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Alternate avenues needed to lessen impact of tuition

Published Nov 17, 2009

Students received an e-mail Monday from Chancellor Victor Boschini informing them of the tuition increase for the 2010-2011 school year, which will bring the university's year-long tuition to $30,000.Annual...

Weekend recap: Lady Frogs win their 10th season opener

Published Nov 17, 2009

Women's Basketball

The Lady Frogs won their 10th season opener in 11 years under head coach Jeff Mittie as they blew away the Houston Baptist Huskies 109-30 at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum on Sunday.



The game featured the second largest margin of victory in school history behind an 80 point win in 2001, as TCU scored more than 100 points in a game for the first time since the 2006-07 season.

Live from Amon Carter: TCU vs. Utah chat

Published Nov 14, 2009

Join staff reporter Cameron Lakey for a live chat during the TCU vs. Utah football game. Come chat about the game and give your commentary on the Frogs' performance. The chat will open at 6:30 p.m. and...

Horned Frogs take Utes, BCS dream still alive

Horned Frogs take Utes, BCS dream still alive

Published Nov 14, 2009

TCU kept its hopes of a BCS bowl alive Saturday night, beating No. 16 ranked Utah 55-28 before a sold out crowd.The announced crowd of 50,307, the largest ever at Amon G. Carter Stadium, watched the Frogs...

Satire: 2012 apocalypse a likely occurrence

Satire: 2012 apocalypse a likely occurrence

Published Nov 13, 2009

It is about time someone accurately depicts the end of the world.

Today, the long anticipated movie "2012" hits theaters and will tell the story of how the world will come to an end in a little more than two years.



But how could that be fair at all? Society won't get to witness the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. What will our next president accomplish? Freshmen, we won't even be able to graduate.

University makes extra preparations for Utah game

University makes extra preparations for Utah game

Published Nov 13, 2009

The preparations around the university's sold out football game Saturday is a "total campus effort," university officials said.

Five different broadcasts, including ESPN College GameDay, will be streaming from campus before, during and after the game and that requires some extra planning, said Ross Bailey, associate athletics director of operations.



"The university will have installed 80 phone lines by the time the whole weekend is over for all of these groups," Bailey said.

New attendance rankings use enrollment numbers

New attendance rankings use enrollment numbers

Published Nov 13, 2009

By most accounts, TCU's attendance has been nothing to write home about. However, one Horned Frog blogger thinks a more fair method of looking at attendance should be considered.

The Purple Wimple, author of the TCU blog of the same name (wimplefrogs.blogspot.com), devised a ranking system comparing average football attendance to the schools' enrollment for the BCS Top 25 ranked teams on Nov. 2. The Frogs finished second, only behind Notre Dame.

Radio sports show to broadcast live from campus

Published Nov 13, 2009

The men of the Dallas-based BaD Radio sports show, station 1310 AM the Ticket, will broadcast live from the porch of the Sigma Chi fraternity house on Friday to celebrate the football team's success, production...

Community should back Frogs all season long

Published Nov 13, 2009

It's a great year to be a Frog fan. The football team is currently No. 4 in the nation and garnering national attention. The university even sold out the Amon Carter Stadium for Saturday's game against the Utah Utes. Purple is in again.

But in reality, purple should have never gone out. Why is it that it took most of the semester to sell out the stadium? For that matter, why didn't the university even come close?

Skiff College Football Pick’em: Student Publications picks the winners

Published Nov 13, 2009

The student publications pick'em team is back for more college football action. Each participant will get one point for a correctly selected win out of the chosen games and two points for an upset pick. The standings remain the same this week with News Now reporter Maddy Foxx leading with 35 points followed by Skiff editor-in-chief David Hall right behind with 33 points. Skiff reporter Mary Sue Greenleaf is in third place with 31 points followed by Skiff sports editor Travis L. Brown with 29 points.

Leadership students use blog to showcase issues

Published Nov 13, 2009

Drunk driving prevention programs aimed at high school students have a disconnect between adult perceptions of the problem and the real-life situations teens today face, according to one student.

Emily Taylor, a senior accounting major and Chancellor's Leadership Program member, is attempting to end the rift in these perceptions caused by the generation gap with the help of a blog, which is a new requirement for CLP students this semester.

Dueling Columns: Will Utah game resemble last season?

Published Nov 13, 2009

Atmosphere is just right for high quality Frog performanceTo say Saturday's game against Utah would be the turning-point night in the Frogs' season was an understatement the minute the purple clad warriors...