The Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition for the 2008-2009 academic school year.Chancellor Victor Boschini said tuition costs will escalate 8.4 percent, making the overall tuition for undergraduates $26,900, a $2,040 increase from this year.

Boschini said along with tuition increasing, the board approved an 18 percent increase in financial aid.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he believes the increase in financial aid will be most important to students.

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.

Who is sending parents scraping for change underneath the couch, giving headaches to public relations representatives and making lawyers work for their paycheck?

It's 14-year-old Disney sensation Hannah Montana.

The eponymous TV show, starring actress and singer Miley Cyrus, is about a teenager who leads a double life as a high school student by day and a pop singer by night.

Citing Nielsen Media Research, a CNN article reported more than two-thirds of U.S. children in the six to 14 age group watched the show in the third quarter of 2007.

After falling to the No. 5 team in the country Sunday, the Lady Frogs are awaiting word on their next opponent.Head coach Jeff Mittie's group dropped a 73-54 road decision to Louisiana State University just two days after downing Radford University 74-63. The team will know tonight if it will host the next game in the consolation bracket of the tournament.

Sports editor Tim Bella

There seems to be news about how TCU is becoming more eco-friendly every day. There is the TCU Purple Bike program, plans for a walking campus and the RecycleMania campaign.Not to be outdone, TCU payroll will soon have a greener attitude as well. All financial information from paychecks to W-2 forms will be available online, making more than 72,000 printouts and envelopes unnecessary. The plan is to complete this change by the end of January when W-2s are sent out.

This time next year, millions of Americans all over the country will flock to the polls to elect the nation's new commander in chief.In light of ever-surfacing statistics that demonstrate the current president's...

A day after a 3-1 win in San Diego, the roles were reversed in Las Vegas for the volleyball team.The team would wind up splitting its weekend West Coast road trip, winning against San Diego State 3-1 (30-16, 30-28, 27-30, 30-23) and dropping Saturday's match to University of Nevada-Las Vegas 3-1 (23-30, 30-21, 17-30, 25-30). A double-double performance from sophomore outside hitter Lauren Otto was not enough to earn the Horned Frogs a win.

Sports editor Tim Bella

You would think a college campus would be a place where people could feel safe from discrimination.Recent studies indicate otherwise.

According to a survey conducted by the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, 30 percent of student respondents said they had been discriminated against because they didn't fit expectations for masculinity and femininity. In addition, 25 percent of students of color reported being discriminated against, as well.

How can students be expected to learn in an environment that they can't feel comfortable in?

Payroll and Human Resources will be "going green" by next quarter, said the payroll tax coordinator.Shelli Barr-Majors, payroll tax coordinator, said there are two main things they hope to accomplish by "going green."

"To us, going green is trying to eliminate wasteful paper," Barr-Majors said. "It also means security - no lost checks or information floating around where someone could steal an identity."

Barr-Majors said when the department sat down and looked at the amount of paper they used every day, it was an eye opener.

A top-10 finish has one cross-country runner thinking about the NCAA Championships.Sophomore Festus Kigen's 10th place finish at the 10K NCAA South Central Regional has catapulted the Kenyan into the NCAA...

The new Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, wouldn't admit during recent confirmation hearings that waterboarding constitutes torture.To waterboard, an interrogator binds a prisoner, tightens cellophane or a cloth over his face, and pours water on him. The wet cellophane or cloth triggers the gag reflex.

Then the process is repeated until the prisoner believes he will drown.

If that description doesn't convince you the technique is torture, the federal code might.