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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.

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...

Mormon Church should stay consistent in its beliefs

Published Nov 13, 2009

The Bible has been under scrutiny for centuries. Many of those who claim to follow the Bible's guidelines are considered oppressive, ignorant and closed-minded. Now, at least two of those adjectives can be removed from the Mormon Church's description.

Mormonism has long been known for its inconsistency and its vehement lack of acceptance.



However, the Mormon Church, which is based in Salt Lake City, Utah, supported a city law Tuesday that banned discrimination against homosexuals in their rights to housing and jobs, according to a USA Today article.

Journalists lack economic know-how

Published Nov 13, 2009

Sometimes it's good to be a journalism major. Seeing stories like Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's, which exposed the Watergate scandal, make me proud to one day be able to call myself a journalist. However, journalism frequently disappoints me, especially when it tries to talk economics.

Take a recent Associated Press article, "Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekers." The article claimed that companies were going to hire fewer people because productivity has been going up, so fewer employees are needed, and therefore unemployment would go up.

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.