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NCAA troubles TCU tennis team

Published Apr 4, 2007

The TCU tennis team has run into a lot of problems with the National Collegiate Athletic Association recently, but coaches and players are wondering if it could be the association's fault.An international student who spoke only if he would remain nameless who played tennis in his home country while enrolled in a university Romania accepted prize money for his sport as a student-athlete. In his country it was legal to do so.

Student to receive hair transplant, prizes after winning game show

Published Apr 4, 2007

A student's dream will come true next week at the New Hair Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif. Russ Jowell, a 22-year-old senior, won his dream of a full head of hair on ABC's "The Great American Dream Vote" last week.

Jowell was among eight contestants who revealed their wildest dreams on the show in hopes of receiving the most votes from American viewers. He received 30,000 more votes than his final competitor, a woman who wanted to build a Basset Hound sanctuary.

"This is the highest point of my life right now," Jowell said. "It's just all so surreal."

Quality care comes from questioning, nurse says

Published Apr 4, 2007

Good nurses ask questions. That's the bottom line, said an Arizona State University nursing expert. Alyce Schultz, the associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice, presented a lecture called "Promoting Evidence-based Practice at the Point of Care: Creating a Spirit of Inquiry" on Tuesday to a group of about 45 nursing faculty members and Fort Worth-area nurses in the Bass Building. Susan Mace Weeks, director of the TCU Center for Evidence-Based Practice and Research, said Schultz's topic can be applied by staff nurses in hospitals everywhere.

For Heavens Snakes!

For Heaven’s Snakes!

Published Apr 4, 2007

A class that has provided a unique learning experience for students may be extinct after this semester, said an environmental science professor.Andrew Brinker, the current professor of the herpetology...

Fad popularity rises for organic food

Published Apr 4, 2007

Organic food sales are up an estimated 15 to 21 percent from last year. Typically, organic food costs up to 30 percent more than produce in a regular produce section.People seem to be more concerned about the types of food they are putting in their bodies, but is it because they really care or because it's what the mainstream person is doing?

Most everyone strives for the "Hollywood" body - tanned, toned and thin. We do this by dieting or even succumbing to eating disorders.

Movie: ‘The Lookout’ shows talent, quality

Published Apr 4, 2007

"He who has the money has the power!" screams Chris Pratt, a former high school hockey star handicapped in a tragic car accident. The film "The Lookout" plays out the story of his unlikely alliance with a crack team of determined bank robbers when his promising career on ice is suddenly cut short. The former athlete goes to work as a janitor in a local bank, but cleaning floors soon gives way to criminal enterprise when he is recruited to help clean out the very bank that employs him.

SGA budget shifts in the right direction

Published Apr 4, 2007

The Student Government Association didn't pass the budget for the first time in years last week.SGA is trying to reduce the amount of student money going to the Activities Funding Board.

The AFB provides funding for student organizations all over campus, and last year, AFB received about $76,000 in student money.

SGA is trying to steer about $16,500 of that $76,000 budget to Programming Council next year, though.

Critics of AFB's current budget say the organizations record-keeping practices are lax.

SGA rejects Activity Board funding

Published Apr 3, 2007

The Student Government Association rejected a budget proposal for the first time in several years because of record-keeping discrepancies in the Activities Funding Board.Jace Thompson, student body president, said the budget was not passed because SGA wants to reduce funding to the Activities Funding Board.

"The reason we cut funding is not because we want to cut activities funding but because (we) didn't have records of how organizations spent their money," Thompson said.

Housing sign-up system needs improvements, order

Published Apr 3, 2007

Earlier this year, TCU broke with the long-standing tradition of requiring only freshman to live on campus. Starting in the fall, all first- and second-year noncommuting students will be required to live in university-approved housing. Students and university employees are entering uncharted waters. It is in this venture into the great unknown that Residential Services has dropped the ball. First, let's start with the situation in the new dorms. Touted by the university as the greatest thing since Christ and moveable type combined, they have everybody fighting for a space.

Some relationships should end amicably, honestly

Published Apr 3, 2007

Today's news is filled with negativity - that's why many of us don't watch the nightly news anymore. All we ever hear about is murders, violence, burglaries and the like. We hope and pray we will never miss hearing about someone we know in a context like that. Nobody wakes up in the morning expecting to hear on the news that something tragic has happened to someone they know.Unfortunately, last week, something tragic did happen. March 26, a Keller woman was strangled by her husband.

Home wins continue for Frogs

Published Apr 3, 2007

The No. 28 Horned Frogs baseball team will try to get the first win against a Big 12 opponent of the season tonight against the No. 21 Oklahoma University Sooners.The team extended its home winning streak to 18 games after taking a three-game set from the University of California at Santa Barbara Gauchos last weekend, bringing the squad's record to 21-8. However, tonight's contest will be played on the road in Norman, Okla. as the team starts an eight-game road trip. This could present a problem as the Horned Frogs are 7-8 while suiting up away from Lupton Stadium this season.

Home on the Ranch

Home on the Ranch

Published Apr 3, 2007

When one woman in the ranch management program graduates in May, she will return to her family in New Mexico to save them and their business.In 1996, Caitlin Holmes' grandfather Steve Trigg gathered his...