To say that Sen. Barack Obama cannot be president based on a lack of experience is ludicrous.Let's get real. Yes, experience is important, but that is not all that matters. John F. Kennedy, 35th U.S. president,...

Scientists have never seen an electron, physicists have never laid eyes on a quark, but they know these things are real because they can look in their microscope and see things happening - things that could not happen if they didn't exist, a rabbi told guests at Ed Landreth Auditorium on Tuesday.

This same theory can also be applied to the existence of God, Rabbi Harold Kushner told guests at the 11th annual Gates of Chai Lectureship.

When I thought of Josh Howard, the first thing that used to come to my mind was a rising star with extreme potential to be one of the best basketball players in the NBA. Recently, however, Howard has been rapidly losing the respect I once had for him. Up until a few months ago I would have said that Howard was one of my favorite basketball players in the NBA, but he has shattered that image by pulling the last straw and insulting something so precious to most Americans: the national anthem.

A divided Student Government Association House of Representatives rejected a resolution Tuesday to ban tobacco smoking in the Campus Commons.The House voted 22 to 16 to defeat the resolution to prohibit...

The men's tennis team will debut Friday at the HEB Baylor Intercollegiate Invitational in Waco.

The focus for the team this season is to improve as a program, said head coach Dave Borelli.

"We have the toughest schedule we have had in seven or eight years. It is going to be a real challenge for us," Borelli said. "You can't get better unless you play the best. Beating a great team makes you a better player. Beating a bad team doesn't make you better."

Four days a week, 6,000 daily copies of the Skiff are brought to campus and distributed in buildings for students to pick up on the way to and from class. Tuesday, about a quarter of those Skiffs were...

Entire stacks of Tuesday's edition of the Daily Skiff were taken from several campus buildings and disposed of in trash cans and recycling bins around campus.

Student publications director Robert Bohler said at least 1,361 issues were recovered from Reed Hall, Sadler Hall, Smith Entrepreneurs Hall, Tandy Hall, Tucker Technology Center, Moudy Building South, Moudy Building North and the Mary Couts Burnett Library, and were put back by Skiff staff members out of a press run of 6,000 copies.

The rifle team hopes to take an even bigger step toward becoming a nationally prominent program in 2008, its coach said."These girls are capable of winning a national championship," coach Karen Monez said...

After the first of six nationwide open meetings with the U.S. Department of Education on Friday in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom regarding the recently enacted Higher Education Opportunity Act, many college officials are hoping that the new legislation will not come with too high of a price tag."This bill is going to add enormously to our costs," Chancellor Victor Boschini said. "The burden of the new reporting requirements alone is mind-boggling."

About 75 percent of college students have been exposed to Human papillomavirus, an expert said Saturday at the Smart Women Discussion on Women's Cancer Prevention.

Dr. Mark Messing, chief of obstetrics and gynecology for Harris Methodist HEB hospital, said HPV, a sexually transmitted disease, can be prevented by a vaccine called Gardasil, which is administered before a person becomes sexually active. According to the Food and Drug Addministration, Gardasil can be administered to women and girls ages 13 to 26.