The Flyin' Frogs have reached the culmination of the season's indoor competition: the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, AR.The track and field team will send six total participants, four of which...

Spring break is a time of year when many students enjoy being in the sun, a decision that poses many risks. According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer accounting for more than 50 percent of all cancers.

More specifically, the ACS reported that melanoma, which tends to occur at a younger age than most cancers, accounts for more than 4 percent of skin cancer cases and causes the majority of skin cancer deaths.

Heather Masterson, 33, a former TCU student, was diagnosed with melanoma when she was 24.

For many, Spring Break is a time to let loose and have some care-free fun. But some officials say what a student does in that one week of not-so-clean fun could have a lifetime of consequences. TCU Police sent an e-mail Thursday to all students giving guidelines for them to follow in order to avoid Spring Break dangers.

"Some students die," said Laura Crawley, assistant dean of campus life for health promotions. "Every year, there are a couple of students, nationally, who lose their lives."

When the women's golf team tees off this weekend at the Texas A&M "Mo" Morial Invitational, head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said its main focus will be believing in the strength of each player's game."We are going to focus on confidence and playing our own game," Ravaioli-Larkin said.

Junior Catherine Matranga also said confidence will be an important factor going into the tournament.

"We are working on having a lot of confidence, and it's there for most of us now," Matranga said. "We want to show A&M that we can win on their course."

A judge is ready to dismiss the case of a former TCU track athlete in his attempt to sue the university for a release to transfer to the University of Texas at Austin, the athlete's attorney said.Tom Phillips, an attorney for former TCU athlete Jacob Hernandez, who filed against the university for a release to transfer in May, said an order of dismissal in the case has been passed on to the judge but said he is not sure if the judge has signed it yet.

Phillips said he and J. Shelby Sharpe, another attorney for Hernandez, have exhausted all appeals on Hernandez's behalf.

The Horned Frogs tried to find some type of March magic to extend their season Tuesday against Colorado State in the opening round of the Mountain West Conference tournament, but this Cinderella wasn't meant to be, as TCU fell to the Rams 64-60. Despite a career-best, 28-point performance from senior guard Nile Murry, the Horned Frogs (6-25) couldn't find a way to overcome a pesky CSU squad (16-14) that featured four players in double figures. Senior forward Judson Stubbs added toughness by scoring 12 points and pulling down 6 rebounds before fouling out.

The volunteers of the Naturist Action Committee commend Skiff opinion editor Stephanie Weaver for her well-written and perceptive piece on naturism. The reasonableness of choosing to be comfortable with our own bodies would seem indisputable. Sadly, others are trying to criminalize the very skin into which you were born.Lawmakers have, of course, risen to the task. A local ordinance in Florida uses more than 300 words to describe the human buttocks in geometrical terms, so that enforcement officers may determine more precisely when it is properly covered.