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Health Center offering discount birth control after negotiations

Health Center offering discount birth control after negotiations

Published Feb 24, 2009

After two years of negotiating contracts with drug companies, the Health Center is offering contraceptives at a cheaper price.

The negotiations began in 2005 after a provision in the Federal Deficit Reduction Act removed university health clinics from a list that benefitted from preferential prices in brand-name birth control, thus causing the price of birth control to go up, Health Center pharmacist Frank Calhoon said.



The Health Center began offering generic oral contraceptives at $25 per pack instead of $40 in January, Calhoon said.

Official: Number of recalled crackers sold unclear

Published Feb 24, 2009

It's still unclear how many potentially dangerous crackers were sold before Dining Services pulled them from shelves at Bistro Burnett on Feb. 11, a university official said.

Shawn Kornegay, associate director of communications, wrote in an e-mail that a full inventory taken by Sodexo Inc., the university's food service provider, showed that Bistro Burnett sold at least one package of recalled peanut butter crackers, but could not provide the exact number of packages sold.

Quick Sports: Clemson rumor confirmed; Wyoming beats Horned Frogs

Published Feb 24, 2009

Frogs officially add Clemson to schedule

Rumors late last week proved true Friday when the Frogs announced they have completed their non-conference schedule by adding a Sept. 26 game against Clemson University.



The Frogs now have two road games against Atlantic Coast Conference foes next season. The team will play the University of Virginia two weeks earlier on Sept. 12.



TCU and Clemson last met in the first-ever Bluebonnet Bowl in 1959 when the Tigers topped the Frogs 23-7.

Baseball team to take on Dallas Baptist

Published Feb 24, 2009

Coming off a season-opening series win against a highly ranked Cal State Fullerton team over the weekend, the Horned Frog baseball team will continue its season tonight against Dallas Baptist University.

TCU (2-1) will take on the Patriots (2-1) in the first of back-to-back games at home. The Horned Frogs will play the Texas State University Bobcats (3-1) Wednesday night.



Sophomore right-handed pitcher Steven Maxwell is expected to start tonight's game. Maxwell appeared in three games last season before undergoing season-ending Tommy John surgery on his elbow.

Health Center’s efforts to offer discount birth control applaudable

Published Feb 24, 2009

Contraceptives offered by the Health Center are now available to students at a reduced price, thanks to the persistence and hard work of staff members there.For the past two years, the Health Center negotiated...

Partnership with local theatre company gives students a taste of reality

Partnership with local theatre company gives students a taste of reality

Published Feb 24, 2009

The collaboration between the professional Circle Theatre in downtown Fort Worth and Theatre TCU allows theater students to bridge the gap between the academic and the professional world, a university official said.

Harry Parker, chair of the theater department and member of the board of the Circle Theatre in Sundance Square, said the two theaters will combine their talent to perform the play "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which he will direct.

Miami whisks victory after tough battle with women’s tennis team

Published Feb 24, 2009

An early doubles victory couldn't help the women's tennis team stop the No. 10 University of Miami squad on Sunday as the team fell 6-1 after the Hurricanes swept singles play. For the Horned Frogs, however, the outcome didn't reflect the team's effort.

Three of the six singles matches went into third sets, including a heated match between sixth-ranked junior Nina Munch-Soegaard and the Hurricanes' Julia Cohen, ranked 20th in the nation.

Study: Business students cheat more than other majors

Study: Business students cheat more than other majors

Published Feb 24, 2009

Surveys conducted at different universities including TCU show that business school students cheat more than students from any other academic discipline, a Rutgers University professor said.

Donald McCabe, organizational management professor at Rutgers Business School, said that when it comes to academic integrity, faculty and students are letting too much slide.



"Students will put blame on a teacher in saying they have too much of a work load, on the job market being so competitive, or you name it, they can find someone to blame," McCabe said.

Letter to the Editor: Don’t forget U.N. successes even with its constraints

Published Feb 24, 2009

I find the conclusion of Friday's piece titled "U.N. fails to live up to mission" by Alex Turner troubling.

This was not only for its narrow standards on which U.N. success was measured (namely, failing to prevent atrocities comparable to those that occurred in WWII), but also the lack of consideration for a myriad of other U.N. accomplishments that are more indicative of its success.

Student welcomes Bush to neighborhood with signs

Published Feb 20, 2009

A Dallas neighborhood showed some good old-fashioned Texas hospitality to former President George W. Bush and his wife because of a student's idea.Sophomore economics major Patrick Bibb started a lucrative...

University’s efforts to aid veterans commendable

Published Feb 20, 2009

The university's decision to participate in the Yellow Ribbon program should be commended.

Beginning in August, the program, a component of the new GI Bill, will allow private universities where the tuition is higher than the most expensive in-state public university to waive some or all of the remaining tuition.



Each private university can elect whether to participate in the program, and colleges are even given the flexibility to choose how many veterans they will waive tuition for and how much of the tuition they will waive.

Speaker to discuss body image issues in college women

Published Feb 20, 2009

Young women can stop counting calories and start taking control.

That's the message of award-winning author and journalist Courtney Martin, who is coming to campus Monday to discuss her book, "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters," and how disordered eating, food and fitness obsession have become normalized among college women, a university official said.



Martin said she was encouraged to write her book after college when she began mentoring young women.