Student seeking job opportunities in the present are looking to the past. For the first time in 15 years, openings for history professor positions in 2004-2005 exceeded the number of doctorate degrees awarded, according to Perspectives, the American Historical Association magazine.

The increase in available jobs is a result of the baby-boomer generation that created the need for more classrooms and teachers in the 1950s and 1960s, said Ken Stevens, the history department chairman.

Questions concerning relationships and the opposite sex will be answered by a panel of students today at 5 p.m. in The Main during the "She Says, He Says" event.Yvonne Giovanis, assistant director of the...

Student Government Association members are developing a revised plan to implement a campuswide safe-rides program after university officials rejected its initial idea because of liability reasons, said an SGA representative.SGA Treasurer Brian Andrew said that Student Development Services and Campus Life said a safe-rides program, which would provide transportation to students in an effort to curb drunken driving, is simply not feasible at TCU because students cannot be responsible for driving other students.

Departments at TCU are stuck between a rock and a hard place.Recently, the Schieffer School of Journalism wanted to raise requirements for its minors to have a 2.5 GPA because the 30 percent increase in journalism students has caused enrollment to exceed the number of classes and teachers available. Since the school was denied permission, it has resorted to suspending all minors.

And "resort" is the correct word usage here - the school would lose its accreditation if it increased class sizes of certain courses.

Since I joined Frogs for Fair Trade at the beginning of last semester, I have been asked the same question concerning my hats, stickers, T-shirts and temporary tattoos: "What is fair trade?"Fair Trade...

Undercover police surveillance may have paid off Monday night after a man in possession of burglary tools was chased from the Coliseum parking lot and arrested, TCU Police said.David Lee Sherman, 20, was arrested on suspicion of evading arrest and/or detention and possession of a controlled substance, said TCU Police Chief Steven McGee.

TCU Detective Vicki Lawson, who was working undercover Monday night, said she observed a white Ford Explorer without a TCU parking permit enter the Coliseum lot around 8:20 p.m.

John Parker, a junior entrepreneurial management and finance major posed some excellent questions of TCU in his letter printed Feb. 10. I'm not an official voice for the university, but I can shed some light on a few of the issues he raised."I am very supportive of all the initiatives the university is taking to enhance the value and quality of education, but I am not benefiting from any of it - so why am I having to pay for it?" Parker said.

Students will have the chance to meet and interview with several companies today in the University Recreation Center when Career Services hosts this semester's Career Expo.Companies ranging from Lockheed...