The high winds were not the only thing that blasted through Fort Worth last night. The No. 11 TCU baseball team returned to town following a series of road games Tuesday night to open a five-game stretch...

The Horned Frogs are now 18-5 with an 11-1 record at home this season. After a dominating win Tuesday against UT-Arlington the Frogs aim to continue their five-game home stretch. Tonight, the Horned Frogs are set to host a Mountain West Conference rival, San Diego State. TCU baseball will continue its stretch of home games with a three-game weekend series against the Aztecs. The first pitch for the opener against San Diego State will be at 6:30 p.m. at Lupton Stadium. If you want to catch all the action, you can follow live on The Mtn. or listen to KTCU FM 88.7 The Choice.

Following increased publicity during the past football season, a contest was created to recognize artistic creativity with student videos highlighting Horned Frog football, an athletics marketing representative said.

To enter the TCU Student Football Video Contest, students must submit a video that demonstrates their school pride, said Julie May, assistant director of athletics marketing.

"We just wanted to add a student element to the spring football game and get students excited for football again," May said.

The Campus Commons was awash in red, white, green and Frank Sinatra tunes Tuesday night during Froggo Italiano, the fifth annual Frog Aides spring project.

The group put on Froggo Italiano as the grand finale to a year of learning about leadership and planning, said Erik Peters, a freshman political science major and Frog Aides member.

Peters said planning for the event began in January. After discussing several ideas, Frog Aides team members chose an Italian night-on-the-town theme, and Froggo Italiano grew from there.

Online polls will open at 12:01 Thursday morning for students to vote on an increase in the student body fee from $24 to $45 per semester.

If passed, the vote will allow the Student Government Association president and vice president to submit the increase to the university Board of Trustees for approval April 8. If the increase receives the board's approval, SGA members will put the proposed budget into effect for the 2010-2011 school year, Student Body President Marlon Figueroa said.

Pi Day, a program sponsored by SAE International and the TCU engineering department. The event also started with pizza eating contests and ended with students pieing their professors in the face.

With a 6-4 record and an undefeated clip in its division of the Lone Star Alliance Conference, the TCU men's club lacrosse team is gearing up to face its crosstown rival Southern Methodist University...

Proud Horned Frog football fans should take advantage of the new video contest sponsored by the athletics department. The contest allows students to show their appreciation for and pride in the Horned Frogs by highlighting the team's achievements from the 2009 season with videos and photos. The winning video will be featured at the 2010 season opener against Oregon State on Sept. 4 at Cowboys Stadium.

Health profession schools came to the university for DFW Swing to talk with students about what each of their schools had to offer on Tuesday in the recreation center.

Sex abuse scandals have once again engulfed the Catholic Church and raised questions about its policies on celibacy and the proper handling of priests and others who commit the abuses. What's stunning with this new round of allegations is its reach, both globally and administratively. Abuses have been reported throughout Europe in Ireland, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands. The Irish abuses became public after a government inquiry known as the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse released the findings from its nine-year investigation.

As of March 2010, the university endowment is worth $1.1 billion, a value that is close to the peak endowment worth of $1.25 billion, a university official said.Jim R. Hille, chief investment office for...

Student athletes earned the highest cumulative GPA ever reported for the university's student athletes at the end of the fall semester, a university official said.

Chris Uchacz, director of Athletic Academic Services, said student athletes earned a 2.975 cumulative GPA in the fall 2009 semester. In addition, 36 TCU athletes were named to the fall 2009 Academic All-Mountain West Conference team.

The Mountain West Conference named 384 student athletes to the fall 2009 Academic All-Mountain West Conference team, according to a conference press release.