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 The earlier EC-6 program had been replaced by the EC-4 program, which qualifies students to teach through the fourth grade.

Students living on campus lost access to coverage of several major sports leagues Monday because of a negotiations impasse between the owner of sports network Versus and its provider on campus.

Versus, a cable sports network owned by cable giant Comcast, specializes in providing coverage of college football, and niche sports like the National Hockey League and World Extreme Cagefighting.

The university has treated a total of 185 students with type A influenza, or about 2 percent of the student population, and six of those cases were confirmed by county health officials to be H1N1, a university official said.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, wrote in a campuswide e-mail Wednesday that the number of severe flu cases remains at zero. About three-fourths of those diagnosed with type A influenza have recovered, he wrote.

Of the 10 confirmed H1N1 cases on campus, four were self-reported over the summer, according to the e-mail.

Dick Evans, CEO of Frost Bank, will speak Friday morning about the bank's ethical practices and how it has been successful during the current economic situation at the Tandy Executive Speaker Series hosted by the Neeley School of Business, a Neeley School official said.

Evans is the chairman and CEO of Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc as well as a member of the Federal Advisory Council to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Although university administrators claim financial stability in this unpredictable economy to our strict fiscal conservatism, the university is taking advantage of overstretched government regulations to interfere with a particular private market. The university has now publicly joined SMU and other universities in Texas and around the nation in protest of Bud Light's "Fan Cans" promotion.

At the end of this month, the university will say goodbye to its top national marketer as he moves on to Carolina.In just the past four years Danny Morrison put TCU on the map, drawing attention to the...

As an ardent supporter of hard-hitting, informative news, I felt it was my duty and obligation to keep the students at the university informed about one of the most crucial, and yet veiled, issues affecting our country in the last week.

No, it's not health care reform, nor is it a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. The story I'm talking about is much more disturbing and leads right to the core of American culture.

Cell phones, Blackberries, iPhones. These devices were all created for the benefit of keeping in touch. However, a recent trend has arisen amongst those finding themselves newly ingratiated into the cult of young parenthood. This invention, often covertly disguised as a panda, cuddly monkey or other heartwarming creatures of youthful fancy, has captured the attention (and wayward wanderings) of both bewildered 20-somethings and their bemused toddlers.