Monday will mark the close of Hispanic Heritage Month, but before then, Intercultural and Inclusiveness Services plans to continue stimulating the minds of Hispanics across campus.Today from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center lounge, IIS will present a panel of Hispanic professionals addressing topics affecting students as part of its "It Takes a Village: Cultural Awareness Series."

When was the last time you went to a museum? What about a play? Visit any art galleries lately? Read any poetry? If you answered yes to any of these questions give yourself a pat on the back, you just earned yourself some "Culture Points."

If our colonial ancestors caught a glimpse of the ways we entertain ourselves, they'd pull off a glove finger by finger and slap our collective face, Bugs Bunny style.

There's one four-letter word constantly causing problems for Americans: love.This word may send many screaming for their "Moulin Rouge" soundtracks as evidence of all that is good in the world, but the sad truth is that there are people in the United States whose love makes them second-class citizens.

When U.S. citizens marry, they fall under the protection of 1,138 federal laws.

Sounds pretty sweet, except for one tiny detail: not all U.S. citizens can get married.

After a 30-year career with the Fort Worth Police Department, a retired police sergeant and TCU alumnus published his first book, which chronicles the history of the Fort Worth Police Department.Dale Hinz, 58, retired from the department in 1999, but returned to work as background investigator in 2001. This is when he began the six-year process of researching and writing "Panther's Rest: History of the Fort Worth Police Department 1873 - 21st Century," which was published by AuthorHouse in July.

All dogs go to heaven, but first they must be blessed.Members of the TCU community can bring their animals to the 3rd Annual Blessing of the Animals service Wednesday.

The Rev. Angela Kaufman, minister to the university, said the Blessing of the Animals is a service that goes on at schools and churches as well as many other places of worship all over the world.

Kaufman said this service usually takes place around the Feast Day of St. Francis, the saint of animals. All animals are welcome from dogs, rabbits, chickens, even lizards have been known to attend.

One of the largest student-run philanthropy event in the university's history, Up 'Til Dawn, is getting bigger.The Up 'Til Dawn program, which supports St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., will raise funds through a letter writing campaign Wednesday.

With an 11-hour letter writing campaign, compared to last year's nine-hour campaign, students will have more opportunities to support the fundraising goal of $45,000, which is $10,000 more than last year, executive director Sarah Durkee said.

The administrators at TCU hope to foster community by upping the dining plan prices and forcing us to eat together three times a day amid the busy schedules we already have.I will go ahead and be pretentious and say that, yes, TCU is thoroughly expensive already, and doesn't need to pile on the expenses to our already full monetary loads.

There is absolutely no sense in doing things for the students without even asking their opinion or thoughts on the subject.

As a faculty member, I could not disagree more with Ross Johnson (Oct. 3, "Think before posing question in class, spare other students").Students have not only the right, but the personal responsibility...

Some who are lucky enough to have found a steady significant other often find themselves having small altercations with their loved one.While this behavior is considered normal among couples, new research shows certain means of resolving fights can have physical effects on a person's health in the long run.

Many couples remain oblivious to these effects, thus decreasing their love's lifespan.

Couples need to regroup and learn how to work together better to ensure they can spend the rest of their lives with each other.