Q: What got you into swimming in the first place?A: I started swimming because one of my friend's mom had decided that she was going to start him in summer league swimming. So, I kind of just followed suit, and I ended up staying in it longer than he did.

Q: When did you start swimming?

A: I was eight when I started swimming in the summers. It led me into eventually starting high school swimming. When I finished my freshman year, I started swimming club, which is a year-round deal.

Q: What is it like to swim for TCU?

Do you ever read something or see something that just breaks your heart? For some people, it's an animal without a home; for others it is someone sitting by themselves for lunch.My heart breaks for the aforementioned but also for the rape, murder and destruction in Darfur, Sudan.

When the Holocaust was over, the world cried out, "Never again!" We have backed down from our promise.

Starting the tournament with a win Friday, the Horned Frogs volleyball team made school history during one match and broke their winning streak in the next at the Nike/LaQuinta Invitational Saturday.After the Frogs beat Centenary College of Louisiana in three games at the University Recreation Center, it held the record for the best start in school history at 10-1, beating the previous record of 9-1. The scores for the match were: 30-18, 30-28, and 30-19.

Even after a degenerative vision disease left her legally blind, the first female editor in chief of the TCU Daily Skiff never stopped being interested in the news or in life, her daughter said Monday...

As I enter my fourth week at TCU, I still can't help but be amazed by this place. Good friends, interesting professors and an abundance of school spirit leave no doubt in my mind that I made the right selection in choosing this university.I also love all of the pretty girls around here, and I thank the good Lord every night for blessing my otherwise mundane existence with such splendor.

The anthropology program, which lost three of its five faculty members within the past six months, is now looking for a full-time faculty member as part of its effort to revise the program. The three faculty members left under different conditions and interviews for a new faculty member, who would start next fall, will begin in the spring, said Miguel Leatham, an assistant professor of anthropology.

"Three people departing within a span of a year was quite a shock," Leatham said.

The Horned Frogs volleyball team is 9-1 with a defeat over Davidson College Friday night matching the record of their best start in school history.It was the second time in a row the Frogs took five games to win.

The Frogs and the Wildcats had tight flip-flopped wins with scores of: 30-17, 24-30, 30-23, 25-30, and 15-8.

Prentice Lewis, the head volleyball coach, said the team did a lot well.

"It doesn't matter if we do it in three or if we do it in five," Lewis said. "I'm very happy in general how my team is doing."

Almost everyone has, at one point in their lives, experienced that feeling of being stuck in the middle of nowhere without being able to do anything about it.Now, imagine living in a town without a hospital, restaurant, movie theater or even a bar, and you'll start to form an accurate mental picture of what Covington, Texas is all about.

Shopping at a gas station, joining the Future Farmers of America and having no fast-food restaurants around is all part of growing up in this small town, which is about 45 miles south of Fort Worth.