Texas legislators introduced a bill last March that would require dog owners to spay or neuter all animals older than six months. It is about time for this kind of activism.

According to the American Kennel Club, breeders and representatives from its Texas federation have opposed the bill, stating, "Any attempt at restricting the rights any liberties of responsible breeders - especially via mandatory spay/neuter laws - must be defeated."

Panhellenic Council officials are introducing a new tradition to sorority members this fall called "Wear Your Pin Wednesday."

Lindsay Ray, president of the governing council, said sorority members will wear the pins, or badges, along with their formal attire, every first Wednesday of the month to the Panhellenic Council meetings.

Ray said the pins, specific to each chapter, are for new and active members. New members will wear pledge pins, and active members, after initiation, will wear chapter pins, Ray said.

Muse's new album, "The Resistance", released Sept. 14, contains 11 tracks that confirm the suspicion their last album gave us: they are stepping further away from rock and closer to synthpop.

As the album title suggests, many of the lyrics deal with mentally resisting the social and political pressure to throw away critical thinking. The lyrics are well-written, but they are also one of the few interesting aspects of this album.

The success of the first Hispanic Heritage Month carnival led to the Chi Upsilon Sigma sorority's adoption of the event for future Hispanic heritage celebrations.The sorority hosted its first Hispanic...

Even on paper, corporate espionage sounds kind of dull.

Based on the true story of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) executive Mark Whitacre, "The Informant!" has Matt Damon playing a whistleblower who turns on his own company after he finds out they have been involved in price fixing of a food additive.

The problem is he thinks that makes him a secret agent. Worse than that, he is also lying about almost everything else.

The Saturday game with Texas State did not go perfectly despite the football team's victory, head coach Gary Patterson said Tuesday at the third media luncheon.

"I'm glad we won the ball game," Patterson said. "It wasn't as pretty as we wanted it to be. We made some mistakes. But the important thing is we're still making mistakes and winning."

Patterson said the freshmen and redshirt freshmen continued to impress this past weekend. There were between 12 and 15 of them playing again, and several made key plays.

If some Clemson University linemen are sick to their stomachs this week, it might not be for fear of the Frogs, who play at Clemson on Saturday afternoon.

Six Clemson Tiger football players missed practice Monday because they were sick with the flu, according to a Clemson practice brief.

Clemson's associate sports information director, Brian Hennessy, said most of the players who missed practice were offensive linemen.