The women's swimming and diving team wrapped up its regular season with a loss to the University of North Texas on Wednesday night.

North Texas beat TCU, 161-139, but the H2O Frogs won the 100-meter butterfly, 200-meter butterfly and the 400-meter individual medley. The team fell to 6-8 on the year, finishing 2-6 in conference.

The win for the Mean Green was its first ever against TCU. The women's team was previously 16-0 against North Texas dating back to the 1998-1999 season.

The government made a mistake when it inadvertently ended the government subsidy of college health centers' birth control options - a mistake that could prove to be dangerous.

According to a 2006 study by the American College Health Association, 39 percent of college women said they use oral contraceptives. Although TCU students may not be feeling the pinch (some thanks to send-home), the rest of the 1 million college women that use birth control may be.

I am a vegetarian.

No, I am not a super activist for animal rights, saving the rainforest or wearing only vegan shoes, though those are important issues. And no, I will not roll my eyes or give looks of disgust if someone around me orders a juicy steak.

Many people are quick to stereotype vegetarianism as something as strange as being from Mars. I do care for our Earth, and since we only have one, we should protect it and all of the wildlife that populates it.

But I chose to be a vegetarian just for the health of it.

After being denied status as a recognized university organization last fall, the Society of Sustainability did not give up and is now being rewarded for its efforts.

Now an officially recognized university organization, SOS can use university facilities and will have weekly meetings on campus.

To be considered a recognized organization, the group had to more clearly define the goals they had, because the original definition was considered too broad, said Sarah Warner, a senior sociology major and one of the founding members of the group.

One TCU student said he thought if he left his basset hound in the front yard while he went to class, he would allow it to be social with other people in the neighborhood. A few days later, he found out he had violated a new city ordinance.

The student, who asked to be unnamed, said he received a notice from the city of Fort Worth that he broke the city's new tethering law, which says a resident can't leave an animal chained or tethered outside of a secure enclosure, such as a back yard.

A man needs to know that when a woman asks him to go with her to find a black skirt, the trip to the mall is not just about a black skirt; it is about every possible black skirt out there.

A woman, on the other hand, needs to know that when a man finds her a black skirt, it is not time to continue the search for another three hours; it is time to go home - mission accomplished.

I highly recommend the "Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini.

I wanted to read the book before I even knew they were making a movie because my brother had to read it for one of his classes and raved about it. And when he likes a book, it is generally a classic in the making.

The "Kite Runner" centers on a young boy, Amir, who flees Afghanistan with his father to escape almost certain poverty and death.

I think the adage, don't judge a book - or in this case a symposium - by its cover, is especially apt in light of the recent article and Skiff View published in regard to the Contemporary Reading Symposium.

As a student who graduated from the Honors Program last spring with both university and departmental honors, I am a bit jealous of this year's Contemporary Reading Symposium participants but not for the reason you might expect.

This past fall marked the first semester for undergraduates to be graded on the plus/minus grading system.Although students have always expressed mixed feelings about this system, the scale was designed...