The provost said he does not want to take a journalism minor away from students, but he did not know whether it was appropriate for any college to have a minimum GPA for minors.Nowell Donovan, the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University Council rejected the College of Communication's request to set a minimum GPA of 2.5 for journalism minors Feb. 6 - as a way to control enrollment - because the council wanted to have more discussion about the issue.

Students remembered David Phillips, a youth minister for Christ Chapel Bible Church, as a mentor and a man of God on Monday."He was a tremendous leader and an unbelievable guy," said Jimmy Williams, a senior entrepreneurial management major.

Phillips died Sunday morning when he lost control of his 1999 Toyota 4Runner on a patch of ice while driving on Interstate 20 from his home in Aledo to the Fort Worth church.

Like most Cubs fans, I loved Sammy Sosa. He emerged as one of baseball's most lovable figures in 1998, clubbing 66 homers, winning the NL MVP and leading the Cubs in an improbable run to the Wild Card.

His sheepish smile, his dugout-to-bleacher sprints out to right field, the way he said, "Baseball's been very, very good to me" - Sammy was just Sammy - and he was everything a professional athlete should be.

But with a little cork and the crack of the bat in June of 2003, the cracks in Sosa's foundation began to show. And before long, Sammy was crumbling.

It's been almost six months since the Gulf Coast was devastated by the overwhelming power of Hurricane Katrina, and all of America has fully indulged in its fair share of finger-pointing.The problem is all those fingers are pointing at each other and not at solutions. While countless displaced New Orleans residents remain estranged from their homes and much of the Ninth Ward is still closed in nighttime hours, our government continues to turn a blind eye towards the suffering of the victims in favor of the squirming of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff in his hot seat.

The teacher shortage in the nation's public schooling system is a "case of wrong diagnosis and wrong prescription," said the economics department's Green Chair lecturer Thursday evening.Richard M. Ingersoll, a professor of education at the University of Pennsylvania, said the problem with teacher turnover is not retirement or increased student enrollment, but retention rates.

His data shows that most teacher hiring is done to replace those who left the field within the year of being hired.

It's just over three months away from graduation time, and thousands of college seniors nationwide are growing a little nervous. The days of campus life are numbered and beyond them lies the dark, frightening frontier of the American workforce.The process of applying for jobs is undoubtedly an intimidating one, and there is a substantial amount of pressure on these job-seekers to not only find the right job in the right profession, but also to look good while doing it.