Student Government Association members trying to create a safe-rides program, which would provide transportation for students under the influence of substances, could face funding and liability issues.Approximately 30 percent of undergraduates report having driven under the influence, said Angela Taylor, director of the Alcohol & Drug Education Center.

"The important thing is that we have a program that reduces potential harm and does not enable other high-risk behaviors," Taylor said.

Hey Friend, I am writing this letter to you to tell you that I fear we are losing touch.It is rare these days to give and/or receive a hand-written letters, such as this one, partially due to the current...

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 tennis team has 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 if he would remain nameless who played tennis in his home country while enrolled in a university Romania accepted prize money for his sport as a student-athlete. In his country it was legal to do so.

A student's dream will come true next week at the New Hair Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif. Russ Jowell, a 22-year-old senior, won his dream of a full head of hair on ABC's "The Great American Dream Vote" last week.

Jowell was among eight contestants who revealed their wildest dreams on the show in hopes of receiving the most votes from American viewers. He received 30,000 more votes than his final competitor, a woman who wanted to build a Basset Hound sanctuary.

"This is the highest point of my life right now," Jowell said. "It's just all so surreal."

Good nurses ask questions. That's the bottom line, said an Arizona State University nursing expert. Alyce Schultz, the associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice, presented a lecture called "Promoting Evidence-based Practice at the Point of Care: Creating a Spirit of Inquiry" on Tuesday to a group of about 45 nursing faculty members and Fort Worth-area nurses in the Bass Building. Susan Mace Weeks, director of the TCU Center for Evidence-Based Practice and Research, said Schultz's topic can be applied by staff nurses in hospitals everywhere.

Organic food sales are up an estimated 15 to 21 percent from last year. Typically, organic food costs up to 30 percent more than produce in a regular produce section.People seem to be more concerned about the types of food they are putting in their bodies, but is it because they really care or because it's what the mainstream person is doing?

Most everyone strives for the "Hollywood" body - tanned, toned and thin. We do this by dieting or even succumbing to eating disorders.

"He who has the money has the power!" screams Chris Pratt, a former high school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident. The film "The Lookout" plays out the story of his unlikely alliance with a crack team of determined bank robbers when his promising career on ice is suddenly cut short. The former athlete goes to work as a janitor in a local bank, but cleaning floors soon gives way to criminal enterprise when he is recruited to help clean out the very bank that employs him.