All across the country, millions of children are rushing to the nearest pharmacy to pick up certain prescription medications. Once they have the medicine in hand, they must take it religiously every day, never forgetting a single dose. After all, their doctors did deem it necessary, so it must be of the utmost urgency.What could this all mean? An outbreak of bubonic plague? Tuberculosis? Lyme disease? No. It's just another case of America's favorite little "ailment that could," ADD.

TCU is not the only campus in the nation spending money to renovate the campus to fit student needs, said the Residential Services director. Craig Allen, Residential Services director, said the housing shortage issue is a common problem on college campuses as student populations continue to increase.

Allen said the University of Texas at Arlington, Baylor University, Southern Methodist University, the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University are all adding or have recently added new residential halls to accommodate students.

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.

The TCU women's soccer team returns to the field this weekend to take on Tulsa and Oral Roberts in the Tulsa University Women's Soccer/Grover Classic.TCU will play Tulsa at 7 p.m., Friday and Oral Roberts at 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Both games will be played at Tulsa's Hurricane Soccer and Track Stadium.

The Lady Frogs are coming off close defeats to the Rice Owls (1-0) and the Texas Tech Red Raiders (2-0).

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.