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Quick Sports: Loss puts team in consolation bracket

Published Nov 13, 2007

After falling to the No. 5 team in the country Sunday, the Lady Frogs are awaiting word on their next opponent.Head coach Jeff Mittie's group dropped a 73-54 road decision to Louisiana State University just two days after downing Radford University 74-63. The team will know tonight if it will host the next game in the consolation bracket of the tournament.

Sports editor Tim Bella

E-checks bring favorable change

Published Nov 13, 2007

There seems to be news about how TCU is becoming more eco-friendly every day. There is the TCU Purple Bike program, plans for a walking campus and the RecycleMania campaign.Not to be outdone, TCU payroll will soon have a greener attitude as well. All financial information from paychecks to W-2 forms will be available online, making more than 72,000 printouts and envelopes unnecessary. The plan is to complete this change by the end of January when W-2s are sent out.

Parents can’t buy love with costly gifts

Published Nov 13, 2007

Who is sending parents scraping for change underneath the couch, giving headaches to public relations representatives and making lawyers work for their paycheck?

It's 14-year-old Disney sensation Hannah Montana.



The eponymous TV show, starring actress and singer Miley Cyrus, is about a teenager who leads a double life as a high school student by day and a pop singer by night.



Citing Nielsen Media Research, a CNN article reported more than two-thirds of U.S. children in the six to 14 age group watched the show in the third quarter of 2007.

Elections bring mix of apathy, interest

Published Nov 13, 2007

This time next year, millions of Americans all over the country will flock to the polls to elect the nation's new commander in chief.In light of ever-surfacing statistics that demonstrate the current president's...

Quick Sports: West Coast trip results in split

Published Nov 13, 2007

A day after a 3-1 win in San Diego, the roles were reversed in Las Vegas for the volleyball team.The team would wind up splitting its weekend West Coast road trip, winning against San Diego State 3-1 (30-16, 30-28, 27-30, 30-23) and dropping Saturday's match to University of Nevada-Las Vegas 3-1 (23-30, 30-21, 17-30, 25-30). A double-double performance from sophomore outside hitter Lauren Otto was not enough to earn the Horned Frogs a win.

Sports editor Tim Bella

Trustees vote to tear down student center

Trustees vote to tear down student center

Published Nov 13, 2007

It's official. The Brown-Lupton Student Center will be no more.The Board of Trustees determined Friday that the TCU community hub will be demolished to make room for a smaller, more efficient building, Provost Nowell Donovan said.

Donovan said Clarence and Kerry Scharbauer Hall will be replacing the current Student Center. The building will house the AddRan College of Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as the Honors College, Donovan said.

Classroom diversity should include conservative ideas

Published Nov 13, 2007

You would think a college campus would be a place where people could feel safe from discrimination.Recent studies indicate otherwise.

According to a survey conducted by the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, 30 percent of student respondents said they had been discriminated against because they didn't fit expectations for masculinity and femininity. In addition, 25 percent of students of color reported being discriminated against, as well.

How can students be expected to learn in an environment that they can't feel comfortable in?

Quick Sports: Sophomore qualifies for national event

Published Nov 13, 2007

A top-10 finish has one cross-country runner thinking about the NCAA Championships.Sophomore Festus Kigen's 10th place finish at the 10K NCAA South Central Regional has catapulted the Kenyan into the NCAA...

Campus payroll, HR to go paperless by tax season

Published Nov 13, 2007

Payroll and Human Resources will be "going green" by next quarter, said the payroll tax coordinator.Shelli Barr-Majors, payroll tax coordinator, said there are two main things they hope to accomplish by "going green."

"To us, going green is trying to eliminate wasteful paper," Barr-Majors said. "It also means security - no lost checks or information floating around where someone could steal an identity."

Barr-Majors said when the department sat down and looked at the amount of paper they used every day, it was an eye opener.

Quick Sports: Equestrian’s fall season ends with loss

Published Nov 13, 2007

Not even a match against a rival could get the equestrian team back on the right track. The team wrapped up its fall docket by falling to 2-6 after dropping Saturday's match to SMU 6-5 in Mansfield. An...

Simulated drowning technique inherently inhumane

Published Nov 13, 2007

The new Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, wouldn't admit during recent confirmation hearings that waterboarding constitutes torture.To waterboard, an interrogator binds a prisoner, tightens cellophane or a cloth over his face, and pours water on him. The wet cellophane or cloth triggers the gag reflex.

Then the process is repeated until the prisoner believes he will drown.

If that description doesn't convince you the technique is torture, the federal code might.

Natural gas drilling signed to Chesapeake

Published Nov 13, 2007

The natural gas exploration lease for TCU's campus has been transferred from Four Sevens Resources Co. Ltd. to Chesapeake Exploration, LLC.The Board of Trustees executive committee signed a letter of intent in March to appoint Four Sevens as the university's natural gas operator.

Julie Wilson , vice president of corporation development at Chesapeake, said Chesapeake purchased the leasehold assets from Four Sevens on July 2, which means the leases gathered by Four Sevens are transferred to Chesapeake.