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Weekend Sports!!! Frogs volleyball back to winning ways

Published Sep 29, 2006

TCU volleyball, (14-4, 3-2) swept San Diego State (6-11, 0-5) to get back to their winning ways.After losing back-to-back conference matches to UNLV at home and Colorado State on the road, the Frogs beat...

Pi Kappa Phi raises funds for disabled

Published Sep 29, 2006

Hundreds of students from 11 TCU sororities showed their support for Pi Kappa Phi's cause by participating in activities throughout the week as part of the fraternity's philanthropy event, Push Week.The event aims to raise awareness and funds for people with disabilities.

Matt Kiesel, a senior finance and accounting major, said the event extends support to the fraternity's national philanthropy, Push America, which is a national nonprofit organization devoted to helping disabled people. It was founded by Pi Kapp in 1977.

Frogs hot to trot atop horses

Published Sep 29, 2006

The newest Horned Frog team will make its debut Saturday.After three weeks of practice and conditioning, the varsity women's equestrian team will travel to Waco for a head-to-head competition against Baylor, its first competition as a Division 1-A team, said head coach Gary Reynolds.

"This is the most hard-working group of women athletes I've ever seen," Reynolds said. "I would've bet half this team wouldn't have been here the second week after what we did to them the first week at practice."

Faculty favors plus/minus

Published Sep 29, 2006

Faculty members voted 46-8 in favor of the plus/minus grading system yesterday in an assembly open to all faculty.The Faculty Senate has already voted on the issue twice; however, this was the first time...

Grab a few bucks, head to local watering hole

Published Sep 29, 2006

So you just finished a test, and could really use for a cold beer or smooth margarita, but where can you go for the best happy hour in town? Let's break it down by the day.On Mondays, The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium seems to be the best bet as far as atmosphere and price are concerned.

The Flying Saucer offers a variety of domestic and premium beers on draft for $2.50 all night long.

Along with beer, they also have a full-fledged menu for those who might be hungry after that grueling test.

No text too taboo for TCU

Published Sep 29, 2006

"It's Perfectly Normal," a book on sex education, was the most-banned book of last year, and also happens to be sitting on a shelf at TCU's library.So are "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," "Catcher in the Rye" and "What My Mother Doesn't Know," which are all books on the 2005 list of the most frequently challenged books.

For 25 years, Banned Books Week has been nationally recognized during the last week of September.

Keep campus sexually safe, get checked

Published Sep 29, 2006

Sex: it's fun, free and available at any time of day. But with such a simple physical act comes a lot of responsibility to both yourself and your partner or partners. We're talking health. It's important...

Student's site provides free course help

Student’s site provides free course help

Published Sep 29, 2006

A TCU student has created a test review Web site available to college students across the United States for free.The Web site, mycoursereview.com, is the work of Bennett Waxse, a junior biology and chemistry major at TCU.

"The thing that helped me study for class was to make reviews," Waxse said, "and the page was a way to make them more available to people."

Waxse said his site lets students post their own review questions from a class to give other users an idea of what a test may cover.

Tennis team members head West for tournament

Published Sep 29, 2006

Three members of the Lady Frogs' tennis team, senior Ana Cetnik, sophomore Anna Sydorska and junior Kewa Nichols are set to travel to Pacific Palisades, Calif., this weekend for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association's All-American Championship Tournament.Casey Angle, director of Communications for the ITA said this tournament is significant because it is where many top players from schools across the country get to compete against each other.

Online Exclusive!!! Undefeated no more, man

Online Exclusive!!! Undefeated no more, man

Published Sep 29, 2006

Lack of focus, maturity and physicality led to the Horned Frogs 31-17 loss to the BYU Cougars Thursday night."You have to give BYU all the credit," head coach Gary Patterson said. "For some reason, in this program, we don't seem to be able to handle success. This ballgame here was the most important ballgame on our schedule up to this point. I don't think you can take anything away from coach Mendenhall. They worked on a short week and they came here and got after us. You got to give BYU a little bit of credit. I thought they did a great job.

Men’s golf ready for big opponents

Published Sep 29, 2006

The men's golf team will travel to the Third Annual Memphis Intercollegiate Tournament to play in a 54-hole tournament Monday and Tuesday.The team has already had a good start to its season with a second-place finish in its first tournament and a 12th-place finish in the Carpet Capital Collegiate.

The team is currently ranked No. 13 by Golf Digest, which, the players said, has given it confidence and focus to succeed.

Modern music lacks heart of popular artists from years past

Published Sep 29, 2006

Popular music has lost its soul. I don't mean that it's no longer good or appealing; I simply mean it's lost its sense of revelation.Modern radio has successfully emasculated the heart and soul from a song. The few times I do feel that apocalyptic sense of danger in popular music is when one of the greats from the past, such as Bob Dylan with his new album, "Modern Times," reminds us of what has been missing.

Nowadays, however, hearing an entire album of heart-revealing music is becoming just as rare as hearing such a song on the radio.