Awkward times ensue in middle school when one first learns about sex. Many schools choose to go about it differently than others. While most secular schools tend to teach safe sex, some private or conservative schools prefer to preach abstinence. Both efforts keep in mind the safety of the youth, but they do not educate people fully. A more comprehensive sex-education program should be made in order to make sure students learn about all the options whether they decide to become sexually active.

In the year of its inception, the equestrian team managed to garner a berth in the Varsity Equestrian National Championship.The team will bring only five of the 16 riders to the championship held in Waco and only the Western Horsemanship riders will compete.

During the first round of Western competition, the Horned Frogs are set to face the South Carolina Gamecocks. The last time TCU faced the Gamecocks, the riders from South Carolina edged out a 645.5-643.5 win.

The 2007 National Football League draft is only two weeks away, and 18 Horned Frogs have declared that they will enter the draft. Horned Frog players Jeff Ballard, Herb Taylor, Marvin White, Michael DePriest, Eric Buchanan, Quentily Harmon and Jared Retkofsky went to Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, last Friday to participate in local workouts, said Mark Cohen, director of athletics media relations.

The workout was the last opportunity for these players to showcase their skills and knowledge of the game to the NFL scouts before draft day on April 28.

Starting April 18, sections of course evaluations will be given online as part of a pilot test to determine how response rates will be affected by technology.Catherine Wehlburg, executive director of the Office of Assessment and Quality Evaluation, said the evaluations will be sent through e-mail with a link to the evaluation. She said text boxes below each multiple choice question will encourage more detailed responses.

While the results of the pilot test could be surprising, students may be less likely to take the initiative to fill out online evaluations in the future.

Sunday was the 60th anniversary of one of the most groundbreaking moments in sports history.On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first black player to play major league baseball.

While his emergence to stardom at the big-league level began to expand the game to people who had never played before, his affect on the game of baseball appears to be fading away.

That is a real shame, especially with everything he did for black athletes both during his baseball career and as a civil rights activist after retiring.

VH1 is a television network notorious for making notoriously bad shows, complete with ridiculous, punned titles. One genre of its faux-reality shows is countdowns - the network sets up critics to countdown everything from Oscar-worthy fashion statements to "awesomely bad songs." I don't consider myself an excellent or even concerned judge of fashion, so my point of annoyance is at the music.In the countdown of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs ... Ever," different songs are ranked and their videos are aired along with critical commentary. From whom does the commentary come?

On March 16, a nationwide recall of pet food was carried out after reports of several pets dying and others coping with kidney failure. Contamination was the conclusion with the belief that the polluted ingredient wheat gluten, which is dough washed clean of starch, was to blame.Pet-owners were thoroughly shocked at the deterioration of many of their pets' health, and the situation is not being handled the way that it should be.

The mass shooting attack at Virginia Tech on Monday is the latest reminder that college campuses might not be the safe educational cocoon they are presented as being, a expert on terrorism and university officials said.While the reality that at least 32 people were slain on a college campus starts to set in on institutions nationwide, college administrators have begun to examine the overall safety of the university.

It seems Latin Americans are putting their money to work; it's just taking a little trip first.The Inter-American Development Bank, a bank set up primarily to monitor and aid Latin American economies, reports that Latin American immigrants sent $62 billion from the United States to their native countries last year.

These payments, known as remittances, are part of the ongoing political debate surrounding immigration in the United States.

Rob Garnett, associate professor of economics, sees these remittances as a positive sign.