The TCU swimming and diving team looks to put a stamp on a solid first season in the Mountain West Conference when the it travels to Oklahoma City today for the conference championships.The MWC has shown more depth and dedication regarding its swimming programs than TCU's previous conference, Conference USA, forcing the Horned Frogs to be in top form at every meet. The new conference also provides a chance for the men's team to compete in a championship meet, an opportunity it was denied in C-USA as the end-of-season meet was considered an invitational, head coach Richard Sybesma said.

I hadn't written a single word of my seven-page paper on the night I finally gave in to Facebook. Even worse, I had exhausted every last one of my normal procrastination resources.I had already picked up my room, paced around my house, watched a couple episodes of "Sex & the City" on DVD, baked a cake and scrubbed the bathroom sink with an old toothbrush. I whined until my roommates told me to go away. I sat on my bed and thought defamatory things about my professor.

Most 14-year-olds aren't exactly wrestling with life's more important decisions. Their big decisions usually involve whom they should sit by at lunch, whom to ask to a school dance or how to stretch that...

At TCU, students are flung into the whirlwind of Greek "rush" before they know what hit them. The noun rush, as defined by means "the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner."

Curiously, "rush" is also a term used by many to describe sorority and fraternity recruitment. Coincidence?

Recruitment for Greek organizations begins even before classes do, taking precedence over academics and denying students the opportunity to experience TCU from outside the Greek lens.

I can't stand Oprah Winfrey.Now, mind you, this is a very risky thing to say, as Oprah commands a fully deployable battalion of soccer moms who have a lot more pent-up rage lurking beneath those smug sunglasses and turtleneck sweaters than anyone can even begin to imagine.

The reason why I can't stand Oprah has nothing to do with her popular talk show, or the heartwarming human-interest episodes or her "favorite things" (maybe a little). No, my problem with Oprah is based on her mass brainwashing of the American people.

The Horned Frogs (4-3) finished their weekend tournament in Edinburgh with a 2-1 record, capped off by a no-hitter from junior Brad Furnish in TCU's 7-inning victory Sunday against Stephen F. Austin (2-8). Furnish's 13-strikeout performance was a career best and marked the eighth no-hitter in TCU history. The cold bats that plagued the Frogs in their Feb. 14 home loss to Texas State seemed a distant memory over the weekend, as TCU managed more than 15 hits in two of its three games. The lone loss of the tournament came courtesy of No.

While heavy machinery rips up a quarter mile of concrete between Waits and McCart avenues, the effect on businesses has been mixed.The $3.03 million reworking of Berry Street, which began a month ago and is expected to last a total of 18 months, calls for tree-lined sidewalks, a wider median and parallel parking spaces in either direction, said Fort Worth City Council member Wendy Davis.