The Internet Corporations for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) authorized the creation of a .xxx suffix for pornography websites on March 18, according to a March 19 article from The New York Times. The plan would eventually require the sites to register with a .xxx suffix so they aren't confused with other businesses of similar names. ICANN would not regulate the information on such sites.

As the final games of the season wind down in the NBA, one of the closest playoff position races in the league is for the second seed in the Western Conference. Pending the outcome of tonight's Mavericks-Clippers game, The No. 3-seeded Dallas Mavericks (52-21) have a shot to gain momentum against the No. 2-seeded Los Angeles Lakers (53-20) when the teams play Thursday.

A Mavs win Wednesday night would give Dallas a chance to tie LA for the No. 2 seed Thursday and give Dallas the tiebreaker with a 2-1 advantage in head-to-head matchups.

Junior Nathan Mann has a job that would make most video gamers envious. As a graphics coordinator for Major League Gaming tournaments, the accounting and finance double major will be on-site at the MLG 2011 Pro Circuit video game competition coming to the Metroplex April 1-3.

The Dallas competition will feature Halo: Reach, StarCraft 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops. It is expected to attract thousands of participants and spectators, according to a Feb. 3 press release.

Your parents probably wouldn't have minded if they were paid $1,000 a year to pester you.

Because that's what InsideTrack, a "student coaching" program charges 8212; $500 per semester 8212; to do essentially the same thing your parents did: hover and nag.

According to InsideTrack's website, its service "enriches the student experience, improves enrollment and retention rates and provides valuable student feedback." But what does that really mean?

Men's Tennis

The TCU men's tennis team suffered a 4-3 loss to No. 33 Rice in Houston Saturday. TCU took a 1-0 lead after taking the doubles point. TCU's doubles pair of seniors Christopher Price and Emanuel Brighiu got the doubles point for TCU after winning the third and final match in a tiebreaker. The other two points came from Price, who was playing in his hometown, and No. 74 Brighiu in their respective singles matches.

Swimming & Diving

As President Barack Obama spoke to the nation last night about the nation's involvement in Libya, he commented on how Americans cannot turn a blind eye to atrocities and disasters around the world when we have the opportunity to provide assistance, and he's right.

Even though we have an economy that is in a recession, a housing market on a shaky foundation, high unemployment, numerous social issues like abortion and gay marriage and the constant threat of terrorism, American citizens still have a pretty good life.

When TCU moved to Fort Worth it was a fledgling university of less than 500 students in a city of 73,000. In the century since, the two have grown hand-in-hand to more than 9,000 students in a city of almost a quarter-million people.

Rocky Deutscher has lived in the TCU community for more than 20 years. Her husband recently retired from the university and the couple is very active at the university and with their neighborhood association in University West.

Tears won't part

The tears won't part

As the dam restrains-

Flood.

Blinking, lids are

sandpaper grains.

Your words slice and

Pierce through vein,

Should stab you with shame.

Bloodshot, curtains of my eyes-

Fall.

Lisa Peña is a sophomore writing major from Fort Worth

Excerpt from 'together'

Is my mind really all in my head?

A residence of logic and reason hardly seems a fitting place

for an imagination.