With the new year in full swing, many orders of business fall upon our shoulders. Aside from resolutions we may not keep and weather predictions from a groundhog, the heaviest of those orders are high-fashion handbags.A fashion accessory trend that began with designer labels and recognizable patterns has snowballed into a larger-than-life craze. Handbags that used to designate an extreme awareness of fashion, such as Dooney & Bourke and Coach, are now worn by a large number of women.

One thing worse than getting a bad grade in a class is getting that bad grade when you don't think you deserved it.Addressing that discrepancy between whether a student's perceived academic performance in a class and the actual letter grade he or she received are one in the same has been an issue in a recent discussion topic for the Undergraduate Council.

Many advances in modern medicine are pushing ethical and moral boundaries farther than ever before. According to an ABC article, "Embryo Bank Churns Out Designer Babies," infertile parents now have the...

The Abraham Center of Life in San Antonio is fueling a debate on the ethical issues surrounding the "design" of babies for would-be parents seeking a child when unable to do so naturally, according to ABC News. The center allows parents to choose the physical traits and even personality of the donors, which means if a client wants a brown-haired, green-eyed female child, they can receive just that.

Take one part "Boyz N the Hood" and two parts "Kids," and you get "Alpha Dog," a slightly atypical look at an increasingly overdone plot: disillusioned youth.Posing as a partial documentary, "Dog" follows...

When she came to TCU, Laura Barbee was uncertain how long her stay would be.Dealing with her father's recent death, Barbee and her family thought she may need to take some time off from school. This all changed when she received the Nordan Fine Arts Award Scholarship.

This weekend, TCU dancers will compete once again for the Nordan Award which, if they win, could give them $8,000 to $10,000 per year toward their TCU educations.

The award was established by Lester Nordan and his wife in 1965. Nordan received an honorary law degree from TCU in 1964.

The romance drama "Flannel Pajamas," a nominee for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, is an indie film depicting a realistic view of relationships in today's society.This film explores...

Soon, upperclassmen will be able to participate in a new on-campus housing program that will group them with students of similar interests.TCU Residential Services will launch the "Living Learning Communities" program February in the dorms.

The program will allow students to select an interest they share with other students and group them in the same wing of their residence hall.

The Democratic Congress is in the throes of finishing up its "100-hour" legislation, which ended up taking almost two weeks, or 336 hours. It would seem that the Democrats, despite taking an entire day off for the BCS Championship Bowl, are finally in a position to take a stand against the Bush administration.

And so, one would expect that in the midst of Bush's increase of more than 20,000 troops to Iraq, the Democrats would be on fire with opposition.