Hard-hitting riffs, screaming solos and lots of shredding were heard by anyone who stopped by the GameStop on Berry St. Saturday afternon.A Guitar Hero 2 tournament preliminary round attracted 12 contestants, ranging in ages from 15 to 21. There were three TCU students among those, each playing six songs to win a chance to advance to the next Saturday's 10-song final round, said John Zender, a GameStop employee.

The winner of the second round receives a wireless Guitar Hero 2 controller.

Piles of dirt and the groan of trucks have become familiar sights and sounds for current students, but that isn't hindering the recruitment of prospective Horned Frogs, an admissions counselor said.While the middle of campus is consumed with construction, the admissions office is taking advantage of the opportunity to show prospective students the future of the campus, said Mike Mooneyham, admissions counselor and director of Monday at TCU.

"We're making an investment in the future," Mooneyham said.

Reports show that the people behind Myspace.com have been quietly developing software that will allow parents to see some of the information their children are posting on the Web site.The new tool is to allow parents to protect their children while not invading their privacy. The program, called "Zephyr," will allow parents to see the username, age and location their children have listed on Myspace.com, as long as the child logs in from a home computer.

At 7:28 p.m., Jan. 16, five student reporters sat in a Mexican newsroom discussing their newspaper's future. At 7:30 p.m., that future became defunct.As student reporter Astrid Viveros told it, that's when the controversy started.

Four administrators from la Universidad de las Americas, TCU's sister university in Puebla, Mexico, accompanied campus police into the headquarters of La Catarina, UDLA's student newspaper, and the reporters were ordered to leave.

A climatologist and Texas ranch owner says planning for the weather and environmental changes is the first step toward conserving the environment for the future.Evelyn Browning-Garriss, climatologist and editor of Browning Newsletter, and Comer Tuck, of the Texas Water Development Board, will join students and alumni of the ranch management program Saturday at the biannual Roundup.

Browning-Garriss said she plans to discuss the climate in Texas and the Great Plains.

No more greens fees, no more shoe rental and no more batting cage tokens. But the best thing of all, the days of playing outside seemed to be numbered.The advent of the Nintendo Wii has taken the evolution...

A group of scientists recently expressed their fervent concern when they decided to push forward the symbolic hands of their figurative Doomsday Clock closer to midnight, according to a Jan. 17 Associated Press article.This metaphorical clock signifies the ongoing threats of global disaster and calamity in our world. Each tick of this clock dismally shows how the growing dangers are rapidly continuing to make impacts that could possibly of harming humankind and our surroundings to the point of total destruction.

TCU students looking to fill prescriptions on campus will have to find another pharmacy.At the end of December, Thomas and Gay Peterson, who owned and operated the TCU Health Center pharmacy, retired, leaving it vacant.

The pharmacy has not yet been purchased, said Marilyn Hallam, assistant to the director of Health Services.

"We have spoken with companies and individuals to determine their interest in purchasing the pharmacy and contracting with the university," Hallam said. "There was interest but nothing concrete."

A panel of professors discussed the validity of the Iraq war from both a political and a Christian standpoint at the Searchlight Symposium on Thursday.In front of about 80 students, professors Nadia Lahutsky, Eric Cox and Mark Gilderhus addressed the questions, "What is a just war? Are we in one?"

Lahutsky, an associate professor of religion, opened the discussion with a description of the "just war's" evolution within the Christian faith.

She said early Christians objected to war on the principle that violence is fundamentally wrong.