A student at the university will hold an interest meeting tonight at the GrandMarc to measure interest in forming a permanent nontraditional student group on campus.

George Becker, a senior finance and accounting major, said the initial meeting would allow him to analyze the different student demographics on campus and the issues they have encountered. The organization will target multiple demographics.

The Campus Commons was finally finished this semester with the opening of Scharbauer Hall. The new facilities make the heart of our campus look much better and give TCU the feel of a truly world-class...

Despite signs outside of the Brown-Lupton University Union signaling to people passing by that the university is one of 44 early voting locations in Tarrant County, not many people have stopped to vote at the location just outside of the 1873 Cafe & Sports Grill.

Rena Brown, lead clerk at the early voting center on campus, said voter turnout has been very low all over the city. She said the main attraction in this primary election is the race for governor, but even that has not drawn a crowd.

You are a 150-pound senior nearing graduation as an honors student from Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School. Your violin skills are good enough to have recently caught the ears of first lady Michelle Obama. As you're walking to your grandmother's house on a cold Monday night in January, your bottle of Mountain Dew bouncing back and forth in your coat pocket, things take a tragic turn.

Sound like a movie? Jordan Miles certainly wishes that's all it was.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said there is an integral connection between nature, the ecosystem, energy use and the economy in a speech for the Frost Foundation Lectureship Series for Global Issues.Kennedy illustrated...

The Horned Frogs will play the Oregon State Beavers at Cowboys Stadium on Sept. 4 during their 2010 football season, a university official said.

Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for football, said university officials met with Oregon State and Dallas officials Monday. Oregon State has already signed its contract, and TCU is currently reviewing its contract with the university's legal council, he said. The contract will address issues such as ticket allocation and expected attendance. Hesselbrock said the contract would be signed within the next couple of days.

A distinguished philosophy professor will share his views and challenge student and community member opinions with discussions about abortion and the existence of God tonight and Friday afternoon.

Michael Tooley, a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said he hopes to encourage attendees to examine the arguments made by those on both sides of each argument and encourage debate based on logic. He said he wants to challenge students' and community members' views on abortion and what is good and evil.

Members of the university's Public Relations Student Society of America chapter are hosting a block party today to encourage participation in the 2010 Census among their college peers, a demographic that government officials argue is difficult to count.

The event is part of the chapter's participation in PRSSA's national Bateman Case Study Competition. According to the PRSSA Web site, the goal of the competition is to exercise students' analytical skills and judgment, which are necessary for real life public relations problem solving.

The 2010 Winter Olympic games got off to a sad start. A 21-year-old luger from the Republic of Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, died after a tragic accident during a practice run. As if the accident itself wasn't awful enough, footage of the young man's last run played and replayed on major networks, and was even aired before the opening ceremony. It has now spread all over the Internet, which is a sad commentary on the desensitization of our society.

Environmental stewardship and preservation of natural habitats will likely be topics covered by visiting speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his keynote address for the Frost Foundation Lectureship Series for Global Issues presented by the Center for International Studies: TCU Abroad.

Jane Kucko, director for the Center For International Studies: TCU Abroad, wrote in an e-mail that the Frost Foundation Lectureship on Global Issues provides the university with the opportunity to invite speakers like Kennedy, adding that his topic has been a focus of the university.

Entering into its 14th season (195 episodes and a full-length Oscar nominated film), "South Park" has become the unequivocal national forum for unabated political cynicism and social commentary for just about anyone who isn't a member of the AARP.

Where other shows stop short, "South Park" will go. Its ability to spew real and formulated commentary on any subject or event is why it is the smartest show on television. AIDS is not off limits. Neither is pedophilia or the Catholic Church. Global warming? LOL.