The Iron Skillet will be on the line again Saturday as the Frogs travel to Dallas to take on the SMU Mustangs at Gerald J. Ford Stadium.The Frogs are 3-0 entering the showdown after last week's rainy win...

The university will host the first of six nationwide open meetings with the U.S. Department of Education to discuss the recently enacted Higher Education Opportunity Act, also known as the College Opportunity and Affordability Act, university officials said.

The meeting is scheduled to be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom and is free and open to the public. Individuals who wish to address the panel may begin signing up at 8 a.m.

"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.

It is disheartening to read editorials like the one I read in the Sept. 9 edition of the Skiff. The author, who suggests that Gov. Sarah Palin is "not the correct choice to win (Hillary) Clinton supporters," is so misguided. What is most disturbing about her article is her comment in the third paragraph that "Clinton voters were typically older women who support equal rights and opportunities for their gender." She then adds, or at least infers, that because Palin does not support abortion, she does not support equal rights.

Whenever someone asks me about my daily commute to TCU, they inevitably ask me first about the traffic, and I always tell them it's not bad. But then comes the second question, "How about the parking?"...

Every time I look at the new University Union, I cannot help but feel a small part of my TCU experience has been robbed from me. With a $49.3 million price tag, the Brown-Lupton University Union was finally finished Aug. 18, ushering in a new era of students paying an average of $8 for a meal and getting lost in the process. It has replaced the Brown-Lupton Student Center, a building most sophomores and above could appreciate.

We have all gone the extra mile when it comes to studying for a test, finishing those last repetitions in the gym or perhaps cooking dinner for a special person in our life.Last week, it occurred to me...

If the Student Government Association wants to improve support among students, it has to pass the bill allowing student organizations to support candidates.

There doesn't seem to be a reason for SGA to not allow this bill to pass.

The worst that can happen is students will become more knowledgeable about the candidates and can decide to support them. Isn't that what all politicians, no matter how powerful, want?

A TCU alumnus returned to campus Wednesday as part of the university's celebration of Constitution Day.

Jeffrey Richard, president and chief executive officer of the Austin Area Urban League, said he geared his speech, "Racism and the Constitution: Then and Now," toward being a reflection on how far our country has come and how far it may have yet to go.

Richard earned a Bachelor of Science in political science and economics at TCU and a master's degree in urban economic development from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Milton Daniel Hall will soon receive new plumbing, heating and air conditioning in every room as part of a $10 million renovation at the end of the 2008-2009 school year, a university official said.

Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the hall will be gutted and rebuilt from the inside out. Student input was considered in the design of the hall's renovations, which will require closing the dorm for a year, said Milton Daniel Hall Director Christopher Sewalish.