An addition of scholarships to the SGA budget, which was passed Monday, has ruffled the feathers of the executive board.A total of $1,200 in scholarships was passed in SGA's budget for two members of the House of Student Representatives Monday. There are three scholarships in total, which would provide $200 per semester to the selected students. These are aimed to encourage student involvement in the House of Student Representatives throughout the semester, according to house bill 93-13, submitted Nov. 28, 2006.

Three Student Government Association members will receive $1,200 in scholarships to encourage student involvement, according to the bill passed Monday. However, the bill, which passed by a 19-8 vote, presents some ethical issues.The $24 students pay each semester will be used in part to finance the education of SGA members. As it is, SGA fees are not optional. And now it seems that the SGA scholarships are coming out of students' pockets without their consent.

It is spring again, and that means the return of our national pastime: baseball.Baseball season gives people the chance to go out to the ballpark, spend a couple hours with friends, eat a hot dog, "root, root, root for the home team" and hear the "ping" of the bat.

"Ping"?

While the college game currently uses aluminum bats, many baseball purists and fans of the big league game prefer the "crack" of wooden bats.

In 1974, aluminum bats were introduced to college baseball and with the bats came higher batting averages.



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The baseball team will try to bounce back after its third loss this season against a Big XII opponent with a three-game road series against conference foes, the Air Force Academy Falcons.Sophomore outfielder Matt McGuirk's fourth home run of the season was not enough for the Frogs (21-9, 5-1 in conference) as they lost 13-5 to the No. 19 Oklahoma Sooners (22-9, 3-3 in conference) in Norman, Okla. The Sooners pounced on Frogs pitching early scoring seven runs in the first inning,

The French broke the record for the world's fastest TGV train Tuesday. According to a Times Online article, the TGV train had been allotted 5 billion euros, in spite of predictions that it would never be profitable.

The train, which got up to 357 mph, did not beat the record 361 mph held by a different type of train from Japan that levitates on magnets but did beat France's own 1990 TGV train world record of 320 mph.

To be entirely honest, I am not that much of a basketball fan.So, when the NCAA Championship game between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Florida Gators took place Monday, I was far from being up in arms over the fuss.

Instead, I was happy to know that baseball season was officially underway.

It is understood that college ball has been going on for the past two months, but the atmosphere presented by the smell of dirt, a vendor hawking hotdogs and the unmistakable sound of ash meeting cowhide is something that brings a warm feeling to me amid the April showers.

The TCU community will receive a rare opportunity to hear an elected official speak about the future of Texas energy policy.Congressman Joe Barton will present a lecture about the future of energy at 6...

The TCU tennis teams have run into a lot of problems with the National Collegiate Athletic Association recently, but coaches and players are wondering if it could be the association's fault.An international student, who spoke only under the condition that he would remain nameless, played tennis in his home country while enrolled in a university and accepted prize money for his sport as a student-athlete. In his country, it was legal to do so.

Facebook addicts, rejoice! There may be a new way to get you to peel your eyes from that hypnotizing blue and white screen: God. College students nationwide are sacrificing their participation on one of the Internet's most popular social networking sites in the name of Lent, and TCU students haven't been left out of the trend.

Lent, a Christian holiday that lasts from Ash Wednesday, Feb. 21, to Easter Sunday, is a 40-day period that mimics the time Jesus spent in the wilderness resisting temptation.