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.

In the third annual Schieffer Symposium on Tuesday night, NBC moderator Tim Russert said he did not divulge the name of a CIA agent to Lewis "Scooter" Libby.During the symposium in Ed Landreth Auditorium,...

Students may be seeing a spike in the number of minority students on campus next semester.The admissions office says the number of applications received from minorities is up to 32.9 percent this year, up from last year's 29.3 percent.

The university is inching closer to ethnic diversity on campus- - something that has historically troubled it.

The number of minority students has been on the rise for a while. In 2006, 18 percent of freshmen were classified as minorities compared to 15 percent of the student body as a whole.

Though they started out as a convenient way to grab a drink or snack anywhere, vending machines now offer everything from books and DVDs to iPods and cell phones.The Student Relations Committee of the...

Bob Schieffer, a TCU alumnus and chief Washington correspondent for CBS news, returns to TCU tonight to host the third annual Schieffer Symposium. The symposium, entitled "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of the News: The Media's Role in a Democracy," will feature some of today's most influential journalists, including NBC News' Tim Russert, New York Times editor Bill Keller, ABC News legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg and Earl G. Graves Sr., founder and publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine.

Besides going home or working over Winter Break, students could soon earn class credit in a January miniterm.The Student Government Association is working toward implementing the January term, or J-term....

As the 2008 presidential elections approach, everyone is naturally beginning to examine his or her views on hot political issues. Especially for college students, many of whom will be voting in their first presidential election, voting will be an important part of their identifications as American citizens.

More importantly, first-time voters will establish their political views in a concrete setting because, when it comes down to the wire of the voting booth, they have to ultimately pick one candidate or the other.