As Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Mike Huckabee continually grab headlines with their campaign tours across America, the political interest among students is growing.

Although TCU is traditionally viewed as a conservative campus by groups such as The Princeton Review, the 2008 Presidential Eleciton is fast becoming a time of change.

Rock, rock and more rock.

The echoes of the drums, guitars and vocals will rise tonight. Johnnie Cochran, Automorrow, Soulever Lift and Veloura are bands that are staging their performances in a music festival celebrating International Week.

The International Student Association organized this event to assimilate American culture into international culture through music, said Lyndsay Cole, a junior marketing major and one of the coordinators of the music festival.

Texas has always been an important state for the oil industry, but now, as America looks toward alternative energy options, Texas is becoming important in wind power energy.

A New York Times article Feb. 23 stated Texas is quickly becoming the wind power capital of North America, having surpassed California for the No. 1 spot.

This surge in wind power is improving both the local economy and the industry of alternative energy. Some are likening it to the oil boom.

The wind farms are providing jobs and bringing new life to towns.

School shootings have unfortunately become an all-too-common occurrence lately and calls into question the right to bear arms outlined in the Bill of Rights.

Not only confined to educational campuses, the amount of firearm-related violence in the U.S. can hardly be overlooked, and begs the question of whether we need to give up our Second Amendment Right to bear arms for our own security?

In the first week of early voting throughout Texas, election officials saw a record turnout for the March 4 Texas primaries. After one week of early voting in 2004, Tarrant County reported fewer than 800 voters for the state's Democratic primary. This year, more than 40,000 have casted votes to determine who will earn the Democratic nomination, more than twice the votes cast for the Republican primary, according to Tarrant County early voting reports.

The Schieffer School of Journalism is partnering with a think tank in Washington, D.C., and this evening starts a series of monthly dialogues with Bob Schieffer to discuss national issues, a university official said.

The purpose of the dialogues is to bring the Schieffer School to the attention of national news, discuss important issues relative to the public and employ TCU graduates, said Larry Lauer, vice chancellor for marketing and communication.

Four members of the rifle team will travel to Colorado Springs and try to win a spot on the U.S. Women's Olympic Air Rifle Team.The rifle team ended its season Feb. 16, defeating the University of Nevada...

A nonpartisan, nonprofit political organization will address the importance of voting in this year's presidential election Thursday at TCU.The Programming Council worked with the Student Government Association...

Language is the greatest obstacle for students studying abroad, an associate professor in English at DePaul University said.

During a question-and-answer meeting, student heard about Green Honors Chair speaker Michele Morano's adventures abroad, and students voiced their concerns about international travel.

Morano, the author of "Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain," said it is impossible to avoid embarrassment when studying abroad in a foreign country.

Although many students have expressed mixed feelings about the new plus/minus grading system, research shows its implementation had little effect on students' average GPAs.

Cathy Coghlan, assistant director of institutional research, said the average GPA from 2006 freshmen without the plus/minus system was 2.87, and the first-year average of the fall 2007 class with the plus/minus system was 2.94.