The Student Government Association rejected a budget proposal for the first time in several years because of record-keeping discrepancies in the Activities Funding Board.Jace Thompson, student body president, said the budget was not passed because SGA wants to reduce funding to the Activities Funding Board.

"The reason we cut funding is not because we want to cut activities funding but because (we) didn't have records of how organizations spent their money," Thompson said.

Earlier this year, TCU broke with the long-standing tradition of requiring only freshman to live on campus. Starting in the fall, all first- and second-year noncommuting students will be required to live in university-approved housing. Students and university employees are entering uncharted waters. It is in this venture into the great unknown that Residential Services has dropped the ball. First, let's start with the situation in the new dorms. Touted by the university as the greatest thing since Christ and moveable type combined, they have everybody fighting for a space.

Today's news is filled with negativity - that's why many of us don't watch the nightly news anymore. All we ever hear about is murders, violence, burglaries and the like. We hope and pray we will never miss hearing about someone we know in a context like that. Nobody wakes up in the morning expecting to hear on the news that something tragic has happened to someone they know.Unfortunately, last week, something tragic did happen. March 26, a Keller woman was strangled by her husband.

The No. 28 Horned Frogs baseball team will try to get the first win against a Big 12 opponent of the season tonight against the No. 21 Oklahoma University Sooners.The team extended its home winning streak to 18 games after taking a three-game set from the University of California at Santa Barbara Gauchos last weekend, bringing the squad's record to 21-8. However, tonight's contest will be played on the road in Norman, Okla. as the team starts an eight-game road trip. This could present a problem as the Horned Frogs are 7-8 while suiting up away from Lupton Stadium this season.

The split of the nation's judicial leaders on whether America needs to do something about global warming is a good thing.In a 5-to-4 decision Monday, the Supreme Court ruled the Bush administration's Clean Air Act does allow the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide emissions and berated the EPA for not attempting to regulate them in the first place.

By law, the EPA must regulate "pollutants," but the Bush administration has said the Clean Air Act does not consider carbon dioxide a "pollutant." The majority of the Supreme Court thought differently.

Students will have the chance to catch an Austin folk band on campus tonight in a special Programming Council concert.PC is hosting a concert that will feature Vanessa Peters & Ice Cream On Mondays.

"The purpose of this concert is to just have fun," said Kristen Chapman, PC president. "The school year is wrapping up, and we just want everyone to come to the concert, hang out with friends and have a good time."

The U.S. Senate approved a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to withdraw troops from Iraq within 120 days of the passage of the bill.Although President Bush hasn't laid out an end to his Middle East...