A lot of people on campus get lazy during this time of the semester.But, while students can be excused by having had months of weekly papers, quizzes, homework and jobs, TCU faculty have no excuse.

Professors are paid to be here, teach us, test us and grade those tests. It's not too much to ask a professor to return graded tests in the class following the test day. It's inexcusable when a professor takes more than a week to grade a test, unless that teacher is grading novel-sized essay exams.

The TCU community is participating in Global Days for Darfur to raise awareness about the genocide occurring in Darfur, a professor said. Global Days is a worldwide campaign to raise awareness and is all about education and action, said Cecil Van de Voorde, an assistant criminal justice professor.

"I want people to wake up, pay attention and start acting," said Van de Voorde, who is managing this week's events.

Students and faculty want to know why America is obsessed with celebrities. "Why is America obsessed with celebrities" is the question of the day and the title of today's Searchlight Symposium from 5 to 7 p.m. in Smith Hall 104.

Students will hear about celebrity obsession from guest speakers Richard Allen, a radio-TV-film professor, and Adam Schiffer, a political science assistant professor, and can participate in an open-question forum, said John Wood, founder of the biannual event that started in 2006.

The system in which required nursing clinical sign-ups are being conducted is making it difficult to register for classes and plan work schedules, nursing students said.The problem with signing up for...

"If you look close enough, you'll find everyone has a weak spot." This tagline for the film "Fracture" is the most elementary way to explain this thrilling two-hour ride.When meticulous structural engineer Ted Crawford is found innocent of the attempted murder of his wife, the young district attorney Willy Beachum who is prosecuting him becomes a crusader for justice. "Fracture" is packed with twists and turns that weave in and out of the courtroom as the pair try to outwit each other.

The men's golf team has been knocking at the door of the top-25 collegiate ranks the past few weeks, but its performance in the U.S. Collegiate Championships was not enough to gain an official spot in the Top 25. The Horned Frogs current reside at No. 31.The team finished 14th out of 15 places during the tournament, and that was the last match before the squad heads to the Mountain West Conference Championships in Tucson, Ariz.

Teams to beat during the conference tournament will be the No. 8 UNLV Rebels and the No. 14 BYU Cougars.

Today is Equal Pay Day, an event put on by the National Committee on Pay Equity to raise awareness of unequal salaries for women and other minorities. And today, almost 90 years since women gained suffrage, there are many speculations about why women earn less money than men: Are they less deserving? Do the majority of women choose lower-paying jobs than men? Or do they just fail to negotiate their salaries with employers, such as sociology professor Jean Giles-Sims suggested?

The inaugural Greek Week at TCU began Monday with a discourse on diversity given by a former fraternity president.Clay Stauffer, a former Sigma Alpha Epilson president who graduated from TCU in 2002, said his viewpoint changed from being a high school senior to an undergraduate at TCU to a graduate student at Princeton in his speech titled "Nine Things I Wish I knew Nine Years Ago."

Stauffer said he wanted to help students understand the position they're in from the perspective of someone who has been there.

The university Ad Campaigns team took first place in District 10 of the National Student Advertising Competition in Fort Worth on Thursday.Mike Wood, faculty adviser for the team, said the accomplishment is nothing to be taken lightly.

"District 10 is the strongest one in the country," Wood said. "With TCU being a private school without any strong funding, we really pulled off a David versus Goliath match here."

I did a little experiment a few weeks ago. Just on a whim, I stood up between the Clark statues one afternoon and read the Gospel of John out loud. Within an hour, someone called the cops on me.

The policeman, who politely shooed me away, explained that reading from the Bible out loud on campus without a permit constituted an illegal assembly, even if I was the only person "assembling." Fair enough. Nevertheless, I found it interesting that someone had considered me enough of a threat to TCU's well-being as to justify police action.