Want to paint the football field before a home game? If you have 17 five-gallon buckets of white paint and seven five-gallon buckets of purple paint, go for it.

This season, the football team is looking good, but the only thing looking better is the field.

Horticultural Supervisor David Yarbrough oversees the maintenance of the field and said he relishes every part of it.

"Having the players and coaches thank you for the work you do is the rewarding part of the job," Yarbrough said.

Freddy Krueger has terrorized audiences since the '80s. On Saturday night, Frogs' linebacker Robert Henson starred in Wyoming's nightmare at Amon G. Carter Stadium.The senior from Longview knocked Wyoming...

Well, it's election time and many organizations such as Rock the Vote and HeadCount are encouraging everyone, especially young people like many of you, to get out and vote. Many of these organizations make the implication that it's our civic duty as United States citizens to cast a ballot. Even celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Hayden Panettiere are taking time and encouraging young voters to get out and take part in this next election.

The Frogs will head to Charlottesville, Va., to take on the Virginia Cavaliers in the 2009 football season, said Jack Hesselbrock. associate athletics director for internal operations.He also said Texas...

Best-selling author Anita Shreve will be in Ed Landreth Auditorium tonight to talk about her new book, her old books and her journey from college student to successful author.

Shreve, who jokes in her biography about receiving so many rejection letters from magazine publishers in her early days that she could have rewallpapered her bathroom, spent time as a high school teacher in Boston, a journalist in Africa and an editor at several New York magazines before settling into life as a novelist.

I am writing in response to Bruno Bruelhart's satirical column, "Alerts a ploy to control minds" in Friday's Skiff. Many people I spoke with about his column were appalled that a student deemed it appropriate to comment on a topic as serious as campus safety lightly. I feel compelled to write on behalf of many people's opinion of this weak attempt at humor.

The writer called the university's alert system a "Big Brother-esque type of uniformity and obedience." I am curious if he truly understands the logic behind these alerts.

Yesenia Rojas is a senior at Paschal High School, a Mexican American and a hopeful first-generation college student.

Rojas, who wants to be a maternity nurse, said one of her concerns in choosing where to go to college is her ability to afford it.

A 2008 report tracking changes in Latino freshmen at four-year institutions since 1975 found that one in five Latino students expresses a major concern about their ability to finance college at the start of the school year.

This has been an amazing year for women in politics, but somehow we still seem unable to escape the urge to marginalize women based on their fashion sense and appearance.

Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin have shattered the glass ceiling and made something possible that would have seemed impossible just a few years ago.

They have stood strong on the issues and made meaningful contributions to the political debate that is so desperately needed in our country right now. So why is the media intent on focusing on how they look and what they wear?