Joey Parr, a senior double majoring in radio-TV-film and political science, is in no rush to enter the workforce after his graduation in May. Parr said that through Teach for America he will instead teach elementary school students in the school with the second lowest performance in Louisiana.

"I'm doing Teach for America because it's primarily about other people," Parr said. "I want to help give passion and ambition to these students before I enter the workforce, and everything becomes mostly about me and my income."

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With one out in the top of the ninth, it seemed like the Horned Frogs were going to escape the rubber match against the San Diego State Aztecs with a 1-0 win. But three hits and two errors later they were suddenly behind.

The Aztecs were able to turn those this and miscues into two runs and earn a 2-1 victory Sunday at Lupton Stadium.

"It's tough for us right now to put a complete game together," head coach Jim Schlossnagle said. "We're finding ways to lose games. We've lost a lot of games like that this year."

The Horned Frogs baseball team plated five runs in the fifth to recover from a 4-1 deficit and win 8-5 at Lupton Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Two of the five runs came when catcher Bryan Holaday hammered the ball out, breaking a then 4-4 tie.

After being stymied in much of Friday's loss, TCU's offense got started early, scoring in the second off doubles from Bryan Holaday and Jason Coats. Coats collected three hits in the contest while Holaday had two. The Horned Frogs also got a Taylor Featherston single in the first and a double from Chris Ellington but failed to score.

As pop star Lady Gaga says in her song, just dance.

That was junior modern dance major Summer McGowan's goal as coordinator of her Project Junior Giveback program, Just Dance.

McGowan recently met with about 65 students at Oakhurst Elementary School in Fort Worth to teach first graders the art of movement through dance.

"It's creative movement; it's not actually a technical dance class," she said. "But it's something that just gets kids moving ... and introduces dance to them in a fun way."

Road Closed. Detour.

The sign on Sixth Street in downtown Austin was a clear indication that something was going on. The place was the epicenter of the South by Southwest music festival.

Sixth Street was a musical mecca with an estimated 1,900 bands during the five-day musical mayhem that started March 18. More than 400 bands played Saturday - some for the first time and others for the third or fourth - in the 87 designated venues throughout Sixth Street and the surrounding neighborhood.

After all the tough talk Gov. Rick Perry did regarding the great stimulus rejection of 2009, he had to reject something, but for goodness' sake - unemployment benefits?

Perry rejected the plan on the premise that it would create a bill for the state later on down the line because of what he would have you believe are completely unreasonable changes to the current unemployment criteria.

3:30 a.m. and Danny Meyer is already awake.

4 a.m. and he's walking out the door of his two-story log cabin.

5 a.m. and he's headed southeast on U.S. 287 in his yellow Volkswagen Beetle.

6 a.m. and Meyer pulls into his parking spot on campus, 101 miles from the front gate of his ranch.

As supervising groundskeeper for the east side of campus, Meyer leaves his country home in Buffalo Springs, where ranch land is rolled out like a lumpy blanket, and enters the concrete jungle that is Fort Worth.

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Billboards across town promote the university as being "ahead of the curve." It is time to apply that attitude to the campus communications system.

Some universities are eliminating landlines in dormitories to cut costs. University officials have asked students, faculty and staff to find ways to tighten the belt. What better way to save money than to eliminate landlines in dorm rooms and campus apartments, where they have become negligible?

The Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star program has ranked the Dallas-Fort Worth area fifth in the nation of cities with the highest number of energy efficient commercial buildings in 2008.

Although no buildings on campus were classified as commercial buildings, the university strives to stay on the leading edge of energy efficiency, a physical plant official said.

George Bates, physical plant manager of electrical systems, said the university has saved a lot of money over the past 10 years by keeping up with new developments in energy efficiency.