Each night as she pulls into her off-campus driveway, senior Merillat Pittman asks her roommates to look out and see that she makes it from her car to the door safely."I've generally always felt really...

Swiping cards at Market Square doesn't sound like an exhilarating job, but Lieu Nguyen does it every day with a smile.Kudos to Sodexo for honoring Nguyen's hard work and dedication to what would otherwise...

The first annual TCU Women's Baseball Clinic got off to a great start, raising more than $2,500 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation of Tarrant County, an event representative said.

The clinic, created to raise joint support for breast cancer and the new baseball season, had around 180 participants, said Traci Larrison, a senior account executive for ISP Sports at TCU. The event started with a fashion show of all of the team's uniforms with players striking their best poses on the catwalk.

The university's women's arena polo team has been in the shadows in the past two years but has made a strong comeback with this year's team and players, said new head coach Carrie Whitehouse.

The team started off strong this season, winning its first unofficial match against the University of Texas.

The sport is similar to field hockey, except three people are on a horse with a long mallet trying to keep a ball away from the opposing team, said club team member Sarah Ziomek, a freshman environmental science major.

The Horned Frog baseball team will host the first annual Women's Baseball Clinic tonight, benefitting the Susan G. Komen Foundation of Tarrant County.

Grady's Restaurant will provide food and beverages, and the evening's events include an interactive batting cage contest, a player panel and a fashion show. The fashion show will feature members of the 2010 baseball team and the TCU Showgirls in designs from Fort Worth boutique A. Hooper.

A Student Government Association proposal to stretch student security escort Froggie Five-O weekend hours has been met with some reservation from staff members of the program.

Erin House, a Froggie Five-O dispatcher, said the service's student-run staff has classes to keep up with, and when student workers leave, the same services are provided by security guards. She said she wished the author of the SGA resolution would have sought the opinions of Froggie staff before proceeding with the legislation.

After a strong start at the 2010 Winter Games, the U.S. saw little success Tuesday.

The men's ice hockey team won its first game in the men's preliminary round against Switzerland 3-1, but the win was overshadowed by losses from both the men's and ladies' curling teams.

The closest the U.S. got to the podium was in ladies' snowboard cross. Lindsey Jacobellis ended up at No. 5.

Hoping to regain momentum in these Winter Games, the U.S. will continue competition today in six medal events.

U.S. medals won:

2 Gold

Recent nursing graduates may find job hunting more difficult as veteran nurses return to work because of recession-related financial stresses, an industry expert said.

Clair Jordan, executive director of the Texas Nurses Association, said most nurses who return to the workforce after retirement do so to compensate for the income of spouses who have lost their jobs or to provide a second income to their households. As a result, new graduates may not be able to get their first choice in terms of shifts or areas of work.

Some professional athletes just can't get a clue. The law and their respective league officials have told them what not to do, yet they're either too dumbfounded or naive and do it anyway. I'm talking about professional athletes who tarnish the image of themselves and their leagues with headlines of drug possession, reckless driving, illegal firearms, assault and a plethora of other broken laws.

I don't know what compels athletes who are making more than six figures to act so irresponsibly. They risk their money, anger their fans and ruin their image.

Bringing a horned frog to campus is junior political science major Preston Patry's pet project, but he said he isn't the first to propose the idea.

With the help of finance chair and junior business and political science major Ryan Hoff, Patry proposed a resolution to bring a horned lizard to campus at Tuesday night's House of Student Representatives meeting. The resolution passed with 37 out of 38 votes. The House's Student Relations Committee will take the lead on the project along with the resolution's author, according to resolution.

As we approach both the Lenten and beach seasons, we forget all about our New Year's resolutions and start worrying about spring break plans. We tried losing our "winter weight" through resolutions, but it is time for a new challenge: sacrifices. We hope that we can "sacrifice" an extra cookie at the BLUU to participate in Lenten promises as well as cut a few extra calories off our diet before we hit the beach.

Idiocy once again reared its ugly head when an article in the Skiff came out saying that Gov. Rick Perry not accepting money for schools was going to hurt public schools.The article was even titled "Refusal...