A world without hugs. Could you live in it?The Associated Press released an article Tuesday that spoke of an eighth grader who received detention for hugging her friends goodbye for the weekend.

Her parents took their complaints to the administration, who could only promise that they would review the school policy that banned hugging.

I can understand a policy that doesn't allow teachers to hug their students because of all the cases being brought to court these days when children are touched inappropriately by their instructors.

And the Oscar goes to...New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs for drawing a personal foul call Sunday.This display of acting prowess came in the first quarter after a play in which Jacobs knocked...

In the summer of 1985, faculty and staff members of, what was then, the Department of Sociology, were asked to leave Sadler Hall and move into portable buildings on the lot where Tucker Technology now stands.That location was supposed to be temporary.

The Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice and Anthropology, 22 years later, occupy the same portables, now affectionately known as "the trailers."

The high level of nationally-ranked competition for the rifle team continues this weekend when it faces a competitor from last year's NCAA Championships.As the team caps off its fall season, head coach Karen Monez's team faces another nationally-ranked team in Kentucky.

It will be a dual meet that will have the teams shooting against one another Saturday in Lexington, Ky. This will mark the first time the squad has competed in a dual match against the Wildcats and the first time the team has faced Kentucky since last year's NCAA Championships.

Three Horned Frogs ended their career at home with a five-game match victory over the No. 17 Colorado State Rams."Our team, for the first time, played lights out every single point," head coach Prentice Lewis said. "There had been times in most of our other matches that we would let five or six points go, and we did not do that at all tonight."

Loren Barry, Calli Corley and LeMeita Smith helped the Frogs (22-11, 9-7) win their last game in Fort Worth, (22-30, 30-22, 22-30, 30-28, 18-16).

At first glance, he looks like a Chinese version of Clark Kent. He is tall, broad-shouldered, but when he removes his thick-rimmed glasses and takes the stage, he has transformed into someone completely different.Instead of superhuman strength, Oscar Seung wields a different kind of power - a power that bursts through his lungs and out his lips to create a baritone sound.

Once, he was Escamillo, a bullfighter who woos the beautiful gypsy "Carmen". Another time, he was Gasparo, an abusive husband who teaches another man to control his wife, in "Rita".

Amid all the chaos known as my life, I found some time to sort through the rather large pile of clothes on my bedroom floor - a pile that could be easily mistaken for a little podunk town just outside of Lubbock.Some of the things I found included a Styx concert stub, my McLovin T-shirt and my "Mighty Ducks" trilogy. There were also some things I didn't want to stumble upon such as my "Beat Texas" T-shirt.

Yikes.

If it couldn't get any worse, I found the movie "Bobby" lying next to the wrinkled purple shirt.

Sigh.