The disappointing TCU men's basketball season came to an end a few days before Spring Break. And it is obvious Danny Morrison, TCU's Athletic Director, must fire Neil Dougherty, TCU's head basketball coach. The future of the program hangs in the balance.Dougherty, a lifelong assistant coach at Kansas, Vanderbilt and Cameron University, was hired in 2002 to win games, lead the Frogs to the top of the conference, land recruits who can be developed to fit and progress in the TCU system and recruit talent similar to the talent he allegedly recruited at Kansas and Vanderbilt.

College graduates will walk across the stage in May, confident their education has provided them with the knowledge and wisdom needed to be successful in the future; however, there is one area in which young professionals are less savvy - consumer credit.Bud Hibbs, a consumer credit expert in Fort Worth, says the biggest problem facing recent college graduates and young people in general is ignorance.

This year I devoted the better part of my Spring Break to Austin's colossal South by Southwest music conference.In past spring breaks, I've returned home to spend time relaxing with family and friends. This year, however, my experience at SXSW left me feeling more exhausted than rested.

Held annually, SXSW features more than 1,400 bands over four consecutive nights at 60-plus venues, all within about six blocks of one another.

Toward the end of every semester, students head to their academic advisers to decide which classes they should take or to discuss the directions their degree plans are taking.But what about the student...

In the world of indie rock, Austin-based musician John Vanderslice is an anomaly.Over the past decade he has established himself as a jack of many trades through his accomplishments as a meticulous musician, prolific photographer and owner of the successful Tiny Telephone recording studio.

After the 2005 release of "Pixel Revolt," his fifth full-length album, Vanderslice toured Europe with rising stars Death Cab for Cutie before returning home for a handful of shows at last week's SXSW music conference.

Daryl D. Schmidt, a John F. Weatherly professor of religion and former chairman of the religion department, died of colon cancer Tuesday morning. David Grant, professor and current chairman of the religion department, said Schmidt was "a wonderful presence in the department."

"Dr. Schmidt was a gentle, thoughtful, engaging scholar of the New Testament," Grant said. "He was a wonderful teacher and mentor to students and a bridge-builder among scholars with different approaches to the Bible."

I enjoyed Kathleen Thurber's column "Make Lenten resolves count" very much because she touches upon some very important truths about the Lenten season. An important recognition is that we, as Americans, live in great abundance and surplus. That includes American Catholics, so when Lent rolls around, many times the Lenten sacrifices we end up making is only from our surplus, so, as Thurber pointed out, it's really not a sacrifice. What this demonstrates on the part of most American Catholics is a lack of understanding on what constitutes "sacrifice" in the Lenten understanding of the word.

All the questions of the past two days revolved around where junior guard Natasha Lacy had gone to, and what her Lady Frogs would be able to do without her against No. 3 seed Rutgers Tuesday night.Now...