Chances are Facebook has connected you with a growing number of new users. With its rising popularity it's possible that your parents, your employer and now even your college recruiter might have become your newest friend.

It's good that the university is changing with the times and getting its name out through the use of Facebook. The social networking site is a good place to approach students outside the stuffy confines of an office.

Best is yet to come for FrogsAs TCU notched its third win of the season, taking down Clemson in Death Valley, the Frogs have been thrust back into the BCS spotlight. The way the polls sit right now, the...

A funny thing happened when TCU fans ran on the field at Clemson - nothing.No police, no security, not even campus police riding on ridiculous three-wheeled Segways stood in our way. The only thing resembling...

This article was revised for accuracy on Sept. 30 at 4:39 p.m.

Coming off an emotional win at Clemson University last Saturday, the Horned Frog football team enters its fourth week of play against the Southern Methodist University Mustangs. The primary topic of discussion in Tuesday's media luncheon with head coach Gary Patterson was the striking similarity in the sequence of this season and the 2005 season.

The draft for a new faculty tenure appeal policy, designed to resolve grievances in a quicker way, has reached its final stages and is expected to reach the board of trustees for approval later this year, a former Faculty Senate representative said.

Stuart Youngblood, professor of management and former faculty senator who is working on the draft, said the Faculty Reappointment, Tenure and Promotion Appeal Policy will speed up and clarify the process of submitting grievances. The document is intended to replace the current Faculty Grievance Policy, which was revised in 1998.

A group of students is hoping to add belly dancing to the university's recreational activities for a fun workout and an interesting cultural experience.

The TCU Belly Dancing Club will try to be up and running by the spring semester, club creator and junior middle school education major Farhin Hasan wrote in an e-mail.

So far the club has two advisers from the music department, administrative assistant in the School of Music Sue Ott and Web services coordinator Kristi Kolpanen, who are belly dancing enthusiasts, Hasan wrote.

Dressed head-to-toe in purple, white and black, performing what they have practiced for weeks, these Horned Frogs know what it's like to sweat.

No, not the football team, but our beloved band. Long sleeves, gloves, dress pants, furry hats and a relatively heavy instrument are the perfect elements for an uncomfortably hot experience. Yet they are there in full, every home game, to make it noisier, louder and more spirited.

They lift school spirit for free, yet no one could pay to give them a lift to the football game at Clemson University this past weekend.