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Cross Country: Wildfires force new location for MWC meet

Published Oct 26, 2007

Although the Horned Frogs still plan to compete in this weekend's Mountain West Conference Championships, their travel plans have been altered.The meet was moved to Albuquerque, N.M., from Mission Bay Park, Calif., in the San Diego area, because of wildfires in the area.

Head coach Shawn Winget said the team is concerned about the situation, but it has not affected their preparation.

Death row inmates deserve harsher execution method

Published Oct 26, 2007

The three-drug cocktail. It's just a quick sting.Sodium Pentothal is injected as an anesthetic. Thirty seconds go by and unconsciousness sets in.

Lethal injection is used in almost every single execution state but recently it has been receiving major criticism from the Supreme Court, according to a New York Times article Oct. 18.

Texas accounts for 405 of the 1,099 lethal injection executions since 1976.

Team to face conference front-runner at home

Team to face conference front-runner at home

Published Oct 26, 2007

Going into one of the biggest games of the season, the soccer team needs to come out ready to play against the No. 1 team in the Mountain West Conference, the head coach said. The soccer team will face the top conference competitor Friday when it plays the Utah Utes (10-2-4, 2-0-2) in the last home game of the season at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium.

TCU (7-9-0, 2-3-0) is coming into the match No. 6 in the MWC, following a 1-0 overtime loss to UNLV on Sunday.

Stars’ personal experiences, trip to India shape film

Published Oct 26, 2007

Jason Schwartzman spoke with staff writer Alex Zobel about his recent travels to India where he co-wrote and starred in the new film "The Darjeeling Limited" with director Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola. The short film "Hotel Chevalier," which starred Natalie Portman and Schwartzman acts as a prologue to the feature film and will precede the movie starting today when it will be released in Fort Worth theaters.What was the writing process like for you?

Dolphins continue to disappoint fans

Published Oct 26, 2007

When 90,000 London residents, granted most are probably Americans, bought tickets to this game back in the summer, they had no idea how bad the Miami Dolphins would be this year. Heck, even real football fans never thought members of the 1972 Super Bowl Champion Dolphins would be taking shots at the current group. Miami's talent evaluators recently extended their streak of incompetence in April's NFL draft by taking Ted Ginn Jr. at the No. 9 spot when their "quarterback of the future," Brady Quinn, was staring them right in the face.

Varying teaching styles, beliefs deserve respect

Published Oct 25, 2007

Universities nationwide strive to uphold the standards established by the idea of academic freedom.Although the necessary means for maintaining standards of truth, responsibility and acceptability in the learning process are present at most institutions, the end result has not been that of academic freedom for some university professors. Middle-Eastern studies professors have sometimes gotten the short end of the stick.

Holidays may bring gift from university: increase in tuition

Published Oct 25, 2007

It's about that time again. There is a chill in the air, and the holiday season is upon us. Only one month stands in the way of Thanksgiving, and Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa aren't far behind.It's...

Frogs graduation success rate ranks high among top programs

Frogs’ graduation success rate ranks high among top programs

Published Oct 25, 2007

TCU football has a player graduation rate 12 percent higher than the national average, a study found.According to a recent NCAA study on graduation rates, TCU is graduating an average of 78 percent of its senior football players, while the national average is 66 percent. The Horned Frogs also ranked in the top five for graduation success rates.

At TCU, student-athlete graduation rates are a top priority, head coach Gary Patterson said.

Professor: Foreign policy undermines values

Published Oct 25, 2007

The United States is the most powerful nation in the world, yet Americans are encouraged to live in fear, a professor said during the Searchlight Symposium in Palko Hall on Wednesday.Michael Dodson, a...

Swimming & Diving: Team gains experience, ready for five-team home meet

Published Oct 25, 2007

The first long meet of the season left some room for improvement for head coach Richard Sybesma's swimmers after the teams' performances at Colorado State last weekend."We need to get a little bit stronger and better conditioned as a whole team," Sybesma said.

One of the factors affecting the swimmers was the change in altitude, and for freshman-heavy squads, the thinner air did have an impact during the three days of competition. The combination of altitude and the lengthy meet took its toll on the swimmers by the end of the weekend, Sybesma said.

Police meet technical snags locating harassing KTCU caller

Published Oct 25, 2007

Technical difficulties arose Wednesday when police tried to trace the threatening phone calls made to KTCU FM 88.7 "The Choice" that caused the station to shut down Tuesday night, a source close to the investigation said. The source said police wanted to look at phone records, but the phones at the station don't have caller ID because they are analog. The source said police were looking for other ways to track the call Wednesday.