When I read the Star-Telegram headline from a March 15 story, "Paddling in school is subject of House hearing," I was certain I had read it wrong. Paddling is illegal, I confidently decreed. But, to my shock, corporal punishment is still condoned in the Texas public education system.

I always thought scare-tactic disciplinary action such as paddling and knuckle-rapping were archaic, exaggerated things of the past. But the aforementioned article proved that assumption wholly incorrect.

More than a week has passed since the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, but TCU alumna Jessica Fleming, who lives in Japan, said there was still inadequate access to food and gasoline.

Fleming, who lives in Shiogama, a city about 10 miles east of the city of Sendai, which was 80 miles from the quake's epicenter, said that compared to the citizens who were homeless and those who were located within the 50-mile radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, she and her fiancé's family were doing "A-OK."

Student Government Association's vote to allocate $10,000 to support the "Compassion and Justice Consultation" April 28 through May 1 was more than appropriate 8212; it was a necessary step for SGA to...

Manpower. Human-power. Salesman. Salesperson. History. Herstory.

Genderless language now has also found its way into the 2011 translation of the New International Version Bible.

According to a March 17 story from the Associated Press, the translation changes phrases such as, "If anyone says, "I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar," 1 John 4:20 (NIV 1984) to "brother or sister."

How would you like to be the first to know when that boy or girl you have been pining for is now "single" 8212; or "it's complicated" or "in an open relationship?" You can be the first to know and the first to swoop in, comforting them 8212; or something like that.

Well, thanks to the new Facebook Breakup Notifier app, now you can. "You like someone. They're in a relationship. Be the first to know when they're out of it," boasts the tagline on the app's website.

In the days following the TCU Rose Bowl victory in which declamatory billboards from "little sisters of the poor" popped up across Columbus, Ohio, armchair moralists had to inquire: Is rubbing Horned Frog success in the face of doubters a Christian thing to do?

While hopefully in good fun, the billboards nonetheless caused outside observers to ask after the elusive middle word in the TCU acronym: Christian. The TCU student body ought to ask after the same thing. What is TCU's Christian identity, and why is it steadfastly important?

While some students spent spring break relaxing at home, a group of university students decided to spend their break being homeless. Each year the Center for Community Involvement and Service-Learning...

After the U.S. News & World Report put TCU in the Top 100 for Masters of Business Administration programs, O. Homer Erekson said he was proud of the work put in by all people involved in the school.

Erekson, the John V. Roach Dean at the Neeley School of Business, said, "Our continual upward performance in the U.S. News ranking of top graduate business schools is a testament to our MBA admissions staff to recruit the best students and our faculty to deliver an outstanding master's program in business."

After the recent political uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen put the spotlight back in the Middle East, students now have the opportunity to attend a panel to discuss and learn more about the region.

The departments of political science, history, international studies and the AddRan College of Liberal Arts worked to organize Wednesday's panel, which will include three political science professors with different areas of specialty.

Students will be able to ask questions and become more aware of the current issues in the global community.