Brite Divinity School should be commended for showing restraint during the economic downturn.

Brite President D. Newell Williams told the Skiff that the school is holding off on beginning construction of a new academic building because the school is still about $4 million short of its financial goal. The divinity school is not only budgeting for the building's construction but also looking ahead and planning maintenance.

The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference took place in December and ended in what many considered to be, if not an utter failure, a near disaster. Pressure from the European Union, the United States and China resulted in an inability to agree on a pact for limiting future carbon emissions. President Barack Obama's pleas to the Chinese Prime Minister resulted in a skimpy five-page document.

Director of Athletics Media Relations Mark Cohen said there has been no contact between Frogs Head Coach Gary Patterson and University of Tennessee officials seeking a new head football coach.

Cohen commented after ESPN Radio in Dallas on the Galloway & Company show speculated this afternoon on unconfirmed reports that University of Tennessee officials were "on the ground" in Fort Worth. Tennessee is searching for a head coach after Lane Kiffin resigned Tuesday to take the open coaching position at USC.

As Pete Carroll walks away from millions, the University of Southern California program and its support, the "Why?" is written on the wall.Since the Reggie Bush case took its first breath of fresh air...

Few things are so difficult that a group of people can prepare for weeks in the national spotlight, do everything in its power to achieve success and still only have a 50-50 chance of victory. College football bowl season is one of those things.

Despite the Fiesta Bowl's disappointing outcome, the university deserves huge credit for creating an incredible bowl experience for its students and fans. The effort the Athletics and Campus Life offices put forth regarding travel and event organization was exponentially better than last year for the Poinsettia Bowl.

After a convincing win against conference rival Utah, No. 22 TCU, now 12-3 for the season, is looking to defeat a 10-4 Wyoming in Laramie tonight. The Lady Frogs hope to extend their seven-game win streak, which marks the fourth longest in program history, with a victory over the Cowgirls.

"The biggest challenge is that they're a good basketball team," said associate head coach Brian Ostermann. "Any time you're playing a good team on their floor, you have to overcome the challenges."

The glory days of flying are now over. Long gone are the days of beautiful, cheery flight attendants and bright-eyed, young pilots who earned their stripes in World War II or any other military conflict. The flight attendant job has been relegated to older women who look like one of the members of ZZ Top without the awesome beard. Pilots have turned into exhausted, worn out older men who always regale us with the weather at our destination in the same, monotonous pilot tone.

Fox sponsored a viewing party at Union Grounds for the first episode of the new season of American Idol.

Fox contacted Student Affairs to see if TCU was having a watching party, then selected the university to air live during the show.

Fox provided prizes such as blankets, sweatshirts, iTunes cards and a poster signed by the show's cast.

Student affairs leaders Kennedy Stewart and Emily Hensley organized the event, complete with the American Idol Nintendo Wii game set up for viewers to play during commercial breaks.

After three weeks of holiday comfort food and home cooking, the first stop on my list after I got back to TCU was the campus Rec Center. I was looking forward to finally snagging a great parking space with almost no competition.

Unfortunately, once I arrived at the site, I was greeted, not by a practically empty parking lot, but by a fenced-off mound of dirt and gravel.

I was even more chagrined to learn that the lot wasn't just temporarily closed for paving: it was being replaced with a new administration building.

For the past few years, TCU has been proactive in building and remodeling infrastructure. This helps maintain a campus that current students can be proud of and prospective students can admire. However,...

Aspiring graduate students planning to take the Graduate Record Exam or GRE in 2011 might take a new, reformatted version of the test featuring a new scoring system and changes in test content.

The Education Testing Service, the nonprofit institution that administers the GRE, announced its plans to change the test at a December meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools in San Francisco, according to an article by The New York Times. More than 600,000 graduate school hopefuls take the GRE each year.