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Proposed playoffs better for BCS games

Published Mar 25, 2009

Since the Bowl Championship Series began in 1998, it seems that each year has brought greater opposition from fans to the selection system that decides which college football teams compete for the national...

Admissions numbers resist national trend

Published Mar 25, 2009

A national study is predicting college enrollments to drop, but the university isn't necessarily worried.

The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education released a study in 2008 detailing how changing demographics may curtail the success universities have had recruiting students during the past decade.



The 141-page report predicted that as the number children of baby boomers levels off, colleges could see an 11 percent drop in white non-Hispanic high school graduates, historically the most likely group to attend college, by 2015.

Baseball team to face Stephen F. Austin

Baseball team to face Stephen F. Austin

Published Mar 24, 2009

While students were away soaking up rays on a beach somewhere the Horned Frog baseball team was hard at work, playing seven games in nine days.The Horned Frogs lost their first series of the season March...

Government should have foreseen AIG mess

Government should have foreseen AIG mess

Published Mar 24, 2009

American International Group, the massive failing insurance firm which is now 80 percent owned by the U.S. government, recently announced $218 million in bonuses to top executives working in the financial products unit of the company, the division that drove the company into financial ruin only a short time ago.

Public outcry against this apparently egregious act erupted immediately after the news broke and Washington was quick to point fingers at Wall Street and join in on the protest.



Why the sudden outrage?

Quick Sports: Lady Frogs fall to South Dakota; Horned Frogs end season

Published Mar 24, 2009

While Spring Break is a time for leisure for most students, Horned Frogs athletes were working hard over the week.Several teams were in action last week while students were away. Three squads saw their...

Communist homeland, other destinations influence professor

Published Mar 24, 2009

The Present

Sitting in the back of the room of his fifth-grade physics class, 12-year-old Kiril Tochkov was just another number at his school in Sofia, Bulgaria. Literally.



The teacher would ask a question and call on No. 17 for the answer. Or maybe it was No. 22's turn.



One of the teachers liked to play games.



"What day is today?" the teacher would ask. "Today is the 29th, minus four, plus three, divided by two. That number will be answering the question."

Hispanic enrollment at university continues to rise

Published Mar 24, 2009

Ruth Lopez, sophomore radio-TV-film major, is a first-generation college student. Her parents never made it past high school. That is the case for the majority of the growing Hispanic population enrolled...

Energy efficiency achievable in more than one way

Published Mar 24, 2009

In a recent study conducted by Virginia's George Mason University, known as the index of personal and economic freedom, Texas ranked as the fifth most free state in the nation. The index took into account...

Mountain West presents eight-team playoff proposal

Published Mar 24, 2009

Many college football fans across the country screamed for change during the bowl season. The Mountain West Conference answered and will direct the battle against the current Bowl Championship Series system.

The conference presented an eight-team playoff proposal to the BCS, said Javan Hedlund, associate commissioner for communications of the Mountain West Conference. The nine university presidents known as the Mountain West Conference Board of Directors prompted the decision, Hedlund said.

Fantasy Baseball: Rodriguez’s injury lets other third basemen rise

Published Mar 13, 2009

We are steadily crawling closer and closer to Opening Day, and maybe it's just me, but I am getting excited. And of course I am happy to be watching the World Baseball Classic.

There are several columnists around the country dogging on the event because of the risk of injury to the players involved.



Since I am a Texas Rangers fan, I don't have to worry about losing any of my favorite players, because nobody else wants them.



But there is something about seeing a team wearing USA on its jerseys that gets me excited.

Students raise funds to maintain neglected animals

Students raise funds to maintain neglected animals

Published Mar 13, 2009

Students in a communication studies class are working to raise money to donate to a local shelter for the upkeep of abandoned animals.

Diane Stamper, an adjunct faculty member in the department of communication studies, said that as a part of her class, six students formed a group named Prestige Worldwide and began formulating ideas to finance the upkeep of a Bengal tiger named Hamilton. Stamper said the tiger was abandoned by a private owner in Hamilton County.

Campus Voices: Should the legal drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18?

Campus Voices: Should the legal drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18?

Published Mar 13, 2009

At the age of 18, you're still living at home. Your parents can teach responsibility through drinking and it's less of a taboo subject.Sara Hauck, freshman graphic design major from Eden Prairie, Minn.If...