"It's a long shot any way you go in the music business," Mike Vosters says. "Everytime I hear about a concert I get this twinge inside telling me to get involved." Vosters, a sophomore marketing major, spent years playing the alto saxophone before college but just considered the business side of the music industry as a possible career path within the last year. He said his biggest regret when he started at TCU was his lack of involvement in the music world.

Buried last week underneath actual news, such as an approaching hurricane and a certain vice presidential nominee's first big interview, was this gem: Lance Armstrong is coming out of retirement for 2009.

That's right. The seven-time Tour de France winner announced last Tuesday that he's going to compete in several races after three years away, and Armstrong hopes to win his sport's most prestigious title for the eighth time. Armstrong said he's coming out of retirement to increase cancer awareness - no doubt a noble act.

TCU may be favored by more than three touchdowns in this upcoming DFW Duel, but all of the pressure to win is still on the Horned Frogs.The Mustangs have absolutely nothing to lose. They have already lost...

Gender imbalances on college campuses may contribute to a culture of sexual promiscuity, two journalists said.

Journalists Richard Whitmire and Laura Sessions Stepp interviewed college students and found hooking up as the preferred form of relationship on campuses with a gender imbalance.

"I've received several hundred e-mails from campuses all over the country saying that hooking up is the main way students relate to each other," Stepp said.

After a failed first attempt at launching a sports broadcasting program, officials in the radio-TV-film department are trying again.

David Whillock, dean of the College of Communication, said that he gave a charge to Chuck LaMendola, a radio-TV-film professor currently on sabbatical this semester, to have sports broadcasting on the books as a major by fall 2009. Whillock said most of the classes needed to create a sports broadcasting major are already in the course catalog.

Lance Armstrong recently confirmed rumors that he will be returning to professional cycling. The internationally famous cyclist will seek his eighth Tour de France title primarily in an effort to actively spread cancer awareness. Armstrong plans to discuss his cycling program Sept. 24 in New York City at the Clinton Global Initiative. Being the icon that he is, who better to fight a global epidemic than a professional athlete doing what he does best?

Over this past summer, Chancellor Victor Boshini signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment joining the 578 (to date and growing) other universities and colleges to sign the pledge to be more environmentally savvy. But what does this really mean?

The agreement acknowledges the human effects of global warming and vows to make significant differences for TCU's academic community, specifically to reduce green house gases by 80 percent before 2050.

Three cancer specialists will provide information to women on how to reduce their risk for developing cancer Saturday when the university hosts its first Smart Women: Discussions on Women's Cancer Prevention seminar.

With Gynecological Cancer Awareness Month in September and Breast Cancer Month in October, the event will be held annually in September and will focus on various forms of cancer, said Suzy Lockwood, associate professor and director of the TCU center for Oncology Research and Education.