More students could be starting businesses in Fort Worth next fall.Alumnus Bill Shaddock is working with the Neeley School of Business to establish the Bill Shaddock Investment Fund to support student-run businesses. The fund would provide resources to students who either need the money to further grow their businesses or to students who have ideas and need a little money to get their ideas started, said David Minor, director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center.

After a relaxing Spring Break in Bermuda, you're ready to hop back on the plane before school starts again. Just one problem ... you can't board the plane.Due to a new travel regulation, people re-entering the United States by air are required to present proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a passport.

To help students, faculty and staff prepare for this change, Mailing Services and the Brown-Lupton Student Center are hosting a passport fair Feb. 14 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Student Center Lounge, said Glen Hulme, post office manager.

In an effort to increase funding for the Texas Tuition Exchange Grant, 11 students spent the past two days lobbying at the state Capitol in Austin.The TEG gives money to private institutions to use for student financial aid and scholarships.

According to a 2007 report from the Independent Colleges and Universities of Texas, there are 40 independent - nonprofit and tax-exempt - colleges and universities in the state. These institutions award more than 22 percent of all bachelor's degrees in Texas.

The Universidad de las Americas, which has come under scrutiny for the closure and subsequent reopening of its newspaper, is garnering more unwanted attention. TCU's sister university has been placed under a yearlong warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the agency that accredits both UDLA and TCU.

SACS, an American agency that accredits universities in 11 U.S. states and Latin America, gave the university its warning when UDLA filed a follow-up report after a 2005 affirmation of its accreditation.

Monday started a weeklong book drive for Hurricane Katrina and violence-stricken John McDonogh Senior High School in New Orleans. The TCU five-member chapter of Chi Upsilon Sigma National Sorority, Inc. is sponsoring the book drive that will end Friday, Feb. 16.

Senior Narcely Ruiz, cultural events coordinator for CUS, said her sorority was inspired to hold a book drive after a member at the University of Delaware wrote a letter describing her experience of volunteering at the predominately black high school. The letter was e-mailed to all chapters across the country.

Pending approval from the Faculty Senate, the Student Government Association may soon launch an honor code system, which has been in the works for two years. The SGA Honor Code Task Force, which has...

Countless frail bodies lie stacked together on the concrete surface of a Ugandan bus park - a pile that, if it weren't for the occasional arm twitch, looks more like a field of corpses than a group of frightened children.Before the sun rises, the group wakes, folds its ragged blankets and traipses out of Gulu, Uganda back to their homes. Because with daylight, the children say, comes a shred of safety; it's only in the darkness that they seek refuge from the threat of being kidnapped.

With Valentine's Day nearly upon us, love is in the air - or at least marketers want us to think so. And not everyone is satisfied with the average teddy bear, box of chocolates or display of affection. Some people like to take it to the extreme, ranging from a publicized marriage proposal to attempted murder.As an aspiring psychologist, I'd like to offer a humorous psychoanalysis of the crazed lovers to soothe those who may feel scorned by St. Valentine and to ground those who will be spending the day on cloud nine.

Kids playing soccer in the park, small girls singing their hearts out at beauty pageants and a hopeful mother of three calling into a radio station to win a prize for her children are all manifestations of competition in our world.Our society encourages a little healthy competition to give us something to strive for; however, competition can go from normal to unhealthy when a soccer mom verbally abuses a referee for a bad call, when a pageant princess is chastised by her mother for hitting the wrong pitch or when that mother of three loses her life because of a ridiculous contest.