The university's decision to implement a flat-rate tuition in 2001 was supposed to encourage a greater number of students to take enough classes to graduate in four years.

Under this tuition system, a full-time student taking 18 hours pays the same amount of money as a full-time student who is taking just 12.

Although the move to the flat rate was designed to benefit students, it has seen limited success up to this point. A 44.9 percent four-year graduation rate in the year 2000 jumped to just 54 percent by 2004.

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Live music, hotdogs and bright blue shirts. That was the setting at the second annual Improve TCU Day campaign Feb. 18.

Justin Brown, senior psychology major, chairman of the Student Relations Committee and coordinator of Improve TCU Day, said Student Government Association representatives received more than 1,000 ideas from students on potential ways to improve their college experience.

Students submitted suggestions in person to SGA representatives, who wore blue shirts, and also on the dialogue boards in the University Recreation Center and Market Square.

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Sam Altman, a Stanford University student, developed a company called Loopt in 2006. Similar to Latitude, it also provides location to friends and is now available for varying cell phones.

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Facebook's initiative to compile users' opinions and to help establish the future terms of use can be considered unusual in the business world, a media law professor said.

Chip Stewart, assistant professor of media law in the Schieffer School of Journalism, said it's unusual for any company to negotiate with its users what the legal relationship between them is going to be.

Graduation guaranteed, but maybe not in four years.

Provost Nowell Donovan said that the flat-rate tuition implemented in 2001 has had limited success because many students are not taking advantage of the system and still graduating in more than four years.

Patrick Miller, the registrar and director of enrollment management, said this tuition system does not require full-time students to pay per credit hour. The flat-rate is applicable anywhere from 12 to 18 credit hours, he said.