This week has seen a whirlwind of zero productivity, anticipation and excitement tied up in a nice little bow of yet more preoccupation in anything other than school or office work. The only problem Frog fans face this week is which one of the many headlines to follow first? So as you sit in class or in a cubicle, taking in as much Frog news as possible on your computer while tuning out everything going on outside your purple blinders, allow me to untangle the web of jubilant mayhem that surrounds Fort Worth before the showdown in Cowtown.

The university got a little more personal with its observance of Veterans Day this year. Instead of limiting itself to a lunch like it did last year, staff at the Office of Inclusiveness and Intercultural...

Students and families in the community will have an opportunity to celebrate the holiday season in another way this December, an Interfraternity Council official said.

IFC President Evan Berlin said the Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Council, National Pan-Hellenic Council, Inc., the National Multicultural Greek Council, Inc. and Programming Council are working together to create an event called "Winter Wonderland."

The event will be a safe and fun alternative way for children in the local community to see holiday lights, Berlin said.

Zeta Tau Alpha sorority's Pink Out promotion to raise awareness for breast cancer and benefit the nonprofit Susan G. Komen for the Cure has run into a competitor far larger than a "Black Out" Facebook event: Nike.

Despite a Nike display staffed by members of the Nike Street Team, Frogs for the Cure T-shirts sales have already passed last year's total of 3,660, said Ann Louden, the chancellor's associate for external relations. More than 4,000 Frogs for the Cure shirts have been sold, and more have been ordered for this week, she said.

Michael Beschloss, an award-winning author and historian, said that only time will show how recent presidential bills affected the country.

Beschloss spoke Tuesday night about presidential history at the inaugural Paul F. Boller Jr. Symposium. The BLUU ballroom was filled with people who held copies of his books while listening to the speech.

The Symposium was held in honor of Paul F. Boller Jr., the first Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in American History at TCU in 1976, Chancellor Victor Boshini said.

Even though students' suggestions have prompted changes to the student tailgates this football season, tailgates still have room for improvement and would benefit from a move to the Campus Commons, a student body officer said.

Kelsie Johnson, student body present, said a move to the Campus Commons was one of the main suggestions from a recent survey sent out to students.

"I'm taking those (surveys) into account as well as just seeing the tailgates themselves, and I think we need more space," Johnson said.

Interfraternity Council has partnered with the athletics department to order 10,000 purple towels with pink ribbons for the Saturday football game against Utah.

IFC originally planned to order 3,000 black towels with pink ribbons in an effort to find a compromise between the Pink Out vs. Black Out controversy that stemmed from a Facebook event urging students to wear black to the Utah game, which had been designated as the Pink Out game in support of breast cancer awareness, said IFC President Evan Berlin.