The month of September is not only bringing a new season of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy,", but the Department of Theatre is also presenting the play, "The Anatomy of Gray," which has more differences than just the A and the E.The play, which lead actress, Sydney Baumgart, said is a "great piece of creative writing," will be performed Sept. 25 through Sept. 28 and Sept. 30 in the Hays Theatre.

Students, faculty and members of the community will gather to hear the leader of the Iraq study group speak at the annual Jim Wright Symposium on Tuesday in the Brown-Lupton Student Center Ballroom. Lee Hamilton, who currently serves on the President's Homeland Security Advisory Council, formerly served in the House of Representatives for 34 years, according to the Web site for the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

In the United States - a country that praises itself for intellectual freedom -- there are still organizations that try to censor great literary works because of so-called controversial material.The week of Sept. 29 will mark the American Library Association's 26th annual "Banned Books Week" in which the ALA encourages readers to protest this censorship by reading books that have been taken off some shelves.

Apparently, newspapers everywhere struggle with problems like advertising, circulation and printing color.Even in Russia.

Schieffer School of Journalism Director Tommy Thomason said after talking with an 11-member delegation of Russian news executives, he was reminded that journalists from both countries face the same issues.

"We come from different languages and cultures and different nations, but we're both journalists," Thomason said.

Administrators' efforts to increase security on campus and to create stronger forms of emergency communication should be applauded. Less than six months after the Virginia Tech Massacre, local universities are preemptively taking measures to protect their campuses and their students.

Currently, TCU has four means of crisis communication: e-mails, a recorded information line, the TCU home page and the media, which are necessary in order to maintain a high level of campus security.

Eons ago, back in the day when MTV played music videos and Tom Cruise didn't jump on couches, you actually deigned to spend your allowance on CDs. Some of those probably had the dreaded parental advisory sticker on them. Those are the ones you stashed far and deep in your dresser lest your parents find them and pop a blood vessel.

Gone are those days. But lyrics today are as explicit as ever, causing disgruntled Wal-Mart executives and prompting grandmas to pray an extra "Hail, Mary" for our generation's collective soul.

The Interfraternity Council met Sunday for three hours to create a proposal that outlined sanctions against four fraternities involved in an August brawl, but James Parker, assistant dean of Campus Life, said Monday he had yet to see it.Josh Schutts, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life and IFC adviser, said he and Dane Pearson, chief justice of IFC, would present the proposal to Parker but as of Monday evening, Parker said in an e-mail he had not seen it.

When driving back from my buddy's place after Thursday's mind-numbing loss, I started to smell something. The problem was that it did not smell like baby powder slapped onto a infant's butt, freshly cut grass on a midsummer's day or my mother's made-from-scratch chicken parmigiana. Heck, it did not even smell like the overbearing perfume emanating from the girl you just met at Whataburger at 3 a.m.

The 2007 season was burning, and it started to suffocate the hopes and dreams of this season. Funky-perfume-girl sounds pretty good right about now.

The Battle for the Iron Skillet has gotten less prestigious as the weeks go by. The Mustangs are coming off a lackluster performance in Arkansas and the Horned Frogs have back-to-back losses against teams they had chances to beat.

There will definitely be two teams with something to prove on the field Saturday. In 2005, TCU was coming off a big win and the Mustangs were coming off a tough loss to Baylor.

SMU had something to prove, while TCU was on top of the world and got knocked down by the seemingly lowly Mustangs.

Strong final-day play helped the men's golf team avoid a last-place finish at its weekend tournament.The team finished tied 14th out of 16 teams and shot 34-over as a team at the Carpet Capital Collegiate in Rocky Face, Ga.

The Bill Montigel-led team finished 29 shots back of tournament co-champions, Alabama and South Carolina.

Sophomore Travis Woolf was the top finisher for the Horned Frogs, shooting even-par during the three-round event and finishing tied for 10th overall.

Junior Robby Ormand shot two-over for the team, good for 22nd place.