Ministers Week brings together students, thinkers and ordained ministers for the purpose of "continuing education, for worship and for renewing relationships," said Stanley Hagadone, director of continuing education at the Brite Divinity School.A joint venture of TCU, Brite and University Christian Church, Ministers Week, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 9, will include a series of sermons, lectures and worship services.

Hagadone said there is great student and alumni participation in Ministers Week.

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...

"Big Momma's House 2" is a bland, formulaic comedy for the masses. Though I was not amused, the only thing keeping me from an early nap was the laughter from the rest of the audience. We quickly find out that Malcolm Turner, played by Martin Lawrence, has been busy since the original film. He's married main squeeze Sherrie, played by Nia Long, and given up undercover work.

When Turner hears his partner has been killed in action, he is forced to take drastic measures.

Coretta Scott King not only carried on her husband's legacy but proved to be a leader in her own right, members of the TCU community said Tuesday.The 78-year-old "first lady of the civil rights movement" died in her sleep Tuesday night at an alternative medicine clinic in Mexico, her family said. Doctors said the cause of death was respiratory failure.

Tracy Syler-Jones, director of communications, remembered King as someone with strength and endurance.

Newly installed wireless Internet allows students in all main-campus dorms to surf the Net, no strings attached.The Student Government Association passed a bill last semester, allocating $7,500 to the installation of wireless Internet, said former House Rep. Justin Brown.

Bill Senter, manager of Technical Services, said the university paid an additional $2,700 to cover what SGA could not.

Brown, who helped write the bill, said he noticed a need for wireless access before he was enrolled at TCU.

Smokey the Bear's "only you can prevent forest fires" slogan educated citizens about fires, but alumni and students at the ranch management Roundup learned that smoke on the horizon isn't always a bad thing.As the rain brought relief to dry conditions outside Saturday, Charles Taylor, the superintendant at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station Sonora Research Center, and ecologist Jim Ansley discussed with more than 70 people the benefits of prescribed fires, including improving vegetation, increasing plant and animal biodiversity, and preventing wildfires.