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StarPoint students to participate in Staff Assembly Halloween

Published Oct 28, 2010

Some elementary school students will not have to wait until Halloween to get their candy fix.

The TCU Staff Assembly, a group of staff representing all areas of the university, will hold a trick-or-treat event today for students from StarPoint School and KinderFrogs School to celebrate Halloween.

Although this will not be the first time for this event, this will be the first year that SuperFrog will make an appearance, a coordinator for the event Doris Wallace said. SuperFrog will be there to help pass out candy and take pictures with the students, she said.

Choral performance to honor late music professor

Choral performance to honor late music professor

Published Oct 28, 2010

The TCU School of Music will honor the memory of Choral Professor Ron Shirey with a performance at Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 1, the one-year anniversary of his passing.

Shirey established the Fort Worth-Texas Christian University Symphonic Choir, which performed at Carnegie Hall in New York on six different occasions during his 33 years at the university, according to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram obituary.

Effective response for phishing attack

Published Oct 28, 2010

Early Thursday, a sizable number of university students and faculty awoke to find a peculiar message sitting in their inboxes. The subject line read, "Your Account has been flagged," and an attachment...

Prolific doesn’t mean persuasive in advertising

Published Oct 28, 2010

We live in a media-dominated age. Unless one becomes a hermit and withdraws from society, it is nearly impossible to escape the ever-increasing media presence. Whether it's for the newest Starbucks drink...

LEAPS promotes literacy awareness program

LEAPS promotes literacy awareness program

Published Oct 28, 2010

Students will come together Saturday for a program to help get Fort Worth elementary and middle school students to read.

Reading Frogs is an event that happens once a semester at which students read and hand out books to about 500 students, ages five to 13, to get them excited about reading and show that it is cool, TCU liaison for Reading Frogs Brett Neal said.

"The schools the students come from have low literacy rates and [the event] gives [TCU students] an opportunity to help with their reading," Neal said.

Week 9 of the Skiff’s college Pick ‘Em poll

Published Oct 28, 2010

Every week, Chancellor Victor Boschini and several student leaders pick who they think will win top upcoming college football games in the Daily Skiff college football pick 'em challenge. Last week, each participant missed the upset of Oklahoma vs. Missouri after Missouri beat previously No. 1-ranked Oklahoma. Sports editor Madison Pelletier and student body president Marlon Figueroa had the highest score last week of 4-1. Pelletier has the lead with the highest cumulative score at 30-10. Boschini and News Now sports director Chris Blake are tied for second at 29-11.

Sports weekend preview

Published Oct 28, 2010

Women's Volleyball

The TCU women's volleyball team will travel to Colorado Springs, Colo. to take on Air Force on Friday. The Frogs look to rebound from a 3-1 loss dealt by BYU last weekend. The team also looks to even out its 1-5 road record. TCU is 13-10 overall and 3-5 in conference play.

Volleyball vs. Air Force

Day: Friday

Time: 8 p.m.

Where: Colorado Springs, Colo.

Swimming & Diving

To vote or not to vote

Published Oct 28, 2010

Junior strategic communication major Megan Swisher registered to vote in the Oklahoma midterm elections and planned on submitting her absentee ballot by the end of the week. Like Swisher, many university students live outside of the local Tarrant County voting district.

However, filling out an absentee ballot for the midterm elections could have been an option as long as students planned ahead, said Joanne Green, associate professor for political science.

The deadline to register for absentee ballots has passed in most states, she said.

Stories, rituals about human fears have kept the species alive

Published Oct 28, 2010

Though it may be a great inconvenience and is certainly unpleasant at times, fear is an exceptionally useful emotion to have. Perhaps our most valuable weapon, fear has kept the human race alive for millennia. After...

TCU’s defense should dominate UNLV

Published Oct 28, 2010

After the BCS standings came out this past week, Horned Frog fans were pleasantly surprised to see TCU ranked No. 4 in the nation. With a dominating win against the UNLV Rebels, the Frogs could leap Boise State, since the two teams are only separated by .0013 points in the BCS standings. UNLV has had a rough year. The team is 1-6, with its only win coming against New Mexico. TCU should use this opportunity to prepare for the massive showdown with Utah next weekend.

When TCU is on offense

Jennifer Prentice remembered fondly

Jennifer Prentice remembered fondly

Published Oct 27, 2010

Twelve days ago, the TCU community suffered the tragic loss of Jennifer Anne (Jenny) Prentice, class of 2007, who died from injuries suffered when gunmen opened fire on a restaurant in Guatemala City.

Jenny Prentice was a bright light to many in the TCU community during her four years here from 2003 to 2007. On behalf of the TCU economics faculty and everyone else who knew Jenny, I offer this brief remembrance of her spirited achievements during and since her undergraduate years.

New bats will take some getting used to

New bats will take some getting used to

Published Oct 27, 2010

Recently, the NCAA changed the standard baseball bat used in college baseball, requiring baseball bats made with an aluminum composition, altering the way the balls come off the bats. Jim Schlossnagle,...