All full-time undergraduate students are required to carry health insurance of some kind, but international students are specifically required to carry the TCU-offered plan, which the director of international student services says is difficult to understand. Although the university-offered insurance plan is not exclusive to international students, they in particular struggle to understand it, mostly because of the cultural components included in health services, said John Singleton, director of international student services.

Coming off a fall season that saw a plethora of record-setting individual and team performances, the rifle team will look to get back into a rhythm this weekend when it hosts the Air Force Falcons at the TCU Rifle Range.Rewriting the record books became common during the 2006 fall campaign as the shooters set new team records for their performances in 60-shot air rifle and aggregate scoring, according to the team's all-time records. The team also wound up securing the top five individual scores in the 60-shot air rifle event.

People from various churches came together Wednesday night to promote peace and unity between denominations in Fort Worth.The Unity Dinner, held in the University Christian Church, concluded a week of prayer for Christian unity.

Suzanne Castle-Rolen, associate minister for college ministries, said the Unity Dinner was the finale of a weeklong international event that encouraged unity between churches in Fort Worth.

The event is held in various places around the world annually, but it is making its return to Fort Worth.

The avian flu may be flocking to the United States, and officials are developing a plan to ensure the safety of the TCU community.TCU has taken action by researching and consulting with health officials...

Members of the staff will discuss the legitimacy of the war in Iraq today at the second Searchlight Symposium. The symposium, titled "What is a Just War? Are We in One?", will be conducted by a panel of professors including Mark Gilderhus, Eric Cox and Nadia Lahutsky.

All three have said they agree the war needs to be addressed at TCU.

"Kids are dying," said Gilderhus, chair of the history department. "This issue concerns every person on campus, students and faculty, Democrats and Republicans."

Barack Obama is one of the more promising presidential candidates to come along in the last few years.He's easy on the eyes, speaks well and claims to be a moderate. He sounds like a shoo-in. However, it's likely there's more hype than substance to this presidential hopeful.

Obama's voting record is very short and, from what we have seen, has been extremely liberal. An independent, liberal, political organization, Americans for Democratic Action, gives Obama a 95 percent liberal rating, which matches Sens. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.

Where there's smoke, there are fire trucks, police cars, maintenance workers, tennis facility staff and alarm contractors.Members of the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center staff saw smoke coming out of an air vent shortly after 10 a.m. Wednesday, said Craig Smith, tennis center director.

The alarm system signaled TCU Police, who dispatched vehicles to the scene and contacted the Fort Worth Fire Department, said DeAnn Jones of the TCU Police Department.

Though students may not notice a major difference when logging on to the my.tcu.edu portal Monday morning, there will be many unseen advantages to the newly upgraded system, an administrator said.New hardware...

The 10 Panhellenic sororities voted unanimously to invite three sororities to present their organizations in an effort to become the newest sorority on campus.The Panhellenic extension committee suggested Alpha Phi, Delta Zeta and Gamma Phi Beta as the most qualified sororities to join the university this fall.

"The committee spent three weeks reviewing in-depth applications," said James Parker, assistant dean of Campus Life.