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Baseball looks to improve conference standing against Air Force

Baseball looks to improve conference standing against Air Force

Published Apr 4, 2008

The baseball team will pick up conference play today, starting a three-game series against cellar-dwellers Air Force.


The Horned Frogs have won their last two games, but are in second-to-last place in the Mountain West Conference with a 2-4 record.


The Falcons have had an incredibly rough stretch, failing to win a conference game all of last season, and starting this season 0-5 in the Mountain West.

Money to be divvied up to liquor-free events

Published Apr 4, 2008

Today is the last day for student organizations to apply for $200 to finance alcohol-free or alcohol-awareness events in honor of Alcohol Awareness Month, the assistant director of the Alcohol and Drug...

Professors to debut compositions at cello concert

Published Apr 4, 2008

Mozart, Vivaldi or Bach's compositions often grace Ed Landreth Hall, but for the first time Saturday, the cello ensemble will perform original compositions by faculty.


"Symphony for Violoncelli" and "Anxieties of the Heart" will echo through the music hall along with the sounds of classical compositions, said Jesus Castro-Balbi, founder and director of the TCU Cello Ensemble.

Accounting department toughens course retake policy

Published Apr 4, 2008

Correction: Lower-level accounting classes are not allowed to be retaken once a student has taken an upper-level accounting course. This includes only ACCT 20153 and 20163, and not ACCT 20653, which is a new accounting course for business minors only.


While the Faculty Senate is investigating a new course retake policy, the accounting department is implementing its own.

Student organization to bring Holocaust museum to campus

Published Apr 4, 2008

Beginning Monday, a Jewish student organization on campus will host a series of events in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom Hashoah, which falls on May 2 this year.


The organization, TCU Hillel, will create a Holocaust mini-museum in the Brown-Lupton Student Center that the public can visit Monday through Wednesday, said Belle Marco, TCU Hillel president.


Arnold Barkman, an associate professor of accounting and Hillel's faculty adviser, said this is the first time the group has ever attempted to create a mini-museum.

Students should get involved in AIDS awareness

Published Apr 4, 2008

The invisible monster rears its head to ravage you from the inside out, and you are completely unaware. And, what's that? You don't care? This monster has killed millions and it's only 25 years old.

That is, the first cases of AIDS, were documented in newspapers 25 years ago. This monster stems from the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, and it's invisible because no one seems to care anymore.

Call girl scandal given unnecessary attention

Published Apr 3, 2008

There have been many events in the past couple of years that have greatly impacted our culture and made us question who we are as Americans.Some people might be thinking of the Iraq war, Sept. 11 or Hurricane...

Veterans deserve better care after returning from service

Published Apr 3, 2008

It has cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives, and the anniversary last week of our invasion has kept the war at the forefront of our minds. Our country hails the troops fighting in Iraq, but when they return home, it's some thanks they get.


Their needs are not being adequately met.


More than 400 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are currently homeless.

High ranking creates job opportunities for Neeley students

Published Apr 3, 2008

Neeley School of Business students are in the right place at the right time, especially students in the entrepreneurship program.Fort Worth was recently ranked as the ninth best place in the nation to...

Sarahs not offended by slighting slogans in movie ads

Sarahs not offended by slighting slogans in movie ads

Published Apr 3, 2008

Sarah Marshall, a senior advertising/public relations major, was eating dinner with her boyfriend about three weeks ago when a friend came up and asked if they were OK.It was one of many calls and Facebook...

Gossip site founder: If subpoenaed, will identify users

Published Apr 3, 2008

Matt Ivester, the founder of JuicyCampus.com, told the Skiff on Tuesday that he would comply with a lawful subpoena seeking user information. The site stores user IP addresses, which could be used to track user identities, but it doesn't hold user identity information.


The founder of college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com said Tuesday that he would turn over users' identities if lawfully subpoenaed.

Fortune: Fort Worth launching pad for businesses

Published Apr 3, 2008

Students interested in starting a business will not have to go far to find a start.


Fortune Small Business recently ranked Fort Worth the ninth-best place in the nation to "live and launch" a business. David Minor, director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center, said this designation will attract students to Neeley's entrepreneurship program.