In a season full of record breaking performances, the TCU rifle team has closed the season with one more: its first athlete to qualify for the NCAA individual championships.Senior Celeste Green qualified for the 2006 National Collegiate Rifle Championships on March 10-11 in three-position smallbore shooting; her score of 586 in 60-shot smallbore at the Feb. 11 NRA Sectionals & NCAA Qualifier broke a TCU record that she set less than a month before.

Green, who was a 2003 NRA all-American, said being selected was an honor after missing the chance her freshman year at TCU.

When one thinks of the all-time great horror movies, the idea of sequels usually brings on a stronger queasiness than the film itself. But, as the trilogy of "Final Destination" comes to a conclusion, each installment has only improved upon the original.I went to see "Final Destination 3" anticipating inventive death scenes and cringe-worthy gore. I wasn't disappointed; as car engines, nail guns and even tanning salons proved to be more tortuous than I ever imagined.

The School of Business has another ranking to add to its already growing list of accomplishments.The Texas State Board of Public Accountancy has deemed TCU master of accounting students the best in Texas.Barry...

Quite simply, Hem's latest release, "No Word From Tom" is a wonderfully satisfying record."Tom" may be just a collection of rarities, covers and live tracks, but from beginning to end it plays as pleasing as a studio album.

Opening with lead vocalist Sally Ellyson's haunting acapella take on "All the Pretty Horses," "Tom" leads directly into "Rainy Night in Georgia," a track made famous by Brooke Benton. Hem's take is much more subdued, as if it's trying hard not to drown out the sound of the rain on the window, but it works brilliantly.

A recent grant will allow TCU to host undergraduate physics and astronomy students from universities across the country to conduct research that could be published in professional journals, said Magnus Rittby, associate dean of the College of Science and Engineering.According to the College of Science and Engineering Web site, the department of physics and astronomy was awarded $112,288 from the National Science Foundation for the Research Experience for Undergraduates program. The grant allows TCU to host four to six students from different universities.

Rationality and religion: Contrary to the acts of many, the two aren't mutually exclusive.But somehow, there is something about the ideas of faith, hope and love that make people violent, destructive and pigheaded.

Warped, overzealous theologians, fanatics and political leaders have distorted peaceful messages to support backward ideals for centuries. Faith groups have manifested disagreements over what's right in all the wrong ways.

TCU's Black History Month celebration comes to an end tonight with an attempt to recreate the Apollo Theater with Night at the Apollo, a showcase of multiple talentsAshley Madkins, committee chair for Night at the Apollo, said this event will be "a fun-filled grand finale."

"This event is a tribute to black artists who have been to the actual Apollo Theater in Harlem, N.Y.," the senior fashion merchandising major said. "Everybody gets to come and perform their talent for a chance to win a big prize."

A motor home will park on campus today, and those who have been living in it for the last three weeks have only one message for students: Children are being forced to kill and nobody is paying attention."A rebel army abducts children and forces them to fight," said John Rowett, one of four people touring the campus. "It's an emergency in Uganda and no one knows about it."

Rowett is part of a campaign called Invisible Children, a program that aims to help Ugandans by raising not only money, but awareness about the country's problems.