Even though the idea has been on the back burner for more than a year, students will have to wait longer for Residential Services to make a decision about using TCU ID cards as a form of payment at off-campus restaurants, said the director of Residential Services. Craig Allen, director of Residential Services, has been at TCU for a year and said he knows that while the issue of off-campus dining has been discussed before, staff members agree that it is not an issue to be addressed immediately.

TCU is not the only campus in the nation spending money to renovate the campus to fit student needs, said the Residential Services director. Craig Allen, Residential Services director, said the housing shortage issue is a common problem on college campuses as student populations continue to increase.

Allen said the University of Texas at Arlington, Baylor University, Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University are all adding or have recently added new residential halls to accommodate students.

From the first round of auditions to the final curtain call, students involved in a Theatre TCU production find they have time for very little else - but few seem to mind."I'm basically studying as I'm walking to class, I'm studying as I'm eating and whenever I get the chance," said Kal Anderson, who has worked as a stage manager on numerous Theatre TCU productions. "Working on a show takes up most of my time."

The beginning of each semester can be stressful for students: new classes, teachers, tests and challenges. But are the classes you're fretting over even the ones you need to be taking? The professor from your department swears these are the right classes and that you must take them now in order to graduate on time.It's hard to believe that majority of professors on campus are familiar enough with TCU core curriculum to advise students correctly on every class they need to take each semester.

"Welcome to the middle of nowhere."This is often the exact reaction many people have when they are traveling through a remote small town.

They look left, then they look right and see a couple of houses, but not much else. "Do people actually live here?" is the common question asked among visitors.

The truth is people do live in these small towns and most will defend their birthplace until they are blue in the face.

This is the case with Rachel Skinner, a senior radio-TV-film major, whose hometown is Lawn, Texas.

The TCU women's soccer team returns to the field this weekend to take on Tulsa and Oral Roberts in the Tulsa University Women's Soccer/Grover Classic.TCU will play Tulsa at 7 p.m., Friday and Oral Roberts at 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Both games will be played at Tulsa's Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium.

The Lady Frogs are coming off close defeats to the Rice Owls (1-0) and the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2-0).

With recent changes to the program, including the appointment of a new head coach, the women's tennis team remains confident they can continue to be successful and improve. Following the appointment of...

The college experience is supposed to be an eye-opening, perception-changing one.We leave the social upbringing of our youth to be exposed to a different world we've only heard about, or perhaps have seen...

Members of Senseless Acts of Comedy were dressed in tin foil, wigs and paper bags Thursday in what they said was an effort to make students aware that SAC may lose their performance space.Members of the group were dressed as homeless people to symbolize that they may not be able to perform in Moudy Building 141 North, after four years of using the room, said Justin Kirchhoff, senior criminal justice major and member of SAC.

TCU's campus has become a stage for labor protests against a Dallas-based construction company sub-contracted for work at TCU.Seven employees from Great Western Erectors, a concrete steel reinforcing company, and an Iron Worker International Union worker have been on campus this week claiming the company mistreats its employees.

William Morales, an employee for Great Western Erectors and one of the protesters, said his company treats its employees unfairly.