College instructors are discovering more ways to catch cheaters, and students are finding more and elaborate ways to cheat. But the cheaters are just hurting themselves and those around them.People come...

TCU's equestrian team had their first regular-season competition Saturday at Oklahoma State, and it was inexperience that plagued the first-year team in their loss to the Cowgirls, said head coach Gary Reynolds. The Frogs fell 15-1 to the OSU riders, but for the new team, they put up a good fight, coming in a very close second in several events.

In horsemanship, TCU's Allie Royder fell short by one point with a 71.5 score, falling to OSU's Sam Davidson who received a score of 72.5.

Two and a half weeks ago, the Horned Frogs were riding high - leading the nation in consecutive wins and looking to dominate the competition by winning their second Mountain West Conference championship...

There is one thing I don't like about college other than the atrocious amount of parking tickets I get: The infuriating issues that I encounter in my classes. Some days I would rather stay in bed and pretend that while I slept, no one was being taken advantage of, no one was being forced from his or her home or injustice did not occur. But I go to class or I read the paper and my utopia becomes riddled with the bullets of reality.

The Frogs (5-6-2) enter the final third of their season with five conference matches left to play with their record hovering at the .500 mark.Mountain West Conference play began last week with a pair of matches against the BYU Cougars (10-2-1) and the New Mexico Lobos (6-4-3), both held at TCU.

TCU was held scoreless by No. 15 BYU in a 2-0 loss Thursday and the Horned Frogs fought to a 0-0 double-overtime draw against New Mexico, Sunday.

I am a huge sports fan, and I always try to keep a keen eye on the game. But at the last home football game against BYU, I wasn't able to cheer the Horned Frogs out of a deficit, because I couldn't take my eye off of what was going on next to me - people smoking.The smoking continued as I expected a security officer to come stop the man who - from what I could see - didn't even have to be in the disabled section where I was sitting. After no one approached, I went back to the gate and questioned the security officer.

Last week, lunchtime commuters on Hulen Street witnessed a bizarre incident at Arlington Heights High School. Fort Worth police arrested 20 people, ordering them to the ground and handcuffed them in the school's back parking lot, according to a story in the Sept. 28 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The arrests are the result of the Police Department's stepped-up zero-tolerance policy to gangs and comes after a series of gang-related incidents on school campuses in the area.

Even if cool Texas weather hasn't arrived yet, Fall Break has, and students are looking forward to two additional days of doing absolutely nothing. But before you turn on, tune in and drop out, consider taking 20 minutes to make a lovely libation just right for the 95-degree afternoons that summer hasn't quite given up on.Sangria, a mix of fruit, wine and an added kick of booze, is a painless cocktail for a lazy day.

After five years, alternative rock outfit Sparklehorse has released its latest album "Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain."With spaced-out vocals and a catchy pop style, Sparklehorse seamlessly blends all the elements of rock 'n' roll to craft its sound.

Singer/songwriter Mark Linkous has undergone many ups and downs during the band's 10-year career, and the band's latest album communicates his thoughts and emotions better than previous releases.

In reading the 2007 budget for the Student Government Association, one has to question why SGA and Programming Council are spending so much money on events. Especially ones in which the majority of students both on and off campus are wholly unaware.

NACA National? Frog of the Week? Movie Night Series?

These are just a few of the SGA-sponsored campus events, which just less than $8,000 is poured into this semester.

Another $600 is spent on SGA parties and $4,250 on an unknown event called "Lunch Bunch."

If college students and Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission investigators have a mutual disdain for each other, it's because they only meet when their two worlds collide, a TABC agent told faculty and students Tuesday.TABC Agent David Welsh said he had hoped to clear the rift between students and TABC at a campus crime prevention event in the Student Center sponsored by TCU Police. But there were only nine people at the gathering.