Saturday the Horned Frog Football team will play its last home season opener in Amon G. Carter stadium before the stadium is renovated at the end of the season.

The Horned Frogs open play Tennessee Tech, a team that Head Coach Gary Patterson has a personal history with. Patterson received a master's degree in educational administration from Tennessee Tech in 1984 and was the linebackers coach for two seasons. However, Patterson said he didn't have many positive memories during his time at Tennessee Tech.

The successful relationships between individual students and faculty members are responsible for the university's recent awards and recognitions, Chancellor Victor Boschini told students and faculty at the University Convocation and Founders' Celebration Thursday.

For the first time ever, the university was ranked as a top 20 "Up-and-Coming National University" in a U.S. News & World Report list, he said. In addition, the university has repeatedly been acknowledged as a top 100 University in the magazine's Best Colleges list, moving up 11 slots from last year, he said.

As Greek life picks up at the start of the fall semester, the new director of Fraternity and Sorority Life Shannon Sumerlin wants to turn plans into action.

The university hired Sumerlin in May to supervise the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, the two governing bodies that oversee fraternities and sororities on campus.

Mike Russel, executive director for Student Affairs Administration, wrote in an e-mail that Sumerlin met all and exceeded most of the qualifications for the position.

Sumerlin said that getting hired at TCU was a good fit for her.

It certainly does not take a person of extraordinary intellectual capability to notice that having an International Burn the Koran Day on the ninth anniversary of Sept. 11 would be more than just a bad idea. To my knowledge, there is no institution, public figure or church other than the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. that supported this event. Thus, I'll trust the reader does not need an explanation of why burning Qurans is a bad way to spend his or her Saturday evening.

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A new burger joint plans to offer students a fresh atmosphere, job opportunities and special university-spirited foods, a city official said.

Smashburger, a Denver-based restaurant, will open a new franchise across from University Park Village in the beginning of October, Managing Director for the Fort Worth Market Chris Fleming said.

Lani Reeves, an official from Smashburger's public relations agency, said the restaurant would feature burgers named to suit the Texas region and unique items related to the university.

The art and history of William Shakespeare's play "Henry IV" will be compared during a podcast this afternoon.

Kathryne McDorman, associate professor of British history, said she planned to discuss the historical accuracy of the production and which aspects were embellished to entice audiences on KERA's daily "Think" podcast.

She will join Kevin Moriarty, artistic director of the Dallas Theater Center, to discuss the play. The discussion will broadcast on the radio show "Think" at noon Thursday on KERA 90.1 FM, according to the KERA website.

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new prescription drug Aug. 13 that will allow women to take a pill up to five days after sex to prevent pregnancy.

Plan C is an emergency contraceptive pill that works more effectively than Plan B, the most-used emergency contraceptive, because it has different ingredients and allows a longer window of time that it can be effective.

Women who use Plan C would be able to reap the same benefits of taking it on the fifth day as they would on the first.

Having more natural gas-powered cars would make the U.S. less reliant on foreign oil imports at the unveiling of a new natural gas-powered car in the Tucker Technology Center, a professor said Wednesday.

Ken Morgan, director of the TCU Energy Institute, said there will be a big change in the U.S. toward natural gas-powered cars in the next two to three years.

Morgan, a Geology professor, said the Honda Civic GX, which the car company donated to the university, was the first of its kind to be owned by a college campus.

The success of the university's athletic programs is partially responsible for the increase in freshman applications, a university official said.

Ray Brown, dean of Admission, said applications have more than doubled since 2001 and increased by over 2,100 since last year alone.

Brown said being able to gauge the exact effect athletics had on enrollment is hard to quantify, however they do have an impact.

"It's difficult to prove, but it is equally difficult to discount," Brown said.