The honors program is initiating a new option for its second-year students to gain honors elective hours, the program's assistant director said.

Ronald Pitcock, assistant director of the honors program and assistant professor of English, said The Contemporary Reading Symposium will meet on three different nights throughout the semester, and participants will meet with an honors professor and discuss the professor's chosen text.

Practice makes perfect and University Career Services is trying to help students achieve, well, perfection.

Career Services hosted mock interviews Wednesday and Thursday in hopes of better preparing students for the interview process when they apply for jobs. This year the event was different from mock interview sessions in the past, Kimshi Hickman, interim co-executive director of the Alcon Career Center said.

I seriously have to disagree with a house editorial published Jan. 24, about head basketball coach Neil Dougherty's actions to get more fans at games.

Dougherty is not "going above the call of duty to gain student support."

He wants support now that the team is winning games, but he never tried to do that when it was in the process of winning 21 games in the past two seasons.

The first men's basketball home game since coaches and players asked Greek members to start showing up to games featured strong support from fraternities and sororities.During the past two weeks, head...

The communication studies honor society is getting ready to undergo a face-lift of sorts as the chapter prepares to join a national organization.

Sigma Pi Chi is in the process of merging with the National Communication Association honor society Lambda Pi Eta, said Jennifer Salim, a senior communication studies major and SPX president.

Construction behind the south end zone of Amon Carter Stadium is on schedule and is planned to be completed by July 1, an associate athletics director said.

The Dutch Meyer Athletics Complex and Abe Martin Academic Enhancement Center have been under construction since the beginning of the 2007 football season.

Ross Bailey, associate director of athletics, said all construction is going as planned and no problems are expected.

During the past few years the university has increased tuition at a rate of 8.4 percent while the academic scholarships remained static after being initially rewarded.

For most students who are on need-based scholarships, it can be hard to find the extra cash to pay for the difference between the increased price and the old amount.

However, this year's tuition will increase once again, but this time each academic scholarship will increase at 8.4 percent, mirroring the current rise. The total number of scholarships given will increase, too.

A student organization is celebrating African culture and raising support for an HIV-affected Kenyan girl today.

The African Heritage Organization is sponsoring the girl in association with Teenage Mothers and Girls Association of Kenya.

The university will increase academic scholarships at the same percentage rate as tuition next year, the director of scholarships and financial aid said.

Tuition will increase 8.4 percent to $26,900, and each academic scholarship will increase 8.4 percent also, said Mike Scott, director of scholarships and financial aid.