The women's volleyball team will start conference play this weekend against Wyoming.The Horned Frogs enter conference games following a disappointing tournament loss to Mississippi Saturday that snapped a five-game winning streak.

"We competed hard and played great," head coach Prentice Lewis said.

"It was really the most solid we have ever played," said senior middle blocker Anna Vaughn said. "There were no pushover games. Each team was competitive."

When the Rev. Fred Phelps and his congregation picketed the funeral of Matthew Shepard in 1998, carrying signs that read "God hates fags" and "Matthew Shepard rots in hell," most Americans reacted in outrage. And rightfully so.We live in a culture that preaches tolerance.

As educated college students, we pride ourselves in being open-minded. Through years of schooling, we have learned to accept, or at least tolerate, those of different races, creeds, sexual orientations and abilities.

The Internet is a scary place.It is an incredible tool, a breakthrough in technology and a luxury our generation often takes for granted.

But it is also, in many cases, a blueprint of our private lives.

With the ever-advancing progress in the capabilities of search engines, virtually limitless archives of information are, literally, at our fingertips. We use Internet searches daily, but still barely scratch the surface of the never-ending black hole of information the World Wide Web has to offer.

They are found in downtown areas with megaphones, preaching of Scriptures and threats of eternal hell at the top of their lungs. These people believe the only proper way to live a fulfilling life is to do it their way. If you are lucky, you might even see them on TV performing "miracles," which almost always involves somebody fainting, while hysterical spectators look on with awe and reverence. I'm talking about extreme evangelists.In various parts of the Bible, the Scriptures urge Christians to rapidly spread the Gospel to all parts of the world.

Hispanic Heritage Month begins Friday, and TCU has several events planned, including a sand castle-building contest and a Latin jazz performance, as part of the nationwide celebration honoring the Hispanic culture. TCU prides itself on being a global, world-class university, and celebrating Hispanic Heritage month is just another way to promote the mission statement, said Greg Trevino, director of Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services.

The Student Government Association voted Tuesday night to further discuss a resolution supporting the plus/minus grading system next week.At Tuesday's meeting, Jason Ratigan, a senior history major, presented the proposal to SGA.

"It would be great if students saw this in terms of the principle," Ratigan said. "It's for better representing your grade and being accountable for your performance in the classroom."

The annual prisoner of war/missing in action remembrance ceremony, which begins today, is meant to remind students that not everyone who goes to war returns home, said the commander of the Air Force ROTC's Arnold Air Society.The POW/MIA ceremony at TCU intends to raise awareness among students about missing soldiers, said Jessica Murray, the Arnold Air Society commander.

Murray, a senior kinesiology major, said the Arnold Air Society is an honorary service organization within ROTC that coordinates this ceremony.

A TCU student was victimized by a 21-year-old man arrested on suspicion of committing two sexual assaults and four robberies in the west Fort Worth area, said a Fort Worth police spokesperson on Tuesday.Fort...

The 24th annual Art in the Metroplex is showing new works by 40 artists, including one TCU student, from 16 North Texas counties at the University Art Gallery in Moudy Building North Room 141.The only TCU student whose work is shown at the gallery is Randy Bacon, a fine arts graduate student, who said he paints landscapes based on panoramic photographs he takes while traveling.

"I get my ideas from pictures I take from driving on the road and use my windshield as my cropping device," Bacon said.

Bacon added that he averages three paintings a month.

Analytical skills are at the top of the list of "must-know" information for today's students.In high school, our teachers were always complaining that we didn't analyze our reading material enough. But has the push for society to read into everything spilled over into our social lives?

I'm sure most of the male population would scream, "Yes! Girls analyze everything." But, in our defense, the circumstances around us are what have caused us to become this way.