Three staff members gained a greater appreciation for the Army ROTC program on campus after they jumped out of a plane with the Army Golden Knights last week.

The Army Golden Knights is the U.S. Army parachute team made up of two demonstration and two competition teams. The demonstration teams travel around the country to help with the Army's recruiting goals, while the competition teams travel nationally and internationally competing in various events.

Only a religious maniac would simultaneously call for the destruction of Israel while building a nuclear program, but this is the case with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The consequences of a nuclear Iran however would not only threaten the existence of our Jewish allies, but subjugate the rest of the Middle East to the volition of an atomic bully. Any effort to establish a stable, pro-American government in Iraq or Afghanistan would be confronted by a nuclear enemy, as would any Israeli retaliation against the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas.

Brite Divinity School received the approval of a $1.5 million challenge grant after five years of fundraising for a new academic building. The fundraising project combined the efforts of Brite and the...

Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English & Women's Studies at Emory University, congratulated the university's English Department Thursday for striving to improve its already stable graduate program.

In a lecture titled "The Current Direction of the Humanities and the Graduate Curriculum," Foster offered advice to professors for maintaining the status of the university's programs.

Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson is smarter than John F. Kennedy. He's got to be. It took Kennedy 13 days to end the Cuban Missile Crisis. If a report from The Denver Post yesterday...

Though a new bill passed by the Texas Legislature only currently affects public universities, professors at TCU and the University of North Texas said they think it could interfere with an instructor's right to choose his or her own curriculum.

TCU political science professor James Riddlesperger said that while the university, as a private institution, is not affected by the bill, the bill's overall effect is that of a double-edged sword,

With the renovation of Amon G. Carter Stadium fully funded and slated for the end of the football stadium, Chancellor Victor Boschini said Monday that the athletic department's next major construction project will be an expansion of Lupton Stadium, the university's baseball stadium, in the next two or three seasons.

Boschini said expansion wouldn't be until the next two years, but any decisions would not be fully approved until the Board of Trustees meets in November. Lupton Stadium opened in 2003, and the university has set attendance records in each of the last three years.

In a controversial battle with residents of the Como area of Fort Worth, Chesapeake Energy decided to pull its request for natural gas drilling permits from the city of Fort Worth and end a drawn-out battle.

The answer surrounding this questionable withdrawal from drilling in the area may be found in the upcoming air quality study concerning natural gas drilling in North Texas. Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief supported funding the $600,000 study to satiate both concerned citizens and an ever-looming Environmental Protection Agency regulatory commission.

Do your really think the stadium needs to be renovated and why?

Junior strategic communication major Nicole Garrison

"In a way I do, because my parents have...tickets and they come to each game. And they're way far up in the stands. And it's just hard in the heat to walk so far, and so I think renovating it would be nice."

Freshman biology major Eric Bane

"Yes, I think it should be renovated because we have a better football team this year."

After finishing first and second in July's 2010 Miss Texas pageant, two students now have more in common than a shared address.

Senior broadcast journalism major Ashley Melnick, who won the pageant, and senior business major Jordan Johannsen, who took second place, shared the stage on the final night of the 75th Miss Texas pageant celebration, held at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Melnick said being one of the last two contestants with Johannsen was a "neat" experience to share.

In a great win for common sense, Californians decided to put the question of legalizing marijuana on the November ballot. If successful, this would make it the first state to legalize marijuana.

The war on drugs is a failure. It created an underground economy that has been detrimental to tax payers as well as those in poor neighborhoods because it created dangerous gangs and drug wars.

Unfortunately, these reasons alone are not enough for some people to support the legalization of marijuana. These proponents bring up one particular reason to legalize marijuana: taxation.