From a background of war and torture, Ishmael Beah brought a message of hope and humanization to a crowd of almost 500 riveted listeners Thursday evening.

"Hope is a form of strength," he assured the audience in the Student Center Ballroom. "When you dehumanize somebody else, you reverse, and you dehumanize yourself."

The beaming 27-year-old Sierra Leone native with a stunning smile and earnest mien made a startling contrast to the tales he told of his life as a child soldier, killing and torturing rebels to ward off being killed and tortured himself.

The baseball team got all the run support it needed in the first two innings as the Frogs got back to their winning ways with a 5-2 win over the University of Texas-Arlington on Wednesday night.Sophomore...

About 1,300 Horned Frogs are scheduled to walk across the stage at this year's spring commencement, a university official said.

Margaret Kelly, executive director for community projects, said the spring commencement ceremony is broken up into two parts, a morning ceremony and an afternoon ceremony.

About 702 Horned Frogs will graduate at the morning ceremony where they will receive their degrees from the M.J. Neeley School of Business, College of Education, College of Science and Engineering or Master of Liberal Arts Program, Kelly said.

A big play requires big ideas.

Two freshman TCU students decided to put their big ideas into action in the form of an energy club.

Ken Morgan, director of operations at the TCU Energy Institute, said the idea for the club was brought to him by Ben Voigt, a freshman real estate and finance major, and Justin LaPoten, a freshman finance major.

According to the city of Fort Worth, $33 million has been set aside to improve the layout of neighborhood streets as part of a bond program, with several projects slated for the TCU area. However, whether the bond passes will be up to residents.

The Fort Worth City Council will allow voters to decide the outcome of a $150 million bond proposal May 10. Included in the proposal are plans to reconstruct West Lowden Street, which is located in the TCU area.

For the past four years of my life, I have been anticipating the day that I will walk across a stage in a robe and a very odd-looking hat. I imagined my parents sitting in the crowd, smiling proudly and...

Students graduating in May will find fewer options to pay off loans, a financial aid officer said.

Loan debts will be more difficult to pay off for some students than it has been in the past because of the current credit crunch in the student loan market, said Melet Leafgreen, assistant director of scholarships and financial aid.

Although loan consolidation has been a popular option to pay off loans in the past, it will more than likely be a struggle for students this year, Leafgreen said.

Go Frogs! This phrase has become a daily part of my life - so much so that whenever I'm writing papers, I'll just insert it over and over until I can think of what it is I really want to say. While I do love interjecting this phrase into random moments throughout the day, it's not just a phrase that has become a part of my vocabulary. Rather, it is TCU that has become a part of me, in everything that I do.

Senior dance majors' last concert before graduation continues this weekend.Students from The School for Classical and Contemporary Dance are putting on the senior studios concert "Here. Dance. Now," which...