Despite the Frogs' move up to 11th in the Associated Press top 25 poll, head coach Gary Patterson said he is not letting his players "drink that BCS Kool-Aid."

After beating Clemson in Death Valley 14-10, the Frogs moved up four spots from No. 15 to No. 11 this week in the AP poll and from No. 14 to No. 10 in the USA Today rankings. However, even just right after celebrating a huge win toward the Frogs' post-season opportunities, Patterson's players were still focused on the small, game-to-game picture.

Andy Dalton threw for 226 yards and two scores to lead the Frogs to an impressive victory over Clemson.And you missed it because you have cable? Or so the popular football game day commercials go.However,...

Distinguished author Joel Spring, the College of Education's Green Honors Chair, is visiting campus this week to hold a series of lectures and discussions on current issues including sustainability, globalization and politics.

Assistant Professor Fran Huckaby said the university had various reasons for selecting Spring and inviting him to campus.

One reason is that the College of Education has been using Spring's books in a diversity of education class for several years. Students had good discussions and questions about his work in class, she said.

The pharmaceutical industry poses quite a conundrum to the free-market system. Americans generally agree that government intervention is, to say the least, inefficient. The pharmaceutical industry is no exception. In fact, America remains as the only advanced nation that does not allow the government to negotiate prescription drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, as it is done in Canada and Europe. Although the government cannot directly lower the prices of prescription drugs through negotiation, the pharmaceutical industry is not entirely free from government intervention.

The director of Fraternity and Sorority Life ended her stint at the university Monday in favor of a position at Baylor University, becoming the fifth member in that office to leave the university in the past year.

Katherine Reed's reason for leaving is a personal one: she will marry in November. The former director of Fraternity and Sorority Life said she hoped there were no sinister thoughts as to why she and so many have left the office.

As rain fell like tears from the sky over Death Valley, the Horned Frogs and their faithful reveled during what seemed like a funeral procession out of the stands after the Frogs beat the Tigers 14 to 10.

With the rain coming down in sheets, the Frog defense came down on the Tigers twice with less than five minutes to play, shutting out Clemson's chance to get back in the game and locking up the victory.

Clemson might see the presence of purple and white in its stadium Saturday, but fans there won't hear the songs that have provided the soundtrack at the Horned Frogs' home football games.

The football team will be traveling to the out-of-state game without the Horned Frog Marching Band because of funding issues.

Brian Youngblood, director of the Horned Frog Marching Band and associate director of bands, said that he had seen various message boards in which people have criticized the band for not being at away games to represent the university.

Progressives like me would love to credit global warming for the terrible rains North Texas has experienced in the past weeks. Such a connection would continue to energize the environmental movement and would give credence to claims that global warming and irregular climate patterns may be man-made. That's why I was elated last year when I discovered that TCU's "theme semester" would be "Think Purple, Live Green." To me, this announcement indicated that our university would dedicate itself to making sure we were truly ahead of the curve when it came to sustainability.