The study rooms on the first floor of the Brown-Lupton University Union were repurposed as office spaces this year for two fraternity and sorority life advisers and three student activities advisers, a student affairs official said.

The change was made in order to attract student leaders to the area, Executive Director for Student Affairs Administration Mike Russel said.

Scott Dieste, a junior biology major, said he preferred the Student Organizations area before the change because the offices provided students with a quiet place to study.

After a record-setting 2009 campaign in which the volleyball team made its first-ever NCAA tournament appearance, a returning player said the team goal is to prove last season was not a fluke.

"Our goal would be to prove to everyone that last year wasn't just a one-time thing," junior setter Megan Munce said. "It's something that we can do consistently and that we hope to do."

Head coach Prentice Lewis said she feels the team will work hard to achieve its goals.

In the first 48 hours after it launched, more than one million users had opened accounts on Ping.

Ping, a social networking service built into Apple iTunes, was introduced last week, along with several other new and updated products.

Tim Halperin, a May 2010 TCU graduate, said he has used social networking sites to promote his music. His songs are available for download on iTunes, however, he is not considered an artist on Ping.

After a fire alarm went off at the GrandMarc apartment complex on Sept. 7 and residents left their rooms, two residents said they contemplated whether or not to take the alert seriously because of false alarms in past semesters.

GrandMarc resident and economics major Benjamin Chinchilla said he lived in the south tower of the GrandMarc since last fall and said he did not evacuate that night because of previous false alarms.

The upcoming Horned Frog football game against Baylor University will be heavy with emotions because of the in-state rivalry, head coach Gary Patterson said in TCU's weekly media luncheon and press conference Tuesday.

"It's three hours you've got to hate each other because that's the way the game is," Patterson said.

He said the game reminded him of the Southwest Conference that TCU and Baylor used to play in. The conference disbanded after the 1995 season.

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Students who use Facebook while studying earn significantly lower grades than students who do not, according to a new study by the Netherlands' Open University. According to an article in the Daily Mail,...

The university's Vision in Action (VIA) Strategic Plan Update Committee will hold its second town hall meeting today in order to inform and gain feedback from students and faculty about the committee's work.

Provost Nowell Donovan said the meetings, the first of which was held Monday, were intended to get people talking about the VIA and ways to improve the campus.

"The main part of a provost's job is to listen and formulate solutions," Donovan said. "It's meant to help faculty and students and the administration; it's meant to help everyone just do a better job."

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Q Cinema, a local non-profit organization that supports gay and lesbian films, has decided to continue its monthly movie-showings after attending this year's Vancouver Queer Film Festival and seeing the movie "Undertow," the group's founder said.

Alumnus Todd Camp, the artistic director of Q Cinema, said the organization originally planned on taking a break for the rest of the year after its involvement in the Rainbow Lounge raid in June 2009.

A recent study showed that students who use Facebook while trying to study have an average GPA of 3.06, while non-users maintained a much higher 3.82 GPA. I don't toggle to Facebook as often as many of my peers. I'm content only checking once a day to see if any of my friends have had life-changing moments while I was away from my computer. However, the couple of times I have indulged in Facebook when I had something more important to do means I probably didn't help my studying.

The TCU women's soccer team lost 4-0 against No. 14 ranked Oklahoma State University after giving up key plays from the beginning of the game, head coach Dan Abdalla said.

"This was a tough game because it was not a 4-0 game by any means," Abdalla said. "We gave up some goals and got behind, which really put us in a bad position."

Neither team took immediate control of the game but OSU had a multiple opportunities to score early. OSU had three corner kicks in a row around the forty minute mark, but TCU rejected each one.