After students spent much of 2010 planning it, the university's first reality show, "Top Grad," will have its premiere Friday on TCU Channel 20 and on its website, topgradtv.com.

Junior Julie Harrison, the show's executive producer, said the show features 11 student contestants competing in various challenges in an attempt to showcase their wide-ranging abilities and poise.

"What we're really striving for is to show a renaissance student, so someone who is a really well rounded student and a jack of all trades," Harrison said.

TCU track and field signed 10 athletes (six women, four men) to the program Wednesday. Orlene Parris, an Arlington native, and Megan Smith, an Olathe Kan. product, will join the team next season. Pariss...

The university implemented TCU Alert five months after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.

The mass notification services system, powered by 3N, was purchased following the recommendation of a committee formed by the chancellor to research communication services for emergency situations.

Thankfully, the university has not had to use the system for any emergencies like the Virginia Tech shooting. However, the recent server troubles have made us grateful for the administration's foresight.

A new bill was passed Tuesday night by the House of Student Representatives to revise the election fine assignment process of the Elections and Regulations Committee.

Lizzy Caudill, the Elections and Regulations Committee Chair and representative of the class of 2011, said the new system would set election violations and fine amounts before the campaign filing period began. Specific fine amounts of violations would be kept confidential with the Elections and Regulations Committee, she said.

The Sid W. Richardson Building was briefly evacuated Tuesday morning because of the odor of natural gas moving throughout the building, a campus police officer said.

TCU Police Lt. Ramiro Abad said workers were refilling equipment with propane when some of the gas was sucked into the air and released in the building.

The equipment was being used for cleanup efforts after a pipe burst and flooded the basement Thursday, Abad said.

Evacuation of the building was a customary precaution, and students were never in immediate danger, Abad said.

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Sorry Mark Cuban. At this point, the Mavs need to understand that Stojakovic is not an asset to the team, but a liability.

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