Mozart, Vivaldi or Bach's compositions often grace Ed Landreth Hall, but for the first time Saturday, the cello ensemble will perform original compositions by faculty.

"Symphony for Violoncelli" and "Anxieties of the Heart" will echo through the music hall along with the sounds of classical compositions, said Jesus Castro-Balbi, founder and director of the TCU Cello Ensemble.

Correction: Lower-level accounting classes are not allowed to be retaken once a student has taken an upper-level accounting course. This includes only ACCT 20153 and 20163, and not ACCT 20653, which is a new accounting course for business minors only.

While the Faculty Senate is investigating a new course retake policy, the accounting department is implementing its own.

Beginning Monday, a Jewish student organization on campus will host a series of events in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom Hashoah, which falls on May 2 this year.

The organization, TCU Hillel, will create a Holocaust mini-museum in the Brown-Lupton Student Center that the public can visit Monday through Wednesday, said Belle Marco, TCU Hillel president.

Arnold Barkman, an associate professor of accounting and Hillel's faculty adviser, said this is the first time the group has ever attempted to create a mini-museum.

The invisible monster rears its head to ravage you from the inside out, and you are completely unaware. And, what's that? You don't care? This monster has killed millions and it's only 25 years old.

That is, the first cases of AIDS, were documented in newspapers 25 years ago. This monster stems from the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, and it's invisible because no one seems to care anymore.

Correction: The following column should have said if Sen. John McCain "can recruit a female running mate, he may pick up votes from those undecided voters who would like to see a diverse ticket, but may be disenchanted with the Democratic Party's nomination process." The meaning of the sentence was incorrect due to an editing error.

John McCain announced Wednesday that he has compiled a list of 20 people he is considering for the No. 2 spot on the Republican ticket, though he is not releasing names.

It has cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives, and the anniversary last week of our invasion has kept the war at the forefront of our minds. Our country hails the troops fighting in Iraq, but when they return home, it's some thanks they get.

Their needs are not being adequately met.

More than 400 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are currently homeless.

Neeley School of Business students are in the right place at the right time, especially students in the entrepreneurship program.Fort Worth was recently ranked as the ninth best place in the nation to...

Matt Ivester, the founder of JuicyCampus.com, told the Skiff on Tuesday that he would comply with a lawful subpoena seeking user information. The site stores user IP addresses, which could be used to track user identities, but it doesn't hold user identity information.

The founder of college gossip Web site JuicyCampus.com said Tuesday that he would turn over users' identities if lawfully subpoenaed.

Students interested in starting a business will not have to go far to find a start.

Fortune Small Business recently ranked Fort Worth the ninth-best place in the nation to "live and launch" a business. David Minor, director of the Neeley Entrepreneurship Center, said this designation will attract students to Neeley's entrepreneurship program.