Between being a full-time nurse, showing miniature horses, making a 22-year marriage last, watching her high school daughter march in the band and supporting Texas A&M University football for her freshman Aggie, Carla Crider finds time to go to school by taking online classes.Crider graduated from Tarleton State University and went to teach for one year at an East Texas public high school in 1982. It was a less than pleasant experience, Crider said. After working in a number of jobs she didn't like, she decided she would be a nurse and has been for 11 years.

Hirings and firings are a part of sports.College football is no different when Dark Monday and Tuesday put head coaches on the proverbial chopping block and their careers in jeopardy."Dark Monday and Tuesday...

The Horned Frogs will take the field at Amon Carter Stadium for the last time this season when they play the Air Force Falcons on Saturday afternoon.This will be the sixth meeting all-time between the two schools. The Frogs (9-2, 5-2) have a 3-1-1 record in the series. TCU beat the Falcons (4-7, 3-4) 48-10 last season on the road.

It was the first meeting between the two since the Frogs won 35-34 against the then No. 23 Falcons in Fort Worth, when both teams were members of the Western Athletic Conference. The two teams played to a scoreless tie in the 1959 Cotton Bowl.

Students, administration in the business school and a committee will vote on academic requirements to decide on the selective prerequisites of the School of Business, because it brings up confusion and contradiction to all parties. The School of Business proposed to include the 2.75 GPA requirement in the university catalogue so students could understand how selective admissions is, however, it was denied a voting committee.

While most students try to finish the semester without getting too distracted by thoughts of Santa Claus, Christmas lights and the month of freedom ahead of them, some have a larger task - running the White Rock Marathon.Junior nursing major Madeline Bowles will run the entire 26.2 mile race, while Jennifer Salim, a junior communication studies major, and a group of about 15 members from Chi Omega will participate in the 13.1 mile half marathon.

Junior nursing major Katie Calandro organized the effort for Chi Omega and said she hopes the race can become a tradition.

Two recent TCU graduates' documentary films have gone to the Emmys - the Lone Star Emmys that is.The Lone Star Emmys are the regional Texas version of the Emmys, said Greg Mansur, the radio-TV-film instructor who taught the students' documentary film class.

This was the first time TCU entered the contest, Mansur said.

"It's a big deal because we beat out other Texas universities across the state with strong film and news programs," Mansur said.

Former radio-TV-film student Chris St. Pierre produced "Detached," one of the films that won an award.

Just three days before a bicycle accident left him in a medically-induced coma, Dustin Salter, former minister for Reformed University Fellowship at TCU, preached to students at Furman University about providence.In his sermon, posted on Redeemer Presbyterian Church's Web site, Salter encouraged students to put their trust in God's hands.

"There is a God who is infinite and personal, who controls and directs all things for his glory and for our good," he said.

With millions of potentialdollars on the line from salaries and signing bonuses, college football players must decide between finishing their academic careers or pursuing the much more lucrative life of an NFL player.For players who are legitimate NFL prospects, it's a real dilemma: Do they graduate - or even just finish their eligibility -- or do they exit early and enter the NFL?

One wrong move both on and off the football field can cost these players top draft spots and even more in salaries and signing bonuses.

The act of censorship should be reserved for extreme circumstances. The censorship imposed on a sculpture in Tandy Hall was uncalled for.Not only does censorship breach the right to free speech, but it also undermines the intelligence of the students on campus.

A 2-foot sculpture of a monkey that was anatomically correct was removed after two days of being on display in the building.

Faculty and staff said the piece of art was removed because they did not feel it was appropriate to be displayed in a workplace setting.

A 2-foot-tall monkey made of steel, wax and burlap was removed from a student art exhibit in Tandy Hall on Nov. 14 because an assistant dean said its genitalia was inappropriate.Mark Muller, assistant dean of the School of Business, said he removed the sculpture because he and others around the office found it to be inappropriate for a work setting.

Clayton Hurt, the creator of the controversial sculpture, said he didn't intend to offend anybody with the piece.

"It wasn't for shock value," Hurt said. "I just wanted it to look realistic."

You all know the movie scene. Boy meets girl. Boy and girl fall in love. An unrealistically short period of time passes and boy pops the question ...Will you promise me?

Wait, that's not right. You must have heard wrong.

And you'd be right. You did hear wrong because I can't think of any movie that fits the "happily ever after category" and adds the step of a promise ring.