Senior tailback Aaron Brown's suspension was lifted Saturday, just in time to beat longtime rival SMU. And he was back just in time to get a tune-up for the game against No. 2 Oklahoma this weekend.

While it is unfortunate the suspension of players has become a part of the modern game, coaches usually will say either what happened or for how long the suspension is.

But head coach Gary Patterson, by his own admission, chose to keep details of Brown's suspension under wraps in an effort to throw off defenses.

After the first of six nationwide open meetings with the U.S. Department of Education on Friday in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom regarding the recently enacted Higher Education Opportunity Act, many college officials are hoping that the new legislation will not come with too high of a price tag."This bill is going to add enormously to our costs," Chancellor Victor Boschini said. "The burden of the new reporting requirements alone is mind-boggling."

About 75 percent of college students have been exposed to Human papillomavirus, an expert said Saturday at the Smart Women Discussion on Women's Cancer Prevention.

Dr. Mark Messing, chief of obstetrics and gynecology for Harris Methodist HEB hospital, said HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, can be prevented by a vaccine called Gardasil, which is administered before a person becomes sexually active. According to the Food and Drug Addministration, Gardasil can be administered to women and girls ages 13 to 26.

According to Newsmax.com, the country's finest bastion of unbiased journalism next to The Christian Science Monitor, 40 percent of cell phone users used their phone for text messaging by 2007, with the average texter sending 188 messages per month.

I'm surprised it's not more than that, seeing as how most people ages 12 to 25 spend half of their day furiously finger-smashing their cell phone's keypad and not being productive or interesting members of society.

Nursing students are working with the local American Red Cross to provide medical care for Hurricane Ike evacuees, a Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences professor said.

Lavonne Adams, assistant professor of nursing, said the local Red Cross contacted the Harris College for volunteers.

"The offer was made to nursing faculty at TCU," she said. "There are some faculty already working with the Red Cross before they called so they made arrangements to take their students with them."

Students should be proud of their efforts to help those affected by Hurricane Ike.

Nursing students volunteered at shelters for evacuees and provided basic first aid care and mental health assessments. The charity wasn't limited by the bounds of the medical profession, though, as volunteers helped clean the playground and even took time out to play with kids.

On campus, the Kappa Sigma fraternity has also lent a helping hand for hurricane relief. The Greeks have since collected more than 2,500 cans, with an ultimate goal of 8,000.

Who would win: vampires or werewolves?

An age-old adage that is only becoming more and more popular as the years go by.

With the addition of applications on both MySpace and Facebook, this question has run rampant across the Internet.

The Facebook application, Vampires vs. Werewolves, has 18,330 active monthly users. The MySpace vampire application has almost 2 million members and werewolves have more than 130,000 users.

Gender imbalances on college campuses may contribute to a culture of sexual promiscuity, two journalists said.

Journalists Richard Whitmire and Laura Sessions Stepp interviewed college students and found hooking up as the preferred form of relationship on campuses with a gender imbalance.

"I've received several hundred e-mails from campuses all over the country saying that hooking up is the main way students relate to each other," Stepp said.