In the first 48 hours after it launched, more than one million users had opened accounts on Ping.

Ping, a social networking service built into Apple iTunes, was introduced last week, along with several other new and updated products.

Tim Halperin, a May 2010 TCU graduate, said he has used social networking sites to promote his music. His songs are available for download on iTunes, however, he is not considered an artist on Ping.

After a fire alarm went off at the GrandMarc apartment complex on Sept. 7 and residents left their rooms, two residents said they contemplated whether or not to take the alert seriously because of false alarms in past semesters.

GrandMarc resident and economics major Benjamin Chinchilla said he lived in the south tower of the GrandMarc since last fall and said he did not evacuate that night because of previous false alarms.

The upcoming Horned Frog football game against Baylor University will be heavy with emotions because of the in-state rivalry, head coach Gary Patterson said in TCU's weekly media luncheon and press conference Tuesday.

"It's three hours you've got to hate each other because that's the way the game is," Patterson said.

He said the game reminded him of the Southwest Conference that TCU and Baylor used to play in. The conference disbanded after the 1995 season.

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Sharp shooting and TCU cowboy boots are two things that led President Obama to nationally recognize the university's rifle team.

Members of the university rifle team joined 32 other schools Monday on the South Lawn of the White House for a celebration of 2009-10 NCAA Championship teams and, of course, they wore their TCU cowboy boots.

Ross Bailey, associate director of athletics, said the TCU rifle team was one of two teams the president individually recognized.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said the event was a once in a lifetime experience.

The university chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity will be held to higher standards after receiving national recognition as the fraternity's top undergraduate chapter for 2010, the chapter's president said.

TCU Pi Kappa Phi President and senior entrepreneurial management major McCall Grimes said it felt good to be recognized after all the hard work the chapter put in during the year.

A recent study showed that students who use Facebook while trying to study have an average GPA of 3.06, while non-users maintained a much higher 3.82 GPA. I don't toggle to Facebook as often as many of my peers. I'm content only checking once a day to see if any of my friends have had life-changing moments while I was away from my computer. However, the couple of times I have indulged in Facebook when I had something more important to do means I probably didn't help my studying.

Q Cinema, a local non-profit organization that supports gay and lesbian films, has decided to continue its monthly movie-showings after attending this year's Vancouver Queer Film Festival and seeing the movie "Undertow," the group's founder said.

Alumnus Todd Camp, the artistic director of Q Cinema, said the organization originally planned on taking a break for the rest of the year after its involvement in the Rainbow Lounge raid in June 2009.

The TCU women's soccer team lost 4-0 against No. 14 ranked Oklahoma State University after giving up key plays from the beginning of the game, head coach Dan Abdalla said.

"This was a tough game because it was not a 4-0 game by any means," Abdalla said. "We gave up some goals and got behind, which really put us in a bad position."

Neither team took immediate control of the game but OSU had a multiple opportunities to score early. OSU had three corner kicks in a row around the forty minute mark, but TCU rejected each one.

The TCU volleyball team won the Rutgers Invitational tournament under the leadership of senior Irene Hester, who was named the tournament MVP. The Horned Frogs defeated Princeton, George Mason and Rutgers...

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