No one really knows how Valentine's Day started or who the real St. Valentine was, but there is some history on how the card-giving tradition started in the United States. According to History.com, swapping greeting cards started in the 1840s by Esther A. Howland, who is known as the Mother of the Valentine. The first cards were made with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as "scrap." As for the love and chocolate that correlate with the day, it's not really clear ...

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Alumni donations have nearly doubled in the past two years because of fundraising for building projects and a large estate donated last year, but alumni participation is gradually decreasing, following a nationwide trend in giving, a university official said.

The university received donations from 11,088 donors in the 2005 fiscal year, but received 10,207 in the 2006 fiscal year, said Janine Kraus, director of annual giving.

In an attempt to emphasize the seriousness of unpaid parking violations, the Fort Worth Police Department has decided to start towing vehicles with more than one unpaid ticket, in addition to writing new parking tickets for the towed car.

This decision has its obvious student downsides with increased fines and the hassle of retrieving towed cars. The biggest hassle of all is students might not even know the towing is coming.

Many TCU men think the virus that causes cervical cancer in women does not have serious effects on them, a Health Center staff member said, but a new study may make them take the potential consequences of the virus more seriously.

A new study links the human papillomavirus, or HPV, to cases of throat and mouth cancers in men, said Burton Schwartz, a Health Center staff physician.

"To be able to paint their nails and break them too; to embrace whatever it might be that makes them girls in a way that will sustain rather than constrain them," writes Peggy Orenstein, is the hope of any mother, including herself.

Orenstein's article "Girls will be Girls" ran in Sunday's New York Times online. She begins by saying that Hillary Clinton isn't the only woman trying to find the perfect blend of feminism and femininity. Even the mothers who don't support Clinton, Orenstein says, feel her conflict.

With a record number of companies and internships available, the University Career Services' Career Expo looks to trump those before it.

Career Services has more than 100 companies coming to the expo Wednesday. Among them will be returning companies such as Accenture, Aldi Inc., American Airlines, Dillard's Inc. and JCPenney. Companies such as VHA Inc., GolinHarris and Hedgemetrix LLC will make their debut, said Kimshi Hickman, interim director of the Alcon Career Center at TCU.

On a typical weekday, The University Pub sees a handful of students. On the weekends, starting Thursday night, bartender Raoul Herrera said it can be a different story.

The bar can become so crowded that there have to be doormen at both ends of the building. Many of its clientele are TCU students, Herrera said.

Meanwhile, on campus on a typical weeknight, the Peer Discipline Board, a group of student volunteers, hear about two or three cases from students appealing alcohol violations.