After low-campus turnouts at last year's Great Decisions Discussions, the program has been moved to local churches.The Center for Civic Literacy is teaming with community congregations to sponsor opportunities to discuss political issues through the Great Decisions Discussions program. Students and community members are invited to the programs where experts, usually TCU professors, will lead the discussions.

This is the second year TCU has been involved in the program, said Eric Cox, assistant professor and associate director for the Center of Civic Literacy.

"The Vagina Monologues" ended last week with a plea to stop violence against women worldwide. The closing line asked how it is possible to make the plights of others who are miles away seem real. They hit the nail on the head. Human beings have a duty to take care of each other. But the reality is it's too easy to get caught up in everyday life here at TCU to the point that the problems of the world seem distant and surreal.The small, sparse student activism groups on campus have been working hard - mostly unnoticed - to change that.

Construction on campus is not stopping the dance department from hosting a national dance conference this week.More than 600 students and faculty from 29 schools in the South Central region of the United...

The director of the Schieffer School of Journalism, Tommy Thomason, is recovering after being hospitalized Friday morning with what at first appeared to be a stroke, said William Slater, the dean of the College of Communication.Thomason's wife, Debby, said as of Friday afternoon, Thomason was being treated for viral encephalitis. In a telephone interview Monday, Tommy Thomason said he feels fine and is ready to return to work.

A female student reported an unknown male in the women's swim team locker room Sunday evening. The student was attempting to change when she saw a man poke his head out from one of the women's bathroom stalls.

The student told TCU Police the man apologized as she fled the locker room.

She described the suspect as a 20-year-old, short, Hispanic male with a mustache, wearing black shorts and a white T-shirt.

TCU Police Sgt. Kelly Ham declined to comment on whether the suspect was a TCU student.

This is an ongoing investigation, Ham said.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez traded free speech for controlled speech at America's expense when he chose not to renew the license of RCTV, one of Venezuela's oldest and most popular news organizations, for criticizing his rise to power.Since Chavez began ruling by decree Feb. 1, 2007, he has cut off many ties with the U.S. while making deals with oil-rich nations in an effort to weaken America and enforce what he calls "socialism of the 21st century."

Last week, 18 months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and its surrounding areas were hit by a tornado. In an Associated Press article, Mervin Pollard, whose mother's home was damaged in both disasters, asks "How do you start over again when you are already trying to do that?"How are some people so unfortunate that their homes are hit by deadly and devastating natural disasters twice in a two-year span, let alone once in a lifetime? Is it really all up to chance, fate and perhaps karma?