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Skiff editor-in-chief, advertising manager selected

Published Nov 17, 2009

The TCU student publications committee selected the spring 2010 Daily Skiff editor-in-chief and advertising manager Friday.Senior news-editorial journalism major Julieta Chiquillo was selected as the new...

Letter to the Editor: Coach grateful for attendance

Published Nov 17, 2009

Dear TCU Community:

On behalf of our football program, I would like to thank everyone for their tremendous support in providing a record crowd of over 50,000 Saturday night at Amon Carter Stadium. The energy and excitement on campus and throughout Fort Worth all week was outstanding, and our players fed off it. All of you make a difference for us!



With ESPN's College GameDay being here, we were able to put TCU and Fort Worth in the most positive light. We are especially grateful to Mayor Mike Moncrief proclaiming Friday "Go Purple Day."

YouTube videos not what they used to be

Published Nov 17, 2009

YouTube has been a staple of my college career since I first sat down in my room in Moncrief. At the time, it was a catch-all of anything entertaining: TV shows both old and new, music videos, movies and...

Honors College dedication shows character of program

Published Nov 17, 2009

The theme throughout the dedication ceremony Friday of the John V. Roach Honors College was what sets the college and its students apart. A banjo interlude, a speech delivered in Spanish and several skits showcasing students' individual skills got the message across.

President of the Honors Student Cabinet, senior finance major Maddison Grigsby told a story about meeting her best friend through the Honors Program. She said the students are what set the program apart.

Q&A: mtvU Woodie Award nominees talk music

Q&A: mtvU Woodie Award nominees talk music

Published Nov 17, 2009

The 2009 mtvU Woodie Awards will acknowledge artists who have made an impact on college audiences for its sixth year on Nov. 18. Eric Conte, executive producer of the Woodie Awards, said the Woodies are...

Tuition up 6.2 percent for 2010-11 school year

Published Nov 17, 2009

The board of trustees voted to raise tuition to $30,000 a year for the 2010-11 school year, a 6.2 percent increase over the tuition in 2009-2010 and about a 30 percent cost increase during the past four years. During the 2006-07 school year students paid $22,980.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said the 6.2 percent increase will go to increasing financial aid and the number of professors on campus. The board also voted to increase financial aid by the same percentage, according to a campuswide e-mail sent by Boschini.

Frogs hold No. 4 spot after win against Utah

Frogs hold No. 4 spot after win against Utah

Published Nov 17, 2009

Despite a 55-28 beating of formally No. 16 ranked Utah, the Frogs remain in the No. 4 spot in the BCS and Associated Press standings.Without any upsets in the top of the ranks this week, the top eight...

Alumni Association promotes new Web site

Published Nov 17, 2009

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It's Froglinks Man.

The masked superhero Froglinks Man debuted at the Homecoming football game Oct. 31 against University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was one of the Alumni Association's marketing tactics for its new Web site, which launched Oct. 15, said Kristi Hoban, associate vice chancellor of alumni relations.



"In the last three weeks we've had 10,000 visitors and 51 percent of them have been new visitors ... We've had a 13 percent increase in the number of people visiting the site from September to October," Hoban said.

Game against Utah ranks highest in past four years

Published Nov 17, 2009

In reflection on this weekend, which I know was the greatest football experience, if not the greatest experience of any kind during my four years here at TCU, many of the other great football games I've taken in came back to me one by one. So, to honor this weekend, the growth of TCU football and my four years here at TCU, I ranked my top five games in the past four years:

1. 2009 TCU 55, Utah 28

Journalist to give realistic view of Pakistan

Journalist to give realistic view of Pakistan

Published Nov 17, 2009

Author and journalist Ethan Casey and his collaborator Fawad Butt will focus on stripping misconceptions about the Pakistani people during a two-day stay at TCU.

Casey's Web site, ethancasey.com, lists a biography stocked with international experience. This past summer, Casey said he traveled in India and Pakistan and will call upon his experiences there, as well as some background information, to address the university in his lecture, titled "Pakistan: the Human Dimension," at 7 p.m. tonight in the University Christian Church.

Film captures wild ride of being young

Film captures ‘wild’ ride of being young

Published Nov 17, 2009

After years of false starts, delays and threats of reshoots, the film version of "Where the Wild Things Are" has finally made it to a theater near you. The wild and wooly translation of the popular book was well worth the wait.

For a story about a hyper kid with an overactive imagination, "Being John Malkovich" director Spike Jonze seems like an adult version of the book's hero Max. Bursting with energy and creativity, he builds the world and inhabits it with wonderful players like the main actor, 12-year-old Max Records.

Convicted murderer unsafe for campus community

Published Nov 17, 2009

Raymond Luc Levasseur was the leader of the Marxist revolutionary group United Freedom Front, which plotted a series of nine bank robberies and at least 20 bombings along the East Coast between the years 1976 and 1984. The group attempted to kill two Massachusetts state troopers and succeeded in killing a New Jersey state trooper. The group's members, including Levasseur, were convicted of conspiracy, murder and attempted murder, among other charges. Levasseur was released from his 18-year prison sentence in 2004.