Lance Armstrong recently confirmed rumors that he will be returning to professional cycling. The internationally famous cyclist will seek his eighth Tour de France title primarily in an effort to actively spread cancer awareness. Armstrong plans to discuss his cycling program Sept. 24 in New York City at the Clinton Global Initiative. Being the icon that he is, who better to fight a global epidemic than a professional athlete doing what he does best?

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.

Milton Daniel Hall will soon receive new plumbing, heating and air conditioning in every room as part of a $10 million renovation at the end of the 2008-2009 school year, a university official said.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the hall will be gutted and rebuilt from the inside out. Student input was considered in the design of the hall's renovations, which will require closing the dorm for a year, said Milton Daniel Hall Director Christopher Sewalish.

A recent voter registration incident at Virginia Tech has prompted concern among students that registering using their university addresses might cost them their financial aid.

TCU students need not worry about voting penalizations, because voter registration is not used to determine residency in consideration for federal financial aid, said Michael Scott, director of scholarships and student financial aid.

"It's a nonissue," Scott said.

But at Virginia Tech, students were led to believe it was an issue.

Men's Soccer

TCU's men's club soccer team will head to Nacogdoches to take on Stephen F. Austin University at 3:00 p.m. Saturday. It will be the club's first game of the season.

Kyle Connor, the team's president, said the club is excited about getting the season started.

"We played Stephen F. Austin pretty competitively last year but tied them both times," Connor said. "I think we can beat them this time around."

The team has a lot of new talent and should be more competitive than ever, Connor said.

Quarterbacks

TCU: Andy Dalton continues to improve and look more comfortable in the pocket while taking care of the ball and not being afraid to pull the ball down and run. Dalton threw for 145 yards last week and rushed for 91.

SMU: True freshman Bo Levi Mitchell is completing 59.6 percent of his passes and has 769 yards passing with eight touchdowns. Coach June Jones recently put his confidence in the quarterback, saying he would learn more on the field than on the sideline.

Advantage: TCU

Runningbacks

After losing its first match of the season Sunday to the Oklahoma Sooners, the volleyball team returned to its winning ways by defeating the New Mexico Lobos (8-2, 0-1), but it took all five sets to do so.

The Horned Frogs (10-1, 1-0) started off strong in the first two sets (25-16, 25-22), but lost the next two (18-25, 23-25), forcing a winner-take-all fifth set to 15.

The volleyball team came out in the fifth set with the same intensity it started with, winning the final game 15-7.

It is disheartening to read editorials like the one I read in the Sept. 9 edition of the Skiff. The author, who suggests that Gov. Sarah Palin is "not the correct choice to win (Hillary) Clinton supporters," is so misguided. What is most disturbing about her article is her comment in the third paragraph that "Clinton voters were typically older women who support equal rights and opportunities for their gender." She then adds, or at least infers, that because Palin does not support abortion, she does not support equal rights.

Whenever someone asks me about my daily commute to TCU, they inevitably ask me first about the traffic, and I always tell them it's not bad. But then comes the second question, "How about the parking?"...