Thaddaeus Williams had a dream.At 5 feet 11 inches and 280 pounds, Williams, an 18-year-old freshman from MacArthur High School in San Antonio, had enrolled in Hartnell College in Salinas, Calif., with plans of extending his football career.

"When he got there, his personality stood out," said Matt Collins, Hartnell's head football coach. "Just a real happy person, full of energy."

This is where it gets good: After his two years at Hartnell, he wanted to put on the purple and white.

Williams aspired to be a Horned Frog.

Two anonymous phone calls made to Alpha Kappa Alpha's corporate office are to blame for the sorority's suspension this semester and one of those calls may be a fake, said AKA's regional adviser.In April, one caller identified herself as a student and pledge of the sorority's TCU chapter, and another identified himself or herself as the parent of a hazed student, said Tari Bradford, AKA's south-central region adviser.

"Do I believe one (of the phone calls) was a prank?" Bradford said. "Yes, I do."

Things got a little too close for comfort during the volleyball team's win Friday.The team avoided squandering a 2-0 match lead and downed New Mexico, 3-2, at the University Recreation Center.

Behind a double-double performance by freshman outside hitter Christy Hudson and a 21-dig outing by senior libero Calli Corley, the team moved to 19-9 on the season and 6-4 in conference play.

Sports editor Tim Bella

Stricter GPA requirements proposed for freshman pre-business majors next semester will try to stop students from "churning up" the program, the Neeley School of Business' senior associate dean said.Pending University Council approval in November, incoming freshmen in the pre-business program next fall will be required to maintain at least a 2.5 GPA by the end of their first year and complete five required courses, said Bill Moncrief, senior associate dean.

The motion for the requirement change passed at the last Undergraduate Council meeting Oct. 19.

You don't need to be a Wall Street investor to make money in the stock market. In fact, you could just be a TCU student.Members of the student-run Educational Investment Fund at TCU have historically outperformed or performed with the stock market, said Andrew Angelico, chief administrator of the fund. The class consists of both undergraduate and Master of Business Administration students in the Neeley School of Business.

Distributing birth control pills to middle school students is a gamble.There's controversy over this issue because city officials in Maine passed a plan that will allow middle school students to receive birth control pills without direct parental consent.

King Middle School will become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available, according to an article by the Associated Press.

finish A top-15 finish from a sophomore was one of the highlights for the cross country teams at Saturday's conference championships.Festus Kigen finished 15th overall for the men, whose finish served as the catalyst for the men's team's sixth-place finish. He was a little more than five minutes off the lead.

Freshman Tanja Ivandic led the women's team during its eighth-place finish, good for 33rd place and almost six and a half minutes off the lead.

Sports editor Tim Bella

It was good times all around for the swimming and diving teams Friday.The men's team completed a three-team sweep, while the women's team beat all of their opponents except for Northern Arizona during the first home meet of the season.

Senior Jonathon Berrettini and freshman Jessica Miles led their respective teams, winning two events each.

Sports editor Tim Bella

The world of online social networking has boomed ever since the opening of Web sites such as Facebook and MySpace.These Web sites allow people to socialize with people they once knew, friends and acquaintances.

A new Web site with the same idea of social networking has popped up: LifeAt.com.

LifeAt is designed for people that live in housing developments and apartment complexes, and it allows for people to scope out their neighbors before they actually get to know each other, according to an article in the New York Times.

"Cry me a river," wails Justin Timberlake to the masses.

How about some Prozac in exchange for our tears?

Antidepressants are the most commonly prescribed medication in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A CDC report released in July revealed that, of the 2.4 billion prescriptions given in 2005, 118 million were for antidepressants.

When REM sings "Everybody hurts," they're right. About 121 million people worldwide suffer from depression, according to the World Health Organization.