There are two Horned Frogs' teams currently in their respective No.1 spots in the Mountain West Conference. Both the men's and women's tennis teams are tied for the lead in the conference and these Horned Frogs have done so in undefeated fashion.

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Women's tennis still undefeated in conference

The Horned Frog women's tennis team returned from its two-game conference swing in Las Vegas still on top of the Mountain West.

TCU edged past the University of Nevada, Las Vegas 4-3 and then added a 5-2 win over San Diego State putting it at 5-0 in conference.

Where the Brown-Lupton Student Center goes, orientation shall not follow.

The Student Center is scheduled to be demolished at the beginning of June, said Harold Leeman, associate director of major projects at the Physical Plant, but Carrie Zimmerman, director of first year experience, said the demolition will not slow down the upcoming freshman orientation sessions.

Future accountants should take notice: they no longer get the mulligan the university offers through its course-retake policy.

The university's current retake policy allows a student to try as many times as they please to improve their grade in any course. However, the accounting department recently announced that next fall, once accounting majors have taken an upper-level accounting course, they will not be able to retake lower-level accounting classes, financial accounting and managerial accounting, to raise their GPAs.

At age 74, an advertising/public relations professor is calling it quits after 40 years in education.

Doug Newsom, professor and director of the College of Communication's advertising/public relations graduate program, is retiring next spring, saying she always thought 75 would be a good age to retire.

"I never intended on teaching for so long - it just happened," she said.

Newsom said she loves teaching simply because it is rewarding, and she loves helping students.