2,500 yards of swimming, 30 miles of biking and 10 miles of running. For the average person, this could be a daunting task. For members of the TCU triathlon club, it's just an average week.

After less than two months of training as a group, members of the triathlon club, Tri Frogs, are preparing to compete in the club's first triathlon event, the Monster Triathlon, in Keller on Sunday. The group, which is in its first semester as an official club, is open to students, faculty and staff, said Tri Frog member Jason Eagar, associate director of the TCU Leadership Center.

Illustrator and adjunct professor of graphic design Don Punchatz died Thursday night after a cardiac arrest during fall break put him in a coma for more than a week.

Punchatz's son, Greg Punchatz, wrote in an e-mail that the family discontinued life support Thursday.

"My dad was an amazingly talented artist, but he was an even better human being; the kindest, most giving man I have ever known," Greg Punchatz wrote. "If everybody was a little more like my dad the world would be a better place for all."

Going to the justice of the peace with your sweetie to obtain your marriage license should be a cause for celebration. It wasn't very much fun last week for Beth Humphrey and Terence McKay, residents of Hammond, La.. This young, happy couple was denied their right to a marriage license by Justice Keith Bardwell. Apparently, Bardwell never heard what I told my own daughter when she was a toddler. God makes us all different on the outside, but we are all the same underneath; we all have the same heart.

Irene Vilar is a mother, an author, a literary agent, an editor and an incredibly intelligent woman. Yet, she has a disturbing secret that she is ready to share with the world. She has an addiction to...

TCU has come a long way since the fall of 1911, when the doors opened for the first semester in the current Fort Worth location. Initially, there were three buildings: an academic and administrative building called the Main, now Reed Hall, Jarvis Hall for the female students and a male dormitory named Goode, which was in the location of present-day Clark Hall. As former Emeritus Dean of Students, Libby Proffer's "A History of TCU" explains, those original alumni didn't have access to the ever-growing amenities the campus offers today.