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Staying positive important for healthy lifestyle

Staying positive important for healthy lifestyle

Published Nov 12, 2009

"Look on the bright side" and "every cloud has a silver lining" are common expressions that aren't used frequently enough. Let's face it - we are usually prone to negativity more often than positivity. If it was raining, you couldn't get a parking spot and were 10 minutes late to class, you'll be most likely to remember that rather than the fact that you made an A on a quiz or that someone complimented your new top.

Horned Frog hype should remain a tradition

Published Nov 12, 2009

This week has seen a whirlwind of zero productivity, anticipation and excitement tied up in a nice little bow of yet more preoccupation in anything other than school or office work. The only problem Frog fans face this week is which one of the many headlines to follow first? So as you sit in class or in a cubicle, taking in as much Frog news as possible on your computer while tuning out everything going on outside your purple blinders, allow me to untangle the web of jubilant mayhem that surrounds Fort Worth before the showdown in Cowtown.

Frogs hope to reverse historical Ute dominance

Frogs hope to reverse historical Ute dominance

Published Nov 12, 2009

No. 4 TCU looks to advance their season record to 10-0 this weekend against a team that has historically had their number.

The Frogs will face off against the No. 14 University of Utah Utes on Saturday in Amon G. Carter Stadium in front of a sellout crowd and will be ESPN's College GameDay's game of the week.



"Every year when we play Utah, it has been a close, physical game with two very athletic teams," said Frog head coach Gary Patterson.

Young Democrats are changing the face of Texas

Young Democrats are changing the face of Texas

Published Nov 12, 2009

Editor's note: This story was revised for accuracy at 6 p.m. Nov. 11.

I hope that around this time next year, most of us will be going to the polls to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. One of the most important elections on that ballot will be the Texas governor's race. After nine years of the Rick Perry administration, the governor is running for an unprecedented third consecutive term.

Q&A: New Athletics Director talks plans for the future

Q&A: New Athletics Director talks plans for the future

Published Nov 12, 2009

In October, Christopher Del Conte was hired to replaced Danny Morrison as the university's athletics director. Del Conte had served as the director of intercollegiate athletics for Rice University since...

Mindless threats to Muslim community undeserved

Published Nov 12, 2009

The university got a little more personal with its observance of Veterans Day this year. Instead of limiting itself to a lunch like it did last year, staff at the Office of Inclusiveness and Intercultural...

Local barber shop sticks to its roots

Local barber shop sticks to its roots

Published Nov 12, 2009

Walking up to the front door of Fox's Barber Shop, a half-century fades from the annals of haircutting history. An old-fashioned barber pole is the only thing that indicates the presence of a barber shop, tucked away just across the Sandage Avenue commuter and faculty lot since 1957.

Walk inside Fox's and the only tip-off to customers that they haven't experienced a time warp is the color television - even though the TV is at least a quarter century old.

SGA announces members of 2010 executive board

SGA announces members of 2010 executive board

Published Nov 12, 2009

Junior Marlon Figueroa was named Student Government Association president Wednesday along with sophomore Jackie Wheeler as vice president, Chase Bruton as treasurer and Alex Collins as Programming Council chair.

"I was nervous up until the very last minute because all eight of us who ran for elections are great people and very qualified," Figueroa said. "But I am so excited to be president because I put my whole heart into it."

University receives C-minus on green report card

University receives C-minus on green report card

Published Nov 11, 2009

The university made improvements to go green in recent years, but according to a study released Oct. 7, it still doesn't make the grade.

The Sustainable Endowments Institute released its annual College Sustainability Report Card, a survey of 332 colleges and institutions in the United States and Canada, including those with the 300 largest endowments, on their overall sustainability.



For the second consecutive year, TCU received a C-minus on the report card, which gives colleges and universities a grade based on nine equally weighted categories.

Pink Out shirts selling despite competition

Published Nov 11, 2009

Zeta Tau Alpha sorority's Pink Out promotion to raise awareness for breast cancer and benefit the nonprofit Susan G. Komen for the Cure has run into a competitor far larger than a "Black Out" Facebook event: Nike.

Despite a Nike display staffed by members of the Nike Street Team, Frogs for the Cure T-shirts sales have already passed last year's total of 3,660, said Ann Louden, the chancellor's associate for external relations. More than 4,000 Frogs for the Cure shirts have been sold, and more have been ordered for this week, she said.

Speaker discusses what makes a good president

Published Nov 11, 2009

Michael Beschloss, an award-winning author and historian, said that only time will show how recent presidential bills affected the country.

Beschloss spoke Tuesday night about presidential history at the inaugural Paul F. Boller Jr. Symposium. The BLUU ballroom was filled with people who held copies of his books while listening to the speech.



The Symposium was held in honor of Paul F. Boller Jr., the first Lyndon B. Johnson Chair in American History at TCU in 1976, Chancellor Victor Boshini said.

Survey shows students suggest new tailgate location

Published Nov 11, 2009

Even though students' suggestions have prompted changes to the student tailgates this football season, tailgates still have room for improvement and would benefit from a move to the Campus Commons, a student body officer said.

Kelsie Johnson, student body present, said a move to the Campus Commons was one of the main suggestions from a recent survey sent out to students.



"I'm taking those (surveys) into account as well as just seeing the tailgates themselves, and I think we need more space," Johnson said.