In a moving gesture to commemorate those who lost their lives in the attacks of Sept. 11, the finishing touches are now being applied to a new battleship named the USS New York. The ship was made from...

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid form has gotten a lot of media attention lately regarding needed improvements, but it's not reasonable to expect any government program to run efficiently.

The university's director of financial aid, Michael Scott, said in a Skiff article Tuesday this week that there were problems with the length, redundancy and inefficiency of the FAFSA system.

When I first read this story, I thought, "Whoa, we have an administrator named Michael Scott? How cool is that?"

Junior music and Spanish major Janie Bergamasco said she has had a few problems with advising at the university.

Recently she wanted to change to a double major, but when she asked for advice, she kept being referred to different people, she said.

"It took a semester to finally happen when all I needed them to do was click a button that says I now have a double major," Bergamasco said. "I think there needs to be more general advisers to help people keep up with graduation."

Despite an uproar over a potential crippling computer worm around the country, TCU and its computers will not be affected, a university official said.

The worm, called Conficker, is a program that attacks a loophole in the Microsoft Windows operating system and currently has infected more than 12 million personal computers since its conception in November, according to a Microsoft blog.

Technology Resources sent out a campus-wide e-mail warning students about the virus Monday.

The carry-on campus bill that is working its way through the Texas Legislature is a hot-button topic. In fact, the editorial board could not write a Skiff View on whether it should pass because people feel strongly on both sides of the issue. One thing all the editors agree on, however, is that the government should not have the right to interfere with the rights of private institutions to institute policies as they see fit.

The Office of Residential Services and Living Learning Communities will start a new program this fall designed by a group of students to help strengthen the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender student...

The Daily Skiff advertising staff won four awards at the 37th annual College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers Inc. convention, which took place March 25 to 29 in Charlotte, N.C. The CNBAM represents more than 150 school newspapers nationwide.

The advertising staff placed first for best training program among all newspapers, as well as best advertisement rate card/media kit in Division 2, which includes publications that publish fewer than 40,000 copies a week.