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.

Ishmael Beah had a different childhood. He learned how to use a gun when he was 13, like many child soldiers who are still forced to join battles in the jungles of Africa.Beah, a human rights activist...

The women's tennis team's first-round opponent in the Mountain West Conference Championship is No. 8 University of Wyoming, which beat No. 9 Air Force in the opening round Wednesday.

Since TCU earned the No. 1 seed for this year's conference championship, it plays the winner of the two lowest seeds.

The Undergraduate Council has approved the Certificate in International Studies program which, if it earns university approval, would give students an opportunity to further their study-abroad experience, said the director of the Center for International Studies.

In response to calls for a communication-studies doctoral program throughout North Texas, the College of Communication is working to create a proposal for a program of its own.

Chris Sawyer, associate professor and chairman of the Department of Communication Studies, said there is a large number of people asking for a Ph.D. program in North Texas.

The alarm blares too early, the test was harder than it should have been, there's no clean clothes, no food in the pantry and no one to go out with this weekend.

Sometimes life is just too much. Or sometimes, you feel like complaining about all the little things to anyone who will listen.

The bad things seem to overshadow the good, and before you know it, you have managed to pull everyone down into your pity party.

Someone is out to change that.