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."

Four days a week, 6,000 daily copies of the Skiff are brought to campus and distributed in buildings for students to pick up on the way to and from class. Tuesday, about a quarter of those Skiffs were...

Entire stacks of Tuesday's edition of the Daily Skiff were taken from several campus buildings and disposed of in trash cans and recycling bins around campus.

Student publications director Robert Bohler said at least 1,361 issues were recovered from Reed Hall, Sadler Hall, Smith Entrepreneurs Hall, Tandy Hall, Tucker Technology Center, Moudy Building South, Moudy Building North and the Mary Couts Burnett Library, and were put back by Skiff staff members out of a press run of 6,000 copies.

The rifle team hopes to take an even bigger step toward becoming a nationally prominent program in 2008, its coach said."These girls are capable of winning a national championship," coach Karen Monez said...

Property owners using the university's name to develop a building aimed for student housing could cause some confusion among the neighborhoods surrounding campus, a university official said.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the university notified the city and neighborhood through an e-mail to let them know that the property owners, TCU Development Partners LLC, is not connected with the university.

"We don't want people to use our name when it causes confusion," Mills said. "And since it's a housing project it could cause some confusion."

A student stood in line, placed an order and got to the register only to discover that he or she couldn't pay for the food that was being prepared.

This scenario has played out many times this semester at the Einstein Bros. Bagels on University Drive, said Amanda Moore, a junior ballet major and a shift manager at the restaurant.

Moore said the problem is that Einstein's doesn't accept students' Frog Bucks, a special currency included in meal plans that can be spent on campus or off campus at select locations.

Head coach Gary Patterson's press conference went a little longer than usual Tuesday as the 24th-ranked Frogs are preparing to face the No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners this weekend.

TCU has made it to the biggest game of the early season unscathed at 4-0, but Patterson said he knows the Sooners will be unlike any team his squad has faced this season.

"You don't ever stop Oklahoma because they are great at wide receiver and quarterback, as well as big up front," he said. "But it is important to be able to contain them."

Rick Flores is a busy man. Since the introduction of the new dining meal plan this year, the general manager of Dining Services has been fielding questions while making sure dining operations run smoothly.

Flores was born in Corpus Christi and attended high school in Brownsville. After high school, he headed back to Corpus Christi where he eventually attended Texas A&M at Kingsville. Flores now lives in the Fort Worth area with his wife, Cheri, and their two teenage daughters.

According to Newsmax.com, the country's finest bastion of unbiased journalism next to The Christian Science Monitor, 40 percent of cell phone users used their phone for text messaging by 2007, with the average texter sending 188 messages per month.

I'm surprised it's not more than that, seeing as how most people ages 12 to 25 spend half of their day furiously finger-smashing their cell phone's keypad and not being productive or interesting members of society.

Nursing students are working with the local American Red Cross to provide medical care for Hurricane Ike evacuees, a Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences professor said.

Lavonne Adams, assistant professor of nursing, said the local Red Cross contacted the Harris College for volunteers.

"The offer was made to nursing faculty at TCU," she said. "There are some faculty already working with the Red Cross before they called so they made arrangements to take their students with them."

Students should be proud of their efforts to help those affected by Hurricane Ike.

Nursing students volunteered at shelters for evacuees and provided basic first aid care and mental health assessments. The charity wasn't limited by the bounds of the medical profession, though, as volunteers helped clean the playground and even took time out to play with kids.

On campus, the Kappa Sigma fraternity has also lent a helping hand for hurricane relief. The Greeks have since collected more than 2,500 cans, with an ultimate goal of 8,000.

Who would win: vampires or werewolves?

An age-old adage that is only becoming more and more popular as the years go by.

With the addition of applications on both MySpace and Facebook, this question has run rampant across the Internet.

The Facebook application, Vampires vs. Werewolves, has 18,330 active monthly users. The MySpace vampire application has almost 2 million members and werewolves have more than 130,000 users.