Spring break is a time of year when many students enjoy being in the sun, a decision that poses many risks. According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer accounting for more than 50 percent of all cancers.

More specifically, the ACS reported that melanoma, which tends to occur at a younger age than most cancers, accounts for more than 4 percent of skin cancer cases and causes the majority of skin cancer deaths.

Heather Masterson, 33, a former TCU student, was diagnosed with melanoma when she was 24.

For many, Spring Break is a time to let loose and have some care-free fun. But some officials say what a student does in that one week of not-so-clean fun could have a lifetime of consequences. TCU Police sent an e-mail Thursday to all students giving guidelines for them to follow in order to avoid Spring Break dangers.

"Some students die," said Laura Crawley, assistant dean of campus life for health promotions. "Every year, there are a couple of students, nationally, who lose their lives."

When the women's golf team tees off this weekend at the Texas A&M "Mo" Morial Invitational, head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said its main focus will be believing in the strength of each player's game."We are going to focus on confidence and playing our own game," Ravaioli-Larkin said.

Junior Catherine Matranga also said confidence will be an important factor going into the tournament.

"We are working on having a lot of confidence, and it's there for most of us now," Matranga said. "We want to show A&M that we can win on their course."

A team of researchers in a development center on campus is working to help children communicate with their parents and to teach parents to become "healers for their children," said the director of the Institute of Child Development.Karyn Purvis said the institute has been serving at-risk children, or neglected and abused children, especially adopted children, for the last eight years by conducting research-based interventions.

The Horned Frogs tried to find some type of March magic to extend their season Tuesday against Colorado State in the opening round of the Mountain West Conference tournament, but this Cinderella wasn't meant to be, as TCU fell to the Rams 64-60. Despite a career-best, 28-point performance from senior guard Nile Murry, the Horned Frogs (6-25) couldn't find a way to overcome a pesky CSU squad (16-14) that featured four players in double figures. Senior forward Judson Stubbs added toughness by scoring 12 points and pulling down 6 rebounds before fouling out.

The volunteers of the Naturist Action Committee commend Skiff opinion editor Stephanie Weaver for her well-written and perceptive piece on naturism. The reasonableness of choosing to be comfortable with our own bodies would seem indisputable. Sadly, others are trying to criminalize the very skin into which you were born.Lawmakers have, of course, risen to the task. A local ordinance in Florida uses more than 300 words to describe the human buttocks in geometrical terms, so that enforcement officers may determine more precisely when it is properly covered.

Being a veteran classical ballet dancer of nine years and an avid 25-mile-a-week runner, I was immediately intrigued when I heard some women describe a free-form aerobic dance class they had taken, having mistaken it initially as Yoga.Their voices were animated and full laughter over the enjoyment and release this class provided. I am always looking for new ways to get a good workout and continue my love of dance, so this was something I had to try.

For the average consumer, coffee-buying habits are determined by taste and price.But Frogs for Fair Trade wants us to have other concerns when buying coffee. The group wants us to consider the workers who are producing the coffee and the fact that they are not being paid fairly, and it wants us to change our buying habits accordingly.

That is why fair trade organizations are attempting to convince Jazzman's Caf‚s nationwide to switch entirely to Fair Trade Certified coffee.