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 method used to calculate national ratings for network television soon will include the TCU students. Those living in dorms, Greek housing, college on-campus apartments and off-campus housing will be...

The Gypsy Tea room plays host to California metal group Bleeding Through March 25, as the group tours in support of its third studio album "The Truth." The new album and the upcoming show are sure to take...

In a plan that insidehighered.com has hailed as "brilliantly simple," students at San Marcos High School in San Marcos are now required to gain acceptance to Austin Community College before they are allowed...

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.

Programming Council and Hyperfrogs will host a luau today to encourage students to have an exciting and safe spring break."The reason why we are having the luau is for students to have a good time responsibly and promote safety for the week ahead of them," said Hyperfrog member Jessica Tremillo, a freshman education major.

According to a 1998 survey of students on spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla., from the Journal of American College Health, the average male finished 18 alcoholic drinks a day while on break and the average female had 10.

More seniors will graduate in May with University Honors than ever before, something the director of the Honors Program said is another small but paramount sign the program is improving. Peggy Watson, director of the Honors Program, said recognizing these 46 seniors and supporting other honors students with more class offerings and programs is all part of an effort to eventually convert the Honors Program into an Honors College.

"I think it will take a number of years," Watson said, "but it is going to happen."

A judge is ready to dismiss the case of a former TCU track athlete in his attempt to sue the university for a release to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin, the athlete's attorney said.Tom Phillips, an attorney for former TCU athlete Jacob Hernandez, who filed against the university for a release to transfer in May, said an order of dismissal in the case has been passed on to the judge but said he is not sure if the judge has signed it yet.

Phillips said he and J. Shelby Sharpe, another attorney for Hernandez, have exhausted all appeals on Hernandez's behalf.