"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.

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The women's soccer team had a school-high with nine student-athletes named to the Fall 2005 Mountain West Conference All-Academic Team. TCU had 27 student-athletes total.The All-Academic Team, announced on Feb. 15, 2005, requires that student-athletes complete at least one academic term to be eligible, hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or above and be a significant contributor on their team, according to gofrogs.com.

Head soccer coach Dan Abdalla said the team has structured policies regarding academics.

The Associated Press reported a story Monday of a 16-year-old girl who died because she didn't receive a liver transplant. It wasn't the health care system's fault; the girl could not get a donor in time.The 16-year-old girl is not alone. As of 5:30 p.m., 91,048 people were waiting for organs, according to www.optn.org, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network's Web site. According to the same Web site, from January 2005 to November 2005, there were 13,333 donors, and in that time period, there were 25,952 transplants.

An "irresponsible press corps" along with President Eisenhower's reluctance to deal with reporters has led to a misrepresentation of his presidency, a visiting history professor said Tuesday evening at the Kelly Alumni Center.Michael Birkner, a history professor at Gettysburg College, is the latest Green Honors Chair to visit TCU. The Cecil H. and Ida Green Honors Chair allows TCU departments to invite guest speakers annually for a three-day visit.

The provost said he does not want to take a journalism minor away from students, but he did not know whether it was appropriate for any college to have a minimum GPA for minors.Nowell Donovan, the provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University Council rejected the College of Communication's request to set a minimum GPA of 2.5 for journalism minors Feb. 6 - as a way to control enrollment - because the council wanted to have more discussion about the issue.

Students remembered David Phillips, a youth minister for Christ Chapel Bible Church, as a mentor and a man of God on Monday."He was a tremendous leader and an unbelievable guy," said Jimmy Williams, a senior entrepreneurial management major.

Phillips died Sunday morning when he lost control of his 1999 Toyota 4Runner on a patch of ice while driving on Interstate 20 from his home in Aledo to the Fort Worth church.

Like most Cubs fans, I loved Sammy Sosa. He emerged as one of baseball's most lovable figures in 1998, clubbing 66 homers, winning the NL MVP and leading the Cubs in an improbable run to the Wild Card.

His sheepish smile, his dugout-to-bleacher sprints out to right field, the way he said, "Baseball's been very, very good to me" - Sammy was just Sammy - and he was everything a professional athlete should be.

But with a little cork and the crack of the bat in June of 2003, the cracks in Sosa's foundation began to show. And before long, Sammy was crumbling.