"Texas heart, Mexican soul" is the core song of the McKay Brothers' CD, "Cold Beer & Hot Tamales." While listening to the CD, it sounds like most Texas country artists, but the McKay brothers, Noel and...

Even though the idea has been on the back burner for more than a year, students will have to wait longer for Residential Services to make a decision about using TCU ID cards as a form of payment at off-campus restaurants, said the director of Residential Services. Craig Allen, director of Residential Services, has been at TCU for a year and said he knows that while the issue of off-campus dining has been discussed before, staff members agree that it is not an issue to be addressed immediately.

With recent changes to the program, including the appointment of a new head coach, the women's tennis team remains confident they can continue to be successful and improve. Following the appointment of...

The college experience is supposed to be an eye-opening, perception-changing one.We leave the social upbringing of our youth to be exposed to a different world we've only heard about, or perhaps have seen...

The beginning of each semester can be stressful for students: new classes, teachers, tests and challenges. But are the classes you're fretting over even the ones you need to be taking? The professor from your department swears these are the right classes and that you must take them now in order to graduate on time.It's hard to believe that majority of professors on campus are familiar enough with TCU core curriculum to advise students correctly on every class they need to take each semester.

Members of Senseless Acts of Comedy were dressed in tin foil, wigs and paper bags Thursday in what they said was an effort to make students aware that SAC may lose their performance space.Members of the group were dressed as homeless people to symbolize that they may not be able to perform in Moudy Building 141 North, after four years of using the room, said Justin Kirchhoff, senior criminal justice major and member of SAC.

"Welcome to the middle of nowhere."This is often the exact reaction many people have when they are traveling through a remote small town.

They look left, then they look right and see a couple of houses, but not much else. "Do people actually live here?" is the common question asked among visitors.

The truth is people do live in these small towns and most will defend their birthplace until they are blue in the face.

This is the case with Rachel Skinner, a senior radio-TV-film major, whose hometown is Lawn, Texas.

TCU's campus has become a stage for labor protests against a Dallas-based construction company sub-contracted for work at TCU.Seven employees from Great Western Erectors, a concrete steel reinforcing company, and an Iron Worker International Union worker have been on campus this week claiming the company mistreats its employees.

William Morales, an employee for Great Western Erectors and one of the protesters, said his company treats its employees unfairly.

Devastation rocked the lives of tens of thousands of people when Hurricane Katrina struck the United States one year ago this week. People lost their homes and loved ones and evacuated the lives they knew.Now, amidst the hope they have received from the selfless help of multiple volunteer groups, the evacuees still struggle to rebuild their former lifestyles.

One little-known, but nonetheless painful, loss some Katrina victims are still coping with is that of some of their most well-loved, loyal companions: their pets.

A new peer discipline board, made up of students from different residence halls across campus, will now hear alcohol appeals from both Greek and non-Greek housing, said an assistant dean of campus life. Before this year, the Residential Living Commission only heard alcohol appeals for non-Greek housing, said Barbara Hawkins, associate director of Residential Living. The commission had three student-representatives from each non-Greek dorm, she said.