4years. That's how long you
have to learn how to succeed
in this so-called "real world"
our parents have been preparing
us for since conception.

The minute my mother
found out she was pregnant,
my father started putting away
for college. Of course, I chose

Graduation: one of life's pivotaljunctions. To work, marry,travel Europe or slip into gradschool with your less-than-impressiveGPA? So many choices,so little time...The majority will send out ahundred...

Somewhere in the far west end of Fort Worth,
near a highway named after a professor, is
a little nature preserve near Lake Worth.

About 10 miles west of downtown on the
Jacksboro Highway is the Fort Worth Nature
Center & Refuge. Inside this 3,600-acre park
is Canyon Ridge Trail. The 3.25 mile trail takes
in almost all forms of Texas scenery.
There are rolling hills, limestone outcrops and
views of the shores of Lake Worth. If you are
lucky, you can find some fossils buried in these

Just one week after participating in the
NCAA Indoor Track and Field National
Championships in Arkansas, the team began
the outdoor portion of its schedule by
hosting the second annual Horned Frog Invitational
March 21.

The Frogs posted 10 NCAA regional qualifying
marks during the event, which featured
competitors from UT-Arlington and
the University of North Texas.
Three of the qualifying marks came during
the men's 100-meter dash. Junior Otis

Candis Kelley, left, took the
title Mountain West Conference

Sipping on his Frappuccino with tri-
ple whipped cream and cinnamon top-
ping he charmed out of the Starbucks
baristas, Drew Combs taps along to the
beat of the music in the bookstore café,
casually commenting that he should
have been a drummer.
Combs, born with a left arm that
ends below the elbow, is a kicker for
the Texas Christian University football
team. He earned the kickoff position
during the summer and was also the
backup field goal kicker this season.
Now, he has his sights set on the field

In Todd Howard's mind, he was
invincible. Active in an array of water
sports, he never thought he could be
taken away from the glistening of the
blue water.
Then the invincibility was yanked
from him 8212; at 19, he was diagnosed
with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. There was
a tumor the size of a deck of cards in
the right side of his body.
Early in his second semester at TCU,
Howard said a hard workout pulled the
trigger on the unknown tumor. It was
a coincidence that saved his life.

Most who enter the small, dimly-lit
building on a shabby block near the outskirts
of downtown do so with a tinge of
anxiety, though it is often disguised by
confidence.
Framed drawings of tattoos wallpaper the
rooms, the artistic visions of professionals
who earn a living by prickling ink into the
skin of customers. But the images are only
copies of masterpieces whose original canvases
were not paper, but flesh, and whose
instruments were not pencils, but needles.
These sketches can be taken down, but the

It's spring time in Texas and summer is quickly
approaching. What better way to escape than
on a 210-foot patch of ice?
For only $9, the general public can rent skates and
hit up ICE at the Parks at Arlington, an Olympicsize
skating rink.

Open for interested skaters, birthday parties,
skating lessons and hockey leagues, the rink,
which is located in The Parks mall, has become a
local staple for youth and adult time-killing.
Of course, for some, moving on ice with blades
attached to their feet might seem like a foreign

Kimmy Daycock fought cancer while
in diapers.
At two years old, Daycock, a sophomore
news-editorial journalism major,
was diagnosed with clear cell sarcoma,
a rare form of childhood cancer.
Emergency surgery removed the cancer
and her right kidney, and left the toddler
with a scar that stretched across
her torso from hip to hip. Ten days
of radiation and five years of chemotherapy
followed.
At five, Daycock's cancer was in
remission. But that didn't stop the
problems.
Her first surgery created scar tissue

Construction on the popular roadway is poised to be a hassle for TCU students. Two lanes were closed on Hulen St. this week after weeks of signs warning drivers to expect delays. Those closures as well...

A student will make the trek by bike this summer, helping build homes along the way.

After completing the 26-mile Cowtown Marathon, Brett Major said he could barely feel his legs.

"It's such a mental struggle finishing a marathon," Major, senior psychology major, said.

A lot can change in forty years (Hair styles, fashion, music, even traditions), but the world we live in shouldn't.

In 1970, the first Earth Day was celebrated with picket lines, gas masks, and overall with what Michael Slattery calls a radical environmentalism attitude.