Students no longer have to guess which politicians are spouting brilliance or blowing smoke. They can fact-check it.

PolitiFact is a Pulitzer Prize-winning website that checks the legitimacy of statements and claims made by politicians.

Cuyler Haskins, a sophomore political science and religion double major, said he thought the site was a great tool to verify the validity of statements made by gubernatorial candidates Rick Perry and Bill White for the upcoming election Nov. 2.

The TCU football players and head coach have a personal side to them besides their game day personas, and their true personalities are shown at the weekly Gary Patterson Radio Show, the host of the show said.

Host Brian Estridge and head football coach Gary Patterson hold a weekly radio show live on Thursdays from Railhead Smokehouse in Fort Worth. The show features interviews from Patterson and a different football player each week, Estridge said.

The university Health Center will be making it much easier and cheaper for students, faculty and staff to stay healthy this flu season.

Students, faculty and staff can go to the University Recreation Center to receive a free flu shot as part of an all-day clinic hosted by the Health Center on Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Brown-Lupton Health Center will be making it much easier and cheaper for students, faculty and staff to stay healthy this flu season. Students, faculty and staff can go to the University Recreation...

The university Gay-Straight Alliance adopted Wear Purple Day as an event within Pride Week, but identifying whether or not students wore purple in honor of the event was difficult, a member of the group said.

Carter Gilbert, audio-visual coordinator for the Brown-Lupton University Union, said Wear Purple Day was created to celebrate the lives of the LGBTQ youths who committed suicide because of sexual orientation. He said the idea was to wear purple to support those youths.

Habits like surfing the internet, watching TV and using social networking websites may seem harmless, but once they cross the line into becoming excessive, they become detrimental to a person's life, according to a self-help expert.

According to Judith Wright's book, "The Soft Addiction Solution: Break Free of the Seemingly Harmless Habits that Keep You from the Life You Want," soft addictions are defined as, "substances or behaviors not in themselves dangerous." A person's overuse of that behavior or substance is what makes it a soft addiction.