For two and a half years, the only men's soccer TCU has seen has been through pick-up games, clubs or intramurals.It's time for this to change.

Soccer is one of the fastest growing sports in the nation. Since its inception in 1996, Major League Soccer has grown to include 12 teams in two conferences. In August, the Metroplex's own FC Dallas changed venues to a brand-new stadium in Frisco. The team's popularity is growing, boasting attendance of 11,000 to 15,000 at home games.

TCU is in the hole to the tune of $50 million - not the university, but the student body.Student loans went from helpful tools to necessity as tuition skyrocketed across the country.

It is dangerous to build up a great deal of debt in college, but what are students to do if that debt is the only way to get into college in the first place?

As nice as it would be to have someone step in and make this debt go away and ensure education for anyone who wants it, a government with a rising debt of its own would have a hard time finding the funds.

England's highest-ranking education official told a classroom of education majors Tuesday they need to have an enthusiasm for reading in order to imbed a love of literature in their students."Teachers must be interested in reading in order to pass that enthusiasm on," said David Bell, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England.

Bell is a friend of Samuel Deitz, the dean of the School of Education, and used it as an opportunity to come speak at TCU.

Bell spoke to a class of seven women who are all interested in how to teach reading to children.

No more tickets are available for Wednesday's on-campus appearance of actor Ben Stein, said event coordinators. The event, which is free, is open to the public with reservations, said Mark Murtagh, coordinator of the Fogelson Honors Forum. However, reservations are no longer being taken because the venue is full, said Murtagh, a senior political science major.

The eighth annual Fogelson Honors Forum is sponsored by the TCU Honors Program, Murtagh said. Each year, the Honors Program brings a speaker who represents modern American culture to campus, he said.

For one student from Dillard University, the Hurricane Katrina evacuation was far from perfect, raising questions about how TCU would react in a similar crisis.For Cecile Mitchell, a sophomore biology...

Tonight, North America will regain its fourth sport, but not without some major changes to the game and promotions to attract fans.After a yearlong work stoppage, the National Hockey League is returning to the sports scene, and will have to deal with what Major League Baseball faced after its season-ending 1994 strike: an apathetic fan base.

The strike, which wiped out all 1,230 regular season games last year, has caused many problems for the sport of hockey and its fans.

After a decade on the music scene, Sponge's latest release, "The Man," represents a shift from radio-friendly hard rock to fan-pleasing live anthems."The Man," released on Dallas-based Idol Records, carries many of the same glam-rock anthemic hooks of its older material that drew comparisons to Grunge-era bands like Spacehog and Alice in Chains. Under many of the tunes, however, there is an added influence of detuned nu-metal groups.