The Campus Commons was finally finished this semester with the opening of Scharbauer Hall. The new facilities make the heart of our campus look much better and give TCU the feel of a truly world-class...

Despite signs outside of the Brown-Lupton University Union signaling to people passing by that the university is one of 44 early voting locations in Tarrant County, not many people have stopped to vote at the location just outside of the 1873 Cafe & Sports Grill.

Rena Brown, lead clerk at the early voting center on campus, said voter turnout has been very low all over the city. She said the main attraction in this primary election is the race for governor, but even that has not drawn a crowd.

You are a 150-pound senior nearing graduation as an honors student from Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts High School. Your violin skills are good enough to have recently caught the ears of first lady Michelle Obama. As you're walking to your grandmother's house on a cold Monday night in January, your bottle of Mountain Dew bouncing back and forth in your coat pocket, things take a tragic turn.

Sound like a movie? Jordan Miles certainly wishes that's all it was.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said there is an integral connection between nature, the ecosystem, energy use and the economy in a speech for the Frost Foundation Lectureship Series for Global Issues.Kennedy illustrated...

The Horned Frogs will play the Oregon State Beavers at Cowboys Stadium on Sept. 4 during their 2010 football season, a university official said.

Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for football, said university officials met with Oregon State and Dallas officials Monday. Oregon State has already signed its contract, and TCU is currently reviewing its contract with the university's legal council, he said. The contract will address issues such as ticket allocation and expected attendance. Hesselbrock said the contract would be signed within the next couple of days.

A distinguished philosophy professor will share his views and challenge student and community member opinions with discussions about abortion and the existence of God tonight and Friday afternoon.

Michael Tooley, a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, said he hopes to encourage attendees to examine the arguments made by those on both sides of each argument and encourage debate based on logic. He said he wants to challenge students' and community members' views on abortion and what is good and evil.

A world-renowned expert on the background of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be on campus today to discuss the significance of the period in which the scrolls were written and the site in which they were discovered, a Brite Divinity School official said.

Jodi Magness, an endowed biblical archaeology professor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a presentation about the importance of the scrolls, a set of Old Testament manuscripts, and Qumran, their place of origin, said Nancy Ramsay, dean of the Brite Divinity School.

Environmental stewardship and preservation of natural habitats will likely be topics covered by visiting speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his keynote address for the Frost Foundation Lectureship Series for Global Issues presented by the Center for International Studies: TCU Abroad.

Jane Kucko, director for the Center For International Studies: TCU Abroad, wrote in an e-mail that the Frost Foundation Lectureship on Global Issues provides the university with the opportunity to invite speakers like Kennedy, adding that his topic has been a focus of the university.

Entering into its 14th season (195 episodes and a full-length Oscar nominated film), "South Park" has become the unequivocal national forum for unabated political cynicism and social commentary for just about anyone who isn't a member of the AARP.

Where other shows stop short, "South Park" will go. Its ability to spew real and formulated commentary on any subject or event is why it is the smartest show on television. AIDS is not off limits. Neither is pedophilia or the Catholic Church. Global warming? LOL.

Editor's note: This article was revised for accuracy at 5:58 p.m. Feb. 24.

In a sun-bright studio, surrounded by paintings saturated in vibrant colors, a lone artist stoops to pour acrylic paint into opaque blobs on a white canvas. Hours later, when the acrylic has dried, he dips his brush into oil paint and whooshes it across a canvas - the first abstract forms of an interpretive figure.

The process is a messy one, DJ Perera explained as his wide eyes, held inches away from the canvas, followed the brush as it traced a green line across the artwork.

Still in the lead for overall medals, the U.S. added another today in the men's nordic combined 4x5 km relay. Consisting of Brett Camerota, Todd Lodwick, Johnny Spillane and Bill Demong, the team brought home the silver. This is Spillane's second silver medal of the 2010 Winter Games.

The U.S. raked in another silver last night in the pairs ice dancing category in the free skate event. Meryl Davis and Charlie White scored a total of 215.74, putting them at No. 2 behind the Canadian team of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.