This year I devoted the better part of my Spring Break to Austin's colossal South by Southwest music conference.In past spring breaks, I've returned home to spend time relaxing with family and friends. This year, however, my experience at SXSW left me feeling more exhausted than rested.

Held annually, SXSW features more than 1,400 bands over four consecutive nights at 60-plus venues, all within about six blocks of one another.

Ten minutes into English punkers Art Brut's set, I remembered why I voluntarily gave up my Spring Break to cover the South by Southwest music conference."Look at us! We formed a band!" declared Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos to a crowd huddled inside a tent in the Emo's parking lot .

In the midst of all the big names, it's easy to forget SXSW is really about uncovering that hidden gem of a band that played at the same time everyone else was fawning over the Arctic Monkeys or realizing their 16-year-old dream of seeing former-Smith Morrissey live.

Changing majors: Almost every college student considers it. Classes are getting too hard, too boring or maybe, in the process of exploring the different avenues required by the core curriculum, a student decides there is another course of study that is more interesting.

There's nothing wrong with changing majors. Who can really be sure of what to do at 18? The indecision around choosing a major can stretch the college experience from four years into five or even six.

All the questions of the past two days revolved around where junior guard Natasha Lacy had gone to, and what her Lady Frogs would be able to do without her against No. 3 seed Rutgers Tuesday night.Now...

I am writing in response to the article "Group pushes coffee campaign further" in the TCU Daily Skiff on March 8, 2006. Frogs for Fair Trade appreciates the recent coverage of our cause. However, we were upset to see that there were certain misconceptions about Fair Trade that the article treats as facts. Not only is Fair Trade not a brand, it will not destroy the Jazzman's brand or cause Jazzman's to go out of business.Fair trade is a certification put on products - coffee, tea, chocolate, cheese and bananas to name a few - by TransFair USA.

And just when we thought the Dallas Cowboys might be getting better. After the 2005 season's dynamite rookie draft, strong free-agent signings and signs of a decent run at the playoffs, America's team was poised to once again topple the NFC East and reclaim the championships of the glory days.

And then Jerry Jones pulled the biggest pistol he could find, loaded it, cocked it and shot himself right in the foot.

One California-based researcher said Tuesday he and his colleagues may be able to reproduce real-time brain activity in an artificial model the size of a human brain using just under 1 million computer...

After much debate, the House of Student Representatives voted against a resolution to support the implementation of a plus/minus grading system.If passed, the resolution would have given the House's endorsement...

Toward the end of every semester, students head to their academic advisers to decide which classes they should take or to discuss the directions their degree plans are taking.But what about the student...