The Muslim Student Association's Fast-a-thon, scheduled for Thursday night, is designed to raise money to be donated toward a flood relief fund for Pakistan, the organization's vice president said.

Zair Shah, a junior biology major, said MSA wanted students to come to the charity event to fast with them during Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting.

Students who participate will not eat or drink during the hours between sunrise and sunset, he said.

The university's Purple Bike Program has been temporarily suspended due to lack of storage and maintenance space, the program's director said.

Keith Whitworth, a sociology instructor, said that over the past year the bike program was housed in numerous buildings and at one point was located in his mini-van. During the summer the program did not have the resources to maintain the bikes properly which caused a backup in work.

Senior volleyball player Christy Hudson had no idea she had been nominated for a national award until she checked her Facebook wall. Hudson said a friend in Minnesota was the first to tell her that she...

After just under one and a half years in business, Los Vaqueros owners Vicki and Johnny Cisneros closed the doors of their campus-area restaurant located on West Berry Street.

Cisneros said she loved the customers from the university and that the restaurant generated a wonderful group of people. However, problems with the location, such as faulty elevators, frequent fire alarms, limited parking and high rent, forced the couple to end their lease prior to its expiration, she said.

As students receive their fall class schedules, professors with profiles on social media websites, such as Facebook, will likely receive friend requests from many of them.

According to an article in USA Today, the growing trend of social networking on college campuses is blurring the lines between appropriate student-faculty relations.

In March, USA Today reported that an East Stroudsberg University sociology professor was placed on administrative leave after a student reported two of her Facebook postings that could have been interpreted as threats.

Students in Ellen Broom's psychology classes will earn extra credit for showing school spirit and supporting for breast cancer if they wear a pink or purple shirt on Friday.

Broom, a breast cancer survivor, will give participating students in her classes a free activity grade for supporting Frogs for the Cure, the university's annual fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation.

Q: What made you decide to give a free activity grade to the students who participate in this event?

The Horned Frogs will open the 2010 football season on Saturday with two firsts: the team will wear the recently unveiled Nike Pro Combat uniforms and will play in Cowboys Stadium for the first time.

Nike selected 10 universities to be part of the Nike Pro Combat System of Dress. TCU was one of five teams that also wore Pro Combat uniforms last season.

Matt Lewis, athletic equipment manager, presented the Horned Frogs' Nike uniforms at the unveiling event in New York City Wednesday.

The Gary Patterson Radio Show will make its return tonight at 6:00 p.m. live from the Railhead Steakhouse.

The hour-long show hosted by Brian Estridge and featuring Horned Frog football head coach Gary Patterson will be broadcast on KTFW 92.1 FM as well as KTCU 88.7 FM. Tonight's show will be the first of 12 broadcasts that will primarily run on a weekly basis throughout the season,

"We want it to be a fun, interactive show that gives you an insight into what the week has been like for TCU football in preparation for the upcoming opponent," Estridge said.

Last week I lugged three laundry carts full of my belongings up the front steps of my dorm and down the hall to the room that would become my home for the next few months. I was accompanied by my immediate family, all of us sweating in the Texas heat and trying to beat the move-in crowd to the college hot spots.

Sweat quickly turned to tears as we said our goodbyes and they drove away into the sunset, not to be seen again for many long months. I went back to my dorm to enjoy my newfound freedom and bask in the glory of college life.