Jeff Ferrell, professor of criminal justice, said he teaches a class on juvenile delinquency."The real issue for researchers and police and politicians is to define what is a gang and be able to define...

Lt. David Burgess of the Fort Worth Police Department, a former officer of the department's Gang Intelligence Unit, said gang members are initiated in one of three ways.

First, they can be "jumped in," or beaten. Second, they might be "blessed in" - their father or brother is an original gangster in the particular gang. And the third initiation - "sexed in" - requires a prospective female member to roll dice and have sex with the corresponding number of male gang members.

Three years and nine months ago, my senior friends, you were probably sitting in an auditorium hearing Nowell Donovan (if you don't know who that is, he has been your provost and he is terrifically Scottish)...

The alarm blares too early, the test was harder than it should have been, there's no clean clothes, no food in the pantry and no one to go out with this weekend.

Sometimes life is just too much. Or sometimes, you feel like complaining about all the little things to anyone who will listen.

The bad things seem to overshadow the good, and before you know it, you have managed to pull everyone down into your pity party.

Someone is out to change that.

Rivalry and harmonious beauty brought two of the most famous classical composers together 232 years ago, and their operas will be performed this weekend on campus.

The School of Music will perform "Mozart versus Salieri" Friday and Saturday in Ed Landreth Auditorium, said Richard Estes, TCU opera studio director.

People can find a wide range of videos on Web sites, such as YouTube.

From choreographed wedding dances to the ranting of a woman over a divorce to the latest comedy bits, most of the videos are pretty harmless and entertaining.

However, some are not so funny.

With the craze of becoming famous in the online "ce-Web-rity" world, people have resorted to outrageous stunts to try to get attention. But the most horrifying trend that has appeared recently is videos of girls beating up each other.

Since the Scopes Monkey trial in the 1920s, debate and controversy has surrounded the argument of whether to teach creationism or evolution in the classroom.

More than 80 years later, the bickering continues between creationism and evolution as a Dallas-based group, the Institute for Creation Research, is trying to make a bid for a graduate-level creation science degree though online courses.

Ishmael Beah had a different childhood. He learned how to use a gun when he was 13, like many child soldiers who are still forced to join battles in the jungles of Africa.Beah, a human rights activist...

The women's tennis team's first-round opponent in the Mountain West Conference Championship is No. 8 University of Wyoming, which beat No. 9 Air Force in the opening round Wednesday.

Since TCU earned the No. 1 seed for this year's conference championship, it plays the winner of the two lowest seeds.