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.

I grew up thousands of miles away from the cultural realms of America yet I am not a stranger to it, especially American pop culture. I grew up listening to Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison, watching Knight...

It's noon. You have 10 minutes to get to your next class, but that growling stomach has a mind of its own. You shouldn't have slept in and skipped breakfast today. It's your long day. You still have a lab to go to and dinner is too far in the future to be of any good to you. The choices you have vary, including cutting class or whatever is during the only possible meal, a vending machine which will give you a false sense of satisfaction, buying a sandwich with your limited number of Frog Bucks or something that will fill you without emptying your wallet.

Senior tailback Aaron Brown's suspension was lifted Saturday, just in time to beat longtime rival SMU. And he was back just in time to get a tune-up for the game against No. 2 Oklahoma this weekend.

While it is unfortunate the suspension of players has become a part of the modern game, coaches usually will say either what happened or for how long the suspension is.

But head coach Gary Patterson, by his own admission, chose to keep details of Brown's suspension under wraps in an effort to throw off defenses.

The university flag flew at half staff Monday to honor the university's second alumnus to die in the war in Iraq.

Captain Robert Vallejo II died in a helicopter crash near Talil, Iraq, on Thursday, according to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense.

"My general reaction is deep sadness, and my heart goes out to his family," Chancellor Victor Boschini said. "I know he's a young married guy, and I just can't imagine how they feel right now."

After the first of six nationwide open meetings with the U.S. Department of Education on Friday in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom regarding the recently enacted Higher Education Opportunity Act, many college officials are hoping that the new legislation will not come with too high of a price tag."This bill is going to add enormously to our costs," Chancellor Victor Boschini said. "The burden of the new reporting requirements alone is mind-boggling."

Over this past summer, Chancellor Victor Boshini signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment joining the 578 (to date and growing) other universities and colleges to sign the pledge to be more environmentally savvy. But what does this really mean?

The agreement acknowledges the human effects of global warming and vows to make significant differences for TCU's academic community, specifically to reduce green house gases by 80 percent before 2050.

Three cancer specialists will provide information to women on how to reduce their risk for developing cancer Saturday when the university hosts its first Smart Women: Discussions on Women's Cancer Prevention seminar.

With Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month in September and Breast Cancer Month in October, the event will be held annually in September and will focus on various forms of cancer, said Suzy Lockwood, associate professor and director of the TCU center for Oncology Research and Education.