Best-selling author Anita Shreve will be in Ed Landreth Auditorium tonight to talk about her new book, her old books and her journey from college student to successful author.

Shreve, who jokes in her biography about receiving so many rejection letters from magazine publishers in her early days that she could have rewallpapered her bathroom, spent time as a high school teacher in Boston, a journalist in Africa and an editor at several New York magazines before settling into life as a novelist.

The same time the Student Government Association looked at a resolution describing the purpose of SGA and resolving "to serve the student body to the best of its ability and to do its best to improve the...

The Student Government Association House of Representatives passed a resolution that would allow SGA members to wear medallions and cords at graduation, but upheld a veto to reject emergency funding for a sorority's philanthropy event.

Eta Iota Sigma approached SGA to request $500 in emergency funds to help produce their annual dance marathon to raise money for their philanthropy. The House executive committee rejected the request to allocate money to HIS, arguing the request did not meet emergency status criteria.

Want to paint the football field before a home game? If you have 17 five-gallon buckets of white paint and seven five-gallon buckets of purple paint, go for it.

This season, the football team is looking good, but the only thing looking better is the field.

Horticultural Supervisor David Yarbrough oversees the maintenance of the field and said he relishes every part of it.

"Having the players and coaches thank you for the work you do is the rewarding part of the job," Yarbrough said.

Freddy Krueger has terrorized audiences since the '80s. On Saturday night, Frogs' linebacker Robert Henson starred in Wyoming's nightmare at Amon G. Carter Stadium.The senior from Longview knocked Wyoming...

Well, it's election time and many organizations such as Rock the Vote and HeadCount are encouraging everyone, especially young people like many of you, to get out and vote. Many of these organizations make the implication that it's our civic duty as United States citizens to cast a ballot. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Hayden Panettiere are taking time and encouraging young voters to get out and take part in this next election.

Since mid-September, polling sites across the nation have opened their doors to early voters, who are breaking voter turnout records at an astounding rate.

They're not the only ones making history - millions of new voters have registered at unprecedented rates, especially in minority groups and in the youth demographic. It has become easier than ever to get involved in the political process through dozens of Web sites promoting voter registration and education, or local campaign and party headquarters that have redoubled their efforts for the upcoming election.

I am writing in response to Bruno Bruelhart's satirical column, "Alerts a ploy to control minds" in Friday's Skiff. Many people I spoke with about his column were appalled that a student deemed it appropriate to comment on a topic as serious as campus safety lightly. I feel compelled to write on behalf of many people's opinion of this weak attempt at humor.

The writer called the university's alert system a "Big Brother-esque type of uniformity and obedience." I am curious if he truly understands the logic behind these alerts.

Yesenia Rojas is a senior at Paschal High School, a Mexican American and a hopeful first-generation college student.

Rojas, who wants to be a maternity nurse, said one of her concerns in choosing where to go to college is her ability to afford it.

A 2008 report tracking changes in Latino freshmen at four-year institutions since 1975 found that one in five Latino students expresses a major concern about their ability to finance college at the start of the school year.