Canes will be twirling and feet will be stomping, as the TCU campus is set to host the first Funkytown Stompdown step show competition.The brothers of the Eta Psi chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., with the assistance of the women of Zeta Tau Alpha, are organizing the show.

The show is a stepping competition that will consist of six competing teams and two exhibition routines. At a step show, teams perform a choreographed routine, which normally involves steps and chants.

In a game where the scores are big and the targets are small, TCU's rifle team has started the season in record fashion. The women's goals are quite precise: each bull's-eye they shoot at is roughly the...

Fair-trade coffee, which is available at Jazzman's Cafe, will soon be offered in the Starbucks locations on campus.Seth Harris, a sophomore sociology major, is one of the co-coordinators of Frogs for Fair Trade, the student activist group that brought fair-trade coffee to TCU.

Harris said fair-trade products, such as coffee, tea and fruit, ensure a fair price for the farmers and workers who produce them and help to support the small-scale farms that would not be able to survive on normal market prices.

The TCU men's tennis team said it is beginning the 2006 season with high expectations."I believe we have a great squad," head coach Joey Riv‚ said .

Last weekend, the team proved just how good they could be by defeating No. 36-ranked Texas A&M - Corpus Christi.

"It was a great start to win last weekend in the first match of the season," Riv‚ said. "I am very pleased, but there is a lot of room for improvement."

The Horned Frogs welcome three newcomers to the team: freshmen Andrei Mlendea, Kriegler Brink and Cosmin Cotet.

1915: "The Birth of a Nation"Director D.W. Griffith's portrait of the Reconstruction (and, in turn, the Ku Klux Klan) era has enraged as many viewers as it has captivated.

1967: "Guess Who's Coming

to Dinner"

Starring Sydney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, this film was the first film to deal with interracial relationships. It revolved around Poitier's impending marriage to Hepburn and Tracy's daughter, played by Katharine Houghton.

1969: "Midnight Cowboy"

The track and field team may be sticking with its guns in the 2006 spring season, but it is also looking to make some noise in nontraditional areas.Head coach Darryl Anderson said while the team will ride...

When the Los Angeles Times first reviewed "Brokeback Mountain," a film that chronicles a friendship and love story between two cowboys, it praised the film but posed the question, "Will it play in Plano?"The more apt question might have been, "Will it play in Fort Worth?"

In a city where the tip of a white Stetson is synonymous with, "Howdy ma'am," and boots are more common than Manolos, the fate of a gay cowboy movie seemed doomed from the start.

With Superbowl XL just around the corner, people all over the nation are gearing up for one of America's most accepted and adored cultural pastimes - commercial watching.No joke. When it comes to television, nothing is more inundated with advertisements and selling points than the Big Game. It has gotten to the point that people are loading couches and drinking beers not to watch football, but manipulative attempts by advertisers at brainwashing Americans into buying junk like a Half-Pounder Fatty McCheese or UltraMega Light Super Beer.

Although early season struggles have slowed down the men's golf team, the Horned Frogs look to rebound by starting the spring season with a trip to Hawaii for the Waikoloa Intercollegiate Invitational.After coming off a fall season, which saw the Horned Frogs enjoy success in several national polls, head coach Bill Montigel said TCU is working harder than ever to ensure success in its new home, the Mountain West Conference.

TCU students, like their college counterparts in a nationwide survey, are reluctant to report sexual harassment to school authorities, said Susan Adams, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs and sexual harassment officer at Campus Life.Almost two-thirds of U.S. college students experience sexual harassment, but less than 10 percent report it to school authorities, according to a survey by the American Association of University Women.

At TCU, students hesitate to report sexual harassment because of the fear of being labeled or magnifying the situation, Adams said.