The university has partnered with three independent media outlets to publicize campus news and information, an official for the Center for Instructional Services said.

Jess Price, media producer for CIS, said the university has officially adopted Web sites with YouTube, Twitter and iTunes U to keep people connected to the school.

Twitter is a free social networking and blogging site.

Price said people can go to the Web site to sign up to receive university news either through the Web site or through their cell phones.

For senior communication studies major Floyd Hernandez, a Pell Grant made a TCU education a reality.

Without it, he said, he probably wouldn't be here.

Bush administration officials warned Congress the most important federal aid program, Pell Grants, may need up to $6 billion in additional taxpayer funds next year due to the record numbers of college students seeking federal financial aid, The New York Times reported last week.

This has Hernandez and others worried.

In the world of prestigious academic scholarships, top performing students are competing with other top performers for these few coveted awards. Students like Justin Brown, a senior music, political science...

With the opening of Brown-Lupton University Union and the introduction of Frog Bucks, Pond Street Grill's business could be slow enough to merit its closure, a dining employee said.

Ernest White, supervisor at Pond Street Grill, said he is not sure what the future of Pond Street will be.

"I don't know," White said, "I really don't know. That's out of my hands.

"It's up to the school on what they want to do. I'd really hate to see it go. It's a good place."

Two weeks ago, Americans marked the seventh anniversary of September 11th in their own way - some with sober contemplation, others going on with their lives.Presidential candidates Barack Obama and John...

As the director of Residential Services, Craig Allen has been busy this semester with the recent completion of the Campus Commons and the Brown-Lupton University Union, and there seems to be no end in sight.

Allen, who was hired as director of Residential Services in 2005, attended State University of New York at Oswego and majored in marketing with a minor in economics. He attended graduate school at the University of Arizona, where he earned a master's degree in higher education with a concentration in college student personnel.

To say that Sen. Barack Obama cannot be president based on a lack of experience is ludicrous.Let's get real. Yes, experience is important, but that is not all that matters. John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president,...

Scientists have never seen an electron, physicists have never laid eyes on a quark, but they know these things are real because they can look in their microscope and see things happening - things that could not happen if they didn't exist, a rabbi told guests at Ed Landreth Auditorium on Tuesday.

This same theory can also be applied to the existence of God, Rabbi Harold Kushner told guests at the 11th annual Gates of Chai Lectureship.

A divided Student Government Association House of Representatives rejected a resolution Tuesday to ban tobacco smoking in the Campus Commons.The House voted 22 to 16 to defeat the resolution to prohibit...

When I thought of Josh Howard, the first thing that used to come to my mind was a rising star with extreme potential to be one of the best basketball players in the NBA. Recently, however, Howard has been rapidly losing the respect I once had for him. Up until a few months ago I would have said that Howard was one of my favorite basketball players in the NBA, but he has shattered that image by pulling the last straw and insulting something so precious to most Americans: the national anthem.

The men's tennis team will debut Friday at the HEB Baylor Intercollegiate Invitational in Waco.

The focus for the team this season is to improve as a program, said head coach Dave Borelli.

"We have the toughest schedule we have had in seven or eight years. It is going to be a real challenge for us," Borelli said. "You can't get better unless you play the best. Beating a great team makes you a better player. Beating a bad team doesn't make you better."