I turned on the tube the other day to catch the start of my favorite television show: Jerry Springer. For some reason, the volume was too low to hear the words, but I could very easily imagine what was being said. "Today, on Jerry Springer: Watch as we throw a bunch of people with ridiculous problems in a room together, provide an extremely annoying catalyst and watch them verbally, and possibly physically, assault each other." Now that, my friends, is entertainment.

The TCU paintball club team is preparing to outshoot its opponents in the National Collegiate Paintball Association Championship this weekend at Xdrenalin Zone, located on Lake Grapevine.There are no qualifying rules for this tournament; however, only about 30 teams are allowed to sign up on a first-come, first-served basis. TCU will be playing in a division of 28 teams, with the possibility of playing 15-20 games if it wins the tournament.

Though no one knows how the news will be distributed in the next five to 10 years, the basics of journalism will remain the same, Bob Schieffer told an audience Wednesday night at the second annual Schieffer Symposium. "No matter what medium we get our news from," Schieffer said, "the integrity of the individual reporter - that is the thing that will make journalism useful."

Schieffer said there is no way to predict how communication will change in the coming years, and print and broadcast journalism are all expanding the ways they deliver the news.

This is a story.About a man named Borelli, who was busy with 13 girls he called his own. They were tennis players, working all together, and they were anything but all alone.

Yes, that's the way this team became the Borelli bunch.

And, as it would seem, everyone is more than willing to admit that TCU women's tennis head coach is exactly the gifted father figure he's made up to be - except for Dave Borelli himself.

There is always something new cooking on our campus. One of the newest is the revival of a program with a varied history at TCU. In the Campus Life office, Shelley Story, along with two interns, Krystin Peters and myself, are working to re-establish the Allies program at TCU.For those of you who are unfamiliar with Allies, the main goal is to educate participants about the ways in which homophobia and heterosexism impact everyone, and to teach participants how to be an ally to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered persons.

I can't help it, I'm plugged in.I check my e-mail when I wake up in the morning, and I listen to podcasts in my car on my way to school via my iPod, which I plug into an FM transmitter to play on my stereo. Later in the day, I call home on my pocket-size cell phone and pick up movies I rented online via Netflix. As much as anyone, I'm part of the digital age.

But I'm also a late techno-bloomer. I can remember my family's first computer and spending hours (illegally) downloading Wallflowers on Napster.