After losing its first match of the season Sunday to the Oklahoma Sooners, the volleyball team returned to its winning ways by defeating the New Mexico Lobos (8-2, 0-1), but it took all five sets to do so.

The Horned Frogs (10-1, 1-0) started off strong in the first two sets (25-16, 25-22), but lost the next two (18-25, 23-25), forcing a winner-take-all fifth set to 15.

The volleyball team came out in the fifth set with the same intensity it started with, winning the final game 15-7.

It is disheartening to read editorials like the one I read in the Sept. 9 edition of the Skiff. The author, who suggests that Gov. Sarah Palin is "not the correct choice to win (Hillary) Clinton supporters," is so misguided. What is most disturbing about her article is her comment in the third paragraph that "Clinton voters were typically older women who support equal rights and opportunities for their gender." She then adds, or at least infers, that because Palin does not support abortion, she does not support equal rights.

Whenever someone asks me about my daily commute to TCU, they inevitably ask me first about the traffic, and I always tell them it's not bad. But then comes the second question, "How about the parking?"...

Every time I look at the new University Union, I cannot help but feel a small part of my TCU experience has been robbed from me. With a $49.3 million price tag, the Brown-Lupton University Union was finally finished Aug. 18, ushering in a new era of students paying an average of $8 for a meal and getting lost in the process. It has replaced the Brown-Lupton Student Center, a building most sophomores and above could appreciate.

More than 1,000 students struggling to adjust to the new meal plan joined a Facebook petition in its first week of existence, giving some students hope that changes will be made, the creator of the petition said.

Sophomore prebusiness major Albert Rayle, creator of the Facebook group "Petition against TCU's new meal plan," said the quick response the group received is proof that opposition to the new meal plans is widespread.

When the news broke last month that Senator John McCain selected Alaskan governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, controversy erupted when the media quickly found out Palin's teenage daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. Some Americans wondered why this was even a controversy and some were complaining the news media was showing a liberal bias. Could the real story behind the controversy be that Palin backed abstinence-only education when she ran for governor in 2006?

Rivalry games are among the most emotional of the season for players and fans, and head football coach Gary Patterson said Saturday's game against Southern Methodist University will be no different.

"They're emotional ball games because these kids know each other," Patterson said. "They played each other in high school, they played in all-star games together; they know each other."

TCU has started the season with three wins, while SMU has started with one win and two losses.

She wasn't the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, but millions of supporters noted her with keen interest on the first night in Denver. Michelle Obama delivered a remarkable speech that made the audience shed tears of joy, and gave a smile of hope with her firm support for her husband, Barack Obama. The leading lady of the first day of the convention, Obama tried to connect with the common American through her personal story. She shared her moments of pains and gains to let everyone know she was not different, but one of them.

When reading the news story "Plus/minus system not widespread on campus," I couldn't help but make some observations. The system, in essence, reverts to a standard grading system some colleges have implemented. Although there isn't a consensus regarding whether TCU should use the plus/minus system, I think it would be appropriate to render a final decision on whether the system will be used. Many people believe using a plus/minus system will strengthen the academic reputation, however, there are other factors that comprise academic reputation besides a plus/minus system.

The Student Government Association's House of Student Representatives passed four new bills in its meeting Tuesday night, all of them written by the Elections & Regulations Committee.

The first bill discussed was "A Bill to Modify Campaign Rules." The bill clarified the definition of "campaigning" within the Student Body Code, also giving the finite starting and ending dates of when a campaign can be run, as well as runoff procedure. The bill passed unanimously.