With the help of student volunteers, hundreds of immigrants will soon be able to call themselves U.S. citizens. A citizenship workshop on Dec. 1 will give students an opportunity to volunteer and experience something new - the citizenship application process.

The workshop will be at the Tarrant County College in Fort Worth from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and is being sponsored by Proyecto Inmigrante ICS, Inc., said Carlos Valera, a junior political science major.

I would like to congratulate SGA President Jace Thompson on his veto of the pointless and tyrannical bill to bring jazz music back to KTCU. Don't get me wrong, I have no problems with jazz whatsoever. I am even attending the TCU Jazz Ensemble's concert Thursday.

Nevertheless, to waste time formulating, talking about, and then voting for a bill just to bring back a genre of music is not only selfish, but a misuse of power.

We all get tired.And I am not talking about the kind of tired you get the morning after a long night of responsible - or careless - partying, or the level of tired you might be after pulling an all-nighter in the library for an 8 a.m. final.

No, I am definitely not talking about the mornings that ask yourself, "Why did I order that last drink?" "Why did I order that second taquito at Whataburger?" or "Has it really been three days since my last shower?"

It is the tired you get when you are frustrated or disappointed.

I am writing in response to an article regarding processing delays of financial aid for some TCU students, "New system causes financial aid delays," published Thursday.The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board administers all financial aid programs for the state, including the College Access Loan program. In the last 40 years, we have provided in excess of $1.5 billion in low-interest loans to more than 200,000 Texas students in an effort to increase participation in higher education.

As a non-profit state agency, we are charged with helping students and their parents.

Every winter break many international students have had to find temporary housing because a flight home was too expensive and the residence halls were closed for the holidays. This year, several dorms will remain open during the break.Carter, Samuelson, Foster, Waits, Tom Brown-Pete Wright and Moncrief halls will give students the option to stay in their dorms during the break, which will be from Dec. 15 to Jan. 14, said Craig Allen, director of Residential Services.

They come from Division I schools as big as Cal and Nebraska and junior colleges as small as Frank Phillips Junior College in Borger and Colby Community College in Colby, Kan., but they are all donning the purple and white this season.And the roads traveled to get to Fort Worth for a couple of smooth-shooting, left-handed players were as different as the schools they went to before TCU.

Take Henry Salter, for instance.

This column appeared in the Winter 2007 issue of Image magazine. For the full issue, visit image.tcu.edu.Read more:
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A new 24-hour media center, to be located between King and Wright halls, will be equipped with a pool table, flat screen TVs, game tables and a mini-bar and it will be available for all students at the beginning of the spring semester.The center is scheduled to open on the first day of spring classes Jan. 14, but issues with the exterior construction could delay the opening until the end of January, said Harold Leeman, associate director of the Physical Plant.

The Brite Divinity School is hoping to save $2 million on its expansion project by moving the groundbreaking up two years, a Brite administrator said.Newell Williams, president of Brite and a professor of modern and American church history, said plans have been in the works for a few years. The renovations and expansion will cost $19.5 million and is expected to take 18 months to complete, he said.

One more commencement will pass without the iconic figure of TCU - Frog Fountain.Harold Leeman, associate director of Physical Plant administration, said the fountain is still being reconstructed.

"The foundations for the flutes have been placed, and all the piping and electrical conduits are being set now," Leeman said. "The actual flutes have been refurbished off-site and are ready to be bolted in place when the actual fountain is completed."

Female athletes suffer more concussions than male athletes playing the same sports at both the college and high school levels, according to an upcoming study in the Journal of Athletic Training.TCU team physician Dr. Sam Haraldson defined concussion as "a complex patho-physiological process affecting the brain induced by traumatic biomechanical forces."

Haraldson said the majority of female concussions at TCU occur in soccer and basketball as the result of player-to-player contact.