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Midterm elections could offer little partisan relief

Published Oct 28, 2010

Rewind to 2008: Barack Obama was elected by one of the widest margins ever in a presidential election. He wiped out John McCain and a super-majority of 60 Democratic senators was elected. Voters were frustrated that after eight years of having a Republican in the White House, there were two wars, an economic recession, growing health premiums, an illegal immigration problem, a changing world environment and a national debt.

LEAPS celebrates 10 years of service

Published Oct 28, 2010

TCU LEAPS will celebrate 10 years of service in the Fort Worth community Saturday. Since April 2000, students have dedicated a day of their schedules to volunteer at food banks, parks and other locations around the Metroplex.

However, planning for LEAPS, and the nature of the event, has changed over the past decade, Mary Kathleen Baldwin, assistant director of the Center for Community Involvement and Service-Learning, said.

"I feel like there was a lot more staff involvement then, and it's transitioned into student involvement," Baldwin said.

Cutting Edge Haunted House boasts world record, 20th anniversary

Cutting Edge Haunted House boasts world record, 20th anniversary

Published Oct 28, 2010

The voicemail of Todd James will tell callers that the Cutting Edge Haunted House is "an experience you can only hope to forget."

James, the co-creator of the nationally-acclaimed haunted house, has more to celebrate than just the 20th anniversary of the eerie haunt, situated in Fort Worth's "Hell's Half Acre" area. The house reclaimed the Guinness World Records title for longest walk-through horror house Oct. 8.

The Horned Frogs head to Vegas for a UNLV showdown

Published Oct 28, 2010

The No. 4 Horned Frogs are leaving the Dallas-Fort Worth area for just the second time this season to take on the UNLV Rebels on Saturday.

The Rebels have a 1-6 season record under first-year head football coach Bobby Hauck, and rank near the bottom nationally of almost every offensive and defensive category.

UNLV hasn't beaten TCU since the Frogs joined the Mountain West Conference in 2005, but the Rebels have had a week off to prepare for the No. 4 Horned Frogs. Head football coach Gary Patterson said the off-week is big for UNLV.

Students, faculty hit by phishing scam

Published Oct 28, 2010

University technology resources detected a phishing e-mail sent to students, faculty and staff Thursday morning, compromising the network and e-mail account of several users who fell victim to the attack, Technology Resources Information Security Services Director Jim Mayne said.

The e-mail contained an attachment asking users to enter their username and password, Mayne said.

At least 25 students, faculty and staff responded to the e-mail by entering their information, he said.

StarPoint students to participate in Staff Assembly Halloween

Published Oct 28, 2010

Some elementary school students will not have to wait until Halloween to get their candy fix.

The TCU Staff Assembly, a group of staff representing all areas of the university, will hold a trick-or-treat event today for students from StarPoint School and KinderFrogs School to celebrate Halloween.

Although this will not be the first time for this event, this will be the first year that SuperFrog will make an appearance, a coordinator for the event Doris Wallace said. SuperFrog will be there to help pass out candy and take pictures with the students, she said.

Choral performance to honor late music professor

Choral performance to honor late music professor

Published Oct 28, 2010

The TCU School of Music will honor the memory of Choral Professor Ron Shirey with a performance at Bass Performance Hall in downtown Fort Worth on Nov. 1, the one-year anniversary of his passing.

Shirey established the Fort Worth-Texas Christian University Symphonic Choir, which performed at Carnegie Hall in New York on six different occasions during his 33 years at the university, according to a Fort Worth Star-Telegram obituary.

Effective response for phishing attack

Published Oct 28, 2010

Early Thursday, a sizable number of university students and faculty awoke to find a peculiar message sitting in their inboxes. The subject line read, "Your Account has been flagged," and an attachment...

Prolific doesn’t mean persuasive in advertising

Published Oct 28, 2010

We live in a media-dominated age. Unless one becomes a hermit and withdraws from society, it is nearly impossible to escape the ever-increasing media presence. Whether it's for the newest Starbucks drink...

LEAPS promotes literacy awareness program

LEAPS promotes literacy awareness program

Published Oct 28, 2010

Students will come together Saturday for a program to help get Fort Worth elementary and middle school students to read.

Reading Frogs is an event that happens once a semester at which students read and hand out books to about 500 students, ages five to 13, to get them excited about reading and show that it is cool, TCU liaison for Reading Frogs Brett Neal said.

"The schools the students come from have low literacy rates and [the event] gives [TCU students] an opportunity to help with their reading," Neal said.

Education is the answer in the inner-city

Education is the answer in the inner-city

Published Oct 27, 2010

During summers spent in New England, I learned that crabs are remarkably like humans. When a bucket of caught crabs is left unattended, one will try to make a heroic escape to avoid ending up as someone's dinner. Yet as this one crab attempts its escape, several of its fellow crabs will latch onto it and pull it back into the bucket as if they were saying, "If we're going down, you're going down with us."

Like crabs, humans stuck in bad situations with little or no hope often try to drag down those who seem like they are about to break away.

New bats will take some getting used to

New bats will take some getting used to

Published Oct 27, 2010

Recently, the NCAA changed the standard baseball bat used in college baseball, requiring baseball bats made with an aluminum composition, altering the way the balls come off the bats. Jim Schlossnagle,...