Undergraduate students can now receive grants for projects supporting community service, thanks to a growing service-learning program at TCU.Mark Dunleavy, a junior physics major, received $500 this semester to fund a physics olympics program for local high schools.

The olympics, in its second year, is coordinated by TCU's Society of Physics Students and will expose high school students to experiments and presentations in the sciences.

At a bar in Kansas City, I ran into an ex-boyfriend who asked me if I was single. It made me sad to answer no - and not just because he's cute.Even though I'm currently in a relationship, more or less, in my last year of college, I have always been someone who has loved being single and free - and for good reason.

I barely have time for a boyfriend my senior year of college; it amazes me how people have made time for relationships their freshman year, a time of transition into an entirely different environment.

Much like a sherpa guides climbers up a mountain, an executive coach helps employees with leadership skills for the workplace. That was the idea authors Brenda Corbett and Judith Colemon had when they wrote "The Sherpa Guide: The Process-Driven Executive Coaching," said Deb Baker, director of executive development for Tandy Hall.

The authors of the book developed a course that teaches consultants, executives and human resource professionals how to become better leaders, Baker said.

Music-lovers braved the winter weather and ventured downtown to Fort Worth's Bass Performance Hall on Jan. 13 for an evening of music by the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.The performance was directed by...

"Progress" is the message the men's tennis head coach is preaching to his team heading into the Met Collegiate Indoor Invitational this weekend in Houston.Head coach Dave Borelli said he wants the team, which has a preseason national ranking of No. 36, according to the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, to put more of an emphasis on progress instead of just winning.

"Sometimes, winning doesn't come all the time, but those experiences will help you later down the line," Borelli said.

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...

Soon, 18 women will have the coveted parts in a play about their coveted parts.The women's studies department is holding auditions for "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday. There will be two performances on Feb. 9- - "V-Day" - that will raise money for awareness of violence against women.

"V-Day" is a global movement to end violence against women. The "V" stands for victory, valentine and vagina.

"The Vagina Monologues" performances serve as the center of an entire week of events known as "V-Week" that aims to raise awareness about sexual abuse.

The soap opera "Southern Comforts," created by TCU students, will be shown in its entirety by Tager TV, the campus cable system. Students can catch the show on channel 47 of on-campus televisions. Though an ending date has not been determined for the broadcast, all episodes of the first season are airing back-to-back continuously, said Deana Muirheid, manager of media production support services.

Muirheid said it is great to be able to showcase student-produced programming, such as "Southern Comforts," on the campus channels.

A change in Student Government Association's constitution may leave Programming Council scrambling for funds, but the group's directors are not discouraged yet. In years past, PC, one of the four branches that form SGA, has collected a fixed rate of 50 percent of the student government fee that appears on student tuition bills each semester, said Kristen Chapman, Programming Council chair.

With the passage of new SGA legislation, however, that sum may change, said Nate Arnold, SGA treasurer.

Oprah recently built a school called the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in a town called Henly-on-Klip, 40 miles outside Johannesburg, South Africa, according to Newsweek. Included in this school will be a yoga studio, beauty salon, indoor/outdoor theaters and large fireplaces in every building. There are also hand-picked china dishes, mattresses, uniforms and oversized closets, as well as plenty of tribal art and bright colors to decorate the walls. "These girls deserve to be surrounded by beauty, and beauty does inspire," Oprah said.

Oops! She did it again.Before the Christmas break, the Web site livejournal.com printed an article titled "She's Bringin' Slutty Back" referring to Britney Spears' wild, new lifestyle minus a husband, Kevin Federline. By slutty, the headline refers to photographs taken of Spears getting out of a car - photos of her private region.

The photographs reveal a drunk Spears with fellow bad girl Paris Hilton. They leave nothing to the imagination; you can even see the scar from her cesarean section from the birth of both of her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.