The president of the NCAA will be speaking about the current condition of college athletics in America at 7 p.m. today in the Ed Landreth Auditorium.

Following NCAA President Myles Brand's speech, TCU's NCAA Degree Completion recipients will be recognized.

Degree Completion recipients are former student-athletes who left school before earning their degrees and now are receiving a grant from the NCAA to return to finish school.

The key to approaching a controversial subject is to create space in a conversation that allows for growth, said a public policy mediator Monday night.

Public policy mediator Susan Podziba's speech revolved around her experience mediating talks between anti-abortion and abortion-rights activists in Massachusetts after shootings in two abortion clinics.

Podziba said even though students don't have the luxury of facilitated discussions to talk about abortion like she did, they still learn something from the dialogue.

Six of 11 former employees of Edens and Deco Deli returned to work Monday in The Main, while the others face anywhere from a week to six months before returning to TCU, said the marketing manager of Dining Services.

Former Edens and Deco Deli employees Belinda Leon, Peter Thipp, Ernestina Lopez, David McKenzie, Carla Wilson and Jana Crabtree took shifts from The Main that worked with their schedules, said Legia Abato, marketing manager for Dining Services.

Cult and religion are synonymous for some religious sects within Roman culture, an adjunct anthropology professor told students and faculty Monday.

Over a catered lunch, students and faculty listened to a lecture by Jennifer Lockett, adjunct anthropology professor and classical archaeologist, titled "Ancient Roman Cults and Mystery Religions," organized by Chi Delta Mu , an academic religious student organization. Chi Delta Mu is open to all students and organizes weekly lectures in different disciplines every Monday.

"Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!" was one of my favorite books as a child. Considering Hollywood's recent tarnishing of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "Dr. Suess' The Cat in the Hat," I did not look forward to "Horton's" film debut with much enthusiasm.

However, "Horton" was magnificent in capturing the creativity, innocence and delight found in Dr. Seuss' stories.

The NCAA is a business. We are constantly reminded of this when annual talks of a college football playoff system come up. When the intelligence of a play-in game for the NCAA basketball tournament is...

On Sunday, three days after the men's basketball season closed, so did something else. Neil Dougherty's tenure as head coach is over.

Dougherty will not return to fulfill the last year of his contract for obvious reasons - empty stands and loosing streaks.

Since leaving his position as assistant coach to Roy Williams at the University of Kansas to come to TCU, Dougherty has had six years of ups and downs.