Construction of the Brown-Lupton University Union is scheduled to be completed soon, after more effective drainage plans had to be cleared by the city of Fort Worth, a TCU official said.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said weather, in addition to drainage problems caused by flooding in the Campus Commons and the construction site, led to the BLUU's grand opening being pushed back to Sept. 2 from its expected August opening,

Mills said the drainage problem was an "engineering challenge," but the city has been a good partner.

Demand for on-campus housing has exceeded supply, forcing Residential Services to accommodate students in lounges and study rooms in residence halls for the second year in a row.

Craig Allen, director of Residential Services, said an increasing demand for on-campus housing has been a trend for the past few years.

"More appealing buildings are on campus, causing students to want to live here," he said.

The university introduced a policy last fall requiring freshman and sophomore students to live on campus.

A child of the 1960s, David Whillock remembers his hometown's college football team, the Arkansas Razorbacks, beating TCU at several games of the now defunct Southwest Conference. Today, the Fayetteville, Ark., native sits in Fort Worth as dean of the College of Communication. Whillock joined the university in 1991 and served as chair of the radio-TV-film department from 1995 to 1999, when he took the post of interim dean of the College of Communication until 2002.

It's the personal relationships between students and faculty that set the Neeley School of Business apart from other business schools in the mind of O. Homer Erekson. The relationships Erekson forged during...

Players, coaches and future players alike all use one term to describe Jim Christian - hard-nosed.

While recently-departed head basketball coach Neil Dougherty used a stoic, determined manner of coaching during his tumultuous six-year tenure, Christian stands in stark contrast with his apparent lunch pail-type attitude toward basketball.

Sophomore guard Jason Ebie said Christian's hands-on attitude created a lot of emotion during the first two weeks of team workouts.

You study all week, you work, you're responsible, and when the weekend rolls around all you want to do is let loose. What are you going to do? If you're under 21, this question is usually answered with a resounding sigh and a decision to either stay home and party or walk around downtown watching all the old people having fun. Of course there are other options, but can you ever think of them at 8 p.m. on Saturday night?