The Fort Worth Commission for Women honored Alpha Chi Omega last night with the Outstanding Young Women Who Volunteer Award.Alpha Chi was selected because they're an example of outstanding young women who volunteer, said Dorothy Wing, city staff liaison to the Commission for Women.

"Alpha Chi made a commitment for not just a single occasion but an extended period of time," Wing said.

This is the first time in the history of the award an organization has been selected; normally the committee honors individuals.

When one considers the term "eating disorder," they generally link it with people who either do not eat or purge themselves after every meal. However, a recent study by researchers at Harvard shows that another eating disorder more common than anorexia nervosa and bulimia is binge-eating. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or D.S.M.-IV, lists all three of the disorders but classifies binge-eating as a topic of further study rather than a definite diagnosis.

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The student fee is $4 higher than it was in 2005 because of one man, an adviser to SGA said.SGA adviser Larry Markley said none of former SGA member Sebastian Moleski's actions were illegal or against the SGA constitution, but Markley said he advised against several of them.

The SGA approved the bills written by Moleski because "he was a strong force," Markley said.

Some of these actions included the wording of the bill that raised the student fee and locked $76,500 of the budget into the Student Activities Funding Board.

After coming off of a 10th-place finish this week at the USC Ashworth Intercollegiate, the men's golf team will face two top-10 conference opponents in an upcoming tournament in Austin.The No. 28 Horned Frogs will take on the No. 8 University of Nevada-Las Vegas Rebels and the No. 9 Brigham Young Cougars at the Morris Williams Intercollegiate on March 26.

Following the touney in Los Angeles the Frogs are currently in third place in the Mountain West Conference.

TCU has received more applications from minorities this year than any other in the history of the university, the chancellor said during a staff assembly meeting Tuesday.Chancellor Victor Boschini said the university is hoping to translate this application pool into faces in the classroom and increase the diversity on campus.

Boschini also said applicants' SAT scores and class rankings have increased from last year.

According to the TCU Factbook, 18 percent of freshmen in 2006 were minorities, while 15 percent of the overall student body were classified as such.

A student, caught in the act of stealing Monday at the University Recreation Center, admitted to 14 prior thefts that have been reported in the building since Aug. 23, TCU Police said.Since the beginning of the academic year, there have been 14 instances where valuables have been stolen from the storage compartments at the south end of the weight room in the Rec Center, TCU Police Sgt. Kelly Ham said.

Ham said a group of people in the weight room caught the suspect stealing items from a compartment at about 12:15 p.m. Monday.