A recent voter registration incident at Virginia Tech has prompted concern among students that registering using their university addresses might cost them their financial aid.

TCU students need not worry about voting penalizations, because voter registration is not used to determine residency in consideration for federal financial aid, said Michael Scott, director of scholarships and student financial aid.

"It's a nonissue," Scott said.

But at Virginia Tech, students were led to believe it was an issue.

Men's Soccer

TCU's men's club soccer team will head to Nacogdoches to take on Stephen F. Austin University at 3:00 p.m. Saturday. It will be the club's first game of the season.

Kyle Connor, the team's president, said the club is excited about getting the season started.

"We played Stephen F. Austin pretty competitively last year but tied them both times," Connor said. "I think we can beat them this time around."

The team has a lot of new talent and should be more competitive than ever, Connor said.

Quarterbacks

TCU: Andy Dalton continues to improve and look more comfortable in the pocket while taking care of the ball and not being afraid to pull the ball down and run. Dalton threw for 145 yards last week and rushed for 91.

SMU: True freshman Bo Levi Mitchell is completing 59.6 percent of his passes and has 769 yards passing with eight touchdowns. Coach June Jones recently put his confidence in the quarterback, saying he would learn more on the field than on the sideline.

Advantage: TCU

Runningbacks

After losing its first match of the season Sunday to the Oklahoma Sooners, the volleyball team returned to its winning ways by defeating the New Mexico Lobos (8-2, 0-1), but it took all five sets to do so.

The Horned Frogs (10-1, 1-0) started off strong in the first two sets (25-16, 25-22), but lost the next two (18-25, 23-25), forcing a winner-take-all fifth set to 15.

The volleyball team came out in the fifth set with the same intensity it started with, winning the final game 15-7.

When reading the news story "Plus/minus system not widespread on campus," I couldn't help but make some observations. The system, in essence, reverts to a standard grading system some colleges have implemented. Although there isn't a consensus regarding whether TCU should use the plus/minus system, I think it would be appropriate to render a final decision on whether the system will be used. Many people believe using a plus/minus system will strengthen the academic reputation, however, there are other factors that comprise academic reputation besides a plus/minus system.

The Student Government Association's House of Student Representatives passed four new bills in its meeting Tuesday night, all of them written by the Elections & Regulations Committee.

The first bill discussed was "A Bill to Modify Campaign Rules." The bill clarified the definition of "campaigning" within the Student Body Code, also giving the finite starting and ending dates of when a campaign can be run, as well as runoff procedure. The bill passed unanimously.

Christopher Watts had no plans to enter into the field of speech-language pathology before he went to school at the University of South Alabama. In fact, the main reason he took a course on the subject was because his girlfriend was also taking it.

"I just kind of fell into it," Watts said about the beginning of his interest in the field.

Now, he is the new chair of the Harris College of Nursing and Health Science's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (COSD). Watts also heads the Miller Speech and Hearing Clinic on campus.

The Scholarships and Financial Aid Committee is expecting a decrease in formal appeals for scholarship renewal this year because of its decision to change the requirement for renewal from completion of 27 hours per year to 24, a Financial Aid official said.

Michael Scott, director of scholarships and financial aid, said all TCU academic scholarships require a 3.0 GPA at the end of freshman year and a 3.25 GPA for each consecutive year, but what most students seemed to overlook was the 27-hour requirement of past years.

A new town home development close to campus will likely further the university's goal of becoming a "residential campus," a university official said.Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said...

When the equestrian team's season begins Friday, there will be a tough task at hand - defending a national championship.

However, head coach Gary Reynolds likes his team's chances.

"We're very fortunate to have a strong team with depth this year," Reynolds said.

The team will travel to Lubbock for its first action of the season in a scrimmage with Texas Tech University and West Texas A&M University.

TCU Police got an upgrade. Now, instead of just cruising in police cars, golf carts and on bikes, officers can now be seen riding down the sidewalks on their new scooters.The T3 Motion vehicles are powered...