The university's billboards that went up Saturday advertise a new slogan, "Ahead of the curve," and the marketing and communication department aimed for that mark when it designed the new admissions Web site.With a tentative launch date scheduled in two weeks, the site will feature an interactive look that is one of the first of its kind, said Elizabeth Perkins, director of admission marketing and communication, who said she started the project about two months ago.

New meaning can be given to the phrase 24/7/365 for a Kentucky-born playwright. In November 2002, Pulitzer Prize-winner and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks made a commitment to write one play a day for an entire year and called it "365 Days/365 Plays," said Harry Parker, chair of the TCU theater department.

The TCU Department of Theatre, starting Sept. 10, is joining hundreds of acting companies involved in what theater companies call the largest project in the history of American theater.

Brian Buford puts down his video game controller and pulls a chair from amid the reigning chaos. Buford, a freshman business major, apologizes for the mess. Bunked beds unmade, clothes shamelessly piled...

One man who experienced hazing in college told his story to students to raise awareness during National Hazing Prevention Week.In his speech titled "Hazed and Confused," Erle Morring recalled his fraternity experience and the subsequent deaths of two of his fraternity's pledges.

As a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity at Auburn University, Morring said he was hazed on a regular basis. Morring said he holds these hazing rituals responsible for his friends' deaths and tells his story to college campuses.

A group of juniors have begun visiting residence halls in hopes of teaching students about healthy eating.Juniors in the Coordinated Program in Dietetics worked with Sodexho, TCU's food service provider, to modify the company's Balance, Mind, Body and Soul program. The students are presenting the revised version of Sodexho's program at several residence halls this semester.

Erin Strong, a senior nutrition major, said she revised the presentation and taught it to about 15 juniors in the dietetics program. Then, the students made additional modifications to it, Strong said.

The choir is continuing a tradition of traveling to New York City and showcasing its talents at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, the largest independent symphonic pops orchestra in the U.S..The choir...

Two students are working to make their dream of a women's rugby team at TCU become a reality. Though freshmen Kayla Bankhead and Erin House have proposed the idea, the team is not official yet.

Bankhead said in order to have a team, there must be at least 10 non-freshman students signed up. Once the team is created, Bankhead and House plan on finding a coach and preparing for their first season.

Bankhead said it will most likely be a year before the team competes in an actual game.

As the anticipation continues to build for Saturday's game between the Horned Frogs and the Texas Longhorns, students campuswide are sounding off with their opinions of who will come out victorious in...

"DJ, congratulations on your new appointment as Resident Assistant to Milton Daniel Hall." Those words afforded me such excitement that only my fellow RA colleagues and past RAs can best articulate. Knowing that all your hard work, academically and socially, paid off by being elected to serve as an RA for TCU is not only a privilege, but also a life-changing experience. It creates a pathway to discovering yourself while maintaining a fine balance between embracing the extreme personalities and ethnic differences of students while implementing policies that are set by TCU.