The opinion piece on the smoking ban is absurd. There is no good argument to allow smoking. Why else are so many cities and universities restricting smoking? To argue that smokers in America have the freedom and right to smoke is not good enough. No argument is. An individual's rights end when he or she begins to interfere with another individual's rights.

For example, a person's right not to breathe in secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke causes thousands of deaths from heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmokers every year.

South University Centre, new off-campus student apartments located south of Bluebonnet Circle, will restart construction within the next month after a prolonged break, a partner in the apartment's development firm said.

Mac Jones, a partner in Hammond Jones Real Estate Development, said the project was halted to expand existing water and sewer lines. The improvements were completed this summer, he said. The project's final completion date was pushed back and the site will open summer 2009, he said.

As the government officials meet to find a way for the $700 billion bailout of U.S. financial institutions to benefit taxpayers, many students may wonder where they stand when it comes to the financial system's crisis.

House and Senate negotiators from both parties said Thursday they had reached general agreement to move forward with the administration's proposed $700 billion bailout of the financial system, authorizing unprecedented government intervention to prevent what President Bush warned could be a widespread economic collapse, The New York Times reported Thursday.

The State Fair of Texas returns to Dallas blending traditional fair festivities with out-of-the-ordinary experiences that keep both Texans and out-of-state visitors coming back each year. Students and faculty can experience it at a $2 discount if they purchase tickets from the Information Desk in the Brown-Lupton University Union. The fair runs from Monday to Oct. 19. Times and dates are subject to change. Check the State Fair of Texas Web site for updates.

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A student admitted Thursday to throwing away more than 1,300 copies of Tuesday's edition of the Daily Skiff.

Charles Beecherl, an entrepreneurial management major, said the Skiff went overboard in publishing the picture of a professor in a news story about a dispute between two professors. The student said he is an avid reader of the Skiff but did not like what the paper published, so he threw away the copies.

Oklahoma's sophomore quarterback Sam Bradford is widely considered to be a candidate to win this year's Heisman Trophy and he did nothing against TCU that would make anyone think any different.

Bradford opened the No. 2 Sooners' first game against a ranked opponent by throwing for 199 yards in the first quarter, a school record, on his way to a 411-yard and four-touchdown performance in the 35-10 victory.

"You got to give it to Bradford," senior linebacker Jason Phillips said. "He made some great throws."

To quote one of the greatest movies of all time, "It could happen."

That of course was the line uttered by J.P. in the Disney classic "Angels in the Outfield."

But the Horned Frogs might need motivation from a bad spinoff of that movie, "Angels in the Endzone," if they want to knock off the No. 2 University of Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday.

It has happened before though, back when I was a sophomore.

The scoreboard at the end of OU's 2005 game against TCU is one of the most lasting images of my college career.

That was the first Sooner game I ever attended, and it left me utterly bewildered. The 17-10 result is still burned into my brain.

And if it affected me that much, you can be sure it did the same to Bob Stoops.

I imagine that Stoops has been waiting for this weekend for three years. He has only lost two games at home since 1999, and this is his chance to avenge one of them. He's going to make sure his team is ready.