An emergency "blue light" phone that is taller than average has been installed in the main Worth Hills parking lot so that students can spot it more easily, a Physical Plant official said.

Harold Leeman, associate director of major projects, said the emergency phone in the main Worth Hills parking lot was made taller than the others because of the large number of SUVs parked in the lot.

"We were afraid that the normal phone might get hidden behind a car," Leeman said.

On Halloween, as the then BCS No. 6-ranked Horned Frogs took on University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Versus cameramen panned to rows upon rows of unoccupied seats, exposing a huge flaw for TCU's nationally prominent football team, now ranked fourth in the nation.

The average home attendance for the 2009 season currently stands at 34,247 fans, about 77 percent of the stadium's total capacity of 44,358 people. While Saturday's game against the University of Utah is sold out, the Horned Frogs' last home sellout was in 2006 against Texas Tech, more than three years ago.

It is about time someone accurately depicts the end of the world.

Today, the long anticipated movie "2012" hits theaters and will tell the story of how the world will come to an end in a little more than two years.

But how could that be fair at all? Society won't get to witness the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. What will our next president accomplish? Freshmen, we won't even be able to graduate.

The preparations around the university's sold out football game Saturday is a "total campus effort," university officials said.

Five different broadcasts, including ESPN College GameDay, will be streaming from campus before, during and after the game and that requires some extra planning, said Ross Bailey, associate athletics director of operations.

"The university will have installed 80 phone lines by the time the whole weekend is over for all of these groups," Bailey said.

Editor's note: This story was revised for accuracy at 6 p.m. Nov. 11.

I hope that around this time next year, most of us will be going to the polls to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. One of the most important elections on that ballot will be the Texas governor's race. After nine years of the Rick Perry administration, the governor is running for an unprecedented third consecutive term.

In October, Christopher Del Conte was hired to replaced Danny Morrison as the university's athletics director. Del Conte had served as the director of intercollegiate athletics for Rice University since...

Walking up to the front door of Fox's Barber Shop, a half-century fades from the annals of haircutting history. An old-fashioned barber pole is the only thing that indicates the presence of a barber shop, tucked away just across the Sandage Avenue commuter and faculty lot since 1957.

Walk inside Fox's and the only tip-off to customers that they haven't experienced a time warp is the color television - even though the TV is at least a quarter century old.

Junior Marlon Figueroa was named Student Government Association president Wednesday along with sophomore Jackie Wheeler as vice president, Chase Bruton as treasurer and Alex Collins as Programming Council chair.

"I was nervous up until the very last minute because all eight of us who ran for elections are great people and very qualified," Figueroa said. "But I am so excited to be president because I put my whole heart into it."