The athletics department, feeling the pressure of campus-wide budget cuts, is making adjustments with frugality in mind. But a university official said the budget cuts won't affect the performance of the department.

Jack Hesselbrock, associate athletics director for internal relations, said the athletics department will experience the budget cuts starting in June as part of a campus-wide effort to slash 8 percent from the budget. The department is working on minimizing the effects on its teams, Hesselbrock said.

Some of us are living in denial, even in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.Thankfully though, not everyone continues to live this way, as Texas Sens. Joe Driver and Jeff Wentworth are drafting legislation...

Being that we spend so much time on a large campus, we get a certain sinking feeling in the pit of our stomachs when violence erupts at another school.

Even though it seems an unlikely event, and God forbid that anything like that would ever happen here, it is a good idea to consider at least once what steps could be taken to protect oneself during an attack.

Proposed solutions in the works in the Texas Legislature are a couple bills that would allow students who are licensed gun owners to carry concealed weapons on campus for their protection.

It is a relief that Dining Services is implementing changes to the way it approaches food safety issues. But the fact remains that the peanut butter cracker incident, in which potentially tainted crackers...

Parlez-vous francais? If so, you are in luck because a new French honor society is on campus this semester.Candace Ruocco, a senior French and political science major and president of Pi Delta Phi, the...

The idea of building relationships and challenging social norms was reiterated at the African-American Firsts Dinner on Wednesday night at the Kelly Alumni Center.

Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services hosted the dinner, which honored five black TCU pioneers for their individual accomplishments, and celebrated Black History Month.

Ronald Hurdle, who was the university's first black cheerleader, said he didn't realize he was paving the way for future students at the time.

As the sun set Wednesday night on the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center, so did the men's tennis team's hopes for a victory against a state rival.

The No. 34-ranked tennis squad lost its first home match of the season to No. 14 Texas A&M University, 4-3. The men's record now stands at 1-4 for spring dual matches. The road won't get any easier, as the team will play each of their next seven matches against teams with national rankings of No. 56 or better, including five top-26 squads.

Combine gives young talent chance to shine

The NFL Scouting Combine kicked off yesterday in Indianapolis. The annual event is basically a giant job fair for prospective college athletes who have intentions of entering the pro ranks when the NFL Draft rolls around April 25-26.

The draft prospects will run, jump, catch and throw in front of scouts, coaches and general managers of every team in the league. They'll even test the players' intelligence.

Head coach Jim Christian told junior forward Zvonko Buljan to pick up the effort for Wednesday night's game against the Air Force Academy at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.

Message received.

The junior responded with a game-high 20 points, eight rebounds and five steals in a 62-50 win over the Falcons, snapping a six-game losing streak and putting a wide grin on the Croatian native's face.

"I think we had confidence today," he said. "We played together, and everybody was laughing and smiling and talking to each other."

Just four weeks ago, the men's basketball team was flying high. With a 13-6 record and a share of first place in the Mountain West Conference, everything seemed to be going the Horned Frogs' way.But things...

Americans are balking at a mother's choice to bring another eight lives into existence in addition to the six children she already had.

Yet so far this year, an estimated 5 million babies have been aborted around the world.

"All I've ever wanted was to be a mom," was the response of the mother of 14 children, Nadya Suleman, to the aggressive accusations of "The Today Show" anchor Ann Curry that Suleman has been quite "selfish."

Facebook aficionados around the world are well versed in the posts of 25 random things. Participants on Facebook list 25 things about their lives that friends might not know and tag 25 people so they can do the same. It's just another thing to do online when you're bored, feel silly or have an inkling that someone wants to know 25 random things about you.

Not everyone is taking the posts lightheartedly. A recent Time Magazine article titled "25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You" said the game is completely "stupid."