The Horned Frogs will open the 2010 football season on Saturday with two firsts: the team will wear the recently unveiled Nike Pro Combat uniforms and will play in Cowboys Stadium for the first time.
Facebook is a great way to stay in touch with professors after graduation
As students receive their fall class schedules, professors with profiles on social media websites, such as Facebook, will likely receive friend requests from many of them.
Senior volleyball player Christy Hudson had no idea she had been nominated for a national award until she checked her Facebook wall. Hudson said a friend in Minnesota was the first to tell her that she was a candidate for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award, an achievement offered to volleyball players for the first time this year.
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Last week I lugged three laundry carts full of my belongings up the front steps of my dorm and down the hall to the room that would become my home for the next few months. I was accompanied by my immediate family, all of us sweating in the Texas heat and trying to beat the move in crowd to the college hot spots.
Unlimited cell-phone plans, Skype and e-mail are changing the ways students communicate with their parents, and according to a recent study, it is causing problems with development and independence among college students.
After just under one and a half years in business, Los Vaqueros owners Vicki and Johnny Cisneros closed the doors of their campus-area restaurant located on West Berry Street.
Students in Ellen Broom’s psychology classes will earn extra credit for showing school spirit and supporting for breast cancer if they wear a pink or purple shirt on Friday.
I regularly read the Skiff and usually find the articles to be quite interesting and informative about the happenings on campus. Unfortunately, this was not the case on Thursday, August 26th. The perspective offered by Shane Smith in his piece “Same-sex marriage harmful” was extremely offending and some of the conclusions he has drawn are simply ridiculous. I hoped that the students at our school were more tolerant of different lifestyles than our own, but Mr. Smith clearly is not.
Sunday was the 47th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and will forever be remembered in history as the day which extended King’s dreams for future generations of Americans. The 8/28 Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial was one of faith, hope and charity.
On Saturday, hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Washington, D.C. to hear conservative icons Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin speak about “restoring honor” to our country. Beck, the organizer of the rally, spoke about the mistakes America has made and a need for restoring honor to our country to compensate for the past. As good as his intents may sound, his rhetoric is counterproductive.
The machine uses a touchscreen interface that first displays brands the user can choose from. After selecting a brand, a variety of flavors appear, and one simply selects their flavor of choice, presses “pour” and voilà, the selection flows into the cup.
Three staff members gained a greater appreciation for the Army ROTC program on campus after they jumped out of a plane with the Army Golden Knights last week.
I regularly read the Skiff and usually find the articles to be quite interesting and informative about the happenings on campus. Unfortunately, this was not the case on Thursday, August 26th. The perspective offered by Shane Smith in his piece “Same-sex marriage harmful” was extremely offending and some of the conclusions he has drawn are simply ridiculous. I hoped that the students at our school were more tolerant of different lifestyles than our own, but Mr. Smith clearly is not.
The complimentary shuttle rides to and from Cowboys Stadium will provide a safe alternative for students planning to tailgate at the season opener game.
The women’s Horned Frog soccer team outshot Sam Houston State 37-5 to earn a 6-0 win over the Bearkats Sunday afternoon in front of 1,078 spectators at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium.
Friday night marked the second-largest crowd in the history of Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium as 2,318 fans came to see the University of Southern California Trojans take on the women’s soccer team.
During his 15-year tenure as TCU’s Chief of Police, Steve McGee has faced many issues. Perhaps one of his greatest challenges has been that of on-campus parking for students, faculty and staff. In an effort to develop solutions to this problem, McGee has taken a unique approach—when traveling to college campuses all across the country he checks parking lots while on family vacations in search of inspiration to brainstorm ideas.
