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.

"Poetry, because it's artistic and not just this logical, rational, scientific way of describing things, gives opportunities to suggest things and to present nuances and implications and to subtly make connections between things that if you were going to try to do it by just writing it out in terms of linear words, you'd have to write a book," Dunning said. He said he also applies his knowledge and interest in the mind to his daily tasks in University Career Services when he sits down with students to help them with a common concern - what to do with their lives.

Hurricanes, mudslides and earthquakes devastate cities and dig at the hearts of people everywhere. While many people merely think about the loss, some reach out, lend a hand and stretch beyond cultural...