This year, the university admitted more males than ever. Though this is great for increasing diversity on campus, TCU failed to properly prepare for these students' arrival.Fall 2007 marks the first semester in which both freshman and sophomore students are required to live on campus. With this in mind, it seems only logical that there should be enough housing for all freshman and sophomore students - no matter their gender.

Still there are 20 students without fixed housing and all of them are male.

For the past 19 years, a private foundation has been helping non-traditional students by rewarding them a monthly allowance in the form of a unique scholarship.According to financial aid representatives, the terms of the scholarship are simple: the gift is to be given to a non-traditional student with financial need. However, some non-traditional students agree it's not the terms of the scholarship that has them asking questions, but rather why the scholarship is not advertised publicly.

Joining and getting involved too much in college can become more of a hassle than not sometimes. College students generally feel the urgent need to get involved in their school or university in order to belong, to be accepted and to find people with whom friendships and relationships can occur and blossom. Through time, however, these once helpful and genial activities can quickly turn time-consuming and stressful. Yet, college students everywhere still feel determined to be as involved as possible as well as keeping themselves consistently busy.

Here's a full position-by-position breakdown for Thursday's game in Colorado Springs, Colo., between TCU and Air Force.QUARTERBACK(Probable Starter)TCU: Andy Dalton, redshirt freshmanAir Force: Shaun Carney,...

Technology is of good use only when prepared, organized people are behind it. The Mr. and Ms. TCU voting that was scheduled to be available on my.tcu.edu on Thursday did not start working until Monday.

Natalie Boone, assistant director of the Student Government Association, said the initial reason for the delay was that not all of the photographs of the nominees were available by Thursday. Then, SGA decided to hold off voting Friday because of the number of students traveling to Austin, Boone said.

Last year, on Sept. 11 and 12, the front pages of newspapers reflected and helped set the predominant tone today's date holds for many of us: grief. The New York Times emboldened "Grief" on its cover; "Grief Endure(s) Across Region" appeared on The Washington Post's; Americans were "United in Grief" according to top headlines from both the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Press of Atlantic City. From coast to coast citizens were united.

The new TCU oncology center opened this year when it received a $1 million donation from the University of Texas Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Foundation in Fort Worth.Suzy Lockwood, director of the Center for Oncology Education and Research, said TCU was notified by the foundation last spring of the donation and the gift was funded Sept. 1. She said the gift will be dispersed over a five-year period.

As a sea of burnt orange erupted following the touchdown off a fumble by the punt team, you could feel it. No, I am not talking about the mayhem caused by 80,000 Longhorns fans or the cannon being shot off after Texas seemingly put the game out of reach at 27-10. What I refer to is the collective cringe and gasp felt by players, coaches, students and everyone else associated with TCU football. Now, I was an unbiased spectator in the press box, but I could imagine that the second half felt like a swift kick to the groin after a French kiss for a first half.

You've probably heard by now: The attacks on Sept. 11 may be the result of a government conspiracy. And you shouldn't care.

It becomes clear after looking into the conspiracy theories about Sept. 11, there are many things concerning the attacks that can't be explained. It disappoints me to see so much effort being put into proving something that is essentially unexplainable.

And for what? Has anything been resolved from the creation of countless documentaries, Web sites and activist groups dedicated to exposing the "truth about Sept. 11?"

The volleyball team will look to continue its winning ways Wednesday when it travels to Fort Collins, Colo. to face Colorado State in its conference opener.The squad won its eighth consecutive match when it downed Denver in the finals of the Molten/LaQuinta Invitational Saturday, hosted by TCU.

The Horned Frogs are 10-1 in the early stages of the season and prepare for a Colorado State team coming off of a tournament victory of its own at the Hilton Classic on Saturday in Fort Collins, Colo.