During the past week, TCU financial aid officials have been going toe-to-toe with the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo in regards to allegedly unethical revenue sharing practices.TCU has a partnership with Education Finance Partners, the key lender for TCU financial aid support. This partner is being heavily scrutinized by the attorney general's office for "unlawful and deceptive acts and practices."

One of TCU's preferred lenders, amidst the threat of a lawsuit, is changing its policies on its revenue-sharing program, but an administrator said Monday that the university already complies with the new policies.In a press release, Tamera Briones, founder and chief executive for Education Finance Partners, said the company will increase disclosure and require explicit terms for what revenue-sharing payments can be used for.

In a second natural gas discussion with the TCU community Wednesday, an administrator revealed tentative details of TCU's drilling calendar and said the university would have the authority to temporarily cease drilling during certain periods.Brian Gutierrez, vice chancellor for finance and administration, told participants that within the first year the producer would put the pipeline underground, drill a test core to ensure gas was in the area and drill one to two wells.

Like any good Fort Worth host knows, the first thing on the agenda for international visitors is an evening at Billy Bob's.The M.J. Neeley School of Business will play host to entrepreneurial experts from around the world attending a first-ever conference held on campus.

Garry Bruton, professor and academic director for the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center, is coordinating the conference, which will focus on entrepreneurship in emerging markets.

Students will have a chance this afternoon to do more than just spin their wheels for the environment.The TCU Purple Bike Program is hosting Le Tour de Frogs from 4 to 6 p.m. today to start up the organization and educate students about their impact on the environment.

Le Tour de Frogs is a 20-minute bicycle ride, beginning on the lawn in front of Sadler Hall and continuing to three other stops on campus where students will take a quiz of 10 to 15 questions about the environment, said Keith Whitworth, a sociology professor and founder of the Purple Bike Program.

It's incredible that violence and bloodshed has occurred for more than 400 years in an area the size of Connecticut that has a current population just slightly larger than the city of Philadelphia, but lasting peace may finally be in sight.Monday marked the first face-to-face meeting between leaders of Northern Ireland's two dominant rival parties, Sinn Fein and the Democratic Unionist Party, according to a recent New York Times article.

As tax day approaches, millions of Americans scramble to make sense of yet another income tax return. In the process, many discover the ridiculous complexity and unfairness of America's income tax system. Some 66,000 pages of tax rules govern the system, rules that even professionals do not always understand. As a result, most tax returns are inaccurate, meaning people are paying too much or too little tax.

A second discussion about the status of the university's natural gas opportunities will take place at 12:15 p.m. today.Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Brian Gutierrez, vice chancellor for finance and administration, will lead the discussion again to follow up on their discussion Thursday about the gas-drilling operations.

They provided an update on the progress being made toward an agreement and said safety requirements must be met before any lease will be signed.

Good news for people who love music; Modest Mouse may have been "dead before the ship even sank," but the band had us hooked before it even set sail. Successful musicians everywhere have one huge worry when releasing a new album: Will people like it as much as the last album? Allow us to ease the worries of Washington's own Modest Mouse. Its newest release, "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" is a strong, desirable and enticing album that has at least one song for everyone.Perhaps the most exciting surprise on this latest musical venture is the addition of a new guitarist.