International student enrollment at TCU hit its highest numbers in 2007, which was followed by a national all-time high this year.The Institute of International Education's Open Doors 2008 report shows...

Everywhere I go, I hear how everyone is so ecstatic that Barack Obama will make their lives better. Oprah even went as far as to call him "The One." How could she not with all the promises he made to the American people?

According to Obama, he's going to make America energy independent, give everyone health care, cut taxes, bring peace, lower gas prices and, Lord knows how many other things. Let's think realistically for a second. Can we really expect all of this from one person?

Since Election Day, disappointed voters have made public expressions of their displeasure with both their feet and their wallets.Disgruntled Obama opponents? No, gay rights activists angered over the narrow...

Hundreds of students, faculty and staff at the University of Texas at Austin are protesting UT's policy to not extend employee benefits to same-sex couples.

UT is state-funded and therefore does not extend same-sex couples employee benefits because Texas state law prevents it. Several on-campus groups rallied against the university's exclusion of benefits for same-sex couples Nov. 12 outside the Texas Union Patio.

TCU, however, has offered benefits to homosexual couples since Jan. 1, 2005.

Although the amount of financial aid students receive probably won't change under the Obama administration, the application process they go through might, the director of scholarships and financial aid said.

Mike Scott, director of scholarships and financial aid, said he's for President-elect Barack Obama's plans to eliminate the FAFSA and replace it with a checkbox on families' tax forms, although there are still some procedural details that need to be worked out.

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for starting the first world movement to abolish poverty through micro-lending, a practice of giving small loans to the poor to help them financially support themselves.

Today, the Financial Management Association used his vision to create a microfinance committee of four to five students to provide financial assistance to the world's working poor.

The idea for the microfinance fund began from a class project, said Travis Gallatin, president of Financial Management Association.

A new core curriculum change has been presented to the Faculty Senate, but officials aren't confident that this modification will be accepted. The administration should seriously consider a campuswide language requirement and how it would enhance students' education. David Bedford, chair of the Faculty Senate Student Relations Committee, said he presented a six-hour foreign language requirement to the open forum. Bedford said he hopes the Senate will see the importance of having a foundation for a foreign language in the global community TCU promotes.

A Faculty Senate official is pushing for a six-hour foreign language requirement to be implemented into the core curriculum in hopes that the administration will take action in the future.

David Bedford, Faculty Senate Student Relations Committee chair and Spanish instructor, said he presented the issue to the Faculty Senate in the open forum so that the senators could start thinking about it, but he doesn't think there will be a foreign language requirement anytime soon.

With the release of Snow Patrol's fifth studio album, "A Hundred Million Suns," one can't help thinking the Northern Irish outfit has begun to melt.The melancholy, brooding lyrics and electric guitar found...

TCU athletics is funded by more than 120 sponsors, including American Airlines, GEICO, Gatorade and State Farm Insurance, according to the 2007-08 Athletics Annual Report. But how does a company get to...