobbying and awareness.

Today is the 21st annual World AIDS Day. Through the event he planned at TCU, Sluder said he hoped to raise money to donate to the World Vision program in Zambia. He said World Vision is a nonprofit that organizes programs and fundraisers to help international communities suffering from various illnesses.

Vampire class to be added to spring course catalog

Published Dec 1, 2009

"Twilight," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and HBO's "True Blood" could be on a course syllabus next semester for film-TV-digital media students.

FTDM will offer a new "topics in film" class called Bloodsuckers, taught by Tricia Jenkins, an assistant FTDM professor.



Students in the class will study the changing image of vampires throughout history from silent films in the 1920s to current films like "Twilight," Jenkins said. FTDM majors and minors may take the class for media analysis credit.

Forced physical activity singles out obese students

Published Dec 1, 2009

We keep hearing that heart disease is on the rise in America. How can such a preventable disease be so common and take over the population? There are many explanations, but a more important question is...

Woods should be able to keep privacy after incident

Published Dec 1, 2009

Over Thanksgiving weekend the biggest story in the news was the single car accident involving professional golfer Tiger Woods outside his home early Friday morning. It was first reported by ESPN that Woods was in critical condition in an Orlando hospital, but it actually turned out that Woods had just suffered some facial lacerations and other minor injuries. Then, the speculation about the incident began. The National Enquirer reported Woods was having affair with a woman named Rachel Uchitel and that this affair might have been a contributing factor to the accident.

University benefits from football success

Published Dec 1, 2009

For the Horned Frogs, the momentum building to their first appearance in a Bowl Championship Series bowl game was years in the making. Now that head coach Gary Patterson and the athletes behind all the...