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TCU track & field athletes compete to qualify for NCAA Indoor Championships

Published Mar 3, 2011

Four of TCU's track & field athletes will travel to Blacksburg, Va., this weekend to compete at the Virginia Tech Final Qualifier. The meet is an opportunity to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in College Station next weekend.

On the women's side, senior sprinter Kristal Juarez and sophomore Kelsey Samuels will represent the Frogs, while senior Mychal Dungey and junior Cameron Parker will represent the men's squad.

Recent grads can make light of thin job market by turning to public sector

Published Mar 3, 2011

The job market is thin for new graduates 8212; we know that, but some college graduates are making the best of it and are giving back at the same time.

In 2009, there was a distinct upturn in students working in the private sector for nonprofit organizations, according to a Wednesday article in The New York Times. Students who were unable to find jobs in the traditional sector were finding out that their desire to give back to the community along with their degrees were very marketable to nonprofit organizations.

MWC announces dates of Frogs? seven conference matchups

Published Mar 3, 2011

The Mountain West Conference has placed TCU's football schedule on the window sill to cool until its Sept. 3 season opener at Baylor. The MWC on Thursday announced the dates of the Frogs' seven conference...

Primatologist Jane Goodall visits campus Monday

Primatologist Jane Goodall visits campus Monday

Published Mar 3, 2011

This article was edited for accuracy at 12:09 March 5, 2011.

British anthropologist and primatologist Jane Goodall will be featured at the Roots & Shoots exhibit on Monday, John Trybus, manager of tour outreach and public relations at the Jane Goodall Institute, said.

As part of the event, which is co-sponsored by TCU and Fort Worth Country Day School, Goodall will advocate for listeners to identify problems and plan projects to make positive changes in their communities, he said. Admission toGoodall's lecture will be by invitation only.

SMUs stadium vandalized with TCU-related messages

SMU’s stadium vandalized with TCU-related messages

Published Mar 3, 2011

Southern Methodist University's Ford Stadium was vandalized sometime between last Friday and Monday with messages referring to TCU, an SMU official said.

Kent Best, executive director of news and communications for SMU, said the vandals sprayed 15 or 16 sections with TCU-related messages using an orange-colored aerosol foam similar to silly string on concession stand covers around the stadium and on a golf cart. Most of the messages were "TCU" and "TCU Frogs," according to photos on smudailymustang.com.

No. 8 TCU hits the road for Lubbock to take on Raiders this weekend

Published Mar 3, 2011

Riding a three-game losing streak, No. 8 TCU (4-4) will hit the road for the second time this season for a three-game series in Lubbock against Texas Tech.

TCU is 3-1 against Big 12 Conference competition so far this season, taking two of three against Kansas in the season series opener and a 2-0 shutout of Baylor on Feb. 22 in Waco. The Red Raiders (8-2) are hitting .347 and averaging 7.9 runs per game, led by Red Raiders' junior infielder Kelby Tomlinson.

Dating sites should eliminate ability to select racial preference

Published Mar 3, 2011

Although the U.S. rarely experiences any large-scale occurrences of racism or segregation nowadays, there are still means by which Americans are expressing segregation. They just think they're doing so in private.

According to a report in Time that examined racial preference in dating websites, whites were more likely to state they had no racial preference but still only communicated with fellow whites.

On the other hand, black people were more likely to state they were interested in other blacks on their profiles but were also more likely to communicate with whites.

Q&A with Pittsburgh head coach and former TCU basketball player Jamie Dixon

Q&A with Pittsburgh head coach and former TCU basketball player Jamie Dixon

Published Mar 3, 2011

Jamie Dixon, former Horned Frog basketball player and current head coach of No. 4 Pittsburgh, said there's no secret to the Big East. TCU basketball's 2012 destination is the toughest conference to play...

Limbaugh’s comments on First Lady’s diet unwarranted

Published Mar 3, 2011

Dear expressively and ideologically challenged talk show hosts: Please take your comments elsewhere. Rush Limbaugh made comments Feb. 21 on his radio show about the first lady's food choice at a dinner...

Mills: New shuttle route receives positive feedback

Published Mar 3, 2011

In the first three weeks of running a shuttle to the West Seventh Street entertainment district, the T attracted around 50 riders using the service each weekend, Joan Hunter, communications manager for The Fort Worth Transportation Authority, said.

The new route began in the middle of February and runs every hour Friday and Saturday nights from 6 p.m. to midnight. The shuttle begins at Worth Hills, drives to Frog Shuttle stops like the Brown-Lupton University Union and then goes directly to West Seventh Street.

Poor parenting cause of Cyrus strife

Published Mar 2, 2011

"The damn show destroyed my family." You would think he's referring to "Jersey Shore" or "Parental Control" or any other reality show that is so popular on television these days, but Billy Ray Cyrus is...

TCU education students go abroad with European Teacher Education Network

TCU education students go abroad with European Teacher Education Network

Published Mar 2, 2011

TCU special education graduate student Kat Deichler signed a two-year contract last month to teach first grade special needs students at an international school in Qatar.

However, she said if someone had told her a year ago that in September 2011 she would begin teaching full-time in another country, she would not have believed them.

"I was a Texas girl," Deichler said. "I was not going anywhere. I was going to stay here and teach forever."