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Cross country: As team goes on the road, theres more that the meet to worry about

Cross country: As team goes on the road, there’s more that the meet to worry about

Published Oct 29, 2008

When the cross country team leaves Fort Worth for the Mountain West Conference championships at San Diego State University this Saturday, the runners know they will have to keep the right perspective.

The men's team is young: 11 out of 13 runners are freshmen and sophomores. The team's best woman runner has struggled to finish in the top ten in meets, although it has seven runners with better times this year than their best last year.



Head coach Sean Winget said he is taking the team's progress in stride.

Q&A: Get to know your Mr. and Ms. TCU

Q&A: Get to know your Mr. and Ms. TCU

Published Oct 29, 2008

Mr. TCU: Clayton Simons

Year: Senior



Major: Entrepreneurial management and marketing



Hometown: San Antonio



Biggest Strength: Being open minded



Biggest Weakness: Taking on too much and getting overwhelmed



Motto: "Life is not about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw



Q: What got you interested in entrepreneurial management and marketing as majors?

Before the Frogs, David Yarbrough dominates the field

Published Oct 29, 2008

Want to paint the football field before a home game? If you have 17 five-gallon buckets of white paint and seven five-gallon buckets of purple paint, go for it.

This season, the football team is looking good, but the only thing looking better is the field.



Horticultural Supervisor David Yarbrough oversees the maintenance of the field and said he relishes every part of it.



"Having the players and coaches thank you for the work you do is the rewarding part of the job," Yarbrough said.

No. 13 Frogs focus on UNLV Rebels

Published Oct 29, 2008

Freddy Krueger has terrorized audiences since the '80s. On Saturday night, Frogs' linebacker Robert Henson starred in Wyoming's nightmare at Amon G. Carter Stadium.The senior from Longview knocked Wyoming...

Brite to expand facility

Brite to expand facility

Published Oct 29, 2008

In the early 1980s, Newell Williams, then associate dean of Brite Divinity School, was sent on a mission to find more office space in the Jo Ann and Wayne Moore building.

After a trip up to the third floor, he found what he was looking for.



"I came to the third floor and saw a men's room and I thought, 'This is ridiculous, you don't need a bathroom on every floor. If you want go to the restroom you just go downstairs,'" Williams said.

Voters should know issues before voting

Published Oct 29, 2008

Well, it's election time and many organizations such as Rock the Vote and HeadCount are encouraging everyone, especially young people like many of you, to get out and vote. Many of these organizations make the implication that it's our civic duty as United States citizens to cast a ballot. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Hayden Panettiere are taking time and encouraging young voters to get out and take part in this next election.

Students engineer electric car from eBay purchase

Students engineer electric car from eBay purchase

Published Oct 29, 2008

A group of engineering students is turning a $500 vintage Porsche purchased on eBay into the first electric car produced on campus.

Stephen Weis, professor of engineering, said he developed the idea of working on an electric car project in June 2007 with David Yale, a technical support machinist at the College of Science and Engineering . He said students are managing the building process of the car, a 1974 Porche 914 bought off eBay with funds from the Energy Institute, on their own.

Frogs solidify 2009 game against ACC team

Published Oct 29, 2008

The Frogs will head to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the Virginia Cavaliers in the 2009 football season, said Jack Hesselbrock. associate athletics director for internal operations.He also said Texas...

Best-selling author to visit campus today

Published Oct 29, 2008

Best-selling author Anita Shreve will be in Ed Landreth Auditorium tonight to talk about her new book, her old books and her journey from college student to successful author.

Shreve, who jokes in her biography about receiving so many rejection letters from magazine publishers in her early days that she could have rewallpapered her bathroom, spent time as a high school teacher in Boston, a journalist in Africa and an editor at several New York magazines before settling into life as a novelist.

Tennis team places at regional competition

Published Oct 28, 2008

Horned Frogs won the singles competition and came in second in doubles at the finals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Southwest Regional, played Monday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

Junior Nina Munch-Soegaard took home the singles championship to clinch a spot at the ITA indoor championships at the University of Virginia beginning Nov. 6.



"I played really well today," Munch-Soegaard said after her 6-0, 6-3 win over No. 34 Taylor Ormand of Baylor University.

Reps. kick off campus early voting with rally

Reps. kick off campus early voting with rally

Published Oct 28, 2008

The vote of young adults in this year's election is crucial, a former Texas Secretary of State and TCU alumnus said Monday at an early voting rally on campus.

"This is the most important election of your time, as well as my lifetime," said former Texas Secretary of State Roger Williams as he addressed a crowd of more than 30 students and local community members at Frog Alley.



The rally was sponsored by the TCU College Republicans in support of Sen. John McCain's presidential bid and local Republican candidates.

BCS system superior to playoffs

Published Oct 28, 2008

The Bowl Championship Series used to be the bane of my existence.The rankings weren't fair; the bowls were boring, and everyone was clamoring for a playoff system.I used to follow the herd blindly on the...