Harvard red and navy blue are two colors blemished all over the record book of the TCU-SMU series that dates back to 1996.Although a lot has changed since the last meeting in 2001, Southern Methodist prevailed...

The recent displeasure expressed by the university's administration over Anheuser-Busch's marketing of purple and white Bud Light beer cans to students is warranted, but the fact remains that college-age people are going to drink it regardless of color or team affiliation.

The university makes a valid argument that it doesn't want the visual connection between its team colors and alcohol, considering all of its connotations to binge drinking and alcoholism. After all, the university is supposed to be an institution based on education.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said Thursday the university has hired an executive search firm to find a replacement for outgoing athletics director Danny Morrison, who announced his resignation Wednesday to work as team president for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League.

Boschini said he is not putting any time constraints on finding the new director.

"I'm just trying to get the best person I can," Boschini said.

After changes were made to state regulations for early childhood education certification programs, the university implemented new courses for its students this fall to comply with the new standard, an associate professor of education said.

Cecilia Silva, an associate professor in the College of Education, said this change to state standards restored the EC-6 program, which certifies students to teach grade levels from early childhood to sixth grade. The earlier EC-6 program had been replaced by the EC-4 program, which qualifies students to teach through the fourth grade.

Alumni of the sociology, criminal justice and anthropology, Spanish and radio-TV-film departments may be confused if they search for those department names any time soon, as each underwent a name change during the summer.

Faculty in these departments, however, said they find the changes necessary to better reflect what they teach.

Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the name change to department of Spanish and Hispanic studies helps people get away from the idea that the department just teaches the language.

Wyatt Kanyer's "Christians unfit to judge" was difficult to understand because he never defined terms, and it was splattered with his own judgments. In any opinion article or argument, one must always define the terms he or she is arguing.

Nowhere in the article was Kanyer's definition of "judgment" clearly identified. Another term that was not clearly defined was "homosexual lifestyle." This may have been because there is no single definition of a homosexual lifestyle. Just as there are uncountable heterosexual lifestyles, there are innumerable homosexual lifestyles.

Apparently, the "small government" conservative state of Texas feels as if driving isn't hard enough without a lot of laws to worry about. In case you haven't heard, Texas just passed some new traffic laws that went into effect Tuesday. Two that caught my attention include banning drivers from using handheld wireless devices in a school zone and that everyone in a car, regardless of age, must now wear a seat belt.

In April 2009 a different version of the most famous line in literary history emerged - "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in want of brains must be in want of more brains." Wait, what? Whose idea was this?

Seth Grahame-Smith and his editor at Quirk Books worked in conjunction for months revising the classic tale of Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennett from proper etiquette to proper zombie defense in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies." However, critics and fans alike arouse similar inquiries - What would Jane think?